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PAGE TWO PERSON COUNTY TIMES Carolina vlv * /HISS ASSOC lATKgp) A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE 1.8. MERRITT, EDITOR -M. C. CLAYTON, MANAGER THOMAS J. SHAW, JR„ City Editor. Published Every Thursday and Sunday. Entered As Second Class Matter At The Pcstoffice At Roxboro, N. C.. Under The Act Os March 3rd.. 1879. —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— -3 months .70 Out of N. C. —1 year ? 2 - 50 National Advertising Representative f^ME RICAN y RESs/i SSPCIATjONj Now York t Chicago i Detroit : Atlanta i Phila. 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 fed* Thursday edition and Tnuri>- day P. M. for Sunday edition. THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1913 Blood Os The Martyrs Most profound and far-reaching consolidation of strength yet within ranks of the United Nations was wrought Sunday when public announce ment was made from Moscow of the dissolution of the communist third international. With the announce ment was incorporated an appeal to labor to end fac tional strife in a united front against Hitlerism. The dissolution, coming from Russia, from the heart and soul of communist principles, deals a death blow to all that was extravagant and fantastic in a doctrine be lieved in by Trotsky, Lenin and cur own John Reed and Emma Goldman. The dissolution effectively removes the one and only stumbling-block between Anglo- American and Russian cooperation, and comes as pjroof positive that the ideologies directing the Union of Soviet Republics are veering more closely than ever to ward that form of democracy with which Anglo-Ameri cans have been most familar. The blood of the martyrs, who died in the faith of communism, cries up from the dark earth, but the world moves onward, with only history as the narrator of the strange course of events in which a faith once vital finally died because those nations once most opposed to that faith appropriated the best part under another name. One Muddle And The , Start Os Another Supposed to have been held this week was a regis tration for sugar .for canning, a registration that was cancelled on Monday by a State OPA office announce ment about twenty-four hours after previous registra tion places had been published hereabouts. Begun last Friday through Post Office facilities was distribution of application blanks for War Ration Book 111. with the provision that said application blanks, pro perly filled out and duly signed by head of the house hold applicants, are to be returned to Charlotte on and after June 1 and certainly by June 10. No possible criticism for the contermanded sugar or der or for the complexities pertaining to obtaining War Ration Book 111 may be laid upon the doorstep of the already panting and overburdened Person OPA office, nor may the blame be placed upon any one of the other local OPA offices throughout the State or the Nation, but the fumbling and the lack of imagination displayed by the State Office and by the National office can only be described as titanic. Person, fortunately, is one of those small, neighborly areas where everybody knows everybody else and so we take it that it will not be long before the revised sugar for canning regulations will be properly spread abroad and understood. That muddle can be passed up, but what is to come from the Ration Book affair, even in Person, has not yet been felt. The steps for registraion for Ration Book 111 have been described as simple, and they are simple, if each and e\ery person required to register could be supposed to be possessed of the ability to read and write and to understand what is to be read and signed. Unfortunate lj, e\ en in so advanced a County as Person, there is a consideiable portion of the population handicapped by functional or by actual illiteracy. In other sections of the South, especialy in that section of it commonly re ferred to as “Deeper”, the proportion of inability to read and understand, much less write, is even higher, and the same holds for urban denizens in Yankee cities, where ignorance is more abounding than grace. The Post Office department does a grand job of dis tribution. It has had sufficient practice for lo these many years, but it cannot be expected that postal au thorities can take time to help our less literate citizens ponder the rules and regulations with which the applica tion blanks are hedged about. Main fact now is that the application blanks are here and must be coped with. And although we can appre ciate the fact that men and women in military service i do not like being’ classed with ineligibles such as “per sons in involuntary confinement, we fully understand that proper filling out t>f the blanks for Book 111 PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. creates a good neighbor obligation that must be met. Unless OPA appointed advisers appear on the scene, it will be the duty of the rest of us to see that our less educated friends and neighbors have what they can in the way of “filling out” assistance. The Post Office system of registration and distribu tion may be simpler and more effective than any system yet devised, but as the national OPA is already finding out, it does present its own peculiar difficulties. Two News Items Take this one, headed “Algiers, May 23—(AP) Fresh meat appeared in Algiers butcher shops today for the first time in almost two years . . . Authorities per mitted resumption of slaughtering after a sabbatical period decreed to enable livestock raisers to build herds and flocks depleted under the Vichy regime by the shipments of large amounts of meat to the Axis . . . Official prices range from fifty cents to one dollar a pound.” Take this one “Oxford. May 23 (Special) A step forward toward relieving the meat shortage here was taken by Oxford Board of Commissioners Friday night as provision was made for slaughter of meat un der proper health regulations within fire districts of the town . . .The Commissioners adopted an amend ment to the code of' the town allowing the operation of an abattoir or slaughter house on the same premises in connection with a duly licensed meat market, provided that the establishment be operated in accordance with laws of the State Health Department . . .The amend ment was drawn up by the town attorneys, Parham and Taylor, on an order issued at a regular meeting of the Board last Tuesday night and was adopted by Mayor Tom C. Jordan’s deciding vote, breaking a 3-3 tie by members of the Board.” Take the two news items together and we have dif ferent pictures of difficult situations, but it strikes us that the Oxford tie-vote reflects a singular lack of com prehension and anything but a “Step forward”. What ever of credit can be taken for the poor, substitute solu tion voted in must go to Mayor Jordan. We have the hope that whaever of solution is arrived at in Roxboro will be as it should be, concrete and cooperative, with both City and County support. We Are Living In History Mr. Average Citizen lives one day to the next, with a complacency approaching boredom, but to Miss Charlie Huss, of Raleigh, State Keeper of War Records for the Office of Civilian Defense, all that is being written to day has historical significance and it is her job to make the public realize that soldiers’ letters from the African front, from Guadalcanal, from Japanese prisons, from England and from any one of the hundreds of Ameri can camps and training centers are ( historical docu ments. The same living quality of history is incorporated in a multiplicity of stories about home front activities in Red Cross and War Bond fields, in accounts from USO huts and Stage Door Canteens. Everywhere we turn, history is smacking us in the face. There is no escape. Oht of the everyday commonplaces is being woven the record that future generations will pour over and look upon with anxious eyes, in an effort to discover what manner of men walked the earth in 1943. Much of what is at this moment regarded as impor tant will perish and in the distant future some Stephen Vincent Benet or some Margaret Mitchell will reduce it all to a synthesis. Miss Huss just happens to believe that we. the ones who are living now, today, can make the synthesis job a bit easier if we will but save the re cords that come to hand. Locked up in the idea is the feeling that what hap pens now to Person County folks and to their neigh bors in the ninety-nine other Counties in North Caro lina will some day form a part of the State’s proud re cord in this our heroic age. And so, in keeping with the news story released in Sunday’s Times we can do no more than ask for the present and fuure cooperation of Person citizens in the keeping of their part of the re cord. Knowing the honest and the just pride that Person and Roxboro people have in their sons and daughers who are actively in the war effort, and knowing from first hand information some of the responses to home front sacrifices that are being made here, we have full confi- From where I sit... l>t/ Joe Marsh Friday nights, a bunch of us fellows all get together over at Bill Webster’s place. We don’t play cards; we don’t sing or carry on. * We just sit quietly over a glass or two of beer and talk about world affairs and local politics, and what not. You mightn’t think that just setting and talking would be so much fun. But it is. And it’s wonderful how friendly talk ovft a glass or two of beer C iMtaxln VMa4atiMi■ KlMk laraMmltanalttM Uw « Mmlm Male MrmlH «•« ) luirun m- »- *.%•_ can bring out the best in people —good sense, for instance, and good fellowship, and tolerance. From where I sit, there ought to be more of this quiet talk over a glass of beer. Helps folks understand each other—and be more friendly to each other in these trying times. / dence that Miss Huss will have from Person County a good and worthy record,but it is important to remem ber that the job of compiling it can be done by no one man or woman. It is a job that all of us who love and appreciate the Person tradition can have a part in. Sweet Potato Good Wartime . Food Crop The- sweet potato is one of the best crops which North Carolina farmers can grow at present to meet the increased demand for extra food under wortime condi tions, says J. Y. Lassiter, Exten sion Horticulturist at N. C. State College. He reports that growers are anticipating a normal sea son during 1943 with relatively good prices for the crop. As an example of how some farmers feel about growing sweat potatoes this year, he points out that Dan Lee of Arapahoe is planning to fill three curing houses on his,farm wth about 50,000 bushels. He will pit in around 256 acres of vine cuttings, following a crop of oats. The ro tation followed on this land is J-l ~ i j ; 9 Birds Eye View of one reason why you need accident insurance .THOMPSON INSURANCE AGENCY Roxboro, N. C. Let’s Make It Our Mutual Objective— iJSjp YOURS AND YOUR CHEVROLET DEALERS J.-.V To Keep Your Car Serving Depeudahly! |;f?j YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES: OUR RESPONSIBILITIES: y/ Keep tires properly inflated v 7 Check your car carefully I v 7 Keep radiator and battery filled s/ Give it skilled, reliable j.ervice V Get a skilled service check-up V 7 Help to "Save the Wheels at regular intervals that Serve America” "Get More Out of What You’ve GiOsTmb ■ BY GETTING MONTHLY MOTOR CAR MAINTENANCE f -TCHEVROLET"'-: 1 Tar Heel Chevrolet Company, Inc. MAIN STREET • ROXBORO, N. C. soybeans, oats, and sweet pota t toes. The horticultural specialist re ports that Lee is marketing the last of hts 1942 crop in three grades. No. l’s, No. 2’s, and com mercials. Recently he was get ting $6.75 per bushel for his No. l’s, and $3.00 per bushel for the No. 2’s and commercials. Lee keeps 18 Duroc brood sows so that he will have enough pigs coming alcng to take care of his cull sweet potatoes. On the 600 acres, which he operates "with four tractors, three mules and a saddle horse, he has 37 acres of tobacco but he is more interest ed in the sweet potatoes than in the tobacco. His returns over the past twelve years show that the Tell Us* Your TROUBLES Cars can not last forever But our' repair service makes them last much longer than they would without it. Keep It Running It would be an excellent idea to let us check your car and find any small trouble that might become larger. Tar Heel Chevrolet Co. THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1943 net returns from the yams are greater than the returns from tobacco. In addition to a large acreage of feed and soil improving crops, Lee has 20 acres of Irish pota toes. He is a firm believer in di versification and, according to Lassiter, he follows a definite plan of rotation and cropping based upon carefully prepared records. After July 1, luggage will be made in 7 basic types and will be drastically limited in size and design. mmtmmmmmmmmmmmm Wanted House Keeper Wanted a good colored woman for house keeping. Good pay for right person. F. L. PEADEN i At City Ice and Milk Co.
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