The Enterprise
Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the
ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO.
WILLIAMSTON. NORTH CAROUNA
?. C. MANNING
Editor ? 19(18-1938
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Keeping >/<?/; II illi I'rapress
Contrary to general < xpressions, the removal
of passenger trains lrofn the railroads of this
section does not denote a downward trend in
business. This Section has merely moved for
ward and is now enjoying a ni"ie modern scrv
lve offered by the bus line operator: abandon
ing the old iron horsi and tin allied slow sched
ules.
Where the railroad once offered four trains
daily, the bus operators are offering seventeen
schedules daily and added ones over the week
end. Briefly stated, the rail servici was simple
out-moded, the traffic turning to tile bus opera
tors who offer four connections to Kaleigh. five
to Norfolk two to Columbia and six to Wash
ington and Wilmington daily
The action of the rail operators m discontin
uing their passenger tr'n'a o pn-.vlmji in thai
there has been an apparent increase in travel,
and that they vs ill have to maintain virtually
the same equipment and personnel 111 carry mg
on its remaining activities
Imltwlry Speak*
Speaking for the tobacco industry recently
in White Sulphur Springs, Mr. J. S Ficklin, ]
president of the. United States Tobaseo asso
ciation declared that there was danger m a
control law. and that a disastrous effect had
followed the wage and ltout law in this indus
try.
Before a control law was ever thought of in
this country there was danger in the tobacco
business. Thousands upon thousands of tobac
co farmers lost their farms and the shirts from
lheir-Jjaek^ icying-b' i arse and market u crop -
below the cost of production while just on the
opposite side of the fence there were the many
rolling in almost unlimited wealth wrung from
the weed.
The control law may be loaded with poten
tial danger: it may upset the economic system,
but thank the powers that be. the fellow on the
other side of the fence was for once recognized
as a human being For once the farmer's prob
lems were given consideration as they relate
to cost of production, mortgages, debt and un
derfed and over-worked children who have
been denied an"opportunity of a common school
education on large numbers of farms right here
in Martin County and in Mr. Ficklin's domain
nf Pitt right near hy
The wage and hour law may effect a change
in industry, but long before the wage and hour
law, industry was wrecking the human man,
the row upon row of human misery in sight of
tobacco factories offer mute evidence to the
rapid downfall of man before the wage and
hour law came into being.
We hav< talked about industry, we have
talked about manufacturing, we have talked
about the budget, debt and relief burden. They
are worthy of consideration, and no one denies
that they should not bo given due considera
tion. But in doing all that talking there hasn't
... lieeri a great dial .mid about the famit'l. ttlT
workoi and the unemployed We forget that
Ulidi'r the old order of things, conditions were
rapidly growing worse, a climax having been
reached in the early thirties when workers in
a tobacco stemmcry in one of the larger tobac
co marketing centers ripped boards from their
homes and burned them to keep from freezing.
It is possible that those who are attacking the
control law . the wage and hour act and other
similar measures never saw or have forgotten
those conditions but those very conditions
prompted the changes that are called radical.
Those conditions in the early thirties prompted
the construction of a $76,000 amusement park
m a little tobacco center, an armory in anoth
er .an amusement park in another, and so on
and on until we have spenbhillinns trying?tte
rectify the impossible that the country is do
" '?|l *' h- M' Iinp.il .mil
half is overfed
The prosperity enjoyed pi ior to 1933 m this
country was based upon the poverty of the far
mer and common laborer It was a known fact
that heads of families were drawing 75 cents a
day and paying $3 a week house rent. Figure
out tin difference and see how much the man
with his average family 61 five had to live on.
1'iese'it conditions may lend lo one of fhe groat.
t st explosions ever beard, but the report will
be no loudei and the results no more than those
tl t were certain to follow had the policies of
1.(30 been continued
Labor has been v. rang in mariv cases, and
the farmer may have wanted more than a fair
price for his products, but agriculture and la
bor are nccssary and they must be given fair
consideration. If Hie luntiol law is not the best
pLm for solving the agricultural problem and,
if the wagi and hour law does not offer the best
solution to. the labor problem, then let those
who denounce them offer plans of their own
and not merely slip back to the old system
where alleged prosperity of one-half the pco
ph was based on the poverty of the other half.
Wore Kducutioii 'Needed
It the general public had seen two little white
children eating out of a backlot garbage can
here a few days ago, they would likely hesitate
a long time-before openly opposing greater ap
propriations for health work and education in
general
II was not a matter' of poverty that the two
little children fanned away the flies and pull
od half i rot leu oranges from the garbage pail
and sucked them. The trouble in the particular
case is traceable to the home where the parents
apparently failed to teach their children tin
danger of eating decayed foods. Or it is possible
the parents do not include an occasional orange
m the diet, but center their ioorf purchases on
fat back, lard and soggy biscuits,
The case at hand and others, too. offer a prob
lem, u problem that only education in health
can solve.
Tins iv tin' season when mnthri-i li urn linw
well teachers e
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WnXIAMSTON. N. C.
RliiLs On Modern
Homes Reach New
Low Point In U. S.
Washington, D. C. ? The lowest
rents for decent modern homes ever
reached in this country have been
achieved in some of the first housing
projects nearing completion by local
authorities with the aid of the Unit- J
ed States Housing Autohrity. This
fact was revealed today by Nathan I
Straus, USHA administrator fln- ]
nouncing the rent schedules actually
set by the local authorities of Austin. J
Texas; Jacksonville, Fla.; Buffalo,
N. Y., and New York City.
With an average shelter rent of
$6.59 monthly for a family dwelling,
Austin has set a record," Mr. Straus
said. "Higher costs for materials, la
bor and maintenance in the other
free cities compel rents higher than
this unbelievably low figure. Yet in
all of them the rents for the well
built new homes are actually lower
than the average rents now paid for
slum dwellings."
The average monthly shelter rents
per family announced for the Jack
sonville .project at $10.58; for two
projects in Buffalo the average is
$13.25; for the Red Hook project in
Brooklyn, it is about $17.00
Mr Straus pointed out that these
low rents mean that the local author
itics participating in the lTt?H ft prn
gram will Actually rehouse low-in
come families now compelled to live
in the slums. He said that the proj
ects will serve families with average
annual incomes estimates as follows:
Austin, $40Q, with some as low as
$300; Jacksonville, $750, with some as
low as $500; the project for white
families in Buffalo, $850, with some
as low as $600 and the Negro project
in Buffalo, $750, with some as low as
$500; New York Citvr $950. with snrr??.
as low as $700.
"Private capital cannot provide
new housing for income groups much
below the $1,750 class." said Mr.
Straus "These figures reveal how
far from competing with private cap
ital is the USHA program. Only
those families living in slums and
definitely substandard housing and
having insufficient income to pay for
decent housing are eligible f"r rej
ects built with USHA aid "
Under its preaent program t,, n.
house 160,000 low-income families,
the USHA lends local authorities 90
per cent of the total development
cost of approved projects. To bring
rents within the reach of low-in
come families, the authority makes
an annual grant and the local au
thority supplements this with an
annual grant, usually in the form of
tax exemption.
W ilkes C.onnty II titi'lies
( rut alarm Demonstration
If the 20 crotalarfa demonstrations
now being conducted turn out suc
cessfully, this legume crop will be
added to the list of soil improving
crops m Wilkes County.
Clean-Up Drive By
Beer Distributors
Raleigh ? With the institution of
license revocation proceedings on
June 20 against Mecklenburg coun
ty retailers of malt beverages, law
flouting retail bc^r outlets were
served with a stern warning by the
Brewers and North Carolina Beer
Distributors Committee, pledged to
a "close-up or clean-up campaign."
Col. Edgar H. Bain, State Director,
appeared before the Mecklenburg
board of county commissioners to
request thaf the surrendpr of three
licenses be ordered. In all instances,
licensees had recently been convict
ed in the courts of law violations.
Hugh McAuley, solicitor of the
Mecklenburg County court, appear
ed with Col. Bain to certify to the
court records and to urge revoca
tion.
At the conclusion of evidence, the
board instructed Sheriff Mack Riley
to summons the licensees to appear
the following week "to show cause
why their licenses should not be re
voked."
Despite the fact that the number
of licensees involved in the Charlotte
proceedings was small, law-enforce
ment officials described the action
as "highly important" in view of the
fact thqt it marked the first effort
of the distributors organization in
its statewide self-regulatory cam
paign
Closely associated u ith the di.stn.
butors is the United Brewers Indus
trial Foundation, whose membership
is composed of many of the nation's
brewers both large and small.
Establishments whose conduct is
offensive to public opinion will con
i'lntiini Expeeted Home From
Hot Springs Early In July
Continuing to show improvement.
Farmer Jim Staton, who is catching
up with his baths out in Hot Springs,
Ark., will likely leave the health re
sort some time next week and follow
an easy driving schedule back home.
Mr. Staton is definitely better, ad
vices from his hotel Tuesday said. He
went there on a cot, unable to raise
his feet. He is walking about now and
can dress himself with the exception
of tieing his necktie.
Taken ill on April 27, Mr. Staton
continued to grow worse until he
left on June 11 and started receiving
treatment at the health resort He
now weighs only 204, looks very well
and is quite cheerful, a direct re
port from his doctor this week stal-1
ed.
Seed Treating Demonstration
Conductetl In Polk County
Demonstrations conducted in Polk
County this year showed 5 per cent
ethyl mercury chloride dust to be
more effective than the 2 per cent
dust in controlling damping-off dis
ease of cotton.
stitute the target for proceedings
similar to those recently launched in
Mecklenburg, which will be institut
ed on a statewide basis. Members in
the ten districts of the organization
have been apprised of committee
plans at organization meetings he
Tore which Col. Bain lias appeared.
Extension of the' initial activities, j
pleted as rapidly as possible
IN MEMOK1AM
A tribute of love to the memory
of my dear mother, Mary E. Revels,
who pasiad away
10, 1918. - ?
No one knows how much I miss
you; no one knows the bitter pain
I have suffered; since I last saw you
life has never been the same. In my
heart your memory lingers, sweetly,
tender, fond and true; there is not a
day, dear mother, that I do not think
of you. I think of you in silence, no
eye may see me weep; but many si
lent tears are shed, when others are
asleep. Mother, dear, may your
slumber, be as gentle as your love,
and when God calls me homeward,
may we meet in heaven above.
Your loving daughter,
Mrs. Ella Moore.
NOTICE or RE-SALE
North Carolina, Martin County. In
The Superior Court.
Jonah Council vs. Matilda Woo ten
and husband, Arthur Wooten,
Mary Council. Claudine Council
and husband. Loumes Council, Ni
na Council, Levi Council and Lur
line Council, and Kufus Chance,
trustee.
' Under aftd by virtue of an.order of
re-sale made by L. B. Wynne, Clerk
' of the Superior Court of Martin
County, in the above entitled pro
ceedings on the 21st day of June.
1939. the undersigned commissioner
will, on Friday, the 7th day of July,
| 1939, at twelve o'clock noon, in front
of the courthouse door in the town
of Williamston, offer for salt to the
highest bidder for cash the following
described real estate, to wit;
A certain tract or parcel of land
situated on the public road leading
from Hassell. N. C_ to Tarboro. N.
C . adjoining the lands of Owens
SptuiU, George Frank Roberson, J.
H. Rawls and Arden Council, con
lainihg 24 atTes. more or less, and
known as a portion of the Luke
Council lands.
This the 21st day of June, 1939
ELBERT S. PEEL,
^^n^^lv^^^^^^^ommissioner^^^
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