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PAGE TWO PERSON COUNTY TIMES s'* North Carolina Jk /wass Assocur:»TO A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE J. 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 Postoffice At Roxboro, N. C., Under Tile Act Os 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 AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York : Chicago : Detroit : Atlanta : Phila. Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Adver tisers at all times. Rates furnished upon request. News from our correspondents; should reach this office not later than Tuesday to insure publica tion for Thursday edition and Thursday P. M. for Sunday edition. THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1943 Jealousy Turns To Analysis? i Up in Virginia, where they still take seri ously the matter of “pleasure driving”, edi torial rumbles against decisions rendered in that State by OPA hearing panels are tak ing on a critical tone, with all signs pointing to a growing disgust with such decisons as the one rendered by the Danville, Va., panel in Roxboro’s now celebrated John Lewis Duncan case, a case that was given healthy correction by the Roxboro panel. Right off the bat it is difficult to deter mine whether the changing attitude in Vir ginia is inspired by love of justce or by jealousy of a State such as North Carolina, which has had, but does not now have a ban on pleasure driving. The Portsmouth Star editorial (quoted some two weeks ago in the Times) anent the Duncan incident seems to hang on jealousy, but it is difficult to be lieve that the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, in which legality of decisions by “rump court” hearing panels is questioned, has the same motive. II One North Carolina paper, the bright and usually logical Greensboro Daily News, chooses to string along with its Norfolk contemporary, and in an extended comment which we quote here as expression of a point of view, says that the powers and processes exercised by and granted to OPA hearing panels is both “distasteful and dangerous.” “Virginia newspapers,” say the News, “generally have joined in criticizing OPA enforcement methods, especially as boards, or panels thereof, assume judicial responsi bilities which, in effect, make them jury, prosecutor, judge and all. The Norfolk Vir ginian-Pilot in particular attacks these “rump courts” and the manner in which al leged offenders are haled before them on mere suspicion and confronted with the nec essity of establishing their innocence. “To the Daily News this procedure has been exceedingly noxious ever since OPA took it upon itself. One of the fundamentals of American justice, deriving in fact from the Magna Charta, is acceptance of a per son’s innocence until he is proven guilty; and such establishment of guilt presupposes trial under due processes and protection. OPA procedure, however, reverses the entire operation, places the burden of proof on the defendant and metes out what may prove serious punishment indeed after what is equivalent to an ex parte hearing. “While Virginia editors have taken it out in talking or writing, however, at least two upstate New York boards have voiced their own disapproval and acted accordingly. The entire board at Elmira has resigned rather than carry out such orders, to become a quasi-judicial body, from OPA higher-ups; and two members of the Corning board have declared that they will not serve in any such dual capacity as judge and prosecutor. As these protestants put it, motorists are still entitled to some rights and the board members at point do not propose to be party to a violation of constitutional guarantees. They hold that there must be a plaintiff to face the alleged offender. “The Daily News recognizes full well the difficulties of OPA gasoline edict enforce ment and knows that local boards are show ing patience and tact in their handling of hearings. But the policy laid down by Wash ington and the assumption of judicial res ponsibilities which reverse established and decreed processes are distasteful and dang erous per se and even more disturbing in the trend which they reflect.” 111 The Times, for its part, agrees with the Daily News that the policy as laid down by Washington is dangerous, not so much in the instance of the OPA panels concerned, but because the precedents established may corruptive in other fields. It does not take a lawyer, much less a person with a legal turn of mind to see that OPA hearing panels are in their functions closely allied with courts of law, although the panels under their present set-up lack the dignity associ ated with the courts. Greatest weakness, however, of the criti cism offered by the Daily News is the ab sence of any practical suggestion as to what should be done to improve the legal status of OPA panel methods. The protests of the New York boards as cited are well-inten tioned but utterly negative in result. IV In the meantime, in Roxboro, at least, the findings of the Person OPA panel are more feared and respected than are the judg ments of the courts proper, which may be what the Greensboro Daily News is hitting at. Panel processes, in other words, may not be legal, but in some instances they are effective and it would seem that they will have to stand until some better method of curbing gasoline violations are evolved. Finding the better method offers more room for intelligence than does the narrow' attitude of being too critical of the method now in use, but if the Danville, Va., angle of the John Lewis Duncan case has had its sharing in starting the right kind of a na tion-wide dissatisfaction with OPA hearing panel methods, it has served its purpose. And, perhaps, a certain measure of thanks, by contrast and in the opposite direction belongs to the Person panel, which in the Duncan instance had the wisdom to place it self above the reproach meditated upon by the Greensboro Daily News. The whole affair show's how what starts out as a defense mechanism can turn into a more serious probing. In a promised “equalizing” of gasoline distribution “Hon est Harold”, Mr. Secretary Ickes, has one solution, but even if Ickes does take this method of smoothing ruffled State feathers he will not have touched the legality issue. That is a point Washington should have thought about before it spawned hearing panels and gave them authority. Further Light On Meat Slaughtering Vigorous language used by the Person Meat Board, as reported Sunday in the Times in an account of the first meeting of the new board, points to one more instance of a gulf between promise and performance. In describing the gulf, the Person Meat Board, filing a protest, alleges that the State Board of Health and the OPA (and, inciden tally, the Person unit of the tri-county health department) are at fault in suspend ing slaughtering licenses and at one and the same time requiring construction of abat toirs when materials for abattoirs cannot be secured. Likewise a delicate thrust from the Per son Meat Board is the showing up of the four-way channel through which cancella tion of slaughtering permits is achieved, the end-up being the Person USDA War Board, an agency which up to this point had not taken a hand in the controversy. Deep down under is the Person Meat Board’s sus picion that the State Health Department and its County affiliates are backing down on the enforcement of slaughterhouse regu lations, now that OPA and priority regula tions have crossed up. Most pertinent local case at the moment is that of Victor Yar borough, one of the larger slaughterers in Person, who has at long last had a notice that he must suspend slaughtering, and who has at the same time had what appears to be authentic information that he can meet required abattoir conditions. The Person Meat Board further says, and with some justification, that now is not the time to drag up and out into the open abat toir laws that were on the books some two, three years ago, long before priorities were thought of. The Person Meat Boards alle gations have the effect of making both the OPA and the State Health Board look fool ish. We must say this although we are still in favor of the health and sanitation features of the abattoir plan, if and when it can be worked out. The mere discovery of appar ent cross-purposes between the OPA and the State Health Board does not vitiate the ideal set up by the said Health Board and sincerely wanted by the Person unit of the Health department, but the cross-purposes involved do give the OPA and the health in terests a regretable black eye and it will take a long time to again convince wary County and City officials that as officials they were not pretty nearly taken for a ride. PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. Important issue at this moment is that no legalized slaughtering for sale can now be done in Person County, If the Person Meat Board can crack that situation it will have done enough to justify its existence. The abattoir angle can wait lt has been doing that these many weeks. A Big Man Comes To Us Robert M. Hanes, of Winston-Salem, known far and wide in State and national financial circles, comes tonight to Roxboro to lend his support to plans for organization of the Person unit of the United War Fund committed Hanes, who is a big man, is taking his valuable time to speak at Person County Court House and by his very presence here he is willing to assure citizens of sound ness of, and the necessity of, the War Fund program, in which all charitable organiza tions of the war are concentrated. It has been said, and with some truth, that the pay-as-you-go, salary-withholding plan for the collection of income taxes that is now in effect has caused an appreciable slowing up in other forms of war response, but Americans will have to learn that there cannot be and must not be a slacking up in War Fund response. New taxes are burdensome, but we can learn a lesson from our Canadian friends, cited last week by Dr. W. A. Irwin. They have long since been confronted with taxes, but they are at the same time buying War Bonds, and helping out with support of organiza tions pertaining to morale and entertain ment. If Mr. Hanes by his presence here can make us see the continuing obligation of helping out, he will have done his part of the job. The least that Roxboro can do for him is to honor him with a full house to night. Hardest part of the task, our task, will come later, but in that, too, we have confidence, once our citizens are aroused to the fact that backlogs of entertainment and morale have their place in the war effort. The New Commissioner Choice of J. A. (Jimmy) Long, Jr., as a Person County Commissioner, an appoint ment announced today by Miss Sue C. Brad sher, Clerk of Person Superior Court, in whom selection was vested by virtue of of fice, brings to the Board of Commissioners a younger than average representative, but one that must meet with approval of many citizens. Significant, too, is the fact that the appointment goes to a man who is a busy citizen. By tradition and inheritance the new Commissioner will not find it strange to enter public service. In this is his first large opportunity. As successor to M. Banks Berry, who had served acceptably until he heeded a call LIBRARY CORNER Library Hours: 12:00-5:00 Negro Branch Hours: 12:00-5:00 Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sat urday 3:00-9:00 Tuesday and j Thursday. Aside from the books them selves that are in the library, the Community Reading Room as pects of a library should be stressed. The extent of this use depends upon the pick-up mater ials that may be found in the library. We are pleased to an nounce that the following news paper and periodicals may be found in the library. The current issue does not circulate so that you may find the current month in the library at all times.* The newspaper and magazines are, namely: The Person County Times, Roxboro Courier, The Crisis, Negro History, Bulletin, New Republic, Better Homes and Gardens, Building America, Readers’ Digest, Good Housekeep ing, Popular Mechanic, and Jack and Jill. twßjw ¥ •// ij. & * ICE COLD WATERMELONS CITY MILK AND ICE COMPANY to another form of service, Commissioner Long will discover that good County Gov ernment, no less than private business, d-> mands constant attention. [with other editors The Turkish Watchtower New York Times It is possible to see farther from the Turkish watchtower than from any other spot in neutral Europe. Switzerland re mains a good listening post, picking up many significant echoes from Germany. Sweden dares not open its eyes too wide. Spain, caught in Axis coils, sees only what it wants to see. But Turkey is neither sur rounded nor frightened. She keeps a clear view of the hidden continent. So when Istanbul hails the invasion of Sicily as the real turn of the war we may accept it as an independent judgement. Ataturk left his countrymen a tradition of dislike and distrust of Germany. The Turks are anti-Axis. They clung loyally through grimly to their pact with Britain as Germany swept into the Balkans, battered her way into the Caucasus and almost rode into Alexanderia. The meeting last Febru ary between Winston Churchill and Presi dent Inonu at Adana was a signal that the weather had cleared. Since then the wily German Ambassador, Franz von Papen, has merely been collecting material for a sequel to Sir Neville Chamberlain’s “The Failure of a Mission.” The Turks do not want to fight, but they are not afraid to fight. It is a paradox that Turkey, relieved of the neces sity of defending herself, stands today as close to the brink of war as she did when Germany threatened her territory. One way or another she must have a voice in the peace. She has certainly had a voice in the war. London, Washington and Berlin have all listened respectfully when Inonu chose to speak. Now that he talks like an old family friend of the democracies Berlin is duly alarmed. The Turkish press, too, is out spoken. It has long had the habit of lifting the European carpet to see what is under neath. Now, for example, it interprets Gen- 1 eral Giraud’s visit to Washington not as a move in North African politics but as a clear promise of the dispatch of a French army to France. It sees Italy knocked out of the war, with both France and the Bal kans outflanked. Turkey has this gift for looking ahead with a shrewd eye, no doubt, on the Aegean islands and the disposition of the Dardanelles. When Germany finally be gins to crack we will probably hear about it first from Turkey, perhaps in action as well as words. In these days of gilder trans ports and rush war production the pioneer movement, whether 1850 or 1943, loses the spotlight. Worthy items must receive spe cial notice to escape complete oblivion. The Person County Public Library, Chub Lake street wishes to note two books concerning the pioneer move ment. The first is of the- 1850 period and the second is of the present in the South: Whippe, Maurine: The Giant Joshua. The setting of this long novel is the Dixie Mission, of the Mormon church on the Utah desert. It is the story of a high spirited girl, Clory, sealed qs the third wife of a 40-year-old Abi jah Maclntyre. This rich, robust and oddly exciting novel, which brings the Mormons as close home to the reader as they have ever been brought is a carful rconstuction. Not only in this book are they likeable, but they have a certain magnificance which fully ex plains .their history. Raper, Arthur: Tenants Os The Almighty: I I f _*l 11 ur for Gia on Btonrack. Stomach. '■Moraine T V r7 Afmr~ and Cold DirtrwT J I .iiJ If not, why not? Pleuant, prompt in aetion. effectin'. Thirty cents and Sixty Mllll NERVINE , FOR relief from Functions! Ner -1 Tons Disturbances such as Slssp > Imams. Crsnkinsss, Excitability. > Nerrons Hssdsehs and Ntroat tn , dictation. Tablets U* and «♦. Liquid IS# and «!.«*. Band dlreo -1 tiona and ass only as directed. Headacli rear /7&N disc stern, M dlne&ms |«<)\) .SE— mr i.Lz Mr. Raper has written about Greene County George, but more important, he has written the small town and rural story of Big Government iwhere it has meaning in the lives of the peo ple. As such, Mr. Raper has in a sense made a new sort of book about the remote results of cen tralized government. It is a sort of anatomy of the grass roots in the age of change under distant influences. But it takes the fami- Keep Health! ■■ Eat UJeU We can take care of your food problems - with or without ration points. Canning Jars - Sugar - Feeds Flour - Fish - all kinds groceries Moore’s Cash Market In Bonding formerly occupied by Roxboro Bakery and ntxt to Jackson Motor Co. THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1943 liar form also of the county his tory, in which, beyond Indians and settlement, Civil War, cattle tick, and tough, angry politics, is the “Unified Farm Program.” That program, involving the di verse ends of Washington pro grams in a plan of local and na tional good intentions and good will, is only one chapter and not necessarily the last one. By and large, however, Mr. Raper be lieves that the works of Wash ington and the New Deal, as cor related in Greene County in the Unified Farm Program, are items in advance for a people whose progress has been long de layed. Huntley Says No War Prisoners Yet At Camp Butner DURHAM, July 21. There are no prisoners at Camp But ner, Col. H. W. Huntley, post commander, said yesterday. A prisoner of war camp is in readiness to receive them if and when the War Department feels it necessary to ssnd them to this part of North Carolina, but to date none has arrived. The statement was made fol lowing a flood of inquiries re ceived at Camp Butner asking the availability of war prisoners for various kinds of labor in the State. Colonel Huntley said that “publicity will emanate from Camp Butner when war prison ers are available for employ ment.” One Day! SERVICE Call Us—Phone 3801 SERVICE DRY CLEANERS The Devil chuckles whenKe sees a. home left unprotected by fire v insurance- See us and forget Kim.' THOMPSON INSURANCE AGENCY Roxboro, N. C.
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