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PAGE TWO PERSON COUNTY TIMES 1 Carolina lA /I«US AMOCIATIW^ " 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 Postoffice At Roxboro, N. C. t 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 _52.50 National Advertising Representative Qlhepicaw Now York t Chicago t Detroit t Atlanta t Philo. 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. SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1943 .»■ ' , -1. . i ■■■ » . Praise For Ninety-One Monday is Flag Day, traditionally set aside through out the nation as a day on which the meaning in and the history behind the national flag is stressed. There is, we take it, no need to emphasize either history or meaning this year, but if Roxboro is looking around for a demonstration of patriotism implicit in appreciation for the flag, it might pause to consider the 91 hours of surgical dressing 1 unit service rendered to the Ameri can Red Cross chapter here during May by Mrs. David S. Brooks. Mrs. Brooks, it happens, is a war mother and she has every right to want to do all that she can to assist an organization designed to be of help to her son and to all sons who are in the service. It also happens that she leads in that assistance here. What is said here in praise of her record does not mean that records of other workers in the local Surgical Dressing Unit should be passed up, but it is clear that 91 hours in one hot month from one woman do have away of speaking. Officials of the Surgical Dressing Unit in Roxboro are proud of Mrs. Brooks and what she has done, but their pride is somewhat tempered by the long list of workers who have given but one hour, or two, during the same length of time and by the blank sheets of pa- ' per on which other names do not appear at all. We just hope the community reaction to those 91 hours spent by Mrs. Brooks will be one of “come and do likewise” and we are sure that this is the type of appreciation Mrs. Brooks wants most of all. With A Two-Edged Sword Citizens of Person County and Roxboro during the past week enjoyed the spectacle of watching their res pective Boards of Commissioners handle with variable dexterity and skill doubled-edged problems pertaining to morals and money. Money, as the Commissioners of both units of government long ago found oUt, is an ever present evil, while the corresponding element in morals bobs up and down like a cork on the ocean waves. Interesting, chiefly because of what has not yet been publicly reported concerning it, is the case wine and beer license snarl involving the Royal Case, Roxboro, an in vestigation which apparently has the approval of Col. Edgar H. Bain, State representative of the brewing in dustry. More interesting, by comparison, as a social re flection of the times, is the speed with which Person’s County Commissioners banned the Sunday sale of por tables similar to those dispensed at the Royal in the City. On file for City Commissioners to consider at their next meeting is a similar ban for the City and it is ex pected that they will also be asked to consider vagrancy and the imposition of a curfew designed to protect young women. A cross between a social and a money issue is that of the abattoir, settled in the negative by the County and left suspended by the City. At the bot tom of the pile of duties lie the County and City bud gets, looked at but not yet digested by either of the two governing bodies. It doubtlessly comes as a shock to the members of both bodies to discover that the war is increasing the size of the roles assigned to them as arbiters of com munity morals. Money problems they are accustomed to, but the mantle of social regulation and legislation fits loosely, showing bones and bay windows as well as angel wings. This is another way of saying that moral t truth is difficult to define and much 'more difficult to handle than is cash. Being a County or City official today is more of a full time job than it ever was and the wonder is that part-time service, the only kind busy citizen* can be expected to render, comes as close to truth as it does. 1 • ii 4 Henry Clement Satterfield In Durham, where he lived for forty year:?, Henry Clement Satterfield, known to Person home-folks as “Clem*’, put to good usage virtues of character and lead ership. Because of them he became in Durham and in the State a man of influence. That he did succeed so well was no surprise to those who knew the stock from whence he came. • Recaptiulation will show that Durham s roll of lead ership contains the n*mes of many sons and daugh ters of Person and the chances are that few of them will be longer remembered or with greater honor than Clem Satterfield, who gave freely of his abilities in his new home, but chose not to forget the Person herti age, much less the friends he had in his old home. From The Miners Point Os View Worthy and decidedly of value because of the as yet unsettled John L. Lewis dictatorship in the coal mine controversy, were the two civic club talks made here within the week by one-time coal-miner Leon Couch, now Roxboro district school superintendent, who dared to say that Lewis has “been true to the miners”, a fact largely lost sight of by citizens engaged in the vipufation of Lewis. Woven into the Couch talks was a recital of past as well as present evils in the coal industry. Couch holds no brief for Lewis, but he does know that miners.* through their unions have had to fight every step of the way for such advantages as they ave up to now en joyed. It is refreshing to be told that the miners do have rights, particularly at a time when they are suf fering as a class because their leader, as Couch puts it, happens to be a person “drunk with power and arro gance.” Not Couch, nor Lewis nor any other man can say what the outcome of the coal strike will be, although it is to be hoped that postwar conditions in coal mines will be as utopian as Couch would like. Salt in the wounded public mind right now is not that miners are in unions but that they aie as men being wrongly lead, a fact not denied by Couch. WITH OTHER EDITORS Food Production Is The Need Christian Science Monitor * ; In all the talk about food, domestic and foreign, it will be well to think less of controlling and apportioning what is available, and consider to greater extent how to produce more. That is the end question, production. Happily, Herbert Hoover, in his latest approach to the problem, swings more to that line. He is correct in his view that American cities will have even less food supply in coming months, and next winter, than they have had in recent days. He is right in declaring that even so Americans will not starve. The reduced diets in American cities are still on a lush and luxurious plane by present international standards. When he says that if the war in Europe should come to an end within the next 12 months “we should have no consequential food supplies with which to meet three or four hundred millions of starving people” he accur ately assesses one of the potential tragedies of these times. All this underlines the necessity for extraordinary, even colossal, food production in the United States. Mr. Hoover barely suggests the need when he asks for the planting of from 40 to 50 million additional acres next year. What are other needs? We suggest a few: a price structure that will give incentive for the right sorts of crops, better organization and financing of small farmers, more reliable! guarantees of harvest hands, provision of adequate machinery and fertilizer, improved use of dairy products, and, above all, definite, intelligent planning for the immediate needs of free peoples, needs that include—so they may help them selves —barnyard animals and farming implements as well as sustaining rations. “Aye, Aye - Old Palsie” Tyrone Power gave the sailors at the New London submarine base a big moment when he first came aboard a sub to do scenes for 20th Century-Fox’s Technicolor film, “Crash Dive’’, which opens Monday at the Pal ace Theatre. Ablaze with the gold braid of a senior lieutenant, he posed arm-in-arm with over a dozen sailors for snap shots. “It’s not me—it’s the uniform”, Power joshed Director Archie Mayo. “Every one of these pictures is going back to the girl friend or mother to show how chummy the lad is with his lieutenant.’’ Dana Andrews and Anne Bax ter head an outstanding featured » Protect Your j Home With Good We sell Good Paint at sur prising low figures. See us, we will give you the cost of good Paint to repair your home. W. C. BULLOCK PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. cast in the picture, which tells this war’s first story of our fighting men who man our un dersea craft. Much of the film was made on location at the Navy’s great submarine base. Beer Joke In Charlotte Has Negro Worried CHARLOTTE, June 12. The manager of a Negro beer parlor in North Charlotte answered the telephone and heard a voice say: “This is the OPA talking. From now on, don’t sell any beer for over 10 cents a bottle. That’s the law.” The manager started to argue that some brands actually cost him 12 cents, but the voice boom- LIBRARY CORNER Library Hours: 12:00-5:00 Have you started your reading certificates. Even though the yel low ten book certificate is the minimum, you will want to get more than one certificate! Watch the following schedule for your bookmobile stop. If you can’t meet the bookmobile, you can get a certificate and your books at the stop. When you have fill ed out your certificate as you read the books, turn them in to the bookmobile stop or mail them to the library. Thursday, June 17 Chambers Store, Helena 9:00 D. M. Cash, Moriah 10:00 H. O. Ea'kes, Mt. Tirzah 11:00 Morris Service Station, Morris town 11:30 R .A. Gentry, Allensville 12:10 W. H. Gentry, Allensville 1:00 Longhurst Mills 2:45 Monday, June 21 East Roxboro 9:45 Mrs. C. P. Gravitte, Providence 10:45 Dixon Store 11:30 High Plains 12:30 Bethel Hill Baptist 1:30 Mrs. Leslie Hall, Woodsdale 2:00 Ca-Vel 2:45 Tuesday, June ?2 Mrs. Arthur Burch, Dolly Madi son 9:00 Mrs. Dixie Long, Hurdle Mills 9:30 Whitfield Store, Bushy Fork * 10:15 Mr. W. C. Warren, Highway 49, Bushy Fork 10:45 Mr. Walter Bowes Store, Bushy Fork 1J :15 Wednesday, June 23 Prison Camp 9:00 Guy Clayton’s Store, Olive Hill 9:30 Mrs. M. J. Daniel, Olive Hill 10:00 Mrs. Ruth Davis, Chub Lake 10:30 Mrs. C. G. Long Store, Rural Route, Cunningham 11:15 ed sternly, “That’s the law,’’ and hung up. Sbon afterward a party of sev eral men walked in and started ordering. Round followed round, until finally the manager an nounced to the thirsty customers that his beer stock had been ex hausted. The visitors paid—at the rate of a dime a bottle. The next morning, bright and early, the manager went to the OPA office to find out the wherefores of the new rule—and was told there was no such re- B’ * . ‘ '• -r; tfi?; . gulation. A little sleuthing by OPA in vestigators soon tracked down the imposter, who confessed and agreed to reimburse the beer parlor for its loss. The OPA let him off without bringing charges. READ OWN METERS SAN DIEGO, Cal., June 12. Diogenes, in search of an hon est man, would only have to take the first San Diego citizen he might happen to meet, ac cording to the San Diego Gas and Electric Co. Ow ing to a war shortage of meter readers, the company authorized its patrons to read their own meters and 1 SOI Fifty-Two Years ICM Q 10«/1 of Service IdTj # * VISITING YOUR SOIDICR IN CAMP 7 •s * This means venturing into new sur roundings where you are not known crowded trains and buses—irregular schedules. The cash you carry might be lost or stolen. Handbags or wallets ‘ Therefore, we offer you the friendly suggestion of changing your travel cash into Travelers Cheques here at , the bank. You carry them instead of money, but you spend them like money. If you lose them or if they are stolen you get their value back. Issued in convenient denominations of $lO, S2O, SSO and SIOO. Cost 75$ for each SIOO, • BUY U. S. DEFENSE BONDS & STAMPS HERE The // Mju) MAXIMUM { SA\ \\ V I !<■ H/INSURANCE O 1 # A reoples Bank SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1943 bill themselves accordingly. The plan has worked so successfully that the company is extending the system to additional gones. webuh-dTor Poxboro and Person County With All Work Guaranteed. No Job Too Large and None Too' Small. GEORGE~W. KANE Roxboro, N. C.
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