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PERSON COUNTY TIMES
A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
J. S. MERRITT, Editor M. C. CLAYTON,
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THOMAS J. SHAW, JR., City Editor.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1913
A Bigger Job
Appointment of Gordon C. Hunter, of
Roxboro, as chairman of the War Finance
committee for a district comprising eight
counties to be known as Group Four and in
cluding in addition to Hunter’s home County
of Person such larger and more populous
counties as Wake and Durham, comes as a
distinct recognition of his ability as director
of War Loan drives, but it is no news to Per
son folks that he has such ability.
The local joker is that Hunter was once
worried about his dual duties as Person
chairman of the up and coming Third War
Loan drive and the also up and coming Uni
ted War Fund campaign. He gets rid of one
of his worries by getting a bigger job. The
doubling up continues, not only for Hunter,
but for R. B. Griffin, vice chairman of the
United War Fund campaign and newly ap
pointed co-chairman of the Person Third
War Loan drive.
But most people hereabouts will agree
that Griffin can carry a double load, too, and
they will have no doubt that Lieut. Gov. R.
L. Harris, the other newly designated co
chairman of the Third War Loan will carry
his part of the weight.
No Mr. Dingle For Her
Roxboro’s Pentagon girl, Miss Margaret
Pleasants, one of several young women from
here who are working in Washington, has
no Mr. Dingle sharing her apartment In
fact, she lives with her aunt, a condition not
at all typical, which means that she enjoys
a certain sheltered security not granted to
hundreds of her working sisters. But in
other respects she is a representative of
them, and a good one.
Back at home now for a well-deserved
rest, she has stood the Washington vortex
for more than a year and she knows her way
around in the Government’s largest office
building over toward Arlington way. An
AGO girl, that is to say, Adjutant General’s
Office, her work is of a confidential nature,
therefore not to be talked about. And she
doesn’t.
So much for background. We could say
that Margaret is a success example. She is.
But we make these remarks mainly to show
that the fable of “The More The Merrier”
has its serious side. Get Miss Pleasants
started and you will find out that working
conditions for women in Washington are
every bit as chaotic as they were shown to
be for Jean Arthur. Miss Pleasants, for ex
ample, thinks nothing about getting up at
five-thirty of a morning and taking more
than an hour to ride to work on a crowded
bus.
i She finishes her work in mid-afternoon.
But if she wants to shop or get a permanent
or go to a theatre, its like starting the morn
ing’s battle of the bus all over again. The
battle of Washington’s working girls never
e;,ds. Miss Pleasants is back home now for a
fciL of a rest, and no wonder. But she proba
bly speaks the truth when she says she loves
he job and wouldn’t he anywhere else if she
could. That’s the spirit of our fighting gals
It Was A Small One
Ro .boro, and particularly the members of
its volunteer fire department, can be pleased
that Monday morning’s Main street blaze
was confined to the basement of the build
ing concerned. Trouble with this fire was
that there was so much smoke. Citizens
norr ' ly think of fire-fighting as a hazard
ous lu iness, with emphasis on soaring
flames and crashing timbers, whereas, quite
often the biggest danger comes from billow
ing curtains of smoke coupled with an in-
accessibility as far as the blaze is concerned.
The Harris and Burns building blaze was
of this latter type. But it was extinguished
and with a minimum loss for all except the in
the basement barber shop and beauty shop.
Greatest factors were early discovery and
prompt response. Citizens here missed a
spectacular show. Personally, we are glad
they did. It is much better to be able to
write a few lines saying that firemen did
good work.
State Board Cul-de-Sac
Senior Sanitarian W. Murray Linker, Jr.,
of Raleigh, who by direction of the State
Health Officer, presumably Dr. Carl Rey
nolds, has replied to Gordon C. Hunter’s
complaints anent suspension of slaughtering
of meat in Person Countv, is a personal
friend of ours and known by us to be a fair
minded man, hut his letter, dated Tuesday,
August 3, but not received here until Tues
day, August 10, offers a continuation of the
cul-de-sac that meat slaughtering has been
in hereabouts for the past two months.
In fairness to Linker it must be said that
his letter shoulders in the name of the State
Health Department more of cooperative res
ponsibility than has yet been willingly as
sumed by any one of the several other
agencies involved and it should be observed
that his letter closes on a note of continued
cooperative assistance, provided that some
form of compliance can be arrived at, but
the final conclusion must he that the State
Health Department’s influence in the meat
slaughtering and abattoir controversy has
been and still is made weak and ineffectual
because of conflicting degrees of authority
centered in Hillman Moody’s Food Distribu
tion Administration division of the Depart
ment of Agriculture (which ties in with
OPA) and in the County USDA War Boards.
That the cul-de-sac continues is no fault
of Linker’s and he is quite right in saying
that “the sanitary handling and slaughter
ing of meat is a permanent program”. The
Times, for one, has never disagreed with
this truth, but it sees a basis for continued
wariness in the fact that so many disclaim
ers had to be issued.
Linker’s letter, in effect, throws the pro
blem back to the Person Meat Board, to the
Person USDA War Board, to County and
City Commissioners and to private citizens,
but without any better assurance that either
the respective Boards or the private citizens
will know for certain that the contending
State and Federal and County agencies that
have been involved in the promotional as
pects of the controversy are willing to draw
a line between bureaucracy and common
sense.
All we do know for certain is that the
spectacle of seeing a slaughtered animal be
ing brought to town in an old broken-down
wagon and covered with"newspapers is re
pulsive. That has happened here and it
definitely meets nobody’s sanitary re
quirements.
WITH OTHER EDITORS |
Good Soldier
Durham Sun
Diogenes would not have needed his
lantern at Camp Butner.
Private First Class Alvin Weill would
have satisfied the ancient in the latter’s
search for an honest man.
Private Weill, who is a member of Bat
tery B, 308th Field Artillery, was cutting
a few rugs last Tuesday night w'hen he look
ed down to see a roll of bills on the dance
floor. He picked it up and counted sllO.
He “smiled”, says Lightning, 78th Divi
sion publication, when the senior hostess of
the service club praised his honesty; but
really beamed when he learned that the
money had been lost by the young wife of a
soldier seriously ill at the station hospital
and that it was all the cash she had in the
world.
We just thought Lightning’s story, print
ed for the service men, would buck up the
Durham folk, too. It fits in with our idea
of what the real American soldier is like.
Pri*\fete Weill must be what old timers used
to call “a good soldier.”
More Os The Same
Greensboro Daily News
Once again American fathers who happen
to be under 38 years of age and thus eligible
for the draft find themselves in a needless
whirl of statements and counter-statements
such as have disturbed their peace of mind
and made planning with any degree of per
manence practically impossible almost since
the start of the war.
Early last week official Washington,
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C.
meaning in this instance the loquacious Mr.
McNutt, after an almost unbelievable lull in
the issuance of conflicting statements and
directives, got back into form by announcing
that reclassification of pre-Pearl Harbor
fathers would start at once and that large
scale induction into the nation’s armed ser
vices would begin in October. One gathered
from the dispatches that orders to that ef
fect had already gone to state selective ser
vice headquarters.
But hardly had the echo of this statement
died away or the ink dried on its publication
when national selective service headquart
ers, falling back upon one of those unidenti
fied “selective service spokesmen,” announc
ed that a new plan had been decided upon,
that a nationwide pool of other draft eligi
bles will be created and that this pool will
be exhausted before fathers are called.
There has been no nullification of instruc
tions relating to post-October induction, but
the effect of the new" plan is to postpone
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State College
Hints To Farm
Homemakers
By Ruth Current
N. C. State College
It’s a good idea to preserve
some of your grapes for winter
use. You can make them into
flavorful grape juice, tart grape
jelly, spicy grape butter, or rich
grape jam. If you want direc
tion; for making any of these
good things with grapes, write
Mrs. Mary Lee McAllister, State
Have a Coca-Cola =s Wacko, Digger!
(OKAY, CHUM)
...or how to make a hit in Australia
When friendliness takes over, you find the spirit of cooperation, of “Let’s work
together for the common good”. That’s the way it works between Australians
and Americans. Have a “ Coke ”, says the Yank, and the Aussie knows he has a
comrade. From Adelaide to Altoona Coca-Cola stands for the pause that
refreshes,— has become the gesture of the friendly.
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such induction as long as possible. Official
declaration is made that “the time when
fathers will be forwarded for induction by
any state or local board cannot be accurately
predicted.”
Then why in heaven’s name aren’t selec
tive service officials content to rest on that
uncertainty and let fathers, their mental
state and their home and civic life alone un
til they can speak definitely and positively?
Cumulative evidence bears out that too lit
tle thinking has gone into draft policies and
directives and that improvisation has held
sway. There is no reason tn the world why
last week’s directive should have been issued
before sufficient thought had been given to
the problem to bring forth the nationwide
pool idea which blurgeoned only a few hours
4a ter.
American fathers are willing to answer
whatever call their country makes upon
them but they do resent the idea of being
kept on edge by an endless round of conflict
ing statements.
College, Raleigh.
Grape juice and grape jelly
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are easy to make, but the can
ning experts say that there’s
sometimes a problem with the
crystals that form in grape pro
duct!;. These crystals are per
fectly harmless, but the gritty
testure often mars the perfection
of your homemade grape juice
or jelly.
You can “beat these crystals
at their own game” if you strain
the grape juice and then let it
stand overnight in a cool place.
The next day carefully dip out
the juice and strain it a isecond
time. In making the juice into
jelly, use this same trick.
Since there is a sugar shortage
you may wish to can the juice
and make fresh jelly when it is
needed and when sugar is more
plentiful.
Cottage cheese is an important
kind of cheese. It can be made at
home. You can work cottage
cheeSe into delicious salads and
salad dressings, into desserts,
and even into cooked dii-hes. The
high protein value means that
you can use cottage cheese as the
main dish of a meal.
If you want to add extra flav-
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1943
or to your cottage cheese, you’ll
have to add it in the form of
onion juice, chopped chives,
olives or parsley, celery or cu
cumbers, pimentos or green pep
pers.
As a sandwich filling, try cot
tage cheese with peanut butter,
with bits of cooked bacon or
ham, or chopped dried fruits.
We can send you our cottage re
cipes if you would like to have
them.
EGGS
The most practical method of
increasing egg production per
hen is through the use of super
ior cockerels, reports Dr. C. H.
Bostian of the Agricultural Ex
periment Station at State Col
lege.
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