The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILL1AMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA W. C. MANNING Editor ? 1*08 1*38 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ?(Stiii'lly Caah in Advance)? IN MARTIN COUNTY One year $1.75 Six months 1-00 " OUTSIDL MAR 1 IN COUNTY One year $2.23 Six months 1.25 Nc 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 3, 1879. Address all communications I ?nd not individual members of the firm Friday, April 7. 1939. Discrimination Southern interests have about proved there exists a gross discrimination in rail rates as ap plied in the South and West on the one hand and in the North and East on the other hand, but those interests, especially those in the South, have not advanced their claims to equal rates in the proper way It has long been admitted off the record, of course, that the federal agencies controlling rates and tariffs are cognizant of the discrimi ?nation ho' thev have allowed the North the differential to offset low wages in the South If southern industry would offer to raise its wage scale, then it would have some founda tion upon which to base a claim for freight rates equal to those enjoyed in fhe North. Southern industry apparently would rather have low wages and low rates and pocket the difference, but it has been proved time and again that industry in the south is not going to have both. Adding to the Bill On an average every time a customer buys his twentieth quart of milk, the dairyman has to add to the consumer's bill the cost of a bot tle. The small-scale dairyman spends on an av erage $500 annually to replace broken milk bot tles If he is serving 100 customers, he has to ?add to each hill $5 a year to cover the bottle loss, a mere two and one-half cents a week. The customer who handles the milk man's bottles with care is the one who is paying the bill and getting absolutely nothing in return. The fellow who converts a bottle or bottles to his own use is the man who is adding to the to tal bill for the group of customers But it is just a common practice with the all of us to add knowingly or unknowingly to -4he cost of an article and then fuss about the size of lie bill. The milk customer who sees polish, tacks. ?paint, bolts, tups, and any?of several hundred other articles packed away in a milk bottle, he tan well mark it down that he helped pay -for that bottle There are some few exceptions, ol ?course, the statistics showing that one out?of every 1,000 milk bottles diverted from the dairy is bought and actually paid for direct by the user Just An Old Custom The business of converting government pro perty, boats or whatnot to private use, is car ried on under an old custom, one that was con tinued in vogue even during the depths of the depression back in 1932 Shortly after "Uncle" Dan Roper left the Commerce Department a few months ago, the Comptroller General's office announced the startling fact that the secretary had enjoyed trips on a small government boat apparently at government expense What the Comptroller General's office did not announce but which was later learned was that private parties were "held toy certain Republicans back lit 1932, that flowers and other articles were bought and billed as propellers, ropes, hardware and so on. The cost was a matter of only a few dollars, and all the excitement about a government of ficial spending a few dollars of public money was uncalled for, but to broadcast what Dan Roper did and hold secret what the Republi cans did is a bit unfair to Roper and the gen eral public. A Resurrection Of Hope An Easter message by The Right Reverend Henry St. George Tucker, D.D. The Resurrection of Christ brought to His Disciples a resurrection of hope, courage and power. It is just this that is sorely needed at the present time. If the Son of Man should come into our world, He would find large num bers of people who are devotedly attached to His principles but who despair of the possibil ity of their application to the practical life of mankind The best they hope for is to preserve iheir own integrity?Any thought of an aggros, sive offensive on the part of the forces of the Kingdom of God seems to them out of the ques tion?something more than devotion to Christ ian ideals is needed hy a Phnt-eh?which sots forth to save the world. The disciples had learned to love Christ and His way of life, but when disaster threatened they forsook Him and fled. It was only when they came face to face with the Risen Christ that they acquired that "something more" that qualified them to proclaim the good news to the world with convincing power. They went lorth as witnesses of the Resurrection. The power of the Risen Christ manifested itself in their lives. We, too, in our generation, if we are to repeat the triumphs of the early Church, must be wit nesses of the Resurrection. Our message to the world must be an Easter message. This does not mean the mere assertion of a marvelous event two thousand years ago?it means rather that we. too, have had the experience of real con tact with the living Christ. This is the true and abiding meaning of East i r. It is,God revealing His Son in us as He did in St Haul. We are not complete Christians un til we have experienced within ourselves that resurrection of hope, courage and power which tomes from contact with the living Christ. It is not an experience that we can create for our selves Christ did not say that men ought to be ; trong and not to faint He said we ought?trr pray, to put ourselves in a receptive attitude, to open the ears of our faith that we may hear the knocking of Christ at the doors of our heart. Easter tells us that Christ is present in our world. It invites us to seek His presence in our hearts The promise is, "Seek, and ye shall find." For those who have responded to the Easter invitation and found Christ, this world is 110 longer a vale of despair-St. Paul's words are true for them: "If any man be in Christ, he is a hew creature: old things are passed away: behold, all things are become new." What the world needs today is a body of Christian men and women who have had this Easter experience and who can give an answer to the question, "What shall I do to be saved?" Shall wo not then at this Easter season pray that Christ will come to us saying: "All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Go ye rnln tIII' wnild and preach the Gospel, the good news of the saving power of God through Christ, to every creature." Balanced Again "North Carolina's senators in the United States Congress are balancing things again in Washington. A few days ago Mr. Bailey voted to knock the foundation from Congressman Warren's reorganization bill. Mr. Reynolds vot ed against the amendment proposed to make the reorganization bill just another law with init a inclining It appears that Mr. Bailey cannot depart -fromnhe cuinpaiiy uTtlie administration-hating group long enough to support a congressman or to voice the opinion of the people as they would have that opinion voiced It is apparent that North Carolina will get no where fast as long as Bailey and Reynolds represent it m the austere body. an