The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLLAMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA. w. C. MANNING Editor ? 15W-ltM SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year 11.1 Six months 10 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year $2 2 Six months 1 2 ?rv 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 g i ess of March 3, 1879 ?Address all communications to TTie Enterprise and not individual members of the tlntf.? Tuesday. January 1t. If41. IT , ak Spot In fJe/ense One of the weakest spots in our national d( - fcim. not only irt liliH' of war *"'1 ''k" 'n H"*-* of peace, is bobbing up in bold relief through out the country. ""Local draft boards were in a dither today as reports of mass rejections by physical exam iners put a crimp in their schedule At least three of the boards found that they did not have enough men to fill the January 2.1 quota and will order others up for examination," the Charlotte News said recently in pointing out that 12 out of 27 men had been rejected by the examiners The serious plight of oui general health is being brought to light by the call to service. The all-important question now is, Will we do anything about it" We are traveling down to defeat much fastei than we think Hitler pos sibly would devour us in very short order, but our indifference to our own health and well being will send us down nvto decay eventually if we continue to follow the same easy road we have been traveling in recent years'. A father, hardly past forty, rode his son's wheel two blocks and could hardly walk the next day. He slumps under a steering wheel to run a two-block errand. He calls for his car to take him the few blocks to and from his of fiee He gouges on rich foods and slumps down in an easy chair. He knows nothing about a regular schedule for meals or sleep. He runs his course, ignoring the simple demands of good health. In time, he flocks to the hospital where he finds thousands of other despondent souls waiting to be patched up. Temporary re pairs are the best the doctors can guarantee in many cast's, but even temporary relief offers an opportunity to return to old habits. The tens of thousands crowding the hospitals, sanator lums and even the asylums for the insane ap parently offer no warning to those who man age to drag around with stubborn rheumatism or disease in. other forms In this county during the draft registration. 2,000 blood tests were handled by the health department. Preliminary reports show that ien per ceru 01 mat numoer was diseased. i lie 2,000 took the tests at the direction of health au thorities who see and realize the great need for an awakening to the startling facts as they re late to public health. Less than a dozen of that number were interested enough to follow up those tests and make certain that their bodies were free of a disease that is claiming more victims week by week. And now. when the call is issued for man power for the defense of our country, we are finding that a large percentage?fifty per cent in some cases?is physically unfit for service. Add to that number the increasing multitude of morally unfits, and you have a serious situa tion facing this country aside from the realm of war or defense against war. One may talk about the "bottleneck" in industry, but the weak spot and a serines one ton is centered in the general health of our people. .4 Guide To The Future In a recent years quackery in the patent medi cine field attracted the ire of the law-makers and courts. Today, the analyist is offering for a price consideration to predict what is going to happen in this mad world. If enough fellows guess, some one will guess right, but it is bor dering pretty close to quackery when anyone without access to the real facts offers for a cash consideration to tell which way this mad world is going to turn tomorrow, not to mention its status a month or six months from now. They say business is looking to Washington. That's true, and Washington is looking to bus iness. Business is looking to the little man, and the little man is looking to business. When It comes to trying to beat the race and get some thing for nothing, one starts looking at the oth er fellow. It is well to keep abreast of the times, but the guide to the future is to be determined by the individual. Where were all the prognos ticators Just before the crash in 1929? Mr. Hoov er was a prognostics tor and predicted that pros perity was just around the corner. If the Pres Jdent, with all the sources of information he has at his disposal, cannot see around a corner, how can one expect an agency, naturally limit ed in its means and brains, to tell what is go ing to happen tomorrow in this crazy world? If one would pick the best guide to the fu ture that can be picked, he will cast out of his mind all ideas of getting rich quick, or trying to start a boom without foundation He will do well to ignore big profits and set his goal to serve himself, family and his country to the best of his ability, not by biting off more than he can chew but by accepting a common task with the intention of doing that task well. If the agricultural front undertakes a huge expansion in an effort to "hit" a rising market and is unable to properly handle the task, then little is to lie gained. If business overstocks its shelves and something does happen, then cal amity will follow. The guide to the future should be based on even keel, with each one playing the rules of the game fairly and square Is The tide will go up and down, but as long as all go and come together after a sensible fashion there'll be no great shock to absorb But we cannot get far by listening to some fellow who tells us how to get rich quick by buying this stock and selling another, or by trying to ?1 eilpo" the market '? An Honorable Peace? Christian Science Monitor. American isolationists would like very much to persuade the United States that an early peace is possible They use such phrases as an "immediate" or an "honorable and just" peace. Senatoi Burton K Wheeler is plausible when he argues that the prospect of an actual Nazi invasion of the United States is remote and that the German people want peace just as any other people do. But are not American inter ests vitally affected long before invasion be gins'.' And is America the kind of a world citi zen who can placidly, contentedly watch bur glars at work on other people's houses so long as th< v