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The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and .Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILUAMSTOM, NORTH CAROLINA W. C MANHIKG Editor ? lMt-MU SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year ?.. *1.78 Six months 1.00 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year >2.25 Six month* > 1.28 No Subscription Received Under 6 Month* Advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the poit office in Williamston, N. C., aa second-class matter under the act of Con (ress of March S, 187#. Address all communications to The Enterprise ?nd not individual members of the firm Friday. September 23, 1938. Waking Up The American Church is at last waking up, the first glimpse at a new world after its long sleep proving that the Church has lost its in fluence in the home. Since the World War, the Church has held an eye on the source of in come, compromising and bending at the whim of the social leader, and doing little or nothing that can be ranked as constructive. The flock has wandered a long ways from the fold, to be certain, but many of the religious leaders have contributed to the slump that is written in bold relief in the records There's no time for mind-pleasing criticism. The religious leadership will do well to lift its head from the sands, recognize the facts and plot a new course for the future. In a small re ligious leaflet there is found a sure sign that the Church is waking up, the author admitting that the Church had lost its influence and urg ing that an effort be made to recapture that in fluence. Citing a return to the Christian route, the leaflet author says: 1 'The Church in order to carry forward its unique mission wherever it is located must know its community. The teachings of Jesus must become a crucible through which every institution, every political and economic sys tem, and every human relationship passes and is made Christian " The author then asks some timely questions: "Where is the blind spot in the vision of the community church?" Not that our people are any worse than others, but it is an almost es tablished fact that the eyes of the church are closed with the doors at the end of each service assuming the eyes were opened during the ser vice. Try and trace the influence of the church in the slum areas, in the poverty-stricken home. The services of the church do not reach there: the schedule is limited to tying the wedding knot, burying the dead and showing off the fin ery once a week. The next question asked: 4'Does the Church endeavor to know and meet the needs of the people in the community?" There's hardly a feeble effort to know those needs, not to men tion an ieffort to meet them. And the author then asks, "What is the Church doing to encourage the spirit of toler ance, mutual appreciation, understanding and good will between groups in a community so that it will be possible for persons of widest variety of opinion and convictiqn to find fellpw ship in the churches?" The author was a churchman He had seen religious leaders bring foreign labor to beat down wages of his own countrymen, to desert his charges when depression swept the coun try. He had seen religious leaders bear arms against the working man in heated strikes. He had seen reason and tolerance vacated in the minds of those who oould have effected an un derstanding had they applied Christian princi ples instead of deepening the economic chasm. There is encouragement when a church finds itself, recognizes the picture, as it is and sets to work to correct the ill-taken strokes that mar the beauty of the whole. Not a Fight on the South Phliadetpkia Record. The South's plight isn't the South's fault. That was underlined in President Roosevelt's message in which he termed the South the "na tion's No. 1 economic problem." The designation is undoubtedly accurate, for there is scarcely an economic issue?whether it be labor or agriculture or electric power or tar iffs or taxation?that does not become more acute when it is applied to the South Because of this and because the mis-represen tatives of the Southern people in Congress vote against the interests of the nation and of their_ own constituents, there 15 a growing tendency to blame "the South" for our national economic ills. The danger is that this tendency will grow in to a sectional division with the North and West holding the South responsible for the South's economic backwardness and the South defend ing its own burdens because they are under sectional attack. President Roosevelt's statement of the case should go far to dispel this danger His sum mary of the South's position and its effect upon the nation was, above all else, friendly to the South. And why not? Is it the South that has creat-. ed there the problem of a despoiled landless peasantry? Is it the South's will that those driven off the soil are easy prey for sweatshop operators that compete unfairly with North ern labor? Was it the South's desire that the South become a "poverty market" that shuts off the outflow of the nation's factories? The problem of the South is no more section al in its causes than it is in its effects. The truth is that the economic reconstruc tion of the South after the Civil War was never completed. The Southerners drove out the poli tical carpetbaggers only to let the economic car petbaggers in to replace them. The Southern politicians who are eager to serve Northern exploiters are the first to raise the cry of "outside interference" whenever a minimum-wage law, an anti-lynching bill or a national labor organization is applied to the South. The real South is half the nation's farm pop ulation that gets only one-fifth of the farm in come. The real South is one-eighth of the na tion's children with only one^Iiftieth of the na tional income. The real South, both white and colored, is the part of the nation most in need of the New Deal. Th? real South is a defeated section which has paid and paid again the most galling eco nomic reparations since the Civil War ? and which is still paying them to Northerners who are mostly found aligned against progress in the North as in the South. The fight to bring Southern economy ui line with the rest of the nation is not a fight against the South. It is a fight against those who have robbed and exploited the South. 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