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THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1943
Finest Exemplification
Being a believer in newspapers and in the power for
good that community journalism can be, the Person
County Times is naturally pleased with the spontaneous
expression of good will shown to it and to the Roxboro
Courier by the citizens here who have so loyally cooper
ated with Chamber of Commerce Secretary W. Wallace
Woods in the development hereabouts of “Newspaper
Appreciation Week."
Such a freewill offering of community support for
the newspapers in its midst may have occurred in some
other County or City within hearing distance of Rox
boro and Person County, but if it has we have not
heard it, and we are proud of and at the same time made
humble by the demonstration, not only because of the
appreciation involved, but because the tie-in comes in
connection with the one hundred and fiftieth anniver
sary of the founding of the small but progressive City
of Roxboro.
We do sincerely believe that citizens of Roxboro and
Person County are coming more and more to a desire
for and an understanding of an outspoken and an open
minded newspaper such as the Times, and the longer
we live and work here the more confident we are that
good rather than bad purpose is served by as complete
a publication of facts as can be obtained. Having about
completed as City Editor a voluntary and wholly enjoy
able five years of residence in Roxboro, we are no longer
amazed at the fact that so many non-natives come to
the City on probation and end up by remaining for the
rest of their days.
Published elsewhere in today’s Times are stories in
which are contained visible evidences of the interlock
ing relationships developed by all Roxboro citizens, the
natives, as well as the one-time outsiders, all working
together for the common good of the City and County
concerned. Likewise made plain in that connection are
the roles played by the Roxboro Chamber of Commerce
and the two newspapers. There is no need to labor the
point that what has been achieved here in the way of
community betterment has come about through shoul
der-to-the wheel cooperation.
The late City Manager Percy Bloxam, more than any
other recently arrived resident, had during his residence
here a vision of the Roxboro of the future. He hoped
to live to see the day when Roxboro and Person sons and
daughters now' in military service would return to their
native heath, revitalized in affection for their home
and filled with determination to carry it forward to
new standards of service.
That task, as we see it, is the job of all of us who are
today thinking of the hundred and fifty years of living
that has gone into the history of Roxboro. And so,
again we express our gratitude to citizens of a kind
and considerate and growing County and City, and in
particular to the man who crystalized the “Newspaper
Appreciation Week” idea. It is just about the finest
exemplification of community spirit that we have come
across.
For Force Os Public Opinion
&
The Person County Times, as far as local and immedi
ate reaction to the work or fight proclamation of Gov.
Broughton is concerned, is glad to join with Lieut. Gov.
Harris, who presided over Monday’s successful meeting
here, in expression of the opinion that the campaign to
.eliminate vagrancy and to return to profitable employ
ment those citizens classed as “loafers”, must first be
made effective through force of public opinion.
This is said without any attempt to discredit the will
ing cooperation expected to be shown here and else
where by law enforcement officials, although some citi
zens will question the right of said officials to go around
asking folks why they are not working, or worse still,
why they are working only two to three days out of a
week. Indeed, the very possibility that such questions
may come up suggests all the more reason why public
opinion based on the patriotic necessity to work will
be more effective than the suggestion that absence of
working has anything to do with law violation.
As a footnote, it might likewise be observed that em
ployers must not expect the fo_rk or .proclamation
to be a cure-all/nor will further upon sale of j
week-end intoxicants suppfarthe complete answer. Its
might also that was pleasing to ohierve the\
pulse of the public opinion ,dea at the meetjgj Brc Mon-
day, where representatives shared with Chairman Har
ris the thought that Person folks should try to work out
their own labor problem before running to the Governor
with ian appeal for exercise of his special powers.
As announced today, the Person and Roxboro coopera
tive committee has been appointed and the job is quite
properly up to it and the rest of us to see that some
solution is obtained.
. Second Note On Street Cleaning
Several Roxboro citizens have-been kind enough to
commend the street-cleaning editorial of last week, “A
Stranger Can . Say It”, that appeared in this column of
the Times. Further observation on the problem, plus
consultation with Collins Abbitt, head of the City’s
street-cleaning and sanitation department, offers rea
son enough to believe that the problem is as bad as it
was painted by the stranger in question, but gives add
ed emphasis to the fact that many citizens, the ones
who should fill their garbage cans and keep them cover
ed, are partly to blame for the fact that trash has come
to stand as a City symbol.
Particularly abhorrent to Headman Abbitt are those
of his fellowtownsmen, including, as he alleges, some
Main street merchants, who, without regard to collec
tion schedules, throw out or sweep out trash that never
gets into a collection can, much less into a City trash
wagon. Likewise in the uncooperative class are citizens
and strangers (visitors, if you please) who think that
streets on Sunday mornings are good places to throw
paper cups. Particularly sinful in this respect, says
Abbitt, are church-goers.
And then, there is still the idea that maybe the City
Commissioners ought to do somefxiing about the roam
ing dogs who act as midnight-turner-overs of garbage
cans, and about seeing that the Abbitt department has
a little more of cash to pay for street cleaning services
rendered.
Roxboro’s Ox-bow.
Not because we want Palace Theatre Manager Teague
Kirby to get richer, but because we know that the show
he has scheduled for today and Friday has or should
have an especial interest to Roxboro and Person citi
zens, we hasten to beg of them to let go of some of their
dimes and nickles before Friday night is over. The at
traction referred to is “The Ox-Bow Incident”, a super
western, with a moral punch as good as any delivered
in Roxboro and Person pulpits.
The book from which the picture was made was that
way, and we hear by the grapevine that Hollywood for
once has spared the smelling salts. And we are positive
that Roxboro really knows something about the sub
ject matter.
WITH OTHER EDITORS ,
Carolina Reciprocity on Gas Lacking
Portsmouth (Va.) Star
The Richmond man who recently told of apparent un
restricted pleasure driving in Virginia by citizens of
North Carolina holding supplemental gasoline ration
books, “with nothing to be done about it,” was quite
right if “reciprocity” is to be judged from a late case
in which a Roxboro war ration board exonerated one
of its citizens who had been found by a Danville war ra
tion board to have engaged in “pleasure driving” in.
Virginia.
The Danville ration board had found the North Caro
lina visitor to have engaged in direct “pleasure driving”
and had asked the Roxboro board, acting in reciprocity,
to confirm Virginia action, which ordered the Roxboro
man to park his car for 60 days and denied him supple
mental gasoline for the rest of the war.
The Roxboro ration board held the alleged offender
had gone to see his father in Danville “on business” and
had bought no gasoline in Virginia. The action of the
Danville board was dismissed by the Roxboro board.
When the Richmond man recently told how North
Carolina “A”, “B” and “C” rationed automobiles were
to be seen in large number in Virginia—and especially
at Virginia Beach on Sundays—with nothing Virginia
authorities could do to curb the Carolina drivers and
save “precious gasoline” for Virginians, a Wilmington
ration board took exception and said that all Virginia
boards would have to do would be to report such cases
to respective Carolina boards that would promptly act
in “reciprocity.”
But from the Roxboro case, reciprocity appears lack
ing and North Carolina where gasoline restrictions are
nothing like as severe as in Virginia, would seem not
only to be over indulgent with its “A”, “B” and “C” ra
tion books, but especially disinclined to .pay any atten
tion to the curbing of this indulgence by outsiders.
In North Carolina it was not so very long ago that
the State’s Governor was being hauled over the coals
by some Tar Heel papers for allegedly taking a vacation
trip to Florida in a State-owned motor car, but nothing
ever came of the incident.
It would seem our sister State to the south could well
become a little more war conscious than same happen
ings there would appear to indicate she is, at least in
the matter of “fuel is ammunition.”
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LIBRARY CORNER
Library Hours: 12:00-5:00
Negro Branch Hours: 12:00-5:00
Monday, Wednesday, Friday and
Saturday; 3:00-9:00 Tuesday and
Thursday.
The Negro Branch, Person
County Public Library opened
July 1 for inspection and books
could be taken out at 12:00 on
July 2. Perhaps some have hesi
tated because they do not real
ize that the branch is for the en
tire Person County and that the
books are for free use. The fol
lowing simple rules will be ask
ed of each borrower:
1. Sign a registration with ad
dress for adults and parents
signatures for children under
sixteen.
2. Sign white card in books.
3. Watch date due and expect
to pay 1 cent fine if book is not
returnled on date dufe. County
people will be allowed automatic
renewal of two weeks for two
week books and one week for
one week books.
New Reserve Books will be
charged for one week. Postal
cards will be sent to those who
have reserved books in advance.
Among the new Reserve books
you will find the following:
Holt: George Washington Car
ver, Bellaman: Kings Row, Will
kie: One World and Douglas:
The Robe.
Do you know the children of
other lands? That they play games
differently from yours. That
they eat and dress differently
from you. The Person County
Public Library has easy books
for the following countries that ■
you will want to read:
“Scotland”, Perkins: The
Scotch Twins; “Russia”, Haskell:
Katrirvka: The Story of a Rus
sian Child; “Belgium”, Peck:
Belgium; “Iceland”, Shinn: Sig
urdur In Iceland; “Netherlands”,
Lane: Wilhelmina; “China”,
Lewis: Chd)ia Quest; “Arabia”,
Tietjens: Boy Os The Desert;
“Switzerland”, Perkins: The
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Body Named To
Consider Honors
For Presidents
RALEIGH, July 7. Gover
nor Broughton has appointed a
commission to consider suitable
memorials for Andrew Jackson,
James K. Polk and Andrew
Johnson, the three North Caro
linians who have served as Pres
ident of the United States.
The commission was provided
for by the 1943 general assembly
and members will serve without
pay. Findings are to be reported
to the Governor to be transmit- \
ted by him to the next session
of the legislature.
Members of the commission
are A. J. Maxwell, Josephus Dan
iels, Dr. Clarence Poe and Dr. C.
C. all of Raleigh;
Judge Robert W. Winston and
Dr. R. D. W. Connor, both of
Chapel Hill; Roland F. Beasley,
of Mjarshville, Charles W. Til
lett, of Charlotte; William T.
Polk, of Greensboro, and Gerald
I W. Johnson, of Baltimore.
Johnson has written a book on
the life of Andrew Jackson and
Judge Winston a book on the
life of Andrew Johnson.
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THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1943
Providence Club
Meeting Held At
Mrs. Pentecost’s
The Providence Home Demon
stration club held its regular
meeting Thursday, July Ist, at
the home of Mrs. C. C. Pente
cost. Mrs. T. G. Buchanan, pres
ident, presided. The club collect
was repeated in unison by the
club members.
The group sang two songs:
“Its: a Good Time to Get To
gether” and “Hail, Club Women.”
Following the reading of the
minutes of the June meeting and
roll call by the; Secretary, Mrs.
Otho Murray, Mrs. C. C. Pente
cost gave a reading: “Take Time
for All Things.”
The demonstration on “Busy
Day Meals” was given by the
Home Agent. Scalloped soup
mixture, cole slaw, and fruit
cobbler were prepared in the
demonstration and served to
club members. /
Mrs. O. C. Gravitte dismissed
the meeting with prayer.
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