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SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1943
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Near Casualty
Not yet officially announced as solved is the hit-and
run accident in which Laymond Watson, Roxboro carrier
for the Greensboro Daily News and son of Mr. and Mrs.
Artie Watson, was injured last Sunday night when his
bicycle was struck by a car on South Main street. Of
ficers are working on the case and have the.r own good
reasons for keeping their information to themselves un
til full investigation is completed.
Point of this comment, however, is not the raising
of a howl over hit-and-run accidents, although they are
deplorable enough and in the Watson incident only less
deplorable because he was not seriously hurt. The les
son of the moment concerns importance of having bicy
cle riders observe all rules of the road.
Laymond Watson, according to his own testimony,
was on his side of the street, when the accident, which
happened about dark, occurred. His wheel had a rear
reflector and presumably a front light, but the reflec
tor did not show as clearly as it would have at night.
State Highway Patrolman John Hudgins, in comment
ing on the Watson case, attaches no bla,me to the boy,
who according to information was obeying all rules,
but Hudgins is anxious to impress upon bicycle riders
the fact that State law requires them to observe all traf
fic regulations imposed upon motor vehicles.
Bicycle riders must have front lights. They must
have a rear light or a reflector and they must drive on
their side of the highway. They must not weave in and
out in pedestrian fashion. They must be alert. Failure
to be alert is an invitation to disaster. School is out
and there will be more bicycles and boys on streets and
highways than usual. Unless they ai'e careful, they may
not be as fortunate as Laymond was.
Slaughter Houses and Beer Bans |
lioxboro’s recently re-elected and more recently rein
stalled City Commissioners, Messers. Hunter. Cushwa, j-
Brooks, Hall and Thomas, had last week to consider,
and will apparently have to ponder further, the matter |
of establishment here of a slaughter house to serve the
Person and Roxboro area. Also, it is highly probable
that they will he expected to take pro or con action on
the Person Ministerial association’s request for a Sun
day beer and wine ban here.
Both the slaughter house project and the banning
business are of interest to the County of Person as well
as the City of Roxboro and both problems have been or
will be presented also to County Commissioners Whit
field, Berry and Gentry. Possibility, as far as the
slaughter house is concerned, is a joint meeting of both
Boards and it would Seem wise if same joint technique
could be used in handling the proposed wine and beer
ban.
To all appearances, there is no getting around the fact
that the City and County will have to Work together
in establishment of a slaughter house. Farm leaders,
slaughterers and others interested in seeing that Per- \
son County and Roxboro have an adequate local supply
of meat say that OPA regulations pertaining to slaugh
tering all but make mandatory the erection of such an
establishment. They add that if a slaughter house is
not built that slaughterers, other than farmers who
kill for their own use, will have to take their animals
to slaughter houses in Hillsboro, Durham or Oxford
and that meat prepared there will nine times out of ten
be sold there. In other words, failure to take action
here will result in a more definite meat shortage here
i
than has yet been felt
Not quite as simple or as concrete is the problem rais
ed by the Ministerial Association request for banning
Sunday sale of wine and beer. It is no shook that the
request has come. It had to come. There is again in
the air that sentiment which believes in moral control
through prohibition and blindtigers. In the same
State papers that carried the Person Ministerial appeal
were reports from Graham, from Johnston County and
from Wilson of acceptances of a week-end curfew.
It may seem a pity that citizens, whether civilians or
soldiers, cannot control themselves and that some wine
and beer outlets are themselves parties to lack of con- j
trol. Personally, we are much more in favor of self-con
trol than of control by edict and we do agree with an
official here who is personally, if not officially opposed
to the setting up of Sunday bans. If enough citizens of
that mind will get together in defense of self-control,
and will plead its case before both County and City
commissioners, self-control will have a chance. Other
wise, it is doomed.
Incidentally, however, we might remind the curfew
proponents that more wine and beer are sold here on
Saturday nights before mid-night than are consumed on
Sunday altogether, a situation much like that of Sun
day newspapers which are printed on Saturday, al
though there have been citizens who disapproved of
Sunday newspapers, but who were glad enough to have
a Sunday published Monday paper. Sunday consump
tion of beer and wine is really moderate in comparison
with Saturday’s turnover.
Solution of the slaughter house problem affects phy
sical health of citizens here. Solution of the wine and
beer problem here, and it is a problem, affects their
moral health, and Person ministers are to be commend
ed for bringing it to public attention, although there
may be disagreements as to how the moral problem
may best be solved.
A Deserving Suggestion
Discussed here last week was possibility of establish
ment of a Negro branch of the Person County Public li
brary, a branch designed to serve an increasingly large
number of Negro readers.
The plan, as understood at the present time, involves
use of part of the basement facilities of the present
Public Library here and the securing of the services of
the teacher-librarian of the Person County Training
school, on several days during the school season and for
longer periods during the Summer. It is understood
that books for a nucleus collection will be available
from a WPA assignment and that funds for running
the branch library will be obtained from the Negroes
of Person and Roxboro and possibly froim the Julius
Rosenwald fund.
Supervision of the branch service, which will have
its own separate collection of books, will be under the
tri-county librarian. Miss Ernestine Grafton. The pro
ject, if accepted, will mean another step forward in
Person’s already thriving public library service and
will bring Person County and Roxboro in line with
larger counties and cities such as Guilford and Greens
boro, where operation of a Negro branch service has
for long been a regular and an accepted part of the li
brary program.
Success of the Person project will, of course, depend
upon the degree of financial cooperation offered by
Negro citizens, but we are confident that they will in
this matter, if given an opportunity, be as wide awake
as they have been in creation of the new Negro divi
sion of the Person Scout district.
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WITH OTHER EDITORS
A Voice From Carthage
Greensboro Daily News
In the fourth volume of his learned and brilliant
“Study of History”, Dr. Arnold J. Toynbee, professor
of'international history at Oxford university, quotes
Saint Cyprian, a teacher in Carthage about 250'A. D.,
on the danger of the breakdown of Roman civilization:
You complain of the aggression of foreign enemies;
yet, if the foreign enemy were to cease from troubling,
would Roman really be able to live at peace with Ro
man? If the external danger of invasion by armed bar
barians were to be stamped out, should we not be ex
posed to a fiercer and a heavier civil bombardment, on
the home front, in the shape of calumnies and injuries
inflicted by the powerful upon their weaker fellow citi
zens? You complain of crop failures and famine; yet
the greatest famines are made not by drought but by
rapacity, and the most flagrant distress springs from
profiteering and price-raising in the corn-tide. You
complain that the clouds do not disgorge their rain in
the sky, and you ignore the barns that fail to disgorge
their grain on terra firma. You complain of the fall
in production, and ignore the failure to distribute what
is actually produced to those who are in need of it.
As our soldiers occupy what was Carthage, our peo
ple would do well to heed the old Carthaginian teach
er’s words. Our civilization has within itself the seeds
of its destruction. They are a lack of discipline, an un-
It is not a dark and inescap
able doom that hangs over the
world but plain 'bone laziness—
the unwillingness to take the
trouble to 'be different.
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mitigated will to grab which is not infrequently found
in workers, farmers, labor leaders and businessmen, a
lack of vision for the nation, a forgetfulness .of the
truth that “almost any controversy can be settled by
good manners.” Civilizations are not destroyed from
without but “by what is false within.”
The American And His Mission
Durham Sun
“In action,” we are told by the New York Times, “the
Americans attacked silently, not singing as did the
British or shouting as did the French.”
We like that graphic picture of deadly purpose pre
sented by those few words. Singing on the march is an
excellent and inspiring practice. It bespeaks the vigor
ous American spirit and the fine morale of the free man
who goes forth to war for a cause worth the sacrifice;
but fighting, fighting to the death, fighting against sav
age and ruthless enemies, is not a singing business.
The fighting American, stalking his quarry as early
Americans stalked the wild quarry of the American
w'oods and the stealthy Indian on the warpath, menac
ingly, grimly, silently, implacably hunting down the foe,
must be a figure to strike terror to the hearts of the
stoutest slaves of Hitler’s impersonal state, a growing
spectre which is destined to shake the resolution of all
the world's Organized forces of evil.
Washington Plans
Longer Furloughs
For Married Men
WASHINGTON, May 14.—The
nation’s fathers were caught in a
tug-of-war between the execu
tive and legislative branches of
the Government today, with the
former apaprently seeking to
pull them into military service
soon and the latter starting a
move to hold them cut —at least
until next year.
With impending new Allied of
fensives hinting that a call for
thousands of more fighting men
might soon be in order, the
Army extended the furlough per
iod given new inductees from
seven to 14 days and directed
that it be increased to three
weeks by Sept. 1. The two weeks
extension is to be put into effect
as soon as possible, and in no
case later than July 1.
Although no reaon was given
for the move, ether than that
one week caused hardships “in
some cases,” it was understood
that the War Department felt
fathers would need more time
than single or childless married
men to settle their personal and
business affairs when inducted.
Thus, the announcement was in
terpreted as heralding the draft
ing of fathers cn a large scale in
the near future.
FARMERS’ UNION URGED
ATLANTA, Ga., May 15.
Former Gcvernor Eugene Tal
madge proposed today that farm
ers of the country form a union.
Buy Stamps and Bonds today
Notice
j NOTICE SALE OF LAND
! Under and by virtue of the au-
I thority conferred upon me by a
| certain deed of trust executed by
A. C. Fair and wife, Ruth Fair,
cn the 19th day of March, 1942,
J and duly recorded in the office
I of the R:gister of Deeds of Per-
Ison County, North Carolina, in
| Book 9, page 568, default having
j been made in the payment of the
I note secured by said deed cf
I trust, I will on Saturday, May 29,
j 1943, at twelve o’clock noon, in
'front of the courthouse door, in
Roxbcro, North: Carolina, sell to I
the highest bidder, for cash, the j
lands conveyed in said deed of i
trust, to-wit:
Lying and being in the town |
of Roxboro, fronting 100 feet on j
the East side of North Main
Street, it being Lot No. 1 and 25 J
feet of the southern side of Lot |
No. 2 of the Woody and Clayton i
farm. See plat recorded in the !
office of the Register of Deeds ;
of Person County in New Plat I
Book No. 1, at page 96. This lot ,
being 100 by 198 feet.
This April 29, 1943.
N. LUNSFORD, TRUSTEE, j
May 2-9-16-23
In The Superior Court, j
North Carolina,
Person County.
The Board of Commissioners
of Roxboro,
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Pearl Johnson Walters et al.
NOTICE
The defendants, Pamelia John
son, Irvin Barnett, Fonzie Barn
ett, Preston' Barnett, George
Cameron, Bunsey Cameron, Her
ridian Cameron, Robert Johnson, 1
Willie Johnson, Annie Bell Joh»-
son, Earl Johnson, Jr., George
Johnson, Wiley Johnson, Hattie;
1891 “j'c'r 1943
BIRDS WITH ONE STONE
BUY WAR BONDS. By so doing you take
a pot shot at the Axis and at the same time
deal a blow to Inflation —two vultures that
seek to prey on our country. Put some of
your salary into Bonds every pay day.
f TTrmnTIT T y° ur War Bonds here
IjJUJ 'I I 111/ if you wish —we sell them
without compensation
■ II 1 1 Hill as a patriotic service.
BUY U. S. DEFENSE BONDS & STAMPS HERE
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Peoples
Bank
SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1943
Julian Cameron and Minnie
Johnson Willis, will take notice
that an action entitled as above
has been commenced against
them in the Superior Court of
Person County, North Carolina,
and that the purpose of said ac
tion is to enforce the tax lien
against the real property listed
in the name of Gecxge Johnson-s
estate upon the tax books of the
City of Roxboro.
And the defendants, Pamelia
Johnson, Irvin Barnett, Fonzie
Barnett, Preston Barnttt, George
Cameron, Bunsey Cameron, Her
lidian Cameron, Robert John
son, Willie Johnson, Annie Bell
Johnson, Earl Johnson, Jr., Geo
lge Johnson, Wiley Johnson,
Hattie Julian Cameron and Min
nie Johnson Willis, will take no
tice that they are required to ap
pear at the office of the Clerk of
the Superior Court .of Person
County, North Carolina, and
answer or demur to the com
plaint in said action within
twenty days after the last publi
cation of this notice, or the plain
tiff will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in said
complaint
This 3rd day of May, 1943.
Sue C. Bradsher,
Clerk Superior Court
May 9-16-23-30 4-T
The Devil
chuckles
whenhesees
at home left
unprotected
by fire
insurance-
See as and
forget Him/
THOMPSON
INSURANCE AGENCY
Roxboro, N. C.