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The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WII.I.IAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA H C. MANNING Editor ? 1908 1938 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. Friday. February 7. I*)11. \eed lor \1 ore Schooling If the need f.?i greater educational- facilities was ever presented. it is presented now in the call for workers m tin- ikUnsi centrrc. In the face of the great need that presents itself just now, this State and other states, too, would do well to add an extra month of schixiling and provide special courses during the vacation months A twelfth grade is in order But in adding those facilities we would do well to call for a more serious effort upon the part of the youth and parent Possibly the mod ern-day youth is brighter and smarter than even those of a generation ago But there is unmis takable evidence offered in bold relief day af ter day to indicate that the youth is not taking full advantage of the opportunities made avail able to him Facts coming from the draft board examin ing physicians throughout the land are discon certing and prove that the wild sports program has failed to produce able specimens of man hood. It is also apparent that a five-day sports program in the school will interrupt the real aim of the educational system as it is presented to the law-makers and to the taxpayers No matter how keen the modern youth's mind may be. he cannot take full advantages of the current school facilities if he frequents the pic tures. participates in the sports program, and scouts here and yonder during five days of the week, relegating to the background the monoto nous but highly useful struggle with the basic facts as offered and found in the textbooks It would appear that we are heading into a top-heavy educational system, one that offers instruction in every field even to changing the baby's pants, but one that is not striking the subject as a business deserving of serious thought and the application of honest-to-good ness effort If the public purse is to be taxed for financ ing the apprentice, then it is only fair that the apprentice apply himself to the task at hand The legislators in Raleigh in this period of uncertainty can make history for themselves by providing a longer school term and adding a grade, But they will have failed to accomplish much if they do not urge the youths to awak en to the cold facts now staring them in the face and demand that they prepare themselves to face those facts. If the modern youth is to squander the opportunities offered by a long er term and an added grade, he will bo better off if these facilities are not made available to him. Basically, however, these facilities are needed and their creation just now is indeed timelv Deter re* More Recognition Possibly the most serious problem facing this nation outside the realm of defense is that of _ fered by agriculture. It is admitted that the present administration in Washington is sym pathetir to the cause of the farmer hit! ih.? facts are that every penny has been raised for industry and labor in the defense movement, leaving little or nothing for agriculture And unless something happens bordering on the mir aculous, agriculture, certainly as it relates to tobacco and cotton, will experience some akin to disaster. There is one hope for the situation and that hope will have to come from the gov ernment. It must guarantee agriculture a fair place in the nation's economy just as it has guar anteed industry cost plus and labor high wages. babies,' 'agriculture is deserving of more rec ognition than it is likely to receive at market ing time a few months hence. To get a clearer picture of the situation one may turn to Ana conda Copper, a concern whose earnings in 1940 were about 11 million dollars greater than they were in 1939. Bethlehem Steel almost in creased in earnings three fold. Republic Steel reported earnings almost four times as great aa they were in 1939. United States Steel earn ings jumped from $12,390,000 in 1939 to $69, 41$J00 in 1940. Those earnings may be or may not be legitimate, but in comparison with the position industry holds, agriculture is now fac ing the lot of a red-headed stepchild. Exports of cotton and tobacco are almost a thing of the past, and increased domestic demand will not solve the problem. Increased buying pow er will have its effect in the meat industry and will possibly relieve the situation for stock raisers, but that still leaves the cotton and to bacco farmer with his problem In North Carolina's capital, agriculture is pleading for added funds that research might k>. aHvii nrpfi in the hope of adjusting farm methods to new conditions. The legislators there are still asleep, for they do not see the handwriting on the wall The trend is to in crease big salaries, give greater powers to the already too-powerful agencies and make more secure the posit inn of increasing numbers of State employees. Salary increases may be in order, and it is all right to give assurance to the public servant, but agriculture as it faces its greatest crisis is virtually ignored This State and this Nation will do well to awaken to the cold facts and give agriculture the recognition it deserves and deserves now even if appropriations in other fields of en deavor have to be curtailed. fVirrf'n Slrikr Labor strikes have been widely publicised throughout the land. Some of the strikes should never have been called, no doubt, but reliable reports clearly state that the labor strike is not the chief bottleneck in the nation's defense program The maneuvers of one aluminum com-. party apparently have had more to do with slowine down the defense program as; all the strikes combined But as long as industrial lead ers halt progress the general press does not trouble itself to spread it on the printed page as sensational news. Now. Mr. Henry Ford comes along with a strike of his own, a strike that will really af fect the defense program. He merely states that he will take no defense order unless he is allowed to deal with labor as he sees fit. If Mr. Ford is as good to labor as he says he is then why should he hesitate to work under a con tract embodying requirements below his an nounced salary schedules and provisions? There IS something about Ills policy the layman is on. able to understand Mr Ford's refusal of a defense contract is quite similar to a sit-down strike. The laborer says he will not work and will not let others work. Mr, Ford says flnless the government bows humbly to his request he will not act even m the defense of his country, knowing full well that his refusal will delay the defense program. Mr Ford has done a great deal of talking about ins own labor policies, but apparently he is afraid to match them with those of the gov ernment even in the hour of the country's great Thin VvsferioitK War Obscure things are happening in tlie European war arena these days. While the general trend is toward a complete collapse in the social and possibly in the economic world, is it possible that a single aim is br ing advanced by Hitler? Could it be that while the rest of the world talks about an attempted Crossing of the English Channel, Hitler with the aid of Italian manpow er is conquering Italy and the Balkans? Is it possible that while Italian soldiers fight to con quer Italy for Hitler that the British are fight ing to conquer Italian colonies in Africa? It is really a mysterious war, one not know ing whether Hitler will march east today, west tomorrow, south next week or north next month. One thing is fairly certain, however, and that is everyone in every direction will do well to prepare to meet him. Church Ailcmlanri' Morganton News-Harald. Pertinent to the movement now taking shape, for a Church Loyalty Month in Morganton, is an article by Roger William Rus in the January Issue of The American Mercury, under the ti tle "Why I Go To Church." . On a sudden whim, six months ago. Mr. Riis entered a church, and thereupon started a sur vey of churches in general. Though he had scof fed at church attendance and had ben one of those who say, "I'd rather go into the woods and worship alone." and claim that Sunday is their "day for loafing." he now states, "I am for the churches " The church of today, he finds, "have some thing for civilization." After visiting Methodist, Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Baptist, Jewish, Congregational, and other churches; he observes that church attendance is bigger than the skeptics think it is and, since last spring, has shown definite signs of increas ing. Significantly, he adds: It is not without meaning that the nations, where the churches flourish are the democra cies where the spirit of man is free . . . We can nut defeat the desliuctivtrdynamics of Nazism or Communism unless we employ the construct ive dynamics of the spirit. In regard to church attendance, Mr. Riis de clares: "What I have liked most about going to church is that it turns one's attention, willy nilly, to higher things for at least a little while each week. That feels, to me, as though it were good for me." This moves the Christian Science Monitor to observe that "Millions of other persons, too, it would appear, feel that it is good for them. There are even indications that men and wo men are feeling a need to extend that good be yond "a little while each week." For many, di vine service has come to mean daily deeds as well as public worship." CHURCH NEWS CHURCH OF THE ADVEN1 Septuazesima Sunday Church School, 9 45 a m . _ I Morning prayer and sermon, 11 ! Evening prayer and sermon, 7 30 p. m SILOAM METHODIST Services will be held at Siloam Methodist Church Sunday at three o'clock, with Rev. M R Gardner, of Roper, pastor, assisted by Rev. B. T. Hurley, in charge. The public is cordially invited to attend Piney Grove Baptist Regular services will be held at the Piney Grove Baptist Church Sat urday and Sunday at 11 o'clock. It is hoped that all members will at tend these services and the public is invited. PRESBYTERIAN Regular services will be held at all points in the county on Sunday. $ CHRISTIAN Bible srhfioL 9:45 a. m Morning worship, 11 a m. Sub Young Peoples meeting, 6:30 p. m. Subject, "What the Bible Says About Tolerance." Evening service, 7:30 p. m. Sub ject. "The Steadfast Face " Junior Choir meets Monday at 7:15 and Senior Choir at 8:00. Mid-week service Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. Third Chapter of Acts. The annual Ministers' Retreat will convene at Bay View next Tues day through Thursday This religious clinic proves its great worth to those attending through its facing of the real problems that face the modern church in a changing order. Many of the ministers of the state will be in attendance Rev. John L. Goff. pastor of the local church, plans to attend. BAPTIST Bible school, 9 45 a. m. Morning worship. 11 a. m. B T U? 6:30 p m. Evening worship, 7:30 p. m A call to worship "Ye shall keep! My Sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuary; I am the Lord thy God." Leviticus 26:2 "If ye walk in My statutes, and keep My command ments. and do them; Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit." Lev. 26:3-4. The sermon for the morning hour will be from the sixth chapter of Isaiah and the one for the evening hour will be from Mark 7:31-37. NOTICE OF RE-SALE North Carolina Martin County. In The Superior Court. County of Martin vs. Tom Perry ' and Others. Under and by virtue of an order of resale made by L. B Wynne. Clerk of the Superior Court of Mar tin County, on the 27th day of Jan uary. 1941. tiie undersigned com missioner will, on the 13th day of February. 1941, at twelve o'clock noon, in front of the courthouse door in Martin County, offer for re-sale to the highest bidder for cash, the following described tracts or parcels of land, to wit: A. Beginning at a Sweet Gum, Na than Mizell's corner in Daucey's line, running thence along said Mizell's line to Samuel Whitley's line, thence along Whitley's line to the run of Smithwick Creek, thence down the various courses of said creek to Ea son's corner, thence along and with [Eason's line to Roanoke River, thence down said river to Tattling Gut, thence along said gut to Hawtree Landing, Daucey's line, thence along said Daucey's line to the beginning, containing 340 acres, more or less. The above property was convey ed to L. II. Perry from Emma V. Stallmgs by deed recorded in Book OOO at page 418 and by deed from It Mizeil et uxto L. II- Perry let-1' orded in Book SSS, page 78. Better description may be had by refer ence to Book NN at page 288 and 9 B. Second Tract: li being the tract of land commonly Known as Char ity Roddick land and which descend ed to G. L. Whitley and S. W. Ewrll from their mother, Marina Whitley, it is bounded on the North by Leg -gelt land or Sweeten Wafer Creel on the East by Stallings and Riges bee land, and on the West by the old Noah Roddick land, and on the South by Monett and Eli Robinson land, containing 297 acres, more or less The above property was conveyed to L. II. Perry by N T. Harris et ux by deed recorded in Book L-l, at pa^e 158 Third Tract: Beginning at smash Ash on the <*dge of Roanoke River, thence up the river to the' mouth of Sweeten Water Creek, thence up the run of said creek to Jas. B. Rigesbee's corner, thence a straight line to the beginning, con This the 27th day of January, 1941. ELBERT S PEEL. j31-2t Commissioner. Relief At Last ForYourCough Oreotnulelan felleree promptly be CMM It ioh right to the eeet of the trouble to help looeen end expel term laden phlegm, end eld neture to aoothe end heel raw, tender, In flamed bronchial mucous mem brane*. Tell your druggist to tell you ? bottle of Creomiilslon with the un demanding you must like the way It ? alleys the cough or you ere CREOMULSION Iap ^Auflkg rLaai UrnLlsl, iwi wwihi, vntii woioi, proncnim "Go Forward". By REV. JOHN HARDY Church Of The Advent We Americans look out today upon a world that is filled with darkness and disaster Wr w the liberties of free peoples taken from them We | see governments fall at the hand of ; the dictators. We see unrest, trag-1 edy, and destruction. We know that j all these are the results of irreligion ( and paganism; that God has been l left entirely out of man's thinking I and planning. If we are true to our Christian and American heritage, this present situation must create in us that "di vine discontent" which makes us unwilling to let things go on as they are; which creates in us a tremen dous desire to go forward, to change the course of human events from the direction it is now flowing It is not too late to bring about this change in the current of world affairs. The days are dark and evil but it was under similar discourag ing conditions two thousand vears ugo that Christ came into the world and thanged the course of events. Looking back through history, we find that God chooses just such times as these to raise up individuals or groups to redeem the times ** . Speak unto the children of Israel, that they "go forward." our Lord told Moses at a critical mo ment. "Go forward" is always the reply we get from God in moments of perplexity and discouragement. Man's extremity" is God s oppor tunity. Should we not then expect Him at such a time as this to issue a call to His people to cooperate with Him in a great redemptive effort? If. as is usually the case in times Df crises. God selects some particu lar portion of His people to render this service, have we not reason to believe that His choice has fallen upon us Christians of America? Not because of our superior merit but because we are practically the only considerable body of Christians in the world today whose hands are untied. If we interpret the signs of the times correctly therefore, we cannot but conclude that God is calling us for sacrificial service in a demoral ized world. Our first response must be an absolute reded ication of our selves to Him. Lovaltv to God must be our first loyalty in the new or der. Responsibility for usinf our selves and our resources in accord ance with His will must take pre cedence of all other interests. We must face the world with the con viction that there is no other name by which the world can be aavad. but His name We must feel in our hearts a burning passion to save the whole world Christianity feels a responsibility for all men, no mat ter what their race or,where they live. We can point the human rate once more in the direction of right eousness. love and justice. We can bring the currents of life into har mony with God's purpose. This task will require endless effart. serious sacrifice daring devotion. The call from God is to save our selves. our children, our homes, our community, our nation, and the world from utter destruction which lies ahead unless God reigns But we need not be afraid, for ultimate vic tory will be ours if we "go forward" with God. a Granville County farmers are be ginning to have their timber scaled before they sell, thus getting away from the old practice of selling it by the lump, says Assistant Farm Agent W. B. Jones. 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