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The Enterprise Publnbed Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WI1J.1 AMSTON, NORTH CAROUNA W. c. MANNING Editor ? 1M1M SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year M-I5 Six 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 office in Willianislon, 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 Friday, February 2. 1944). hiring At Home .-I Seriou* Hu*ine*? r AH this talkabout living at home is far more serious than pathaps many of its promoters think it is. In this modern day and age. a strict live-at-home program will land the farmer in the poor house just about as quickly as will the cultivation of tobacco on every acre of avail able land. In centuries past, the Phoenicians sold their products and wares, accepting nothing but gold in return When all their customers spent all their gold, the markets were closed to the Phhenicfars That story is worth considering today. We get mad with foreign countries when they stop buying our products Possibly their gold supply -is running low. and we have prov ed with our Smoot-Hawley tariff act and o&r loud cries that we don't want the common for eigners competing when it comes to the list of products we produce at home. In this modern day, not a single country is self-sustaining in the strict sense of the word. It does look as if it is possible for some person or group of per sons to sit down and figure out a healthy plan for the free exchange of goods, for upon the free flow of goods and services a stable pros perity depends. Apply the strict live-at-home program to tnts immediate section. The farmer who raises all his food might have something to eat, but what about the man who makes tin cans, and the worker who packs food in those cans, and the transportation worker who moves the canned food, and lastly what about the merchant who sells that canned food? Then let the farmer's wife weave the family clothes and eliminate the factory clothing worker and the long list of other workers who are dependent upon that industry for a4iving The next step would be for t3*' farmer to lorge-his own plows tn'a crude fashion at the village blacksmith and eliminate all the machinists in the land When he entered the final phase of his live at-home program, he would read about the mil lions who were starving, the crumbling of towns and cities There would be much doubt if the printer could exist even after the old system of setting type by hand. Schools would close, and millions would be back in the old pioneer days with modern ideas that could be expressed only in rlrgggery and poverty This world has been explored to the extent that people know fairly well where this crop will thrive best and where the industrialist can best carry on his work. Through some faulty cog in our great_economic system, the march of progress has broken down. Instead of junking a system that can work and going back to the days and fashions of our forefathers, it would seem sensible to straighten out the flaw in the system. Many of the troubles are easily dis cernible while others may rest below the sur face. The Martin County farmer is selling sweet potatoes for^about 80 cents a bushel after nursing them as a crop during long months. Just as soon as they leave his hands, the shippers step in to collect almost a third as much as the farmer got for the potatoes to haul them to mar ket. Handling charges mount up, and profits are added by the commission man and the re tailer. The consumer pays $1.50 or about that much for the same bushel of potatoes the far mer sold for 75 or 80 cents. There is little jus tice in a system that allows the farmer no more than half the amount his product sells foffes^ pecially when there is no processing costs to figure. This is one of the flaws in our system, and until agriculture enjoys its rights along with other industry our economic system will continue out of balance. Some farmers have practiced living at home, and some of them have succeeded. But even some gamblers have succeeded. The strict live at-home program will not support a modern day economic system. A live-at-home farmer right in this county said the other day that he had plenty to eat for breakfast, that he had plenty to eat for dinner, and that he had plen ty to eat for supper. "But I can't pay my taxes, I can't pay my insurance and I can't meet my financial obligations with a surplus of food," the fanner said. We are grumbling because the culture of cot toil, tobacco and other qf our crops are being introduced into other countries. Well, those countries are beginning to live at home, and ?* ? 1 a" > uiatttr tiiiill urtausr wr navr suiu them our stuff ?t a high price and hung out a high tariff for them to meet when they sold their stuff to us. If every naked back could be covered with cotton and every cigarette fiend could get all the tobacco he wanted there would be no cot ton or tobacco surplus. And living at home will not solve, but aggravate the problem. Some tion of our goods, or we must curtail our activi ties and play more. It is a cruel economic system that would car ry us hack to the old days of the survival of the fittest, the devil taking the hindmost Before the farmer shuts himself in behind trade walls and starts doing all his living at home he will do well to watch the trend in in dustry and the professions. There he will find the specialist at every turn. Then it might be the solution to the farm problem to specialize in the production of certain crops with an eye on a balanced and diveisified program There are places where intense specialization will prove to be a good farm practice, once the chan nels of trade are opened and the leeches are thrown off the farmer's neck. farm Income Drop* Farm income for the first nine months of 1939 showed a slight decline while other types of in dustry forged ahead to larger gains and profits. This very fact should serve as a foundation for favorable farm legislation in the Congress open ing this week. Strange as it may seem the greatest decline was in North Carolina where we grow billions of pounds of tobacco for a song. One of these days we are going to wake up and learn that there is money to be made in the production of crops other than tobacco. On The Way I /< llkin Tribunr. The Wall Street Journal, recognized author ity oh economic relationships, and with a world wide family of readers, recently carried a spec ial section devoted to a "Southern Industrial De velopment Survey," in which will be found this from Leigh St Plummer, one of the Journal's staff writers: "Solutions of most of the economic problems facing the South, long sought and difficult lu_ effect, are gradually being worked out. Capital is being diversified. The ground work for high er iarm incomes is being laid, conservation of natural resources is being fostered. The South is on the way up." And in support of this conclusion, the Wall Street Journal carries page after page, setting forth the details of Southern progress?columh after column of interesting data that emphasize the fact that the "South is on the way up." And in this march of progress chemistry is taking an important role. Within the past de cade science has harnessed much of the South's by products, and put them to pulling the eco nomic load: The lowly pine is being made into paper; fhe sweet potato into starch that com petes with importations; the soy bean is being converted into automobile equipment. All of which adds up that the South some of these days will be asking for a divorce from cotton?with good prospect of receiving alimony. But why this national interest in the South and her progress? Well for one thing, the thir ty-seven million people living here provide the greatest putential market to be found in the country; a market for the goods produced in other sections. One need turn only to the au tomobile industry, whose expanding sales re flect very definitely the rising buying power in the South, for the twenty-seven Southeastern states account for 27 per cent of the automobile industry's 1939 volume against twenty-five per cent in 1938. And add to this increased and increasing buy ing power, the fact that the South is a field for stagnant capital, plus the source of raw mater ials needed by industrialists in other sections, and you have a big part of the answer, not only to the problems of the South, but to one of the major problems of the entire nation. And while national attention is focused on the South it is well that an interested and in fluential group is trying to keep this progress to an even keel?dedicating their time and tal ent to a "decade of balanced prosperity"?with emphasis on balance. A group that includes our own Clarence Poe and Frank Graham, back stood by Southern governors. Yes, indeedy, "The South is on the way up." Ib Ambro&ia A Vegetable* Christian Science Monitor. Sweet potatoes, rules Magistrate Jeannette Brill, of the Coney Island Court, Brooklyn, N. Y? are vegetables, not fruit. This in freeing a sidewalk vendor of baked sweet potatoes, ar rested for selling fruit without a license. Doubt less the magistrate speaks from the depths of botanical wisdom and culinary experience. Still she declares fruits may legally be desig nated as those served as desserts, while vege tables are Included in the main course of the meal. Did Magistrate Brill ever hear of that delectable dessert of Dixie, sweet potato pie? And then there are candied yams a la Alabama . . . But how is anyone to license a peddler of ambrosia? CHURCH NEWS METHODIST Rev B. B Slaughter, district sup erintendent. will preach at the Meth odist church Sunday morning st 11 a m., and will hold the first quar terly conference of thd charge im mediately following the sermon. All officials as well as the entire mem bership are urged to be present At 7:30 p. m. the pastor will preach Young people's meeting 0:30 Sunday school, 9:45 a. m With the weather moderating I somewhat it is hoped all members and friends will attend regularly. CEDAR BRANCH Rev. W B. Harrington announced today that regular services would be held st the Cedar Branch Baptist church on Sunday. BAPTIST Bible school, 9:45 a. m Morning worship, 11 a m. Ser I mon subject: "Repitition of the Great | Commission." Young People's meeting. 6:30 p Evening worship, 7:30 p. m. Ser I mon subject, "Scouting Is Practical | Christianity."' I February is Missionary Month in our church calendar and the hymn of the month is "The Spacious Firm ament." During the month the great commission will be emphasized and different methods will be used in presenting the "fields that are white unto harvest." Every Sunday morn ing through the month the hymn for the month will be sung and special prayers will be offered for mission ~aTies at" home and nhrnart The Boy Scouts of America will celebrate their thirtieth birthday next Thursday, February 8. It is in connection with this special occasion that we are having the Boy Scout service Sunday night. Scouting has been pronounced by nationally rec ognized educators a vital program supplementing the Home, Church and School, and you will not want to miss this special Scout service Sun day night. CHIIRCII OF THE ADVENT Quinquagosima Sunday Church school, 9.45 a. m Celebration of the Holy Commun ion and sermon, 11 a. m. The regular meeting of the vestry will be at the rectory on Tuesday night at 7:30. Ash Wednesday service of Peni tential office and Litany Wednes day night at 7:30. Celebration of the Holy Commun ion, Thursday morning, 10:30. The Union World Day of Prayer will be held-at the Baptist church | on Friday afternoon at 3:30. Every one is cordially invited to attend | and take part in this great service of thp churches throughout the j I world. I Evening prayer and sermon, Sun-1 day night at 7:30. CHRISTIAN j Bible school, 9:45 a. m. Morning worship, 11 a. m. Sub-1 ject, "The Distressed and Their De liverer." . Young People meet, 6: 30. Subject, "Meaning of Endeavor." Evening service, 7:30. Subject, "La borers in God's Shadows." Circles 1 and 2 meet Monday, 3:30. Mid-week service Wednesday at 17:30. Subject, "The Forbidden Je notici North Carolina, Martin County. In The Superior Court. I County or Martin Against A. I.. Move and wife, Hattie Moye, Josh Mack Johnson and wife. Clara Moare, Johnson, Wheeler Daniel and wife, Effie Moye Daniel, Paul Rawls and wife Clara Bell Rawls, Thur man Moore and wife, Ruby Moye Moore, B. A. Moye and wife, Hat tie Moye, Robert Goolsby and wife. Sue Moye Gooiaby, Joe Davenport, Bill Davenport, Irma Ruth Daven port, D. E. Johnson, guardian ad litem for Edith Gray Davenport, J. B. Davenport. The defendants, Joe Davenport and J. B. Davenport, above named, will take notice that an action entitled as I above 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 have an interest; and the said defendants will fur ther take notice that they are re quired to appear before L. B. Wynne, Clerk of the Superior Court of Mar tin County at his office in Williams ton, North Carolina, within thirty COLDS I H666 Cause Discomfort For quirk rrlirf from thr misery of colds, take Liquid - Tablets - Salve ? Nose Drops FOR SALE ff txxl'i Yellotr SOYBEANS H. S. EVERETT Roberaonvillr, N. C. Day Of Prayer Will Be Observed Here You are invited to join in a fel lowship of prayer the world around on the World Day of Prayer. Fri day, February 9, 1940. at the Baptist1 Church at 3:30 p. m. Participants in J the program are the ministers. Mes dames Wheeler Martin, Garland I Barnhill. Herbert Taylor and John | W. Hardy. Let us pray for a personal realiza tion of God's presence in our every-1 day lives; that He may create in each of us a spirit of such compelling good will that out from us may shine forth a new revelation of His com passion and His love for all man kind?in thought and in word and | in deed. Let us pray for strength to over come the sinister forces which are working against the Kingdom of God in this world: that we may keep unbroken our world-wide Christian fellowship with the Church of God throughout the earth, cherishing each bond which binds earnest followers of Christ together in instant, mutual trust. Let us pray for wisdom in all that I we do or say, for growing awareness | of God's purpose for the world; real izing we must lead our own nation to repent, forbear, forgive in every word and work of reconciliation ? since we can "love one another" only by refusing all hatreds and by seek ing the mind of Christ to govern our | spirits. l^et us pray for the coming of God's Kingdom here on earth as we enter into a fellowship of suffering with the millions of those in peril and in terror and in sorrow, in every nation o nearth. (30 J days after the completion of this service of publication by notice and to answer or demur to the complaint of the plaintiff in this action, or the plaintiff will apply to the Court fori the relief demanded in said com-' plaiht. This the 17th day of January, 1940. _Q J, p WVMMF .... _ j!9-4t Martin County. NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina. Martin County. Under and by virtue of of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed to the undersigned trustee by Levi Hardison on the 12th day of December, 1930,, and of record in the public registry of Martin County in Book C-3 at page 379 said deed of trust having been given for the purpose of securing a certain note of even date and tenor there with, default having been mafie in the payment of the said note, and the stipulations contained in said I PR. V. H. MEW BURN OP-TOM-E-TRI8T Co., every Fri., 2 to 5 p. m. Robersonville Office, Scott's Jew elry Store, Tuesday, Feb. 6th. Bethel office: Rives Drug Store, j Monday, Feb. 5, 9 a. m. to 12 m. Eyes Examined - Glasses Fitted At Tarboro every Wednesday and Saturday. Williamston office, Peele Jly Co..! Every Friday, 9:30 A. M. to 12 M. i deed of trust not having been com plied with .and at the request of the signed trustee will, on Monday, the 19th day of February, 1940. at twelve o'clock noon, in front of the court house door in the town of William stn, offer for sale to the highest bid der for cash the following described real estate, to wit: Bounded on the North by the lands of Mrs. J. N. Hardison, bound-' ed on the East by the Joshua lands and the lands of Mrs. J. R Tyre, hounded on the South hy the Sweet Water Creek and the Mill Pond, and bounded on the West by the Sweet Water Creek and the Mill Pond, con taining 132 acres, more or less, and being the home place of Levi Hardi son where he resided This the 18th day of January. 1940. ELBERT S PEEL. j!9-4t Trustee Ann Page Week bic^barcains Ann Page BEANS With Pork & Tom. Sauce Boston Style d? 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