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The Enterprise Tmdiy lad Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA w. c SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cub in Advance) IN HAKTIN COUNTY On* year Sis Booths Ji OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY 4L00 Sis months 100 No Siibacription Recalled lor Lea* Than 6 Month Advertising Rata Card Furnished Upon Request Entered st the post office in W illiamston, N. C., as second-class matter under the act of Congress of March J, 1879. Address all communications to 1 he Enterprise and not individual members of the firm. Tuesday. February 2, 1937 Avoid Fxiction by All Means Whether Williamston has Sunday baseball arid on public school property is la-side ihe |?ont here rhis community would do well to guard against a friction al division widened by abusive remarks, the denial oi the right to o|ipose a program contrary to their ex |x>nent principles, and unfair tactics exercised by either side If a marked division is effected among our people, it might have been 'tetter had no organization of base bill ever been perfected here There are too many tm|xtrtant problems fating this community for its [teople to form hostile camps It is quite certain that the solutions to these problems cannot be- successfully solved without the aid of everyone, so in handling the Sunday baseball question let us show the same sportsmanship that the game itself is sujxjsed to pro mote. It is well remembered that the clergy and others who would confine the sport to week days have not sanctioned underhanded attacks after going down in defeat in the past for what they considered right. The serious question now is, ("an a working unity Ire main tained in the future regardless of how the problem is handled ? Sunday baseball has been banned in some big cities and [lermitted in others without any great damage resulting to the progress of those centers. In a small community such as ours, the question carries the potential danger of an over charged load of dyna mite. Let s have the question settled amicably and above board. Farm Tenacy Legislation The outlook is highly favorable for new farm ten acy legislation that will have a wholesome effect on the South, Senator Robt. R. Reynolds says in his weekly feature column recently released. The Senator explains that the President has pro vided for S50.000.000 in his budget and adds thai the Administration believes that the tenacy situation in the Southern States can and must be improved. The tenacy problem is one big one all right, and before it can be successful solved there has got to l>e an overhauling of the tenant as well as the system. W ith many exceptions, of course, the tenant is con tented to get all he can and return as little .as he pos sibly can. His interest in the successful operation of a farm is negligible, anil he always takes the short cuts that have exacted losses in the farm's natural resources Probably these is foundation to his at titude, and this attitude must lie corrected liefore aid is put at his disposal Tcnay^lt-gisTuIion will prove worthless in too many cases if the tenant himself acquaints himself with the.operation of new-fangled automobiles and fails to cultivate a determination to earn his own way when the opportunity presents itself. In the final analysis, the success of any tenacy legislation re-is with the tenant himself If he chooses to cooperate and do his best, success will mark his efforts and the legis lative program. If he sits idly by and waits for food to be placed in his mouth with a silver spoon, he is doomed to failure and all the legislation 48 states and the congress can pass will prove worthless. Any legislation congress may"pass to aid the tenant farmer will be welcomed, and make, possible a real test of the long depressed group. 5 ?' ? W Insatiable Curiosity Nothing is so irritable as to hear a college graduate smugly offer as an excuse for not knowing something, "I didn't take that up at college.'' What if he did n't? Does the desire to learn cease upon graduation? The unschooled man doesn't think that way. Goad ed by a sense that his education is incomplete, he is ever alert to improve himself. At 70 he turns with eager interest to bonks he didn't have time to read at IS. ?The happy mind is the curious mind. An educa tion that does not cultivate and develop the bump of curiosity is no education at all. Blessed by an in satiable curiosity one can go on entertaining one's self by reading and observation until the very end of one s days. At 40 such a man, although he may not have finished grammam school, may be as well educated a doctor of philosophy ?Bagology in Virginia The People Would Welcome It The mention of an investigation of "charge*" a gainst members of the United States Supreme Court, as contained in the book, "The Nine Old Men," at tracted attention of people who for years and until a short while ago believed the court could do no wrong. It was just about one year ago that the AAA was ruled invalid, and since that time, the man about the streets has advanced a greater desire to know mora about the court and its history. Interpretations of the Cbnatitutkm by the learned men are not questioned. The apparent contradic tions found in rulings on the constitutional document are what the people would like to have explained to them. The same people can't understand why coal mining is recognized as entering interstate commerce one lime and a part of the same system at another time. Just how the change from human rights set out in the fourteenth Amendment to property rights was effected would, no doubt, prove quite interesting. An investigation of the "charges" as contained in the boow would enlighten the people to whom the court, after all, is to some extent, answerable. Mentioning the need for an investigation oi the "charges" carried in "The Nine Old Men," Senator Guffey, of Pennsylvania said: " Ihere is no use blinking the fact that today the Supreme court is itself on trial before the whole na cision, there is not a man or woman in the street who has not some opinion as to what should or should not u done to the court. The less the court can main tain its superhuman position of being above criticism, the more it needs to satisfy the very human require ment that it I* at least above suspicion. " The air today is full of talk of constitutional amendment?of shearing the court completely of its power to challenge the legality of an act of Congress. Hie people ?or even members of Congress?cannot lie exjiected to judge wisely on the problem of re lationship lietween the court as an institution and Congress as an institution unless they feel that in dividual members of the court are themselves person ally above suspicion, either as to competence or as to motives In 1898 Mr. Justice Brewer, of the United States Supreme court said: "It is a mistake to suppose that the Supreme court is either honored or hel[ied by being spoken of as beyond criticism. The time is past in the history of the world when any living man or body of men could be set on a |>edestal and decorated with a halo. True, many criticisms may be, like their authors, devoid of good taste. But better all sorts of criti cism than no criticism at all. The moving waters are full of life and health?ohly in the still waters is stagnation and death ' " 'The Nine Old Men' makes sensational charges not only regarding the motives behind the votes of certain justices on certain cases but regarding their character and how they got on the court as well. If these statements in 'The Nine Old Men' go unchal lenged, there will creep across this country an ever widening suspicion of the motives of members of the court which will embitter and muddle every attempt at cool judgment on great constitutional issues." I he authors of the book are known for conserva tive and generally know what they are writing about. Shifting the Criminal Pardoned on condition that he leave Hopewell, Va., and not return, an alleged criminal was turned out oi a Ho|hhcII jail last Christmas to wander at liberty any place except in the Virginia city. Probably the court or | sir cloning authority did right in the particu lar case, but it is difficult to understand the action. II an alleged criminal is not good enough to stay in Ho|>ewrll is he good enough to enjoy unrestricted lib erty in places outside of Hopewell? Forgetting the sjrecilic case, and looking to num etous others, one reaches the conclusion that the shift ing ot the criminal from one community to another is a mighty |?oor way to solve the crime problem. Cer lainly a criminal ordered out of a North Carolina county violate the laws as readily in Virginia as a criminal chased out of Virginia can violate the law.-* in North Carolina Numerous alleged law violator escape punishment on the condition that they move on. and the practice is becoming more common. Prob ably Ho|>ewcll. in the recent case, is returning a com pliment. Belated History I)r. John B. Crane, Harvard University man, is writing a history of aviation and seeking information to substantiate a claim that GustavwaWhitehead was a master airman when the Wrights took the air at Kitty Hawk According to the claim, Whitehead flew alxiut 10 minutes at an aititude of 40 to 50 feet and landed safely. That was in Bridgeport, Conn., in August, 1901. about two years before the Wrights flew, according to the claim. If there is any foundation to the claim, where has l>r. Crane been all these years? And where are oth ers who would keep the dates of great inventions sa cred } Why have they remained idle a(l this time? While the Wright Brothers' accomplishment was cel ebrated not so long ago on an international scale, no loud protests were heard even suggesting that thr Wrights were imposters. There are now living a number of people, the claim the claim is with foundation, it is just too bad that Whitehead did not have a press agent at the time and made it unnecessary for one to turn to belated history to learn the facts after believing all these years that the North Carolina coast was the birthplace of aviation, as well as the birthplace of the nation. As yet, the Utter claim as to the birthplace o( a nation has not >m digwmd. 953 LOSE LIVES ON STATE ROADS IN PAST 12 MONTHS Death Toll In This State Is Less by 105 Than Record In 1933 ? ' North Carolina highways were ?talned with the blood of *93 per son* who died in road mishap* last year, the state bureau of vital sta tistics reported a few days ago. Tins total was less by 105 than the 1,058 who met death on the highways of Norjh Carolina in 1935, though the state motor vehicle bu reau had not completed its high way fatalities tabulations, which usually list more than does the re port of the vital statistics bureau. Homicides reported in 1936 total ed 364, while in the previous year there were 399. Suicides increased from 276 to 282. Sharpest increase in violent deaths was shown in ac cidental drowning, which claimed the lives of 211 last year as com pared with 143 in 1935. Death from burns decreased from 239 in 1935 to 175 last >"ear Kail road accidents, including train-au tomobile collisions, were latal to 106 in 1935 and 109 in 1936. There were Ave air transportation fatali ties in each of the past two years. Previously reported by the bu reau were 35,834 deaths and 76, 86J birth* in 1936. Deaths the previous year totaled 33,541 and births TMWC? Pneumonia was the mast tstal ot sickness in 1936, claiming the lives of 3,840 last year as compared with 2,828 in 1935 Other high fa talities were recorded for: tuber culosis, 1,896 last year (1,766 in 1935); cancer, 1,789 last year (1,780 in 1935)-; and influenza 1,114 last year (1.033 in 1935). Club Members Starting Tree Planting Projects Seventeen 4-H club members in eight clubs of Cumberland County have ordered 600 black walnut trees cooperatively for planting this win NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of the power and au thority contained in that certain deed of trust executed by W. O. Abbitt to the undersigned trustee, bearing date May 16, 1933, recorded in the public registry of Martin County in book H-3, at page 165, de fault having been made in the pay ment of the notes for which said deed of trust was given as security, and ihe stipulations therein con tained not having been complied with, and at the request of the hold er of same, the undersigned trus I)K. V. H. MEWBORN OPTOMETRIST Please Note Date Changes every Fri.; hours, 9:30 a. m. to 12 m. Robersonville office Robersonville Drug Co., Tuesday, February 23rd. Plymouth office Liverman Drug Co., every Fri., hours, 2 to 5 p. m. Eyes Examined - Glasses Fitted ^^A^TaHbo?^Evtr^^uturda^^ tee will on the 15th day of Febru ary, 1037, at twelve (IS) o'clock noon, offer for aale to the high act bidder, for cash, the following de scribed reel estate, to wit: Being the Moblcy Mill and Mill Site, containing four <4) i or leas, and being the same premi " Everett ses conveyed to James A. by W. C. Manning, trustee, by deed of record in the public registry of Martin County in book XXXX, at page 222, to which said deed and deed of trust under which the sale v. as made air hereby made refer ence to for a mare thorough and ac curate description. This the 11th day of January, 1937. HUGH G. HORTON. j 12 4tw Trustee. NOTICE or MJBLICATION North Carolina. Martin County. In Superior Court, before the Clerk. D. G. Matthews, Administrator el J. R. Sprut 11, vs. Mary rinisnaii EJa McDaniel and Ussie Reeves. Et Al. The defendants. Raymond and Marian Watson, Mary and Ella McDaniel. will take t>wi luinmeiiced in the court Martin County. North lina. to sell certain lands of the Me J. R Spruill to make assets to pay debts; that the defendants will fur ther take notice that they are re quired to appear at the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court, said county, in the courthouse in Wil liamslnn. N. C, within ten (10) days after service of this suniMM in said action or the apply to the court for the relief de manded in said complaint. This 22nd day of January, 1937 L. B. WYNNE. )20 4tw Clerk Superior Court. 666 COLDS FEVER Have You the Reading Habit? Nothing affords more pleasure and profit than the daily visits of a good newspaper, and nothing can take its place. An independent newspaper, presenting in clear and unbiased fash ion a true picture of our modern times, is an unfailing source of dependable news, state, national and international The Greensboro Daily News, one of the South's outstand ing newspapers, will completely fill your requirements, and more. It has an intensely interesting editorial section plus the best editorial features, all markets, reports and reviews; ample and late sports; features for men, women, and children, the best comics daily, and eight full-page Sunday comics' in col ors. Complete Associated Press supplemented by our private bureau service from Washington and Raleigh. Now printed in the new and larger type, the Daily News is->a greater pleasure. Adequate fast private truck service throughout the state brings you a late and complete edition, no matter where you live. Carrier delivery anywhere at 20c per week. Mail subscrip tions accepted for three, six or twelve months periods at $9 per year daily and Sunday, $7 per year daily only. See our local distributor in your community or write di rect to this office. Circulation Department Greensboro Daily News GREENSBORO, N. C. CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF Branch Banking & Trust Company "THE SAFE EXECUTOR At the Close ot Business December 31,1936 RESOURCES f Cash and due from tanks t 3.953.S51.M Obligations of the United States U.U7.T71-54 Federal Land Bank Bands 2.2M.KCJS North Carolina Bonds ttl.SZ2.3i Municipal * other Marketable bonds 2J5S.M7.71 Other stocks and bonds 1UM.N 13.S7t.71t.SS Loans and discounts 2.S3M7I.77 " iking houses, furniture and fixtures and real estate tStjmM lll.StS.Mt3f LIABILITIES Capital Stock ? C ommon $ Capital Stock ? Preferred Surplus Undivided Prodta ? 3M?1SM Receives V ISMWil Dividends payable January 1, 1PJ7 C UNN Deposits : |19,MS,UU( SOUND BANKING AND TRUST SERVICE FOR EASTERN CAROLINA' Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation WILLI AMSTON*S WIDEST CHOICE IN LOW-COST CARS RIGHT AT YOUR FORD DEALER'S! 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