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THE ENTERPRISE
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WILLIAMSTOW, WORTH CAROLINA.
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Tuesday, January 2, 1934
At the Beginning
We are now at the beginning of a brand new year —
a time that no man has seen and God only knows what
its fruits shall be.
Vet all the promises that have been made to man
and the thousands of years of history are given us as
beacons to light our pathway as we start on our march
for the duties that we shall perform.
The year is like a highway that we have never trav
eled. While everything we see is entirely new to us,
yet we know the highway signs will guide us at every
bend in the road and that we need not become lost.
We have faith in the road builders. Just so should
we have faith in God—that the sunshine and the rain,
and that due seasons will come in their order; that
the seed will sprout, grow, and bring forth their fruit
for the harvest time.
We also have that faith in our fathers, who have
carved out through many hardships and privations
such a glorious civilization as we are blessed with.
With such a chart we should have full and undaunted
faith to move forward.
In our private affairs, we need to pursue our pro
fessions and our vocations with diligence. In our
social life we need to cultivate all of those faculties
which produce peace and happiness, without the dan
gers of disgrace and shame. Tn political matters, we
need to proclaim and to practice those principles that
make all men equal. No castes, no high, no low
only to be judged at the end of the year, when the
harvest time comes, for the good we have done.
When the last line is written in 1934, and we dot
the "i" in "Finis," where will we stand—among those
who have fought and won—with those who main
tain the same level or among those who have drifted
to a lower plane? It is upto us as to where we will
stand when the harvest time comes.
War Prospects During the Year
The question has been asked as to whether we will
have war or peace through the year to come, and there
is fear and trembling among some who feel something
desperate may occur
However, we can discern a brighter side to the na
tional and international affairs than war. First of all,
the minds of the people of the world are too fresh
with the memory of the most desperate war known to
man. The lost limbs of that war have not been re
stored, nor have the deep wounds been healed.
Those men who lost their lives, as well as those who
lost their health and vigor cannot get in the line of
battle in 1934. Nor will their brothers line up to fight
battles to the death unless they can have a greater
assurance than the war dogs can give that it will bring
peace and happiness to the world.
Then we have a people who have learned the truth
that only a few wars in all historyy have been fought
for the people, that practically all wars have been for
the purpose of exploitation. The people, too, are
aware of the fact that much of the war talk of today
is coming from avaricious war lords, pilfering muni
tion manufacturers of war materials, and politicians
who hope to attain prominence or profits.
The people who usually fight the wars do not want
to kill; neither do they want to be killed. They know
that the results of the next war will be more horrible
than the wars of the barbarians.
So, as we read it, the 1934 barometer does not in
dicate much war.
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A Disappointing Spectacle
It is rather disappointing to see quite a number of
fanners trying to stretch their acreage of money crops
in their sign-up reports.
Worst of all comes the news that some landlords
£re discharging their 1933 tenants, claiming their to
bacco acreage, and preparing to run their farms with
hind labor. Then what will become of then tenants,
the men who most need help? These matters need
- to be investigated.
Some farmers who borrowed from the Government
fart spring, at that time giving their previous three
years' acreage and production and their - proposed
acreage for 1933, have given an entirely different re
>rtin the recent fttnpup). Such Is to be
regretted, for the Government is making an honeat
effort to help the people, and the people should show
their appreciation by "pulling square."
Roosevelt Is the People's Economist
Benjamin M. Anderson, jr., an economist, of the
Chase National Bank, has come out with a dagger
in one hand and a bowie knife in the other trying to
slash Mr. Roosevelt's money plan.
The line of distinction between the two gentlemen
can easily be seen, since Mr. Anderson is an econo
mist for a selfish institution that is trying to grow
rich by manipulating markets and amassing millions
from the people at large; while President Roosevelt
is the people's economist and has led them out of the
financial bondage that the Banking Trust has had
them in for a long time.
The people will trust Roosevelt, but are afraid of the
Chase National economist. They remember the re
cent disclosures made by the United States Senatorial
investigation.
No Bibles, But Plenty oi Cards
You cannot buy a Bible in Williamston. You can
buy playing cards by the bushel and magazines by
the thousands showing men and women in every imag
inable contortion from heels up and otherwise.
What may we expect our children to think and do
—read the Bible, play cards, or to crave the magazines
that raise but one suggestion in the minds of men
and women?
We know nothing about merchandising—yet if we
were to try it out, we would certainly stock Bibles,
because we know the people need them.
Name One
Raleigh News and Observer.
There is much talk from the gold standard sup
porters to the effect that the President s gold purchase
plan is undermining confidence and deterring business
men from investing funds in capital investments and
working-producing enterprises. Jesse H. Joes, chair
man of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, in
addressing the Illinois Manufacturers' Association,
challenged his hearers to name one such enterprise
which is holding back out of fear of what may hap
pen to the value of the dollar.
Nobody accepted his challenge.
As has been well said, what business needs is not
confidence but customers. Our present troubles, like
those of the last few years, are those of "over-produc
tion or under-consumption." We have the supply and
we have the need. The problem of business and the
problem of the masses is buying power. Where there
is buying power there is plenty of confidence. With
out customers all the confidence in the world can not
keep business out of the red.
Minors, Maids And Morons
Moore County News
We hereby shake the hand of Sister Mrs. Elmer J.
Ottaway, of Port Huron, Michigan. Sister Ottaway
proposes a crusade. We are not ordinarily in favor of
crusades, but we subscribe to hers. It is a crusade
against radio crooning. She was speaking to a con
vention of the National Council of Women. She urges
the members to set out for better radio programs.
She thinks that the women of taste, lovers of good
music, and instructional programs, should become fans.
This is for the purpose of counteracting the fan mail
from "minors, maids and morons," to which she at
tributes the weakness of the present programs.
"We don't like," she says, "crooning, sentimental
slush, vulgar songs, or wheedling males who say they
will meet us again next week and take care of our
souls and livers."
Walls Work Both Ways
Raleigh News and Observer
The reiteration by Cordell Hull in Montevideo of
his ancient faith that the nations of the earth must
lower the tariff walls which they have erected against
each other is of great importance to the entire world
and of particular importance to the South in the Unit
ed States. As Secretary of State, Mr. Hull speaks
for the administration, and it is well that, while the
effort goes on at home for home recovery first, the
ideal of a world without barriers is not allowed to be
lost in the nationalistic recovery campaign.
Uultimately recovery must be world-wide. Each
nation may improve its domestic conditions, but in a
world so interdependent as our own no full recovery
will be attained anywhere until it is attained every
where. The danger is that in the meantime the ex
tremely nationalistic doctrines of self-sufficiency will
make more difficult the removal of barriers and the
free interchange of trade in the future. For that rea
son especially it is excellent to have the reassurance
from an important spokesman of the administration
that the old Democratic doctrine of low tariffs is not
being forgotten in the midst of the great domestic ad
venture in recovery. At the meeting of the Pan-
American nations in Uruguay, Mr. Hull declared:
"International trade is clogged hopelessly with
prohibitions, embargoes, quotas, and otbe rarbi
trary restraints and restrictions. A full, stable,
and durable business recovery can only be effect
ed by a restoration of international trade and fi
nace to a mutually profitable extent."
Of all sections in America, the South is most of all
dependent upon the maintenance of its export trade.
Tariffs which keep foreign goods from coming into
America must also work to keep American cotton, to
bacco, and textiles from going out. No Southerner
needs to be told what would happen to the South if
its export trade was destroyed. Isolation cannot be
one-sided. If we shut others out, we are kept in.
THE ENTERPRISE
RESOLUTIONS
OF RESPECT
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Be it resolved by the Williamston
Tobacco Board of Trade, Williamston,
North Carolina:
That in the death of our beloved
•friend and co-worker, W. Joe Taylor,
we feel that we have suffered a dis
tinct loss, not only in business, but in
valued fellowship and friendship.
And while we most humbly bow to
the power, wisdom, and love of the
Father in heaven, yet we deeply de
plore his untimely death, and we feel
that his place with us cannot be filled.
And be it further resolved: That, as
a recognition of our high esteem for
him, we hereby resolve that these res
olutions be recorded upon the pages
of our record in memory of him, and
a copy forwarded to his family," and
The Enterprise. .
W. R. INGRAM, President,
N. K. HARRISON, Sec.-Treas
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having this day qualified as admin
istrator of the estate of Wm. H. Colt
rain, deceased, late of Martin County,
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons holding claims against the es
tate of said deceased to present same
to the undersigned on or before the
28th day of November, 1934, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of any
recovery thereon. All peisons indebt-
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Everything that's best in life—may
it all come your way in 1934. Yes; may
each of your days be brighter and happier
than the preceding one. That's our big
hope.
J. E. POPE
INSURANCE ALL KINDS
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We have a fine carload of fresh young
mules at our stables near the Brick Ware
house. See us before buying or trading.
Don't buy your mules at auction or from
a transient dealer. They are here today and
gone tomorrow, and if you get a bad mule
you have no recourse. In most cases, you get
a mule with some defect.
Thigpen & Cherry
Dealers in Mules and Horses
WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
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Solid Car Load 5-V Tin Roofing
BEING SOLD CHEAP FOR CASH
i Williamston. Supply Co.
WILLI AMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA
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Ed to said estate will please make Im
mediate settlement.
This the 28th day of November,
1933.
JOHN R. COLTRAIN,
Dl-6tw Administrator.
NOTICS OP SALE
Under and by virtue of the power
contained in that certain deed of trust
executed to the undersigned trustee
by Joe Taylor and wife, Beulah Tay
lor, on the Ist day of January, 1929,
of record in the office of the register
of deeds of Martin County in Book
B-3, at page 56, said deed of trust hav
ing been given to secure the payment
of certain notes of even date and
| tenor thereof, the stipulations therein
contained not having been complied
I with and at the request of the holder
lof said indebtedness, the undersigned
; trustee will, on Thursday, the 11th
day of January, 1934, at the Court
house door of Martin County, at 12
o'clock noon, offer for sale to the
| highest bidder, for cash, the follow
ing described real estate, to wit:
The one-fourth undivided interest
of said Joe Taylor and wife, Beulah
Taylor, in the following described
tract of land: Bounded on the north
|by E. G. Taylor and Jas. D. Bowen,
!on the east by T. U. Rawls and A,
B, Ayers, on the south and west by
the Hyman Bowen land, and known
as the Henry Taylor land.
This the 11th day of December,
1933.
LEWIS TAYLOR,
Dl2-4tw Trustee.
NOTICE OP SALE
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in that certain deed
oi trust executed to the undersigned
Tniitee" by J. E. Sexton and wile,
Martha £. Sexton, dated 23rd day of
September, 1930, of record in the
Public Registry of Martin County in
Book C-3, page 358, to secure a note
of even date therewith, and the stipu
lations not having been complied
with, and at the request of the holder
of said bond, the undersigned Trus
tee will, on the 12th day of January,
1934, at 12 o'clock. Noon, in front of
the courthouse door of Martin Coun
ty offer for sale to the highest bidder,
for cash, the following described land:
Being a one-half undivided interest
in and to the following described
house and lot: Located in the Town
of Jamesville, N. C., ana beginning at
a point of St. Andrews Street and a
Important Notice!
In accord with new N. R. A. fair com
petition prices for cleaning and pressing,
our prices will be about
OA Percent Less Than!
RECENT PRICES;
We wish to thank our patrons for
their patronage in 1933 and hope that we
may serve you throughout 1934.
W. D. Ambers
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Sell Us Your
PEANUTS
• WE ALWAYS PAY THE
Highest Market Prices
Regardless of the condition of the
peanuts. It may be to your advan
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tage to see us before selling. Our
warehouse and office is located near the
cotton gin of J. G. Staton, on the A. C.
L. Railroad track.
Local and Longdistance
HAULING
Call US. We Have New Equipment and -
Careful Driver^
Manning-Gurganus
John A. Manning Roy Gurganus
WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
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Tuesday, January 2,1934
new street between the School Prop
erty and the property described here
in; thence along said New Street a
round 70 yards to the corner of the
New Street and Burras heir* corner
now owned by Hedrick; thence along
the Burras Heirs line, or Hedrick's
line, about 105 feet to the edge of an
old hedgeway or old fence which
separated the lot herein described, and
the lot cultivated by J. R. Manning;
thence along said line where the old
fence was and parallel to the New
Street about 70 yards to St. Andrews'
Street; thence along St. Andrews
Street about 105 feet to the beginning.
This 12th day of December, 1913.
B. A. CRITCHER,
dl 9 4tw Trustee for John
PreL Guardian.