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PERSON COUNTY TIMES
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THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1913
Labor’s Last Mile
No sincere Americans can b* proud of the fact that
American coal miners, men who call themselves citizens
of the United States, chose to follow the leadership of
John L. Lewis up to the zero hour and at that point
made nece.-sary the Pr. ident's order placing the na
tion's mines under Government supervision. A tragic
chapter in the history of the American Labor movement
has been terminated by positive action, a decisive move
ment that came from the White House, but none too
soon, and with rather more of suggestion of compromise
than is in keeping with good judgement.
To many it must remain a mystery that the President
for so long displayed a tolerant attitude, that he for so
many months sought to deal with a Labor leader of such
reactionary temperament as Lewis, who was and is will
ing to sacrifice on the altar of freedom all that Labor
has gained in a hard half-century of progress. The
President, until last week, was apparently under the
illusion that the Coal Strike could be handled as a dom
estic issue.
That illusion is gone now, despite the fact that he and
Lewis are calling the present arrangement a truce. The
affair has ended in a slowly prodded display of dicta
torial strength from the White House. It is a display
that came not a moment too soon, for Lewis’ behavior
has been as salt in raw wounds to men and women do
ing our fighting on far-flung foreign battle-fronts.
American Labor, up to this point has been strong, of
ten with the strength of Crusaders, but last week’s per
formance was brutal rather than heroic and the hearts
of those who have the interests of Labor at heart have
been made sad in the process. In walking with Lewis
Labor trod its last mile last week, unless the conferences
now being held can be productive of a resurrection, with
a new body and a new faith.
Locked Doors Have A Wav
Person and Boxboro Red Cross chapter, after winning
recognition last week for magnificence of response to
the War Fund campaign and after showing further
strength by setting up of an Executive Secretarial pro
gram soon to get underway under direction of Mrs. Sue
Featherston according to Dr. Robert E. Long, presi
dent, comes up lacking in another department the
surgical dressing unit.
Head of this unit is Mrs. J. H. Hughes, known as one
of the most energetic workers Roxboro is blessed with,
but neither Mrs. Hughes nor the faithful few who have
been sticking by her can do all of the work. They should
not be expected to do it all, even if they could.
Clearly, there must be a concerted and an organized
response by more of the women who have previously as
sisted with the surgical dressing unit project, both in
Roxboro and at Longhurst, and there must be response
by hundreds of women here who have up to now excus
ed themselves by saving they'“do not have time”. Major
factor in slowing down of the surgical dressing program
hereabouts is, we think, lack of realization.
Lack of realization, for instance, that some of the
dressings made here may be the means of saving the
life of the son of a Person man or woman. Lack of real
ization, and completely so, that casualty lists are grow
ing . . . and that they will continue to grow until vic
tory is won.
Roxboro and Person County, thus far, have been for
tunate in that not many men and boys from here have
been reported as killed, missing or wounded. God grant
there will not be many in any category in the future,
but regardless of continued good fortune, the women
here have a job-to do in the surgical dressing unit—and
nobody else can do it for them.
If they could see the long casualty lists that come to
the Times office from the War Department, reduced in
shockingness only because of the ruling on departmen
talized publication by States, Counties and Cities if
they could only talk seriously to the rather silent young
men and women who are now coming back to home
spots after months of service on battle fronts, perhaps,
this editorial would not be necessary.
The obligation is dearly up to the women of Roxborp,
the mothers, sisters and wives, who if the noise of bat
tle could be heard, would stoQn the surgical dressing
rooms, even as they now flock to theatres, churches and
bridge sessions. One night last week the doors to the
Roxboro surgical dressing room were locked because
nobody came.
1 And in the night the cries of the wounded and the
dying went unheard. Locked doors have away of shut
ting out noise.
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j And The First Shall Be Last.
This is the commencement season and in each Per
( i
j son and Roxboro school is being demonstrated a com
mendable rivalry, with each school striving to outdo the
other in attractions and in the drawing power
of attractively arranged programs. Such rivalry is a fine
thing and to be praised, except when it descends into a
display of pouter-pridgeonism having nothing to do with
rivalry.
A display of this nature occurred here last week when
me <:f the patrons of a school in the Person system
complained because the name of another school, quite by
accident, took precedence in a news paragraph contain
ing information about commencement exercises in both
schools.
Personally, we are proud that Person's public schools
I are going ahead and we are prouder still of the clear
eyed"young men ar.d women who are graduating this
week, but it is our considered opinion that the Person
public school system is not yet large enough or strong
enough to waste its strength in internal exhibitions of
vainglory. One school or another in the system may
have a better faculty and more students than its neigh
j bor but no one institution in the system can afford for
long to assume a superior attitude.
Such an assumption is against the democratic ideal
upon which free education rests and school patrons who
foster so narrow a vision do harm to themselves, to their
children ar.d to their school. The petty example fur
! nished by the complaint about paragraph precedence is.
! happily, an isolated instance and will, we hope, be for
gotten. but it is not the only demonstration of such
character observed here during the year and that is the
reason we have chosen to mention it.
The squirming and pushing to obtain Red Cross and
War Bond totals and scrap iron piles and PTA attend-
I ance percentage figures are sins of the same category
! and there are few schools herebouts that have not been
| guilty. Somewhere, somehow, pometime we ought to
arrive at the conclusion that all of the schools in Person
County and Roxboro are important and that no one in
stitution, in the long run, is better than another merely
1 because it is larger.
WITH OTHER EDITORS
Add: Words
Greensboro Daily News
A task of education, we learn from a speech made
somewhere by Dr. Ralph McDonald—what’s the differ
ence where? He’s all the time making a speech—is: To
destroy the axis philosophy “through the quiet but de
vasting process of revealing the truth.”
We hasten to concede that Dr. McDonald —who is a
doctor of the same, in education or some allied subject—
might define philosophy. He can, we doubt not, tell us
what an axis is and give a pretty fair picture of the Ber
lin ditto: but we have never yet been able to see him
as backed up against a “quiet but devasting process” of
any sort.
And unfortunately education in these parts isn’t
built that way either. Sometimes we think if it would
be quiet for a while and let nature take its course, it
might be able to come up for air and get it. Having in
a manner of speaking proven its attendance, there
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Don t Forget Mother t
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Your beet friend is your Mother. Remember her 2
on this day, Sunday, May 9th. j
Remember she loves you always
Shanks’ Grill
&. D. Bumpass
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C.
might thereafter come to it an opportunity for devas
tating something.
But, frankly, what Dr. McDonald just now is uttering
runs mostly to words.
Beer Clean-Up
Close-up Figures j
Cited For Quarter
RALEIGH. May 5 The Beer
industry's “clean-up or colse-ap“
campaign resulted in disciplinary
action against 78 retail outlets in
29 counties during the first four
months of 1943.
Edgar H. Bain of Goldsboro,
State director of the Brewing In
dustry Foundation's North Caro
lina Committee, said the com
mitteewarned 51 outlets to cor
rect unsatisfactory conditions, •’
and filed revocation petitions a
gainst 27 outlets.
As a result of these proceed
ings, the retail licenses of 15
outlets were revoked, seven
dealers were denied renewal of
were placed on probation. Peti
■*ere placid otn probation. Peti
tions are pending against three
other cutlets.
Field representatives of the
' PLENTY OF
CANNED FRUIT?
Only for Those Who
Can Their Own!
Extra Sugar for Canning
is Available NOW!
Be assured cf omoie, energy-build
ing r»ee*s next winter, by canning
fruits cna berries this Summer. The
Gc *-err*fnent Has aliened extra sugar
for this purpose, and wants you to
heip in the present food shortage
by canning as much os possible.
App4y to your Ration Board for your
: extra sugar for canning NOW.
|DIXIE[RYSTALS
Pore Cdne Sugar
...You can spot it
every time
TT THETHER in a sport or anything else, you can / $ j
VV always spot the fellow who has the edge, f
Just to drink ice-cold Coca-Cola is to understand
why it is the best-liked soft drink on earth,
Many make soft drinks. Only The Coca-Cola
Company produces Coca-Cola. The finished art
of long experience gives it exceptional goodness.
This delicious drink offers a taste all its own.
More than just quenching thirst, it adds refreshment Ur
... refreshment that goes into energy.
The only thing like Coca-Cola is Coca-Cola, itself. You’ve W
found that out already, haven’t you? K
It** natural for popular names to acquire friendly abbreviations. f' '
That’s why you hear Coca-Cola called Coke. Both mean the same \ &
thing... “coming from a single source, and well known to the - W|'
community”.
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11| No need to tighten up mtx studies.
l|J A pause now and then for icocold *
committee investigated 924 re
tail outlets during this four-
I month period.
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' Wanted
House Keeper
Wanted a good colored
woman for house keeping.
Good pay for right person.
F. L. PEADEN
At City Ice and Milk Co.
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THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1943
PASTURE
D. S. Rhyne of Gastonia re
ports that cne hour of grazing an
10 acres of pasture by his dairy
herd is giving him an extra 25
gallons of milk per day, accord
ing to assistant county agent W.
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