The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILUAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA. Editor ? 1MS-1938 W. C. MANNING SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year $1.75 Six months 1.00 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 March 3. 1879 Address all communications to The Enterprise and not individual members of the firm tridm. March /.?, 10 10. \ol 4l All Enrouraiiinn To read the happenings on the diplomatic, political, religious, war and business fronts as they reveal themselves in the daily print and in the feature stories of traveling writers, one finds the outlook not at all encouraging for mankind. There has been such said about the uncertainty of business; but when one ponders over the conditions surrounding millions of unwanted human beings, their treatment at the hands of oppressors and recognizes the trick ery and propaganda hatched by the leaders of nations, he has cause to worry over the uncer tainty of life itself. And the pitiful part about it all. few are try ing to do anything constructive about it When the people of this nation could be en tering a wedge to cheek the factors that are tearing the world to pieces, we have turned our backs on those institutions that offered peace and understanding to all races We have been and still are too busy.seeking happiness every where! yet finding it nowhere; we have lost so much of what once gave us hope add life and filled it with meaning and content, that today we are as hopelessly lost as a storm-tossed piece of bark on a raging sea with no anchor to tie to and no rav of hope to be Seen 111 the darkened horizon in the distance. The foundation we are building will not per mit us to enter the world front with suggestions for peace among nations. Nor will it even per mit us to dictate the policies at home. We can not expect our voices to be heard when we fail to set a worthy example or dedicate ourselves to peace and righteousness at home Turn to the church attendance figures and you can begin to understand why America is losing its grip. You can readily understand that while the outlook is not bright for the warring millions, our own future "Is not assured for all time to come. On a recent Sunday hardly 10 per cent of this little town's population found its way to the various houses of worship When men turn away from the church in such large numbers, when the principles of righteousness are pushed into the background by deceptive propaganda and men resort to might, there is little hope and encouragement as mankind ad vances into the future. The "Old-Time" U inter* Old-timers and those who like to talk about the winters of by-gone .days will find interest in reading the following comment on the sub ject from the Emporia. Kansas, Gazette: Newspapers are now saying we had an old time winter, the kind Kansas used to have 40, 50 or 60 years ago. This is a snare and a delusion Outside, the winter may be the same. Temper atures may tally with the old score But indoors the old-time winter in the old-time Kansas home ???? yne with the mound-builders It can no more fee duplicated than the psychology of the pyramid builders. In the old-time winter, boys of 10 or a dozen or 14 years had to saw and split the wood for a cook stove and a big heater in the "sitting room " And they had to heat the mash for the cow. if they lived in a country town, and see that the chickens were fed and the pigs had warm slop on a cold zero morning. In that day, a town put ged individualism, in which, sawing there on the millpond or a deep place in the creek, men worked from dawn to night with no eight-hour day nonsense. Half of them tried to keep warm by drinking whiskey and got colds and often died of pneumonia, and the other half just froze through it and ran the same risks. In the old time winter there wasn't a furnace in one house in 50 itt Kansas Generally you had to thaw the pump in the morning, or melt snow to get wa ter for washing, and there wasn't a mid-week winter bath in 50,000 population. The Kansas home has completely changed. A revolution as deep as that instituted by the fall of the Bastille and by the embattled farmers at Concord Bridge has come over the home life of this land, and Kansas, which once was a fron tier and now is part of the rural problem, has changed wtih the times. Whatever the temperatures are. the old-time winter is gone for good. The Politician* Ho/n The value of ticket-markers has long been recognized in politics, but since the absentee ballot has been lost, the crooked politician is attaching greater importance to the ticket marker; in fact, some see in the marker about the only hope luft for the crooked politician. still Dnetn't Make Sen?e It's the work of the Democrats to be sure, but after reading over the election laws as amended in 1939 we still can't figure out why the absent absentee ballot for the primary shouldn't last through the general election. The bargain to cease stealing among the Dem ocrats and the will to steal from the Republi cans are just too plainly written not*-to attract attention. Man'* Brutality tVhiteville News-Reporter. .Shudder il you will ut tile propaganda which floods this country with regard to the atrocities being committed 111 Finland, what was formerly blood boil at the reported brutality of the Ger mans and the Russians and- the Japanese. Hut while you are doing so, save a little ire. For some of it needs to be spent upon some of our citizens closer home?some right here in Columbus Countv. Social service workers Friday reported some of the most amazing conditions which have ex isted in Columbus County during this extreme winter that have come to our attention for a long time. How one man deserted his Wife and children in the.dead of winter to live with another wo man was related?how when the thermometer was hovering between 20 and zero, little chil dren in this county, deserted by undeserving and worthless fathers, were left barefoot and ill-clad, with nothing to protect them from the cold but a cotton suit or dress. All these things were told. How much better is a man who would do a thing like that than one in a foreign land who would drop a bomb and kill helpless and de fenseless women and children. One is about as humane as the other. The Roosevelt family could spare a few di vorces without hurt to its prestige.?Elkin Tri bune "King Carol isn't a partisan. He merely feels 11 clined to favor the side that holds the gun closest to his head."?Roanoke World-News. Margolis Bros. RosU * x In Hpite of the bad weather we are now having, Easter in hut a little over a week off? Our spirit has not been dampened and our stocks have been kept up for your conven ience. Shop here icilh ease and con fidence for the entire family. Margolis Bros. ofChristianty By REV. JOHN L. GOFF Pastor Christian Church Mr Charles Spurgeon tells a story that when Sir Christopher Wren was demolishing the ruins of old St Pauls to make room for his new cathedral, he used a-battering ram with which thirty men beat upon a part of the wall for a whole day without producing any visible effect upon the masonry. When the wall was finally thrown down and de molished. it was found that such an j intimate union had taken place be * tween the particles of the mortar that it had become like solid stone This was due to the similarity of th. nature of the mortar mi of the] both being affected by the aim* bond because both parh>ok of1 the nature of that bond. Lime is th bond between inortai and stones, j fellowship between member and , member. _ ? Tlftough His careful .selection of a few followers. Jesus endeavored to have them share an intimate fel- f lowship with Himself in the cause of God in the world. This Kingdom of God's enterprise called for a sub mergence of the self for the sake of a cause Realizing the taunts and heck lings. persecutions and even death that would be the portion of1 those who dared challenge the sta- ? tus quo in religion, this intimate re lationship would be the means of strength and encouragement to those thus engaged. There was to develop through this fellowship a bond that death alone could dissolve. The infamy of the cross, the appar ent failure of the cause, the tempor ary abandonment of disciples, all j seemed to indicate failure, but the j Master Teacher had so implemented j the genius of fellowship into the j hearts of His disciples, that when j | the resurrection exc lamation, "lie is risen" was heard the bond of this] j fellowship asserted itself with great | er fervency. The cause of their Mas | H r and the fellowship of His suffer j ing became the spring of their ser vice. The Church of Christ in our mod ern world Is lacing entrenched wrong on many fronts. Subordinated by governments and pushed about by states, the voice that was wont to call men who were ordinary to become, partners with God under Uie leadership Christ, to effect such a change in the society and con duct of men, that the results would be the kingdom of love on earth, has been content to withdraw its voice and contact its service. This contrac Hon has been due in part because the fellowship lost something of its vi tal loyalty to its genius, the Lord Jesus, and substituted a party loy alty that created an uncertainty, and | thereby diminished the fervor and j zeal for a Christian society, negating the voice that could say, "Here is the way, walk ye in it." Jesus in His long look foresaw this kilu^tuui unW nruvu