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The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILUAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year $1 79 Six months 1 00 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year $229 Six months 1 29 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, 187f? Address all communications to The Enterprise and not individual members of the firm. Friday. 4/tril II. 1941. Tiuler While Easter. 19-11. is almost certain tu hold a truer meaning in a war-torn world than in any other recent year. America will, in all probability, center a greater attention on the fashion parade Even though they are burden ed by the heavy hand of an aggressor, millions in war-stricken Europe are bowed down in prayer, and in their suffering they are exper iencing the experiences of Christ on that Good Friday twenty centuries ago. ?Could it be thai we. far removed from the scene of conflict, must suffer the experiences now being suffered b\ millions in Europe? East er holds a great hope, but we apparently must ace Good Friday before we realize that hope "Possibly the prayers of millions at this East er-time will help stop the march of the aggres sors," a citizen seldom seen in any house of re ligious worship, suggested just as Holy Week ?hade its appearance And possibly the prayers if combined millions throughout the world will lia'v^heir eMecf^owever, we a re too late With our prayer as far as having any appreciable ef fect iii bringing the present war to a close, but now ls-an opportune time to start praying that peace and good will might flourish in the years to come and that Easter might hold a truer meaning for all mankind The I'roftoned ISeie Turin Hill ? Wliile offering encuui agcmeiit lui the mu ment. the proposed $1,340,610,744 farm bill of fers u disheartening outlook for agriculture This papei takes a definite stand ill support of the bill, and points out that conditions demand its passage If Congress fails to pass the ineas uie it will have broken faith with those people who constitute the backbone of the nation ei ther in peace or defense. The need for such a bill when billions are be ing pumped into trade channels suggests that agriculture-has been crowded out of the scheme of things m this country. It suggests that agri culture has be^n kicked around to such an ex tenl in our i-rnnnmv thut il is forced t'> beg with a cup on the steps of Congress 111 Washington. It is disheartening to think that even 111 times when stock dividends are increasing and the standard of living is being raised for the oth er millions that agriculture has to beg If agri culture can't stand 011 its feet when purchasing power advances by leaps and bounds then what has the farmer to look forward to when the present nightmare is ended' It is fairly apparent that a change of far reaching proportions is 111 the niake\a change that will give agriculture a place to call its own under the sun. The proponed farm bill is due a place in the scheme of things under present conditions. If it is not passed then agriculture will do well to follow the course of the industrial worker and strike. Defense of nation is important, but fair ness and justice for all must accompany defense Mr. Wuxuell Step* Out Mr. A J. Maxwell, the able head of North Carolina Revenue Department, stepped out a few days ago with a strictly political defense of Jule Warren's conservative history. To say the least, the aging commissioner's action is disappointing and disgusting, uncalled for and unnecessary in the face of the bare and glar ing evidence. Just when he is about to be re tired in his old age, he apparently feels it to be his solemn duty to cry out in defense of North Carolina's conservative forces. And on past records as written in history and unwrit ten, the old system needs defending. Mr. Maxwell abhors particularly one para graph in the Ncwsome-Lefler book, the book selected by the text-book commission and re jected by the State Board of Education for the pussy-footing, true-to-the-vein Jule Warren text. The particular paragraph reads: "But it (North Carolina) was still poor and backward in 1940 in comparison with most of the states. It ranked among the lowest fourth of the states in education, teachers' salaries, libraries, daily circulation of newspapers, health, doctors, hos pital beds, total and per capita wealth and net >, average annual wage per worker, taxes collected per capita, average income per farm, value of property and domestic animals per farm, and milk production." The facts are saddening, to be sure, but they are the unadulterated truth, and if Mr. Max well can bury his head in the sand as the os trich does and forget all about the rotten but glaring facts, there is no reason why the truth should not be recorded in the pages of history. The story as told by Newsome and Lefler was true in 1940 and it is true this very day. One does not have to go far from home to verify the stated facts and add some of his own. Look at the pig-pennish approaches to nearly every town and count the poverty-stricken huts. Fol low crime to its breeding places. Go to the farms and see how little children and mothers have to accompany the men workers into the fields. And yet Mr Maxwell would turn to his pet statistics and deny the facts as seen by the naked eye and not on a costly report prepared and warped by a high-salaried state employee. As Newsome and Lefler said in their book that progress was slow in North Carolina be cause there were two classes, the rich or well to-do class and the poor class The rich did not want to pay taxes to support schools for the poor They did not want roads and other im provements for the good of all. They were liv ing well and were satisfied The same trouble, possibly in a lesser degree exists today. Spe cifically stated there is the political corruption at the ballot box, the big stick of wealth hang ing over the law-making bodies, the inequality in tax laws and the half-hearted system of col lecting those taxes. North Carolina has had its corrupt policies and flagrant thefts, but today the practices are well hidden in the files and legalized in high salaries for the high-ups Itffyinn The Public ?()i"' j* MjjiM is scoring another victory The public has voiced its opposition to Mr. Jule B. Warren's "Book of Errors." but the powers-that-be, the able and great leaders of education in the great State of North Carolina (sounds like Mr. Hoey) are allowing the text to remain in the schools. Our State rulers have "pulled" so many fast ones on the people so many times that they are slow to change their positions when caught with their pants down. The question is, How much longer Will the people starjd for such acts, acts that are causing many to doubt the high sounding definitions given to democracy in North Carolina? If it is money that's keeping the book before innocent school tots then let the former gover nor. Mr Hoey. and the others responsible for the adoption of the book accept the loss. But while the public talks, the youths con tinue to study about the good old North State ami in complete ignorance Of political corrup tion. high-handed politics and so on and so on. Heneorrh iml Thi' Form Hertford County Herald. "Perhaps I am prejudiced, but it does seem to me that" if business olid industry can spend a large percentage of their income for the pur pose of research, then the agricultural South can afford to give utmost consideration to mul tiplying present appropriations for agricultur al research." The lines above are quoted from Dean I. O. Schauh in the current issue of the North Care? Iina Farm Bureau News. "1 venture to predict," he went on, "that the future prosperity of the agricultural South is tied irrevocably with the efforts we are making in the development of scientific knowledge." This newspaper agrees that a great many of the ills of the farm can be corrected and will be corrected when research is as much a part of the farm as it is of our other major indus tries Every item of agricultural research has proven ids worth A telephone company's labor atory, for\jistance, is as much a part of the or ganization as the maintenance department; the same is true of chemical manufacturers. All great business thrives on research. Agriculture must do the same with appropriations made in proportion to the importance of the farming industry to the Nation. To our way of figuring, farming is the most important industry; there fore, the South and the rest of the Nation can well "afford to give serious consideration to multiplying present appropriations made for agricultural research." But, back to Dean Schaub; "Undoubtedly as the years go by we will be shocked from time to time as investigators point out conditions which they discover. Right now we are advis ed that possibly 45 per cent of the population of the Southeastern States is inadequately nour ished because of its diet." Here in the South we dislike to be told such harsh truths. Neither do we like it when we are advised that soil erosion is greater in the South than in any other section of the United States. We resent the insinuation that our tenant sys tem is not what it should be. The list of objec tions! truths could be extended indefinitely. "To what use may we best put the land for merly devoted to cotton, tobacco, peanuts and other crops of which there has developed a sur plus?" The answer to this question, he says, "will determine whether we can utilize our la bor efficiently, whether our standards of living will be improved or lowered, or whether we will continue to remain Economic Problem No. 1." Cold, fact-finding, impersonal research is the answer. "Living Newspapers' By BEV Z. T. FIEPHOFF Pastor, Presbyterian Church "Ye are living letters, known and lead of all men." "Then* came a man sent from God whose name was John. He came in order that he might bear testimony, that is, be a witness, be known and read of all men." Bearing testimony didn't go out with the old fashion prayer meeting As a matter of fact big business has taken it over in a big way. We live in a day of testimonials, more right ly spelled, Testi-money-als. e g. Only this week Look magazine prophesies that Bob Feller will re ceive from $15,000 to $20,000 for the use of his name as an endorsement of various manufactured goods. Golf professionals, baseball players, movie stars and hordes of others are beseig ed with offers to testify. We are told that?Smoking will reduce you, quiet your nerves, and soothe your throat. In various testimonials here and there I have found the following amusing, ridiculous, and not any too near the truth statements One person said, "We used your carpet cleaner and now our rugs are just as good as new ones." Another said, "I used your new gasoline and got 27 miles per gallon. There isn't a knock in a car tank full." Here is one of tin- best ones; A tramp is lying in the shade of a tree and this is his testimony. "I used your soap 17 years ago. and I haven't had to use any since." New automobiles, expensive radios, life endowments, and even cub planes are offered to the ones who can write the best ones. How true it is that we live in a day of testimonials. It has always been true, for ever since the dawn of time man by his words and actions has been testifying either for or against God. We are living letters, known and read of all men. The purpose of a man's testimony is to bear witness to the merit and quality, necessity and benefit, of the thing he represents. Unfortunately we cannot say that this is the true purpose of our pres ent day testimony. e.g. "Does your breath offend?" Have your teeth lost their sparkle?" "Does your child refuse to eat spin ach?" If so, then why remain that | way? When all you have to do is to BRENNER PASS,-1941 sar m >ui take one penny and buy yourself a piece of Double Bubble Chewing Gum "Do you want to be an all-Ameri cun boy?" "Do you want to have a strong robust body and become the hero of the football, baseball or bas ketball squads?" How silly it is to be a weakling, a wallflower, a no body, when all you have to do is eat a bowl of cereal each morning "Are you girls bothered with runs or holes in your stockings?" Then why not buy holeproof hosiery? Testimonials have become so ex aggerated that the American pub lic has come to discount them and many of us completely ignore them These goods have been tried and found wanting They are not what they are advertised to be. They do not do and cannot do what is claim ed for them. I wonder if this isn't the reason why we had some time ago and per haps still have today in some places the two expressions, "Oh Yeah," and "You're Telling Me." Of this I am sure'that we are all agreed. Such exaggerated testimony is fast becoming detrimental to legiti mate business. And of this I know we arc all assured, that a hypocriti cal testimony in the name of relig | ion will do more to retard the ad vancement of the Kingdom of God than anything else on earth." " There came a man sent from God | whose name was John. The Sjpnc I came to bear testimony for God.", Was his testimony true?" Is Christ ianity all that it claims to be?" "Does 1 it work?" "Will it work today?" Is Christianity a liability or an as I set?" Grub Army representatives estimate ] that it will require approximately one million dollars per day to feed men in service by next June, when | the armed forces are supposed to reach a peak. NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina, Martin County. In The Superior Court. County of Martin vs. M. O. Fouts. Under and by virtue of an order of sale and judgment made by L B. Wynne, Clerk of the Superior Court of Martin County, on Monday, the 7th day of April, 1941, the under- j signed commissioner will, on Friday, the 9th day of May, 1941, at twelve o'clock noon, in front of. the,,court-1 house door in the town of Williams ton. offer for sale to the highect bid for cash the following described tract or parcel of land, to wit: Adjoining the J. Sc W. Land Co., and formerly the Roanoke Railroad & Lumber Co., and known as the Fisher land, and lying and being in the N.W side of the old Jamesville and Washington Company's right of way, containing 200 acres, more or less, and being the land conveyed to M O. Fouts by A. T McDonald and wife recorded in Book V-l at page 504. This the 7th day of April. 1941. ELBERT S PEEL, a 11 -4t Commissioner. ADMINISTRATRIX' NOTICE Having qualified as Administra trix of the Estate of Bryant Andrews, late of Martin County, North Caro lina. this is to notify all persons having claims against the said estate to exhibit them to the undersigned Administratrix on or before the 28th day of March, 1942. or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their re covery. AH persons indebted to aaid estate will please make immediate payment. HATTIE A CHERRY, Administratrix of Bryant Andrews. Hugh G. Horton, Atty. m28-6t NOTICE OF SALE Nurht Carolina. Martin County. Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in the certain deed of trust executed to the undersign ed trustee by S. T. Brady and wife, Delia Brady, on the ISth day of De cember, 1937, which said deed of trust is of record in the public reg istry of Martin County in Book P-3 at page 417. said deed of trust having been given for the purpose of secur ing certain notes of even date and tenor therewith, default having been made in the payment of said notes, and the stipulations contained in said deed of trust not having been complied with, and at the request of the owners of the said notes, the un dersigned trustee will, on Saturday, the 3rd day of May, 1941, at twelve o'clock noon, in front of the court house door in the town of William ston, offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, the following de scribed tract or parcel of land, to wit: All those certain tracts of land ly ing and situated and being in the county of Martin and state of North Carolina, Hamilton Township, near the town of Hamilton and described as being tract no. 9 containing 30.37 acres more or less, and tract no. 10 containing 31 acres, more or leas, making a total of 61.37 acres, more or less, and being a part of what is known as the B. B. Sherrod farm as surveyed and platted by G. R. Rev elle, surveyor, in October, 1929, and recorded in Land Division Book No. 3, at page 164. This the 2nd day of April, 1941. ELBERT?8. PEEL, Trustee Peel & Manning, Attys. a4-4t Make your Power as you need it MIF. only way to get power out of un engine is to burn fuel in it. And it wouldn't he smart to burn enough gas to develop a hundred-plus horsepower all of the time ?when it usu ally takes only a small part of that to give you the per formance you want. The sensible thing to do is to develop power as you need it?and that is precisely what the Buick FIREBALL eight with Compound Carbure liont does. As long as one of the two carburetors in this system will do the job, that is the only one that functions. But when you need extra power, extra pressure on the foot throttle throws an extra carburetor into action, feed ing more fuel mixture into your engine and pouring more horsepower out. Buick SPECIAL 6-pastenger Sedonef, $1006. White sidewall tires extra.* "Best Buick Yet" CXEMRL AR OF GENER AI MOTORS VAIUI BUICK PRICES BEGIN AT +delivered at Flint, Mich. State tax, optional equipment and accessories ? extra. Prices subject to change ?without f*v tit* notice. luilntii Coup* w You thus make your power as you need it. Tou know the lift and life of plenty power when it's wanted. And you get such frugal operation over the whole range of your driving that two carhuretors ~K+ve as much as 10*^ to 15% more mileage than the same engines once gave with one! Interesting? We think so too ? especially now. See your dealer and learn about FIREBALL design and Compound Carburetien out on the road. Slight r*tr.i cost on Ilun L SpcciaL moilels, standard on all other Series. Cham. H. Jenkins mad Cm., Williams ton, N. C. SmlUi'm Service Station, Granville St., Wlndaor, N. C. ( has. H. Jenkins and Co., E. Main 8t, Ahoakin, N. C. Chas. H. Jenkins k Co., M E. Commerce St, Aulander, N.C.
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