The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the j ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMS TON. NORTH CAROLINA. W C MANNING Editor ? 19081S3S SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year 75 Si* months 1 Ol'TSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year $2 25 Six months ' 25 No Subscription Received Under C 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 Tiirxday. March I. 19#/. Sttekinft Reynold* Retirement The people of North Carolina can do much in aiding national defense and lilting part ol the shame cast upon them by writing to one Robert Reynolds, United States Senate, Wash ington, D. C., and demanding his resignation Already there is a strong movement underway to bring pressure upon Bob Reynolds to quit the Senate or change his ways North Carolina has contributed its propor tionate part.for representative government in Washington, but sad to relate these past, few years have given North Carolinians little in the way of representation, and now in a time like this Bob Reynolds must advance his per sonal opinion at the expense of the majority of the people, dragging his State down into dis grace If Reynolds were as interested in the wel fare of his constituency and the nation, as a whole, he would work for representative gov ernment and withdraw his disgusting efforts for sensational publicity dished out by per oxide blondes, cigarette manufacturers and big game hunting There are numbers ol people right here in this county who would pay the cost of having Reynolds whipped While mob action lias no place in civilized government, it is encourag ing to note that there is still a burning desire in the hearts of the people for truly represen tative government Bob Reynolds has been a questionable char acter for years Literally speaking, he pulled the wool over the eyes of the people when he first ran for the Senate. It is to be hoped that the people will not be duped again when the time comes again for nominating and electing a Senator or any other public officer, In The /Same Of Defense Admitting that every cent needed be ex pended for the defense of this nation, one can still hope that we will not go mad in the name of defense. It is beginning to appear that some are ready to spend needlessly and carelessly, and resent the efforts of anyone who would in ject reason into their actions It is also begin ning to appear that many are making defense preparations secondary to their own personal wishes and advantages. Vast networks of highways are being propos ed, and no doubt better and more roads are needed. Super highways in some congested areas are needed, but there is no sound or justi fiable reason for the United States government or any other governmental agency to advance a wild highway program in this section of the countryrit may be desirable to have an air-ime highway from Norfolk to Wilmington But the time saved and the speed-up m travel will hard ly be worth the cost. And neither will expen sive short-cuts, mapped, designed and advanced by selfish interests When it comes to the point that a few miles saved will figure to any great extent in our defense, then it can be marked down in blaek- and white that our defense e. shot. If the federal government finds present roads inadequate, then let the federal government im prove those roads, and not go off on a tangent and upset the economy of hundreds of com munities. Any radical change in routes may help defense to some extent, but the help gained there will be more than offset by the losses that thousands of citizns in hundreds of communi ties will experience If the federal government and the State gov ernments would make this country great they'll not overlook the crying need for improved sec ondary roads over which food must be moved for the fighting forces and upon which the peo ple forming the backbone of this nation move Inrontitlenry The inconsistency in the practice ol tellir poorly-paid State employees that nothing c; be done for them and then turning and increa ing the salaries of select groups is appearii In bolder relief with each succeeding legisl ture. Certain officials were given substantial s? ?y boosts a few weeks ago, but there is son doubt if even a lawyer-packed assembly a stomach the claim of superior court judges to salary increases. With possibly a lew excep tions the superior court judges of North Car olina receive more remuneration for what they do than any other group of State employ ees outside of the politically-packed depart ments and agencies Hanker On Bigness Newt and Observer. Robert M. Hanes, of Winston-Salem, discuss ed what is undoubtedly one of the first ques tions of our times in Charlotte the other day when he declared that the American way of life is being seriously threatened by the con centration of power in the President, by a vast Federal bureaucracy and by the regulation of economic life Such concentration of power and personnel is a significant departure from the patterns of powers in America in the good old days. And those good old days seem to be what Mr. Hanes means when hi' speaks of the American way of life. More of us can bo homesick for them than Mr Hanes Those were the days when lo cal government was in flower and communi ties were more self-contained than self-contain ing Those were also the days when the eco nomic power of banking in a town like Raleigh seemed at least to be a local power locally own ed and controlled Today we not only have cm tralizod government in America All the banks hi Raleigh are units in chains of banks which have their concentrated management some where else As former president of the American Bank ers' Association and as president also of the big gest hanking System in North Carolina. Mr. Hanes knows that in this day which in so many aspects seems to him sad, we have both big banking and big government Both may take local powei away from the local people, but both a/o here Mr. Hanes from Winston-Salem, directs bunking management and banking per sonnel who constitute a bureaucracy of busi ness in six North Carolina cities, including lus -own. He does it ablv. He tries undoubtedly to do it with as much understanding of local prob lems as local, bankers possessed in the good old days when that American way of life was flourishing without the dangers of undue con centration As banker, Mr Hanes might say with great truth that that old system of many little banks, locally owned and operated, failed disastrous ly. Such strong chains as his make for safer banking There would be much truth 111 such statements even if it is also true that the peo ple find the greatest confidence in all banks in the fact that their deposits are guaranteed un der that even greater government The fact re mains that if even such wise men as bankers failed in the old lo^Uystem. it was not strange that little local pomicians failed also as they in creasingly had to deal in little government with already more and more concentrated economic power. Mi Hanes is not Wall Street. He does not wear a suit with dollar marks instead of checks on it He is 110 economic bloodsucker oil the life of the people lh- is a native, able North Caro lina businessman. But even if he docs not rec ognize it himself, he is the most perfect symbol in North Carolina of "the concentration of power." "the bureaucracy," "the regulation_of economic life," which was growing in business before it began 111 government. Big government may be bad But there may also lie faults in big business. One thing the Am erican people have determined is that they do not mean to be subject to the great powers of big business without their government possess ing equal powers to regulate it. Mr. Hanes is arguing again the old problem of the cake how to cat it and have it, too. He is for big banking and little government which undoubtedly might be nice for the bankers but which the people decided was not the Ameri can way of life they wanted in this land. 10 I'er (lent In fit tor Army Service Labor. More than 40 per cent of American men be tween the ages of 21 and 1)6 have been found unfit physically or mentally for military serv lee Thai's the appalling fact revealed by an of ficial report just issued from Selective Service headquarters in Washington. It's the old, dis heartening story of the richest nation on earth, which has persistently compelled at least one third of its citizens to live under sub-standard condition*?wretched housing, insufficient food, and scarcely enough clothing to cover their nakedness. We are pouring out billions to construct the machines needed to "crush Hitler," but only strong, intelligent men can handle those ma chines with the efficiency required to win mod ern wars. We have shamefully neglected America's most valuable asset. If the threat of war arouses us to a full realization of our tragic blundering the price, staggering as it is sure to be, may not be tot) high. We hear u great deal about "the American way of life," and it is true that for the mass of our population our standards are higher than those of other countries, but so long as 40 per cent of our young men are phyilcally and men tally incapable of rendering military service, we are not within "shooting distance" of the goal our natural resource*, properly developed, would make easily attainable. JAP IN THE BOX! HtTLl* N hat One Apple Did As Adam and ng described land: the Martin County Public Registry Adjoining J. T Daniel on the in Book X-3, page 380, to secure a North and West, N. M Worsley on certain note of even date therewith, the South and the lands of L. T. and the stipulations in said Deed of Chesson on the East. Containing 123 Trust not having been complied acres, and being same premises oc with. and at the request of the hold- cupied by the said G. H. Manning er of said bond, the undersigned and wife, Helen Manning. 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