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The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the FismrapmsE PUBLISHING CO. Wm^AMSTON, NORTfa CARUL1WA. W. C. MANNING Editor ? 1908-1958 SUBSCRIPTION RATES <Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year 81.75 Six months - 1.00 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year 82.25 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 inembers of the firm. Friday. July 25, 1941. H hat I luml Tlir budget? * ? Uncle Sam spent $144,999,725 in North Caro lina during the recent fiscal year, and plans are well advanced for increasing the expenditures this year in the name of national defense. We are for all the spending, even down to the last last penny But what about the budget1 Back yonder when the skin on only the poor lellow's back was being rubbed off, there was much howling about the budget. Some how or other when the skin on all of us is about to be taken off. we conveniently lost sight of the budget If there is anything left of our econom ic order and the budget is still the budget after this big muddle is cleared, we earnestly hope that some over-paid economist or learned col umnist will not refer to the cost of relief ex tended the hungry as being the cause of all our woes. The money spent m relieving suffering hu manity had just as much effect in building up our national defense as the money now being spent for powder and guns. Yes, we are.foi economy, too, but h-t economy be applied to the corrupt and sore spots in otfr political system A dollar saved from the greedy hands of grafters in our defense program has the same value as a dollar withheld from some forgotten hungry man or child. Theie ueie those who-talked about the budg et back yonder when the workers roamed the streets in search of employment and poverty and want constituted a problem for just a few million unfortunates They can well afford .to talk hndget now, because the talk has national application. II i all Jul I hint,iii)i That part of the world in finding consolation in the historical defeats of Alexander the Great, Napoleon and still later that of Wilhelm at the hands of Russia, is doing a great deal of wish ful thinking and ignoring most of the real facts When history records the outcome of the pres ent struggle between Hitler and Russia, it Will have to brand those who are opposed to Hitler as being of a yellow strain. There has been too much talk about Russia's form of government, a form of government which even to the layman is bogged down by errors. But the layman in this country after lis tening to the opposition in the political cam paigns, asks if ours is the perfect one. We could squabble year in and year out about our own government, but history warns that such tactics crowd out progress and leave the period devoid of accomplishment. Then why do we continue to wrangle about Russia's form of government when there is a certain and defi nite task to be done? Hitler went into Russia knowing full well that England and America, more than England, would wrangle over Russia's faults and do lit tle or nothing else. He even talked about a new alignment in the drive againsj Russia, but he did not expect that in the first place. Instead of our wishful thinking and our slur ring attitude directed against Russia, we must center our attention on the real facts. The cold weather in Russia did not defeat Napoleon. The war was won when Wellington entered Spain and when the whole of Continental Eu rope turned against the Little General. Rus sia does not admit it, of course, but as a guide in the present struggle we should remember the concerted action rather than the cold wea ther in Russia had more to do with Napoleon's downfall. Less than quarter of a century ago Russia played a deciding role in the downfall of Kais er Bill. The West has drifted into the belief that the war was won around the Marne, and it should be admitted that each of the allied coun tries won the war of 1914-18, that had America held to its own shores, Germany would have won. Back in the first Wprld War, Russia start ed in with a blundering campaign in East Prus sia. Its armies were sent into the struggle half mobilized, and because the high priests back home were more interested in dogmas and rit uals, the armies came back half-destroyed. The general in charge went into the woods and sent a bullet through his brain. While all this was going on, Britain and France were winning the first battle of the Mame. Why? Because an ill equipped Russia Army was holding more Ger man troops along the Russian borders and in side Russia than were being used against the British and French. And even on the verge of Russia's revolution. German and her allies were maintaining more troops in the East than there were in the West. W.hat would the story have been had i Germany shifted her vast armies from Russian territory and directed them against the British and the French? The facts clearly indicate that wishful think ing has no place in the war today. We should realize from past experiences that if the dem ocrat is to preserve his democracy and,the com munist is to preserve his communism and if anyone is to save anything that still has a mean ing for him, definite steps must be taken tow ard unity in the fight against the conqueror. The old boys did not wrangle over forms of government or petty beliefs; they ganged to gether for the sole and only purpose of defeat ing a common enemy. 11 We are to hope for Hitler's downfall, we have first got to see action in the West while Russia still occupies him and his hordes in the East. It is high time that we were stopping so much wishful thinking and act. Thin (ijii J lining II i>rlil Just as if the turn of events in the war was 'not enough to worry about, here comes along those who would add a little more confusion to this old troubled and confusing world. Self-termed friends of the farmer are now pointing out that the parity price law for agri culture will actually hold farm commodity prices to a low level. We won't dispute them, remembering that France is now fighting her former ally, and that all white paint may be called black and all black paint may be called white before the next change of the moon. But where were those friends of the farmer-back yonder when the fight was underway to gain what little the, parity percentage price law of fered. And now comes along an employer explain ing that the wage and hour law is actually hold ing down wages. Well, maybe it is, for about the only things that haven't changed their mean ing are death and taxes. Is it possible that in this time of need for un ity and a better feeling among farmers, capital ,and labor there are those who would disgrun tle the farmer with the parity law and create hatred among the laborers for the wage and hour law? Slit 11 horn In ili vidua!ily Taking exception to a plan approved by more tli/in 80_per cent of his fellow farmers, a wheat grower out in Michigan chose to burn his en tire wheat crop rather than store the surplus or pay the penalty on the excess. It is plainly another case of stubborn individuality. We fol low along with the mob in so many directions an'' are well satisfied until we take exception to .me step and then we damage ourselves in Ihe vain hope of spiting the government. There are those "who will come along and ad nTiTt' The Michigan wheat larmer for his indi vidual action in this case, but when a man acts as he acted it is about time that his upper story was being examined for he has given evidence already that he is a fit subject for keeping in a padded cell 111 some institution for the insane. Our stubborn individuality has resulted in a mass of tTSffflrrg Taws and regulafiorisTTt is ad mitted that every group has its special laws, and it is fairly apparent that even individuals have gagged the law-making bodies and forc ed the passage of laws designed and created for selfish and limited purposes. It would seem much better if the masses would join in and support movements designed to aid the masses, forget our individual whims and stubbornness and stop doing such foolish things as burning our wheat crops. Throttling Defente The defeatist's stand taken by one Hamilton Kish. the Republican Congressman from New York who is now serving a 30-day term in the Army at Fort Bragg, is doing more to delay de fense than all the strikes and all the bottlenecks tied around the defense program.' After two years it would seem that this coun try- wputd be pullitig together either for an all out defense or a bang-up partnership with the German barbarians. The trend has been tow ar'd the side of those who are fighting Hitler, but one obscure Congressman and a few other isolationists are hamstringing the program of the many. Ham Fish and others of his ilk hold the right to disagree and so state their stands, but it is now evident that Fish and his group are doing more to have America bow down to Hitlerism than the spies and other Hitler agents are do ing. "I It Reitdy When You I*" Elbarton (Ga.) Star. A Negro registrant was struggling with his questionnaire. He looked it over for a long while, scratching his head and sweating pro fusely. Finally he said: "I caint answer all thenp questions in a year." So he turned the sheet ov er and wrote on the back: "I is reddy when you is," and sent it to the board. This humble citizen, we believe, spoke not only the sentiments of his race. He also spoke for all the people of the South and, it is to be hoped, for the people of all other sections. ? Look Behind You, Sam! AXIS EMBASSIES SiE tTl\ J. Tl was CONSlMTfS ' PA?U. \<* o Sty Jl J Members of the FICHT FOR FREEDOM Committee everyuhere in the nation have telegraphed and written the President, and their Representatives and Senators in Congress, "ffhy haven't ue expelled the Axis Ambassador''" The Source I Of Power.... By REV. JOHN 1IARUY Church Of The Advent | THE CHURCH IS THE HOLY FEL LOWSHIP OF PEOPLE. Membership is an inescapable | part of our lives. The relationships I of the family make or unmake a child- Each of us is a member and I heir of some wider community of lives, a neighborhood, town, nation. From that membership we draw in large measure the way we think, the ?yviy language wo speak, the stan= dards by which we live. We are made by the company we keep. God made us for community, for membership j in a shared life. "Because He made us for commun | ity. He never deals with us as isolat ed beings. He spoke to His prophets as members of His chosen people, in I terms of the needs of His people and I of His holy purposes for His people. All the treasure that come to us in the Old Testament, the command ments of the Law, the prophetic words, the songs of the Psalmists, were committed by God to the keep ? ? j ii.... lUllllllilk?.U KfJ - " ing of a Chosen People, and they ours only because the people of are uuis uuij God guarded them for us. It is wi Gentiles who have been grafted in and made fellow-heirs of God's fa vor to His people Israel God sent for His Son, made of a woman, made under the Law." Our I*ord in His humanity was fully part of the life of His people. The memor ies and the hopes of Israel were His. The Father spoke to Him through the i> life and; needs and sacred writ ings of His people. God fashioned the mind and purpose of Jesus the Christ out of the stuff of Israel. "When Christ had finished His earthly ministry there was nothing ? I . , 111,, inr fii.* .1 I., i .lit* ill 111 u ' 1 V H ' 1^ i * IT7 rTiTnV Jill n Til 11i.i I ?. - -1 iu pii v ip wt. compiiiiy of people who had walked with Him and hoard lhs word, with whom Ho had broken hread and prayed, and into whom He had breathed His own Spirit That was the apostolic Church, the commun ity, the shared life issuing out of companionship of Christ. There is no Clinroh other thBU the UPOStoUc Church, the continuing fellowship of lives which ever, receives what God in Christ gives and then gives to the world what it has received. Only through the Church do the Gospels reach us and only through us can the Gospel reach the world. In those sa cred actions of the worshiping com munity which we call sacraments Christ continue* to receive those who "repent and believe" into a shared life with Him and His disciples, and continues to feed men with His strengthening companionship and to (Offer His life to us and for us in the broken bread and the -poured-out wine. The Church is the imperfect sinning society of men that carries this heavenly treasure through the changes and chances of the years. Tile treasure is committee to us, not to priests or ministers alone, but to tlie whole company of Christian peo ple. We are all called. We are all sent. The promise of power is to us all. "The life of the Church is a life ;of receiving and giving. These two can not be separated When the Church stops receiving from God it has nothing tn give. It. is like a branch cut off from the vine, which bears nu-Ieuit. But if the Church stops giving it cannot receive. It is like a body that tries to breathe in without breathing out. The Church can live only by permitting the love of God to flow through it into the world. "The Church in its inmost nature is the community of faith and wor ship and charity. It lives by a two fold movement qf the apirit, upward in contrite adoration of the self-giv ing God and outward to the needs of the world. A Church anxiously concerned for its own existence and begging men to support it so that it can be a success is a contradiction. A congregation that looks on its neighborhood as a means of support rather than as a field of service is a dying congregation. Because the Church ia the body of Christ it like Him, stands in the world as one that comes not to be ministered unto but to minister and to give its life." 1*41! The hand that rocks the cradle Is now stained with nicotine, And the foot upon the rocker Likes to step on gaaoline. CHURCH NEWS CHRISTIAN Bible school, 9:45 a. m. Morning worship, 11 a. m. Sub ject, "The Voice of the Church " Young People's meeting, 7 p. m. Subject, "Handling Handicaps." Evening service, K p. m. Subject, \Afe's Un<? xpecteel Closses." Choir rehearsal, Monday, 7r39. Thursday, 8 p. in. Study of 20th Chapter of Acts by Mrs John L. Goff. Beginning Monday evening at 8: o'clock in the Bay Creek Christian Church, Mesic, Rev. John L. Goff will conduct a series of evangelistic services. This will be the third meet ing conducted by Mr. Goff for the Bay Creek church Rev. R V. Hope, of Washington, is the pastor. Mr. Hope will fill the pulpit of the Wi'l liamston Christian Church on Sun- , day. August 3rd. RIDDICK'S GROVE Regular services at Riddick's Grove Baptist Church Sunday eve- ! ning at 3 p. m. The church will have; some business to attend to with ref-1 erence to the revival meeting. There fore I hope that all the membership 1 will try to be present and the,pub lic is invited. CHURCH OF THE ADVENT 7th Sunday after Trinity. The Colleet Lord, of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things; Graft in our hearts the love of thy name, increase in us true re ligion, nourish us with all goodness and of thy great mercy keep us in the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Church school, 9:45 a. m. Morning prayer and sermon, 11 a. BAPTIST Bible school, 9:45 a. ni. Morning worship, 11 a. m. Young people's meeting, 7 p. m. Evening worship, 8 p. m. Last Sunday we were richly blest in our worship; we are anxious for His presence and fellowship again with His people this Sunday. He nev er disappoints those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. "Where two or three are gathered together in His Name He will be there in the midst." What a joy it is to have the presence of the Living Christ. | METHODIST Chuich school. 9:45 a m. Morning worship. 11 a. m. Epworth league, 7 p. m. Evening worship. 8 p. m. Mid-week prayer service, Wednes day at 8 o'clock. NOTICE North Carolina, Martin Chunty. In The Superior Court. Jack llarrrll v. Sarah Ilarrell. iLapgeann^from the affidavit of Thrips Affects Large Part Of Northampton Peanuts Approximately 75 per cent of the peanut acreage in Northampton County has been affected by thrips litis season, says H. G. Snipes, assist ant farm agent of the N. C. State College Extension Service. ? The unusually favorable position of the Nation's poultry industry is reflected in the June output of more than 4,000,000,000 eggs, largest for the month since 1930. B. A Critcher, Attorney in this ac tion, that Sarah Harrell cannot after due diligence be found in the State and she is not to be found in the County of Martin; and it further ap pearing that a cause of action exists against the defendant in favor of the plaintiff, to-wit: An absolute divorce on account of two years' separation: It is, therefore, ordered that sum mons be served on said Sarah Har rell by publication and to that end that notice of this action be publish ed once a week for four weeks in the Enterprise, a newspaper published in Martin County, setting forth the title of the action, purpose of same and requiring the defendant to ap pear and answer the complaint with in thirty (30) days after service here of. This 24th day of February, 1941. L. B. WYNNE, jy4-4t Clerk Superior Court. W^'gi. 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