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The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WII.1.IAMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA W. C. MANNING Editor ? 1IN-1HI 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. 1878. Address all communications to The Enterprise and not individual members of the firm. Tue?da\. Juni} 3. IViI. Retarding Urfrnue Tlif crying need for defense is lulling upon deaf ears in more than one quarter, and ill oui willingness to criticise we are only retarding a project of far more serious purport than Un American people have yet begun to realize Wedded to the freedom of all men and sym pathetic to the underdog, this paper has in a feeble way. to be sure, cried out for the under privileged against the domineering, the selfish crust of our land. That the upper crust is en titled to its just dues is not to be denied, and we sav with all the power at our command that the racketeering in labor circles and sabotage in high and low circles should be stamped out and those responsible be brought to answer af ter lawful means. But it is indeed apparent that we would not only stamp out the racketeer and the saboteur, but that we would also stamp out the liberties of men working men and the com mon laborer whose voice has been lost all these years in the dm and howl emulating from the mighty lobbyists' quarters in every legislative hall in our land including the National Con gress Those who have yelled about labor strikes have, it is apparent, wilfully closed their minds to many of the leal facts It is. admitted that some of the labor strikes in this country were ill-timed, and possibly were created by well meaning leaders. But it is just as reasonable to believe that Hitler-inspired leaders such as one Lindbergh and others of his ilk have headed the greatest strike against freedom and democracy than all of the irresponsible leaders combined have done 111 the past two years. In our haste to take away the inherent rights of workers, we huve overlooked the big fly in the ointment. Senator Josiah William Bailey declares that the strike must be outlawed. How pleasing and encouraging it would be if no more strikes would transpire, but Mr Bailey would outlaw them. He would deny the working man the right to lift his voice 111 opposition to the dic tates of business magnates whose policies are, in many cases, little better than those imposed by A. Hitler on the helpless people of a_con quered Europe. Just three short years ago. the anti-New Deal ers, the big business lovers and innocent fol lowers of political society howled about the New Deal's power expansion program. Only a few days ago. one of those howling against the expansion program was, as a dollar-a-year man,-' confronted with an 800,000 kilowatt shortage in electrical energy ?a shortage that comes at a time when the life and liberty of 130,000,000 Americans are at stake. Some time ago a zinc smelter went to Wash ington seeking encouragement to expand plant capacity and production. The Office of Produc tion Management with the aid of anti-New Dealers and the questionable old foggies liter ally ran the man out of Washington. They ex plained that if that zinc smelter were to increase his plant capacity it would create an unbal anced competitive situation and would certain ly curtail the juicy profits enjoyed by other smelters. The explanation was offered at a time when liherty and freedom of the Ameri can people hang by a single thread. Has Mr. Bailey suggested to the Senate or to the people of this Nation that such a damnable practice must be stopped? Not so long ago a manufacturer of locomo tives went to Washington and suggested to the representatives of big business, who are mak ing such a big mess of our defense efforts, the manufacture of 300 locomotives. That manu facturer saw the need in advance, and despite the insistence of the New Dealers, the manu facturer got no encouragement .Today a criti cal transportation problem is at hand. Has Mr. Bailey advised Congress and the people that something must be done about it, and that such ill-planned bottlenecks should be blown to bits? There are the aluminum shortage, the steel shortage, and the shortages in other materials vital to the defense of this nation. Is it possible that labor, including the racketeers, have caus ed all of those shortages? Isn't it reasonable to believe that there are some other potent factors that we, in our willingness to condemn the less fortunate of men, have overlooked in trying to f|Bd out why our defense efforts are lagging? According to a recent declaration by one of the most bitter critics of President Roosevelt, 1,700,000 man days have been lost m this coun try as a resiitt of strikes. It is estimated that there are 10.000.000 workers in the nation, meaning that each of them would have to lose only 3.8 hours to add up to 1,700,000 man days It would appear that it is high time that we offered to cooperate with and not enslave the working man if we hope to save this nation from ruin. It is surprising to learn that the same leaders in France who were entrusted with the battle against the German barbarians are now collaborating with Hitler. Many common men in France lost their lives, and many others are still sacrificing their lives in the fight for Democracy, but they were deserted by their leaders. In this country we have leaders in Lindbergh, in the Wheelers and others in Con gress who are, intentionally or unintentional ly collaborating with Hitler, the beast, and in the eyes of those who love freedom and all that is good, they are no better than the yellow trait ors who turned France over to Hitler intact. ll is time to stamp out the inefficient, the near-sighted, the selfish leaders who have hamstrung the efforts of President Roosevelt to meet the emergency. And then the labor sit uation will take care of itself. It is a slap in the face of justice and common decency for the controlled press and radio of this nation to harp continually on strikes and not mention those factors that are retarding defense 100 to 1. We have worked ourselves to that dangerous point where we would fight and kill our own people before we would tackle the job at hand?that of wiping Herr Hitler off the face of this earth. Possibly labor would overlook many of the shortcomings that plague industry today, if in dustry and the people were to sympathize and not condemn labor. Moulding Opinion After reading the various comments offered following President Roosevelt's recent speech, merits so twisted the speech and many commen tators were so cunning in adapting certain dec larations and using them to mould public opin ion in support of their own views that we won dered if all were drawing from the same speech. Some said it was a clear and sane declaration of American policy, and that was the general impression gained. Senator Robert Taft strong ly intimated that the speech was of little value, that it offered nothing new. Vandenberg de clared that he saw nothing in the speech that greatly altered the existing national situation. An "unlimited national emergency" was pro claimed, and while the proclamation has been widely discussed, there has been little outward action. Some of the commentators would have us be lieve that the President directed a tirade against labor and labor alone. The printed text does not bear them out in their assertions. The President, working for unity, blasted everyone who would retard national defense work He saddled the responsibility of the great and impending em ergency upon the shoulders of all classes when he said: "Defense today means more than merely lighting It means morale, civilian as well as military, it means using every available re source it means enlarging every useful plant. It means the use of a greater American common sense in discarding rumor and distorted state ment. It means recognizing, for what they are, racketeering and Fifth Columnists, who are the incendiary bombs of the moment. "All of us know that we have made very great social progress tn recent years. We pro pose to maintain that progress and strengthen it. When the nation is threatened from with out, however, as it is today, the actual produc tion and transportation of the machinery of defense must not be interrupted by disputes between capital and capital, labor and labor, or capital and labor. The future of all free en terprise?of capital and labor alike?is at stake. "This is no time for capital to make or be al lowed to retain excess profits. Articles of de fense must have undisputed right of way in every industrial plant in the country. "A nation-wide machinery for conciliation and mediation of industrial disputes has been set up. That machinery must be used prompt -ly?and without stoppage of work. Collective bargaining will be retained, but the American people expect that impartial recommendations of our government service will be followed both by capital and by labor. "The overwhelming majority of our citizens expect their government to see that the tools of defense are built; and for the very purpose of preserving the democratic safeguards of both labor and management, this government is de termined to use all of its power to express the will of its people, and to prevent interference with the production of materials essential to our nation's security." Then there were those who commented on the speech and appealed for unity, forgetting to condemn this or that group for its shortcom ings, but pledging their own best efforts in handling the task at hand. The colleges, while they provide us with li braries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.?Emerson. Many of the political speakers who make ad dresses over the radio should be taken off the ether and put under it.?Providence Tribune. Trifles discover character more than actions of seeming Importance; what one is in little things he is also in great.?Swift. TWO PAGES Of USTDEY p* ??. JZm^*i U. S. To Commission 41 ROTC Graduates The Army will commission and cull into active service 8,000 ROTC 1041 graduates within the next six weeks, and Fort Bragg will have part of the job of giving them their final summer training before they are assigned to outfits, the War De partment has announced. These 8,000 new 2nd lieutenants, coming from ROTC units at U. S colleges, plus 10,000 to come from the Officer Candidate schools that have been established for enlisted men and warrant officers, will pro vide the Army with 18,000 new of ficers in Tn the coming year. This figure, when added to the pool of 100.000 Reserve Officers on whom the Army now can draw af fords an enlightening comparison with World War days when the Army began its expansion with only some 3,000 Reserve Officers. Of the 2,565 officers now on duty at Fort Bragg 380 are Regular Army officers, 188 are National Guard of ficers. 170 are Army Nurses and 1817 1 are Reserve Officers. DR. V. H ME tV BORN OP-TOM-E-TRIST Please Note Date Changes Robersonville office, Scott's Jew elry Store, Tuesday, June 10th. Williamston office, Peele's Jewel ry Store, every Wed., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Plymouth office, Womble Drug Store, Every Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m Eyes Examined?Glasses Fitted Tarboro Every Saturday. NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina. Martin County. Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed to the undersign- ] ed trustee by W. H. Hopkins and j wife, on the 30lh day of December, | 1922, and of record in the public reg istry of Martin County in Book N-2, at page 345, the undersigned trustee will, on Friday, the 27th day of June, 1941. at twelve o'clock noon, in front of the courthouse door in the town of Williamston, offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash the follow described real estate, to wit: Adjoining the lands of Elizabeth J. Green. N. R. Griffin, J. W. Hop kins and O. S. Green, containing 40 acres, more or less, and known as the Griffin Place, and being the same land deeded to Elizabeth J. Green by Elbert S Peel, trustee, by deed dated March 1st, 1922, and of record in the public registry of Martin County in Book K-2 at page 3. This the 27th day of May, 1941. ELBERT S PEEL. m27-4t Trustee. NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of a power of sale embraced in that certain deed of trust executed by Paul W. Allen, to Z. V. Norman, Trustee, on the 11th day of March, 1940, and recorded in the office of Register of Deeds of Martin County in Book E-3, page 639 and default having been made in the payment of the notes thereby se cured, and the holder of said notes having applied to the undersigned trustee for the foreclosure of said deed of trust: Now. therefore, the said under signed Z. V. Norman, Trustee, will expose at public sale to the highest bidder for cash, at the Court House Door of Martin County, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, on the 6th day of June, 1941, the following described real estate: FIRST TRACT: Beginning at a Sweet Gum. the Sandy Bottom Cor ner on the Warren Neck Road, thence with the said Sandy Bottom line 808 feet to a pine stump former ly a marked tree, thence by a Sweet Gum to a stake near a pine, 390 feet to W. H. Hampton's line, thence with said W H Hampton's line 697 feet to the beginning, containing 3 1-3 acres more or less, and being the same land described in deed from C. C. figao et als to W. H. Allen which is of record in Book C-l, page 474, Register of Deeds office, Martin County. SECOND TRACT: Bounded on the East by E. W. Harden, on the West by C. C. Faaan. North by Sullivan land, and South by Sullivan. Being same land formerly owned by Brad ford Allen .on which he lived and died and where said W. H. 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C less, and being Hie same land as de scribed in deed from J. H. Hamil ton and wife and Mary Allen to W H. Allen of record in Book YYY, sag* 59b Martin County said land will be sold subj< to all un^a^d^taxMs^and^the^hiffhest bidder at said sale will be required to deposit ten per cent of his bid to be forfeited in the event of non-com pliance. This the 6th day of May. 1941. Z. V NOHMAN, A *10 O.K.FROM U SA AMERICAS 8IGGEST NICKELS WORTH ?f L*ca MSMr t? k* CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF Branch Banking & Trust Co. "THE SAFE EXECUTOR" At The ( lose Of limine** April 4, 1*441. WILLIAMSTON, N. C. RESOURCES Cash and Due from Banks {12.837.020.21 Obligations of thr United States 5,895.204.04 Fed. Inter. 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