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PAGE TWO PERSON COUNTY TIMES Carolina / ASSOCIATION^ A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE I. S. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, MANAGER THOMAS J. SHAW, JR., City Editor. Published Every Thursday and Sunday. Entered As Second Class Matter At The Pwstoffioe At Roxboro, N. C., Under The Act 1 OI 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 New York i Chicago i Detroit : Atlanta i Phi la. 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 2,0, 1943 For The Man With The Umbrella... James Brodhead, one-time Roxboro citizen and now a resident of Cincinnati, who was in Europe during 1938 and 1939 and returned to the United States in February 1940, made an impressive statement within the week at Roxboro Rotary club when he declared that the late , Prime Minister Chamberlain, of England, since Munich regarded as an apostle of futility, in reality saved an unprepared England. It has been a long time since any commentator has had kind words for Chamberlain, an old school states man destined to go down in history as “the man with the umbrella”, the man whose policies of conciliation and appeasement seemed in their time to amount to a betrayal of democratic principles, but as Brodhead sug gests, neither Chamberlain nor the British people, in a military sense, were prepared to fight in 1938. The pre paration began in 1939, a full six months before the declaration of war in September, and involved in the preparation were steps not taken in the United States until after the Pearl Harbor debacle of 1941. What Chamberlain failed to accomplish at Munich must be put down as a historical tragedy, but it is re freshing to learn from Brodhead, who was a first hand observer in England, that the genesis of tho tragedy dated further back than the ill-timed Munich pact and that the people of England, as well as Chamberlain, were at the time unprepared to back up a stronger pro test. To have done so, according to Brodhead, would have been an invitation to military defeat. Poor Mr. Oscar Lewis Out of Caswell County, byway of The Messenger, comes the sad story of Oscar Lewis, a Pelham farmer, w-ho early last Sunday morning lost $1,500. Lewis and / his wife, according to the Messenger account, were asleep in a bedroom in their house when Mrs. Lewis was awakened from early morning slumber by the sound of the striking of a match. In the Mrs. Lewis made out the figure of a man, presumably white, who snatched Lewis’ trousers and fled from the house. In a pocket of the trousers was a wallet containing $1,500. There was the hue and cry of alarm, but the man and the $1,500, at this writ ing, are still missing. Footnote to the story is the fact that an outside door of the Lewis house apparently had been left unlocked, giving the robber free access. Caswell authorities are doing their best to trace the man, even going so far as to import bloodhounds from Asheboro. Chief find, to date, has been the discarded trousers. This leaves Lewis, we hope, a wiser, as well as a sadder man. The incident furnishes the obvious moral that citizens should not keep large sums of cash in wallets in trousers overnight, plus the lesson that house doors are made to be locked. The plainly curious may want to know what Lewis was doing with $1,500 at one time, anyhow, but that, we take it, is purely Lewis’ affair. __ v 4, Helena’s Cannery Project Commendable leadership is being shown in the Hel ena-Timberlake community by the establishment there of a community cannery, a cooperative project under taken with federal, state and local cooperation and de signed to aid in food conservation. Cooperative canning is not new to Person County. It has been done through Four-H and community clubs, but never on so large a scale as will be possible at Hel ena. The Helena project, as we understand it, is intend ed chiefly to serve the inhabitants of the area covered by the school’s patronage, but provisions will be made so that other C6unty citizens can share in the program. There is nothing so unusual in the fact that Helena has a cannery, but due credit for pushing the movement must and should go to L. C. Liles, of the school faculty, who, with soon to come to Roxboro Jerry L. Hester, has laid the home groundwork. It is certainly true that if food is to be produced, it ‘ must be saved, and a long step in the saving can come from this new cannery. f The Summer Slump Hits Bond Sales. Os concern to Chairman Gordon C. Hunter and to other Person and Roxboro citizens interested in main tenance of our previously good record in War Bond sales is the Summer slump which has pulled June sales here down to less than SIO,OOO for the first fifteen days of the month. Hunter says this is a lower sales record than any established here since Pearl Harbor. There are factors like the income tax installments due last week, and the low cash income of farmers at this season of the year, but somehow, some way, it is up to us to find away to*keep the dollars and the dimes and the pennies turned to War Bond channels. Men and women who are fighting in battle zones cannot stop ju|t because the weather is hot. Those of us on the home front should not. WITH OTHER EDITORS Note On Some Unfinished Business.. < Greensboro Daily News Due notice is taken of this more or less personal para graph from Lynn Nisbet’s Raleigh correspondence to afternoon newspapers of the state: Monroe Redden, of Hendersonville, chairman of the state Democratic committee, made it clear that his visit to Raleigh this week was on professional rather than political business. But a state chairman cannot come to. Capitol square and get away without talking some poli tics. The chairman is satisfied not to have the next campaign get under full steam too early, lest it wear it self out. Anyhow, his main job doesn’t come until after the primary. By that time a new nominee for governor will very likely have a different recommendation for state chairman. One conspicuous omission we note, however, in Chair man Redden’s observations; namely, there is no refer ence whatsoever to a highly important bit of unfinished business which is also on the election calendar for Tar Heel voters next year. The so-called education amend ment which the party hetman had such an important, if overzealous, part in putting across is awaiting to be amended in accordance with an amendment to the a mendment which the 1943 general assembly sent on its prescribed course after a sound and second judgement based primarily on public intelligence and concern for what had previously gone into the organic law. We trust that Chairman Redden and the party ma chinery which took unto itself the assignment of get ting approval for the constitutional change as it now stands will not forget or run out on this unfinished bus iness which emphasizes cleaning up the unsatisfactory situation which they left. There is a heavy moral, if not political, responsibility for them to follow through, although we beg leave, here at the very outset, to make it clear that moral responsibility does not go sufficient ly far to call for instructions to election officials to work for passage of the amendment to the amendment while performing duties in which they are foresworn to neu trality. In The American Way Christian Science Monitor The War Labor Board’s decision to require equal pay for Negro and white workers performing the same work for the Southport Petroleum Company of Texas City, Texas, is in line with American ideals. It is morally sound. And it is, as morally sound decisions will always be, economically sound. It will benefit not only the Negro workers affected by it, not only Negroes all over the United States who are endeavoring to cast off shackles of prejudice, but white workers and indeed the entire social fabric of the United States. - Those low-paid white workers who have assumed that still lower pay for Negroes gave the white man some advantage will soon realize that thik discrimina tion operated to lower wage scales as a whole. Others who have enjoyed a sense of racial superiority because of economic discrimination may now learn that there are more substantial satisfactions to be gained in the American way of life. It is always easier to detect the mote of racial dis crimination in another’s eve than to cast the beam out of one’s own. What Americans say about Nazi theories, or about racial aspects of imperialism, will have more weight in the world as Americans practice at home what they preach abroad. There is room for more practice. Discrimination against Negroes in the economic life of the country has many more forms than the average American realizes. It tends to set up vicious circles in which the “Negro problem” revolves endlessly. The War Labor Board’s decision, as written by Dr. Frank P. Graham, of Chapel Hill, himself a Southerner, was an eloquent appeal for wide understanding of the Negroe’s place in American society, of his contribution to American culture, and of his rights as a patriotic citizen. One of the striking passages in Dr. Graham’s report said: “Slavery gave the Negro his Christianity. Chris tianity gave the Negro his freedom. This freedom must give the Negro equal rights to home and health, educa tion and citizenship, and an equal opportunity to work and fight for our common country.” When that goal is achieved one of the chapters of man’s inhumanity to man can be forgotten except as it illustrates how mys teriously, to human sense, do all things work together for good to them who seek the good of all. PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. 'j* I tf|||l|| J9| .%firr cr .ziSsmm PwbTO MBNpbagL • ml MAKING HAVOC AMONG THE JAPANESE in Burma from February through May of this year, have been columoa l,f British, Indian and Burmese troops led by a British brigadier. They blew up more than 100 miles of Jap railroads and bridges, killing numerous .lap soldiers. But perhaps more important was their work m building better roads into Burma and in making friends among the native people. These will be useful when ,t become, ,mss.ble to aunch the offensive that will drive out the Japanese. This new picture of supplies carried by mules for the Allied troops in Burma shows the uli£cult inn tile conditions in which these daring fighters operatedi... LIBRARY CORNER Library Hours: 12:00-5:00 We are pleased to announce that the Person County Public Library, Chub Lake Street, has had the following children’s books for several months. Burton, The Little House: Gray, Adam Os The Road; The outstanding American award for children’s literature were announced Monday night at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, when Elizabeth Janet Gray received the Newberry Medal and Virginia Lee Burton received the Caldecott Medal. Ordinarily the winners are an nounced at the annual confer ence of the American Library ( Association, which has been can celled for 1943. Both awards are conferred an nually by the Associations Divi sion of Libraries for children and people. The Newbery medal gofeYTo tfte author of, the j preceding year’s best contribu tion to American literature for | children, while the Caldecott medal is given to the artist res ponsible for the most distin guished picture book published in the United States during the same period. Adam of The Road, is a story of medieval, England, at a time when Englishmen were becoming aware of the rights of the com mon man. The son of a trouba dour, on his journeyings through great cities, abbey towns and small villages, rubs shoulders with farmers, merchants and ac tors who typify the English DOLLY MADISON MOTION PICTURES ARE YOUR BEST ENTERTAIN MENT Monday-Tuesday, June 21 - 22nd Anna Sten, Ward Bond, Dennis Hoey, Sig Ruman, George Sand- j ers, in “THEY CAME TO BLOW UP AMERICA” A Killer without Mercy or a Hero without Glory? Is his name forever destined to live in in famy as a Nazi saboteur or in fame as an American govern ment agent???? The Thrill pic ture of the year!! Headliner “MITCHELL AYRES and ORCHESTRA” Hearst Metrofene News— “NEWS WHILE IT IS STILL NEWS” No Morning Shows; Afternoons Daily 3:15-3:45; Adm. 10-30 c; Evening Daily 7:30-9:15; Adm. 15-30 c. Wednesday, June 23rd “BARGAIN DAY” Hal Roach presents William Bendix, Grace Bradley with Joe Sawyer, in “TAXI, MISTER” Those fun specialists from Brook lyn are back again!! Wow! What a Show! say the boys in the front row! It’s more fun than a burlesque show!! Gags galore and girls who are gorgeous! Technicolor Specials— “EAGLES OF THE NAVY” Victory Short“FARMERS AT WAY” Special Morning Show 10:30; Af ternoon 3:15-3:45; Evening 7:30- 9:15; Adm. 10-20 c. spirit as it was then and is now. Miss Gray is already well known for her stories about the United States in the Colonial period. She is, indeed, a means for pride for North Carolinians as she was one time a cataloger in the Univerity of North Caro lina library. It was there at Chapel Hill that Miss Gray met and married Morgan Vining of the faculty of the University. He was later killed in an automobile accident. She is now a resident of Washington, D. C., and con tinues to write children’s books. Virginia Lee Burton is a young artist who has had a varied car eer as dancing teacher, life saver and art instructor. She is now living in Gloucester, Massachu setts, with her sculptor husband, George Demetrios, and two child ren, Aris and Mike. The Little House, recounts the experience of a farm cottage which in time finds itself engulfed by the city. Clyde AlleqJn -City Court Loses His Special Plea Clyde Allen, of Roxboro, a veteran of World War I and said to be suffering with diabetes, charged with being drunk, lost his case Wednesday night in Mayor’s court before S. G. Win stead, who found him guilty as charged but released him under good behavior. Allen, represent ed by counsel, contended that the disease with which he is said to be affected sometimes pro duces the effect of intoxication. The arrest was by Policeman Roxboro and Person County With All Work Guaranteed. No Job Too Large and None Too Small. GEORGE~W. KANE Roxboro, N. C. TAKE TIME TO ENJOY LIFE Drop in here \jjy® for an ice cold bottle of beer and take several home. There’s nothing like a good beer around nine o’clock at night. Relax your every nerve with a good game of pool while you are here. • Tuxedo Billiard Parlor Under Peebles SUNDAY, JUNE 20,1943 Gilbert Oakley, who with Sam R. Whitten, Jr., another police man, were called as witnesses. Final Red Cross Program Was Given Friday Final session of the American Red Cross Water Safety and Swimming course being given here by George Barber, of the district Red Cross staff, was given Friday night at Chub Lake, where recognition was accorded to men and women and youths who have been tak ing the course each morning and night for the past fwo weeks. H We Do A Quality Recap-" ping Job- Modern equipment and ap proved methods turn out a I tire for you, good for thousands of more miles! And you don’t need ration certification any longer for recapping: that’s part of Uncle Sam’s plan to make it EASIER' for you to do your part, saving rubber. Seat Covers We have a nice supply of • seat covers for these hot days. All Grades New Tires TOMS BATTERY CO.
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