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PAGE TWO PERSON COUNTY TIMES ■— | | - Carolina ✓mss ASSOC lATIONv) A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE |. S. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, MANAGER THOMAS J. SHAW, JR., City Editor. Published Every Thursday and Sunday. Entered As Second Class Matter At The Fwstoffiee At Roxboro, N. C., Under The Act Os March 3rd.. 1879. —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— -1 vear $2.00 6 months 3 months Out of N. C. —1 year ,5U National Advertising Representative [~J|m ERI CAN jXiiij|Ass QCI ATI UN New York « Chicago i Detroit : Atlanta i Phil*. Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at all times. Rates furnished upon request. News from our correspondents should reach this office not later than Tuesday to insure publication for Thursday edition and Thurs day P. M. for Sunday edition. THURSDAY, MAY 13. 1943 The Long Haul Point of pride for North Carolina is the part that the Ninth Division, activated nearly two years ago at Fort Bragg, has had in capturing Bizerte. The famous Ninth, an infantry division, during its Fort Bragg peri od, was under command of the then Lieut, Gen. Jacob L. Devers, who is now commanding general ol all Allied forces in the European theatre. Chances are that men of the Ninth, some of them, at any rate, were among those soldiers who passed and repassed through Roxboro in long, hot, dusty convoys. Seemingly, the men were busy going nowhere. It was difficult to think of sham battles in the Tar Heel sand hills as practical training expeditions. Then in Novem ber of last year came electrifying news of the African invasion. This, some of us thought, was action, the be ginning of the end. It has taken us until now (in May) to realize that what has been happening in Africa is but a prelude to what must come, that by far the hardest task lies a head. An invasion of the Axis portion of Europe can no longer be talked about. It must come next, and with it must come a combined effort by military and home front forces such as has not yet been dreamed ot by the average American. For such a purpose citizens in Person County, in North Carolina and throughout the Nation, must turn to war effort with a renewed determination. In the midst of good feeling over the fortunate turn of events in North Africa, we must now make ourselves ready for the long haul, the real job of pressing warfare clos er and closer to its Axis source keeping in the mean time, more than a weather eye on Japanese operations. The fall of Tunis and Bizerte increase rather than di minish the size of the job we have before us. But whatever the job is, we have confidence that the famous Ninth from Fort Bragg and the hundreds of thousands of other soldiers being trained in North Carolina will do their work well. We are not worry ing about them. They can take care of themselves, but we do hope for a further awakening among civilians. It takes a lot of determined Betty Jo Wade's to keep an army equipped and ready for action. •.A The Waldorf-Astoria Hears a Sermon Harry Comer, Y. M. C. A. secretary at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, speaking some two weeks ago at Helena’s commencement exercises, said some thing about the war making this peculiarly a woman’s world. Illustration and point for his thesis, which is correct insofar as increased opportunities for women are concerned, comes now from Mrs. Linville K. Martin, of Winston-Salem, who as president of the Association of Junior Leagues of America, did a bit of speaking of her own last week at a meeting of the Association. That meeting was held in the ultra-ultra surround ings of the unchurchly Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City, where Mrs. Martin’s plain Tar Heel speak ing on the role that women must take in postwar plan ning stands out as a brave reversal of form for an As sociation suspected more than once of expending its en ergies in class distinction rather than in national ser vice. “The Junior League must play a vital role in post war planning, or disband”, said Mrs. Martin, who also told the Junior League leaders that “it falls to your -sot to see that the members know all the forces that 4 go to make up your community, that they broaden their concept of community planning ... We cannot wait until after the war to start strengthening our communities. “In the broader sense,” Mrs. Martin continued, “The people themselves must clamor forthe 1 united nations to be united in peace as well as in war, for it is only where a majority of citizens understand and accept the need for international cooperation that a democratic government can accept it and act upon it, she said. “Two wars in our generation should have dispelled the idea that peace can be a lasting peace as long as there is hunger in one part of the world and plenty in an other. “In the past, our whole league organization, program and membership was based upon leisure. Those of us meeting here trying to work out our problems are vitally interested in not letting the words Junior league fall into disrepute, but the word leisure already has. “We must hope and work for a distributed leisure that will be shared by all for a fuller, richer life with newer understanding each for tha,other. In the begin ning of the association, we had to use our leisure to help in stemming the tide of poverty, but one of the bright hopes of the future world is that we can use it understand that all men, of every color, race, reli gion, are created equal and should have the right to do for themselves and their families according to their needs.” These are strange words to come frctm the Waldorf- Astoria, and stranger still to come from a Junior Lea guer. but they make us proud of Mrs. Martin, whose discourse is just about the sanest post-war talk yet made. That Extra Year Roxboro and Person boys , and girls for another year have done with commencements. They have reached the place where glamour ends and work begins, but be fore the season fades out of mind it is not inappro priate to recall that in graduating classes this year in several schools were small groups that received 12th grade diplomas in lieu of the easier to get 11th grade ones. Specifically, there cannot be so much difference be tween the two diplomas. One extra year of work does not mean a great enlargement of mental horizons, but at a time when further education by going to college will be rarer than it has been and it has been rare enough hereabouts it is important that as much of educational ti’aining as can be obtained in the public schools should be accepted. Temptation to boys who have graduated from 11th grade high schools and are caught with a year of time before they becdme of military age will be to go to work, but parents can render to them and to daugh ters, too, a great service if they can make arrange ments for an additional year of high school or trade school training. Money is easy to get now and jobs can be had for the asking, but the time will come a gain when educational training will be a factor in the race of getting ahead. Indeed, the time has never passed, and even those young who are most anxious to go into defense work or into military training will soon find out that opportunities for advancement are in proportion to the “book lamin’ ” they take with them to their new' ad ventures. WITH OTHER EDITORS ‘Southern Revolt’ Durham Morning Herald I Roscoe Drummond, capable head of the Washington Bureau of The Christian Science Monitor, has joined that band of metropolitan newsmen who have under taken to tour the Solid South and find out the “low downi” on talk of a political revolt by Southern Demo crats. The South, Mr. Drummond, reports in his second in stallment, is hopping mad about the New Deal, but he hedges on the answer to the question the madness of the kind out of which revolt is likely to sprout. Like the rest of the country, he w r rites, Southern political leaders easily divide themselves into Now Deal ers and anti-New Dealers. New Dealers, he avers, berate the New Deal in tears while anti-New Dealers do it in anger. II About half way down in his piece, Mr. Drummond gets around to acknowledging the sources of his infor mation and the direction thereof. He names three or four Governors Amall of Georgia and Sam Jones of Louisiana in particular. And immediately thereafter he lists seven complaints made against the New Dealers. In first place he puts he calls the persistent at tempt to impose hothouse theories of social and econo mic equality for Negroes upon the South. In order he moves on to State’s rights, New Deal ineffectiveness in removing the freight-rate discrimination, coddling la bor, syste(m of Federal aid that revolves around the matching by States formula regardless of financial ability, failure to give the South larger share in war pro duction, and the naming of too many Republicans to of fice. First appropriate comment, we think, is that Mr. Drummond need not have gone to Atlanta and Baton Rouge if his mission was to find out what Governors Amall and Jones thought on the issues he recites. He could have gotten just as good answers by spending a few hours with current outgivings of the gentlemen. Second thought that comes to mind is that it isn’t as safe used to be to take the word of Governors as to what is cooking politically in their respective States, especially when the question probed is the matter of substance in talk of revolt. For Governors seldom lead political revolts, even in the one-party South; they man euver around looking for evidence of which way the PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. wind is blowing and delay jignping until the breeze is strong. Thirdly, although it is a much-used political vehicle and often with desired results, the racial issue is not enthusiastically embraced by candidates. It is after candidates become incumbents, but usually in a sort of yes-and-no manner. Moreover, how many would-be re volt leaders are going to say escape from New Deal rac ial theories lies in swing to the Republican camp? 11l Rest of the points enumerated by Mr. Drummond are mostly the bunk. State’s rights is one of those things Southern Governors and other political leaders love to preach about but practice only in the sense that they would like more Federal money and less Federal control. The freight-rate discrimination proposition is no inven tion of the New Deal. It ante-dates the New Deal by decades and to whom would the Sam Joneses appeal for relief, assuming that they must appeal to political par ties? Big trouble on that front, of course, is that the big shippers have wrung approximate equality from the carriers and only the “don’t belong” are left to wage the fight. The system of Federal aid—the principle which says so many* Federal dollars may be had if so many State or local dollars are put with them —isn’t a New Deal device. It goes back many years and is the creature of political expediency, which is just as popular and as useful today as ever. So, if Mr. Drummond doesn’t mind, we think his jour ney, as reflected in his report, is proving unproductive. More Efficiency Needed In Poultry Management Since there is a critical short age of animal and vegetable pro teins for poultry feeding, T. T. Brown, Extension Poultry Sps cialist at N. C. State College, urges fanners and poultrymen to take immediate steps tp prevent waste of feed and to practice the highest degree of efficiency in their poultry management. Growers should produce the greatest amount of poultry and eggs possible from the amount of precious feed available. This calls for better methods of hand ling the poultry and Brown makes the following suggestions for increasing this efficiency. Don’t overcrowd the chicks. Overcrowding not only caiuses many deaths but also results in slow growth and development. SPARE THE DOCTOR The present and growing needs of our armed fcrces for medical officers have placed added duties on those physicians, dentists, surgeons, thisdr laboratory spe cialists and office workers who assist them, not called to military service. Theirs will be the tremendous responsibility of maintaining the civil duties of the medical professions . . . the constant guard against contagion . . . the civilian morale . . . and do this in spite of their greatly depleted ranks. . , How can we all assist? There are a number of obvious wlays we can cooperate with the doctors during the wartime emergency. Here are a few concrete examples: If you desire a house visit, learn your doctor’s habits and call early before he starts- ion his daily routine, this will enable him to organize his day’s worth A person or child who has a temperature of 100 degrees or over in the morning may be expected to halve a higher elevation in the afternoon, so do not delay until you take the afternoon temperature. Go to the doctor’s office when ycu can, saving him the time necessary to make a house visit. If you want information on the telephone, help save his time by having pencil and paper ready to note, what instructions are given. Above all, make every effort to keep all in your family well. Avoid unneces sary exposure, over-indulgenoe, over-exercising and overwork. Keep first aid sup plies at home. And; at the first sign of illness, get the patient under rryHirai ob servation—you’ll save time and avoid complications. Allgood Drug Co. W. W. Allgood, owner Phone 6361 Thus, chicks, feed and labor are wasted. Use large enough feeders fcr each state of growth of the chicks and don’t overfill the SHIRTS & PANTS Sport Shirts $1.19 Dress Shirts $1.59 Work Shirts $1.29 Work Pants $1.85 up , Socks 15c pair and up Underwear - Shirts and Shorts 42c each See us for your clothing needs WESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE Court St. L. R. Wilson, Owner THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1943 feeders, as such practice causes feed waste. Keep the chicks as free of worms and Coccidiosis as possi ble through sanitary manage ment, summer shelters, green ‘feed, and worm treatment. Keep dogs and rats from the feeders and feed storage room. Check the houses for red mites and the birds for lice. Cull the laying flock) closely to remove unprofitable layers and birds showing symtoms of dis ease. Removing unprofitable, birds helps 'relieve the meat shortage and saves feed. Every poultry producer, large and small, can play an important part in helping save feed and poultry by increasing his effi ciency in feeding and manage ment practices. Efficiency on the farm is just as necessary as it is in war plants. 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. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES
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