The Eis terprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILL1AMSTON, NORTH CAROUNA W. C. MANNING Editor ? 1908 1931 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year $1.75 5ijt months 100 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year $2.23 Six months 1-25 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. 187i). Address all communications to The Enterprise and not individual members of the firm. Tuetday. \ovember II. I'l.'i'l. \ot To Ilr '/ rustril? The Europeans are not to be trusted They are mmoral. They are erazv. These and similar charges were heard on the streets of our little town a few days ago. No one even offered to make an issue of the declarations, for the people across the waters nay be just that Looking closer to home one wonders if we Americans aren't worse than our fellowmen icross the seas The day of trust is spent in this ?ountry There-are no more plain notes in any ippreciable number. Open accounts are bogging iown the ledgers, the makers, in many cases, 'iitertaining no idea of ever meeting the ob lgation. We promise to pay today and go to he courthouse tomorrow in an effort to dodge he obligation America is overflowing with sroken promises. And when it comes to our morals we can (inly lang our heads in shame We have a make-be leve moral system, a system that is muddied jy suits started in the open courts to gain sup port for an illegitimate brat. Such cases run up nto the scores in a county no larger than our iwn We schedule the religious service and then go to the worldly amusement house. We set ipart a dav to render thanks and then go to a football garni' We think it terrible when other peoples refuse or fail to observe the Sabbath, but we hold open wide our places of business in Sunday, and a review of the court records following Sunday shows that we are faltering in the true observance of the Lord's Day. Crowded into small territories, the millions in Europe with their differing creeds and cus toms apparently do well to maintain a mental balance While here in America, with an open :ountry and a creed that strikes of similarity, we have our institutions crowded and our jails .aring for the mentally unbalanced. Then who's to be trusted'' Who's immoral? Who's crazy'' Maybe all those outside the isylum are crazy and those in the asylum are lot. Who knows'.' 4ii him/ily Obnrrvancr Somehow or other Armistice Day last Satur iay held an empty meaning for those who value peace and friendship above arms and force. The ibservance of the day was marked by its emp lness, one recognizing in the event a mere cus tom rather than as an anniversary of a crown ing achievement or as the foundation for a per fect peace not limited to a scant quarter of a :entury There is cause to celebrate when the mouths of big guns are hushed and the roar of death iealing weapons are silenced, but the very fact that upon the 21st anniversary of the Armistice war grips the world again should cause us to ponder our course durine the naxt two Realizing that that course led to a renewal of armed conflict, we would do better to steer a different oourse when the opportunity presents itself in the future. Possibly the principles of Christianity, once adopted will pierce the walls of misunderstand ing. promote the brotherhood of men and lead to a lasting and perfect peace. Activities in the past few years prove beyond all questioning that the multiple creation of weapons will not prevent war. that some other course must be followed if there is to be an enduring peace. While the first stone in the foundation for a permanent peace was laid in the last war, the construction of a world peace was abruptly stop ped by a military domination on the part of Europe and an isolationist policy so loudly pro claimed by erring leaders in our own nation's capital The mistakes of that period stand out in bold relief before our eyes today. Let us strive to correct those mistakes and follow a dif ferent course in the future, a course that will add meaning to an armistice day at some future time. Ceo. W. Wiseman, in an Armistice Day poem, points out the means to an end for war, as fol lows: How well this age recalls your timely birth, When human vultures stalked a blood-soaked earth; No aneii lit hero passing in loview Received the wild acclaim accorded you; And we, resenting hot the love you bore, Proclaimed with zeal that war would be no more. Since then the fleeting years have come and gone. Erasing gory scenes you looked upon; And earth, still wet witfi blood from unhealed sears. Again bends low before the god of Mars; Hut this you taught that war will never cease, Until men bow before the Prince of Peace. The (.tunmliter's Work Klkin Tribune. Through tii?- democratic process of the bal lot box the farmers wore called on to determine whether they would have crop control, partic ularly regarding tobacco. They voted over whelmingly for it And now under the same democratic process the y have chosen township or community committees that will have much to do in the administration of the crop control program. In the last issue of The Tribune we gave a full list of these committees as formed by the county convention at Dobson. We know some of these men and have the utmost confidence in their ability and sincerity, and we are per suaded that others whom we do not know are cut to the same pattern. Determining farm acreage allotments in their relation to normal yields, soil building goals, farm-marketing quotas, etc.. will be a tedious job, even when outlined and simplified by in structions from Washington and assistance from Raleigh. And if their ultimate and collective decisions conflict with the views of the land owner the hugeness of their task should be borne in mind and due tolerance exercised for what may or may not be faults in their reason ing. The success of this control program depends on cooperation. The government has found it advisable, if not absolutely necessary, to pen alize those who deliberately elect not to coop erate. Certainly a continuance of the program depends upon the satisfactory manner in which it is accepted and administered during the 1940 agricultural conservation year. 1'herc commit teemen want to see the thing work out right, and it follows that they will be scrupulously careful in the important matter of acreage allot ments. Others, for the same reason, should bo cautious and stingy with their criticism. If er rors are made, there are ways of correcting them, and these should be employed in lieu of the popular tongue-lashing that sometimes fol lows: What we are trying to say is that we hope these committees will approach their problems with the utmost sincerity and that they will have the unselfish cooperation of their neigh bors. Industrial plants take two-fifths of the cotton consumed in the United States, according to the National Cotton Council. NOTICE North Carolina. Martin County. In The Superior Court. [ ounty of Martin against Joe White home. Thomas Whitehorne, Cath erine Whitehorne. Mamie II. Lilley and husband. Frank Lilley. Annie H. Kue and husband. Charlie Rue. Marthena If. I>ale and husband. T. E. Dale, Dorothy Hargrove Iflolden and hushand. Paul B. Holden. Ra chel Hargrove Brown and husband,! Silas Brown. The defendants, Joe Whitehorne, Thomas Whitehorne. Catherine Whitehorne. Mamie H Lilley. and usoai husband, Frank Lilley, above nam ed v. ill take notice that an action en titled io a bo Vis has been commenced in the Superior Court of Martin County, North Carolina, to foreclose the taxes on land in Martin County in which -said defendants own an in terest; and the said defendants will further take notice that they are re-J quired to appear before L. B. Wynne, j Clerk of the Superior Court of Mar tin County at his office in Williams ton, North Carolina, within thirty (30) days after the completion of this service of publication -by advertise ment and to answer or demur to the complaint of the plaintiff in this ac tion, or the plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said complaint This the 2?th d:,y of October 1030 B. WYNNfc. Clerk Superior Court )31-4t of Martin Count v. NOTICE OF SALE . Under- and by virtue of a judg rnelit of the Superior Court Mart.n County, in an action entitled "J F. Martin et al v. C. A. Harrison et jl," the undersigned commissioners will, on Monday, the 4th day of De 'crnber, 1939. at 12 o'clock. Not>n in front of the courthouse door. Mar tin County, offer for salt*, to the highest bidder, for cash, the follow ing described tracts of land: FIRST TRACT: Located in James ville Township, and bounded as fol lows: On the North by L B. Harri son, on the South by Levi Davis, on <>n the East by L. B. Harrison and Charlie Gurkin and on the West by the Davis tract. Containing 11 acres, more or less, and known as the Har rison Gurkin tract. SECOND TRACT Located in Jamesville Township, and bounded as follows: On the North and West by L. B. Harrison, on the East by Harman Gurkin's land, and on the South by the Josh Jerman land, con taining 20 acres, more or less, and known as the Davi.- land THIRD TRACT: Beginning at a pine, thence running up cedar creek or branch to a Spanish oak, at cor ner of William Cark< < t line; thence alone the fence, thence up the divid ing line, thence along the dividing line S 36 degrees East to the first station. Being 60 acres, more or less. FOURTH TRACT Beginning at a post on the Southern edge of the ! right of way of the A. C. L. R R. and | the northeastern corner of. the tract : deeded to J. E. C Davi> of this date to M. F Hopkins, theme eastwardly along the right of way of the K. R ! 44 poles to a post, a corner, thence S 20 E to and across the Main Run of the Big Swamp, tlx nee down the 1 southern edge of the Big Swamp to mall chopped black gum. M F 1"t' pl::ns curlier,-the nee N 20 W 106 j poll along said M. F. Hopkins line to the beginning. Containing 30 ??teres, more or less HKTH TRACT: Bi-?iiii.ui? ut tltc Jo>h Jerman Corner on the light of1 w ay of tlx- A. C 1. R R CV tlx nee I along said right of way on the A. C. L. R R to the Free Union Road, thence down the Free Union Road ; to a marked black gum, m the head ! of a bottom or flat to and through' Jig Swamp, thence down Big iwamp to the said Josh Jerman line r corner opposite the point of be linning. thence along the line of he said Joshua Jerman property to he point of beginning. Containing 0 acres, more or less, and being the ^J^jj^C_ Davis and wife to Sam Moore. The last and highest bidder at the sale will be required to make a de posit of 10 per cent of the price bid. This 2nd day of November, 1939. 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