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The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA W. C. MANNING Editor ? 19W19J1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year $1.75 LML OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year $2.29 Six month* 1.25 No Subscription Received Under 6 Months Advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the post office in Williamston. N. C., as second-class matter under the act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. Address all communications to The Enterprise snd not individual members of the firm. ' 1 ? ' > 1 1 Friday, March 3, 1939. Headed For the Junkheap Many of the time-honored courses in the school curriculum are headed for the junk heap. national education figures meeting in Cleveland recently predicted. "Why," asks the commission of school men, "should American boys and girls spend their time on such noncontroversial facts as the cap ital of Honduras is Tegucigalpa,' 'there were two Peloponesian Wars and three Punic Wars,' and 'Latin verbs meaning command, obey, please, displease, serve, resist, and the like tak" the dative''" Pointing out that there have been shifts in world affairs, that America has been mechan ized and urbanized, the commission urges a system of education that will forget dates in history, theorems and Latin conjugations. There has long been a need to junk the time honored courses of that type and start teach nig clnldien huw tu lice Jiid let live, how?tar get along with other people, that it is honorable to work and earn their keep, and that they have duties to discharge as citizens. The youth has gained either in the home or the school or in both, the idea that it is "smart" to evade the law. to shirk responsibility, to exploit others, to tear down society, to belittle those who would have them from themselves, and even to challenge the Creator. The school, with the proper cooperation from the home, can do much to check the shiftlessness of modern youth and anchor him to principles that offer a return not of degredation, shame and want. The school can do a great deal to encourage re sponsibility for observing laws, taking part in civic affairs, improving bad social conditions and destroying the pretense surrounding our ways of living. A few years ago. a teacher in a North Caro lina school pleasingly explained that arrango ments had been made to dispence with the daily chapel period and devote that time to study of art. JJow, the study of art is all right, but it would a-i-m mum imparl nut 1/. im-lill the minds and souls of youth reverence for the At ^mighty, for older persons and all humanity than to push to the front the study of art and numerous other subjects about which more can be learned in a few days of earnest and practical application than in months of high cost theoretical training. The Farmer Last Again Much has been said about the farmer receiv ing parity payments, soil conservation pay ments. plow-up payments, build-up payments and other payments, but the cold figures show in bold relief that the farmer has received noth ing that did not belong to him when these pay ments are matched with the profits of the manufacturers and the taxes of the various gov ernmental agencies. In the five-year period prior to 1933, North Carolina tobacco farmers received a total of $334,000,000. During that same period the man ufacturers of tobacco products received $568. 822,000 in net profits. In the five-year period after 1932, the tobacco farmers received $563, 000,000, and to harmonize the business to some extent, the manufacturers received $416,333, 000. It has been estimated that for every sixteen cents spent for manufactured tobacco, the far mer gets about one cent. If he had received even two cents out of the sixteen he would not need governmental aid. Briefly stated, he has been on the short end of the stick all these years, and while the government could not dic tate a fair price, it could help him by forming a contract and advancing him payments under the terms of the contract. And yet, it is a mistake for one to believe that the government is taxing the manufactur er to make those payments. During the past ten years, the government has collected more than four and one-half billions of dollars in taxes imposed on tobacco. The fanner has been last in the whole business, and when the at comes along and recognizes his tries to help him, one hears a loud veil from the old conservative group, the group that Would tax the farmer into slavery and liold him there while industry sipped the cream in tax-exempt properties. No, the farmer is not getting something he is not entitled to, he is merely getting some thing that he is entitled to get and something that he richly deserves. Neighborliness Awakened The stark tragedy that befell the little Green's Cross community in Bertie a few days ago kindled anew a sympathetic feeling for our fellowman and recreated a neighborliness that we so often push into the background in our daily walk through life. While the loss will con tinue to bear heavily on them, the victims of the storm, no doubt, have had their- faith in their fellowman renewed by the acts of kind ness done and the words of sympathy spoken in a time of stress and suffering. How much better the world would be if we would only awaken out of or lethargy and do the neighborly acts day by day and not wait for tragedy and suffering to spur us to action. A word of encouragement to the depressed, an interest shown in the welfare of others, the ad vancement of Christian-like principles in all our business transactions, a feeling for the feel ings of all mankind will make life more valu uf us. Out of the tragedy across the river comes certain proof to the claim that there is still a human spark in our souls, but, sad to relate, it is apparent that little less than a catastrophe will awaken that spark to action. Party in Power Holds Responsibility Transcript and Messenger. Feeling grows over the State that unless the Democratic party?the party now in predomi nance and power in North Carolina?takes ac tion to mend its ways, voters are going to put into power a governor and maybe other offi cials of another party identification, the first chance they get. Few nights ago a former chairman of the State Board of Elections told a gathering of Young Democrats as much. "If the record of the party or its candidate is not good enough to win on merit, it deserves to Ioji Mayoi L. P. Mt'LOhdon is quSted as tell mg the Democratic club of Durham County. Apparently, he has no sympathy with persons who advocate fraudulent methods by which to win elections. McLendon has strongly advocated abolishing of the absentee ballot. Use of the absentee bal lot has marked many elections?primary and general as manipulated to take victory for the side that had tallied the most absentee votes. But behind the pencil mark on fraudulently voted ballots is the marker who has not only marked across opposite the name of his candi dates, but has interfered with the exercise of the franchise of voters in the booths. There's little excuse for use of markers now. We can all read and write; the party in power claims to have done so much for promotion of_ education in the state that there can be no ex cuse for illiteracy. Of course, politicians wink *al technicalities and put over what they desire. The people are thinking about reform in gov ernment and taking more of a part in affairs of state. We believe the greater number of lli.-m llvit ml firing hnll.it. ie j.i |ir. lair means of winning victories. Ballot marking is used with "deadly effect" in many instances. In writing new election laws for the state, the party in power in the General Assembly, representing the dominant party in North Carolina, has the challenge before it to do something to provide for honest elections. Repeal of the absentee ballot and abolition of ballot markers offer possibilities of attain ing the objective?honest elections. The party holds the responsibility of giving the electorate what the Governor and the State Board of Elections chairman have recommended. Planes For France Christian Science Monitor. Americans who remember that war trade was followed by war twenty-two years ago naturally look twice at reports that France has bought 600 airplanes in the United States in the last year. But on second glance public opinion seems to sanction the arrangement. No one likes the arms trade. But it is recognized that there are some differences between the sale of bombers to Japan and to France. France is not at war, is not using these planes as Ja pan used them. And there is the hope at least that her possession of them may lessen rather than increase the possibility of bombing over Europe. And from the standpoint of American de fense there is some feeling that planes in France are as useful as planes in Panama. If Munich produced the new half-billion dollar American arms program by removing defenses America had unconsciously counted on, then there is ground for this feeling. And if the item in that program of (32,000,000 for educa tional orders is justified certainly the French plane order should be very useful in "educat ing" American factories for the large orders now planned for American preparedness. More over it is beginning to appear that while trade might make America willing to abandon neu trality, unneutral thought has already made willing to trad*. -?p?? State Digging Heavily Into County's Income Ups Tax On Liquor And Gets 40 Percent Of Intangible Taxes Aged Revenue Bill Is Now Likely To Reach the House 'Next Week' Battling against the powers that be in the Raleigh lobby, the legis lature turned again to the counties this week for revenue to finance State operations for the next two years. The revenue committee reached heavily into the county pockets and dug out several hun dred more thousand dollars by up ping the liquor tax from 7 per cent to 8 1-2 per cent on gross sales and by jumping its share of intangible property taxes from 25* to 40 per cent. In bringing the bill and bud get into closer harmony, the com mittee turned to these two revenue come taxes and lowered the fran chise tax on railroads. Based on the 1938 liquor sales, Martin County will collect and turn over to the State this year approxi mately $11,347 11 or an increase of just about $2,000 from the sale of li quors. Busy undoing something today that it did yesterday, the committee declares the revenue bill will be dumped on the floor of the House "next week" a promise that has al leady been repeated numerous times. But they declare the stinging hornet will be out in the open about next Monday or Tuesday, and it is likely that some altering will be proposed. However, the committee group thinks it has done an excel lent job, and believes the house should ram the bill through to early passage. ? The $400,000 a year in revenue, which was lost by removing the in come tax increase of one-fourth of one pei tint un corporations and ol from 3.5 to 12.5 per cent on all in dividual income taxes except those in the lowest bracket, was made up Tuesday by giving the State 40 per cent instead of 25 per cent of the yield from taxes on intangible prop erty, by applying the tax on deal ers in installment paper to banks handling such paper and by includ ing in the estimates two items for which no estimates had previously been made. The committee also add ed $25,000 on chain stores and $65, 000 on motor fuel wholesalers, items which had previously been under consideration. As the bill now stands, including revised estimates, it is calculated to yield $38,921,000 the first year of the next biennium and $29,621,000 the second year, just $10,000 in eactrin stance under the original budget es timates. The most important single change in the bill is a loss of $400,000 a year in revenue due to exemption of lough and ing materials are now exempt, the budget commission rcommended that they be taxed. The joint com mittee twice refused to tax them. Hie subcommittee, which made its fourth report, recommended that they be taxed. The income tax in crease on Monday was voted as s direct alternative to that tax. The next most important change is a reduction of $249,000 a year in the taxes on railroads, due to a low ering of the rate on franchise taxes from 90 to 75 hundreths of one per cent of assessed value and a light change in income taxes. When To Give Baby Chicks A Grain Ration Chicks should be given grain feed after the first seven to ten days. This should be fed two or three times a day on top of the mash. It is very essential that sufficient mash hopper space be supplied so that the chicks can all eat at one time. As early hatched chicks do not have access to range and dwet sunlight or green feed, their ration should be supplemented with one and one half per cent of straight cod liver oil that contains 85 U. S. P. units of vitamin D per gram and not less than 600 U. S. P. units of vitamin per gram. NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Washington Divi sion. In Bankruptcy No. 6M In the Matter of: Thomas Jeffem Roberaon. T-A T. I. Roberaon A Son. RoberaonvUie, N. C. Volun tary Bankrupt. Notice is hereby given that Satur day, April 1, IMS, has been fixed by an order of the Court entered at the first meeting of creditors, as the last day on which objections to the dis charge of this bankrupt may be filed. Such objections are required to be specified, to be verified, to be In duplicate, and to be tiled with the undersigned WHEELER MARTIN. U. 8. Referee in Bankruptcy. WilliMnstoe. K. 01 February U, ISM. mJ-tt I PARTICULAR "I'd rather be in the Martin County jail under the care of Jailer Roy Peel than be on the WPA," T. F. Jackson, an inmate in the hoosegow, was credited yesterday with telling casual arcfuaintanee* while on a visit to the bastile. Jackson was also quoted as saying that it did not' make a great deal of difference, but one just does not have to work any at all in jail. Mecklenburg Will Center On One Variety Cotton Mecklenburg cotton growers will unite throughout the county to es- | tablish a one-variety cotton com munity and will specialize on Cok er's 100 according to a decision leached by 526 growers who attend ed community meetings last week. NOTICE OF SALE ?Under and by virtue of a judg^ ment of the Superior Court, Martin County, in an action entitled "Mat thews and Rhodes v. Minnie Smith et al," the undersigned Commission ers. will, on the 31st day of March, 1939, at 12 o'clock. Noon, in front of the Courthouse door, Martin Coun ty, offer for sale to the highest bid der for cash, the following describ ed tract of land: Beginning at a stob on the Ham ilton Road, running thence N 50 E 83 poles to a pine, thence N 35 E 97 1-2 poles to an oak, thence N 25 1-2 E 12 1-2 poles to an ash on the edge of ? the swamp; thence N 61 W 9 poles, N 60 W 10 poles. N 48 W 8 poles, N 55 1-2 W 8 poles, N 45 1-2 W 16 poles, N 42 W 7 poles, N 50 W 7 poles, N 51 1-2 W 6 poles. N 73 1-2 W 6 1-2 poles, S 15 W 13 poles, S 7 W 3 poles, S 2 3-4 W 6 poles, S 37 1-2 W 6 poles, S 41 W 40 poles, S 44 W 4 poles. S 2 1-2 W 9 poles, S 37 W 17 poles, S 5 1-2 W 15 poles, S 28 W 9 poles, S 37 W 17 poles, S 5 1-2 W 15 poles, S 28 W 9 poles, S 18 1-2 W 7 poles, S 16 W 8 poles, S 4 W 6 poles, S 39 W 7 poles, S 27 W 8 poles, S 9 1-2 W 8 poles. S 4 W 6 poles, S 39 W 7 poles, S 27 W 9 poles to a gum at the head of Deep run, thence S 34 1-2 W 68 poles with the line; thence S 42 1-2 W 51 poles to the Hamilton Road, thence S 43 1-2 E 45 poles to the beginning. Contain ing 100 acres, more or less, and be ing thf Bamtl linH p^irrhn?i>H of C. V. Andrews and wife of record in the Martin County Registry. This land will be sold subject to the life estate of Minnie Smith. A 10 per cent deposit will be re quired of the last and highest bid der at the sale. This 27th day of February, 1939. B. A CRITCHER, E. S. PEEL, m3-4t Commissioners. NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby given that un der and by virtue pf the. power of sale contained in that certain deed of trust executed by Frank D. Tay lor and wife. Bertha Taylor, to Har rison Brothers and Company, dated May 26. 1938, and of record in Book T-3,at page 389 of the Martin Coun Public F ty Public Registry, and at the re quest of the holder of the notes of indebtedness thereby secured, de fault having been made in the pay ment thereof, I will, on the 20th day of March, 1939, at 12 o'clock Noon, at the courthouse door in Martin County, offer for sale at public auc tion for cash the property described in said deed of trust as follows, to wit: Beginning at the fork of the road in which stands the Biggs School House, thence down the new road to Nancy Rogerson's line to the head of the small branch, thence down the said branch to a lightwood post, in the fork of Lamb's Branch, thence up said branch to the fork of the same, thence up the East of the small branch, a poplar, thence up said branch to a pine tree, thence a straight course to the back line, a pine tree, thence a straight line, a pine tree near a path known as the Matchie Chapel Path, thence along the back line two pines in Askew's line to a black gum on the North prong of Lamb's Branch to the road across which is a canal, thence up said road to the school house to the beginning, containing 190 acres, more or less. This the 18th day of February, 1939 W. H. HARRISON, Trustee. Coburn Sc Cobum, Attys. f24-4t ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having this day qualified as ad ministrator of the estate of the late J. H. Moore, deceased, this is to no tify all persons having claims against said estate to exhibit them to the undersigned for payment on or be fore the Mrd dav of January. 1940. "or {his notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons in debted to said estate will please make immediate settlement. This the 23rd day of Jan.. 1939. D. R. MOORE. Administrator of the Estate of j27-6t J. H. Moore, deceased. DR. V. H. MEWBORN OP-TOM-E-TRIST Plymouth office, Liverman Drug Co., every Fri, 2 to 5 p. m. Robersonville office, Ross Jewelry Store, Tuesday, Feb. 21. Bethel office: Rives Drug Store, Store, Tuesday, March 7. Eyes Examined - Glasses Fitted At Tarboro Every Saturday Williams ton office. Peels Jly Co., every Fri., 9:30 a. m. to 12 m. 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