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The ErsTERPRisE Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMS TON. NORTH CAROLINA w. C. MANNING I Editor ? 1908 1938 ? SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year $175 Sue months 1.00 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year $2.29 Six months 1.2S No Subscription Received Under 6 Months Advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the post office in W illiamston, N C . as second-class matter under the act of Con gress of March 3. 1878. Address all communications to The Enterprise and not individual members of the firm. TufHilar. Wuv 10. ltt3'J. (?oldvii Oppurtunity The annual visit here by the Orford Orphan age Singing Class affords the community a gol den opportunity to reflect on one phase of life that is being crowded into the background by a.mechanical handling of those problems so closely related to unfortunate human beings Makmg une of their numerous stops all over the State, the little group of singers besides of fering a splendid program here a few evenings ago exemplified the human side of the equation and brought to the minds of those in the audi ence a clearer and more realistic understanding of the problems surrounding the broad relief and welfare program in this State and country. The little representatives seemed to furnish that little human touch that made one feel that institutions like the Oxford Orphanage and the many others were not established merely to take in a homeless child and relieve someone else of the important task, but to take the or phan in and teach and train him.in the finer ways of life, to equip him with the proper tools in running the race of life, to stress the human side of the ledger. One of the major causes for the ineffective ness in our modern welfare and relief system is found in the almost complete elimination of the human feature We center entirely and everlast ingly too much attention and time and waste too much money in the preparation and handl ing of extensive and numerous reports that are of questionable value as compared with possi bilities under a program that had its activities attuned to the human side of the ledger. We find the cost figures interesting, and glory in a reduction of relief expenditures, little car ing about the fate of the unwanted child, the aged and infirm We are more interested 111 sta tistics showing to the ounce the amount of this food or that article distributed to the needy, car ing little about the relief afforded by the distri bution of those articles. In short, we can- little about the welfare of others or about the needt, of others We are more interested in the possi bility of reductions in taxes than we are in the reduction of want and human misery experienc fd by otlieis. ? :? The presence of the little Oxford singers of iered one an opportunity to see the otliei side of the picture, but, sad to relate, there were few who offered to take advantage of the golden opportunity. C.toiP the trap ~ ? Discussingthe main causes for automobile accidents and urging every man, woman and child in North Carolina to participate in a drive to check the wanton slaughter by car and truck, nationally-known traffic authorities and safety engineers pointed out just a few days ago that out-moded roads were directly responsible for a large number of accidents and deaths on the highways. These roads built,fifteen and twenty years ago were designed fpr travel averaging 30-40 miles an hour It is to be admitted that at least 90 per cent of the main highway system in this State can handle traffic safely at that speed to day. But to complicate the system, the car man ufacturer, producing possibly an ever better product, increased the potential speed to a point all out of reason. The public, caring not to give the allied dangers and cost .accompanying that potential speed any serious thought, welcomed the speedometer with big numbers on it. That the motorist will even surrender the right to run 60 or better is doubtful, leaving the high way builders with their out-moded roads in a quandary. Repeatedly calling attention to insufficient funds, the highway builders are not able to meet the speed requirement, and the sensible thing to do is close the gap now existing be tween the 35-mile road and the 70-mile automo bile. Twenty years ago, human engineers never dreamed of the 70-mile-an-hour car. Today, en gineers can dream of future requirements with no great degree of canniness, and if the problem is solved now it will have to be solved again within a decade or two if we pursue the same plan of solution some are proposing. The auto manufacturer is creating a speed demon and placing it on the market at a low cost, to be sure. But in that creation,'he is build ing up a need for a heavy tax burden, a burden that is manifesting itself every time a gasoline pump looms into view, every time he lists his machine for taxation, every time he pays sales tax on a tire and so on. Today, the present tax structure will not support a 40 or 47 million dollar modernization program. And as for di verting gas taxes from the highway fund, the facts are that the property tax has participated in the cost of highway construction to a great er extent than many realize?about one-half million dollars in this country. It is apparent then that the approach to the safety problem bv modnizing highways is eco nomically next to impossible, that the motor car manufacturers can contribute to the safety of life, limb and property by backing up with their speed program Let the manufacturers hold the potential speed of their cars to a rea sonable point, then the light-thinking motor ist will slow down and accidents and killings on the highways will decrease The (out Strike During recent weeks, the country has been talking about the coal strike that has upset the economic equilibrium to a great extent in some sections of the country. No one has ventured to attach the blame to any particular group, but it has been apparent that some are dead sure the workers and union leaders are the cause of the strike. At this time, 110 one has reaped any reward from the strike except the coal barons them selves. A fairly large consumer in this section of the State, points out that he can get plenty ul coal by paymg a $2 premium. It is possible that the coal barons negotiated the strike to lower existing stocks and jack the price. With very few exceptions, there is more than one side to every case, but to hear some of the big boys talk they are representing the right and only side, that labor has brought about de pressions, that the masses create all the pover ty, that the big industrial leaders can do no wrong and that whatever prosperity this coun try has enjoyed in the past and hopes to enjoy ;n the future will be at the hands of the mani pulators. Allowing the coal miners refused to work, one who would offer to go into the bowels of the earth, face the dangers there and meet the demands of the operator, would possibly favor a strike himself. (tne-Day Observance In our fast dash through life we are finding time for only a one-day observance of the finer things in life. In a single day, we pause partial ly, too, to recognize the principles underlying the finer things liriife, but during the 364 re maining daytrWC inciW?.> our speed in the wor ship of the material thiugs, things that unques tionably have been proved of doubtful and no lasting value. We devote only one day for this or that good cause and devote too many days to those things that are of doubtful cause. Possibly in that ac tion can be found some of the causes underlying our topsy-turvy social system today, Democracy Looks At The Child Christian Science Monitor. Proceedings of the fourth White House Con ference on Children, opened by President Roosevelt 011 Wednesday, throws sharply into focus the different approaches which Democ racy and dictatorships make to childhood. Dem ocracy looks at childhood and takes a long view. It sees the child as having a contribu tion of its own to make to family, community and national life. Its concern, therefore, is to provide its children with an environment that aids their spiritual development and supports their moral nature; to give them opportunities of cultivating their natural talents, that they may take their places as creative citizens of a free society. Not for Democracy's children the sledge ham mer methods which deal with youth as merely raw material to be worked and shaped into tools that will serve the ends of whatever au tocratic leader happens to be in power. Not for them the drills in slogans and propaganda that warp a child's vision of the world in which it lives and transgress its inherent perception of the brotherhood of man. Democracy's concept of childhood is nearer the recognition of the child's spiritual nature which was proclaimed by him who set a child in the midst of his students and counseled them to "become as little children" if they desired to enter into the kingdom for which his teach ings were preparing them. Nearer is it, too, to the vision which Mary Baker Eddy had of childhood when she wrote: "Ah, children, you are the bulwarks of free dom, the cement of society, the hope of our race!" (Pulpit and Press, 9-1.) The specific question which the forthcoming'' conference is to consider is, "What is a child's place in a Democracy?" If the answer which its deliberations yield to the challenge of this question is as sound in idealistic values and as helpful in promoting a practical program as were the results of the three earlier confer ences, it will be another milestone in the pro gress of American childhood. "Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other."?Addison. NOTICE I hereby prohibit any person or persons, from cutting and selling any limber or wood on or from the W. A. Peel farm, commonly known as the Winbury farm, near Hamilton, N C. Any individual found guilty of this act will be duly prosecuted. P. P PEEL, Administrator of the m2-4t W. A. Peel Estate. BOND ORDER?Board of Commis sioners of Martin County for Cross Roads Township. Be it ordered by the Board ol Commissioners of the County of Martin, State of North Carolina: 1. That bonds of Cross Roads Township shall be 4ssued in the ag gregate principal amount of $50, 000.00 for the purpose of refunding the following described valid out standing bonds of said Cross Roads Township, to wit: $50,000.00, 6 per cent Cross Roads Township bonds, dated April 1st. 1921, due and payable $5,000.09 thereof on the 1st day of April, in each of the years 1937, 1938. 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 and 1940. 2. A statement of the debt of Cross Roads Township, Martin County, North Carolina, has been filed with the Clerk of the Board of Commis sioners of Martin County and is open to public inspection. 3. This order shall take effect upon its passage and shall not be submitted to the voters. The foregoing order was finally passed on the 1st day of May, 1939, and was first published on the 2nd Hay nf May 1939. Any action or proceeding questioning the validity of said order must be commenced within thirty (30) days after its first publication. J. SAM GETSINGER. Clerk of Board of County m2-9 Commissioners NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina, Martin County. Under and by virtue of a judg ment of the Superior Court of Mar tin County in an action entitled "M. D. Wilson, et al. vs. William An drewi, et al", the undersigned com missioners will, on the 27th day of May, 1139, at twelve o'clock, noon, in front of the courthouse door in Martin County offer for sale to the highest bidder, for cash, the follow ing described lands, to wit: FIRST TRACT: Being the house and lot and one acre of land upon which said house and lot are situat ed as described in the will of the late Moses Andrews. SECOND TRACT: Bounded by Highway No. 90 and a road leading from Highway No. 90 to Daniel and Slaton Mill, 25 acres of land which was allotted to Aaron Andrews in a special proceeding in Book 10, page 2, now owned by M. D. Wilson, the Smithwick heirs, Eason land and others, containing 75 acres, saving and excepting house and lot tract. THIRD TRACT What is known as the Moses Andrews old home place, adjoining Isaac Nichols, High way, a lane, Delia Griffin land and containing 6 acres, more or less. FOURTH TRACT: Bounded by Highway No 90, road leading from Highway No. 90 to Daniel and Sta ton Mill, church and Georgia Cotan che land, containing one-fourth (1-4) acre, more or less This the 25th day of April, 1939 B. A CRITCHER, E. S. PEEL. H G HORTON, a28-4t Commisioners. NOTICE SERVING SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION North Carolina, Martin County. In Superior Court. Fannie Coffield, Widow of Augustus Coffield, Deceased, vs. Jane Over ton and William Cherry, et als, and Any and All other persons claiming an Interest in the Sub- j ject matter of this proceeding. The defendants, Jane Overton, William Cherry, Josephine Morning Davis, Tiiomas Coffield, Albert Cof field, Jane Staton, Henry Staton, Earl Brown, William Brown, Myr tie Keel Moore, Lizzie Coffield Rob erson, and any and all other persons claiming an interest in the subject matter of the proceedings, entitled' as above, has been filed in the Su perior Court of Martin County, in which proceeding said petitioner is skm^^ha^ie^Jower^e^Uotted in certain lands wherein the defen dants claim an interest. Said lands being described as follows: First Tract: A certain farm located in Martin County which is bounded by J. B. Rawls, Lester House and Joe Williams, containing 55 acres, more or less, and known as the Rawls or Williams tract of land. Second Tract: That certain farm located in Martin County which is' bounded by J. B. Roberson, J. R. Daniels and Jack Taylor, containing 105 acres, more or less, and known as the Jolley or Coburn tract of land. Third Tract: That certain house and lot in the Town of Roberson- [ ville, located on Railroad Street, ad-I joining the lands of H. B. Moore and Arch Roberson and known as the Dougan house and lot or Susie Cof field house and lot. Fourth Tract: That certain house and lot on the South side of Rail road Street in the Town of Rober sonville and being the premises next to and adjoining the lot of R. L. Smith's residence formerly known as the J. E. Moore home place. Fifth Tract: Being two adjoining lots and houses thereon and the va cant lot back of the houses on the corner of First South Railroad Street and Cochran Street in the Town of Kobersonville. and being the houses which are commonly known aa the Theo Lloyd and John Haasell lota. said property being bounded on the North by W. T. Hunt, and being the lota 93, 94 and vacant lot back of same on the East side of property. Sixth Tract: Being the two-itory house and the lot on the corner of Vick and First South Railroad Street, on the West of Ida Moore's residence and on the South aide of her garage lot Seventh Tract; Being the apart ment house on Fint South Railroad Street obtained from Phon Coffield on the corner of Vick Street Eighth Tract: A house and lot in the Town of Robersonville, N. C. All other real property owned by Augustus Coffield, during his cover ture with this petitioner. Said defendants will further take notice that they are required to ap pear before the Clerk of the Super ior Court of Martin County at his office in Williamston, N. C? on or before the 10th day of June, 1939, and answer or demur to said peti tion, copies of which have been filed in said office, or petitioner will ap ply to the court for the relief de manded in the petition. This the 27th day of April, 1939. L. B. WYNNE, Clerk of Superior Court, Martin a28-4t County, North Carolina. Hail INSURANCE Let us insure your tobacco against damage by hail. Last year over S0.000 farmers in the Southeast suffered severe hail losses. For the small additional cost of 4 per cent we can insure your cost of fertilizer and labor by a hail policy. Don't you think this would be a cheap investment? Write or come to see us. It will cost you no more to write this policy now than it would on July 1st. Let us cover your crop now. HARRISON AND CARSTARPHEN WILLIAMSTON. N. C. Insure take theHisk yourself?. Let the insurance cotnpany take the risk of loss. You should have the protec tion of high-grade insurance, safeguard ing you against any disaster. Life INSURANCE for every Need and Purpose We represent only companies that prompt ly pay their losses under all circumstances. W. G. PEELE INSURANCE WILLI AMSTON HARRIS Cream Flour Proper milling of the best grade wheat grown h a made "Harris (ircaiu Flour" a superior grade of flour. The enthusiasm of thousands of happy users of (.ream Flour proves the outstand ing value of this product. CHOICE PATENT BLCACHIP , j Mis. Housewife?Try HARRIS CREAM FLOOR The next time you purchase flour ami if the results are not satis factory your grocer will gladly refund your money for every hag of HARRIS ("REAM FLOUR is guaranteed to give perfect sat isfaction. Demand HARRIS CREAM FLOUR from your grocer and enjoy the hest cake, pie or hiscu its you ever ate. W.H.Basnight &Co.,Inc. WHOLESALE DEALERS ONLY AHOSKIE, N. C
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