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PAGE TWO iEtttrrpriHf Published Every Tuesday and Friday by The ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA W. C. Manning Kditor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Caah in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY j One year _____ _ $1.50 Six months : —— .75 OUTSDE MARTIN COUNTY One year : - -$2.00 Six months .1.00 No Subscription deceived for-Less Than 6 Months Adverti* .g Rate Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the post r>ffice at Wijliamston, N. C., as second-class matter under tire act) of Congress of March 3, 1879. Address all communication to The Enterprise and not to the individual members of the firm. y' Tuesday, August 7,1928 Taxes Taxes are cursed more than any other one thing. Vet tax money brings ftr more blessings than any other money we s|>et\d. In all civilized government, people pool their in terests and handle all their public saffairs jointly— such as school, where the same lesson may be taught to a dozen at a time as well as to one. The same road is used by all the community. Public officials serve all the people. Each person does not have to maintain his own school, build his own road, nor keep up his own officer. We can not have these things without cooperation. The method followed is-by means of taxation, which has always caused conflicts. Various people have different desires; some want small sthoolhouses with short terms and at little cost; some want roads with out cost to them. And wherrjt cofnes to giving people what they want and then go to them for the money to pay for it, there is generally trouble. Some criticisms are very unjust; on the other hand, many justifiable complaints are heard. People can not understand why the cost of government, county, State, and national, should steadily climb, while other things decrease, such as corn, wheat, cotton and to bacco. So far as we know, no officer is lowering his own salary, and most of them are lowering the amount of their work. *5 What we need is more economy in spending tax money. Too little consideration is given to bills and accounts. Too many people, in drawing public funds, add just as much to their bills as they will pass. Nobody makes affidavit to a bill. Thousands are lost by extravagant payments of padded bills pre sented by bridge builders, road builders, and many others. This county might save enough each year to pay a man to check up on its bills. In school matters some cog-ections could well be made. The law makes a schedule which j>ays a poor teacher as much as a successful one, provided they both had the same educational advantages. Baseball teams require all playprs to m'ake good, they do not hire them simply because they practice; they hire them because they can play. Our Educational sys «. tem is different. When the prospective teacher goes , through school, he goes on the job, good dr bad. Of course, many have to move at the end of the year; but he has not given much value in return for his sal > c try- V More work and less fun in the schools would save considerable money to the taxpayer, and it would give the child much more knowledge than he now gets. Taxes are a "tine thing, but public officers are just a little extravagant with them. Nor does it stop at public officers, it applies many others who ha|>pen to get in reach of public funds. The genearl disposi tion among many is to gouge the public. • Recent observations in Williamston prove the dis regard, or the ignorance, of the law by many citizens of the town. On two occasions during the past week when the fire alarm was sounded, drivers of cars and trucks soon filled the streets, many of them running at high speed. The law requires all vehicles to stcjp 1 promptly at the curb immediately upon the sounding of the fire alarm. Another thing that the law forbids is the rushing of cars in a jam immediately following the truck. The law requires all cars to stay as much as a block away, both in running and. in parking. People seem to have about thf same respect for these laws as they have for most other laws. They obey those that suit them and violate those which do not suit them. ' Cotton Goes Down—Stocks Go Up Cotton goes lower and stocks in big business enter prises go higher. It is ft strange thing to think about. Some folks think the reason automobile stocks are high is because (he farmers are giving all their cot ton and ft mortgage on their homes for cars, and all their other crops for gas and oil. After thinking it ow, it sounds reasonable for automobile stocks to up. Anything everybody wants goes high«r, while fHft» people don't want—and women don't want omch cotton —is ftnerally cheap. Disregarding the Law Will They Merge? It now looks like the party brand is about to rub off of everybody. Republicans are much disturbed because they say Mr. Hoover is too Democratic (or them. Democrats are hampered because they are not used to being driven by a Wall Street bridle, with a Union League Republican holding the lash. Southern democracy has never thought Wall Street domination, which has owned and ruled the Republi can party for half a century, meant economic free dom for this country. Parteis without principles are not apt to do the people much good. The i ampaign so fa rseems nothing more than the grand champion race for office, with all platforms thrown overboard and no kinsfolks recognized. It is a campaign for office only. Labor Costs Too High Four dollars and three drinks of liquor a day is the wage n»W being paid "primers" by a few Martin County tobacco farmers. No industry or business can pros[>er when f>eople engaged in that business have so little consideration for their neighbors. Such prices are altogether un reasonable and demoralize labor in the community. Vet the price is not against the law. One has the right to pay any price he wishes, even his whole crop for one day's work But they do violate the law when they give liquor to drink as a part of the considera tion for their work. . , It would be proper (or farmers who wish to deal fairly with their fellows te bring any neighl>or who enticed labor with liquor before the courts and teach him a lesson. Georgia Prices Disappointing The prices of toba&o in the South (jeorgia mar kets are by no means encouraging -about 30 |)er cent lower than last year. This news will bring sorrow to many tobacco farmers. Ihe only way to meet the situation is to use rigid economy in housing and han dling the crop, Bad Scent in Politics This Year Everybody loves politics when it is good clean de cent politics, with a principle. But just at this junc ture nobody seems to be pleased, lhe folks act just us if things don't smell right in politics this year. And the sad thing about it is that there seems to lie no relief in sight. The Farmers and the Politicians l he farmers have a hard time getting something to suit the politicians. Coolidge and his gang have dal lied with them for five years with great promises; and when it was put up to Coolidge to do something, he flunked, to the disgust of the American farmer. Governor Smith has recently reviewed the entire case and said Mr. Coolidge was right, but he held fast to one important thing—a new promise. And he said to the farmers of America, "Sou fellows wait here. Let me think for a minute. 1 know I can help you fellows; and while I think you vote for me.' If the farmers ever get anything from any |*>litic-. ians, they will have Wf do like other folks |*>int a dagger at their hearts and take it. The Socialists' Claims The Socialists.say they find both the bin purlieu, the Democratic and running a "back stairs" campaign. 1 They say that the high-u|>s, such as the manufacturer's league and the New Ydrk bank ers are ver> friendly >to both Mr. Smith and Mr. Hoover. It is rather unusual to get two candidates that please one man. It is practically certain that Mr. Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate, is not satisfactory to the manu facturer's association. The charges brought by the Socialist candidate may l>e correct, !>ecause everybody seems tf) have-gone into the fight, regardless of what it takes. Politicians Compliment the Preachers It, is a wonderful compliment the politicians are laying the |>reachers these days. They are saying on every corner, "Why, brother, you are 100 good to be in politics." In most cases they are correct. But the tables turn when the preachers insist on com ing down and taking seats with the politicians. Then they are denounced as low-down renegades. It is a pity that politics sometimes get 90 dirty that it makes it necessary for |*eachers to go in to protect the peo ple. The poliicians generally are permitted to run things unmolested, but when great moral issues are at stake, they may as well make up their minds that good people* reserve the right to speak and work for what they think is the best interest. Can't Get Their Minds Off of Politics Folks are trying to keep their minds off of politics, • but they just can't do it, because everywhere you go it is either Smith and Hoover or Hoover and Smith Just enough said to keep folks talking, and to keep them from thinking of better things. * « Some are hoping to get office, some are trying to keep office. Honesty and truth in politics teem to be lost aria Aji Opportunity tor the Stock Stlesmen Parking stations along the air rouU between Amer ica and Europe would pay well. The wonder is that some blue-sky promoter doesn't capitalise such a proj ect. Plenty of folks invest just at foolishly. rHE ' ENTERPRISE NEW CHEVROLET PLANT IN SOUTH Plant At Atlanta, Ga., Was Formally Opened During Past Week The formal opening during the past week of the Chevrolet assembly plant ii Atlanta. Ga., coming at a time when a similar plant is under construction in Kansas City, is further indication that there is to be no let-down in the company's extensive sales program. Ttu mammoth Atlanta plant, which has been* in operation since May 1, is Capable of turning out 350 cars each day, and was the eighth assembly plant to be opened by Chevrolet in this country. The Kansas City plant, with the same capacity, will be the ninth. A thin tans last week welcomed their first opportunity of visiting the great assembly plant, and seeing the magic C hevrolet assembly line produce the world's most popular automobile from a set of seemingly unrelated parts. At lanta newspapers welcomed Chevrolet tf the southeast, ami viewed the plant aF a Southern institution. It was main ly southern contracting genius that built it in four months, one week, and six hours, several days before the con tracted time had expired. Southern help has been operating it ever since the first car rolled off the line. It serves the southeastern market exclu sively, cars to the dealers of (Wofgia. North and South Carolina, Alabama, and Florida. A southerner, W. S. ("Crane") Roberts Ivas been placed at the head of this, the newest and one of the greatest of the south's industrial institutions. . The plant covers 32 acres and occu pies 410,(KK) square feet of floor space. There are five buildings, and in the main one the Ftsticr Body Company is using 160 by 760 square feet of space (b build their famous bodies for the C In vrolet closed cars. "" The plant is ideally located, with the tracks of the Southern Railroad paralleling its loading dock. Track storage for 300 freight cars is provid ed Another facility to speed up de liveries is a drive-way shed, 40 by 220 ftel, where dealers from cities WANTS FOR SALE: TOBACCO STICKS. Come and get yours early, before they are all gunc. Luther Hardison, Jamesville, N. C. jy 27 4tpd Notice of Sale of Real Property Under > Execution North Carolina-. Martin County; in the superior court. W. G. Peel vs. W. A. NeUon By virtue of an execution to me di rected from the superior court of Mar tin Count> in the above entitled action, I will,.on Monday, the 3rd day of Sep tember, 1928, at 12 o'clock in., at the courthouse door of said county, sell to the highest bidder for cash to satis fy the said execution, all the right, title and interest which the said W. A. Nel son, the defendant, lias in the follow ing real estate, to wit: Beginning at Fred Jones' corner on State Highway No. 90, and running eastwardly along said highway to Tom Roebuck's corner, better known as Kd Jolly's corner: thence southwardly a h'tig said Roebuck's line to the rar mele Canal Company's land: thence westwardly along the canal to Fred Jones' lines, and following the said Jones' line to the beginning, contain ,ug (60) sixty acres, more or ..less. A L. ROEBUCK, a/ 4tw Sheriff Martin County. Grove's Tasteless ChlU Tonlo A Tonic for Pal*, Delicate and Children. 00a TERffiBLY ILL Kentackj LMI/I Health Wu Very Bad. Had Sevan Pain* and Could Nat Sleep. Lesington, Ky .—Un. J. SL Metola, who Uvea at 611 Dm Traa hum. this city, says that Oardul baa ban of valuable assistance to her on two wblch she Ml* abowl ha> low: •*ome tear yean ago. my health was bad. I had very severe pains In my eidee. My name ware in a terrible condition. I could not rest. "The tower pert of my body was verrsore. I oould hardly stoop ore* to lace my shoaa. X would have to pot my foot en a chair. X did not feel Ilka eating, and did not sleep well at all at nights. "A friend of mine reoommended Oardul. X began taking It and saw quite an improvement in my con dition. X .kept it up until X felt strong and welL" About a year a«e. ma. Mtohole says, she found herself lit • ner vous, run-down condition. 1 took Ca.dui again." she adds, "and tt helped me wonderfully. It fc • tonic." thousands of women have writ ten to tell how Oardui helped them to get rid of pain end Buffering. Oardul le a mild, medicinal tonic, made fcem purely vegetable lngra dientSL At aO drug stores. NC-iM DRY WEATHER FAVORS WEEVIL Official Says Where 10 Per Cent Damage Is Done, Dusting Should Begin Present weather conditions are fa vorable to the rapid development of boll weevil*, and if the warm, humid condition continues damage by the in. sects will be widsespread and will in crease as the season advances. • "We are receiving an increased num ber of inquiries asking for information about dusting machines," says C. H. Brannop, extension entomologist at State College. "The boll weevil is do ing destructive damage in many cot ton field,s and if present weather con ditions continue, we may expect this damage to become more widespread. However, there will be more dusting with calcium arsenate for weevil con trol this year in North Carolina than can take deliveries of cars. In his office at the plant, L. S. Cost by, regional sales manager, has been directing a sales legion that has as its field 11,000,000 people in the five south eastern States. Figures for the south eastern automobile market show that it is rapidly becoming one of the best in the country with the demand for! Chevrolet increasing rapidly. Due to . the perfection of its product and the expansion of its sales forces, Chevro- ' let's sales record in the Southeast has j been second to none. Official figures show that the num tiei of Chevrolets sold in" flie southeast ern region were 16,390 for the fiscal year 1924-25. The following year the figures reached 53,417. Last year the figures were more than 81,50. This fiscal year close to 95,000 sales have hiiu registered. The Southeastern region, with head quarters at Atlanta, is composed of five zones with offices at various key points in the territory. These are lo cated at Charlotte, N. C.; Columbia, S. C; Birmingham, Ala.; Jacksonville, Fla,.; and Atlanta. RCUCF PROM Eft 11 t C I T OH I N « rILL 9 la w'qaick «i« PASO OINTMENT la applM. It wtH safiMiM yea. •>• kmlr Intmaud la tb« MMily and u nnwM—ilni it t* th«ir cua toman A.k your Drnniat abaot PAZO OINT MINT. hMM with nil* pip*. 76c; ar In tin bax. Mt. A CAR LOAD 5 - V - Roofing 6, 7, 8,9,10,11, and 12 Feet Lengths CHEAP i Culpepper Hardware Co. Car Load Building Lime Car Load Cement Car Load Brick _ ♦ k ITM Cheap For Cash r '. n' ■ - ' ; >1 \ C. D. Carstarphen and Co. C. ] in any previous year. Many dealers, write us that this material is being dis tributed in large quantities." Mr. Brannon states that where the weevil is damaging 10 per cent of the squares, dusting should begin. A reg- uiar dusting schedule should then be followed. Mr., Brannon is positive that the weevil can be controlled by dusting cotton with calcium arsenate and those growers who are now suf- j firing damage to their crops should give weevil control close attention. Proper control, in Mr. Brannon'* opin- FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND LI CENSED EMBALMERS We have recently purchased a new hearse and ambulance, which enables us to give our patrons' th best of service at our usual reasonable prices. and Night Ambulance Service Barnhill Brothers ROBERSONVILLE, N. C. Day Phone 129 Night Phone 29 Funeral Director and Licensed Embalmer Only Licensed Embal mer in Martin County DAY AND NIGHT AMBULANCE SERVICE * •\ Excellent Service at Most Reasonable Price B. S. COURTNEY^ WILLIAMSTON, N. C\ Day Phone Iss Tuesday; August 7,1928 ion, is an excellent investment, and is not a dead expense as many have con sidered it. If only one boll per ptafit is saved by dusting, it will pay, artd it is well known that careful dusting should save many more bolls per pla#it. But dusting rnust be done right (pr not at all. For those not familiar wi\h the method, the extension service State College has a circular describitfy; the work in detail and tliose who be interested can secure a copy of this s publication free of charge on applies- f tion to the agricultural editor. 1
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