The Enterprise U Fridm, bT *? ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WII.I.IAMSTOM. NORTH CAROLINA W. C. MMinim SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cath in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY Om year W Six months 1 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY Ona year ?** IJDO Six montha . No Subacription Received lor Leea Than 8 Month Advertising Rata Card Furniahed Upon Requeet Entered at the post office in Williamston, N. C., as second-class matter under the act of Congress of March 3. 1879. Address all communications to The Enterprise and not individual members of the firm. Tuesday. May 5, 1936 Old Man You The bad way in which many of us find ourselves just now we make believe is due to the failures of others in running our schools, our churches, our lo cal, county and state government. Probably there is some justification in such a belief, but not near so much as we try and do believe. Bid Howe, the Kansas man, presents another side of the picture, one that, in all fairness to everyone, should be given thought before vigorously protesting the good along with the bad. If one has measured up to his own possibilities and then failed, some reason for com plaint is certainly justified. Mr. Howe says: "There is no Sure Thing, but the surest is a good job well attended to, for steady promotion is almost certain; and no one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You. Some say an active com mercial club, an up-and-coming community, a good pastor, a reform administration at Washington, are necessary , others say a man is made by his wife or mother, but Old Man Vou really does it, or doesn't do it; many teach what is called good sense, but only you can acquire it." Politics Warming Up Politics is getting to be real breezy these days,' and the politicians are showing unusual kindness to all classes, mostly to those who can cast a vote Not only are the candidates greatly interested, but they are spreading their appeals among the people in all directions, and some have actually been calling names. ? We have never seen politicians so scared in any campaign before. Some of them are so frightened that they are actually white in the gills. The voters don't seem to be greatly disturbed, for they expect about the same amount of trouble and pleasure regardless of who is elected. It is really a joy to an old horny-handed son of toil who doesn't get many chances to speak to the big boys, to have these fellows come around and pat them. It gets the candidate thousands of votes, too, because the laboring man likes sympathy and will openly vote for the politician who deals out taffy and sweet promises even if he doesn't believe what they say or promise. Too Much Machinery Mr. Raymond Moley, who seems generally to he a very sound and truthful thinker has, for once, ap -parently fallen in error. He claims that "the new steel mills, which are to he opened this fall with a capacity to turn out a million tons of sheet steel annually will not lessen a general demand for labor. His line of argument to prove his statement seems to he based on a very shaky foundation of fact. First off, Mr. Moley knows that a machine which does not save labor will never succeed, and that no body will have a machine that will not save labor. He should also know that when the machine does all the work, that the only labor needed will be just enough to make machiMS do away with labor. He further knows that when all the available labor and all the available machines in the United States are put to work at normal capacity that in six months every warehouse in the United States will be bulg ing with a surplus of goods that can find no market, and a general closedown will follow, necessarily bring ing about a great upheaval. Mr. Moley knows, too, or should know, that the owner of the type of steel mill that can turn out 100, 000,000 tons of shtet steel annually will shut the door of the present mills. Yet he says the machine is not guilty. Those countries without the great machines, such as Palestine and Assyria, are in better financial shape today than the mechanized nations. It will be found that the countries which have their work done in the old-fashioned way have labor (or their people to per form, while their more up-to-date neighbors have half of their factories idle and much of their labor hungry. Ethiopia's Future The great question, What kind of history will Ethiopia record in the future? reaches out a long, long way. First of all, what does Italy intend to do with thoee people? It la scarcely to be hoped that Italy's purpose is to enlighten, educate aad christian izr those pitiable, backward Ethiopian*. On the contrary it u note to be expected that Italy's sole purpose is to enslave them, make their loads heavier to bear and without Riving them more liberty. About the only knowledge the Ethiopians will gain will be twisted and turned to as to benefit the Italian peo ple. It may be that Italy's principal desire is to use them as murderers of other nations, and they may teach them to shoot and then use them in capturing surrounding colonies. While it is a splendid oppor tunity to improve the backward Ethiopians, no body believes for a moment that Italy went tljrre and took upon herself that job in the spirit of love and Chris tian duty, but that she went for selfish purposes and greed. Ethiopia has never troubled the civilised world. She has always kept her own little brood in a sad and weary land, bearing their own pain and misery without molesting others. The new history may show them to be quite a new troublesome citizen and their last state may be worse than their first. Italy will have to prove her sincerity for fighting a war for the good of those she kills before she is entitled to be trusted and believed. The Most Sensible Plan Tobacco farmers seem to be so certain that prices will lie low this fall that it now looks as if they do not intend to be caught with big crops and low prices. It is generally rumored that there will not be much increase among Martin County farmers, which is per haps the sensible course for them to follow, because farmers cannot make big outlays to produce a tobacco crop that sells at less than the cost of producing it. The idea of making a living is the most important thing, and the farmer is the only man who can choose his living to suit his taste. He can raise tobacco and buy side meat enough to sustain him; or he can pro duce his own milk, butter, chickens, ham and eggs, and other good things to eat. The farmer who feeds himself will not have to give a crop away and perhaps mortgage his land next year; but if he raises tobacco at a loss, the chances are that he will have to mortgage his property. The Winners FJkin Tribune. The tobacco farmers of Surry County should be interested in Governor Ehringhaus' declaration that "If the farmers are going to be saved, they must save themselves. They can do it as well without compacts as they could with them, and they would need to save themselves just as badly if we already had a legisla ture and had [lassed a compact act.. Such a step would have done them no good." The governor thus sets himself up as the sole judge and arbiter of what is good and what is bad. North Carolina's representatives in congress and their col leagues from other states had formulated tobacco com|jact legislation, which the governor says "ain't worth a damn." In effect he told the six thousand farmers assembled in West Raleigh that what they wanted was not good for them, and like a firm but long-suffering father he wasn't going to let them have it Maybe the governor is right, yet 6,000 farmers who left their work to go to Raleigh can't be wholly wrong. Mr. Ehringhaus objects of the federal com pact plan because, among other things, it puts too much power and authority in the hands of the Sec retary of Agriculture, yet he takes the power unto himself to nullify the wishes of a large slice of the citizenry of his own state. If the farmers are to be saved from a low price to bacco crop that will not pay them for their summer's toil, they must do it themselves, and it is time they were about the job. The history of agricultural co operation that has not had some semblance of com pulsion as a part of the program records many fail ures, and there is little on which to base the hope that the farmers now will be more cohesive, unless they have had their eyes opened by th benefits that came under the AAA. As it looks now, the governor is right?the tobacco farmers will have to save themselves. They have lost their fight to bring their cause before the general assembly. The governor, with little to gain, has also lost much of his popularity, and the candidate for governor who is regarded as the yes-yes man for the administration will lose some votes. It looks like everybody has lost- in this tobacco tight?except the tobacco companies who expect to buy the surplus. They will win. For Sale: One Life?$575 Goidsboro News-Argus. It seems that for $575 one can get drunk, drive a car recklessly, kill a man, and go free in Pitt County, At least it has happened. J. C. Taylor in Pitt Superior court entered a plea of guilty to a charge of: Reckless driving. Careless driving. Drunken driving. Hit-and-run driving which killed Jesse Jones. Taylor was given his freedom and prayer for judg ment continued when he paid the mother of Jones $575. Both Solicitor Clark and the private prosecution recommended acceptance of the plea. Judge J. Paul Frixaelle ordered Taylor's driver's license revoked for one year. You read it right, one year, as reported in the press. The body of Jonea was found a few feet from the road on the Greenville-Washington highway on the morning of February 9. Taylor, who was arrested several days later, admitted being the driver of the automobile which struck the man. One life?$575 and driver's license revoked for a year.' ,;V What's your reaction to such an item? CARD or IUNU We wish to thank the many friend* a* well aa the Williamebm Fire Department, who Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain deed of trust bearing date Febru ary 5, 1930. from D. L. James and wife, Nancy J. James, to the under signed trustee, which is of record in the public registry of Martin Coun ty in book P-2, page 583, default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness for which said deed of trust was given as security, the terms and stipulations of same not having been complied with, and at the request of the holder of one of said notes, the undersigned trus tee will, on Saturday, the 30th day of May, 1936, at twelve (12) o'clock noon, at the courthouse door of Mar tin County, Williamston, N. C., of fer for sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, the fol lowing described real estate, to wit: A certain tract of land lying and being in Martin County aforesaid, and more particularly described as follows: Situate in Cross Roads Township, said county and state, and on the public road leading from Cross Roads church to Robersonville, N. C., adjoining the lands of the late Henry Wynn, J. F. Wynn, and oth ers, and being share No. one as shown on map or survey of the W. F. Wynn lands made by Sylvester Peel, C. E., on August 29, 1929, and which said map is of record in the Martin County Public Registry, and is hereby referred to for a more perfect description, and being the share allotted to Nancy J. Wynn Jones as her dower in the lands of W. F. Wynn, deceased. This the 27th day of April; 1936. J. C. SMITH, a28 4tw Trustee. SALE OF VALUABLE FARM PROPERTY Under and by virtue of the au thority conferred upon us in a deed of trust executed by W. M. High smith and wife, Pennie Highsmith, and C. C. Williams and wife, Lucy Williams, on the 27th day of De cember, 1924, and recorded in book T-2, page 385, we utill, on Saturday, th^9tl^ia^>^4a^^936^2^ojclocj^ noon. at tbc courthouse door in Mar tin County. Williamston, N. C , aall at pubbc auction for cash to the highest bidder the foiiowing land, to wit: All that certain tract or par eel of land lying, being and situate in Goose Nest Township, Martin Coun ty, and state of N. C? containing ISO acres, more or leas, bounded on the N. and E. by the lands of S. P. Green and J. B Anthony, on the S. by the lands of Scott Pittman and C. C. Williams and on the W. by the lands of C. C. Williams, and more particularly described as follows, to wit: Beginning at what is known as Hyman's corner, the corner of this land and the land of C. C. Williams and S P Green, thence S 27 W. M poles, S. *1 W. 37 poles, S 8 E. 15 poles, S. 24 W. 4# polos. S. 14 W 24 polos, & 74 1-2 E. 123 poles. N. 74 1-t E. 159 polos. N. 28 E. II poles, N 71 V. 138 polos. N . 28 E 82 poles. N 11 W 12 poles. N. 83 1-2 W. 112 poles to the begming, ss shown by a map of same made by T. Jonas Tsy - lor, surveyor, on the 28th day ol November. 1824. This land is told subject to all unpaid taxes. 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