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PAGE TWO THE ENTERPRISE PihlUHd INTT Taniiy and Friday by The ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WTi.T.iAIfgTON. WORTH CAROLINA. W. C Maiming * dJto ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Btrictiy Casta la Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY Oaa yaar - * l *}? Ma months - 7 * OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY OM y*r —-TTZ^S ft Subscription Received for Laaa Than 6 Moatha Advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the post office in Williamston, N. C., as second-class matter under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Address ail communications to The Enterprise snd not to the individual members of the firm. Friday, July 28,1933 EVER FAITHFUL TO HIS TRUST In the passing of R. J. Feel, Martin County loses a servant who for 46 years figured prominently in the church, educational, and public life of this section. His early work as a teacher in the little country schools of this county has been equalled by few men. During ten years he earnestly labored with hundreds of Martin County youths, instilling into their lives character and the spirit of honesty as well as versing them in the studies of the old school common to that day. He laid his foundation in the small school, and was advanced to the office of county superintendent of schools which position he held for 17 years. Ihe advancement of all children was consistently urged by him, and uring th'at"*time he labored early and late that the educational work might go rapidly on. His was an untiring service, and no doubt his 17 years as sup erintendent proved one of the greatest assets ever en joyed by the public schools. He is remembered by youth of that day as one who was interested in their welfare. Following the years of service as sui>erintendent he was appointed to the office of clerk of superior court in May, 1914, and was elected to that office in the general election the following November. His faith ful service there led to his reelection in 1918, 1922, 1926, and 1930. In public life, few men have ever enjoyed a greater confidence than that held for him by an almost solid electorate. Few people have held a public office or handled public affairs for so long a term as he did without just criticism adverse to the public good. No charge of failure to jierform honestly and faithfully the duties assigned him has ever been made, and that alone is a heritage which should prove comforting and gratifying to family and friends; for, after all, the best that can lie said of any man is that he was faith ful to his trust. Heavy Burden Lifted As a national problem a man thrown out of work is only half the mischief done. It means one less worker to carry the burden of one more dependent. For tunately, the rule works the other way when it comes to increased employment. A man in a new job means for the whole nation one more worker to carry one less dependent. Supposing that at the depth of the depression in March we had 12,000,000 persons idle, it would mean that we had 36,000,000 persons at work. We had three people with jobs to carry one without a job. If today employment has increased by 3,500,000 jobs, it means very nearly 40,000,000 persons at work, a gainst 8,500,000 persons still idle. We have almost five workers to carry one idle person. The social bur den is almost cut in two. Buying Power of Wealth We offer no criicism of the judge who dismissed the Government's $220,000,000 tax fraud suit against Andrew W. Mellon. However, your honor, we beg to say it came out just like we expected. Two hundred and twenty million dollars has a lot of influence; of course not with the honorable judge, but with the lawyers on both sides of the case It will always be hard to fight great wealth—its buying pow er is so great. It may be that the true facts never reached the court. President Roosevelt struck out hard against the "dole" in a recent speech. He did right. We are in favor of helping all the helpless who can not do for themselves, but we, too, are getting tired of this lazi ness "dole." The Government has done wonders in helping every body in distress. Yet It is not going on forever in helping able-bodied men and women come up to the . relief stations and call for food and clothing. A large number of folks have rushed up to the charity line because it was easier to beg than it was to work. The time is not to far distant when the government Is going to say "Work or starve." mM* ■,.■■■>• Work or Starve Watch Mosquito-Breeding Places Every family in Martin County needs to spend a few minutes each day to see that there is not an old tin can, water barrel, partly doted ditch, or any other mosquito-breeding places around the premises. It is far easier to destroy mosquitoes this way than it is to get up at all hours of the night to kill them, and, too, it is much cheaper than a large doctor's bill and chill tonic to destroy malaria germs. And it is against the law for one man to breed mosquitoes to bite his neighbors. Effective Way To Stabilize Prices It is now thought the Government will levy a tax on every farmer who fails or refuses to sign up in the cotton acreage campaign, either $lO or S2O per bale, which sum will go to pay the farmer who does plow up his third. This would be a very effective way to stabilize the price of cotton. There are many farmers who value their independ ence so highly that they will never do like their neigh bors, nor as their Government advises, and they can not be forced to do so. Vet the government has the right to tax every bale that a man raises Our Greatest Safeguards Police departments seemed to be unusually diligent in rounding up the Battleboro bank robbers. We may waste money at times on law officers, such as sheriffs and policemen, yet they save millions in property and many lives every year, because of the law empowering them to make life and proj>erty safe for the people at large. Kfficient policing and honest administration by our courts are the greatest safeguards of the people. Need Uniform Schedule of Tax The sales tax problem has not been fully adjusted yet. Much complaint is coming from various sec tions of the State, charging some merchants with profiteering out of their customers while others are not collecting enough. The law makes the merchant the state's tax col lector, but it does not give him the right to charge a penny on a multitude of small articles so that the tax will run up to S, 6, or 7 cents on the dollar; nor does it expect him to throw in his profits to the buyer. There will probably be some checking up on the methods used in order that all may charge alike. The law works a hardship on the merchant by mak ing him collect the taxes, but the consumer has to do the paying, which is a greater hardship, and the mer chant has no right to profiteer out of him. Education vs. Charity There seems to be about tne same distress cases in both the east and west. In Martin County the relief expenditure per per son in June was about 20 cents. In Madison ( ounty, of the extreme Western part of the State, it was 25 cents. The counties with large towns were largest spenders. In Mecklenburg it was 66 cents; New Hanover, the largest of any county, spent $1 per person; Guilford about 57 cents. Beaufort spent 30 cents; Bertie and Edgecombe spent 25 cents per person. Halifax only spent 14 cents and Washington 21 cents. Of course, some local welfare workers are more lib eral than others, which is |x>ssibly the reason for the wide variation. Martin County spent about two thirds as much |>er person as the State's average. We have heard lots of grumbling about school taxes, yet when we spend half as much by direct donations to charity, some deserving and some not, as we are for education, we will probably change our minds, because 90 per cent of our charity donations is go ing to unedcaled people. One thing we will always find true: That is the more we spend for education the less we will have to give for charity, for crime prevention, for the insane. Don't kick education. Self-Government for the Indians Western Carolina Tribune. See by the |>apers where the Indians are to be given the right of sel(igovernment, providing they can pass the test and prove themselves capable of self-govern mejnt. Now the question is: Who will give the test and who will decide whether or not the Indians are cap able of self-government? Judging from the mess that the white men have made in the matter of self-government, it is not rea sonable to assume that these same white folks will have the monumental gall to examine any other peo ple and pass judgment upon their ability to govern themselves? Then who will examine the Indians and render the decision? More Taxes and Less Schools W Western Carolina Tribune There is the beer tax —that great industry that was to pour cash into the treasury of North Carolina. There is the sales tax— a regular mint for the state revenue department, pouring in its tens of thousands of dollars. There are a dozen other forms of taxes—more than ever before. _ Yet the schools can not be operated, and school teachers' salaries have been cut to the level of the wage paid stable boys and street sweepers. God bless Northc Carolina's history, for its past is all that we have left that can be boasted of, as there is no one who can boast of its present status and standing. THE ENTERPRISE | ' ODD -- BUT TRUE i $ r i 4 - r HTA6HA&LE . FtNGtRNAILT daSWtB fcRE ONE OF -mt- Jj| F&&S IN THE- if wo&U) OF— BBBpt fl ••- VANITY BMj [/jj VR MHIWH 1 StycN •-•-. - ' —| I -«t »u CUTOk Tfc* " "* l ™ • 500 000 **"*»» : HkS WCUMK k»r *" ***■ "«« " "»* ZE" ' 17*7 IM "TUF lYttttPb 5000 T0 * fteTTtC " HOfAE >H cam* - 350,000 Of m* STftfeS. \H TUt L&ST o\to DUViANO THE TtU?> •T\N«CUttttS || T | , ' NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL been made in the payment of same, lof \V. H. Biggs I->t. the Baptist PROPERTY i and at tlie request '>f the holder of : church, and others, and beginning at Under and by virtue of the power of same the undersigned trustee will, on a stake on Sniithwick Street, at the sale contained in a certain deed of r Monday, the Till day of August, 1933, point where the lane known as Blount* trust executed and delivered by W. H. at 12 o'clock m., in front of the court-| Land intersects Sniithwick Street, Biggs, and wife, I.ettic C, Biggs, on hou>e door in VVilliamston, North at the point where the lane known as the 12th day of January, 1928, to the Carolina, offer for sale to the highest l.ind intersects Sniithwick undersigned trustee, and of record in bidder, for cash, .the following de- Street, thtncf along Sniithwick Street the public registry of Martin County scribed real estate, to wit: s'l k»t t.i W. H. Biggs line, thence a in book S-l, at page 14K said deed of Being a house ind lot in the town litu at right angles with Smithwick trust having been given for the pur- vcyed to the said -XV. 11. Biggs by J.fired along the line n£ W. 11. Biggs pose of securing a note of even date the south side of Smithwi k Creek, 108 1-2 feet to tl.e Baptist Parsonage and tenor therewith, default having Pavi' Km 11. adjoining the property lii.c, thence along the said Baptist nor safe enough, nor quiet enough for the body of a quality car -"^ssn||l!®'syißii^^^^^^K*r®^^^(l^^^^^^^^BssssssSss»wss*s^BHriejßjr^F There is only one type of body construction which M' "■jlll™ Chevrolet will permit on the chassis the cars it W m builds: That's the type which every test and every experiment—and fI f every experience has proved to be the safest, strongest, and best. * mW Not steel alone, because steel alone is not enough. But a Fisher body / M 9 of steel reinforced by hardwood I The same kind of instruction used I on practically all the highest-priced cars in America. V Chevrolet well knows that steel alone has one distinct advantage: lt'« cheaper. Steel also is strong—up to a certain point. BUT—beyond that point, steel alone will bend and crumple under severe streM or ■bock. It takes the strength and supporting solidity of a hardwood reinforcement to give you the full protection and full satisfaction you want in a motor car body today. If you're thinking of buying a new low-priced car, better watcb thto matter of bodies, and watch it carefully. Insist on steel reinforced by BTITJrfJIBTTn hardwood I Fortunately, the only low-priced car with this preferred type of body is also the only car with a proven valve-in-head six; with Fisher Ventilation; Cushion Balanced Pov.c.-; a Ctarterator. That car it H Chevrolet—America's most economical automobile. CHEVROLET MOTOR COMPANY, DETROIT, MICHIQAN fl . ... * -'SS •»•■*■. C i Better Chevrolet Company f ROBERSONVILLE, N. C. WILLIAMSTON, N. C. ; rUFVDOI FT *445 to *565 VnC V liVLE I sn»»Kßffisarww Friday, July 28,1933 Parsonage line,, which is a line paral lel with Smithwick Street, SO feet to Blount's land, thence along Blount'rf and being part of the premises con land 108 1-2 feet to the beginning, of Williamston, North Carolina, on This the 6th day of July, 1933. WHEELER MARTIN, j>7 4tw .Trustee. # NOTICE >To All Creditors and Permons Hold ing Claims Against Culpeppw Hardware Company: Ydu and each of you will hereby take notice that on July 3, 1933, the undersigned was duly appointed Re ceiver of C'ulpepper Hardware Com pany, and that you are required to present not later than September 1, 1V33, in writing, to the undersigned, as such Receiver, your respective claims against said Company. • You and each of you will further take notice that if you fail to file with, and, if required, fail to prove to, the undersigned your respective claims against said company, by September 1. 1933, you will he barred front par ticipating in the distribution of assests of the Company. • Th's July 12, 1933. W T. CULPEPPER. Receiver, Culpepper Hardware Com pany, Elizabeth .City, N. C. jy-14-4t Thos. Mayo Grimes Industrial and Ordinary LIFE INSURANCE Lawyers' Building WILLIAMSTON, N. C. Build Up that Skinny Child! 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