The Ei\ terprise
Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the
ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO.
WILLIAMS TON, NORTH CAROLINA
W. C. MANNING |
Editor ? 1908-1938
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gress of March 3. 1870.
Address all communications to The Enterprise
and not individual members of the firm.
Friilay, Jam? 9, 1939.
I.imitif! Their Influence
Entertaining the belief that the press can do
no wrong, many "yelping" publishers have ex
ploited the public, dynamited the foundation
of real democracy and released bales of criti
cism against those who would stop that ex
ploitation and save them from themselves.
Writing in the Louisville "Courier Journal"
a few days ago Mark Etheridge offers a timely
and stinging rebuke to those newspapermen of
the Gannett ilk, as follows:
"The future of the American press does not
lie in the working of some mysterious miracle
by an alchemist of the profession. It is wholly
bound up in the character and the intelligence
of the men who own and run newspapers.
"If the publishers of America go on blindly
resisting the demands for change in the social
order; if they go on interpreting those changes
in terms of out-of-pocket costs to themselves,
'regardless of the general welfare; if they go on
trying to pull America back into a world she
will never know again; then newspapers are
doomed to continued retreat.
"But if the publishers of this country have
the intelligenee^to use the freedom which they
have so long enjoyed; if they have prescience
to see that thy lost their leadership and their
influence when they deserted the marching
army of democracy, and if they realize that
they can regain it only when they know again
what the poor as well as the rich are thinking;
if they have the humility to listen to the real
voice that is America?the voice of the agricul
tural plains and the factories; if they have the
determination, as Lincoln had, to "hunt the
hidden purpose". _up the winds of justice; if
they have, above everything else, the deter
mination to make some contribution toward
the advancement of democracy, then they need
not fear for their economic welfare or for their
freedom."
Thin Hafflinn II orhi
It's all so baffling.
The agricultural colleges tell the farmers
how to produce more when there is an admit
ted-surplus. _uf farm commodities.
The bankers tell us to be thrifty and save
money, and right now the banks are bulging
with money.
Every chamber of commerce is trying to get
new industries to locate in their towns when,
to tell the truth, industry now can run half time
and supply the demands for its products.
The Unitr.H Statfi, ,mH FnglnnH, tun, spent
millions to build submarines to kill men in
war and then turn around and spend hundreds
of thousands trying to rescue a few men trap
ped in one of the death-dealing things.
There is no suggestion for the agriculturists
to stop teaching, there is sound advice in the
banker's recommendation to save; it is well for
the chambers of commerce to be alive and
working for new industries, and it may be well
for Uncle Sam and Johnnie Bull to build sub
marines costing millions, but the whole dog
gone business seems queer because we are not
trying to expand the markets and feed the poor
to put those savings that are bulging the bank
vaults to work in the interest of down-trodden
mankind, to extend the necessities of life to the
millions who now do not share in the products
of industry, and because we are not trying to
work for peace by peaceful means.
Iloneity Bett Policy
I ,
Rutherford News.
We have all heard the saying, "Honesty is the
Best Policy." There are some people in this
county who are losing their credit. In other
words, their word is not their bond. They have
lost more than they realize. It is nothing short
of a tragedy for a young person starting out in
life with bright prospects to be labeled: "He
will not pay his debts. He is dishonest. He will
not do."
Our young people need to be taught the
value nt honesty and truthfulness. They also
need to be taught to be good citizens. They
need to learn that to be a good citizen one
must be honest, truthful and willing to pay his
debts, taxes and other obligations promptly.
The fact that nearly 1,000 mentally unbalanc
ed persons were confined in the common coun
ty jails in this State last year is a disgrace di
rectly chargable to the lawmakers and adminis
tration heads.
During the past few years, the various
branches of government have been greatly ex
tended, vast buildings have been erected to
house thus commission and tha'l commission,
but little or nothing has been done to care for
the unfortunate ones who have rotted and died
in the common jails, their feeble cries unheard.
If the present administration with its strong
support from a great party cannot remedy such
a disgraceful situation then it is high time that
someone else was called upon to offer suffer
ing humanity treatment deserving of a human
being. It is a disgrace for a State with all its
vast power to tax. tax, tax and tax to shirk its
duty when it comes to the insane.
It is time to stop so much boasting about the
State's credit and how cheaply its bonds can be
sold, and start doing something about a bad sit
uation which counterbalances all the assets
claimed or otherwise possessed including a
great governor.
Today, in the common jail of this county, two
mentally unbalanced persons are dying by de
grees for the want of proper attention. Their
cries are not heard around the tables in Ral
?igh where too everlastingly much attention is
centered on plum picking and rewards to the
faithful
I'rolection ifininst Faken
Mors anion News llerald.
In a town not far from Morganton an adver
tising outfit operated a scheme recently which
left a number of the merchants bereft (if their
cash and with reflections of another sad ex
perience with fakers. As a rule merchants arc
like newspaper editors?a gullible lot. They are
easily "sold" on any proposition that "sounds
good". In the aforesaid town the publisher
wanted to send out a general warning all over
the State advising other newspapers and,
through them, local merchants to beware of
this promotion bunch.
The proposition narrows down to the fact
that in cases of this kind each community must
be organized to take care of it?.'lf. Warnings
are all right, but usually when the offending
group has pulled such a stunt in one State they
move on immediately to another?or at least
to great enough distance that they are not eas
ily caught. Thi- best way to check their ef
forts is not to let them get started in the first
place.
For years in Morganton we have had a
"sanction committee" in the Merchants Asso
ciation. The merchant who wants to protect
himself against schemes and schemers has
learned sometimes by bitter experience?to
inquire whether or not the proposition has the
approval of this sanction committee.
Apparently throughout the State merchants
are learning that Ujey must organize, not only
for mutual protection but in the interest of the
general good and advancement of their indi
vidual communities. Morganton has no great
er asset than the local Merchants Association
and Chamber of Commerce.
In this connection we are interested in the
program of work outlined for the newly organ
ized merchants' association at Waynesville. .It
offers objectives that any association might
strive to attain. We would call special atten
tion to No. 2 of the proposals, but all arc worth
while: ?? .
??1. Community
2 Uniform policy as to outside advertising so
lieitom.
3. Promotion of good roads. i .
4. Promotion of completion of Blue Ridge
Parkway.
!i. Formulation of policy as to legislation af
fecting merchants.
6. Regulation of store hours.
7. Regulation of holiday observance.
8. Joint action in promotion of community.
!). Promotion of industry.
10. Promotion of better stores.
77/? To Pedestrian*
Transcript and Messenger.
If you walk on the highway in dark clothing
at night you greatly endanger your life.
The automobile driver, even if his machine
has the best of lights, may not be able to see
you until he is directly upon you. Until it is too
late for him to avoid an accident.
Highway accident statistics are grim with
their listings of lives of pedestrians snuffed out
while walking at night along highways, espe
cially m the rural sections.
Here is a valuable tip if you are forced to do
some walkmg along the highway at aight. Wear
light colored clothing if you can. In so doing
you have greatly increased your visibility to
the automobile driver.
If you can't wear light-colored clothes, do
the next best thing. Carry a newspaper in your
hand, a newspaper partly unfolded so it can be
seen easily. Or tie a handkerchief on your sleeve
giving it as much spread as possible.
And always walk off the highway facing The
traffic that is approaching you.
Elemental little ideas, aren't they? But used
they may save a life.
He who has the truth at his heart need never
fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. ?
Ruskin.
DB. V. H. MEWBORN
Plymouth office, Livennan Drug
Co., every Frl, i to 9 p. m.
Robersonville office, Ross Jewelry
Store, Tuesday, May 23.
Bethel office: Rives Drug Store,
Store, Monday, May 22.
Eyes Examined - Glasses Fitted
At Tarboro Every Saturday
Williamston office, Peele Jly Co.,
every Fri., 6:30 a. m. to 12 m
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAI.
ESTATE
North Carolina, Martin County.
Under and by virtue of the pow
er and authority contained in that
certain deed of trust executied by
Gurthie E Ayers, unmarried, to Jo
seph J. Cockcrham, Trustee, which
said deed of trust is dated Septem
ber 15, 1934, and recorded in Book
M-3, at page 251. of the Martin
County Registry, default having
been made in the payment of the in
debtedness thereby secured and in
the condition therein secured, the
undersigned substituted trustee by
instrument recorded in Book Z-3, at
page 28. Martin County Registry,
will on Saturday. June 24, 1939. at
or about twelve o'clock Noon at the
courthouse door at Williamston.
North Carolina, offer for sale and
sell to the highest bidder for cash
the following described property:
All those certain pieces, parcels
and tracts of land, situate, lying and
being in Hamilton Township. Martin
County, State of North Carolina, and
described as follows:
FIRST TRACT: Beginning at the
corner of Tract No. 5. which is now
owned by R. W. Salisbury, running
thence North 7 1-2 degrees. East 843
feet to a ytob: thence Nortti 5 East
157 feet to the corner of Lot No. 7.
which is now owned by Collin Green;
thence running along Collin Green's
line North 84 degrees West 3367 feet
to Rocky Swamp, thence along the
various courses of Rocky Swamp
South 8 East 200 feet; thence South
16 West 100 feet; thence South 13
West 200 feet; thence Southeast 600
household uses
"j 11
Palmolive 3 for 20c
Super Suds (Red Box)
Regular 3 for 25c
Super Suds (Red Box)
Giant 2 for 35c
Super Suds (Blue Box)
Regular 3 for 25c
Super Suds (Blue Box)
Giant 2 for 43c
Octagon Soap (giant) 6 for 25c
Octagon Soap (small) 10 for 23c
Octagon Powder (Large) 6 f'r 25c
Octagon Po'der (small) 10 for 23c
Octagon Toilet 0 for 25c
Octagon Cleanser 2 for 9c
Octagon Chips 2 for 18c
Octagon Granulated 2 for 18c
Crystal White Soap 3 for 14c
Hollywood Beauty Soap 3 for 14c
Creme Oil Soap 3 for 14c
Moore Grocery Go.
PHONE 169
feet to Lot 5; thence along Lot 5,
which is now owned tre R W Galia
bury South 84 East 3044 feet to the
beginning, containing seventy-five
and two-tenths (75.2) acres, to be
the same more or less, bounded on
the North by the lands of Collin
Green, on the East by LaFayette
Station, on the South by R. W. Sal
isbury, on the West by Collin Green.
SECOND TRACT: Beginning on
the road at the corner of Lot 13, run
ning thence along the line of Lot 13,
which is now owned by W. A. Peak,
North 34 1-2 East 1857 feet to Wolf
Pitt Swamp; thence the various
courses of Wolf Pitt Swamp North
51 West 250 feet; thence South 45
West 150 feet; thence South 22 West
100 feet; thence North 83 West 450
feet; thence North 72 West 900 feet;
thence North 64 1-2 West 500 feet;
thence North 73 West 500 feet; thence
North 81 1-2 West 100 feet to Lot 8,
now owned by Kennie Williams;
thence South 8 West 1908 feet, a
road^thencc^alon^Ru^roat^Soufli
57 East 1860 feet to the beginning,
containing ninety-tlx aKt three
tenth* (96.3) acres, to be the same
more or less, bounded on the North
by J. A. Kitchin, on the East by W.
A. Peak, on the South by W. A. Peak,
>r^h^VesO>^CennitMVilliam^^^
Terms of sale cash and trustee will
require depusit of 10 per eent of the
amount of the bid as evidence of
good faith.
This 24th day of May, 1939.
W. A. GERALD.
m28-4t Substituted Trustee.
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