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The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMS TON, NORTH CAROLINA. Editor ? 1968-1938 W. C. MANNING SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cuh in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year $1.73 Six months 1.00 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year $2.23 Six months 1.23 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. Tuetday, March 26, 19 W. A Batit For Peace Anil Protperiiy Peace and prosperity came to the front as Easter worship reached a climax in the minds and actions of millions in tens of thousands of churches Sunday. It is good when man turns his attention from the everyday life crowded with greed and devoid of brotherhood and centers his thoughts on the high ideals and principles propounded by the Christ on Calvary. Where will the many who crowded the houses of worship last Sunday be next Sunday9 Possi bly they'll not find time to pause and lend their thoughts to the basic principles of peace, hap piness and prosperity so humbly advanced by the Christ 2,000 years ago. Possibly they'll wander into that camp where many would have war and crime continue in the hope that prosperity -will be ours at the expense of suf fering humanity across the sea. There'll never be a lasting prosperity builded upon such a weak foundation, and when we looking long ingly for a long drawn-out war, we are mere ly offering our birthright for a mess of pros perity that is certain to be of brief duration. Former Governor Max Gardner sized up the situation recently when he said that a Inng war pow will squander the hopes of prosperity for ? generation to come. If we would work-for peace and a measure of prosperity then let our people return to their respective houses of worship next Sunday. Another Seaton The season is near at hand again when the hopes of practically all the people of this part of the world turn to the earth and the planting season The Enterprise joins its legion of farm folk, friends and subscribers, in hoping for a good crop year. We can all use a good crop year. The industrious farmer of Martin County is just as secure, and maybe more so?as the far mer was in the bountiful days of David and Sol omon, when every husbandman dwelt safely under his own vine and fig tree. Back in those good old days, there was no government help for farmers?no soil conservation, no extension de partments, no county agents, no farm loans, and no boll weevils, we'll wager Farmers have always been eternal optimists. In days of old, Samson once caught many foxes, tied firebrands to their tails, and ran them through the wheat fields of the Philistine far mers, and they lost their crop that year. But no doubt they plowed and planted and harvested another crop the next year, and life went on pretty much the same. The farmer never loses faith, no matter how things go. He wages eter nal warfare against insects, hot weather, dry weather, weeds, grass and the elements gener ally that appear to hinder his efforts at times, but through it all he manages to get along. The soil of Martin County has for a good many years brought forth harvest every season. Farm ing is a good way of life, for many people. The growing season will soon be here; soon the gyre of Creation will again turn to fecundity, the season of harvest will follow again?not the fruit of the vine and fig trees as in days of old, but theharvestof corn, peanuts, cotton, tobacco and" other crops, all of which add up to a means of living, enabling our farmers to live far better "than did our agricultural ancestors of bygone days.?C.W.B. Contrary To Facti All this talk about the New Deal and its ef forts to destroy initiative is hardly justified in the face of income tax figures released recently by the State and Federal revenue divisions. The income tax figures would indicate that while the big fellow has been yelping about the government helping the little guy he has been feeding well off the fat of the land himself. Apparently it is just a continuation of that old habit we have of yelling because we can't have all the candy for ourselves. The argument advanced against the New Deal by the income taxpayer is just contrary to the facts. r The trouble is that while a hundred dollars a month may be enough to get married on, it's not enough to stay married on?Elk in Tribune. Into Death Young Bo manhood Marches In Some Com Begotten by an irretponxfble father, an il legitimate child was born recently to an unmar ried Martin County Negro girl. The mother, only fifteen years old, died, attending physicians called at the last minute .explaining that her life could have been saved if proper examinations had been made in time and had some thought ful person directed the girl to one of the sev eral maternity clinics held under the direction of the Martin County Health Department. Commenting frankly and to the point, Dr. John W Williams, head of the county health department, said. That Negro girl was trying to carry an il legitimate baby to birth Her kidneys could not care for the extra burden and she died. There are different ways of viewing such a case. From the materialistic standpoint, the county had the expense of transportation, hos pitalization, physicians' fees (perhaps) and bur ial not to mention the tax of maintaining a health department to prevent this type of case. There will be a Negro orphan to starve or ex ist without even an ignorant Negro mother's care. The county and State have one more unit to add to their maternal mortality percentage. A farm hand capable of producing a crop of beans as well as bastard babies died in her best productive age for each. Forgetting color, in tellect or creed when viewed from the humane standpoint it's a damnable shame that not a per son directed the wayward girl to one of the health department's pre-natal clinics, the health office said. In a startling number of cases, the young wo manhood of our land is marching to shame and disgrace and even unto death while a thought less people stand idly by and watch the bars of decency tumble before this mad modernis tic way of life. On an average of once a week, the courts of this county are asked to determine the father hood of an unwanted child, the cases some times centering at the very base of our social structure. And to aggravate the situation a case is pending in the courts in which a colored wo -man- wothers-ywhite child. This modern society of ours is aiding and abetting the shameful practice, and then laughs at its victims. It is possible that society will be made the victim in the long run, for the num ber of illegitimate births is increasing and the records show that a large percentage of the tots of doubtful parentage today become the problem of the court tomorrow. Martin County society can look with pity upon present victims .offer to help rehabilitate their lives and thun Inltg a rlntnrminnrl rtnnH to remedy such conditions in the future. ".f Moral Hutis For Peace" Christian Science Monitor. At a time when war and its supposed pros, pects are being weighed largely in material, military, terms, it is worth while to remember that the strength of nations often rises from other than material factors, that spiritual strength figures even in what military men call morale, and that the course of nations is in fluenced not alone by battles but also by the universal aspiration for a just peace. The reminder is appropriately couched in the words of President Roosevelt and of Queen Wilhelmina to the Christian Foreign Service Convocation in New York City Saturday in honor of foreign missionaries throughout the world. "Today we seek a moral basis for peace." said the President, and he emphasized that some other great religions as well as Christianity have come to adopt the ideal of peace and bro therhood as part of their philosophy. Laying down certain minimum requirements for peace, he said it must include freedom for the individual from oppression and cruelty, free dom for small states from invasion by their larger neighbors and freedom for the dissemi nation of knowledge and understanding throughout the world. These are conditions evi dently set against the triumph of a "peace offen sive" by dictator states. "And lastly," he adds, "it cannot be a right eous peace if worship of God is denied." Does he not also mean here free worship of God, not merely a state religion? The Queen of the Netherlands has set for ward the fundamental steps by which this ul timate peace is to be more closely approached. "In our present time," she said, "the very first need is that of a radical renewal in the life of every individual." Such a renewal, she declar ed, "can only be achieved if we return direct ly to the very source of Christianity, the New Testament." With the foundations of peace and brother hood laid in the thinking of countless individ uals, the collective actions of nations must come inescapably to express the love and generosity which are in Christianity?but only if individ uals remember to broaden their Christian think ing to include all mankind. Then no merely con venient peace or imposed peace will stand but will, through peaceful development, be over turned and overturned until the peace of gen uine brotherhood arrives. In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of tniachiet; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.?Aris totle. FSA Collect ioiLs Are Higher This Period Collection* of funds advanced to i farm families farming under the Farm Security Administration, in region four, for the first eight months of the current fiscal year exceeded collections for the same months last year by $683,515. according to fig ures received here by D. G Modlin. | County FSA Supervisor. Between July 1. 1939 and Febru- j ary 29. 1940. FSA collections in this I region totaled $3,290,419. as compar-. ed with $2,606,904 for a similar per-' lod last year. In North Carolina. $1. 206.366 was collected in the 8-month period, as compared with $889,556 for a similar period last year Mr. Modlin attributes the good col lections largely to the planned econ omy program of the Farm Security Administration for all farmers who borrow from this federal agency "This agency," said Mr. Modlin, "is helping small farmers to become self supporting, by furnishing them cred it to get in shape to farm and tech nical advice in sound farming prac tices. "Farm families who borrow from FSA." he continued, "are assisted in planning their farm and home oper ations, keeping accurate records, and getting the best possible use out of the money they borrow " Mr. Modlin said diversification, a j live-at-home program, conservation | practices and following approved i methods of seeding, feeding and production are some of the basic fac tors in the success of the farmers who | are becoiping rehabilitated Although the repayment record es tablished by thousands of farmers in North Carolina. Virginia. West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky is an important yardstick in measuring progress in rehabilitation, it is not the only index of progress according to FSA officials. The increased net worth of these rural people, higher living standards and better health are of equal im portance CANDIDATES' CARDS FOR TRKASIJRFR THhereEy announce my "candidacy fpr the office of treasurer of Martin County subject to the wishes of the voters in the Democratic primary on May 25 Every vote cast for me will be greatly appreciated. m22-tf DICK SMITH FOR TREASURER Subject to the wishes of the Dem ocratic voters in the May 25th pn inuiy. 1 Imifby announce my can didacy for Treasurer of Martin Coun ty. Ail support accorded my candi- j m22-tf BEN COURTNEY. FOR COUNTY TREASURER I hereby announce my candidacy j for Treasurer of Martin County, sub | ject to the Democratic Primary on May 25 WARREN H. BIGGS. FOR COUNTY TREASURER I take this opportunity to announce to the Voters of Martin County my sincere desire to again serve them as Treasurer of Martin County. As many of the young people may not' know, 1 was Treasurer of the County in the way distant past 1 promise, if nominated in the May Primary, and elected, I will use my very best ef fort to serve faithfully, ever remem bering the very high and capable service of past County Treasurers for the last fifty years and more. Sin cerely yours, mlB-tf H. M BURRAS. NOTICE SERVING SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION North Carolina. Martin County In The Superior Court. Town of Williamston vs. Kansome Johnson and Any and All other Persons claiming an Interest In the Subject Matter of thia Proceeding. The defendant, Ransomc Johnson, and Any and All other Persons claiming an interest in the Subject Matter of this Proceeding, will take notice that an action entitled us above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Martin County, N C., in which proceeding said petition er is asking that it be allowed to condemn certain lands to enlarge the Town's Cemetery wherein the defendant claims an interest. Said lands being described as follows: Beginning at a post or stake the western corner of the lot on which the Free Public Col. School House was situated and being nearly oppo site to the Southern boundary of the public burying ground belonging to the Town of williamston and on the West side of the Hamilton Road and about two hundred and twenty (220) feet from said road, running thence south forty degrees west two hun dred eighteen (218) feet to another post or stake a corner, thence a south easterly course and parallel with said Hamilton road and southwest ern boundary of said old Free Pub lic Col. School House lot two hun WHY suffer front Colds? For quick relief from cold symp-1 tonn Lake 666. I.iquld ? Tablets - Raise - Nose Drops 666 dred (200) feet to another post or ?take a corner, thence north forty degrees east two hundred and eigh teen (211) feet to a post or stake the ?outhern corner of said otd Free "Pub - lic Col. School House lot, thence a northwesterly course along and with the western boundary line of the school house lot several times above named two hundred (2<k>> feet to the beginning, containing by measure nient one (1) acre more or less, and being the same land deeded to Ran some Johnson by John R Lanier and wife, said deed being recorded in Book V at page 676 of the Martin County Public Registry Said defendant will further take notice that he is required to appear before the CWrk the Super an Court of Martin County at his of fice in Williamston, North Carolina, on or before the 29th day of April. 194U. and answer or demur to said petition, copies of, which have been filed ip said orftcc% oi-petitioner will apply to the Court/or the relief de manded in the petitfbn This the 18th day of March, 1940. L. R WYNNE. Clerk of Superior Court, m19-41 Martin County. 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