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SCNDAyTJULY 11, 1943
Praise Where It Is Deserved
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For Fifth District Representative John H.
Folger, of whom —by virtue of being in his
district Person County has a right to be
proud, words of praise from Carroll Kilpat
rick, Washington correspondent for the
News and Observer, and by echo from the
News and Observer, are as deserved as they
are generous. Citizens back home in the
Fifth District know Folger. They know him
as a man who does not back down, as one
who comes as nearly as any other man in
Congress to standing on his own two feet.
Kilpatrick, in his “Words of Wisdom"
column in the News and Observer, puts it
this way:
“I am happy to present a guest writer this
morning. His name is John H. Folger. He is
a member of Congress from North Carolina.
His words should be read by every Ameri
can. They were spoken this, week on the
floor of the House when not many members
were present.”
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Folger said, and we agree with him:
“As I am able to analyze or appraise the
present situation, we, the Allies, are just be
ginning to take the offensive in this great
struggle. While I would not minimize in the
least the wonders that have been accom
plished up to this time in launching this of
fensive action, I confess to you that I am
unable to see the chance of anything like
an early conclusion of this great conflict.
“Feeling this way, I am greatly disturbed,
and while it may seem to be in a measure
byway of an indictment against some, I
feel every day that too many of us—and I
speak particularly now of members of Con
gress—too many of us are prone to para
mount things which, compared with this
great struggle going on in the world, are of
little consequence.
“Notwithstanding the fact that we yet
have before us in all probability a long,
hard war, it does not disturb me much that
it might mean some privations to me or to
you, but it does disturb me w T hen I remem
ber that our owm boys and our own men are
surrendering willingly their lives upon the
battlefields of the world that we may con
tinue in the blessings of liberty and the
freedoms which were purchased by the
blood of those who went before us.
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“I am strongly impressed with the idea
and, indeed, the conviction that I am nob
sufficiently mindful at all times of the duty
I owe to the men in arms, who are fighting *
for freedom and the preservation of our
country . . . How many shall die depends
in a large measure upon how faithful I am
to my duty and my obligation as a citizen
and a recipient of the blessings that will
flow from the sacrifices made by my fellow
Americans who are standing between me
and the loss of my country and my freedom.
Through their bravery and sacrifices I shall
be free and not a slave.
“It is not enough that I shall vote for ap
propriations of money to carry on the war.
I must refrain from all acts and avoid all
words that would in the least tend to divide
those who are engaged in this great battle
for my freedom.
“I must not only profess to> be,, but be,
thankful for the Allies who are aiding us
in this titanic struggle, which, if gained,
will assure our enjoyment of the blessings
of liberty, but, if lost, will leave us without
hope for ourselves or our posterity for cen
turies to come.
“I must know that even one word which
tends to divide and, consequently, to hinder
will result in the loss of a life, or many
lives —the lives of those who gallantly de
fend us . . .
“I must avoid divisions at home. If by ac
tion or inaction, word or failure to speak
when I ought to speak, I prolong this strug
gle for liberty one minute, I cannot say that
lam not guilty of at least allowing some
mother’s boy to die unnecessarily. This is
not a fanciful or an imaginary contempla
tion. It is truth; it is an everlasting truth.
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“There is so much involved in the. war
into which we have been thrust and in
which we are necessarily engaged that it
cannot be believed that the end is even now
near at hand. This is a Total war. It not only
encompasses substantially the whole world
but it has its relationship to the freedom
and peace of the world now and for genera
tions to come.
“There are two determinations, one pitted
against the other. On the one hand, the de
termination-is that one country shall be free
and the rest of the world slave. The other
determination is that all men shall be free
—free as embodied in the statement of the
Four Freedoms, and all men free to live.
“\Ve believe that we shall succeed, and
not only in victory of our arms, but that we
shall succeed in helping the world to a last
ing peace, where human rights are regard
ed. the dignity of man realized, and the
moral law upheld; and w T here it shall be es
tablished that ‘righteousness exalteth a na
tion’ and that ‘sin is a reproach to any peo
ple.’
“Now we are engaged in a great struggle
to overcome the evil forces of the world,
who regard neither God nor man. These we
must indeed overcome. Therefore it shall be
our duty to see that justice and truth pre
vail in the affairs of men and nations, at
least to contribute our full share toward
that realization.”
For Honor Received
Surprise to some of his friends, but none |
the less pleasing, is the appointment of M. |
Banks Berry, of Roxboro, as a member of
the State Board of Barber Examiners. The
appointment, by Governor Broughton, was
revealed Friday, although a few citizens in
official circles knew what was coming.
As successor to the late Stanley High, of
Durham, Berry will serve until July 1, 1949,
on the three man board that licenses barbers
in the State and makes examinations of
shop conditions. Distinction connected with
the naming of Berry is that he is the first
“journeyman barber”, that is to say, an ac
tive practicioner of his trade, to receive the
appointment.
Only rub, so far as Person County is con
cerned is the fact that Berry, who is a Per
son County Commissioner, having been
elected last year, will be compelled to resign
his county position because of the State
law against double tenure in office holding.
Berry, during his short period of service as
a County Commissioner for Person, has
been an active and where needed, a persis
tent official, but withal a popular citizen.
And County Commissioners do not come a
dime a dozen.
A Dangerous Sign
Resident in Roxboro is a young man
whose Eastern Carolina father, down a
round Pitt County, where potatoes are a
money crop, entered into a partnership with
his son. Also in Roxboro is a man who spent
his vacation in the Tar Heel potato belt act
ing as an inspector. These men have been on
the spot in the area where the potato situa
tion, called a crisis in an AP'story, is no
joke, and they have come back to Roxboro,
where, fortunately all that is done with po
tatoes is the eating, but they are plenty
mad.
The story they tell is one of gross mis
management by the Agriculture Depart
ment, by the Food Administration, or some
body, in which potatoes planted at urgent
request from official Washington are be
ing allowed to rot in piles in the fields and
in cars held up by conflicting inspection or
ders. Bottom of the whole situation is ap
parently the sliding of the established Gov
ernment price from $2.70 to $2.25, plus the
fact that potato crops to the south of North
Carolina by a seasonal priority got there
first and sold at higher price before the
market became glutted. Added factor was
the act of God chance that this year’s crop
of potatoes is larger than it has been in
many moons.
Going the rounds also is the tale of the
arrest of a grower who violated some rule
and was placed in custody while he was en
route with a truck load of spuds to a sea
board City in, which there was actually a
potato famine. And just as bad is the fact
that Army camps are buying potatoes di
rect, while the government allegedly has
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C.
is of no concern to them, but they are wrong.
The potato situation, like the piles left rot
ting in the fields, has a bad odor, symtoma
tic of what can happen in other crop divi
sions..
STATE BOARD
MAKES TEACHER
ALLOTMENTS
Special Problems Con
sidered For New Enroll
ment Centers.
RALEIGH, July 10. ln pre
! paration for the opening of pub
! lie schools in September, the.
■ state board of education this
! week approved Comptroller Na
| than Yeiton’s report on prelimi
nary teacher allotments for the
1943-44 school yearr and adopt
ed a schedule for further elimi
nation of the differential be
tween white and negro teachers’
salaries.
In considering special problems
of small high schools jn coun
ties of low population, the board
under permission granted by the
1943 legislature, voted Yelton
authority to allot to any high
school which was on the standard
list last year enough teachers to
keep that school on the list in
1943-44. The school must have
had an average daily attendance
of as much as 50 during the
1942-43 school year.
High schools must have at
least three teachers to be on the
standard list. At its June meet
ing, the board adopted a rule re
quiring an average daily attend
ance of at least 60 in a high
school last year for that school
to be alloted three teachers. The
legislature provided, however,
that high schools on the stand
ard list be given special consid
eration because of temporary en
rollment drops resulting from
papulation shifts to* defense cen
ters.
The schedule for elimination
of the salary differential, drawn
up by the comptroller’s staff,
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It may be that this equipment
never will be used during the en
tire course of the war, but it must
be paid for out of the War Bonds
and Stamps that we are setting aside
each payday. u_ Sm Treasury Department
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hundreds of thousands of bushels on hand in
storage warehouses, rotting because they
cannot be disposed of.
Roxboro folks may think that because
their potatoes are tobacco, the potato crisis
provides for the expenditure of
approximately $280,000, for each
year of the 1943-45 biennium.
Yelton explained that the en
tire differential would be elimi
nated by the fall of 1945 if the
next general assembly continues
the present plan of eliminating
the differences. The 1945 legisla
ture will be asked to appropriate
$150,000, which would place Ne
gro teachers and principles in
this state on the same salary
schedule now in effect for white
teachers and principals.
Clyde A. Erwin, State superin
tendent of public instruction,
was authorized by the school
board to issue calls for bids and
execute contracts for supple
mentary textbooks in the public
schools.
The board handled its routine
business before turning to teach
er allotments for the next year,
approving, among other things,
the leasing of Grant island in
Craven rounty to the navy for
a bombing range.
It accepted plans for vocation
education and vocational rehabi
litation for 1943-44 with the un
derstanding that such changes
will be made as are required to
conform to federal legislation or
U. S. department of education
policies.
Approval was given the elec
tion of these superintendents: G.
R. Wheeler, of Lee county, and
Sanford: J. W. Byers, of Red
Springs: E. M. Rollins, of Hen
derson, and W. P. Morton, of
Franklinton.
TAXI VICTIM IDENTIFIED
MYRTLE BEACH, S. C., July
10 Police Chief Floyd E. Da
vis said that a white man struck
and killed by a taxicab here had
been identified as Charles Lan
caster, of Wilmington.
BARLEY
Sunrise barley produced 33
bushels per acre for R. L.
Spruill of Columbia and it was
10 ,days earlier than the Iredell
variety, reports County Agent
H. H. Harris of Tyrrell County.
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Library Hours: 12:00-5:00
Te Person County Public Li
brary, Chub Lake street, points
out the new acquisition, Jack
Goodman, Editor: The Fireside
Book Os Dog Stories, with an in
troduction by James Thurber, to
the lovers of dogs and well writ
ten short stories.
This book is destined to be
come the top dog in in its field.
As may be seen by the Table of
contents, it is a Great Dane a
mong anthologies, containing 608
pages, two complete novels,
thirty-three short stories and ar
ticles, and several novelettes.
It contains gay stories and sad
ones, philosophical ones and
shamelessly sentimental ones.
There are stories about mastiffs
and bull terriers, pointers and
poodles, Airdales and just plain
mutts. For people who feel pret
ty seriously about dogs there
pages such as “The Character of
Dogs,” by Robert Louis Steven
son and “Dandy, The Story of a
Dog,” by W. iH. Hudson. For
those who want to get something
of a behind-the-scenes line on
the way dogs think, there are
stories such as, “My Talks with
Dean Spanley, ” by Lord Dun
sany, “On Being a Public Char
acter,” by Don Marquis and
“Memoirs of A Yellow Dog,” by
O. Henry.
In his introduction to, The
Fireside Book Os Dog Stories,
James Thurber writes: “the dog
has got more fun out of man
than man has got out of the dog
for the clearly demonstrable
reason that man is the more
laughable of the two animals.”
This book is an attempt to rem
edy this injustice. The reader
need bring only one thing to it—
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SUNDAY, JULY 11, 1943
an attachment to dogs, by leashes
or other ties. For it contains
every conceivable kind of dog
story, from the kind that cause
spontaneous laughter to the kind
that cause sniffling.
Thrills Offered In
New Air Film
With Tokio Raid
Said to be the most stirring
film of the armed services, RKO
Radio’s “Bombardier,” showing
Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day at the Palace theatre, ends
its realistic story of how Ameri
ca’s thousands of student Bom
bardiers are trained with a night
bombing raid by Flying Fortres
ses over Tokio as an oulepme.
This climax is a sensational
one, with exciting battles be
tween the big bombers and
speedy Zeros and the memora
ble sacrifice one man makes so
that the raid shall be a success.
Pat O’Brien and Randolph
Scott are co-starred in the pic
ture, with Anne Shirley, Eddie
Albert, Walter Reed, Robert
Ryan and Barton Mac Lane in
the featured cast.
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reptile.
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