PAGE TWO
PERSON COUNTY TIMES
/North Carolina v«Jh
7 PttSS ASSOCIATION^!
A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
i. 8. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, MANAGER
THOMAS J. SHAW, JR., City Editor.
Published Every Thursday and Sunday. Entered As Second Class
Matter At The Fastoffice At Roxboro, N. C., Under The Act Os
March 3rd.. 1879.
—SUBSCRIPTION RATES—
-1 year $2.00
6 months $1.25
3 months .75
Out of N. C. —1 year .... .... $2.50
National Advertising Representative
AMERICA*
Now York t Chicago t Detroit : Atlanta t 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 flc<r Thursday edition and Thurs
day P. M. for Sunday edition.
THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1943
The Urge To Kill
High military officials within the week have been
quoted as saying that soldiers American soldiers
being trained in this country, must be indoctrinated
with the will to kill, that they must learn to hate and
that they must come to the realization, kill, or be killed.
This gospel has a savage and an un-American sound,
one repugnant to American peace-loving traditions, but
w r e have an idea that the lesson which is being taught
on this side of the water is learned quickly enough un
der conditions of actual combat. What concerns us
more is the apparently rapid increase of the rate of
domestic slaughter among civilians who have nothing
more terrible than life to fight against.
Last week in Wilmington E. B. Fraley shot a woman, j
the mother of four children and the wife of a soldier,
and then took his own life. The week before that ‘a
Texas man brought the bodies of two of his children—
murdered by his wife to a Winston-Salem cemetery.
During the same period a New York mother, faced
with a suit for separation and a fight oyer custody of
her two children, threw them out of a window, killing
them instantly.
These are but a few instances, chosen at random
from a digest of AP news items, but sufficiently illus
trative of an urge to kill that has nothing to do with
military indoctrination. The w'ar stands as an excuse,
of course, for civilian nerves are strained to the break
ing point, but it is a tragic thing that weak adults value
so cheaply not only ther own lives, but the lives of
helpless children.
It does us no good to pretend to be shocked that the
killer instinct is being developed in our soldiers, if we
are to increasingly take the same instinct as a solution
for domestic ills.
Round-Up
Published on Sunday was a nation-wide list of the
names of 638 men caught in an FBI dragnet and charg
ed with violation of the draft law. Included in the list
were fifteen North Carolinians and one resident of
Roxboro, Lee George Crandall, who allegedly has failed
to keep the Person Selective Board informed as to his
whereabouts.
We do not know the circumstances of the Crandall
case, anymore than we are informed as to excuses that
could be offered for any one of’ the six hundred, but the
Crandell case, at least, locally, should serve .as a warn- |
wig that Selective Service registration requires compli
*" ance. The Person Board from time to time has publish
ed lists of citizens reported to be delinquent and ma
jority of such cases have been cleared up at once. Fre
quently, the delinquency is based on ignorance. Oc
casionally, on a wrong or an incomplete address. But
in such cases ignorance is no excuse and scarcely less
acceptable is the alibi of a WTong address.
The FBI works quietly on its draft cases, but it !
works. We see no reason to be shocked that one man
out of 25,000 citizens in Person County should be ac
cused of being delinquent. The ratio here is small,
even as the total of 638 constitutes a small ratio for the
nation, but it is a wholesojme thing that the story of
this round-up has been published in all papers.
Selective Service registrants are under an obligation,
within the limits of the law, as much as any wearer of
a uniform in military service.
The Tobacco Drummer Steps Out...
E. D. Matthews, of Winston-Salem, president of the
Old Belt Warehousemen’s association, got a direct answ
er Monday from Vance Hofler, district OPA ration of
ficer, when he questioned Hofler as to possibility of spe
cial gasoline allotments being available for tobacco
druimmers, that is, warehousemen who take jaunts into
the country to procure tobacco sales. Hofler said brief
ly but pointedly, that warehousemen “cannot qualify
for special gasoline rations.”
Matthews, in his inquiry, classified tobacco as a j
“perishable farm product marketed over the floors of
auction tobacco warehouses” and contended that it is
not right that warehousemen should have to “curtail a
service upon which the farmer has depended for half a
century and to which he is entitled.”
Matthews’ contention can be appreciated hereabouts,
but we take it that not much traveling from farm to
farm on a “B” coupon can be accomplished and that
for the duration, at any rate this practice of a half a
century will have to be abolished. And this is another
way of saying that now as never before do the smaller
markets close to tobacco fields have an opportunity for
service.
Roxboro warehousemen, who never have .been too
much addicted to the drummer policy, can do a bit of
close at home visiting this Summer if they have a mind
to, and do it profitably. Person is not such a big coun
ty that it cannot be pretty well covered by home ware
housmen. It will be nice if Hofler’s restriction works
out that way.
In Praise Os A Church
The Durham Morning Herald this week commends
action of the West Durham Baptist church for its de
cision to “purchase facilities and operate a nursery
school for the children of working parents”, a project
described by the Herald as among “the more construc
tive developments of the day”.
With this pronouncement and with the Herald's more
extended comment on the inter-relationship between
church life and everyday life, w-e are in complete agree
ment. The West Durham Baptist church serves a sec
tion of the City of Durham in which majority of the
residents are workers and the realization of the church
that a nursery school can be a form of Christian com
munity service must be accepted as a signal recognition
of the broadening scope of church influence where it is
most needed, in the home.
Person’s County Commissioners, about two months
ago. briefly discussed the possibility of the establish
ment here in Roxboro of a nursery school. Discussion is
as far as the matter got. despite the fact that consider
able Federal aid would have been available. Could it be
that one of Roxboro’s many churches will copy the
West Durham church pattern and bring about heret a
social improvement neglected by secular interests?
WITH OTHER EDITORS
What Is An Aristocrat
News And Observer
The term aristocrat has been used as a term of honor
and the opposite for many generations. Webster thus
defines it: “One who has sympathies, habits and temper
of mind common among a ruling class.”
In all democracies where men are declared to be equal
there has been a sound demand that aristocracy of mer
it should be the only recognized aristocracy of the coun
try. The word was handed back and forth in the early
debates between the Federalists and the Jeffersonians.
This caused John Adaons to inquire: “What is an aris
tocrat?” and to give this answer to his question:
Whenever I use the word aristocrat I mean a citizen
who can command or govern two votes or more in soci
ety, whether by virtue of his talents, his learning, his
loquacity, his taciturnity, his frankness, his reserve,
grace, face, figure, eloquence air, attitude, movements,
wealth, birth, art, address intrigue, drunkenness, de
bauchery, fraud, perjury, violence, treachery, phyrrbon
ism, deism or atheism—for by every one of these in
struments have votes been obtained.
GOOD
USED CARS
“We got ’em - You can get ’em”
1- 1942 FORD SEDAN COUPE
3- 1941 CHEVROLETS
1- 1940 CHEVROLET
2 - 1939 FORDS
1- 1939 OLDSMOBILE
1- 1936 STD. CHEV. TN.. SEDAN
MANY OTHER
good Cars
Tar Heel Chevrolet Co.
\
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C.
SHUSKEY RUES
HELD MONDAY AT
EMMAUS CHURCH
Helena Resident Dies At
Home After Long Illness.
Funeral for Gestsr Hay-more
Shuskey, 50, -cf Helena, a native
of Chatham County, whose death
occurred Saturday at his home,
were conducted Monday after
noon at three o’clock at Emmaus
Baptist church near Pittsboro,
with interment following in the
church cemetery. Officiating
ministers were the Revs. Eddie
Wiggs and R. R. Gordon, both of
Pittsboro.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Carra Campbell Shuskey,
four sons, seven daughters, four
sisters and four brothers.
Sons are Paul, 'ef the United
States Navy, Gester H. Jr., of
Person County and O. L. and
Strauighan Shuskey, of the home.
Daughters are Mesdames Edith
and Virginia Loppsay,- both of
Siler City, Miss Dessie Shuskey,
of Walnut Cove, and Misses Es
telle, Cleo, Delene and Eleanor
ISlhuskey, all of the heme. Sisters
are Mesdames C. W. Johnson, of
Guilford College, Mabel Mc-
Dowell, of High Point, J. R.
Lynch, of Thomasville and A. L.
Hagan, of Randleman. Brothers
The Devil
chuckles
whenTissces
a. home left
unprotected
by fire
, insurance
See us and
forget Kim/
THOMPSON
INSURANCE AGENCY
Roxboro, N. C.
Buy Cotton Goods This Week
■ j| ■
COTTON FICHQ OH EVERY FRONT
@The Peoples
Y
Bank
Roxboro, N. C.
are J. L., of High Pcint, and
Sidney, Rufus and Worth Shus-
Ikey, all of Thomasville.
Mr. Shluskey had been ill far
seven months. Death was attri
buted to complications.
Our hope for a brighter fu
jture depends upon our present
jits? cf scrubbing brush and soap.
COTTON FOR CAULKING
The Cotton-Textile Institute
j announces that the Federal Pub
j lie Housing Authority has offici
j ally taken recognition of the
I practicability of substituting cct
ton forthe 1 long established jute
caulking material in sealing
sewer pipe joints. Several types
of twisted and braided cotton .
have been found to be acceptable
for the purpose and approval cf !
\ their use is to be had from the '
| Housing Authority.
I j
There is no likelihood of peace .
ahead in a .World cf men who
only want to GET ahead.
$25 REWARD
For any watch or clock that we
fail to repair.
GREEN’S
“The Square Deal Jeweler”
ONE STOP!
STORE !
*
We can practically supply your every need in the gro- *
eery line if you will stop here and give us your order. *
FLOUR-FEEDS-CANNED GOODS !
SEEDS-VEGETABLES-MEATS f
BREADS-CANNING JARS !
*
*
We appreciate all of your business and want you to J
let us know your needs. Come to see us. *
$
+
- *
Moores Cash Market!
In Building formerly occupied by Roxboro Bakery and f
ntxt to Jackson Motor Co. f
THURSDAY, MAY 20, 194a
Legal Notice
NOTICE OF EXECUTORS HTP-
Having been qualified as Exe
cutor cf the last will and testa
ment of Ralph G. Cole, notice is
hereby given to all persons to
whom the estate is indebted to
present the same to the under
signed executor within twelve
months from the l'sth day of
April, 1943, or this notice will
be pleaded in bar of any recov
ery. Persons indebted to the es
tate will please make immediate
payment.
This April 15, 1943.
CLYDE C. COLE, Executor
R. P. Burns, Att’y.
Apr. 15-22-29 May 6-13-20
We sell Eye Glasses to Sat
isfy the eyes
$2 00 to SB.OO
THE NEWELLS
Jewelers
Roxboro. N. C.