The-Enterprise
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WILLIAMS TON, NORTH CAROLINA.
W. C. MANNING
Editor ? 1908-1931
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Tuesday, March 10, 1942.
A Solemn Warning
Dr. William R. Burrell, supply pastor for the
local Memorial Baptist Church, issued a timely
warning from his pulpit last Sunday evening
The warning was not based on hate, but the
keen observer of men in many lands during
long years of Christian living, humbly and sym
pathetically impored his few listeners to awak
en to the new dangers facing us and the world
today.
"We have played with life, we have played
with the wickedness of life, and we have dal
lied on the edge of hell long enough," the aged
minister in his kind and appealing voice de
clared. In his words, flowing deep from an un
derstanding and sympathetic heart, he sound
ed a warning to mankind to turn back from its
wicked ways, to take a definite stand against
the evils that are about to engulf our young men
in the army camp areas and the young girls in
the roadhouses not far from our own capital.
'This war," he said, "has not even begun to
present its fury. We have not felt one-millionth
of its fury yet, and we will not see the end un
til all men are possessed of God."
As the minister taxed the strength of his ad
vancing years to warn against the dangers now
upon us, the joyriders roared by and untention
ally, of course, challenged the words of wisdj^
view, had their shades drawn, but the amuse
ment plart-s blared forth thp set-up whilp nnt
gnaled out as to any individual, reminding
le of the warnings unheeded in the olden
ays.
Revenue Teapot Boil* Over
The rotten stink brewing in our State gov
ernmental affairs these many years is beginning
to boil over. We heard about the asylums for
the insane, the sickening reports clearly indi
cating that thousands of unfortunate and help
leas souls had been neglected by the great gov
ernment of a great State. And now we are
learning about revenue shortages, while while
not on as large a scale as the national Teapot
Dome scandal of a few years back stink just as
bad.
Forcing its way through that old Raleigh
crust, the stink is likely to smell of rottenness
in other departments where politics have sacri
ficed efficiency, decency and confidence. Af
ter these long years, the people are beginning
to realize that the carpetbaggers are still with
us. And it can well be marked down in the rec
ords that old and staid politicians of the Dem
ocratic Party in this State are doing a more ef
fective work in the interest of the opposition
party than the Republicans are doing for them
selves.
It Ju*t Doe*nt Add lip
Uncle Sam is making ready to spend approx
imately $75,000 on a National Youth Adminis
tration project for the training of farm youth
and drug store cowboys for industrial jobs.
When it comes to aiding American youth, we
gladly follow along with the government. But
to start such a fantastic project in a more or
less strictly agricultural section where there is
a crying need for farm labor, according to the
farmers themselves, the theory just doesn't add
up in the layman's mind to make good sense.
The project is going forward in an agricul
tural section where there is . thftrt
age of labor while in the large cities and indus
trial sections there are hundreds of thousands
of unemployed. The project is going on when
carpenters are needed on urgent military build
ing* The fantastic and possibly a politically
pressured project goes forward when the jni
terials are needed elsewhere.
It would be just as sensible for the NY A to
get a hand pump and put it in the middle of the
ocean to bolster the supply of salt water as it
ie lor the NYA to pull just such a stunt as it is
pulling In a nearby agricultural section.
The old pork barrel is still a'roUin' along, cre
ating doubt and confusion about the whole war
effcrt in the minds of those who are already
borrowing money to keep their doors of busi
ness? end to pay everiereesing taxes. Take
ttwfWtto* offer R as a busines to thoee lads
who will consider a job on the farm where the
battle against starvation is to be fought, but
don't let it go just for the perpetuation of a
few In their high-salaried positions.
Ohio Farmer* Go All Out
For War Effort
*>
While eastern North Carolina tobacco farm
ers are wrangling over increased peanut acre
ages for oil, farmers in Morrow County, Ohio,
have virtually completed plans for doubling
food and feed production. Leading the entire
nation in the purchase of war stamps in World
War 1, the Ohio county is now setting the pace
which every one must attain before the pres
ent world conflict is brought to a successful
close.
Calling in business men, union workers, wo
men and children, and even those holding mar
ginal jobs, the leaders of the farm movement
have virtually completed plans for chalking up
a 1 (it) per cent increase in the production of food
and feed and other supplies. Fred Sweet, one
of the leaders, was with a government ugeney
in Washington. He observed the activities there
and was convinced that the war could not be
won in the capital. Returning to his home town
of Mt. Gilead, he called in the representative
groups and now the plans are virtually com
plete.
Still laboring under a selfish schedule, we
in Martin County have not yet struck that note
which must be heard throughout the length
and breadth of this nation before we can un
furl our banner and march toward victory. We
are wrangling over plans calling for more pea
nuts for oil. The increase asked is a sizable one,
it is admitted, but the assignment, we sincere
ly believe, is a small one compared with what
we will be called upon and even forced to do
before the troubles now facing us are oiled
and peace and quiet are restored to us and to
the world.
There is enough idle labor in this country to
handle the 11,000 acres of peanuts asked in di
rect connection with the war program. The la
bor, in quite a few cases, is not the best in
the world, but once shown that they are facing
enslavement under Hitler or Hirohito most of
the idle group could and would tackle the plow
shares and do it willingly.
How are the leaders handling the movement
in the Ohio county? They are not thinking
about profits. They are not thinking about their
individual interests. They realize there is a
war to be fought, and they are building at the
foundation in preparation for a successful
march. They are pooling all available machines.
Labor will be shifted where necessary with bus
iness firms and workers agreeing to lend a help
ing hand during the busy harvest season.
As soon as the entire nation follows in the
footsteps of that Ohio County and realizes that
we am in a war for the survival of the fittest
and that profits may not mean a thing in the
end, we will then be on the ruad luwaid ulli
matc victory.
C.onicription Here And There
*
It is bad to see the youth of our land march
ing off to army camps and possibly into mili
tary combat. But that is freedom as comparec
with other conditions according to reports com
ing from the conquered countries where mil
lions are being starved into humble submis
sion by the brazen beast of Berlin.
In Tarnow, Poland, a reliable report says thai
1,900 men we're abducted by the Gestapo anc
_taken to Germany in trucks, At another smal:
town in Poland, the Gestapo stopped a trair
and took off 100 men and routed them to Ger
many for enslaved labor. In the conquered coun
tries, ruids are made with unfailing frequency
on cafes, homes and the by-ways for available
manpower to keep the industrial wheels hum
ming in Germany.
When a man works three years he is to get
a six-day vacation.. Packages from home art
denied the enslaved worker, and as far as hit
folks back home are concerned he has gone tc
a living grave.
Surely, such conditions should make it eas
ier for the American youth to willingly accepi
his country's call. Surely, such conditions shoulc
make the American worker work just that mucl
harder at his present task; and surely, sucl
conditions should prompt the industrialist t<
stop haggling over profits and more profits; foi
he, too, may be placed in the ranks of labor onct
the beasts of Berlin and Tokyo are loosed t(
forage in this fair land of ours. And, lastly
such conditions should make the every last on*
of us accept every task possible in prosecuting
the war.
The Greedy Swine
Lo, these many years, the old conservative
and controlled Saturday Evening Post, mouth
piece for the imperialists in strict accordance
more or less, with tha advertising account, has -
lambasted claims of workers for living wages
and maintained that the farmer should be held
down in poverty. The Post has bitterly oppos
ed wage increases and fair prices for farm prod
ucts by attacking the working man's rights and
condemning the AAA program and nearly all
other agencies designed and advanced in the
name of those who had been literally robbed of
their small and rightful claims to a livelihood.
But when it comes to the Post, it labors under
the belief that the king can do no wrong. While
it condemns price rises for everyone else, the
Post announces that it will increase its news
stand price not 10 per cent, not 25 per cent, no
not 50 per cent, but 100 per cent Several reas
ons for the advance are listed, but about the
only acceptable one is that the price of paper
has gone up one cent a pound.
THE LETTER-BOX
^
Last summer while visiting my
mother, I fixed a basket of fruit and
fresh vegetables to take a needy
family. I've never seen a more di
lapidated house. The oldest girl was
standing in the door. She made a
very pretty picture, standing there
barefoot, in a rough-dried, faded
print dress. Little curls, damp with
perspiration, hung around her fore-1
head. I knew she had been crying,
but now she was smiling as she led
me up a dark rickety stairs, to her
mother's bedroom.
Her mother has been a hopeless
[invalid since her tenth child was
born three years ago. I have never
seen a more poverty stricken family.
The home that had once been nice
was a mere shell of a house. In her
bedroom there was a piece of plas
tering about a foot square left on the
walls. Tiie window panes were out,
and cardboard was tacked in them.
The screens were full of holes.
Through a hole in the bed spring,
about a foot and a half in diameter,
the mattress was hanging, almost to
the floor.
Seven of the children who are liv
ing were gathered around her bed.
While I was there they carried her
irony pump water in a yellow glass.
| She thanked them, and smilingly
said, "Without my seven children my
life would bo an empty blank." Her
husband works and makes a fairly
good salary. But since he is a philan
derer, most of his money needed so
badly at home is spent on heartless
gold-diggers.
A few weeks ago I visited the girl
again. However, since the world ii"
engaged in war, her trials and hard
ships are doubled. But she wistfully
explained, "That as my burdens
grow, God gives me extra strength
to meet tliem." And smiling through
tear-filled eyes, she added, "My mot
to is simple, 'Smile, keep your chin
up, never let your tail drag the
ground.'"
As 1 write this, I can plainly see a
vision of that humble home, and the
family therein, with nothing for
amusement or pleasure, not even a
newspaper. But a vision more vivid
is the young girl slaving for her in
valid mother, and little brothers and
srstersr She has no rtutn^ hag tnw
friends, but to me she has something
that millions of wealthy American
girls lack. All in one, that something
is: beauty, brains, cleanliness and
innocence. And last but not least a
sense of humor, since she is still able
to smile.
Mrs. Frank Weston.
Williamston, N. C.
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Best Types Of Peanuts For
Producing Oil In Emergency
<S
In the old peanut belt (the North
eastern Coastal Plain) the increased
peanut acreage for oil should be
planted mainly to the large-seeded
varieties or small runners, says John
W. Goodman, assistant director of
the Extension Service.
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Calvea
Dairy farmers can step up milk
production to take advantage of good
price prospects and help meet Na
tional dairy goals by breeding well
developed heifers at 15 months in
stead of 18 to 20 months.
M -u NOTICE or RESALE
North Carolina. Martin County
Under and by order of the Super
ior Court of Martin County madein
that certain special proceedings
therein pending entitled: "Elizabeth
Long Rhodes and others vs. Mrs
Nannie H. Worsiey, etc.," entered by
Hr*Jr ? the Superior Court of
??. ,County' and under and by
virtue of an order of re-sale, upon an
advanced hid-madehy kaid Clark of.
the Superior Court of Martin Coun
ty, the undersigned Commissioners
will on the 14th day of March, 1942,
at twelve (12) o'clock Noon, at the
Courthouse door of Martin County,
Williamston, N, C? offer for sale, to
the highest bidder, for easH, subject
to the confirmation of the Court, the
following described real estate, to
wit:
First Tract: That certain house
and lot situate in the Tbwn of Ham
ilton, North Carolina, and being the
house and lot whereon the late Dr.
B. L. Long lived and died, and de
scribed in Item Two of the Last Will
and Testament of the late Dr. B L.
Long, recorded in the Office of the
Clerk of the Superior Court of Mar
tin County in Will Book No. 6, at
page 237.
Second Tract: A certain parcel or
tract or lot of land lying and being
in Martin County, State of North
Carolina, and defined and described
as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at a stake on Commerce
Street, in Oak City, North Carolina,
150 feet Northeast of Cherry Street,
the corner of J. H. Ayers' lot; thence
in a Southeasterly course with J. H.
Ayers' line 160 feet to a corner;
thence with J. T. Daniel's line 60 feet
in a Southwesterly course parallel
with Commerce Street to a stake in
J. T. Daniel's line; thence with J. T.
Daniel's line 160 feet parallel with
Cherry Street to a stake in Com
merce Street; thence with Commerce
Street 60 feet to a stake, the begin
ning, ocntaining by estimation, one
eighth (1-8) of an acre, be the same
more or less, and known as the Fed
lie and Alice Harreu lot
Third Tract: A certain parcel or
ract or lot ot land lying and being
n Martin County, State of North
Carolina, and defined and described
'? tfTnWlt:
Beginning on the Northern corner
>f WT T. Harrii' land on the road
fading from Oak City to ITIhsrll.
?forth Carolina; thence with said road
110 feet to a stake in said road;
ihence in a Westerly course 231 feet
;o a slake; thence in a Southerly
,-ourse 176 feet to a stake in W. J.
Harris' line; thence in an Easterly
:ourse with W. J. Harris' line to the
lorner of the beginning, containing
by estimation one (1) acre, be tha
same more or less, and being the
same lands deeded to J. B. Whit
held by H. Z. Hyman, deed dated
November 14, 1923.
The last and highest bidder or
bidders at said sale will be required
to deposit ten (10%) per cant of
their bid, or bids, at the time of sale
and before the closing thereof.
This the 27th day of Feb.. 1942.
HUGH G. HOBTON,
B A. CRITCHER,
m3-2t Commissioners.
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