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f. S. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, MANAGER
THOMAS J. SHAW, JR., City Editor.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 1943
Footnote To Duncan Affair
John Lewis Duncan, of Route 1, Woodsdale, a Person
and Roxboro citizen whose name reverberated in two
States because of his alleged violation of Virginia’s
“pleasure driving ban,” now stands acquitted of all
charges by the Person OPA hearing panel, a body into
whose lap the case was dumped by the Danville, Va.,
OPA, after Danville authorities hacf made the charges
and seized Duncan’s A and B books.
This is the end of Duncan’s case, a case that resolved
itself into a “test case”, crux of the issue being the
right of a borderline State, or City to enforce upon citi
zens of banless North Carolina the rules existing in the
other State, in this instance, Virginia. Roxboro deci
sion in the matter does not deny the right of enforce
ment to Virginia or Danville authorities but it does sug
gest that said authorities should be more careful in
making accusations, since the Person Board chose to be
lieve Duncan’s statement that he was in Danville on
business.
Footnote to the Duncan affair as far as Roxboro is
concerned, is the realization that the Person OPA and
its newly formed hearing panel mean business. Duncan
came clear in his hearing here, but some five or six
other Person and Roxboro folks who committed viola
tions within the bounds of Person County were not so
fortunate, particularly, a man named Willie Clayton, of
Route three.
Clayton, it seems, failed to answer the letter sent in
summons and likewise neglected to come to Friday’s
hearing. Because he did not appear and offered no ex
planation for not appearing, his gasoline book has been
revoked and no more gasoline is to be issued to him for
the duration. So reads the action taken.
Second footnote is furnished by the fact that several
of the citizens summoned to the hearing as gasoline ra
tion violators got there after they had previously been
cited for traffic violations. Furthermore, the mihutes
of the Person OPA hearing panel contain the memoran
dum that these citizens, if caught again in traffic vio
lations must immediately surrender their gas ration
books, possibly for the duration.
It is possible that the Person OPA hearing panel may
be able to do what City and County Courts have not—
put fear of the Lord into those who deliberately go a-*
round breaking traffic regulations. The Danville, Va., *
OPA panel, of course, has the same right, but' mistakes
in judgement have away of weakening decisions render
ed and the Person panel can learrf that much from the
Danville experience.
The Late Flowering
The Rev. F. B. Peele, whose last labor was so effec
tively performed in the Person circuit, came of a family
distinguished for its contributions to the causes of edu
cation and religion, but his own service through the
medium of the Methodist church was comparatively
brief and was rendered in the less spectacular vineyards.
At heart a modest man, he would not and did not claim
any rewards.
He entered the ministry at an age when majority of
men have fixed themselves into lifelong occupations.
But he brought to the pulpits and to the homes he serv
ed a richness of experience greater than that usually
furnished by previous servitude, and from his native
heath of Scotland County and from his farm there flow
, ed into his final work a grace and dignity and humanity
worthy of the traditions of the Church he represented.
Person people and folks in Roxboro did not have to
be told that the Rev. Mr. Peele came close to being one
of the most human and at the same time one of the
most consecrated ministers called upon to live and wprk
with them. By the example he set, they knew it. And
the knowledge extended far outside the borders of the
Person circuit.
Late flowerings, sometimes are best. God does not
ask for length of service, but for intensity, for kindness,
for sympathy, for tolerance, qualities with which the
Rev. Mr. Peele was blessed and fort which he will be
long remembered, not only in Roxboro, but throughout
the North Carolina conference.
The Governor’s Dedication Idea
Gov. J. Melville Broughton, who in his Jfcurth of July
proclamation is calling upon North Carolina citizens to
observe a Day of Dedication by “seeing that every able-
bodied person is employed productively upon a full-time
basis” touches upon a problem discussed in many com
munities in the State and with particular emphasis late
ly in Roxboro.
The Governor is right when he says, “Work is no
longer a privilege, or an opportunity, it is a high patrio
tic duty . . . The time has come wheh every able-bodied
person, of whatever financial, social or racial status,
should be either fighting or working,” but the solution
of the problem, as he well knows, cannot be reached by
mere issuance of a proclamation. The will to work
must be fostered by the citizens without too much
expectation of labor by compulsion.
Officers of the law can do and will do much to see
that the loafers castigated here by Joe Ellis in his
Kiwanis club address get to work, but the officers
themselves are helpless unless citizens really want the
work or fight proclamation put into effect.
And citizens, by suggestion, by example, and
by perhaps a sense of shame for idleness, as well
and by perhaps a sense of shame for idleness, as well
as by an appeal to patriotism, can bring about a change
in attitude that will be far more influential than any
number of vagrancy laws. Nevertheless, it is signifi
cant that the Roxboro protests about vagrancy may
have been instrumental in bringing to a head the Gov
ernor’s declaration.
WITH OTHER EDITORS
There Is No Alibi
News and Observer
Some —not many—Army and Navy officers, unwill
ing to admit that the destruction of a large part of the -
American Navy, and the destruction jf many Army
airplanes at Pearl Harbor was due solely to the fact that
the general and the admiral in command “were not on
the alert” (to quote Secretary Knox) are seeking at this
day to find an alibi or excuse for the fact that those re
sponsible officers were “asleep at the switch.”
Recently the papers carried the absurd statement
that Pearl Harbor actually was “a lucky thing for us and
a major catastrophe for the Japanese.” The attempted
reasoning is that “the Japs spilled out accumulated ve
nom that was going to be spilled out in some fashion
sooner or later, whatever one might do,” and “our job
now is to bring the war in the Pacific to a conclusion.”
The American people know, on the statements of Cabi
net officials, that the tragedy at Pearl Harbor occurred
because the general and the admiral “were not on the
alert”—that is, they neglected the high duty developing
upon them in those critical days to be so alert and ready
that no such surprise attack could be successful. If they
had been as alert as Private Joseph L-. Loekhard, who
vainly warded his superior officers of the approach of
the Japanese airplanes, the destruction of Army planes
and ships could have been averted.
It was the greatest tragedy in American history,
cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, de
layed effective action in the Pacific, and so heartened
the Japanese* that they took the Philippines and
strengthened themselves so well that ousting them will
be a long and costly job. It was no “lucky break.” It was
a tragedy beyond expression and was without excuse
or palliation.
However, the not being “on the alert” by the two
responsible officers did not reflect upon the courage or
ability to fight and win of the American armed forces.
They have shown that against the greatest odds they
are measuring up to the highest traditions of their
country, and have won victories over odds that would
have daunted any but the bravest. And they will demon
strate these qualities up to victory.
But let us have done with alibis for a tragedy that
was costly and humiliating.
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Sylvia Nicks. Os
Roxboro, Honored
At Way cross, Ga.
Miss Sylvia Nicks, daughter
of Mrs. Freeman Nicks, of Rox
boro, who is spending some time
at Waycross, Ga., with her uncle
and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
Williams, was recently honored
there with a theatre party.
The young people, who went
to see a showing of the “Meati
est Man In Town”, afterwards
•enjoyed refreshments at a Way
cross drug store. In the party, in
addition to Miss Niciks, the hon
oree, were Jerry Faughman and
James Kennedy and Misses
Jean Thornton, Mary Handley,
Diane. Elliston, Sylvia Lawhorne
and Martha Porter.
Commissioner’s
Son Advances
At Fort Knox
1 Corp. Hassell Long Whitfield,
of Roxboro, a son of Person
County Commissioner Frank T.
Whitfield and Mrs. Whitfield, is
taking a special course in the
gunnery department of the Arm
ored Force school, Fort Knox,
Ky., according to announcement
received from Maj. Gen. Alvin
C. Gillon, Jr.
WHEAT MARKETING
QUOTAS SUSPENDED
Claude T. Hall, Chairman of
Person County Agricultural Ad
justment Administration states
that on February 23. 1943, Wheat
Marketing Quotas were suspended
for the remainder of the 1942-
43 marketing years and the
1943-44 marketing years. There
fore, no permit cards will be
necessary for marketing wheat
produced in 1943 or having
wheat converted in to flour.
This action was taken princi
pally because of increase de
mands for the use" of wheat as
feecf in meeting goals far t live
stock and poultry and our w r ar
i>reds.
flf Hitler wins, the issue
for you will be living itself
and not Just the cost of liv
ing. Think that over ajid fig
ure it out for yourself how
much beyond lfi percent of
your family Income you should put
Into War Bonds every payday.
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Duncan Elected
Fire Chiefs’ Head
Os Association
ROANOKE, Va., June 26.
Fire Chief James M. Duncan, of
Alexanderia, Va., iwas elected
president of Khe Southeastern
Association of Fire Chiefs, for
the coming year at the final
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tion’s 16th annual convention
held at Hotel Roanoke Tuesday.
Other officers elected besides
Duncan were: First vice presi
dent, Henry R. Chase, fire chief
of Miami, Fla.; second vice pres
ident, William M. Mullins, Roan
oke, Va., fire chief; secretary
treasurer, Walter Stevens, fire
chief of Anniston, Ala. Stevens
was re-elected to his office, hav
ing served for the past five
terms.
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