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Farmville Enterprise
FARMVILLE, N. C
6. ALEX SOUSE, Owner A Mgr.
Eva Horton Shackleford
Associate Editor
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GOLD MEANS POWER
The discussion as to the value of
.. gold hoard that the United States
has acquired is being renewed in the
public print.
There are so-called experts who
assert that if Hitler wins this war,
the yellow metal that this country -
owns will become worthless. They
overlook the fact that Germany's eco
nomic wizard, Dr. Schachte, admits
that Germany adopted the barter sys
tem as a temporary expedient be
cause Germany hasn't enough gold.
The experts also overlook the ex
perience of the past century which
demonstrates that the nation possess
ing the greatest amount of gold in
evitably possesses power in the world.
It is a safe assumption that the role
of gold in the future of the world will
be as important as it has been in the
past.
While there may be some people in
certain nations who contend that gold
is worthless, one should not fail to
note that every nation continues to
acquire as much of the yellow metal
as it can obtain. There must be a
reason.
GERMAN ATTITUDE TO
UNITED STATES
The attitude of the German gov
ernment to the activity of the Unit
ed States In the present war is re
viewed by Joseph C. Harsch, staff
correspondent of the Christian Sci
ence Monitor.
He reports that there is "relative
unconcern over American shipments
of military weapons" because of the
fact that the "Neutrality act has
operated to avoid the major cause of
German-American friction which pre
ceded American intervention in the i
last war." He refers to withdrawal
of American shipping from belliger
ent waters, which prevents issues
arising from the blockade of Great
Britain.
The Germans believe that they (
win the war before American aid to
Great Britain can "exert a significant
influence upon the military situa
tion." They expect to have it over
with by Christmas and do not believe
that aid to England can amount to
much before next Spring.
If the war is prolonged and Ameri
can planes pLay a big part in British
operations "public sentiment in the
Reich could be swung into violent
hatred of America overnight." In
other words, if Hitler's plans go
wrong, the German people will be
advised that the United States is
responsible for all of Germany's woes.
DESTROYERS FOR
SECURITY.
The transfer of fifty destroyers to
Great Britain is an unusual proceed
ing. It is justified entirely by the
close connection which exists between
British defenses against Germany and
the security of this country.
In this connection, it should be
understood that the offer of Great
Britain to make available to the Unit
ed States a series of air naval
bases on territory of the Empire, in
order to assist this country to pre
pare adequate defense, was likewise
an unprecedented development.
So far as we know, there is no
parallel for the action taken by the
two governments. It indicates a com
munity of interests between the Eng
lish-speaking peoples and angoras
well for the peace of the world in the
years to come.
The over-age destroyers that the
British navy were used by this coon
United States makes available to the
try in the World War, subsequently
laid 19 and some of them were re
cently recommissioned for use in the
neutrality patroL
Experts say they are too slow to
be of mueh use to the modern Ameri
can battlefleet whose speed has been
grsetly increased in recent years.
Moreover, the Kwy has modern de
eop?tn*c~
old ships. **
A glance at the map will easfly
show how important air and naval
bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda and
Trinhfad are to the defense of this
wmm
our torcea to meet an invader far oat
MISS WIILIS RETURNS
FROM SOCIETY BALL.
Mia* Helen Willis, gifted
farming daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Wesley R. Willis, was among the 159
yniing ladies of the State, who made
their bows to society Friday night at
the elaborate Debutante. Ball held in
Raleigh's Memorial Auditorium.
Making their appearance individu
ally from a blue rotating platform on
the auditorium's stage, the debu
tantes, dressed in white descended
the steps in front of the stage, met
their chief marshals at the foot, and
moved onto the floor of the auditor
ium where they formed a cartwheel
shaped figure. In the center stood
Miss Bettie Hill and Armistead Jones
Maupin, leaders of the ball, and
they held streamers, which stretched
to the hands of the eight assistant
leaders. The assistant leaders in turn
held white satin streamers, which
branched to each of the other debu
tantes. The debutantes' chief mar
shals formed the outer circle.
Music for the occasion was furnish
ed by Bill Clarke and his orchestra.
Attending the ball as Miss Willis
marshals were; Paul E. Jones, Jr.,
chief, Bobby Davis, Dox Nixon, of
Hertford, and Tim Brinn, of New
York City. .
The Debutantes were entertained
extensively by Raleigh hostesses.
Miss Katherine Highsmith officially
began the round of parties in store
for the debs whpn she entertained
Tuesday afternoon before the Ball,
at her home at an informal tea in
honor of Miss Helen Willis, a sorority j
sister at Duke University, and Miss
Helen Wetherington of New Bern.
Mrs. Hubert Haywood, honorary
chairman of the Debutante Ball, en
tertained at a morning dance at the
Carolina Country Club Saturday
morning, and the debutantes were
honored in the afternoon at a tea at
the executive Mansion, given by Mrs.
Clyde R. Hoey. Miss Willis attended
a number of buffet suppers and in
termission parties also.
Miss Willis leaves next week to
resume her studies as a senior at ?
Duke University.
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Lunch Room Menu
September 16 - 20
Served Daily: Vegetable soup,
crackers, 5c; Milk 5c; ice cream 5c.
Monday?String beans with bacon,
potato salad, baked tomatoes, egg
bread 10c, caramel pie 5c.
Tuesday?Meat loaf with tomato
sauce, butter beans, corn, candid
yams, biscuit 10c, chocolate pie 5c.
Wednesday?Green peas, creamed
potatoes, spiced ham, corn meal muf
fins 10c, lemon pie 5c.
Thursday ? Salmon loaf, candid
yams, corn fritters, corn bread 10c,
apple pie 5c.
Friday?Stew beef, potatoes, car
rots, onions, apple-cabbage salad, bis
cuit 10c, sweet potato pie 5c;
ONE-VARIETY
Approximately 50 Lenoir County
farmers have signed up to partici
pate in the one-variety cotton com
munity program, says G. M. Swice
good, farm agent of the State Col
lege Extension Service.
Looking at Washington
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catastrophic proportions that will fol
low the advent of peace."
President Roosevelt also made two
public .addresses on Labor Day, one
in the dedicatory exercises at the j
$36,000,000 Chickamauga Dam and
the other in dedicating the 200,000
timbered acres of the Great Smoky
National Park. At Chickamauga, he
praised the program of the Tennes
see Valley Authority and outlined
the objectives involved, including con
trol of water for better navigation,
the building of lakes, the prevention
of erosion, the development of power,
the building up of soil fertility, the
re-foresting of millions of acres of
land and the improvement of social
and economic life of the citizens in
the regions affected.
In dedicating the National Park,
the President referred to the nation's
fnair of conserving the bounties of
Nature, expressing the hope that the
Great Smoky National Park "one
hundred years from now" will still
belong to the people of a free nation.
In both addresses, he referred to the
international situation, saying that
we face "a time of peril unmatched in
the history of the nations of all the
world" and warning that "the great
est that has ever been launch
ed against freedom of the individual
is nearer the Americas than ever be
fore."
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He called attention to the enemy
It home who "mocks ideals, sneers
at aerifies and pretends the Ameri
can people can Hve by brad alone.
He 3ei#e people to prepare for
teJinffrut, t?id s|HMK
fens* industries to be located behind
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tention to the four great freedoms
enjoyed by American workers?the
right to speak, to think, to assemble,
and to worship God?pointing out
that "in America these freedoms still
prevail." He cited the liquidation of)
free trade union^ in the totalitarian 1
dictatorships of Europe and quoted
Leon Jouhaux, French labor leader,
as declaring that Hitlerism and free
organized labor cannot exist in the
same world." Mr. Willkie referred
to unemployment, pointed out that
Government spending can only serve
as a temporary measure of relief,
and called for the removal of bar
riers and managers so that owners
and managers of industry will be
willing to risk the expenditure of
capital enterprises. He promised to
arrest the "present trend toward plac
ing labor unions under Government
control" and pledged his influence to
i establish between management and
j men upon a basis of goodwill, concili
[ation and" economic voluntarism and
[free from interference."
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With airplane production now at
(the approximate level of 1,000 planes
a month, the National Defense Gom
mission reveals that this will be in
creased to 2,000 a month early next
year, and to 3,000 by the end of 1941.
While automobile factories will not
be turned over to manufacture air
planes, vast production of defense
materials is expected to begin early
in 1941 and production should rise
rapidly next Spring.
The Defense Commission calls at
tention to the amount of planning
that goes into the production of war
weapons, stressing the mass of plans
Necessary and the time that it takes
to construct essential machinery for
high-speed production.
In battleship, for example, thirty
tons of blueprints are involved. A
light tank requires 2,500 individual
drawings, each drawn exactly to
scale. For a 155-millimeter gun, a
thousand sets of drawings are used
on the gun carriage and many more
are required for the'recoil mechanism.
This information is given out to
explain why production of planes,
tanks and ships cannot reach vast
proportions until many weeks of pre
liminary work has been done.
On September 16th, more than 60,
000 members of the National Guard
from 26 States will report at various
Army posts for a year's training.
Taking advantage of the special de
fense resolution recently passed by
Congress, the President called this
group for intensive training which
would eventually include the entire
National Guard. In addition, when
the Selective Service Bill becomes
law, the War Department is expected
to call into service about 400,000 men.
It should be noted that Guardsmen,
below the rpik of Captain, who have
wives or children dependent upon
them, can resign during the first
twenty days of the life of the law.
This provision applies to organized
reserves also. While in training, the
Guardsmen will receive regular Army
pay and legislative safeguards have
been provided to protect them in the
poflsesnob of jobs they held in pri
vate-life; ,
Earnings And Soil
Show Improvement
Income improvement and conserva
tion of natural resources have gone
hand in hand in North Carolina since
1933, according to Dr. I. 0. Schaub,
director of the State College Exten
sion Service.
Under the first Agricultural con
servation program in 1936,j?pproxi
uMy 1SM0O TarHeel^ tent**
participated. Of the tots! cropland,
about 67 percent, or 4,969,000 acres,
was covered by applications for pay
t^vA totd 608,212 acre, wm
[ fjKS hfoto pnuScM-. *?"? m*
acres; terracing?26,485 acre;s and
miscellaneous?770 acres.
North Carolina growers have con
tinued to participate actively in the
AAA programs. There were 192,
240 receiving payments under the
1937 program and 291,144 under the
1938 program. Applications for pay
ments covered 5,275,947 acres, or 65
percent of the cropland in the State,
under the 1937 program, and 6,556,
000 acres, or 82 percent of the crop
land, under the 1938 program.
In addition to the Agricultural
Conservation Program, many North
Carolina farmers have signed five
year agreements with the Soil Con
servation Service. for complete pro
grams of erosion control and good
land management. At the first of
this year, 8,460 farms, including 969,
133 acres, were operating under such
agreements.
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Want Ads!
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FOR RENT ? A furnished bedroom
and kitchen, upstairs. Hot water
furnished. Dial 243-6.,
FOR RENT: FURNISHED' ROOMS,
comfortable, next to bath. Close in.
Reasonable rent. Mrs. George
I Burnette. ' ltp
FOR RENT?TWO UNFURNISHED
rooms first floor?on Pitt Street,
cool and quiet location. Will rent
very reasonable. Mrs. Watt Parker,
Farmyille, N. C. - 3tc
NOTICE ? H. L. JENKINS,
Justice of the Peace, Notary
Public and Real Estate Office,
has moved to the Edwards
Building, 208 Evans Street^
Ground Floor, Greenville, N. C.
[Sept. 1?lmo.c.
FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS!
Pot Plants, Cat Flowers, Corsages
and Funeral Designs. Say "It" with
' Flowers. v Farmville Flower Shop.
Phone 467-1. . tf
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COME TO SEE US for your battery
and Bicycle Repair Work. Prompt
Service. Reasonable Charges. West*
era Auto Associate Store, Farm
ville, N. C. tfe
Vegetable Laxative
Makes Happy Friends
Here's a laxative that usually acts
thoroughly as harsher ones but is a
gentle persuader for intestines when- .
used this way: A quarter to a
half-teaspoonful of spicy, aromatic '
BLACK-DRAUGHT on your tongue
tonight; a drink of water. There's
usually time for a good night's
rest, with a gentle, thorough action
? next morning relieving constipa
tion's headaches, biliousness, sour
stomach, bad breath.
BLACK-DRAUGHT is a splendid
combination of vegetable ingredi
ents, chief of which is an "intesti
nal tonic-laxative" that helps im
part tons to buy bowel muscles.
It's economical 25 to 40 doses: 25c.
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Civil Engineer?Surveyor
OFFICE
(Hd Citizens Bank Building
Td. 483-0
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COMMISSIONER'S SALE.
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Under and by virtue of the author
ity contained in that certain order
made in the matter of "Pitt County,
Plaintiff, -vs- James J. Edwards,
Ella J. Edwards, et als," the under
signed will offer for sale, and sell, to
the highest bidder, for cash, before
the courthouse door in Greenville, N.
C., on Monday, the 2Srd day of Sep
etmber, 1940, at 1:00 o'clock P. M.,
the following property:
One tract of land in Swift Creek
Township, .known as Stokes land, con
taining 40 acres, same purchased
from Hattie Stokes and her children.
One Qther tract of land in same
township known as Hardee land and
containing 37 acres; another tract of
land in same township known as J.
Edwards lands and containing 20
acres. ; ' ?
This the 22nd day of August, 1940.
M. tL BLOUNT,
4 t p. Commissir-j ?r.
Next to making a speech about the
most useless thing is to listen to one.
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S- ? "Another Innovation' For Eastern Carolina"
I The Olde Town Inn I
= AIR CONDITIONED FOR YOUR COMFORT
"Everything Good From Soup to Nuts" . all
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IN ANNOUNCING the openihg of a modern restaurant with cuisine and - SII
== facilities for service equal to those found in the metropolitan cities. The =11
S? Olde Towne Inn provides the choicest foods and courteous and prompt =g.jl
S5 The promoter of the Old Towne I,nn responded to public demand for .. =11
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Mr. G. S. Fontaine, formerly with the Hotel Statler, Buffalo, New York,
as chef, presides over the cuisine. Robert Barnes, for some time with
s Harry Paries' Restaurant, in Norfolk, assistant chef, is a specialist in
gr preparing Sea fcxxh Paul Hill, with a fourth century of restaurant ex- =
= Mrs. B. D. Peacock, long experienced in high class restaurants, is manager
S . 'of the front dining room. Mrs. Vivian Weir, nationally known hostess,
= has charge of the private dining and banquet rooms." as
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The Olde Towbe Inn features nightly Miss Joane Leaux," Parisenne song
EE stress, and Dudy Waltersj Orchestra. These artists were feature enter- ^ jg
The Olde Towne Inn also features a nightly broadcast of Organ 3
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I WE WEUXME OUR FARMVILLE FRIENDS I
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