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The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA IW. C. MANNING ? Editor ? 1908-1938 ? SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY une year ?i. Six months _ lJ OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year %2. Six months 1. 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 3. 1879. Address all communications to The Enterprise and not individual members of the firm. Tue?day, July 25. I'l.'t'l. I (.<?<></ Invetlmen! The approximately 30 cents per person lev ied by the county authorities for public health' work is recognized as one of the best invest ments ever made by them, and one that offers possibly the greatest return when measured in terms of human life and the general advance ment of everyone, collectively and individual ly, Assessing its people at the rate of six and one hatf cents on the $100 assessed property valua tion for the promotion of public health Martin County is asking very little in proportion to the amount asked in other counties Edgecombe is asking for more than $27,000 as compared with around $7,000 111 this couhty. Other coun ties are asking in excess of $1 per capita against 30 cents in Martin. We levy far greater sums to maintain police protection, to operate the courts and the several other departments. It is safe here to throw out the challenge to any or all those departments and have them show which is offering the greatest return for the amount of monev invested. The value of the various departments is ad muted. They are necessary in our form of gov ernment. and a close inspection will prove that they are operating economically. Let's take a look at the health department and see just what the taxpayer is getting for his JO cents he contributes to its support. Just now a county-wide campaign against typhoid fever is drawing to a close. This campaign, valued in terms of individual treatment, is saving the peo ple enough to run the department for two years or more. No value can be placed on the results accomplished for it is reasonable to belteve tbtrt the lives of some of us have been saved from the fever. Just imagine what it would cost to insure almost twelve thousand people against typhoid fever through regular insurance chan nels, apd then know that only a pecuniary re turn could be expected without any guarantee of health free of fever. The drive against typhoid alone is worth the cost of the health service, but other features of the work are equally as important. The av erage citizen is aware of the work that is being done by the department to check the scourge of venereal diseases. Possibly from this work alone, the county will save in ycats to come Tar more than the entire cost of the department. Then there are the other services when add ed up prove beyond all doubt that the county has made a humane investment that offers a great return. If Slewi/Mi/x'ri Should Sliifl To Radio Stylo The weekly publication Newsdom hopes the frantic publisher does not shift his style to com pete \yith radio, otherwise the- news columns might read something like this: LONDON?Prime Minister Chamberlain de^ nied today at 3:10 Greenwitch Time 10 (a. m. Watchout Time) that Adolph Hitler has given him the, hotfoot in exchange for his policy of appeasement During a stormy session of Pur liameet the Umbrella Man said: "Brief pause for station identification." Before we return you to London we want to . say that Prime Minister Chamberlain is one of millions who finds shaving a pleasure by. us ing Vaino, the lather without palaver. Readers may obtain a copy of the complete text of Prime Minister Chamberlain's speech by enclosing two bottle tops in an envelope and addressing to the editor. BOSTON?Igo Higher, a window washer, terrified hundreds of pedestrians this morning when he found himself suspended three hun dred feet above the street. Higher appeared calm in his prdicament. He pulled out and coughed up a Nicotine?yvhen you say it, smile. Though wisps of smoke marked the ebbing of his life he had no fear despite the fact that he was caught by the seat of his trousers. He had walked up two flights, to Buttons, Needles and Packets (corner of Old Oak and Knotty Pine) thereby saving a pair of pants. The funeral will be held Thursday from Pots and Graves, un dertakers in Boston since the Battle of Bunker Hill. WASHINGTON?Senator Blatherkite, ad ministration foe, was booed and cheered by visitors in the gallery today when he said:?^ "Reformers campaign against capital punish ment but are first-class executioners when it comes to punishing capital." Majority Leader Lobby failed to reply. La ter on it was reported in the cloakroom that Lobby had snickered at Revivo, the drink that's good to the last word. Senator Blatherskite nev er fails to have a refreshing cup of Revivo ev ery night before retiring. Subsidies and Price /legging \ ? There arc those who on the one hand yell to the top of their voices in opposition to the gov ernment's price pegging and liberal farm pol icies, and who on the other hand, enjov direct ly or indirectly huge subsidies from the gov ernment that make the farm hand-outs appear small in comparison. The opposition to the farm payments be moans the fact that the government pegged the price of cotton and lost the foreign markets They can point out some of the most dismal re sults as they follow the farm program, and oddly enough overlook the miserable failures of other government policies, policies that originated long before the present administra tion took office. It is an established fact that the United States government has spent millions upon millions ?subsidizing private und semi-private shipping companies How does the American Merchant Marine compare with that of other countries? . Cotton farmers have more millions coming to them before they will have shared equally at the government feeding trough. Then there are the educational institutions. They have shared liberally in a liberal govern ment policy. Surely, the money was well spent, but just as the cotton subsidy has failed to re lieve the cotton situation so has the education al institution failed to prepare and send out men to lead the millions out of a wilderness. it is a bit disgusting to hoar those who are di rectly or indirectly lapping at the government trough criticise the first program ever attempt ed in an effort to relieve bankrupt agriculture The plight of the cotton farmer did not come about under the Roosevelt administration Bankruptcy in the form of the mortgage en gulfed the cotton farmer back under Mr. Hoov er when, if one will bother to recall, American cotton was selling for five cents a pound, and cotton produced in other countries was being offer on the markets of the world at a figure below that starvation price. Then why all this opposition to a plan that gives the ? neglected farmer a chance to get his mouth m lire trough? along with the hundreds of others? And then those who oppose the cotton pro gram, never offer to suggest what would have happened had the government continued to ig nore agriculture as it did under Mr Hoover and nearly every other president before him. It is possible that during the period from 19.T1 to the present, farm owners would have been re lieved of their lands, their homes and reduced to serfdom by now had a thoughtful govern ment failed to recognize the conditions and re fused to do nothing about those conditions. There is little justice in a world that approves a subsidy for this and that, and belittles or even denies a subsidy to an industry that has strug gled alnngwithout aid. We must remember that it is just as important to save the farmer as it is to save the shipping lines, the educational institutions or even the jiublie health of the nation. /'o/i'dV* ?rstt* fhnbmnt In the recent senatorial argument over"neu trality, was bound up a hefty blow against the business of the country, a blow that Knpnlih? can leadership would direct at business in an effort to drive a political wedge into the forth coming election. It is apparent that neutrality, regardless of its great significance on the world front, was trampled under the feet of politicians who art more interested in a prjjit ieal victory than they are in the peace of the world or in the successful prosecution of business activities at home. It is also apparent that the Republican leadership and a few questionable Democrats have chunk ed reason out the windows of the Nation's Cap itol and reduced the grave issue to a battle of politics against business. The Cull-headed opposition to changes in the neutrality law will literally reach into the pockets, of Martin County farmers and take money from them in the form of lower tobac co prices. At the present time we are helping Japan kill China and with it one of our best ex port markets for tobacco. Under the neutrality act we are shipping war mmerials to Japan that the Japs might kill off our potential custom ers Extend the front and it is reasonable to be lieve that within a period of months, we will not be able to ship tobacco and other commodities to other world markets. It is asking too much of the United States to withdraw from the channels of world trade, but that is just what the neutrality opponents arc asking. Relieving The Situation The announcement of Charles M. Johnson this week stating that he will not be a candidate for governor got front page attention in the State press. The gubernatorial candidate muddle, the papers intimated, has been greatly cleared by Mr. Johnson's announcement. There isn't a great deal of value in Mr. John son's action, as we see it, unless it serves as a hint for quite a few of the remaining dozen or so of the other alleged candidates to withdraw. Interesting Bits of Agricultural News Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace has suggested to Congress that it might be well to extend fed eral crop insurance to cotton because of the large number of hazards fac ed in growing the crop. Wages Wage rates to agneultural work ers increased slightly less than usual during the April-June quarter of this year, and the July wage index was the lowest for the month m.ie cent years Lx ports During the first nine aiontta ol tho current marketing season. the world's eight largest exporting na tions shipped 7.924,000 bales of cot- j ton as compared with 9.250,000 bales last year# ? Decline Cash income from the sale of Am- j encan farm products 111 the first five months of 1939 amounted to $2,400. 000,000. a decline of 4 per cent over ! the same period 111 1938 1 ? Less Livestock slopping losses from | death and injury were 13 per cent less in 1938 than in 1937. according! to a report of the National Livestock j Loss Prevention Board. Progress Ou ners of both dairy and beef cat tle 111 practically all states are mak- j ing substantial progress m eradicat ing Bang's disease from their herds, with North Carolina well to the-front in this effort DR. V. U. MKWBOKN OPTOMETRIST Plymouth office, Liverman Drug' Co., every Fri., 2 to 6 p. m. Hobersonville office, Ross Jewelry Store. Tuesday. August 8 Bethel office Hives Drug Store, Store, Monday. August 21 Eyes Examined - <?lasses Fitted At Tarboro Every Saturday Williamston office, Peele Jly Co , every Fri., 9:30 a. m. to 12 m SALE OF VALUABLE FARM PROPERTY Under and by virtue of the author j ity conferred upon us in a Deed of I Trust executed by William Herman Everett on the 1st day Of December,! 1935, and recorded in Book M-3, page j 493, we will on Saturday, tin- 12th j day of August, 1939. at 12 o'clock tiiion at liie courthouse door in Mar ! tin County, Williamston, N. C , sell at public* auction for cash to the high ' t balder tire following land, to wit: All that certain tract, piece or par *1 of land, containing 123 acres, more or less, situate, lying and being on the Hamilton and Oak City Road about one-half mile East of the town IOf Oak City, Goose Nest Township, Martin County, N. C . having such shape, metes, courses and distances as will more fully appear by refer ence to a map made by J. R. Mobley, Surveyor, on the lHtii day of May, 1923, and adjoining the lands of J. T Daniel on the North and West; the lands of L. T. Chcsson on the East and the* lands of N? M Worse ley on the South, and more particularly de scnb d as follows. BEGINNING at a stake 111 the Hamilton and Oak City Road.*corner >f N. M. Worscks and J T. Daniel;' thence with die line of J. T. Daniel1 N 381 -2* K 81 12 ix.les to a stake:! ind N. 5 1-4* K. 118 1-5 poles to aj stake; thence with the line of J. T. Daniel S. 87 1-2* K 134 1-8 poles to i stake in Conoho Creek; thence with laid crock S 54* K 54 1-3 poles to a rum in said creek; thence with a1 ditch S. 62* W. 57 1-2 poles S. 20* W 22 3-8 poles S 52* W. 25 1-2 poles S. 35* W 10 1-2 poles and N 25* W. 30 poles; thence S 41 3-4* W. 123 poles to the aforementioned road; thence with said road N. 00 1-2 W. 30 2-3 Hides to the beginning anrl. being the same Itnd conveyed t<? the said Cassie M. Davenport by W. F. Haislip by deed dated Dec. 23. 1922. and of record in Martin Coun ty Public Registry in Hook M 2, oage 37. ? ; V -- This land is sold subject to all un paid taxes. This sale is made by reason of the failure of William Herman Everett to pay off and discharge the indebt edness secured by said deed of trust. A deposit of 10 per cent will be required from the purchaser at the sale. This the 11th day of July, 1939. INTERSTATE TRUSTEE CORP Trustee Uurham. N. C. jlyl8-4t SpecialNofice To All Delinquent TAXPAYERS it Ml lw lu-i.nolil uilliin tin- ||1'\I l?'\? ihivs Unii\oMii^ all pniprrty on whirli taxes have not been paid (luring tin* \t ar l*K{7 and all previous yearn. Il w ill fee to your interest to pa\ vour taxes for the above period at oner. Elbert S. Peel Attorney for Martin County W.H.Basnigh t &Co.,Inc WHOLESALE DEALERS ONLY AHOSKIE, N. C. Wholesale Distributors for Eastern Carolina 100% Loyal to the Dealer ?!? 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