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SUNDAY, JULY 25, 1943
The Light Increases
■As an added note on the meat slaughter
ing suspensions here and the abattoir angle
attached, the resolutions on the subject
drawn up by the Board of City Commission
ers of Roxboro have tendency to increase
and add point to the similar allegations con- i
tained in a letter sent to W. M. Linker, of
the State Health Department, Raleigh by
Gordon C. Hunter and R. B. Griffin, chair
man and vice chairman of the Person Meat
committee.
Ominous phrase in the City Commis
sioners’ resolutions is that which suggests
the imminence of a “black market" situation
hereabouts. We hope it does not come to
that' and we rather believe that OPA and
the State Health Department will agree on
some tempering of regulations of benefit
not only to Person County and Roxboro but
to other similarly placed counties and cities.
That much good —of a temporary nature—
can come from the protests made here.
It is not a point of pride that the pro
tests Had to be made, because, at bottom,
there was too much of the reactionary atti
tude back of their f’orfnulation, but, as was
said here Thursday, we cannot blame local
officials for an increased attitude of wari
ness and distrust toward directives that
were at the beginning vague and are now
more inconclusive than ever. And, as a
footnote to a footnote, we might add that it
is unfortunate that the reputation of the
Person unit of the Health Department should
suffer just because State OPA and Health
Department officials did not think twice be
fore they began talking in different terms
anent a matter on which they should have
been in complete agreement.
The grapevine has it that the "Person unit
of the Health Department acted in good
faith and that whatever has gone wrong
went that way in Raleigh. In any case, citi
zens here should remember the good work,
in other fields, that is being done by the
Person unit. And it may be that local health
officials can be glad that failing positive ac
tion, controversy has developed. That is at
least one way to get the public to thinking
about the cleanliness of whatever it may be
lucky enough to get in the way of meat.
We suggest, in the meantime, that the
Person unit of the Health Department can
best protect its own interests by demanding
clarification both from the OPA and the
State Health Department and by giving
newspapers free access to whatever clarifi
cation develops. There are times when
dignity and self-righteousness and reserve
hurt rather than help, and it appears that
the present controversy on slaughtering and
abattoirs demands an airing, not only in
Roxboro and in Person County, but at Ral
eigh. It is illogical to think that Person’s
meat shortage is the only one arising in
„the hinterlands.
V
All In A Day’s Work
Valuable as living history and as an il
lustration of the way in which war reduces
events of personal magnitude to a converse
ly impersonal level, the story in today s
Times of the crash in an African jungle of
a “B-24 Liberator” piloted by Lieut. Val S.
Griffiths, brother of Mrs. Sanders McWhor
ter ,of Roxboro, contains references to a
Lieut. Gentry, one of the members of the
crew. „
Other men in the crew, all of whom were
saved are mentioned too, but Griffiths in
his letter does not say where any of them
are from. That is the impersonal element
again. Gentry, for all we know, may be one
of the many men of that name from around
Roxboro and Person County. He may be
from Kalamazoo, Mich. It really does not
matter. The important thing is that when
the crash came each man aboard ship had a
job to do, obey orders. What happened in
that particular African jungle was all in the
day’s work and was so accepted by the par
ticipants.
A crash that would have been the talk of
the town for months if it had happened
near Roxboro, becomes in a theatre of war
an incident to be recalled only by the partic
ipants. In a story of this kind, highlighted
by the cache of whiskey, the lost picture of
a baby and the non-Lamour appeal of
the girl in the sarong, is contained the es
sence of the all for one and one for all spirit
governing this w-ar. Any other attitude does
not get over when men are in tight places.
\
Two Jobs, Not One
Chairman of the United War Fund
drive in Person County, as announced today,
is Gordon C. Hunter, of Roxboro, known
these many months as the effective wheel
horse for the War Bond and Stamp cam
paigns conducted here. Hunter, as chair
man of these two committees, will have two
iobs on his hands, for the next War Bond
drive comes up in September, about two
months before the opening of the War Fund
drive.
Giving Hunter the two jobs to superin
tend looks at first like an unfair division of
work, some might say an imposition, but
for the sake of the two causes concerned it
is not illogical that both should be headed
by the same man. Hunter knows financing,
certainly a factor in war bond drives, and as
a man who has seen service in war, he is in
a position to appreciate the value of morale
building, both at home and in camp and a
broad, which is what the United War fund
is to be concerned with.
Hunter is in a position to call upon peo
ple for cooperation in both drives. He will
have it, of course, from R. B. Griffin as vice
chairman of the United War Fund drive,
and he has had it generally from school
people and other citizens for the Bond and
Stamp program. But he will need it from
all people, for both jobs.
f
The bond campaign must go forward and
it will, but the United War Fund drive opens
up distinct possibilities for humane service
and for that reason it is important, both
nationally and at home in Roxboro. The
home aspect will give Hunter an opportunity
to get some form of a recreational program
for soldiers in operation in Roxboro and we
rather hope that his friends in Lester Black
well Post and elsewhere will fall in line. It
is time they should.
WITH OTHER EDITORS
Potatoes To Medals
Chistian Science Monitor
There’s a new kind of star in the sky of
fame today. It’s not from Hollywood. It’s
not of the theater.
It’s the War Hero. Even luminaries of
screen, stage, and radio forfeit a bit of their
glamour beside this new public idol. He may
be the boy who used to wait on you at the
chain store. But the minute he becomes a
hero, things are different.
You stutter when you greet him. You’re
embarrassed and don’t know what to say.
He’s suddenly sort of a superman —a kind
of knight in gleaming armor, and folks just
stare in speechless awe. Even the business
like reporter clears his throat before he in
terviews a war hero. All his questions sud
denly seem silly and he hesitates to ask
them.
That is why it’s so reassuring to know
about Sergt. Maynard H. Smith of Caro,
Michigan, gunner on a bomber that ranges
over Europe. He has just been awarded the
highest military decoration of the United
States the Congressional Medal of Honor,
a decoration whi6h even generals will have
to salute.
But Sergeant Smith, we are! glad to say,
is still of this world. He had to get leave
from K. P. duty to accept his decoration. It
seems that “our hero” had been peeling
potatoes for a week due to a little habit of
returning late to his bomber statioq after a
pass.
We can picture him taking off his apron
and laying aside his paring' knife. It gives
sort of an earthly touch to this hero busi
ness that puts/us more at ease.
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THE COMMONWEAL 1
SAYS ROME HAS NO:
SPECIAL RIGHTS
Catholic Publication De
plores Idea That Rome
Should Be Spared Above
Other Cities.
NEW YRK, July 24. The
weekly Catholic publication, “The
Commonweal”, will say editori
ally in its next issue that a Cath
olic “to precisely the extent his
faith is strong and informed will
make no distinction between the
bombing of Rome and that of
the most miserable Calabrian
village, that of the industrial
city in the Ruhr, that of the Eng
lish town.”
The editorial says, “There is
something disturbing in the fact
that the announcement which i
have accompanied the bombing j
of Rome have so distinguished !
Rome from all other cities.” I
“The announcement, and the
President’s message to the pope,” '
the editorial continues, “have a \
look of saying we are going to
be careful this time, we are go
ing to take tremendous techni
cal precautions about Rome be
cause we realize what Catholics
think about Rome.
“The announcements embar
rass Catholics because they make
it look as if Catholics would ac
cept anything so long as certain
buildings in a certain city were
respected. They make it look as
if Catholics could be counted on
to be silent when civilians acci
dentally die as a result of bomb
ing when these civilians are
Germans, Japanese, Frenchmen
in occupied France, Italians in
Naples, in Genoa, but could not
be counted on to be silent when
these civilians were Italians in
Rome.
“They make it look as if Cath
olics thought there must be one
justice for Rome and another
justice for all other cities in the
world. They make it look as if
Catholics were serious about the
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war, convinced as to the need of
winning the war, but that for
them there was a zone where the
war could not be fought.
“For Catholics there is indeed
such a zone into which no hat
red, no violence, no destruction
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CAMP BUTNER, July 24.
When Marie Louise Lynch and |
Ward Slawson of Nutley, N. J.,
said goodbye over two years ago,
neither dreamed that their next
meeting would be in an army
camp with both of them wearing
the service uniform of their ■
Country. Nor did they dream
that this meeting would lead to
their marriage. That is what
happened at Camp Butner re
-1 cently when Auxiliary Marie
Louise Lynch of the Women’s
j Army Auxiliary Corps and Lt.
Ward Slawson, 2nd Medical Bat
' can intrude; it is the zone of
their faith, but that zone is not
jmraked out, not bounded by any
j walls. That zone is not the city
of Rome.”
The editorial recalled that for
“century after century” Catho
lics have built churches and then
the churches with the cities
“have fallen into ruin.”
, “They have seen them fall,” it
continued, “they are used to see
ing them fall; Catholics have
seen Rome deserted, in ruins.
I They could see Rome in ruins
once more, a desert once again,
and their faith unbroken, the in
violable zone of their faith un
touched.
patholics therefore can stand
the bombing -of the marshaling
yards in Rome. In the measure
| that they have the faith of Peter
they can stand the threat to
Peter’s tomb. In the measure that
they cannot escape, being con
-1 cerned with history they share
the world's anxiety and sadness
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Coming from families who
have been friends for a number
of years, Marie Louise first mst
Ward through his sister with
whom she went to school.
“Ward was older than I and in
high school at the time”, ex
plained the attractive auxiliary,
“so at first it was a kind of
school girl crush on my part. I
was only in grammar school, and
he scarcely knew I was around.”
The two saw a lot of each other
in the years that followed, and
their association continued dur
ing the time Ward spent in med
ical school. After his induction
into the army, however, the two
were gradually separated.
An underwriter clerk for an
insurance company at the time
of her entrance into the WAAC ,
in March, 1943, Aux. Lynch re
ceived her basic training at Fort
Oglethorpe, Georgia. From there
sihe! went to Administration
school in Richmond, Ky., and
was stationed at Camp Polk, La.,
before coming to Camp Butner.
Hearing that there was an
“Aux. M. L. Lynch” among the
newly arived WACs at the Camp,
Lt. Slawson proceeded to look
her up. Confined by a minor
illness to the station hospital, the
auxiliary was amazed one even
ing to find her former friend
among her visitors.
Their marriage, which will take
place in August, proves once a
gain that love will find away in
spite of separatidns and differ
ences in rank. If things work
out as planned, the couple will
be married in a certain little
Episcopal church back in Nut
ley, N. J. the one where they
at seeing the peril threatening
the city which links our world to
the past.
j “Civilization can afford to
throw away just so much and no
more. Os this anxiety the an
nouncements of the bombing of
Rome had little, most regret
tably, to say.”
WASHINGTON, July 24. —No
comment was available at the
I White House on Pope Pius’ let
-1 ter lamenting the bombing of
Rome.
Asked for coment at a press
conference, Presidential Secre
tary Stephen Early responded:
“I have nothing to say.”
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