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THE ENTERPRISE
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WILLIAMSTON, WORTH CAROLINA.
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Friday, July 21, 1933
OUT Eternal Selfishness
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In such matters as farm relief, health work, educa
tional programs, and the like, which the government
deals with so systematically and so sympathetically,
there are always many who will not cooperate. V\e
would certainly like to know the reason why the peo
ple will not coo|>erate and take every advantage of
such opportunities, yet they will not. %
VVe can go no further in assigning a reason than to
guess, and observation prompts us to. guess that our
very extensive democratic American freedom has made
bigots of us until we believe ourselves masters of all
we survey; that our knowledge is perfect and.our
power is unlimited. We even go so far in our self
conceit that if some one else suggests things that we
know are good and if our government outlines plans
for the protection of her people, there are who will
not cooperate, but rather exercise their own self will.
Some farmers will refuse to cooperate with their
neighbors, because they think they know a little
more than they do, or perhaps are just a little richer,
or it may be that they think they can sell their crop
for a nickel more than their poor or unfortunate
neighbor.
Some folks will not -end their children to school
regularly, becau.se they do not like the teacher, or
their neighbor's children. What we need to do as a
people is to |x»»l our knowledge and experience and
outline our business and other policies on such ex
periments and all work together. If we do not, we
will be about as useless as a wheel in which one spoke
turns one way and another moves in another direc-
We can not understand why people will not coop
erate. Yet we know they too often fail to succeed
for the lack of cooperation and hope the day is not
so far distant when neighbor will work together with
neighbor for better prices for products, labor, social
advancement, educational conditions, and the like.
When we cease to be selfish we will cooperate.
The Root of All Evil
We see lots of scheme to stop kidnapping. We have
laws against it, but we have not stopped it, and the
practice is growing by leaps and bounds, and is now
about the most profitable "racket' in America. It
is like bootlegging, the more profit it shows, the more
there will be of it.
The kidnap|)er migh use the same argument that
the liquor man uses, "Repeal the law, and the curse
will cease,'' and this argument would be just as sen
sible from the kidnappers.
We must remember that law, even the death pen
alty, has never prevented crime, and it never will for
the next thousand years. Vet it arrests or prevents
many crimes.
The passion of anger leads to crime. The passion
for quick and easy profits is the cause for at least
nine-tenths of all crime, and whether it comes from
stealing a child or selling liquor, robbing a bank or
a filling station, it will continue and no law can cure
it. If the state puts a tax on the produition, the
sale or the use of anything, somebody is going to vio
late the law.
The liquor law violator charges the law with mak
ing him a criminal, the murderer has exactly the same
plea, and both pleas are without foundation of truth.
The same applies to every law that has ever been put
on the statute books.
The tax laws do not make criminals. Taxpayers lie
about their property and become criminals by their
own acts. The nation passes laws regulating the
manufacture and sale of liquor. Men violate these
laws for the profits they get and then turn around
and accuse the state of making them criminals. What
a lie, and what fools we be to believe them.
Kidnapping, bootlegging, stealing, and every other
crime will continue just as long as such acts produce
a profit, "for the love of money is the root of all evil."
School Teachers' Salaries
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The new wage scale will put a mill worker's income
above that the North Carolina school teacher gets.
It might have been that when cotton was selling
at 6 cents tha we were paying teachers all we could.
OB the other hand, If other things go tip, the salary of
Madiera needs to go up, 100.
England Takes a Sound Position
We are inclined to think Great Britain stands a
gainst the American proposal for public works and
shorter hours is sound.
What we need to do is to work more. It is good
for our health, for our wealth, our morafs, and our
spirituality.
The machine manufacturer is the gentleman that
wants to cut hours of labor. If the hours are fixed at
30 per week, and the manufacture and improvement
of machinery is given freedom, it will not be long be
fore the working hours of labor will be reduced to
12 a week.
Machines will make only a few folks rich, but they
will starve unsold millions.
Working Better Than Striking
It is hard to understand why men who have been
without work for months and years will organize
strikes just as soon as work begins.
Will a strike at High Point help the town or the
strikers? Can it be that men are just contrary and
mean ?
So far as we know, the laborer is not facing any
undue hardship from the factory operatives, but have
an opjKirt unity to work and do something for them
selves and their families.
They will find working better than striking.
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Easy Divorce Laws
Charles E. Martin, head of the American Bar As
sociation struck out hard against the easy divorce
laws of the country in a recent address in Chicago.
The modern trend of riising a row and parting be
cause of greater love for some other man or woman
and having State legislatures to pass laws giving them
the opportunity of getting a divorce and marrying
their new lovers letting a gang of children battle
their way through life in sorrow if not in shame, wards
of grandparents, or some orphanage—will not strength
en our race, but will drag down. •
We are still ashamed of our last General Assembly
for passing easy divorce laws for this state, that are
unjustifiable in the eyes of decency.
A New Deal Is Dawning
Gastoniu Gazette.
Beginning Monday morning, there is a "new deal"
for the cotton mill workers of the country.
Since the memory of man runneth not to the con
trary, the textile workers have been among he lowest
paid people in the country, and as is pointed out by
The News and Obsarver, the low wage has had its
effect on everything else in the South. We have been
content to be known as the "cheap South."
A new era is dawning with the advent of the new
wage scale and hours of work that will go into effect
Monday morning when thousands of textile workers
will begin to draw a living wage, a wage more in keep
ing with that of their feliowmen in other callings,
when they will be privileged to have more leisure time
for play and recration and when there shall be no
more working of children.
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Not a Cent for Education
Concord Tribune.
The Federal Government hafc made billions avail
able lor public works, but not one cent is allotted for
educational pur|*>ses.
The government has opened its purse in generous
fashion for highways, waterways, Federal courthouses,
post offices, power developments, and the like, but not
one |*'nny has been granted for the enlightenment of
our children.
Money spent for educational purposes—buildings,
equipment, salaries, etc. —would benefit as many per
sons directly and many more indirectly than will much
of the cash that has been appropriated for these other
things. School systems throughout the land are fac
ing starvation incomes; many teachers haven't been
paid in many States; facilities are being denied an
increasing number of students; and many institutions
o£*higher learning are Iwing closed or forced to ma
terially curtail their curricula, all because of shortage
of funds.
If we are to provide modern highways for our tour
ists. adequate quarters for our courts, waterway sys
tems that will benefit commerce, and sundry other
services that meet physical needs, why shouldn't we
take the more ini|X)rtant step and allot some of this
emergency money for the upbuilding of.our millions
of children whose chief benefits are derived from ade
j quate educational facilities?
Tobacco Prospects
Rocky Mount Telegram
Generally the average price lor tobacco on the floors
ot Eastern Carolina markets is about 5 cents per pound
abo\e the price paid for cotton. With record increases
m consumption of cotton for the past few months, and
with the retirement of several million bales from pro
ducion, coupled with the arrangements for sale of raw
cotton to Russia and China, the lot of the cotton farm
er is likely to be an easier one. At the same time the
government is undertaking to lower the production of
cigar tobacco in the United States this year, although
the success of that program may not materially in
fluence the prices paid for bright leaf tobacco in this
state.
Cotton, it is reasonable to suppose now, will reach
the level of about 13 cents. If tobacco follows the
customary policy of keeping about 5 cents ahead of
cotton, then an average of about 18 cents will be paid
for the weed. I hat means prosperity.
The outlook is refreshing for a profitable price for
tobacco. But with that prospect in view farmers
should not overlook th; additional advantages to be
obtained from the planting of adequate food and feed
THE ENTERPRISE
Irish Potato Tests Are
Conducted in Tyrrell
Columbia, N. C.—lrish potato dem-,
onst rations in Tyrrell County show!
that Maine seed is more preferable to J
this section than DakoU seed, says
W. V. Hays, county agent. Yields
from the Dakota seed planted ran
from one to two-thirds as good a»
those secured from the Maine seed.
However, one Dakota lot gave the.
highest yield of any planted in the I
county, so far as records show, he'
said.
FORSALE: IRON SAFE. WEIGHS
1,000 pounds. In excellent condi.
tion. Price cheap. See Enterprise.
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NOTICE OF SALE
Notice is hereby given that under
and by virtue of the power of sale
contained in that certain deed of trust
executed by Fannie Ruffin, bearing!
date May 16th, 1933, and of record in!
the public registry, of Martin County,
in Book H-3, page 166, default having
been made in the payment of the in- 1
debtedness for which said deed of
trust was given as security, and at the
request of the holder of said indebted
! tiess, the undersigned trustee will, on
the 14th day of August, 1933, at the
courthouse door of Martin County, at
twelve (12) o'clock noon, offer for
sale, at public auction, to the highest
bidder, for cash, the following de
scribed real estate and personal prop
erty, to wit:
"That certain house and lot situate
and being on Main Street in the town |
of Williamston, N. C., bounded on the ,
north by the lands of the late Eliza
Mi.ore Estate; on the south by the
A. C. L. Railroad Co.; on the east by i
the A. C. L. R R Co., and on the
west by the said Main Street, or high- I
way No. 90, and being the same prem
ise-. whereon the said Fannie Ruffin .
now resides, and being the same prem-,
ises purchased by her from J. G. Sta-1
ton by deed of record in the public I
registry of Martin County, and to'
which reference is hereby made for a
more perfect and accurate description.
Also all the personal property, house
hold and kitchen furniture situate in
said* house."
This the 12th day of July, 1933.
J C. SMITH,
jy 14 4tw Trustee.
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
PROPERTY
by virtue of the power of
sale contained in a certain deed of |
| trust executed and delivered by W. H.
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I Biggs, and wife, Lettic C. Biggs, on.
the 12th day of January, 1928, to ,the
I undersigned trustee, and of record in
I the public registry of Martin County
: in book S-l, at page 141, said deed of
| trust having been given for the pur
-1 pose of securing a note of even date
and tenor therewith, default having
been made in the payment of same,
and at the request of the holder of
same the undersigned trustee will, on
Monday, the 7th day of August, 1933,!
at 12 o'clock m., in front of the court-1
house door in Williamston, North :
| Carolina, offer for sale to the highest
, bidder, for cash, the following de-j
scribed real estate, to wit:
Being a house and lot in the town!
veyed to the said W. H. Biggs by J.j
the' south side of Smithwick Creek,
Davis Ewell, adjoining the property
of W. H. Biggs lot, the Baptist
church, and others, and beginning at
a stake on Smithwick Street, at the |
point where the lane known as Blounts
Land intersects Smithwick Street,
at the poi» where the lane known as
Blount's land intersects Smithwick
Street, thence along Smithwick Street
1 SO feet to W. H. Biggs line, thence a
| line at right angles with Smithwick
Street along the line of W. H. Biggs
108 1-2 feet to the Baptist Parsonage
'line, thence along the said Baptist
I Parsonage line, which is a line paral
lel with Smithwick Street, 50 feet to
Blount's land, thence along Blount's
and being part of the premises con
i land 108 1-2 feet to the beginning,
of Williamston, North Carolina, on
This the 6th day of July, 1933.
WHEELER MARTIN,
jy7 4tw Trustee.
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
PROPERTY
| Under and by virtue of the power of
: sale contained in a certain deed of trust
{executed and delivered by Harry Nor
| fleet and wife, Katie fcjorfleet, on the
16th day of April, 1929, to the under
j signed trustee and of record in the
public registry of Martin County in
I book S-l, at page 168, said deed of
! trust having been given for the pur-
I pose of securing a note of even date
land tenor therewith, default having
| been made in the payment of same,
and at the request of the holder of
! same the undersigned trustee will, on
Monday, the 7th day of August, 1933,
.at 12 o'clock m., in front of the court
liofise door in Williamston, North
Carolina, offer for sale to the highest
bidder for cash the following described j
real estate, to wit: i
A house and lot in the town of |
Williamston, North Carolina, on the j
south side of Sycamore Street, adjoin-j
ing the lands of Annie Hescoe, Mary \
I Slade and Fannie Johnson, Jamesville 1
Avenue and Sycamore Street, andbe-
■ ing the same premises conveyed to take notice that on July 3, 1933, the
Mrs. Ophelia Watts by B. A. Critcher.j undersigned was duly appointed Re
commissioner, said deed being dated ; ceiver of Culpepper Hardware Com
eth day of September, 1927, and of pany, and that you are required to
record in the public registry of Mar- j present, jiot later than September I,
tin County, in book Z-2, at pages 183 j 1933, in ' writing, to the undersigned,
and 184, and conveyed to Harry Nor- l as such Receiver, your respective
fleet by deed from J. W. Watts and claims against said Company,
wife, Ophelia Watts, dated the Sth
day of April, 1929, and of record in You and each of you will further
the public registry of Martin County take notice that if you fait to file with,
> in book , at page . an l. required, fail to prove to, the
I This the 6th day of July, 1933. I undersigned your respective claims
WHEELER*MARTIN, ! against said company, by September
jy7 4tw Trustee. 11. 1933, you will be barred from par-
I ' ticipating in the distribution of the
NOTICE j assests of the Company.
!To All Creditors and Persons Hold- ! This July 12, 1933.
j ing Claims Against Culpepper W. T. CULPEPPER,
I Hardware Company: Receiver. Culpepper Hardware Com
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Beginning Aug. 1
OUR STORE WILL BE OPERATED
On Cash Basis
Being unable to credit our many customers,
we will, beginning August 1, go on a strictly cash
basis. We regret that we have to demand cash
from ous good customers, but as we must pay cash
for all merchandise bought, there is no other
course for us to take.
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We appreciate the business the people of Wil
liamston and County have given us and trust we
may have the pelasure of serving you in the fu
ture as in the past.
Our delivery service will be maintained. *
J.R.ParkerGrocery
Friday, July 21,1933
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