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PAGE TWO PERSON COUNTY TIMES A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE J. 8. 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 The Act Os March 3rd., 1879 —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— -1 year ...........i......... $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. SUNDAY, OCOBER 3, 1943 There Need Be No Surprise Not within the memory of this particular war generation to say the least has there been demonstration of com munity cooperation than was observed here last Wednesday when Person’s Third War Loan quota of $567,000, already well on the way to being reached, was upped to some $600,000, and still coming in, as result of a spirited Bond Auction where more than $130,000 of the total was raised in two hours. Lieut. Gov. R. L. Harris, one of the Per son co-chairmen in making an informal an nouncement at Roxboro Rotary club of the immense success of the drive rightly ex pessed it when he said that the highly pleasing over-subscription of the Person and Roxboro quota has come about because all citizens worked together. The amount raised here since the beginning of the drive on September 9, represents, as he said, about one sixth of the taxable wealth of the County. Person people have a right to be pleased that they have succeeded so well with the Third War Loan. But while they are about it they do owe a vote of thanks to the men of Company B, 311th Infantry, Camp But ner, to the 78th Division Band and to Lieut. Mildred Westbrook, first Tar Heel Gold Star Mother in this war, who by their presence here gave an impetus to an already willing community spirit. Indeed, with all credit that is due to men and officers of Company B. it must be said that probably the greatest propulsion from j bond-boosting visitors came from Lieut. ; Westbrook, recruiting officer of the WAC, whose son, Robert, a soldier in the U nited States Army and a personal friend and companion f Person's Sgt. Farris Humphries, was killed at Pearl Harbor dur ing the December 7th attack. Lieut. West brook speaks from her heart and those who heard her here knew instinctively that her ! message had in it none of the tricks of ora- j tory. She wears her son’s ring. She carries i his rosary and his picture. The Purple Heart j that would have gone to him belongs to her, and because of him and because of the will ing sacrifice he made, his voice still speaks— through her. Humility rather than exultation is the feeling that we have when we measure de grees of sacrifice, and as long as we have that feeling there need be no surprise that Person people do more than their shai'e in lesser sacrifices. It is their answer to the voices and the hopes of the men and women who are not here because they have a big ger job to do. While Lieut. Westbrook spoke, Person & Roxboro Sacrifice Day became a reality and because it was a reality thanks are due to District Chairman Gordon C. Hunter and to the Person co-chairmen, who with their assistants, planned the program for the day. It was a day to be remembered, to be remembered against the days to come, for we know full well that the full measure of sacrifice has not yet been felt and that Per son people as they are called upon to re spond to worthy causes will meet them as they have met the Third War Loan, with a full and generous heart. Next Step On The Program Next step in the way of financial cam paigns connected with the war effort here will be the United War Fund drive, in which Boxboro should have a particular interest, since there is a possibility that all funds above the quota will be used here for badly needed USO services. The Lighter Side Os Combat Duty , Intimate and interesting reflection of the lighter, and more civilized, 1 side of combat duty comes from Ensign Charles Lee Ball, Jr., whose narative of adventure in Sicily, as published in Thursday’s Times, contains an account of his meeting with a German pris oner, formerly a student in Harvard Univer sity. Ensign Ball, himself a graduate of the University of North arolina, reduces the conversation he had with the Harvard pris oner to the term “bull session”, but to any one-time American college student of the past two decades no clearer description of their conversation is required. A “bull ses sion” can cover any amount of talking and it becomes rather clear that the Person En sign got full benefit, discovering that the Harvard man was “no party man” and that he by no means subscribes to Hitlerism, al though circumstances have forced him into a half-active support of Nazism. Other side of Ball’s experience is con cerned with his relationships with Italians, for whom he confirms the report that they were months ago, before the Italian collapse, only half-heartedly on the side of the Axis. Further footnote to adventure, as related by Ball, concerns an evening spent at a Sici lan villa with two English officers, titled gentlemen, whose business, in a family sense, is fighting. But not all of war is de voted tothe severity of combat duty. There are moments of respite, and it is significant that men with Ball’s background can and do take the most advantage of them, building up ties of understanding between America and the United Nations and extending that understanding to the more educated citizens of Axis nations. Unexpected Example Os Courtesy j E. C. Oakley, of Durham, bus driver for Virginia Trailways, who on Thursday at midnight had the misfortune to have his bus in collison wth a car driven by George Russell, Person Negro citizen, near Concord church, deserves commendation for fine courtesy shown to reporters and to investi gating officials. Oakley, in contrast to gen erality of bus-drivers, told his side cf the incident with calmness, clarity and convic tion. Oakley, it appears had nothing to hide. According to hisi own words an the words of witnesses. Russell’s car came suddenly out of a side road and started to cross the highway. Oakley, for his part, is said to have been traveling slowly, although he did not see Russell’s machine until it was to late to avoid a collision. Oakley, however, did stop rather quickly and the resulting wreck was one of those minor affairs. Standing by his smashed bus, with the wrecked Ford belonging to Russell up against it, Oakley kept his head and his tongue. Be cause he was both quiet and considerate the investigation passed off quickly. Such con duct is unusual with average citizens, and more so with bus drivers, although it may be said that many of the latter ane circum scribed as to attitude by company policies rather than by personal choice. But, what ever short-comings others may have, there is no harm in saying that men like Oakley are worthy representatives of the lines for whom they work and merit a word of ap preciation from people whose business of necessity is that of asking questions where questions are frequently not wanted. We have po idea how Oakley’s case will come out if there is a hearing and a trial, but we would stake a buck on the fact that he will exhibit manners there not unlike those shown at mid-night. | WITH OTHER EDITORS Do You Say “Mom”? Baltimore Evening Sun What is the word most widely used by Americans in designating the female parent? Mother, Mamma, Ma, Maw, Mommy or Mom? Lately we’ve been hearing and seeing Mom used, almost to the exclusion of all the others. But not by real children of adults. Rather, Mom seems to be the favored re course of advertising and radio scirpt writ ers; it is heard, almost to the exclusion of Mother or any other term to indicate that parent, in the talkies. And whenever a mag azine or newspaper advertisement carries a letter purporting to be typical of the letters PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. written by soldiers at the front, it usually begins: “Dear Mom”. Maybe we just haven’t been getting a round much, but we don’t hear many peo ple using the term Mom. Os those we’ve’ questioned directly, with “What do you call your mother?” Most have replied: Mother, with Mamma in second place. It may be, though, that we’re in a Mom cycle. In the civil war, to judge from old documents and letters, soldiers custoniarlly ,(wrote “Dear Mother,” when they started their letters home. As to the Spanish war and the first world war, we aren’t at all certain, but would guess that both Mother and Mamma had wider usage than Mom. There is a certain literary (or more exact ly, manufactured) quality about Mom. The great Oxford dictionary, which is very in clusive, doesn’t gjve the word at all, although it does list Mommy as a child’s variant of Mammy, and it does state that “a prevailing U. S. pronunciation (of Mamma) is repre sented by the spelling ‘momma,’ sometimes used in novels.” Certainly there is nothing literary about LIBRARY CORNER Library Hours: 12:00-5:00 Do you hear your parents and your teachers talking about “our world today” or “democracy?” Do you sometimes wonder what the words mean just as ylou wondered what “white” or “dog” or “cat” meant when you were younger? Books have been writ ten for your age on these words that make them as simple as three letter jvords. Have you read: Goslin: Democracy, Chase: Primer Os Economics, Brindl: Your Land And Mine, Judson: People Who Work In The Coun try And In The City, Foster: I Pay Your Telephone Bill Bv The 10th 1 GEORGES? lb ■ * ■ GEORGE IOBIAS ALAN HALE-CHARLES BUTIERWORIIUKATE SMITH J Directed by MicHAEi cußTiz sar-aray ;•% ffIHPV " I Premier Showing at the Palace Theatre Sunday, Oct. 10th., 9:00 P. M. —— The Entire Proceeds Go to the Army Emergency Relief Fund! Tickets On Sale Peoples Bank Lobby. 1 This Ad Sponsored in the interest of Army Emergency Relief Fund by CITY MILK fir ICE COMPANY 4 V Mamma, which the O. E. D. defines as “a reduplicated syllable often instinctively by young children, who in many countries are taught to use it as their word for ‘Mother’ (especially where Ihd ordinary word in the language begins with m).” Mamma is com monly used in Russian and other Slavic languages, in Greek, Latin, French, Spanish. The form Mam—is this where we get Mom from?—is -common to both Welsh and Irish Gaelic. One development which seems to be mak ing some headway is the tendency in modern homes for young children to call both par ents by their first names. To old-fashioned parents it sometimes comes as a slight shock to hear a child calling its mother Ruth or Estelle or whatever the woman’s name is; or calling it§ father Fred. This surely is a long way from Mom. Perhaps it is true that Mom is the folksy person you see in the advertisements, spreading an advertised “spread” on the family sandwiches; while Mother, Mamma, Ma, etc., is the person who bore and raised the family. This Rich World and Peet: How Things Work. - f: The native home of the Short horn breed of cattle is in North eastern England, in the counties of York, Durham and Northum berland. j INSURANCE | SEE US FOR ALL j KINDS OF INSURANCE • PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS. ! GOOD SERVICE. I WALKER i INSURANCE | AGENCY jj. S. and BILL WALKER Roxboro, N. C. now mm IS THE TIME irrSJ TO REPAIR Put your buildings in good repair before the hard winter months. We are ready to furnish you your needs with a good stock of such materials as: Flooring, Ceiling, Siding, Roofings, Brick, Lime, Cement, Plaster, Nails, Locks and all other building hardware Windows, Doors and Frames. A full line of paints for all purposes. You are permitted to make all necessary repairs under government regulations. We are prepared to give you full information re garding government regulations, etc. it is yours for the asking. We are always glad to serve and appreciate your business. ♦ Roxboro liuoiber Company “Home Os Quality Lumber” SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1943 Le<*al Notice ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as adminis trator of the estate of B. G. Nig er, deseased, late of Person Coun ty, North Carolina, this is to no tify all persons having claims a gainst the estate of said deceas ed to exhibit them to the under signed on or before September 23rd, 1944, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said es tate will please make immediate payment. This 23rd day of September, 1943. O. H. Dearing Admr. of B. G. Kiger. Wm. D. Merritt, Atty. Sept. 26 Oct. 3-10-17-24-31 WORK CLOTHES I SHIRTS, PANTS, GLOVES « AND SOCKS LET US FIT YOU FOR WORKING WESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE Buy U. S. War Bonds and stamps
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