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The Enterprise Published Every Tueedey and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WH.1.IAMSTON, NORTH CAROUNA W. C. MANNING lutilor ? 1M8-1931 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance> IN MARTIN COUNTY One year *1.75 Sis months 1.00 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year *2.29 Six months 1 25 No Subscription Received Under 6 Months Advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the post olfice in Williamston. N. C , as second-class matter under the act of Con gress of March 3. 1B79. Address all communications to Ttie Enterprise and not mdividual members of the firm Friday, January 5, 19 W. Correct The Trouble Unofficial reports coming from farmers in this county indicate that something is wrong with the system of marketing sweet potatoes. Some say that the price is all right but that the buyers grade the potatoes "too elose." Sure ly, there must be some approach to the grading problem, and possibli its solution is not to be effected in its entirety by the farmer or by the buyer acting as individuals. The problem should be faced fairly and squarely, If Martin County farmers make no earnest attempts to build up their stock and offer potatoes in sound condi tions then they should not expect the buyer to jump ahead of the market And some of this grading business should be checked too. There is a lot of-plain old foolish ness in calling for a potato of a definite size, shape and pedigree While grading is important, no doubt, the buyers have apparently made 3 mountain out of a mole hill and educated the consumer to be more exacting in their individ ual purchases. ' Martin County has a large sweet potato crop for the markets this season, but reports from the farmers are not very encouraging for a large income. It is a reflection on farmers in this section when growers in Louisiana can produce pota toes in a state so far removed from the markets and out-sell them. Even South Carolina farm ers are selling their potatoes for a higher price than those of this section. Apparently it will be to the advantage of Martin County farmers to investigate and learn the secret held by the Louisiana and South Carolina growers. Thank? For The Politician* Every now and then a person of unsound men talitv is thrown into the common jail in this county. The most recent case, unofficial reports maintain, was here in the common jail week after week during the greater part of two months. Answers to the letters urging the heads of the various institutions for the insane to take the mentally unbalanced person in plain ly stated there isn't room. Turning to a State politician in another dis tricts the authorities werejiotifipd within twen ty four hours to carry the person to a State in stitution. In short, it is a crazy system North Carolina has in handling its alleged crazy subjects. To which may be added, "Hurrah, for North Ca liny," the State with highly-paid boasters. Rumors have it that tobacco farmers in Mar tin County and those in. other counties, too,-are., going to be dissatisfied when their tobacco al lotments are annniiniyj ft 's T'he likely that the blow is going to be so heavy that the breath of the growers will be cut short from shock, but before any serious growling is done a com parative study of tobacco prices received with control and those received without control should be made with the view of getting all the facts. ??? It seems hard and possibly it is hard for a farmer to surrender a sizable portion of his to bacco acreage. But to do just that is not as cost ly and as burdensome as growing a great big crop at a loss. During the season of 1939 Eastern Carolina farmers sold 426,181,67d pounds of tobacco for an average of $15.87 per 100 pounds. They re ceived for that bumper crop a total of $57,635. 031.66. During the 1938 season Eastern Carolina far mers sold right at 245,000,000 pounds of tobac co at an average of $23.32. They received fpr thai normal-size crop a total of $57,134,000.0(5. If a farmer will study the cold facts he will find that J81.181.674 pounds of tobacco ? the amount produced last season m excess of the 1938 production?sold for an average of slight ly more than five cents a pound. This average is based on the coived for a normal crop of about 245,000,000 pounds and what he actually received for the bumper crop of 426,181,674 pounds. To plant and produce the bumper crop, thous ands of farmers forfeited any and all claims to soil conservation payments. When this factor and it is a big factor, is considered, tobacco far mers produced almost a two hundred million pound excess for little or nothing. Every farmer should keep these facts in mind and understand that his acreage is not be ing cut just for spite, but that a planned pro duction is being advanced by the government with the sole aim of helping the tobacco grow Farm erg F*. Farmer* Christian Science Monitor. Within the last two weeks the National Grange has taken one side and the American Farm Bureau Federation the other of the pros pective sharp debate over renewal of the Trade Agreements Act which ^embodies the tariff pol icy of Secretary Hull. Scarcely any development could better il lustrate the fact that there is not simply one farm problem in the United States but a num ber of farm problems, and that American far mers are not a single compact group but in clude many groups each with its own interests -and points of view. For whil? the Grange and Federation have had distinct programs which have varied from each other in points of de tail during the last two decades of farm discus sion, the two organizations have not hitherto differed so diametrically on the major question of farm policy. The Grange platform, drafted after the re cent convention at Peoria, til., urged that the United States "close the doors to imports of -foreign farm pioducts which are injurious to American agriculture" and that it terminate trade agreements which permit these imports. The Federation, however, endorsecf thip-recipro cal trade agreements program, asking only that the assent of the Secretaries of Agriculture and of Commerce, as well as of State, be required on new pacts, and gave a forum to Mr. Hull to de fcnd his policy at its Chicugo convention.?ft? held that the net effect of the agreementsTias been helpful rather than hurtful to agriculture. Both the Grange and the Federation have large numbers of members, who are among the more propertied and solid type of farm opera tors. The Grange, although 'it fought the rail road interests in the prairie states before the turn of the century, is generally the more con servative. It is strong in the eastern states and in regions where farming is most diversified ?or melines to dairying. The strength of the Fed eration is in the corn belt, extending somewhat into the cotton South and the wheat belt. The Grange, in its desire for government in terveTrtion through tariffs on dairy and pork . products, will find an ally farther west in the "cattlemen's associations, for the men oi the grazing states are aroused at the possibility of imports of Argentine beef. The Federation has been the closest supporter of the New Deal throughout the Agricultural Adjustment Ad ministration and has reaffirmed its support of the "broad principles" of the AAA while the Grange was objecting to the use of soil con scrvation payments as a means of crop eon? trol. One point all agree on is that agriculture should receive its fair share of the national in come. All want government action to promote that end. But there are differences of opinion as to methods by which this is to be accomplish ed And difference of method for achieving a cuiiiiiiun goal has often been sufficient to di vide political parties. ?? Plain ? \ News And Observer. "I have frequently denounced the theory of planned economy," says Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohior who would like to be Republican can didate for President. "I believe it leads to a to talitarian state in which individual t?ntprpri.a? is destroyed and all activity socialized and di rected by an all-powerful government." To hear Senator Taft talk one would think that such government planning and action in connection with the national economy was something strange and new. Obviously the old tariff policy of his party was a planning put into national action to shape the nation econ der the New Deal and planning under the Re publicans is that the Republicans undertook to plan for and protect the few. The New Deal has sought a planning to serve all Americans. Turnage Theatre ? Washington, N. C. j January M "Babea In Aran" M1CKRY KOONIY, JUDY GARLAND y-Wudacuday January Ml Charlie McCarthy Detective" ad CHARLIE MCCARTHY Thuraday-Friday January 11-11 "Mutiny In The Big llouae" BARTON MacLANK ? CHARLES B1CKFORD Saturday IllHIIT It "West Of Carson City" JOHNNY MACK BROWN and BOB BAKKR ALSO SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS SOUTHERN PROSPERITY INCREASED BY NEW FARMING METHODS DEVELOPED BY AGRICULTURAL LEADERS rue r>oum ib conniurriug iiwa; more seriously than ever before the conservation and utilization of ita resources. Some of the activities directed toward these ends are con talned in a new motion picture "The New South." now being shown by distributors of Arcadian Nitrate all over the South. Typical of the trend Is the devel opment of a new agricultural sys j tern. Formerly the general practice ! waa to cultivate a field for a short I period. When the production de-1 dined to the point where the yields were not profitable, the old land waa abandoned, allowed to revert to forest, and new land was cleared. Led by agricultural experts, the farmers of the South have learned the wastefulness of such a method, and now utilize scientific means of increasing crop yield and at the same time preserving the fertility BAPTIST Bible school, 9:45 a. m. Morning worship, tl a. m. Young People's Meeting, 6:30 p. m. Evening worship, 7:30 p. m. January is Consecration Month in our calendar. A special service will be held Sunday morning for the con secration of church officers. The young people are installing the new officers Sunday night <at_6:30 CHRISTIAN Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. Morning service. 11 a. m. Christian Endeavor, 6:30 p. m. Evening worship, 7:30 p. m. # CHI 'KOI OF THE ADVENT Sunday after Epiphany. Church school, 9:45 a m. Celebration of Holy Communion and sermon, 11 a. m. Meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary -Monday afternoon *t S.Sfrr St. Martin's, Hamilton Evening prayer and sermon, 7:30 p. m. ? METHODIST Sunday school, 9 45 a. m. ?Preaching and lluly Communion service will be held at the Metho dist church next Sunday morning The pastor, Rev. S. J. Starnes, will preach at the morning hour on "Set ting the Goal," At the evening hour, the subject will be "Possessing the Land." Holly Springs Sunday school, 11 a. m. There will be preaching service at Holly Springs at 3 p m. The public is invited to all those services. * tools la fertilizer nitrogen, produced for the last ten years within the South itself?at the great Arcadian Nitrate plant iu Hopewell, Virginia. ( Nitrogen satisfies grain's urge to grow, and mnltipltfg greatly the number of seed-bearing stalks. It helps vegetable crops yield boun tifully, and enables fruit trees to produce the new wood which bears . the fruit. And it makes such pro-! duction possible on fewer acres, thus decreasing the amount of land exposed to destructive soil erosion. Above all, the importance of ni trogen lies in its effectiveness in reducing crop production coBta. Ni trogen helps to make each acre, and each hour of labor, more pro ductive. and in this way works to ward making Southern farming a more profitable business. CKIMR BRANCH Regular services will be held a the Cedar Branch Baptist churcl Sunday at 11 o'clock. Subject. "Le Us Go Ori." Taxpayers Offered Course iii-Fiuanciii" How's your city's financial rating? fs it living within tts budget? Do Its actual tax revenues match budgel estimates? Does each city depart ment receive an equitable share ol appropriations? If you can answei these questions you are exception ally civic-minded. Yet, on the theor> that more taxpayers should know such answers, in the interest oi achieving lower city-operating costs without sacrificing needed public services, the National Consumers Tax Commission, Chicago, has up a 12 pbint plan to guide citizens in ap praising accurately their local gov ernment's- firvtnri.-il net up Th? pnnt mission, nationwide and non-parti san, is advocating thorough tax edu cation as a means of combatting heavy tax inroads hito family buy ing power. The above are among the more penetrating of the dozen ques tions listed in one of the monthly study programs used by NCTC groups in nearly 5,000 communities. W County /-// Club Turns In Rocords The records being turned in at the present time by Wake County 4-11 club members are better than any nf the p;? t, ruyu J. C. Keith" assist ant farm agent. DR. V. H. MtVVBORN OP-TOM E-TRI9T Plymouth office, Liverman Druj Co., every Fri., 2 to 5 p. m. Kobersonville Office, Scott's Jew elry Store, Tuesday, Jan.- 9. Bethel office: Hives Drug Store Monday, Jan. 8, 9 a. m. to 12 m. Ryes Examined - Glasses Fitted At Tarboro Every Saturday Williamston office, Peele Jly Co, SPECIAL GUARANTEED RADIO REPAIRING Never Before in Williamston Re Are Better Equipped Than Ever To Serve You On Your Trouble? K \I )f OS ? VACUUM CI \ NF.RS REFRIGERATORS ? LAMPS WE MAKE BATTERY RADIOS ELECTRIC GIVE US A TRY If It's Electrical?We Can Fix It ? ?WE WIRE HOMES= Special Test Board For Battery Radio Servicing WE SELL BATTERIES Koger Radio and Refrigerator Co. Phone 245-/ Washington Street Williamston, N. C. ? MARGOLIS BROS. January Is the Month Of? Clearances Begirining F riday Morning JANUARY f>. 19?? OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF MEN'S SUITS ANI) O'COATS NOW ON SALE S20.75 To S35.00 Value# Clearance Price $24.95 MEN'S SUITS $25.00 Values . . ..... $19.75 $22.50 Values $17.95 $19.95 Values $14.95 ONE GROUP MEN'S SUITS lit Siiet $10.00 All BOYS' SUITS GREATLY REDUCED J All All Manhattan anil Arrow Shirt#. value. Sale Price All Men'# N'eekwear. $1.00 Value On Sale _ $ 1.65 79c Margolis Bros. FARMERS MAKE NO MISTAKE START RIGHT BY USING THE FAMOUS ARMOUR Tobacco Plant BED SPECIAL Fertilizers We Have A I-arge Supply Ready For Immediate Delivery At The New Farmers Warehouse H. L. ./ J.EDWARD Barnhill ? Corey Willivnston, N. C.
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