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Advertiser* Will Pod Oar Col umi a Latchkey to Over Sixteen Hundred Martin County Home* VOLUME XXXIII—NUMBER 94 OAK CITY HAS UNUSUAL HONOR ROLL SCHEDULE Several Pupils Are on List For First Semester; 125 Points Required . » 1 OTHER SCHOOL NEWS Over 100 Student* Served Hot Lunch In 45 Minutes; Influenza In Many Homes » - ~s ' 111 an effort to keep constantly be fore the pupils all the things worth while, studies, library work, and read ing and other curricular activities, the Oak City High School has repared an unusual honor roll schedule as a goal for all of its pupils. The roll is limited to the two apear thereon does himself a real honor. To make the roll, a score of 125 points is necessary. The score is made at the end' of each semester, and the Honor Roll read be fore the school and published in the county paper. The score includes 10 items of school work, the library score being One of the ten and counts 25 towards the honor roll. Those making the score at the close of the fall semester's work ending January 16, are as follows: Ninth grade—Chessie Piland and Avril Woodley. . Tenth grade—Library score: Hazel Davis, Naomi Harrell, Thelma Hal slip, Dorothy Hines, Ruth Pearson. Hannibal Purvis, Olive Tyson, and Woodrow Tyson. Eleventh grade—Hilton Rawles, Leroy Daniels, and Nannie Davis. Hot Lunch The regular hot lunch was served Tuesday to 101 pupils within 45 min utes. The two problems—first of sup plying the proper kind and amount of food, and second preparing and serving it. The two foods served are hot co coa for one week on Tuesdays and Thursdays and hot soup the following week continuing through the month. Each child is furnished with a lunch ticket showing charges and credit is all used his card is balanced and he brings a new supply. There is always a surplus to take care of the 20 needy and undernourished pupils for whom there is no charge. The reparing is done by the 4-H Club Girls working in group of three to four per week. A teacher or patron usually supervises the activity. The flu is in many homes of the community. A number of primary children is out of school on the ac count of flu. The record today shows 26 absent on account of sickness. The average on the past semester examinations shows a larger per cent passing work than the same period of last school year. Pupils are learning to read and to think well in terms of their own language and initiative. Bet ter response among the high school students than any previous time is noticeable. Only Few Cases Before Recorder Last Tuesday Proceedings in the recorder's court here last Tuesday were limited to a very few case*, no final disposition re sulting in two or three. John Smith was found guilty on two charges, larceny and cruelty to ani mals. On the first count, he was sen tenced to the roads for six ntdnths and on the second three months, the sen tences to run concurrently. Action against Champion Roberson in the same case was dropped, and Isaiah Roberson, a third defendant, was found not guilty. Announce Sunday Services at Church of the Advent • Rev. A. H. Ma: ha'l, recti r. Mr. Maurice Moore. Church school superintendent. - Miss Moore, president Young Peoples' Service League. Mrs. J. H. Saunders, organist. Church school at 10 a. m. Morning prayer and sermon at 11. Young Peoples' Service League at 7p. m. " " The regeuljtf monthly meeting of the vestry wl be held - immediately atfer the morning service. All mem ber* of the vestry are urged to at tend. ♦ Program of Services at Presbyterian Church Sunday January 25th 1931 "The Church With An Open Door- True Saying: "CHARACTER is one structure that you cannot hire built" , Church School 9:45 A. M. Worship Service and Sermon 11 A. if. "Nine Peas In A Pod" Lcgfttt'i Farm Notice: Hereafter this Mission Point will be spohen ol as Roberson's Fafrtkn! Sunday School at 2:30 P. M. Bear Oraaa The regular service at 6:30 P. M. Mr. C. T. Roberson, of Griffins, was a business visitor here yesterday. THE ENTERPRISE Small Gain in Post Here During Third Quarter A Decrease of $20,126.37 In Money Orders Reported; Orders Drawn In Favor of Mail Order Houses Believed to Have Suffered Biggest Drop Following" a decline experienced during many months, postal receipts at the local office took an upward turn during the last quarter of 1930"but not of sufficient sire to offset thie decrea ses recorded in the first three quarters it was learned from Postmaster Jesse T. Price yesterday. While the gain recorded for the thiiw quarter is not very great in size, it is of special signi ficance in that the decilen was check ed and a trend upward was shown. During th eyear, gross receipts, that is receipts from the sale of stamps and postoffice boxes, amouiVted to (sll,- 147.88 as compared with $12,080.17 for the year before. The office continues $3,000 ahead of the second class rat ing, the olily change resulting in the loss of receipts being a small decrease in the postmasters salary. Salaries of assistants and clerks were not affect ed. Probably the most marked decrease was noted in the money order business handled by . the office. Mr. Price re ported a loss drop in that department of $20,126.37 during the year General business conditions were given as the main cause cause resulting in the de crease in money order business, the First Poultry Car of Season To Be Loaded Next Week EXPECT PRICES TO BE LOWER THAN YEAR AGO Car Will Be At Four Towns In County, Starting Tuesday HERE ON WEDNESDAY Shortage of Feed and Low Price* Prevailing on Local Markets Necessitate Loadings The first of the 1 4 >31 cooperative poultry shipments from this county will be loaded in four towns, Jatnes ville, YVilliamston, Robersonvile and Oak City, next week, it was announced yesterday by County Agent T. B. Brandon. The car will be placed at the Coast Line station in Jamcsville next Tuesday morning, coming here the following morning for one day. Thursday, hading will be made in Ro bersonville, and Friday the car is scheduled for OaK City. Prices for loadings next week have not been released but will be an nounced tomorrow, it was stated in a letter received by Mr. Brandon from the State Bureau of Markets yester day. That the prices will be lower than they were last season is almost certain but the size of the reduction is not known at this tiine. It is believed, however, that prices will be from two to five cents lower than they were last season. Colored hens commanded 22 cents per pound at the first load ings last January. A price ranging from 17 to 20 cents is expected this ' year. Anticipating low prates, Agent Brandon hesitated in announcing the , loading schedule next week, but with 1 a reported shortage in feed, a limited market locally, and low prevailing prices in this section, it was decided Ito schedule the car at once Many re : quests have been made by farmers to ' operate a cooperative car this month, and as the schedule next week will be the last possible one until the latter part of February, arrangements were made for the shipment yesterday, j The agent when questioned as to what rices miKht be expected later in , the season, stated that he was at a j loss to say, that they miKht advance or they might not. Considering low prices prevailing generally for all farm ,commodities and livestock. Mr. Bran don stated that he believed the price of poultry would not be as low/in com parison with prevailing prices for other commodities. The agent' is attempting to secure the prices as soon as they are released : tomorrow, and raisers will be in formed as soon as possible thereafter. Program of Services At Baptist Church | At the Baptist church Sunday the evening service will center about the reading.of a paper by the pastor en titled, 'Ten Preachers I Have At the morning boor the ser mon-subject will be, Religion be Reduced to the Level of the World?" | Sunday School, B. Y. P. U. and the ,mid-week service will all be held at | the usual-time. I■ ' ' Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, January 23, 1931. orders drawn in favor of mail order houses apparently suffering the great est decrease. In 1929, $115,187.52 was issued in money orders. Last year the figured dropped to $95,061.41. A gain similar to the one in stamp sales was reported in the money order business during the last quarter, the figures in creasing from $6,951.90 in September to 14.909.20 in December. The office reported yesterday that the number of c. o. d. packages held there a few days ago was the smallest at one time during the past ten years, indicating that mail order business has reached a new low level as far as patrohs in this particular section are involved. During the first quarter, 1929, stamp sales amounted to 3,036.17, as com pared with 2,790.00 for the first quar ter in 1930. a drop of 246.17. The se cond quarter decrease in 1930 was 153.10. A sharp decline was reported during the third quarter when receipts dropped from $2,980 4"> to $2,363.34, a decrease of $617.15. In the fourth quarter a sizable increase was report ed, receipts jumping from $2,363.34 in the third quarter to $3,543.08, a gain over the 1929 last quarter receipts of SB4 13. BIRD REFUGE TO BE ESTABLISHED 11,778 Acres in Hyde Coun ty To Be Made Federal Reservation Steps to bring into actu*J being the recently authorized migratory bird refuge- at Swan Quarter, Norih Car Olina, will be taken soon. The North Carolina preserve, au thorized in December, will consist of 11,778 acres in Hyde county, oil Pam lico sound, -and together with inter mingled areas"of water will make an administrative unit of about 20,000 acres. The Migratory liird Conservation commission, which was created by Congress to supervise the acquisi tion of bird sanctuaries, plans even tually to have one refuge in every state in the union. Thus far, purchase aggregating 158,167 acres have been authorized to create "inviolate sanctuaries fur the conservation of migratory, birds.' Local Man Appointed To Liquidate Littleton Bank Mr. John L. Rodgerson, local man, has been appointed liquidating agent (or the Farmers and' Merchants Hank, of Littleton, N. C. and the Bank of Macon, of Macon, Warren county. He will enter upon his duties next Mrfn day. Mr. Rodgerson will make his head quarters in Littleton. His family ex pects to join him there following the expiration of the current school term. Goerch Reports Interesting j Week In State j~~°~"~BY CARL GOERCH The legislature has been having a rather interesting wock Most of its time is being taken up in discussing money matters. In that respect, sena tors and representatives''are like the average married couple; there is little chance of reaching an agreement but there is always a mighty fine chance of starting an argument. I interviewed about fifty, represen tatives and about twenty senators this week. Every lust one of them said he was in favor of reducing taxes on real estate. That's what you might call per fect agreement. It was when I began making inquiries about their plan for bringing about a reduction in taxes that I began to find evidences of al most perfect disagreement. The result probably will be that they'll spend so j much time arguing that tbey won't have any time to actualy reduce taxes. The' State budget for IV3I-33 was is sued-this week. It shows appropria tions of SIOO,OOO for this, $200,000 for that, and $300,000 for something else. What's worying me is where all this money is coming from. Making out a budget is one thing; collecting the money is something entirely different. , My wife makes out a budget which in cludes about five new dresses every year, but she doesn't get 'em. There's going to be a big hole in the WOMAN'S CLUB HAS REGULAR MEETING HERE Club Plans To Raise Funds For Furthering Relief Work in Section GIVE RELIEF REPORT Miss Isabel Busbee, Landscape Ex pert, Addresses Meeting Held Yesterday Afternoon i Although meeting with a part op position from two quarters, the wel fare work in this community was giv 'en new support yesterday afternoun when the Woman's dub met and planned a general solicitation of funds that relief work might be continued. It was at a regular meeting of the 1 club that the welfare report showing 1 where 341 cases, 170 white ones and 171 colored, had been helped, was read. Fach of the cases was investigated, 1 and while there have been two or three undeserving ones, it was very marked that a valuable work had been carried on. Funds arc exhausted, but in an ef ' fort to continue the work, the club expects to appoint a committee and ' make a general solicitation for money. 1 This committee will be appoinlkd within the next day or two, it was stated, and its members will start as soon as assignments are made. 1 - Those connected with the welfare department of the club and others who have formed a close contact with the |conditions in this section arc agreed that the need for rMief is the greatest 'it ever lias been in this county and, it jis hoped that a loyal suport will he ac corded the solicitors when they can vass the town. 1 lie report covering (lie activities of 'the welfare department during the past several weeks was given in detail, in dilating that a 'hearty support had been accorded by the churches, or 1 ganizations, si.hool children, both the ■ white anil colored, and individuals. ' Various other club business was dis jcussed at the regular meeting, and J Miss Isabel Busbce. landscape 1 specialist, addressed the club, choosing for her subject ''Landscape Garden ing." I 9 Inspector Visits Three High Schools in County Visiting the county yesterday, Mr. A! B. tombs, of the State Depart ment of Education, inspected three of [the high schools, Jamesville, Williams ton and Robersonville. The inspector stated evening that much improvement had been made in the schools since his last visit, that the three plants inspected were operating very Announce Two Services at , Hamilton Church Sunday Rev. Arthur H. Marshall, rector, f t'lwrcN school at" 10 ar m. I Holy Communion and sermon at j 3:30 p. m. . T x j Evening prayer and sermon at 7:30. I All members of the church and the ' public generally are urged to attend ' these services. ' A " j The delegates to the convention will J take notice of what is a|f?fearing in , this paper relative to the meetings, and the men "of this parish are cordially invited to attend the Brotherhood din ner next Tuesday night at 6 o'clock. A large attendance from this church 'will be appreciated. State's revenue this year. There are 40,000 fewer automobiles on our roads than there were this time last year. That makes close to a million dollars loss in revenue through the sale of ■license plates and gasoline tax. There are more folks who will be unable to pay their taxes thaa ever before, which means still greater loss in revenue. And when we see the pitiful returns that we're going to get out of our in come tax returns —well, unless we be gin to take steps right now to bring about a rigid rule of economy, it looks to me like things will just about go busted in six months or so. A number of counties are already defaulting in their bond interest payments, and a lot of others are right on the ragged edge. „ | I visited the State Prison Monday and itsfl George Ross Pou take me over the institution. Few people really know what is going on out there. One of these days I want to write it up. Their biennial report has just been issued. It's a mighty intereting docu ment. You ought to get hold of a copy and read it. I was looking over one of them a couple of days ago. Out of . 1,015 prisoners, who were churcfi members, 618 said they had been affi liated with the JBaptist church before to prison. Think of that! H'm a Baptist myself, so I don't mind Legislative Committees Favor State Supported School Term Commission Aga Of Eighteenth To Ask Discontinuance Demonstrator's Office Requested by County Com missioner H. S. Everett, of Ro bersonville, (he Woman"* club there is considering a plan to reduce the expense of the coun ty by discontinuing the office of Home Demonstrator. A commit tee, Mrs. W. T. Hurst, Mrs. N. C. Everett, Mrs. V. A. Ward, Mrs. J. C. Taylor and Mrs. R. K. Adkins, was appointed re cently, and its members are planning to discuss the matter before the commissioners her* at the next regular meeting The work of the home agent's office has been very limited in this county during the past few years, reports show, and it is be lieved that the proposal to dis continue the office, temporarily at least, will be given serious consideration by the authorities. EPISCOPAL MEN MEET TUESDAY Diocesan Convention To Be Held in Greenville; Urge Full Attendance By A. H. Marshall *"T—' The Annual Diocesan Convention will be held at Greenville beginning with a dinner to be given by the Bro therhood of St. Andrew at the Parish House at Greenville next Tuesday eve ning (January 27th) at six o'clock. Mr. l'clham of Chicago will be the speaker on this occa-ion and the Bro therhood issues a most cordial invi tation to all the men of the Diocese to attend this meeting. The Rector of the Church of the Advent joins with the President of the Brotherhood in ur ging all the men of this Church to at tend this meeting. The chosen delegates to the Dioce san Convention are reminded that the business session oi the Convention will begin after the dinner on Tuesday evening and continue through Wed nsday anil part of Thursday. It was most necessary for all delegates to at tend these meetings so that our Parish might be represented. The Delegates of the Womans Auxi liary will please remember that the Diocesan Convention of the Womans Auxiliary will meet at Greenville on the same dates and all women dele gates are urged to attend. Fire Company Answers Call He K This Morning • *i The local fire comany wal"j, called out this morning when the roof of a tenant house caught fire near the municipal water plant. Very little damage was reported. writing about my own crowd. Over 60 per cent of all our church member J prisoners are Baptists. The State Pri j sm is one of our big problems. I'll bet that 90 per cent of the members of the legislature are Baptists. They're bound to be, because the legislature is a much bigger problem to our people j than the State Prishn. Talking about the prison; pouring money into that old for main tenance is like pouring water into a slieve. The old pile of bricks is just about ready to crumble and fall to pieces. College professors claim that an in justice is being done them in the pro posal to reduce salaries ten per cent The merchant, the the | clerk, the laboring man and the farmer have all had to take their cut in re venue and I don't see why the intellec tuals should be absolved from their obligation. Just becStise a man knows how to translate a Latin sentencec or how to pronounce liors d'oeurvres is no reason why he shouldn't get down on a level with us common folks when it comet to taking a cut in wages. Es pecially when we're the ones who are paying him. • ( Senator Powell, of Columbus coun ty, has introduced a crazy bill. He ♦ (Continued on back page) REPORT IS MADE AFTER STUDY OF MORE THAN YEAR Both Wets and Drys Claim Report Favors Their Contentiq(hs VERY FEW^SATISFIED Important National Issues Are Side tracked As Press Centers Its Comment on Report | '('lie nation's attention was turned ! from drought stricken areas and need ed relief measures last Tuesday when the Wickersham report, dealing with prohibition in the States, was turned in last Tuesday. Every other issue, na tional or local whether it be impor tant or just plain hunger and suffer ing, was made secondary as the press of the country gobbled up the con tentions, some the wet and some the dry, to carry them in big headlines and 1 on practically every page of their pa pers. I The Commission, named by President Hoover to study prohibition conditions, has worked at J the task for a year and a half, and last Tuesday it was opened to the. public. From Main to the tip of Flori da, and from coast, comment was of fered, the wets claiming it favored their side, and the drys disputing the ' wets' claim. Anyway* the report was against the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. | Of the eleven meiulM-rs forming the commission, four of them endorsed a plan forward by Henry \V Anderson, of Virginia, a dry Republican for adop tifn of a modified form of the Swedish sale plan to be utilized under strick su pervision in states wishing to adopt it. Two other members favored it con ditionally in event the present regime, after further trial, proved unsuccess ful. The commission held there is not I yet any ade(|Utae observance or en- I forcemcnt but that conditions are ' improving. The commission's formal repqrt, signed by (en of the II but subject to numerous dissenting rescr ' vations, recommended in part; Chief Recommendations ' 1. Against authorizing light wines 2. t Against restoration of the saloon, ■L.Agaiust federal or .state govern ments, as, such going into the liquor business. 4 For placing u definite alcholic limit on ciders and fruit juices made in the home, now unrestricted except that they must be non-intoxicating in factJ i 5. Against allowing more latitude in federal search and seizures. , ! 6. In the event the IHtli Amend ment is to be revised, that it should read substantially as follows: "The I Congress shall have power to regu late or prohibit the manufacture, traf fic in or transportation of" intoxica > tioh liquors, the proposed revision would broaden the powers of Congress to include purchase, which is now omitted under the 18th Amendment, and would allow Congress latitude in determining how far it should go in ap plying the principle of prohibition. The iobject is to do away with the rigidity of the present amendemtn. 'George W. Wickersham, chairman of the .commission and former Attor ney General, said "I have signed the report-of the commission, although, as is probably inevitable when eleven people of different antecedent and temperamenets endeavor agree upon a contentious subject, it is. more or less of a compromise of varying 1 opinions. ! "I cannot believe that an experi ment of such far reaching and mo mentous consequencee as this of na tional prohibition should be aban doned after seven years of such im perfect enforcement and only three years of reorganization and effort to repair the mistakes of the earlier period? The older generation very i largely has forgotten and the young i nyver knew the evils of the saloon I . * (Continued on the back page) fclder Harrison Preaches At Smithwick's Creek Elder Newsome H. Harrison, 86- year-old Primitive Batpist minister pf Washington County, will reach tomor row and Sunday at Smithwick's Creek. The Elder, one of the oldest in the section, .is still active, chatting on im portant topics of the day while visit iing friends and acquaintance here this morning. Watch die Label On Your Paper Aa It Carries the Date When Your Subscription Expires ESTABLISHED 1898 BELIEVE TAXES ON FARM LAND WOULD BE LESS Big Interests are Likely to •Center Their Attack In the Senate 30 ARE FOR MEASURE Representative A. D. Mac Lean, of Beaufort County Carries Bill Through Committees Ihe voice of the poor was heard in the vote taken by the joint com mittee on education in the Legisla ture yesterday when '3O legislators voted to require the State to finance | the schools for the constitutional six months term, anj, seven voted a gainst the proposal. It is estimated that the measure, it passed will reduce the general school tax- on property as much as two-thirds. Representative A. I>. Mac Lean. of Beaufort county, was the leading figure in putting the report through the committee. The main fight is expected when the hill goes to the flous? of Repre sentatives and the Senate. The big in terests are holding a stronger posi tion in the senate than in the house and it is believed that they will center their tire in that branch Experienced legislators declare they have never heard the voice of the peo ple crying so loudly for relief before. The proposal is one of-the major, ones advanced in the legislature, and presents far-reaching problems How the funds will be raised and *how the schools will he operated under the new arrangement .ire two of. the proh ■Jeiiu. S—u—.—;—v—. •• - —— ■£ Arc opting the t.i-k of supporting the six-months term, the State will relieve the county taxpaveis -of OH4V the current operating eo.»K wßflj re quire about 5 1 ' cents on flic SHM7 _ pr7>p erty valuation in this county. Debt service will continue, it is understood, as a county obligation, requiring a levy of about 4.? cents on the SIOO valuation in Martin. I'lie vote, ,10 to 7 for reporting the ! Mad.can substitute for the l.indscy- Young resolutions favorably, came in a drain a tii climax t>> the two public committee meetings, both attended by crowds that threatened to overflow the . Hall of the House of Repre cutatives. The bills will be reported "into Senate and House this morning and consigned to the favorable calendars. In the House it is expected- the mat ter will be set for special order Mon day night. -j~ The measure goes nn .further than to pledge the Assembly to a basic policy, and docs not go, into finan ces. This would he left entirely to the, Finance Committees will not lack for*' suggestions from the Statc-mainten-» ance advocates. | Definite action by the Assembly will rov'ide the basis for Finance Commit tee action. Without it, the money raisers are groping in the dark. En- * (lorsement of the Education .committee action means that approximately $12,- 000,000 in new revenue must be found | The bill provides that the Educa tion committees draw another bill con- . laming necessary machinery for car rying out State-support. ] Hy branches, the Committees voted: Senate, II for, and 4 against; House, 19 for. and 3 against. | ♦ 12 People Injured as They Run from Screen Train fieorvesti, Rumania, Jan. 22.—The . uitruiluctmii of uiuiiuu pictures into this village tonight caused a stampede in which 12 persons were trampled, some of them being seriously injured. A peasant audience, no member of \ whicljjfcver had seen a movie before, ' j was assembled in the hall to view a cinematic thriller, and suddenly the scene flashed to a locomotive roar ing straight down the track. The engine appeared to rush out from the screen into the hall and the 1 sight of this giant monster was too much for the spectators. They all made a wild rush' for the door and in the ensuing frenzy all fittings of the building were wrecked. Everetts Pupils Make Trip to State Capital ■A personal check on the activities in ; the Legislature, the blind school and i the insane asylum was made by 20 j seventh graders of the Everetts School yesterday when they took part in a sight-seeing tour in Raleigh. The pu pils "with their teacher,. Mrs. D. N. Hix, left early yesterday morning and returned late in the evening after vi siting the places of interest in th« capital. i j A nominal charge was made to off set transportation charges.