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The Enterprise Publiibed Every Tueaday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILIJAMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA. W. C. MANNING Editor ? 1M! UK SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Ca*h in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year 11.78 Si* months 100 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year $2.25 Six months 1 75 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. Tue?da\, December 31, 11W. The (Hi! Yew In Font Retreat As the old year draws to a rapid close, it is of little use to worry about what we left un done or even nurse lasting regrets over the things we should not have done. A few hour: more and the last chapter in the 1940 volume will have been written and closed wd no pow er on earth can reopen it. Turning our thoughts to the New Year, we certainly can make it a profitable one if we only face the facts fairly and squarely with a determination to do what is right, to remem ber our fellowman all year long as a friend and not as a prey that our own individual pleas ures and desires might be satisfied If we stop to worry over the business fore casts and try to live in the tomorrow before the day is spent, disappointment will be ours with out the asking. With a renewed pledge each day to do better during that day, we have noth ing to fear But we must face the facts and cast aside wild speculation in the things that never existed and will never exist if we are to reap the fullness of the 1941 harvest Today, scores of Williamston business and professional men extend to all a happy and prosperous New Year. Surely, upon such a foundation of good will and personal interest we, as a people, have little to fear come what may in 1941. Speak* For America President Roosevelt, in his fire-side chat on Sunday night, voiced the sentiment of the Am erican people when he said that every ounce of aid possible would be- made available to Great Britain in its death struggle against bar barism The President's appeal for a speed-up in armament production is certain to get a defi nite response from capital and labor and from the people, as a whole No one can look at the pathetic and appealing pictures and read and hearing about the appalling atrocities with out clenching his fist against Hitler and his gang. Mr. Roosevelt holds in common the belief that we are next in line if Britain falls The greatest way in which we, as individuals, m the struggle now is to keep in touch with the congressmen and senators in Washington and demand that they support every movement to aid England and Greece short of actual war. And Thus Endeth Another Hook In strict accordance with God's schedule of the universe and all things therein, another book in the history of years is being folded neatly between the covers of time today. Not a single one of the fleeting minutes can be re trieved and that recorded i'ft the page of his tory cannot be erased. How much of the dy ing year would be erased can be measured only in the individual mind. But while we longingly would turn back to remove a smear on this or that page, or even tear out a num ber of pages, the problem cannot be solved so easily. Hope lies only in the future. If we would rub out part of that which has been written we can only achieve success by being more care ful of our writing in the new year which an ^all-thoughtful Father is now about to give to a mad world. Many of those ugly thoughts, many of those uncalled-for deeds and many of those unbecoming acts recorded in the 1940 book can be balanced out of existence by those thoughts that approach the noble, by those deeds so badly needed to be done in the name of humanity and by those acts which will live as a joy forever in the individual's memory as well as in the memory of others. The world is not to be censored for many of its becoming acts, for it has been brought up to seek those things of an uncertain value. As a New Year dawns upon Time's book, surely the world can recognize the error of its ways and hark back to those things that offer peace and happiness. Recognizing its erring ways, this war-torn and weary world is to be and will be censored if it makes no effort to turn , to recognize the value of and fails to rec ogmze the high ideals propounded by the Master in Gethsemane more than one thous and nine hundred and forty years ago. In start ing our new book which will certainly be rec orded by Time, we could do nothing better than appeal to the Almighty for guidance in His house of worship, and to repeatedly appeal for that Divine guidance with a marked degree of regularity throughout the days of the year. Instead of condemning those who apparent ly wrecked the world, let us right here in Mar tin County help make the world a better place in which to live by turning to the finer and nobler things in life?the things rooted in th?t teachings of Jesus Inventory Time It's inventory time again, and the business man is rushing to record each item left in his stock and to evaluate each article. The atten tion given the stock inventory, while admitted ly a good thing and a necessary procedure in business, is characteristic of our look upon life. That we have come to the point where we would gear our happiness to our material hold ings is quite evident and widely admitted. Somehow or other, we should also take an inventory of our inner-beings, to make reason ably sure that we will have a statement of in ventory that will give us a working founda tion for the New Year. If we have depleted our self-respect, wiecked uui mural euneepts of hfr and cheated our fellowman by heaping bastv criticism upon his head, it would seem timely and quite fitting to build up a reserve. The in dividual possibly knows better how to obtain that objective than any other, but if the world would encourage the individual there would be a different America and a different world ere anothei year is recorded in the annals of history. It is quite necessary just now to inventory our outlook on life, to crowd out the mean and undesirable traits and supplant them with a feeling of brotherly love, a sympathetic under standing of the other fellow's problems and a burning desire to so direct our lives that not only us but others also will reap the rich har vest of a God-given life U heeler A/win The Charlotte News. Senator Burton Wheeler (to whom The News once sent a telegram with nearly a thousand names signed to it, urging that he cease his obstructive tactics and allow immediate pass age of the selective service act) is miffed be cause the President "takes to his bosom all of those who want war and shuns those who are talking peace." The immediate cause of Sena tor Wheeler's vexation was the release by the White House of a message from 170 prominent persons calling for everything that may be necessary" to defeat the Axis powers. "The White House," said the Senator from Montana petulantly, "never gives out any state ment of any group that urges that it do any thing it can to bring about peace." When the White House passes along a state ment without adverse comment, it is equiva lent to an endorsement. For it to obtain wider publicity for such statements as Senator Wheeler has in mind would be, practically, for it to indicate at least tacit approval. And that iimnlH ha a pieei- nf lypieally rfumivrntir ishness. What Senator Wheeler seems not to realize is that the Administration is completely ab sorbed in the effort to provide Britain with the sinews of war as fast as they can be turned out by this country's industrial machine. What he seems not to have understood, an understand ing that is instinctive with the great body of people in this country, is that the defense of Britain is precisely the defense of America, and that it calls almost for the same sacrifice and the overriding of any contrary opinion and the suppression of obstructionists as would be called for were this country actually at war. Indeed, the best assurance against our having to go to war is that very course of helping Britain with all our might, unstinted. The Constitution stipulates that treason shall consist only in giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States, which term sup poses a state of war. But there were no Blitz kriegs in the days when the Constitution was written. Nowadays, anybody who opposes full preparation for the United States and full as sistance to its true Ally comes close to com mitting?well, it is a hard word and we shall not utter Day Triumphant The Charlotte Nawa. As days go it was miserable from an atmos pheric standpoint. The air was soaked with moisture as the ground underfoot was sloshy with it. Never a ray of sunshine suggested that, behind that gray wall of insulation, the great ball was flaming as usual, and would in time manage to filter through its light and warmth. But, ah, masters, as days go there is not such another day as Christmas. And the greatness of it was never more clearly manifested than on yesterday, for not even soggy clouds and red mud and a pervasive cheerleasness could overcome the happiness that Christmas engen ders in all people In the households of this city and this land yesterday there was love and good fellowship and light-heartedness. And ao the day came and went to the expression of these emotions, and joy again reigned over the lords of dark ness and dismay. ? i l. L^rv V-.-^L-if OUR DEMOCRACY r? by Mot 'Wtt ftoiV" pw- ,v V ||CllTy AND COUNTRV ARE * BUDDIES, IN AND OUT Of UNIFORM ?FARM AND RANCH - STORE ANO FACTORY - UNLESS EACH WERE ABLE TO BUY THE OTHERJ6 FOOO OR GOODS, WE'D GO BACK TO THE DARK AGES. (j^ilTV AND FARM DWELLERS ALSO HAW A POCKETBOOK INTEREST IN EACH OTHER'S SUCCESS AND WELFARE. THEY HAVE BANK DEPOSITS AND INSURANCE POLICIES WHICH ARE BACKED BY INVESTMENTS IN THE NATION. INCLUDING THE COUNTRY AS WELL AS THE CITY. Envoy to U. S. >i iiatmtm Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax is Britain's new ambassador to the United States, succeeding the late Lord Lothian. The appointment was seen as an indication that Britain considers the Washington post of equal importance with a cabinet portfolio. Beer Industry To "Clean Up" State Raleigh?Investigators for the beer industry will visit every North Car olina county during 1941 to make certain that retail beer dealers con duct reputable places of business Edgar H Bain, of Goldsboro. state director of the Brewers and North Carolina Beer Distributors commit tee, announced today that the indus try's "clean up or close up" cam paign has resulted in the elimina tion of 136 undesirable beer outlets in 41 counties?109 by revocation, three by surrender of license, and 24 by refusal to re-license. "A great majority of beer dealers conduct reputable places of busi ness," Colonel Bain, said, "but there it a minority which d la regards the law and public decency. Our cam paign is directed at these scattered outlets. During 1941, our field rep reaentativee will check on theae out lets and when necessary, we will re quest the local authoritiee to revoke their licen YearV^)ay~ Saw History Mad< { New Year's day may not seet very momentous to us, but in th past it lias Seen history made. It sa' the unfurling of the first America flag by George Washington, an j the emancipation of Negro slaves Following is a list of importar events that took plate on New Year day: January 1 38 B.C. The era of the Caesars b? gan 1349 A.D. Edward III, king of En| land, defeated the French befot Calais with great slaughter. 1735 Paul Revere born. 1757 Calcutta, India, captured b the British. 1776 First Union flag of 13 stript unfurled by George Washington. 1792 Kentucky entered the Unioi 1801 Union of Ireland with Bri am. 1814 American dragoons attacke the i^ritish who had seized Buffal N. V 1815 Gen. Jackson repelled Britia when they attacked New Orleans. 1825 Great Britain acknowledge independence of South America ? epublics. 1863 Emancipation of Negro slavi went into effect by proclamation < President Abraham Lincoln. 1907 Pure food law put into effec 1913 Parcel post system inaugui ated. 1919 New Year's day declared legal holiday throughout the counti except in Massachusetts and Wast ington, D. C. Farmers of the United States at now passing up every year $150 000,000 of income that could be real ized through better management c farm woods, says the U. S. Forei Service. Low prices and limited expoi outlets for coffee and oranges ha led to increaaed cotton planting il Southern Brazil, the increase ex ported to run between 10 and 10 pe cent. During the past year, Bain said more than 1,000 retail outlets in 0 counties were inspected. He esnpha sized that the "clean up" campatgi will be carried to all counties it 1041. THE LE11EK-OUA To the citizens of Williamston. Mayor Haasell and G. H. Harrison I want to thank each of you for your nice letters and those kind spoken words congratulating me on my decorations and the general ap pearance of my store during the hol idays. These expressions from you are greatly appreciated Tor the last few days I feel that I have been recognized among you as a citizen. Coming down from that thriving little village. Hamilton, lo cated near the banks of the Roan oke, on May 22. 1926. to enter busi ness, I can say my success has been from dealing squarely with my fel lowmen As to my business transac tions, I have no regrets or apologies to offer to my fellowman and my conscience is clear and this makes me feel good As to my decorations and espec ially the pictures pertaining to de fense, I base their birth on two things First, considering the war torn world of today; second, I often think of those few words spoken by that distinguished and outstand ing philosopher and humorist. Will Rogers. As an actor and a man we all liked him. He hated no man and the nation mourned his passing. Of ten, he said, "All I know is what I read in the newspapers." So, putting these two ideas to gether, these pictures were born as it must be taken from the comment I have been receiving Getitng back lo the first ideu. in my opinion, wa in America are headed for some un known destination, the end we know not where But you and I will hope for the best. So, in closing, all the nice compli ments and congratulations received in person will be sealed in my mem ory. Those received in person or by letter will be recorded in my pos session and honored as a prize and a token of a good deed well done. Thanks, all of you. P. P PEEL Old ft etc Year Cuitom* Survive In Scotland In Scotland, New Year's day is said to transcend Christmas as the most important festival of the year. Many old customs still are preserv ed and widely followed. "First foot ing" is a midnight custom of New Year's eve. The person who first, after the stroke of" the new year, sets foot inside the house of a friend remains the guest throughout the day and is a privileged friend throughout the year NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of the power and au thority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by D. A. Roebuck and wife, I la Mae Roebuck, to the undersigned Trustee, bearing date October 22, 1937, and recorded in the Public Registry of Martin County in Book T-3, at page 247, de fault have been made in the pay ment of the notes and indebtedness for which the same was given as security, and the terms and the con ditions thereof not having been com plied with, and at the request of the holder of the said notes, the under signed Trustee will on Saturday, the 1st day of February, 1941. at twelve (12) o'clock Noon, at the Courthouse door of Martin County, at William ston, North Carolina, offer for sale, at public auction, to the highest bid ed ml estate, to-wit That certain tract or parcel of land adjoining the lands of W H Hardi aon and other* on the WiHiamsfton Hanulton Highway in Poplar Point Township, Martin County. North Carolina, being the same land* de vised and bequeathed to the late Mrs. Pattie Biggs Crawford under the last Will and Testament of John D. Biggs, deceased, which is record ed in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Martin County in Will Book No. 4. at page 462, and the same lands described in a Deed recorded in the Public Registry of Martin County in Book O-S, at page 604. containing 77 acres, more or less. This the 23rd day of December. 1940. HUGH G. HORTON, d31-4t Trustee As louil uh we ran shuul it ? Happy New Year EDGEWOOD DAIRY After Christmas iWV Hundreds of items that must he Cleared off the Shelves and Racks before inventory have been Reduced a fraction of their cost. Invest Your Christmas Money And Earn Substantial Savings t / 1- WILLI AMfTON Ita \ [ MARCOlli ] I BUOThlCf ?MA*T Myto
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