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PAGE TWO PERSON COUNTY TIMES 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 Clans Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro, N. C., Under The 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, AUGUST 5, 1943 The Rising Sun Begins To Sag i Thanks to Lieut. Bill Davenport, of Rox boro and Kinston and Guadalcanal, the City .Editor of the Times now has a treasured memento of a Guadalcanal battle—a much torn and tattered and scarred Japanese bat tle-flag. It must have been, at least to Japanese eyes, a beautiful banner once, with its big red center circle, a symbol of the rising sun of Japan’s glory, and its plain white field, ornamented with bold blue Japanese charact ers expressing personal exhortations calcul ated to excite the bearer and to spur him onward to brave deeds for the sake of his Emperor-God. II As Lieut. Davenport says, this particular flag from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun is pretty well shot to pieces. There are holes in it where bullets whined their way and larger rents made, perhaps, by flying frag ments from heavier shells. And the. lower corner of the big red sun is in a particularly appropriate condition: it has a definite and an unmistakable sag, so that what should be a part of a perfect circle trails downward like the tail of a comet or, more plebianly, like the ruffled paper feathers of a kite. And written into the story of that sag ging sun-tail is a part of the history of this our time, an explanation of why young men like Bill Davenport went willingly when duty called, and deliberately and from choice gave up the pleasant ways of peace. The flag of the foe speaks for Lieutenant Bill, and for others like him, who are going to see the fight to a finish, who can have no other purpose—until the job is done. 111 It is not too much to hope that the tatter ed red sun is symbolic of the gradual but none the less final decline of Japanese mili tary strength, but until that decline is an actuality, the job is not done. That, more than anything else, is the message of this particular flag, which has in it the courage and the fear and the determination and the loneliness and the pure grit and hardhead ness of men who need no personification of the sun to lead them onward. To think of them and what they are do ing, and to look at the carnage-stained ban ner of the “Sons of Heaven”, a stark illustra tion of the fury of the fray, brings a sense of shame to safe-at-home American civilians, the majority of whom have no greater sac rifice to make than can be encompassed in ration stamps and war bonds. IV Out there in Guadalcanal, Bill Davenport and his fellow-soldiers make no complaints. They are willing to let their own flag of freedom—and this one—of an opposite faith, sneak for them .They make no complaints, Ibut because the Japanese sun sags at the corners and they can see it with their own eyes, they have a certain grim satisfaction in being allowed to send back to their homes visible proofs of the approach of a Japanese twilight. Boys like Bill believe in the rightness of a cause and only when the battle is over will v e at home ever know the full measure of the price-tag shown on this flag. Each hole in it stands for an un-named sacrifice. The Council of State’s approval of Gov. Broughton’s new “Work or Fight” proclam ation apparently means there will have to be more working and less talking on the part of officials and committeemen who are to be charged with duties of making the proclam ation effective. Saga Os A Minor Day Miss Claire Harris, chairman of the Wo man’s Division for the sale of war bonds and stamps, together with her co-workers, is planning for the observance here Satur day of “Molly Pitcher” day. The program, to be conducted in tag-day fashion, will be on a modest ‘scale. Miss Harris, we take it, is not expecting the women to set the world on fire, but it is worth remembering that the women-folks make a solid contribution whenever they decide to do a job. Molly Hays, who was in her day a fore runner of the WAC organization, carried water to the soldiers at the Battle of Mon mouth, June 26, 1778. It was a little job, but it gave her the name of “Molly Pitcher”. There were doubtlessly other women who carried water to the soldiers, too, on that hot June day 165 years ago. The difference is, they carried water and let it go at that, whereas Molly dropped her pitcher., and manned her wounded husband’s gun when the fighting really got going. She had the good sense to know that wa ter could wait: cold cannon could not, and so, this week, the women of another gen eration of fighting Americans pause to honor her and to appeal to the patriotism of thousands of citizens. The little tags on Sat urday will tell the story here of the modern way that battle are fought behind the lines, and the Times joins Miss Harris in hoping that Roxboro will respond, generously and in full remembrance that the tally of victory is made up of small gifts and large ones.' The total effort, as Molly of Monmouth so graphically demonstrated, is what counts in war work. Headache For Late Summer To be published soon, probably in today’s issue of the Times, is what used to be a rou tine, resume story from R. B. Griffin, Per son Superintendent of schools, who every year about this time is in the habit of mak ing a last-minute check up on faculty ap pointments for the coming school season. Time was when Griffjn .could take a neat ly typed list out of an immaculate folio, give the list a quick going over and hand it straightway to a reporter. But not this year. We don't know how much of the story be hind the story is coming out in a front page news column, but we do know that Grif fin’s list this time looks like the much thumbed tabulations of a hostess who has been confronted with last minute declines for a fourth at bridge. We have seen the list. The trouble is that teachers are being lured away by promises of higher pay in de fense industries. The fat checks and the pa triotic appeal of actually doing war work, either for the Government or for private in dustry, are all but irresistable. Some of the older standbys in faculties are gone. Some of the younger ones, just out of college, nev er will come at all. They signed on the dotted line, but they’ll never see the piece of paper again. They will never know the supreme pleasure of taeching in Person County. They will never know the delight of living in Rox boro and they have slight chance of running into a Mr. Dingle in Washington. But they ; don’t know that. , And here at home, it’s almost time for schools to open. Somehow, somewhere, by the grace of God, teachers will be found. But Griffin won’t rest easy until he sees his faculties assembled together in the flesh. Each morning he gives thanks for those who are still here. Each morning he utters a little prayer as he opens his morning’s mail. It’s really not quite as bad as that, but he does hope his patrons will treat his teach ers with care and respect this year. They are valuable and they can’t be replaced on | a moment’s notice. A Dependable Way To Get Information The Person Selective Service Board the other day gave to the Times the name of a young man alleged to be deficient in a form of compliance with certain regulations of the Board. It was reported by the Board that he had failed to keep an appointment. The story was published in Sunday’s Times. Monday morning, bright and early, the young man in question was in the Times office, protesting that he was not guilty of the offense in question. He neglected to say that he had been to the Selective Service Board, but the Board was satisfied with the story: it was able to obtain the man’s cor rect address and neither the Times nor the Board ever said the man in question was guilty. There was only the suggestion that so and so would be done if he continued to be absent. Somtimes, people jump at conclusions as this young man did. PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. Getting Tiresome News and Observer The Constant ding-dong appeals over the radio by well-paid announcers for every per son to buy more bonds is getting tiresome. Every person ought to support the govern ment to the extent of his ability but the constant demand that wage-earners do more than buy 10 per-cent in bonds in addition to the withholding tax shows a lack of knowl edge of the conditions of life in this era. PM offers a prize for the letter to a Con gressman giving a typical list of necessary expenditures out of earnings. Here is a sam ple: Mortgage payment $9.92 Philadelphia wage tax 55 Social Security 55 Transportation to work 2.20 Lunches (six days) 3.00 Withholding tax 6.20 Insurance 3.00 War bond purchase .• 6.50 Utilities 1.50 Medical expense 1.50 Clothing and laundry 3.00 25 per cent of income for f00d... 13.65 $51.57 P. S.—l clip no coupons, nor do I have any supplementary income. The Great Neverfail Christian Science Monitor We are glad to see that the Associated Press, so busy with the peregrinations of AMERICAN HEROES BY LEFF 1 When our mortars were pounding Maknassy Hill near Sidi Bu-Sid in Africa, Private James Rugolo of Brooklyn, New York, was one of the men bringing up the ammunition. Struck by shrapnel, he kept going until he dropped, was awarded the Purple Heart. On every battlefront men like Rugolo press the attack relentlessly, regardless of personal cost. Are you doing enough to keep our attack rolling through Payroll Savings? U. S. Treasury Department LIBRARY CORNER Library Hours: 12:00-5:00 Such statements as our Secre tary Frank Knox made over the radio concerning the length of the war as a probable five or six year longer period leaves the average civilian with no ’under standing and a vague sense of helplessness. The Person County Public Library, Chub Lake Street suggests that you turn from your papers and radio as your only source of War Information and read some of the following ac cepted authorative books: De Seversky: Victory Through Air Power. Lawson: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. Hayes and Moon: Modern His tory. Sheean: Not Peace But A Sword. Johnston: Queen of The Flat- Tops. Scott: Duel For Europe: Stalin Versus Hitler. Tregaskis: Guadalcanal Diary. Chambrun: I Saw France Fail. Davis: Mission To Moscow. Paul: Life and Death of A Spanish Town. Boys do you know that the lives of the Indians in each tribe were different or did you think al( Indians lived the same. Read . Pay Your Telephone Bill By The 10th armies and dictators these stuffy days, yet has time to report from North Africa on a curious engine of wAr. Maj. Orville Chatt’s “Neverfail Lizard Trap” (pat. pend.). It is about ready to go into mass production by the Great American Snipe Corp., manufac turers, among other things, of left-handed monkey wrenches and type-lice eradicators. It appears that Captain Karas of Fram ingham Massachusetts, reported one day that he had seen a lizard in his Algerian tent. Major Chatt, formerly a judge in his native Tekamah, Nebraska, and hence com manding the ability to look somber at will, remarked that the Captain had better bor row a lizard trap and eliminate the little menace forthwith. Having directed the Captain on a 25-mile tour in fruitless quest of such a trap, Major Chatt and his cronies felt they had to make good. The “Neverfail” was the result. At first glance, it was just a small, oblong box, with a small hole in one end. But what real ly distinguished the device as the product of a master hand were the signs: “Enter,” “Welcome ” “Bait Within.” Included with the implement was a cir cular of directions, including a short history of the development of the Neverfail. credit ing its immense success to the signs. Next thing, we suppose, the boys will be carrying a large model Neverfail to Europe, orating on its charms as a refuge for such of the reptilis axilla who are uninitiated in the old American custom of bagging snipe at midnight fetching rubber chases for the printer or double files for the top sergeant. the following books at the Per son County Public Library, Chub Lake street for a beginning: Marsh: Three Little Ojibwas; Harrington: Dickson Among The Lenape Indians; Weekes: Paint ed Arrows; Hatkins: Little Wolf’s Brother; Anaderson: Indian Sleep Man Tales; Eastman: Wig wam Evenings; Taylor: Two In dian Children Os Long Ago; En cyclopedia Britannica: Indians. Funds Withdrawn From Service Club At Henderson HENDERSON, Aug. 5. Be cause of a ruling by the State attorney general against appro priating tax money for other than essential public service, the city council Monday night re fused to allot funds for support of the service men’s center. For the same reason the Vance board of county commis sioners Monday morning discon tinued its SIOO per month con tribution to the service men’s center. The county had been contributing SIOO since the first of the year, and had given S6OO in all when the appropriation was cut off under terms of the attorney general’s ruling. We sell Eye Glasses to Sat* isfy the eyes $24)0 to *B.OO THE NEWELLS Jewelers Roxboro. N. (X That Old Fox Hole Os Mine Back home a little cottage All painted nice and white Would be a proud procession That would give much delight But here in the Tropics when The Shapnel begin to whine A house of solid comfort is That Old Fox hole of mine. I Why yes, I’d like a Duplex on Some shady lane or quiet street With rooms big and airy And a garden trim and neat. But out here in the jungle how sweet To recline in this sumptious castle— That Old Fox hole of Mine. j Or just a bungalow, with roses round the door. With lights and running water And a carpet on the floor. But out here on the coral ■beach. I have another kind, a house of twenty gables is That old Fox hole of mine. t Yes indeed, home is wonderful With pipe and lazy chair With the merry voices of chil dren As they patter here and there; But here Oh how I do love it And I would not trade it For a castle on the Rhine, that Old Fox hole of mine. Sent by Pvt. Arthur R. Davis, Jr. from Guadalcanal. The au thorship is not known but the poem was first published in a service paper in the region where Davis is in service. 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Name _ _____ Address _ - ) SAMPLE COPY ON REQUEST Jfc THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 194$ TONES HAVE SON HOLYWOOD, August 5. A. son was bom Thursday to Mrs. Franchot Tone, the former Jean Wallace of the films. She and the actor were married in Yuma, SHIRTS, i? ANTS, GLOVES AND SOCKS LET US FIT YOU FOR WORKING WESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE One Day! SERVICE Call Us—Phone 3801 SERVICE DRY CLEANERS M. T. SAUNDERS Notary Public All Seal 25c STANDARD OIL PRODUCTS Washing, Greasing and Polishing LANGSFORD ESSO SERVICE $2 5 REWARD For any watch or clock that we fail to repair. GREEN’S “The Square Deal Jeweler” - l y, VENETIAN BLINDS Custom Made Your choice of color of Tap? and Slat colors without extra cost. PENNY FURNITURE CO. The Devil chuckles when'll* sees a home left unprotected by fire , insurance See us and forget him/ THOMPSON INSURANCE AGENCY Roxboro, N. C. RAGS WANTED Must be clean and soft. No overalls or pants and such like. Times Office IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES EASY TERMS
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