The Eis terprise
Published Every Tuesday and Friday by tlie
ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO.
WILLIAMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA
W. C. MANNING
Editor ? 1908-1938
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Tucstltr). October ,'i 1. I'i.'iV.
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Refusing to drift along in a casual fashion
that characterizes the records of so many clubs
and other civic organizations, the local Junior
Woman's Club has undertaken to underwrite
the 1939 Red Cross Roll Call 111 the community
this year The leaders and members of the club
are to be commended for accepting the task.
At the beginning, tin- young citizens should
be warned against the difficulties that face them
and the apparent failure that will haunt them
as the drive gets underway. Theirs is no easy
task in this day and age when repeated demands
are made for this cause and that cause A loeal
business man estimated that these claims, all
of them justified, no doubt, cost him in excess
of $200 annually, on an average And then, too.
financial ratings are not as high this fall as
they have been in the past, and such a condi
tion will only aggravate the situation
Regardless of the merits of past claims for"
donations and contributions, the merit of the
Red Cross call and the plea for war-stricken
refugees is not to be questioned Everyone in
this community, with some few exceptions, can
well afford to look to his budget and advance
a dollar for the Red Cross and several dollars
to the refugee fund.
?The Mai tin CounU Red Cross chapter, em
bracing Williamston. has accepted its pro
rata share of the burden occasioned in provid
ing relief and succor to suffering humanity.
And regardless of conditions and circumstances,
it isn't asking too much ol our citizenship, as a
whole, to increase its support in these trying
times to the suffering everywhere.
No greater bAtMl 'friendship ran tie form.
ed and no greater foundation for world peace
can be laid than that formed and laid through
a sympathetic understanding for all mankind.
A Helpful Measure
Measly wage increases provided under the
altered wage and hour law are being attacked
in some quarters and praised by some in other
quarters. The main opposition to the measure
which was designed to build up the purchasing
power of those who are making hardly enough
for a bare existence, is coming, as is to be ex
pected, from such organization as fostered by
the old Liberty League and the United States
Chamber of Commerce. The opposition is mere
ly running true to form, but the sad feature is
that a lazy country press will gobble up the
attacks prepared by anti-New Deal groups and
spread it before the people in a biased form.
The opposition to the wage and hour law ex
ercises minute cure to overlook the redeeming
features of the plan. The opposition merely
claims that increased wages to a few hundred
thousand marginal workers will increase pro
duction costs and foster a return to the dark
days experienced uuder llooverism. The oppo
sition paints and tries to see only the dark side
of everything the administration attempts to
accomplish.
A little over a year ago, wages of grown men
were lifted, as a general thing, from a few cents
an hour to twenty-five cents an hour. During
that period, reliable reports maintain, the coun
try has enjoyed an increasing prosperity It
will be recalled that when the wage and hour
law first became effective, the old opposition
pointed out in a loud voice and in no uncertain
terms that the country would be wrecked.
Now, it is possible that the country will be
wrecked, but it will not be a measly five-cent
wage increase to a half-starved people that will
wreck it. Instead of citing a five-cent wage in
crease as a country-wrecking factor, the wise
guys of this country should not overlook the
fat dividends that will be paid, the huge in
creases in salaries that will be received by
thoae in the higher brackets, and the vast sums
that have been and will be spent to tear down
the wage and hour law and other such meas
ures advanced by the Roosevelt administration
in behalf of the common man.
It isn't claiming much to say that the Oppo-.
sition has spent more to tear down the wage
and hour law and to berate the present admin
istration than the additional cost brought about
by the wage and hour law itself.
Conditions demanded the passage of the wage
and hour law, and much of the opposition to
that law is centered around those who created
or helped to create such conditions.
As for effecting an increase in prices to far
mers, the wage and hour law through the crea
tion of a larger consumer market will really
prove beneficial to the farmer.
It has been truthfully said that there'll be no
permanent prosperity in this land or any land
when one-half of the people afe experiencing
actual want in the midst of plenty and more
for the other half.
Locally, the recent change in the wage and
hour law did not attract the opposition that the
actual law itself attracted when it first became
effective a year. ago. In fact, some of the oppo
sition has reversed itself, one large-scale em
ployfr explaining that he was for the law, that
he could not enjoy life when he knew that the
men and women working for him could not
live on the meager wages offered prior to the
passage of the act.
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There was a time when men were held in
bondage Way back in the thirteenth century,
our forbearers dared rise up against the de
mands of the king and his overlords. And after
all these years there are, sad to relate, those
who would return their fellowman back to a
state of bondage and slavery.
The wage and hour law may not prove a
cure-all. but in the light of the real facts, it is
to be recognized in all Christian lands as a step
in the right direction.
Individualism
In a recent address, Dr. Frank Sayers, minis
ter-lecturer. blasted to bits much of the theory
surrounding rugged individualism.
He recalled the time when he was a pupil in
John D Rockefeller's Sunday School class out
in Ohio, and one illustration offered by the mul
ti-millionaire lingered in the mind of the young
Bible student.
Mr. Rockefeller, so the "story goes, was stress
ing the value of rugged individualism and per
severance. The teacher had a beautiful rose in
his hand and he tore the petals away, declaring
each petal represented some virtue or some
trait that developed into individualism
"The illustration was all right as far as it
went," Dr. Sayers said, "but let's go back to the
garden and see the gardener. To develop that
beautiful rose lie had to prune the bush, to eut
off hundreds of other flowers-that their allotted
strength and power might flow into the stem
of the one rose."
It would be interesting to know how many
small oil companies, how many small fortunes
were lost and how much suffering and want fol
lowed in the wake of the oil magnate as he built
up his vast empire. At one time the oil lands
were owned by individuals, but those land, arc
under the control of a few. Once upon a time
the vast coal fields were owned by individual
farmers. Will the timberland owners follow the
same course? is a question that may be answer
ed before another generation comes and goes.
Individualism is a desired trait. 110 doubt, but
let the motives behind individualism measure
up to the standards of fairness and righteous
ness. There is some doubt as to the worth of an
individual who weaves small units into vast
schemes of activity and in so doing reduces
hundreds to poverty and want in accomplish
ing the goal of bigness.
W inltoriti' Slioiilil Sluily Sliort-l)i?tuiice
Holes Also
Hertford County Herald.
A reduction in intra state long distance tele
phone rates was ordered by Utilities Commis
sioner Stanley Winborne at Raleigh this week,
the new rates tu become effective-November 1T
it was announced Tuesday. The new- rates will
bring the long-distance rates charged for calls
within North Carolina nearer 111 line with the
charges for similar service between stations in
North Carolina ami points otitsrdr nf the State
Although not completely equalizing them, it
will mean a saving of around $50,000 annually
in long-distance tolls for the people of the State,
it was estimated.
We have not seen the new rates, but are
ready to give our congratulations to Commis
sioner Winborne, a Roanoke-Chowan native,
for any improvement he has secured for the
public in the matter of long-distance rates
charged by the telephone people. But what we
are more interested in and what we would like
to see Commissioner Winborne give his atten
tion to more than anything else is the "short
distance" tariffs that the telephone company
serving this section charges its subscribers. We
means the so-called long-distance charges to
call nearby towns in this rural area that are
no farther distant than across the state in such
places as Raleigh, Charlotte and Winston-Sal
em; these charges that limit the use of tele
phones in this area and make it. necessary for
neighbors to pay long-distance toll charges to
call each other, although all exchanges are op
erated by one company.
Because it is a problem, we think, worth con
sideration on its merits, we would like to see
Commissioner Winborne give this matter con
sideration. Long-distance rates may bother big
business in the cities of the State, but it is the
"short-distance" rates that are "ten-centing" the
telephone subscribers in this territory out of a
reasonable use of telephone service
The rich girl and the poor one suffer the same
handicap. They can only fall in love with the
kind of fellow they get a chance to meet. ? The
Roanoke Timet.
NOTICE
North Carolina, Martin County. In
The Superior Court.
County of Martin against Joe White
horne Thomas Whitehorne. Cath
erine Whitehorne, Mamie II. Lilley
and husband, Frank Lilley. Annie
II. Rue and husband. Charlie Rue.
Marthena H. Dale and husband, T.
E. Dale, Dorothy Hargrove Holden
and husband, Paul B. Holden. Ra
chel Hargrove Brown and husband.
Silas Brown.
The defendants, Joe Whitehorne,
Thomas Whitehorne. Catherine
Whitehorne, Mamie H. Lilley and
husband. Frank Lilley. above nam
ed will take notice that an action en
titled as above has been commenced
in the Superior Court of Martin
County, North Carolina, to foreclose
the taxe on land in Martin County
in which said defendants own an in- j
tcTost: and the said defendants will I
further take notice that they arc re- J
quired to appear before L. D Wynne,
Clerk of the Superior Court of Mar- i
tin County at his office in Williams
ton. North Carolina, within thirty
(30) days after the completion of this
I service of publication by advertise
1 ment and to answer or demur to the
complaint of the plaintiff in this ac
i tion. or the plaintiff will apply to the
j Court for tfi< relief demanded in
said complaint.
The the 28th dav of October. 1939.
L B WYNNE.
Clerk Superior Court
jo31-4t of Martin County
NOTIC E OF SALE OF
REAL ESTATE
Under and by virtue of the uuth ;i
Hy contained in that certain Deed cf
Trust duly executed by R. G. dune
and wife, Janie Join to VV. (I. Clark,
Jr., Trustee, dated January 2-ril?, 193
and receded in Boo', ^m" ?T1
of the Mai tin County Registry, de
fault having been made in the pay
ment of one of the notes therein se
cured. and all of said notes having
j been declared due and payable as
j provided therein and foreclosure de
manded. public notice is hereby giv
en that the undersigned Trustee will
Ion Wednesday. November 15th, 1939.1
I at Twelve o'clock Noon, in front of
I the Court House door in Willjamston,
| N. C., offer for sale at public auction
! to the highest bidder for cash, the
1 tracts or parcels of land described in
; said deed of trust as follows:
FIRST TRACT: Lying and being
I in Goose Nest Township. Martin
I County and State of North Carolina,
: bounded on the North by the lands
! of Ishmael Hyman and (3. W. Jones.
| on the East by the lands of J. A.
I Jones estate, on the South by the
lands of J. W. llines, on the West by
I the lands of W. N. Jones, containing
53 acres, more or less and being all
of the lands devised to R. C Jones by
i R. B. Jones by will which is of record
| in the public registry of Martin
County in Will Book No. 5 at page
Relief At Last
For Your Cough
Creomulsioii relieves promptly be
cause It goes right to the seat of the
trouble to loosen germ laden phlegm,
increase secretion and aid nature to
i soouie and teal raw, tender, inflam
ed bronchial mucous membranes.
No matter how many medicines you
have tried, tell your druxgist to sell
you a bottle of Creomulsion with the
understanding that you are to like
the way it quickly allays the cough
or you are to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
212
SECOND TRACT: Lying and be
ing in Goose Nest Township, Martin
County and State of North Caro
lina. bounded on the North by the
Road from Tarboro to Oak City, on
the East by the Jones land, on the
West by W. S. Clark and Sons, and
containing 30 acres, more or less,
and being the same and identical
lands deeded to R. C Jones by Gran
ville Jones by deed which is duly
recordec^r^h?^)ublu^e?ist^^ol^
Martin County in Book L-l at page
118. it
THIRD TRACT: Bounded on the
North by the lands of R. B. Jones,
on the East by the Cross land, on
the South by the lands of R. B. Jones
Estate, on the West by the lands of
W. M. Jones, containing two acres,
more or less, and being the same and
identical lands deeded to R. C. Jones
by F. L. Gladstone.
FOURTH TRACT: Two lots lying
and being in the town of Oak City,
Martin County and State of North
Carolina, same being Lots 14 and IS
as shown by map of Oak City, same
being bounded by East Avenue or
Railroad Street, on the back by an
alley, on one side by lot No. 16, on
the other side by lot No. 13, and be
ing the two lots owned by R. C. Jones
in said town of Oak City.
This the 9th day of October, 1939.
W. G. CLARK. JR.
Trustee.
Henry C. Bourne, Atty. o!7-4t
An Urgent Appeal to Farmers
K<-iili/.iiit! thai the fight for the right* ?f agriculture is not yet won, and real
izing liiat much good has already heen accomplished and that a world of good is
yet to he hat', the 'Martin Founty Farm Bureau Federation urgently uppeals to all
farmers, large and small, to join the organization and lend it their loyal support.
Consider the Real Facts
Hid it not bern for tin- Farm Bureau, the program that pro
.vi.i.s a planned production would have been defeated in the State
roiirt? la?l year.
Had it not been for the Farm Bureau, there would be no itla
hili/cd oro'tram for peanuts, and Martin County farmers would have
lost thousands of dollars in the markets during the past three years.
Had it not been for the Farm Bureau in demanding the passage
of the SI I*J.(MHUMMI appropriation for agriculture in the last few
days of the regular session of Congress there would have been no
money available for the government to enter the tobacco markets
as it did 011 October 10. This action alone, according to the president
of the I nited Slates Tobacco Association, means that tobacco farm
ers will receive between fifty and sixty million dollars more than
they woidd have received had the Farm Bureau not been uetive in
anticipating an emergency and being prepared with a strong nation
wide Mippurl to meet that emergency.
The Martin County Farm Bureau is a growing organization. It
needs your loyal support. Join today without being approached by
one of the membership eonvassers. See Captain J. H. Winslow or
Captain Charlie Daniel at once and join without delay.
Farmers of Martin County, an active and strong Farm Bureau
Federation means money in your pockets. Membership drive end
ing November Itilh will he followed by a big barbecue and other
meetings, ^our membership is wanted uud it is needed.
MARTIN COUNTY FARM
BUREAU FEDERATION
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