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STATE PURCHASING AGENCY
MIGHT HELP
North Carolina might save a quar
ter of a million dollars a year by a
purchasing agency charged with the
duty of buying for all her institu
tions, according to the opinion of men
who have given the question soma
thought. It is estimated that a sav
ing of |2OO,(UK) might be effected by
such a plan.
We now buy from jobbers anil many
times from retailers. Several States
are already buying, through a pur
chasing board, direct from the fac
tories.
The State of New York operates
her institutions by such a board. They
find that the average superintendent
of a prison, a school, or an atylum
knows very little about goods, either j
quality or price.
Since the man who supervises a
Jhousand insane persons is kept too
busy with the many burdens that
come before him, he lias no time to
'study markets or goods.
The purchasing board in that State
is said to cost less than $25,000 a
year and save the State more, than
ten times that amount.
The large city wholesalers are
scarcely more than factory distribu
tors who figure at the beginning of
the season that a given territory will
take about so much goods, and they
agree to distribute that amount to
their respective trade districts, add
ing their commission of from 6 to 20
per cent for such handling.
A live buyer for the State would
be able to perform exactly the same
service as the jobber or wholesaler
now does and save that thing that
costs the people so much—percentage.
The best buyer is called the best
merchant today. If the State becomes
8 good buyer it will be called good
business.
Such a method of buying would be
easier on the various institution
heads, and it would be much easier
t
to audit the State's accounts where
every item will be found together.
There would be less danger of graft
and extravagance under such a plan
than there is under the present lack
of system.
THE HPILMER AND THE FLY AND
REAL ESTATE BOOMS
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The old story of the spider and the
fly, according to a few American
mourners, has been replayed many
times within the last year.
The game seemed to have reached
its height among the Florida Palms,
though it stung many among the high
land thistles of that mystic State and
stuck many others in the midst of
the alligator swamps of the Ever
glades.
The bait used was so strong that
tots of erstwhile good sensible folks
were made to believe that s flower pot
full of Florida sand and mud was
warth more than a pot of gold—good
refilled gold, not rainbow gold. It is
Haipied that there has been a valu
able corner lot reserved for every
Mdly ia the United States, rrrnrtit
t this valuabU dirt, such lota
•i with ocaau exposure aad ia tfca
. tmOwiil Part at proposed OUm.
ijaßpw int-payment money
° n thiM ,ioH ® u-,jr
palmed lots, washed by the fountains
of youth.
Then came u breath of real thought.
Buyers began to measure their hold
ings. They found they could not lie
down on their own lots and stretch
out without either putting their head
or sticking their feet on a neighbor's
lot. Then another thing they saw
was that the second payment had
stuck itself upofi the calendar wheel,
and the dates were rushing on at an
alarming speed. All these scenes
mused a sure enough prodigal feel
ing, driving many to the old scenes
where honest toil and pleasure in rea
son had produced enough to make the
first payment.
And while the poor fly was brooding
over his loss, Mr. Spider said again,
"Come to that land where the skies
are so beautiful, the aroma of the
llowers so soothing, and the elixir in
the air so healing that death is rare—
Western North Carolina." Thon there
was a rush for that great center of
progress, where lots of all kinds and
sizes, except large siies—some few
fat wise, many of them edgewise, and
most of them very slanting—could be
bought on very easy terms—all the
cash you have, and the balance a-'
mounting to all the cash you expect
tc have.
These golden opportunities ranged
till the way from Table Kock to Chim
ney Kock and back again to Blowing
Kock; then doubling back to the lures
and lakes and north again to the
acres and the wild. All fine places
to live and spend money, but a poor
place to make a living.
About the time the mountain air
began to /eel good, the visitors and
*
prospect* were beginning to be happy,
the sea gulls began to nest around
Morehead, and the horns of free
busses chimed with the cry of the
yulls, and the folks rushed from the
mountains to the sea.
School was out, and everybody went
to see the new sea foam, where they
propose to dig a ditch to water the
sei. weed, bullrushes, and sea grass.
All had opportunities to buy lots, fine
lots, with only one restriction: That
was if you have a dog you must tie
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Things To I
hink About I
By JAMES D. TAYLOR I
ARE YOU STRONG OR WEAK?
There are times when It's not easy
to be fair. It is not always pleasant
ti, be truthful. Often it is much eas
iei to lend ourselves to deception. But
all the while we are beinff tested.
Haul was tested to see if he was
strong enough for tlie tasks ahead.
Since the beginning of time men hare
been tested, and this will continue
throughout life, and it is well that
this is true.
It takes testing to separate the
weak from the strong. Any weak
ling can be dishonest and narrow
minded. But it takes a strong man
to be truthful, broadminded and gen
erous. We are tested to see if we
are willing to get rid of our weak
nesses; big enough to stand up a
gainst daily temptations and over
come those things that would make us
unfit for the race. And we should
not be unmindful of these tests if
we would be strong enough to han
dle the bigger tasks yet to come.
Life is always testing us, because
our work here is never finished until
we are called to another land—and
how well we will be able to enjoy
that new life will depend altogether
on how we stood the various tests
during the journey.
hir tail around to his stde, because
there isn't room for him to wag it
on his master's premises— all
right, too; honest and fair.
But the thing that caps the climax
was'to Idll the old-maid achoolteachers
it was the easiest place on earth to
catch a husband, by which means the
real-estate men managed to get every
school dollar that has been saved up
in seven years. And now nearly
■every woman school teacher in North
Carolina has a lot at, in, or around
Morehead. It is a fine place to live,
but some of them never marry. If
they don't, the land speculators should
be forced to return their money.
No day in American history has
lured more people to the nests of the
real estate speculators than the pres
ent year.
The free busses, the fine music, the
leautiful maps, and the expert spiel
ers would compare favorably with the
fine promises of the spider in his in
vitation of the fly into his parlor.
Some folks have fared just as bad
as the fly would have.
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and \ y virtue of the power
of sale conV\ire! in that certain deed
of trust e\'e>uttd on th-? 2nd day of
December 1919, by G. T. Bobbins, and
of record in the public registry of
Martin County in Book A-2 at page
335, said deed of trust being given to
secure (he payments of certain notes
" THE ENTERPRISE—WILLIAMaTON, H. C.
of «ven date and tenor therewith, and
the stipulations in said deed of trust
not having been complied with, and at
the request of the parties interested,
the undersigned trustee will on Friday
the 9th day of July 1926, at 12:00 o'-
clock Jf., at the Courthouse Door in
the Town of Williamston, N. C., offer
for tale to the highest bidder for cash
at public auction the following de
scribed land:
Being lots No. 2 of the division of
the J. G. Godard Farm near Dardens,
N. C., known as the Tarkle Neck of
Jsnes Land adjoining Lot No. 1 antl j
Lot No. 6 of the same division and the I
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This the 7th day of June 1926.
ELBERT S. PEEL,
6-11^41. Trustee.
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trustee on the 29th of December, 1921
and of record in Martin County regia
try in book G-2, page 415, securing a
bond of even date therewith and the
stipulations not having been complied
with, and at the request of the holder
of said bond, tha undersigned trustee
will on the 17th day of July, 1926, at
12 o'clock noon in front of the court
house door of Martin County, offer nt
public auction to the highest Udder
for caah the following described
property:
Beginning in the line of Mii»ll
Biggs on Pearl Street, in Williamston
N. C., a fence, thence with said Biggs
line about 210 feet to a stake, theare
a straight line parallel with Peail St
52 feet; thewsr a straight Urn had
to Pearl Street; thence wila narl
Street 52 feet to the beginning, be
ing same lot this day conveyed to
Virginia Sherrod by A O. Brown.
This the 15th day of June, 19».
B. DUKE CRITCHKR,
jelß 4tw Trustee.
Julias S. Peel, attorney.
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