The Enterprise
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WILLIAMS TON, NORTH CAROLINA.
W. C. MANNING
Editor ? UH-INI
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T uesday, October 20, 1942.
Working Toward Independence
Headed by Clerk ol Superior Court L. Bruce
Wynne, the Citizens Service Corps can render
a valuable sen-ice to the people of this county.
Briefly stated, the organization can offer that
leadership necessary in this period of stress
and strain in building for an independent home
front.
For years we have looked to others to feed
and clothe us while we piddled here and there,
doing those things hardly essential in a real,
honest-to-goodness war economy. We have al
most squandered our heritage by irregular and
in too many cases unwholesome habits, threat
ening our health and lowering our vitality.
Warned of the dangers now present with more
certain to strike, many of us can work toward
feeding ourselves, making it unnecessary for
meat shipment half way across the continent
and back again. We can turn to nutritional foods
and all but forget the lightning hot dog count
er. Carefully selected and well balanced diets
will better our health and render unnecessary
frequent visits to the medical clinic.
Then there are those other problems direct
ly or indirectly associated' with our economy.
At the present time the available labor supply
is ample to maintain food and feed production,
but it will take leadership and willing coopera
tion to shift the idle to the fields. Then there is
a distinct possibility that clerks and others in
cluding business and professional can turn to
the fields for a few hours or days during the
busy season and help relieve any situation cre
ated by war or a topsy-turvy ungeared econ
omy.
We have been talking about civilian defense.
Surely such talk was not and still is not of an
idle nature, but there are other problems?prob
lems possibly even more pressing at the mo
ment than many of the activities on the civilian
defense front If the Civilian Service Corps
can, and it is reasonable to believe it can, co
ordinate our efforts on all fronts, and help solve
the problems offered by the backwash of war,
then such an organization should receive the
support and wholehearted cooperation of ev
eryone.
Mockery
This business of displaying stickers and tags
on automobiles and windows is all right, and
one is heartened when he sees the little re
minders with the assurance that they carry a
real meaning. But in too many cases the little
stickers are hardly nothing more than orna
ments, carrying an empty meaning. In other
words, the display of the emblems in many
cases is plain mockery, adding insult to injury
and disappointing to those who are trying to
"play the game fair," and sickening to those who
have lost loved ones in action.
The little stickers or tags appear quite prom
inently on some vehicles which are seen ply
ing the streets and highways, hauling their own
ers and operators to the sporting events, glori
fying an unbroken pleasure schedule and con
veying every meaning except the patriotic and
thoughtful one.
Many of the littl^ signs should be torn from
their moorings and replaced with yellow stick
ers, proclaiming to the world that there are
common cheats running wild. It is really dis
gusting to look behind one of the little patriotic
signs and see sugar hoarding, a self-first policy,
a glaring violation of those rules and regulations
designed to promote the war effort and support
the millions of young men in the services.
One little sign would have us "Remember
Pearl Harbor," another proclaims the liberal
purchase of bonds, and still another tells us to
"Slap the Japs with Scrap." That's well and
good, but it is mockery when the displayers do
not remember Pearl Harbor, buy few or no
bonds and in their trifling laziness and indif
ference will not move a pound of iron or raise
a finger to help the war effort. How effective
it would be to see a little sign slogan on every
ear and every window, and to really know that
thoae signs mean something. In our wild dash
for pleasure, in our conceit and in our refusal
to recognize the dangers in this old troubled
world, the spirit at real patriotism and the will
tngnsss to eecrtfiee are having a hard struggle
to make themselves heard and seen. One may
be assured that the little stickers have a deep
meaning in those homes where war casualties
have been announced and in those families
whose loved ones are treading oh foreign soil
and facing an uncertain fate.
Until we are ready to give the little stickers
and tags a real meaning, it would be well to
rip them off and clear them from sight. It is
nothing but mockery to keep them there un
der the circumstances in many cases.
The Truth Seti Free!
By Ruth Taylor.
As the^fortunes of war wax and wane all ov
er the globe, there is one battlefront that is un
der constant fire. Our minds are always in the
front line of attack. The poison gas of conflict
ing, disruptive rumors are daily let loose over
our heads. Enemy sappers are constantly at
tempting to tunnel through from all directions
to undermine our courage and staying power.
Our morale is under an enfilade from all an
gles.
Of course when we stop to analyse what we
hear we can usually recognize divisive propa
ganda. We are mature, thinking people. We
know from whence stem the stories that tend
to make us distrust our leaders and criticize
the policies of our government. That tend to
make us look upon our fellow citizens as greedy,
avaricious men, intent only on their own profit
?(be they workers, farmers, or industrialists).
That tend to make us assume our neighbors
have alien sympathies or ulterior motives de
pending upon how pronounced their participa
tion in the war effort seems to be.
We can recognize these things as enemy pro
paganda when we stop to think. Unfortunate
ly there are occasions (and they will be more
frequent as the war continues) when we are so
tired and disturbed by the press of things, that
we won't take time to analyse what we hear
when we will listen with our ears and not with
our minds, and when the constant repetition of
divisive charges, of slurring remarks, of accu
sations, of half-truths will find us believing in
spite of ourselves. If that happens to enough of
us at the same time?it will mean a dangerous
break in the line of public morale.
There is one sure way in which we can suc
cessfully fight this danger?that is by adminis
tering the truth consistently and constantly. We
must go directly to the point. We must face each
charge as it is made and learn what are the
facts. This is the only way in which we can
quench fear?because we will be discarding half
lies in favor of the truth.
We must guard mir speech Let every thought
of divisiveness end with us. Let us have no de
featism, even in talk at home. We must be our
own "Rumor Clinic," searching out the "why"
of every statement.
We as a nation cannot govern ourselves by
deceits and frouds?we must know the truth?
and if we know we are hearing the whole truth
we can take it?because we can believe what
we are told?not fear something worse. Only
the truth can make men free from fear.
Our Share
ChrUllan Science Monitor.
Uncle Sam's tall hat is doffed in respect to a
patriotic Montana woman who apparently nev
er thought of slopping when her family had
given its "share" to the war effort. A full share
it was, too, for -her sailor husband went down
with his submarine-patrol vessel, sunk by en
emy gunfire. But when the insurance money
was received, the widow offered it to the Navy
to help toward the building of another sub-chas
er. Though the gift was declined, the funds un
doubtedly will still be at the disposal of the
Government, for officials advised that they be
used for the purchase of war bonds.
Other instances of selfless giving are coming
to light daily, but the country?and the world
?can stand a lot more of them. There is an
abundance of opportunity for giving, not "un
til it hurts," as we often are admonished, but
until it heals. For there is healing in every un
selfish gift, presented not out of hatred for the
enemy, but out of love for those whom it is de
signed to aid. There is healing for a war-torn
universe in every love-inspired effort, wherev
er expended ? in purchase of war bonds, in
scrap collecting, in essential production, de
fense duties, and numerous other activities on
the home front.
The world needs nothing so much as heal
ing. Let us all give until it heals.
Mind Over Matter
Goldsboro Transcript and Messenger.
Preacher A. J. Smith likes to tell how he met
Floyd Barden one of those record hot days last
summer.
The day started out hot. By the time Mr. Bar
den got to his office (maybe that was the time
when he was walking in) he was burning down.
His collar wilting.
That was just a starter. The thermometer kept
inching up hour after hour and the humidity
pressed down smotheringly.
"I just didn't see how I was going to make
it," Mr. Barden is quoted.
"And then I got to thinking about those men
out there on the Egyptian desert. The flaming
desert. In a heat that normally is unbearable.
And the men in tanks, hot tanks, fighting.
"I got to thinking of them and I cooled off. I
just about had a chill."
So often that is the case.
If we direct our minds to something besides
ourselves we see what a soft spot life has pro
THE "IRON FIREMAN"
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j Amount of Salt Used In
Curing Pork Properly
E V. Vestal, animal husbandry
extension specialist, says it was once
the common belief that 50 pounds of
salt were necessary for curing a 250
pound hog. Now it is realized there
is no need to waste that much salt,
and, in addition, the meat will cure
out too salty fur good eating. Last
year, Vestal said, he used 7 pounds
of salt, 2 pounds of brown sugar, and
[ 2 ounces of saltpeter per 100 pounds
of pork and got excellent cured meat.
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in that cetrain
Deed of Trust executed to the un-!
dersigned Trustee by Lelia Gainor,
dated the 24th day of March, 1938,
of record in the Register of Deeds
Office in Book P-3, page 490, to se
cure certain notes of even date there
with, and the stipulations in said
Deed of Trust not having been com
^Jied^vith^mdattheregUMt^jMhe
holder of (aid bonds, the undersign
ed Trustee will, on the 9th day of
November, 1942, offer for sale to the
highest bidder, for cash, in front of
the Courthouse door, Martin Coun
ty, at 12 o'clock, Noon, the follow
ing described land:
A tract of land in Hamilton Town
ship, Martin County, known as the
Redden Gainor Farm, containing 78
acres, more or less; bounded on the
South by Vance Roberson land, on
the East by H. C. Norman land, on
the North by R. H. Weaver land and
on the West by Cleve Taylor and
Raw Li land.
This 7th day of October. 1942.
R. L. COBURN.
Trustee.
B. A. Critcher, Atty. olS-4t
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