North Carolina Newspapers

The Enterprise * PUBLISHING CO. w. c SUBSCRIPTION RATES IM MAKT1M COUNTY r* tLM OUTSIDE Mi iKTIM COUNTY Ik -* US ? > ? - _j f ^^ .. C-M FmM Upo. Mm? EattrH at the pott c orf March J. 1C79. AMma Mux is Wtllaunaton. N. G, ?Mo tk act ot Loogrcts icatioas to The Eatcrpnac ?hen of the hrm. _ mot tmdiMmiwm) ma Friday. ^ogust 6. i9J7 Where Are They? Sam that President Roosevelt ? court reiornt plan W bent knried by thr liimn i" .i t t*. ?k?t haw they to say about takinr the questnn t>. the people, mho are supposedly the source c! pmef in this demos - racy r I hey rtu so willingly rxjeesoed tne desire to abide by the will of the people and who ?eir so ani mus to let the people reform ihr court by constitu tional amendment apparently ha\r iurpKtcs all about thr court, and in then muddled minds they entertain a (treat feelinc of satisfaction that the constitution is sale. The voice; oi ThenufhaBs Is >"?" not reached the" ears of those lovers of an uut-muded constitution If the leaders of this natua. or those ucciqiying the seats, would only wake up. turn id thr but main streets and recofmiar thr fan that the vishrs and wants of mil lions are not represented in thr syndicated columns ol high-salaried theorists, there would be a nrw reckon ing foe them *S"QP-1P? the wtbey of thr nvaith- ago. Ptesa drnt Kweeirlt advanced thr I* ?ram for a nredrd reform of thr judiciary \hnusi everymr asreed that reform was needed, but those who valued liberty for thr classes and apparently not lor the masses wanted to have the reform effected by thr amendment process handled by the people Those who favored the [>lan apparently have lorgutten all about it. and one has reason to briirvr that they used thr argument to de feat the court plan and that they never had any idrj of releasing their hid on government that the com mon masses might eipeess themsrlves. Mr. Kaiiry and Mr Whreirr. the two men who have veiled loudest at* -ut dictatorship, should rrirasr their bold on the throats of thr prvpir and Irad thr fight to place thr supreme court qursliun lirforr thr proptr And when Mr. Badry dues that, hr will have done about thr first drcrnt and dnnucratx act since hr has been in the I'nited States Senate Mr Bailrv s record will ne support such a drtno cratic sitp It is err tain that hr would even attack such a movement probably not only, but in a sneak ing and underhanded wav. Placing Responsibility Not so many weeks ago certain leaders of industry refused to sign iabur contracts because thr C I. O. thry maintained wa< not rrspunstbtr for thr violent acts of labor Brirflv stated, thuse business leaders held the C. 1. O. resprrubie he every act of the indi vidual. whether that individual was latrd with the Committee f a Industrial tfrganuation or a stray wolf outside all labia ranks. Many of those same business leaders have bitterly attacked the admmtslralian. our ham of government giving them freedom to give vent to thrir expressions More recently othns have directed attacks that are libelous unfounded and uncalled ha Even Tom Gutfirr. thr strong anti-adminislration man that hr IS. wouid not think of accepting thr responsibility lea thr defamatory remarks and attacks It is ju.-t as reasoeubir ha 1cm to accept thr blame for thre at tacks as it is to expect John L Lewis. C. 1 O. brad, to accept the blame ha every violent an created in the ranks of labor If would have brew just as logical for Lewis to have refused to sign a contract with Girdlrr until Girdler got his own housr m order and checked thr spread oi stories and reports that were unfounded and unfair to labor. Tom tardier and others of his dk gluey in thr de attacks directed against thr of Mr Rouse-veil s lam fly. forgetting that thry are just as much responsbie fat them as John L. Lents is for thr oowardh act of Red Tape I'ndn thr liurlian of a stair liquor board, thr har dline of Irjcal liquor sales in North Carolina's oasis is apparently headed for car big muddle The political feature is not cuasiderrd, but an endless system of red tape is causing concent among those who took thr business in its infancy and did a good job of bimimg it Reports, totaling a round dam in number, are to br prepared for the state board ever so often, and it b brbrved that the employment of special bookkeep ers will br necessary to handle the data wanted by the -tale liquor authorities. The reports, complicated anf detailed almost to a disgusting point, are quite exprn sive. snmr costing as much as $260 per 1,000 It is almost apparent that a man in Raleigh can review the reports and tell with minute accuracy how many times a clerk in a Pasquotank store turns around during thr day and why. Buard chairmen in some counties are said to be planning an appeal to thr state authorities (or frwe and more simplified forms Haphazard methods employed in keeping records in the past exacted brass losses and held the business '?prraters in the dark, so to speak, but the modem system of kerpeng records that make up an unbroken line of red tape is. we dare say, costing quite a sum. .And many business operators are stiH in the dark with it. i' , Need F*i ui Legislation Koikr if'mm Hrrmtd It has been clearly demonstrated by this Democratic Mminis([au<? thai thr Government can protect the farmrr in serine that he recasts a fair return for his crops From thr beginning of this Government, the manufacturers of the north and almost thr entire ooun iiv have res coed Government aid through high tar ifi schedules which were put on directly as a subsidy for business, yet these same manufacturers, many in our own state, take the pusilion that thr government should absolutely keep its hands off of amy aid to thr tarmrrs When Presidml Roosevelt was inaugurated lk> ? ..unify w?s is ? [Mflirsl state of revolution, and at three had nut been a ihangr in thr administratKjo. it is thought that there would have been a break-down ir thr ordrrly processes of business and government Thr people were starving. In our town halt of our ppulattun was undernounshrd and underfed. There is now (ending before thr Congress of thr Cnitrd State agricultural legislation and thr great farmer or ganisations of thr country are insisting that some form iff legislation which would protect thr farmer be en acted at this sKeaon From thr feeling that exists throughout thr country, we believe- that it would be unwtse lor Congress to adjourn without making some effort to protect the farmrr in this year s crops. Senator Bailey has taken the position in this Cuo t gtess. as he has in every other Congress that he has |?been a member of, that nothing should be dune for the farmer and that labur be allowed to exist in the same manner He has a perfect record, in fact it has been 100 |*r cent plus against thr farmer and against la bnr Yet it is very consistent from the beginning un til now When his term is out. he ran say that he did in thr sccund term just as be did in the first. The ITesidrat of thr Farm Bureau of North Carolina has the sympathetic ear of thr agricultural interests of North Carolina when he states that unless the farmers receive a fair price for their tobacco that they will in sist that thr warehouses be closed until a proper solu tion can be worked out. The Line Forms on the Right ?gJk nrffr? ' ' 1 Nothing has been stronger in all this anti-Roosevelt business than thr repeated attempts to discredit thr administration by fending fault with thr I "resident's lanuly A> for Mrs. Roosrveh. she has won thr country's admiratH-n by the serene way she has taken thrse at tacks on herself and her charitable concerns She has rarely turned on thr letsls who have barked at hrr herb or paid undue attention when the dirt clods and dreayed eggs of partisanship have been thrown at her smiling head She has stood in the open while ha assailants have done their sniping from ambush. Ha good sportsmanship has madr ha critics look like small potatoes, and ha own poise has revealed that thry themselves have nonr. A mure imgallanl crew of politicians never tried to - scutile a ship or tried to besmirch a man through Ins wife Thr abortive Hurry. inaugurated by Representative Hamilton Feb. has had a wholesome effect. His. Ri'isrvrtt doited ha services to certain charitable enterprises. She not hrr received nor even saw any of thr $30,000 which thrsr charities received in pay mrnt fur thrsr services. Thanks to the ruling of thr Treasury Deportment and its vindication umhi Congressional investigation, it is now clear that thr benrvedrnt minded are free to c--otributr thru services to charity without payi^c a t-cdaal tax few thr privilege. Doubtless there will be no grand rash of the wealthy or thr able to avail tWm series of this chmly drfenrd loophole, but first place in thr linr of aiiamregiiig tax avoidrrs ought to be reserved for Representative Fish, chief defender of Ux ? ?optmwc amuT ju>gc?t a ? Washington, N. C. i'jfii "CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS" Mt -A STAR IS BORN" "The Go-Getter" George Brent RELIGIOUS NEWS Go To Church Sunday Sunday School, Too! PRESBYTERIAN church S-hool at 1:4b at 11 a. m , Bear Grass Church School at 10 a. m Younc people at 7 pro Wor ship service and sermon at 8 p. m Ruber sun's Chapel Worship Serv ice and Sermon at 4 p. m Poplar Point Worship service and at 2 p m s Church School at 2 p m. The Sacrament of the Lord's Sup per anil be observed at each of the uorshsp services. The subject of Uk meditation will be "What does it ir.can to take up the Cross and fol low Jesus Today*" BAPTIST rimj Grate Services Rev W B Harrington will con duct the regular services in the Piney Grove Baptist Church Satur day morning at 11 o'clock and the following morning at the same hour, the minister announced yesterday from Swan Quarter. CHRISTIAN Dr. H S. Hillev. president of At lantic Christian College. Wilson, will preach in the Christian church here Sunday morning at the 11 o'clock hour The public is cordially invit ed to hear him The Sunday school will convene st the usual hour. 9:45. THE LETTER-BOX EXCIfT DIKING AUGUST Br B Rass Greer -The Lord a in His holy temple: let ell the earth keep silence before Him except on the Sundays in Au gust' If the vestry were willing for him to read the opening sentence thus on the Sundays in July, a fel low rector was willing to follow the suggestion of the vestry that the Church be closed during August. Needless to say the vestry was not willing and the Church was not dosed After all there are 168 hours in the week and it is hardly decent to consider giving up even the one hour a werk that is set apart for the public and corporate worship of God Surely, even in August, we should 'assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits we have received at His hands, to set forth His most worthy praise, to hear His most holy word, and to ask ihoae things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul." Perhaps par ticularly during August do we need to offer unto the Lord "our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reason able. holy, and living sacrifice." CARLOAD ? IUN CANS ? NEW lexaoo Motor Oil just arrived. A high quality motor oil for 26 cents a quart Harrison Oil Co. North Carolina. Martin County: Having this day qualified as ad ministrator of the estate of Helen Slade Rhodes, this is to notify all persons holding claims against said estate to present same to the under ted. or his attorney, within 12 mths of the date hereof, notice w ill be pleaded in bar of any recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immedi ale payment. This the 6th day of July, 1931. JAMES S. RHODES, jyfi 6tw Administrator. Elbert S. Peel. Attorney. DR. V. H_ MEWI office Peete Jly Go, every Fri S 30 a m. to 12 as. PI. mouth office Laverman Drug Co. every Fn. 2 to 1 p. m. Ruber sunviDe office Robersonville Drug Cm^lfaesday, August 1J^ At Tarboro Every Saturday Up in tke M i. .bp Feeling Fine! mr thfj CM by bum BLACK DRAUCHT iooaounnn Tired, Aching, Smlen Feet "I have! Your Honor, you have asked me a question, and now I at as the last favor on earth, that you will not interrupt my answer until I am through "I stand here, mefore this bar, con victed of the wilful murder of my wife. Truthful witnesses have ti tilled to the fart that I was a loafer, a drunkard, a wretch, that I I turned from one of my prolonged debauches and toad the fatal shot that kiled the Wife that I had sworn to love, cherish and protect. "While I have no remembrance of committing the fatal deed. I have no right to condemn the verdict of the twelve good men who have acted ; jury in this case, for the res diet is "But. may it please the court. I wish to show that 1 am not alone re sponsible for the murder of my wife" The startling statement created a The judge the desk, the lawyers wheeled around and faced the pris oner. while the spectators could hardly suppress their intense excite ment The prisoner paused a few sec onds and then continued in the same firm, distinct voice: "I repeat, your honor, that I am riot the only one guilty of the mur ier of my wife. The judge ?i Uus bench, the jury in the box. the lawyers within the bar, and moat of the wita rinding the pastor of the old church, are also guilty oefor Almighty God and w?ll have to stand with me be fore His jade, rut Throne, where we saall be rif".secusfy Judgsd. "if it had rut been for the s at my town. I never would have be rume a drunkard, my wife would not have been murdered. I would not be here now, ready to be hurled into eternity! Had it not been for the in human traps. 1 would have sober man and an industrious work a tender father and a loving itnjcd, my wife murdered, my lit tie children?God blear and care far an?cast awl upon the mercy of the world!?whilst I am to be by the Krone arm at the state! "God knows I tried to reform, but as kmc u the open saloon was in my pathway, my ' willpower was no match against the fearful, consuming, i lite far liquor. Far one year our town eras without a saloon Ft year my wife and children were happy and our little at thooe who signed re against the reopening of the sahmns of our town. One half at this jury, the prosecuting at torney on this tsar, and the judge who sits on this bench, all voted for the saloons! By their voles and in fluence the saloons were reopened, and they made me what 1 am!" oner fell like coals of fire upon the hearts at those present, and many of the spectators and some at the lawyers were moved to tears. The Judge made a motion as if to op further oner hastily "Wo! Wo! your haanr. do not rime my lips. I am nearly through. "1 began my downward career at a saloon bar?legalized and protect ' ed by the voters at this town. After the sakmm you allowed have made me a drunkard and a murderer. I am taken before another bar?the ["bar of justice, and mum the law pow er will conduct me to the place of execution, and hasten ry soul to Eternity. 1 shall appeal oefore an other bar?the Judgment Bar of ilind the traffic will have war with me! Think *' r?t jutijr will non i l eak, helpless victim at your t June responsible for the i ay wife'* -May! In my drunken frenzied i ibk condition I have i tut you have deliberately voted tor he saloons which have murdered housands, and they are in full op ration today with your consent "All of you ha*, these words at n he ravines at an lod Almighty's truth. -You legalized the nade me a drunkard and a i r, and you are guilty with ore God for the murder at my t -Your honor. I am done I ma iow ready to receiee my sentence tnd be led forth to the place at < ution You wil close by he Lord to have mercy on my soul. [ will dose by solemnly asking God o open your blind eyes to your own ndividual responsibility, so that rou trill cease to give your support a this dreadful traffic " IM CASES ? 2,4aa CANS ? MAT oline and New Tezaco Motor Oils .n loaded this week. Two great mo or oils keening pace with our great latioo. "Chick" Manning. Central iervice Station. \ BETTER MOTOR OIL HARRISON OIL CO. Willianiston Plumbing and Heating Supply Company W. E. DUNN. Manager Plumbing and Heating Supplies GET OUR PRICES ON INSTALLATIONS Visit Our Showrooms and Select Your Plumbing Fixtures PROVED EARNING POWER Safeguards Shareholders IN THE Martin County Building and Loan Association The earning power of the Martin County Building and Loan Association has been tried and tested over a period of 23 years. Through booms and depressions?good times and bad?the Association has conclusively demonstrated its ability to continue to maintain attractive earnings for its shareholders. That the people of Williamston realize the full significance of this well-sustained earning power is evidenced by the substan tial growth of the Association. Full Paid Income Shares A popular savings plan, paying 4per cent per annum. Shares pur chased by payment of the full par value of $100.00. Dividends mailed semi-annually. July 1st and January 1st. Individual Deposits Mom Accepted From $100DO To SSjOOOJOO Vie solicit your savings, baaed on our twenty-three-year rec ord of continuous service, safety and attractive earnings. Martin County Building and Loan Association ASSETS OVER $250,000 WHEELER MARTIN PHONE 27 Secretary Williamston, M. C.