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The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA Editor ? m* ISM W. C MANNING SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) . IN MARTIN COUNTY One year $1 75 Six months. I 00 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year $2.25 Six months 1 25 No Subscription Received Under 6 Months Advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the post office in Williamston, N C., as second-class matter under the act of Con gress of Marcl. IS, leVS Address all communications to Tlie Enterprise and not individual members of the firm. Tue?day, February 6, 1940. 4 Job F or The (.andidate* Every now and then the papers tell about the ever-increasing revenue flowing into the State Treasury. It would certainly be interesting to learn why the increase in revenue is not offset by a decrease in taxes. The candidate for governor can do a good job for the people if he were to delve into the facts and enlighten the people as to his findings. Today in this county the State of North Car olina is collecting income taxe$, sales taxes, in tangible taxes, gasoline taxes, schedule taxes, li Ml I \ a 41*1 VVfQS beer taxes, liquor taxes and possibly a few oth ers. No one denied the State the right to tax, but it would be interesting to know just how much tax Martin County pays into the State Treasurer. Then the candidate could sit down and figure how much each county receives for the operation of its schools and the maintenance and construction of roads within its boundar ies. There are a few other types of aid render ed the county by the State, but let's have the total amount, compare that amount with the [trntv tivi.v paid anH then see how the outgo and income compare. The candidate for governor who attempts to show the people a clear picture of the financial situation is going to get a whole heap of votes. But he can't expect much support if he tries to hide behind a complicated financial statement. The Farmer's Only Ho/m1 While the country was enjoying a relatively fair prosperity between 1929 and 1932, the Am erican farmer forfeited a billion-dollar foreign market through trade barriers designed and ad vanced by high tariff advocates. The sad ex periences that were reaped as a result of the Hawlev-Smoot tariff act should cause everyone to stop and think a long time before erecting^ higher tariff walls and killing Secretary of State Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade agree ments. The domestic market, burdened by surplus farm commodities, offers no great hope for the American farmer. In fact, the farmer has never been recognized as one deserving of fair treat ment by his fellow countryman. Right here in eastern North Carolina, the bright belt tobacco farmer has longingly looked to lands across the ocean to maintain a decent price for his prod uct. When cotton enters foreign markets against a world price, the domestic manufacturer steps in and troys at Ttbcmt the same price. Up until - recent years, the farmer was held down to a level occupied by the serf in foreign lands. But when manufactured goods started coming back to our shores, the farmers were required to pay a tariff before a single purchase wan made While the free exchange of goods offers the farmer just about his only hope, we find the strong Republican party and actually some na tionally-known farm organizations such as the Grange fighting the trade policies of the pres ent administration. ; There are those who are starving across the waters. There are those who are producing crops at a figure below the cost of production. And then there are those who would break down the exchange of goods that the hungry may starve and the producers produce at a loss. They Would Deny Farmer A Place Recently a large-scale manufacturer direct ed a bitter attack against the federal adminis tration for admitting farmers to WPA rolls. A strong move is underway in Washington to deny the farmer a seat at the table along with industry, and now the industrial magnates are bellyaching because the farmer is allowed to eke out a mere existence as a WPA-er. It would seem that some industrialists look upon the WPA and other agencies created to relieve suffering and want were created to take care of discharged industrial workers. The gov ernment has been criticised by the industrial ist for even helping the worker discharged by him. It is difficult to believe that a government that stands for the equal rights of all would dny one group while it extended aid to anoth er group When the industrialist found surplus stocks accumulating in his storage houses he started fiFing right then. The same industrialist is now turning around and criticising farmers for firing their tenants and farm hands. Today the farm surplus is presenting an even greater problem than the accumulation of goods. Then, why is it wrong for the farm owner to lay down his hoe and rake and lean on a shovel? Possibly if more farmers did just that they would not be selling hogs for four cents, poultry at ten cents, cotton at ten cents and so on. Only as the manufacturer and industrialist tries to keep unemployment figures down should the farm owner try to care for an extra tenant. Tlirouinp Bricks From (Has* Houses There's too everlastingly much brick throw ing from glass houses these days. Those who would criticise the faults of others so freely, overlook their own. Representative Wood rum, the smart Demo crat from over in Virginia, bobs up and avers that men are supposed to support the govern ment rather than having the government sup port the men. Possibly the Virginian is right at that. But it is a sorry government that will stand idly by while its representatives draw $10,000 a year plus huge expense accounts and certain groups starve. The record shows that the government is supporting one Mr. Wood rum, lock, stock and barrel, and the record al so .shows that he recognizes the government as an agency to listen to and favor one group and dictate to and virtually ignore the inherent rights of another group. When conditions look dark on the farm, those boys who have never hoed a row or turned a furrow tell the rural boys to live at home. If some of those who are sq liberal with their ad vice should turn to the home garden, raise their nwn~food and stay away fium the niuuntuin and seashore resorts their home-spun theories might carry some weight. But such feeble garden ef forts will hardly pay a dividend in this com plex economic system of ours. Trade Treaties The expiring trade treaty with Japan is a live topic in world affairs today. Some are against its renewal; some are for a renewal. From a humane standpoint ,the treaty should not be renewed. But it is safe to say that if a renewal of the treaty will increase our material wealth, then the feeble cries of suffering hu manity will be smothpred Equals A Little War Draft Judging from the number of candidates en tering the battle one would think there was more than one governor's office to be filled in this State. The call to service, voluntarily ac cepted or drafted, has brought forth about as manv candidates as a draft for a little war. Bible Best Seller Although strongest efforts have been made to put "Mein Kampf" in the hands of every German, man, woman and child, the most re cent reports on book sales in Germany show that Hitler's book has never yet topped all other books. The best-seller of Germany, now as for merly, is the Bible. Last year 200,000 more Bi bles were sold in Germany than copies of "Mein Kampf," in spite of the fact that the latter book is "required reading" and in spite of the fact that the sale of Bibles has been highly restrict ed by law.?John Harvey Furbay, in the Long Island Daily Press, Jamaica, N. Y. Bearing Doun On The Farmer Christian Science Monitor. This newspaper onfiy yesterday observed that resistance to farm parity payments will be a principal test of economy in this session of Con gress. To that position we adhere, and believe that an appropriation for this purpose should not be made unless special taxes are levied to pay it. But the cuts reported by the Appropria tions Committee in its sudden submission of the bill to the House of Representatives are of such extent as to arouse apprehension?even for the cause of economy. Backers of the parity payments this year were without the support which they had last year from the urban relief bloc?since the re lief appropriation is fairly well agreed upon. Yet the striking out of $72,600,000 for disposal of surplus crops takes with it the food stamp plan, which has been working apparently well and which will rally to the support of the item representatives of some seventy cities which have the plan or expected soon to be designat ed in it. Similarly the omission of sugar bene fits arouses another bloc; and possibly more serious the deletion of $25,000,000 for farm ten ant loans would cancel the only program the government has for alleviation of a serious na tional problem. It may be that some of the cuts are made for bargaining purposes, or it may be that all are necessary for progress toward a balanced bud get. Moreover, war conditions in Europe may eventually result in new markets. But when it is considered that the revised measure, at a total of $634,309,236, carries leas than half the sum of last year's appropriations for agricul ture, it looks in all rather too much like "tak ing it all out on the farmer." IN MEMOR1AM In memory of my dear daddy. Levi i H m |iikn rl i mrl M n rrth 1 1 Q^Q i nviuBi/n, w fin uiiu "Iimvii ?, i ??>? You are gone but not forgotten. Never ahall your memory fade. Sweetest, thou shall ever linger. In the grave where you are laid A bitter cup, a shock severe. To part with him I loved so dear My loss is great. HI not complain But trust in God. we'll meet again Sleep on. dear daddy, take thy rest; I miss you most, who loved you best God took your home It was His will; But in my heart. You're living still. No one knows how much I miss you. And the many tears I've shed; I have suffered since I lost you. Life has been a weary bed Days of darkness still come over me, Years of sorrow, silently flow. I am left in this world a miserable aoul. I hope some day to meet you, On that bright and shining shore. Dearly loved and sadly missed by his daughter. Burtha Hardison ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having this day qualified as ad ministrator of the estate of Maggie Dickens, deceased, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the under signed within one year from the date of this notice, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of any recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate pay ment This the 26th day of January. 1940 KLISHIA DICKENS. K.F.D., Hobersonville, Administrator of the estate j30-6t of Maggie Dickens, deceased ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as administrator of the estate of John L. Bailey, de ceased. this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned within one year from the date of this notice, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of any recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This the 27th day of January, 1940. - - G- G. BAILEY. Administrator of The estate of John L Bailey,? j30-6t deceased. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having this day qualified as ad ministrator of the estate of William Hasscll, deceased, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned within one year from the date of this notice, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of any recov ery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This the 18th day of January, 1940. J. E- POPE, Administrator of the estate of j3U-6t Hasscll, deceased. SALE OF VALUABLE FARM PROPERTY Under and bv virtue of the au of Trust executed by Nolie E. Rob erson on the 1st day of December, 1938, and recorded in Book T-3, page 492, we will on Saturday, the 10th day of February, 1940, at 12 o'clock noon at the courthouse door in Mar tin County, Williamston, N. C., sell at public auction for cash to the highest bidder the following land, to wit: Adjoining the lands of Joe Moye on the North; the lands of Henry Wynne on the East; the lands of Buck Clark and W. R. Little on the South; and the lands of J. L. Roe buck on the South, and more par ticulurly described as follows. -Be ginning in a path on the Public Road, corner of the lands of Buck Clark and W. R Little; thence with said Road'N 42 1-4* E 35 1-5 poles and N 38 1-2* E 47 3-5 poles; thence S 45 1-4* E 34 poles; thence N 55* E 71 1-5 poles; thence N 47* W 101 3-5, poles; thence N 79* W 110 4-5 poles to Horsepen Branch; thence with I Horsepen Branch S 4* W 58 poles to Bates Branch; thence with Bates Branch S 3* E <2 poles; thence S 67* E 49 1-S poles: thence S 39* E 28 28 poles to the beginning, containing 116 1-2 acres, more or less, and be ing the same land conveyed to Jo seph H. Mir ell by J. A, Mizell. trus tee, by deed dated Dec. 30, 1922. and recorded in Martin County Public Registry in Book K-2. page 582. This land is sold subject to all un paid taxes. This sale is made oy reason of the failure of Nolie E Roberson to pay off and discharge the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust. A deposit of 10 per cent will be re sale. i This the 2nd day of January, 1940 I INTERSTATE TRUSTEE CORP, Trustee. I Durham, N. C. jl6-4t TRUSTEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE Under and by virtue of the power and authority conferred upon the undersigned by that certain deed of trust made by E. H. Jefferson and Wife.. Amanda R. Jefferson, dated April 14. 1938. and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Martin County, North Carolina, in Book T-3, page 638, on account of default in uie payment of the same, the undersigned will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bid der for cash at the County Court House door, in Williamston, at 12 o'clock noon, on the third Monday, in February, the same being Febru ary 18. 1840, the following described real estate, situate, lying and being in the County of Martin, in the State of North Carolina, to-wit: All that certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in Goose Nest Township. Martin County^ and State of North Carolina, on the Hamilton and Palmyra public road about three miles North from the Town of Oak City and bounded on the North by the said Hamilton and Palmyra Pub lic Road; on the East by the lands of Carrie Norflcet and on the South and West by the lands of Carrie Nor fleet; S. P. Green, Lemon James and the Red Marsh Branch, containing 384.5 acres, more or less, as shown h^^nnaj^?^ame^nad^j>^IWones Taylor, Surveyor, which laid map is now on file with the Atlantic Joint Stock Land Bank of Raleigh and be ing the same and identical land de scribed in a mortgage trum W R. Everett and wife to the Atlantic Joint Stock Land Bank of Raleigh, dated June 1, 192ft, and of record in the public registry of Martin County in Book X-l page 107. Reference be ing made to said map and said mort gage for a more perfect description of the lands herein conveyed and by such reference made a part of this description. This the 12th day of January, A. D., 1940. J. F. HACKLER. Hackler & Allen, Attys. Wilmington, N. C. jlft-4t WHY suffer from Colds? For quick relief I from cold symp-1 loms take 666. Liquid - Tablets - Salve - Nose Drops 666 How Much Are You Saving? The First Stejt On The Rood To Success Is Systematic Soring ? It's Easy The lluihling Ami Ltmn Way. New Series of Installment Shares Begins MARCH 2nd Study Tlir Taltli- Itclim U hicli In BumiI On Installment Share* Running Approximately 6 1-2 Years. ? '?: 5 1.00 per week buys 4 shares, plus dividends, amounts to t 400.00 1.25 per week buys 5 shares, plus dividends, amounts to 500.00 2.50 per week buys 10 shares, plus dividends, amounts to 1000.00 3.75 per week buys 15 shares, plus dividends, amounts to 1500.00 5.00 per week buys 20 shares, plus dividends, amounts to 2000.00 0.25 per week buys 25 shares, plus dividends, amounts to 2500.00 7.50 per week buys 30 shares, plus dividends, amounts to 3000.00 10.00 per week buys 40 shares, plus dividends, amounts to 4000.00 12.50 per week buys 50 snares, plus alvidends, amounts to " 5000.00 VOL CAN KEY AS MANY SHAKES AS DESIRED AND PAY WEEKLY OK MONTHLY. If for any reason you wish to withdraw before the expiration of 6'/j years, you may do so by giving short written notice. 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