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3b?, souni n. a Pfciae: of Beepect, Cards of Thanks and all Notice of tertaimnent for profit will bo charfod for at the rata of X cents per word. Cash to accompany or der. Advertising rates will be furnish ed upon request. A CUsTm^I Matter at the Office a Post Office at FarmYilla, K. C., under Act of March 3rd, 1878. ATTRACTIVE OFFER Naturally interested la any pro-j |ject which benefits Pitt comity and ?Eastern North Carolina, Farmvilie I ?citizens have more than usual con-1 Jcern in the proposed construction of J la new hospital since a concerted ef-[ ?fort will be made to have the institu Ition located in or near this town. 1 I Without exception, the location ofl ?major tax-supported and public-f ?maintained institutions of this type) ?has always been a headache to mem- f Ibers of governing bodies who, in lne.irly all cases, lay personal feelings ?aside and conscientiously strive tol ?make decisions which will be best fori ?the county as a whole. That la aa it | ?should be. Officials not willing tol ?follow such a course are not worthy | ?to wear the toga of public positions, f I Farmville's otfur, which The En terprise has been informed will be| ?made when the time oomes, to as-f Isume more than its share of the hos-l ?pital costs in order to have a voice ?w determining its location cant be I ?taken lightly. I oti>?r factors were equal,] ?Farmville's location in the southwest I ?quarter of the county would elimi ?nate her from the running but the| ?offer to pay $100,000 (possibly | ?more) while the rest of the county! ?furnishes 1200,000 is a preposition ?which the Commissioners must weigh | ?carefully before making a final de-| |cision. [ There is a chance that other cora Imumties in the county want the| ?hospital and yill come forward with| Ian offer similar to titfone Farm vi lie | ?will be prepared to make. But un-f ?less something of the sort does trans-1 pre, an unnecesaary $100,000 burden | (will be imposed upon tax-payum if| I r arm vi He makes a bona fide offer | land it is rejected. THE SMALL town comes INTO ITS OWN (The Kiwanis Magazine) , In a recent article on "Pathfinder" call. attention s trend which is of great interest to the smaller cities. The General Electric Company has announced that in leas than a year and a half it baa increased its fac tories from 36 to ?3 in 29 dties. Most all of there new plants are in comparatively small towns. Tliis is what economists have ad vocated for years and called decen tralization. General Electric is not the only company which has adopted TT%ldtf u?aer*1 %tors, du Pont, U. a Rubber, Alcoa, Philco, Pitts burgh Plate Glare and XL a Steels Vn4na1ln ?' _ virtually in a race to see which ca [accomplish the greatest ti?n in the least time. To the cities in which they hav [opened plants, this means the pros perity whjch goes with roll. It mens a ? agriculture and industry so I one is in ? I ??rry the town. I Plant mam led in public I they "W^TTW. to with the PrarfdenVa iw for lower prices, and the re of the country Have been es pecially aggressive in their or ganised efforts to protect the con sumers' buying power. Some have voluntarily absorbed wholesale price However, so far as the ******* family is concerned, there certainly has been no appreciable change in the cost of living. No price mtae tions of consequence have token place in the basic commodities whicn I must be bought from day to day. Furthermore, distasteful as the ( fact may be, the cost of living will not go down to any extent ae long as a philosophy of grab characterises our national life. MUHons of Amer icans are working on the" theory I I that they can get mora while they I do less. This ruinous theory is be-1 tag followed by large segments of I organised labor. Wage rates in all industry are far. above any previous! level. Yet industry after industry report! that worker productivity is down ten, fifteen and twenty-five per cent from the prewar level. The philosophy of grab appears in management as well. There are un doubtedly businesses which could re duce prices. The sooner competition forces these enterprises into line or out of business, the better off the whole country will be. 1 Government itself, through its fis-1 cal policy, will finally resolve the question of inflation one way or an other. The unpalatable truth is that all of us, regardless of our particular I place in the scheme of things, have a direct responsibility. The philosophy of grab is inflation's most potent ally. ? ' Economic Highlights (Happenings that affect the dinner I pails, dividend checks and tax bills of I every individual) . | It will certainly not come as shock to newspaper . readers to be told that the great postwar spending ] bodm is but s shadw of itg former, lusty self. It has tapered off in al I most all lines, and in some fields it 1 has practically come to a bait. Many I I of the speculations of economists I deal with the question of whether we I are approaching a depression or a I I recession?the latter being, of I 1 course, a sort of midget-sise de-l I pression. Opinion on this runs the I I whole gamut, from the optimists who I I think business and employment will 1 hold at high levels, after certain I "corrective readjustments" are made, I to the pessimists who forecast dark-1 1 ly that what is coming will make the "30s look like giddy prosperity, I I Regardless of the guesswork, some I I of the economic facts of the time are| [worthy of sober thought. One ofl [the best summings-up recently ap-l I peered in the Wall Street Journal, 1 under the by-line of a staff conns-1 | pondent, Vermont Royster. I Mr. Royster, whose sources | largely governmental, starts out by I | observing that "the nation's families I are going back to the old American I custom of living off next week's pay I check." What this means is that the | cash buyer, whose nsrnc was legion J during and immediately after the I | war, Is becoming harder and harder I I to find. During 1946, [credit alone jumped 170,000,000 [was 66 per cent higher than in thai [same month of 194*. In other words, the American family is returning to I the little down and a long tone to | | pay system of buying what it i Aa is to be exps J conditions, savings >rding to Mr. Hoystnr, of the 62 in 1946 their in to was in I It is highly significant that - occurred in spits of wage for most workers, and in (ust how tongh the rise in II the cost of living has been on the ? a tCklUUIKX wwi who thought in term* of the kind of home you could* buy in 1940 for eight or ten thousand dol lars found that an equivalent home cost twice that and often more. His IGI loan wasnt sufficient to finance I the kind of house he had pictured in I , his mind's eye. and his income | I wasnt enough to make the montl I amortisation payments. So, if I could find any kind of a place to live'l I he didat build or buy. Trouble lis forecast for ambitious residential I sub-divisions where the costs of the houses sad other developments out-' I **n the estimates by an incredible I amount On top of. th.t, many I people, including GIs, who did buy on Ismail down payments, have given up land are letting the properties go. jThey simply cant afford to pay for land maintain them. Mr. Royster says the unemployed | now total 2,400,11)0 people. The trend up?though not alarmingly so as it The Bureau of Labor 'Statistics I now concedes that the number of I workers gainfully employed this I summer will be below earlier predic tions. This is inevitable in the light |of conditions. Some producers, such as the I motor-car companies, still have big I backlogs of orders, and sales are no Iproblem. But that doesn't mean that (everything is rosy. Manufacturers land dealers are definitely worried about what will happen once the I backlog is wiped out Many a pros pective buyer has shaken his head 1st sight of the price tags on the new leans. Thousands of orders have been | cancelled. What it all adds up to is that the Ibakic cost of just plain living is ab I sorting most of the average family's ? Income, and it has less and less .left Ifor other things. That is the grow ing problem the nation has not yet I been able to solve.' . |F0R sale, wants, LOST, POUND, ETC. | HOT- WEATHER IS HERE?Have your refrigerator checked and oil ed. A stitch in time saves nine. We do it the expert wsy. GARNER FURNITURE COMPANY. | WANTED?Fertiliser bags. We pay 10c each for burlap fertiliser bags and ?c each for white fertiliser bags. B. L. Lang, Farmville, N. C. ?-12tf |FOR RENT by. the day: 4 house| Jacks, WESTERN AUTO STORE. | FOR SALE?Two truck bodice ..for l'/i tou truck. 9-foot body art 12 foot body. BRAWLEY CONSTRUC TION CO, Davis Hotel, Farmville. 1S-2* | SAVE YOUR BACK! Rent ourl Johnson's electric waxer art do do your own floors. $1.00 for the first day?50 cents each additional day. We have "plenty of Johnson's Paste and Liquid in stock. GARNER FURNITURE CO. I WANTED?Man or- woman to taks 'cmre ef established customers in Farmville art Greenville, average I weakly income. No investment. Write J. B. Watkins Co, Dept. S S, Richmond, Va. 6-4p I JUST RECEIVED?Shipment of Du pont and Trojan dusting powder I for roses. WESTERN AUTO ASSO-I CIATE STOB% Farmville, N. C. RADIO BATTERIES ? We have stack Cams ta art get WESTERN AUTO , 80CIATE STORE. WANTED: CORN! $140 in to ehugt without notice. B. l*?t. Farmville, N. C, 4I0-L (MJ >u?i*ri jil rn?|l [SMMmml SltaW <???* , ?*? Security ^?flfji|| mm Some misunderstanding still exists regarding the social security tax re turns made quarterly by the indus trial and business concerns. All tax and informational returns should be sent direct'to the Collector of Inter nal Revenue, not to the Social Secu rity Office. A " This caution was issued today by Marshall Barney, manager ne! the Rocky Mount office, of the Social Se curity Administration. He .also stated that employers? subject to the law?can save them selves time and trouble by making certain that the name, account num ber, and wage earnings of each em ployee are shown on this quarterly tax report ' Mr. Barney explained that old-age and survivors insurance benefits I whidTkiU be paid to the worker when he reaches <tS and retires pom his job or those paid to survivors, in ease of the worker's death, will de pend upon the wages credited to his social security account. Each indi vidual account is identified by an ac count number?the. same one that ap pears on the worker's social security | card. Therefore, it is important that the aceount number of each and every employee be included in the employ ees quarterly wage report July is the month in which the em ployer will make his social security tax return for April, May and June of 1947. If'his books fail to show the name and account number of every employee who worked for his company during April, May and June steps should be taken immedi ately to secure the required in formation. "TIDY UP IN A J? FOR ANY AND ALL CLEANING JOBS TIDEY Painted walls, woodwork, hardwood floors, linoleum, Refrigerators, silver, brass, metal, dishes, glassware, carpets, upholstery, etr? etc, etc. A Quick, Effective, Thorough, ' -* Economical Cleanser ON SALE AT WILLIAMS' GROCERY & MARKET (EPISCOPAL WOMAN'S AUXILIARY, A?cata) GET YOUR GAR OUT OF A RUT ... bring it to us today for... r ? ...' ^ m v Several good used cars for sale?Priced right F ARMVILLE, N. C. 4 M: at* ? - m' ir North Carolina Automobile Financial Re sponsibility Law, which is of concern to every auto owner, becomes effective July 1st The best way to comply with this new law is to ob tain Automobile Liability Insurance through WE ATTEND TO ALL DETAILS Mr. Subscribe to THE ENTERPRISE and receive it Regularly ? The price is only $2.00 a year. A Man without A Conscience JQMKMSj no law but I ? - -t V Si 4 ?P K/ Ml. L !-t-V " fVMlS : i * M 7 A i - ? 717] Alii - i it " ? ADDED ... LATEST NEWS PARAMOUNT THEATRE FARMVUAE. N. C. ? SUNDAY and MONDAY ? Latest in Records Albums siz, Decca Records Stems Like Old Time. My \ v -MW Give Me The Mgjn Over a Me ? .. Deanna Durbin and Victor Brooklyn Young Orchestra Guy Lombardo priee 83c Price 83c When Tan Were Sweet Sixteen Way Down Home Don't Let The Sna Catch Ten Mills Brother* - - ? - ? - r Ifiidl I Price ..... 82c .^Otreleae it's Bee* Ernest TulNSft 1 Price 83c Prlee -ii. 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