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THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1943
Three Cheers For The OPA
Released this week from the Raleigh Office Os Price
Administration is a little story about tobacco that may
have a profound influence on tobacco sales this year in
the smaller markets.
The OPA, it seems, is frowning on the use of gasoline
to haul tobacco to some of the earlier opening, out of
state markets. Says the OPA, “Since there is no ad
vantage in this long distance hauling other than getting
money earlier, we are recommending to our local war
price and rationing boards that tobacco hauling be lim
ited to the closest available markets.”
The statement hits particularly at those North Caro
lins farmers who have in past years been moving their
tobacco to South Carolina and Georgia markets. On the
average we are not in favor of the OPA, or any other
government agency, telling farmers when dr where they
may sell their weed crops, but in this particular instance,
although the sales average for South Carolina and Geor
gia markets may suffer, we are prepared to say, and
without reservations, “Three cheers lor the OPA.”
Begging Parties
Person’s County Commissioners had a busy session
Monday, with chief occupation, aside from consideration
of a Sunday curfew on beer and wine, being the lending
of ears to various departmental heads, who came with
various and sundry budget requests for the new fiscal
year. So much of the Commissioners’ time was consum
ed with these requests that a special session has been
ordered for Wednesday, June 16, at which time it may
be hoped that some action can take place.
The scene, with modifications, was repeated Tuesday
night at the gathering of the City Commissioners. Var
iation here was the urgency of matters having nothing
to do with the budget. Each year the members of both
Boards have to go through the same routine, and while
it is understandable that the idea of making a personal
appeal for departmental funds has its merits, it seems
a pity that so much time should be consumed in telling
the Comipissioners what they already know, that this,
that or the other department deserves to have and can
function more efficiently with more cash.
Some few departments make no requests for' in
creases, but biggest news of the day would be an
nouncement that one of them thought it could do with
less. The appeals made are according to custom, and
it is to be supposed that no other way at arriving at a
tax rate can be evolved, but it seems to us that judge
ment should be credited to those officials selected to
serve as Commissioners.
On the other hand, if citizens themselves know that
a particular County or City project is a worthy cause,
they can undoubtedly help the furtherance of said pro
ject by telling the Commissioners of that worthiness.
Protein Conservation
Being distributed now to Person farmers is a hand
book on protein conservation, a description <sf how to
produce more and better fed cattle, hogs and chickens
on less. Basic argument of the pamphlet is that feed
for live stock and for poultry must of necessity be pro
duced if a continuing cycle of livestock and poultry, at
an increased rate, is to be suppled for human consump
tion.
A message from Claude R. Wickard, Secretary of
*-• Agriculture, makes it plain that about ten and one half
tons of high protein feeds are available this year, slight
ly more than a normal output, but that urgent need for
these materials to feed poultry, dairy cows, hogs and
beef cattle requires the uttermost care in usage of avail
able supplies and in planting protein producing crops. It
is nothing new to speak of rationing food supplies for
human beings. We are used to that, but it comes as
i something of a shock to realize that rationing, now on
a voluntary basis, hits the barnyard and the henhouse.
Quoted in the pamphlet are figures to show that farm
ers have in the past been guiltty of over-feeding live
stock and poultry, that they have insisted on quantity
rather than quality and a balanced diet for farm animals
and poultry. Shown in the bulletin in picture form are
the facts that farmers are this year producing more
livestock, that they are forcing production by heavier
feeding, that the available supplies of animal proteins
from South America are reduced, that lack of processing
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C.
facilities are hampering the conversion of soybean meal
and other protein substitutes.
Protein conservation in a war measure, but it seems
to us that in it is a new lesson in fanm economy bound
to be as profitable after the war as it is at the present
moment.
Week-End Guests
No particular cause for pride is the fact that the Per
son County jail was full of forcibly detained guests this
week-end. Maybe, it was the hot weather that induced
a goodly number of Person men to get tanked up be
yond the limits of propriety, but the startling item in
the story is the preponderance of whites over Negroes.
Some said the ratio was three Negroes to ten or
twelve whites, a ratio that may afford some small com
fort to the members of that race which habitually en
joys the distinction of having a larger proportion in the
week-end round-up. What happened this week-end may
be regarded as an accident in the law of averages but it
would be more pleasant to think that the proportion
comes about as a natural reflection of respective densi
ties in population, or as an indication that Negroes are
at long last coming to a realization that the escape mo
tive behind drinking does not pay.
As a footnote to the jail-house guest problem, it
should be observed that although more soldiers than
ever before came to Roxboro this Sunday, the number of
rowdy ones was smaller than it has been at any time
since the invasion from Butner began.
WITH OTHER EDITORS
Boring Ears Off
News And Observer
The radio is a blessing beyond computation, particul
arly to “shut-ins” and those with impaired eyesight.
They get news bulletins fresh, enjoy music and drama,
and hear commentators who bring their varied com
ments upon public affairs. But, there are commenta
tors and there are Common-Taters who essay to direct
opinion along lines of their own thinking or the views of
the concerns that pay their salaries and the cost of
broadcasting. Most commentators are free to express
their opinions, even their prejudices and guesses and
condemnations, but there is a suspicion as to some that
“whose bread I eat, his song I sing.” The same thing is
true of newspapers, most of them having no strings but
same being influenced by their own big names, or by the
known wishes of big advertisers.
Nell Battle Lewis voices a view felt by many in refer
ring to the Sir Oracles among the commentators who
are about to exhaust the capital I letter. Some of them
think they are the only wise men left, and regale their
hearers with: “You will recall that several weeks ago I
advised,” or “I predicted,” followed by saying in sub
stance: “If my advice had been followed the present de
bacle would have been averted. In her Sunday “Inci
dentally,” Nell says:
Some recent broadcasts which I’ve heard give me this
impression. Judging by these, we might think that the
whole of official Washington is composed of muddle
heads just too dumb to allow themselves to be set
straight by the emniscient commentator, that the whole
administration of the country and the whole conduct of
war are in a fearful bureaucratic mess, and that it is a
grave question how long we’ll be able to blunder along.
This criticism in which a steadily increasing animus a
gainst the administration is shown is not occasional; it
is continuous, unremitting. And it is beginning to bore
the ears off me.
A great many people'hate Mr. Roosevelt, I know, and
they have a perfect right to do so if they wish and to
express their hatred in any way which does not injure
their country. But I seriously question whether a radio
commentator with an audience in the millions has the
right in wartime continually to attack the government
of his country in away that creates public distrust.
And I don’t see how the broadcasts to which I refer can
create anything but that.
She is not the only person who is beginning to have
“their ears bored off” by the partisan jeremiads and
ceaseless wholesale condemnation. Not long ago a real
ly able commentator, H. V. Kaltenborn, was speaking in
an ex cathedra way and making a confident prediction
when a member of the audience rose and asked: “Six
months ago did you not predict so and so, and did it not
turn out exactly opposite?”
It was “a hit —a palpable hit,” and Mr. Kaltenborn
frankly admitted that in that particular matter and at
that particular time he was not wearing the mantle of
Elijah.
Commentators —and editors, too —ought to give their
hearers and their readers their well-considered views
and their just criticisms with an appreciation of their
limitations, and earnest desire to uphold the hands of
faithful officials in this critical era. But never with the
feeling:
“I am Sir Oracle,
When I speak let no dog bark.”
NORTH CAROLINA ECHO
“North Carolina Echo”, a Hol
stein Friesian cow at N. C. State
College, has produced 672 pounds
of butterfat and 18,181 pounds
of milk in 361 days. This is 3 1-2
times what the average dairy
cow produces.
Present collections of waste
kitchen fats are about 85 million
pounds anually.
Charlie Webb In West
Charlie Webb left this week
for his cabin, “Suits Me” near
Wayhesville, N. C. where he will
spend the summer.
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PROFESSIONAL AND
BUSINESS CLUBS
TO MEET SOON
State Convention To
Open This Montth In
Greensboro.
Greensboro, June 9 The twen
ty fourth annual convention of
the North Carolina Federation
•of Business and Professional
Women’s Club will be held on the
campus at Woman’s College of
University of North Carolina,
June 25-27. It will take the form
of a war conference of the state
career women, according to Mrs.
Margararet Y. Wall, President of
the hostess club, and Miss Swan
nie L. Pugh, General chairman.
Miss Pugh reports that details
of the program are being devel
oped following plans made dur
ing a recent conference held here
between Mrs. Auther P. Wilson,
of Kinston, State President; Mrs.
E. M. Shipman, of High Piont
State Program Coordination
Chairman and local women. The
theme for teh gathering will be
“Business Women in a War Ra
tioned World” .
This year’s meeting will vary
from former ones in a number
of respects. Most of the frill will
be missing. The emphasis will be
on buisness. Less time will be
consumed. The pre-convention
meeting of the Executive Board
of Directors will be held on Fri
day morning in stead of Thurs
day afternoon and night, as has
been the custom. The opening
business session will be held Fri
day afternoon instead of Friday
morning. War participation will
be a major topic in all sessions.
With the indefinite postpone
ment of the biennial convention
of the National Federation of
Business and Professional Wo
men’s Club, state leaders are
looking for a large attendance at
the state meeting.
Miss Pugh is being assisted by
Mis Jessye Sumner, who is co
chairman for the convention.
They have just announced the
appointment of chairmen of spe
cial commitees.
Stabilization
Ruling Affects
All Business
RALEIGH, June 9. North
Carolina employers cf fewer
than eight persons now are cov
ered by the employment stabili
zation plan that went into effect
in this state May 15, Dr. J. S.
Dorton, North Carolina War
Manpower commission head, an
nounced today.
Originally the program did not
apply to firms employing less
than eight persons, but that pro
vision now has been eliminated.
As a result, all employers, re
gardless of the number employ
ed, must conform to the plan in
their hiring proctices. The sole
exceptions are the state govern
ment and sub-divisions thereof,
employers of domestic servants,
and employers of casual labor
(15 days or less).
The Devil
chuckles
whenhesecs
0l heme left
unprotected
by tire
, insurance-
See as and
forget hJjxa!
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INSURANCE AGENCY
Roxboro, N. C.
LIBRARY CORNER
Library Hours: 12:00-5:00
The Fifth Seal, by Mark Alda
nov, heads the new Pay Dupli
cate acquisitions. It has been said
that this is probably the most
civilized novel that has been
written in Russian during the
last two decades. Entirely fresh
in its approach, instead of pic
turing the Soviet hierarchy
through Western eyes, it pre
sents a panorama cf the modern
world as seen through the eyes
of Soviet officials. The setting is
Western Europe on the eve of
the Second World War, but the
chief characters are members of
a Soviet Embassy staff and the
people with whom they come in
contact in the course of their
duties. There are plots and in
trigues, clashes of personalities
and smouldering violence, as
well as brilliant flashes of satire
such as only an accomplished
writer can create.
Others that may interest you
are:
Hahn: Socng Sisters; Hynd:
Passport To Treason, and Harris:
Sweet Beulah Land.
MANPOWER
The Agricultural Economics
Department of the North Caro
lina Experiment Station reports
that three out of every ten farms
have a labor shortage.
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Better If Ration
Applications Come
From Family Home
RALEIGH, June 4.—The OPA
today answered what it said was
was an often-repeated question:
“I am working away from home
and thus am temporarily separ
ated from my family; should I
apply separately for my war ra
tion book three or should my
family include me in their ap
plication?”
OPA said the application may
be made either way but added
that it is preferable for the per
son away from heme to file his
application separately.
“In that case,” the announce
ment said, “the wife or whoever
is temporary head of the family
at home should give her name as
such.”
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