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Advertisers Will Find Our Columns a Latch Key to 1500 of Martin County's Homes VOLUME XXII—NUMBER 5(, Edgecombe Getting More Thjm'Her Share of Good Roads Furnished by State The woids "Good Koads" aie so appealui gto the leverage citizen mat evei> time lie hears tliem mentioned he shouts "yes" and so it was easj lor tile General Assembly to pass a tiieat road law at its last session. The bill was limn all appearances a good law antl we live gret respect tor the Legislature tiiat passed it but it seems that the operation of it is not meet ing the expeclaion of its most" ardent advocates ami we are beginning to suspect that it was mostly politics. We are printing below a section ol the law so that our readers may see lor themselves the intent and pur poses of tlie General Assembly from the word of it.-, act: "To lay out, take over, establish, construct ami assume control of ap proximately o,t>Uo milea ol haVd. sui laccu and dependable highways, run ning to all county-eats and to all principle town-, state paik.--, and prin cipal state institutions, and linking up with state highways of adjoining - i.W**"a«r»dwitn National Forest Ke en es by the most practicable routes, with special view of development ol argirultural, commercial and ■ resources of the Stale, and lor the liniiii-i iiuipose of permitting Ihc stale to assume control ot the state highways, lejjair, construct and lecon struct ami maintain said highways at the expense of the entire state and to relieve the counties and citier am towns of the .state o fthis burden." It will interest all nlurionta of geo graphy to look over the roads that have been designated and. see whether they fully or even partially fulfill the letter of the law that says "connect inp the vatiou.-i county seats, prin cipal town: and cities." A look-at the map which goes with the law and from which wo take these tacts show - for the town of larboro a straight road Leading to the town of Snow Hill, the capital ot Green county, which does not touch Edgecombe, thai is to say that they aie having a spec ial load to tlx capital of a county that does not join them. They also have a straight road to Wils n in Wilson county which joins Edgecombe and complies with the law in both letter and spirit. Ihe next road lead, to Nashville via Rocky Mount, touch ing a large town and goihg to the M qiital of Nash, an adjoining count >. Next is a road lealTiiqr f,, HiffflaVT via llobgood, this also complies with the law. Then come .-the road east, lurking at Bethel (Paimele by map in law) for Greenville and William rton, there is no objectio nto this, afc it is in acco.nl with.the law. Edpe- COIIIIK' county also is favored with a yoad leading from Rocky Mount to 'Halifax, this is alright as it not only 'ionnects principal towns buf%t st'rves jLfurther and bippel purpose in that it ijj a traffic trunk from Wilmington, Fay etrteville, Wilson and int%mediate towns to the Virginia i itof Petersburg .and Richmond, thetk Washington and points to the Hoi Qi, making it Edpscollibe's secoin besj road in sonsequence. The first being the sßankheud highway from Norfolk, Williainston, larboro, Ral eigh and on to the west. We find Washington county has a I'oad passing from Columbia in Tyr rell to Williamston in Martin arid one, running to Pantego in Beaufort, fork ing and going to Fairfield in Hyde, ilhd Washington in-Beaufort. In or der to po from Wasl tigtdn to Ply mouth it is necessar; o first po to Pantego in the lower ud of Beaufort. Hertie Ifias but one road, the Bankhead highway from the bridge to Windsor and on Into Hertford coun ty, Martin county has roads outlined to Plymouth, Washington and Tar- QTR A N VI U THEATRE LI i T. y —THURSDAY— * DOUGLAS McLEAN in "THE JAILBIRD" 20c • > and 40c —FRIDAY BIG "V" COMEDY— ~ "THIHf "ThunderbVi /»cl"—No. 14 Sunshine Comedy—"Big Secret" 20c and 30c —SATURDAY— GERALDINE FARRAR in "THE WOMAN AND THE PUPPET" "Ruth of the Rockies"—No. 4 ?0* and 30c THE ENTERPRISE NEW DEPARTMENT AT STATE COLLEGE To meet the growing demand on the part of studets for busine knowledepe and training, the Board of Trustees of the College, at.tluii last meetnig, established a Depart ment' of Agricultural Economics'and Business Administration. The new department, headed by lh Carl C. Taylor, will offer four district curricula; one in general business administration, one in shop manage ment and manufactures, one in fun business and marketing, and one in rural life: These courses lead to the bachelor of science degree. The courses in the new department' are planned with a nnppreciation of the fact that a majority of the men who attend an institution teaching aprieulure and engineering want thorough trainiing in the technologies of these professions. In some of the curricula it is possible for the student to take, in addition to bis bu-ine.-s courses, practicallya three-year course in one o ftlip technical department of the Collet' It is also possible for a student to complete the course and receive a degree in business adminis tration by pursuing full time work in Ibis department for one yea after Ufceivinc his degree in any-other de partment. Entrance requii emetsii and full de tails of the organization ami courses are given in a twenty page booklet, just off the pre's, may he ob tained by !uli|'(iwin'r F. 11. Oy.en, Registrar, State College Stntiop, "RaJiegh, N. C. • - . boio but none io Halifax without go ing \ia Tatboio, which is claimed by one engineer, to be but very'little out of the way in going from VSilliamston io llobgood. , • When inquiry is made a to who made these selections of roads mi one seems'to know and when the ques tion is asked why some of the coun ties seem to ha\e so farms, thd answer is that the fi,f»oo miles arj out. B\it it fs a plain tact that Edge combe was most handsomely taken eare ol before the . J »,. r ioo miles were exhausted,- Uue lil. tbu ;JaiHW-loi 1 Io- Tarboio-liobgood IOIUI i,-. that it liiust tie built to reach the propo.erl new Bridge at a point near Scotland which so far as the careful expert of the Bankhenrt highway wcie able to see did not „Rprve as a key to it great through highway system and considering the economic side of the situation thought it unwise to extend the road funds of the state to tin building of a bridge there. Jt may be that Halifax and Northampton counties are going to build the bridge if so, all right, but it is not ex pedient to rush the state in bridge building unless they connect through arteries of travel and the Martin Ber tie bridge takes care of one side very fully and the Roanoke Rapids bridged take scare of the other. The fol lowing counties would find the Wil liamston bridge far more convenient: Columbus, Ktunswick, New Hanover, I'ender, • Duplin, Onslow, Carteret, Jones, Craven, Pamlico, Lenoir, Pitl, Beaufort, Hyde, Dare, Tyrrell, Wash ington, sind Martin. The next tier of North -iSarolinu counties lying just west of the ones named Would find t just as satisfactory with the possihH exception of Edgecombe and Halifax. And for the Northern' journej- into Richmond the Roanok eßapids bridge takes care of every county in the state lying south of the Roanoke river much better than it is possible foi tiie propo.*d Edwards Ferry bridge would do. This bridge would, of course, make a convenient passage for Edgecombe, lower Halifax, upper Ber tie and lower Northampton, but who else ? No,w if it narrows down to a short age in qiileape, let Edgecombe lay aside the* road to Halifax Via Scot land Neck ami adopt the Rocky Mount route for her travel 7101 th and let the road run from Williamston to Hal ifax via Hamilton, Oak City, Hob pood, Scotland Neck, this would meet the requirements of the law, promote and serve more people than the road from Tarboro via Hobgood to and if the mileape is still short, the road from Tarboro to Snow Hill might very well be cut out and yet the spirit of the law not be griev ed or the letter violated. If the 5,- 500 road miles is to lie divided or apportioned aecordinp to area or pop ulation then Edgecombe would be well taken care of. The law wass never intended to make commercial hubs, but .state highways in the true-sense, and it is not our purpose to raise an ob- Williamston, Martin County- North Carolina, TUESDAY, JULY I», 1921 NO STANDARD TYPE OF ROADS No sffort has been made to erv couipae the construction 6f any par ticular t' -e oiF load in the Federal •lid projei 1 -.lministered by the Bu reau of Roads of the United State* Department} of Agriculture. The le gal requirement that the roads sh*'.l be "substantial in character" has not been interpreted to mean that only Ibe most expensixe type-; of roads should be built. It bus been recoj ni zed that the heavy and expensive construction which is, nec -ssary in New York, Massachusetts, and I'enn. js not suitable or warranted for the less exacting traffic of Nevada, Iraho ami the Dukotas. There is unable type of road for every type of traffic, (iranite blocks are best around wharves and freight depots ; country thoroughfares need to be better than rural side roads, lightly traveled. A number of bther considerations have the choice o ft.vpe in many cases. It is frequently found that suitable local materials cost less than better ma terials imported from a distance; ap proval of use of local materials is not infrequently (riven for the purpose of encouraging local production. In pa its of the far West the entire absence of water along a right of way, and the' expense of keeping and adequate sup ply, often makes it necessary to ap prove the building of a type of'eon.— traction th*iU .can be built without using large'q.uanities of Water. The initi.il decision as to the type of a particular road is made by the State hi K!> way department. The By reau of Public Roads makes an inde pendent study of the conditions. The most suitable type of road in the judgment of the engineers of the State department an dof the Bureau of Public Roads is 3 finally decided up on. The earth, sand-clay and pravrl roads which make up sf> per cent of the mileape have cost only about one fouith of the Federal-aid funds u-ed, while, the higher types including co- concrete, brick, and bituminous concrete have called for fin per cent of the money to build 24 per cent of the mileage. F CAMPERS LEAVE TOMORROW John Booker, George Harris, (?av lord Hutii: on,. Bill Harrj oil, Hryant Carritfirpken, t Alonzo Has-ell, -jr. and William Hodges under the direction and guidance of Mr. pinion l.ilfey will lt-H ve -t. Htvt. 11., vv -a I—;.iiV4ni A. M by, motor for Rao's Beach when' they e\ pect to camp for a week. Supplier and equipment have .been gathered' -and the pio- -poets -for an allround trip are good. . It would lie a •"grand an' glorious" feelinp to get a cherk on a subscrip tion. It costs us cash every week to buy paper-and material, hi r- printers and pay po,stupe arid if those wlm are just a little behind on subscription could know, just bow badly we need funds with which to operate, they would walk to town to pay or would send a eli'erk by the first mail. r Martin County bar- the best divei i ty of any county in the United States. It divides its money crops, to bacco, cotton and peanuts equally, this is because of the peculiar fitness of its climate. Corn cotton, tobacco, po tatoes, peanuts, grain.*,, trucks, hops, sheep, cattle and all domestic fowUj flourish in our territory. Don't forget the musical comedy "The Minister's Wife's New Bonnet" which will be presented at the opera house tonight.— Music and fun. NOTICE HI SAL'E State of North Carolina—Couiity of Martin. I, J. E. EdmoOdson, tax collector for the town of Hamilton, h«v* t'll - levied o nthe following tract i oa parcels of land and will sell the at public auction for cash at the 1001 of .the BanWof Hamilton in Hamilton, N. 0., on the 13th day of' Aupust, 1021, at 12 M., for town taxes Hue and unpaid for the year 1920, unless the taxes and costs are padi on oi before that date: White J. R. Hunting, house arid lot, taxes, $17.19; cost, $2.00, total, $19.19. Hill Peel, house and lot, taxes, $10.29, cost, $2.00, total, 12.29. Colored Nathan Staton, house and lot, taxes ,88c, cost, -$2.00, total, $2.88. Turner WarL, house and lot, taxes .*B, cost, S2OO, total, $2.88, This, the 12th day of Julv, 1921. J. E. EDMONDSON. jection felt knowing what a i relit problem w ehave insist th ' the uttermost cdre be exercised in the begt way for the most, people, for the least money. Local News and Personal Mention I Messrs F. W. Graves, A. K. Dun | ning and. J. G. Staton motored to Henderson, N. C. on Monday morn [ ing, i nthe interests o fihe local to : bacco market. It is .contemplated get ; ting a large contract for th.' re-drying . | plant heie and also an additional buy ||er for the worehuu.se•, representing .the Farmers Leaf Tobacco Co. • • • • Mr. and Mr. . C. 11. Ha- sell and chil dren Will leave 'V\ ednesday moriting i tor \ i.rginia Beach, for ;i ommre vaca. turn. i • • » • Prosecutor B. Duke Critcher is spending a few weeks at Virginia I teach, beginning Wednesday morning » ♦ ♦ » Julius Peel went to Suffolk and Norfolk this morning on business:. # ♦ ♦ • ' C. 1)11 Carstarphen, jr. and t'ortez. ' Green, are at Virginia Beach lot several days. • » » • I Mr. linker, who has been here f>i the past several days representing the Southern Motor Contest Ass'n. motored to Norfolk Saturday aftei . noon. . . . . 'Mr. Tommy Denofa, winnei of th" William ton Auto Hares, after com pleting tie re shipment of the rapine cars, spent Saturday afternoon mi town Willi friends, anil returned (o ' Philadelphia Sunday morning, Ttr Norfolk. ,j .... » • • • Mr. Frank Hitch is in Rocky Mount on business. • • » • Mr. Lloyd Horton, of Plymouth, Thick ltiddick of Scotland Neck and 01 lie Clark /zl Greenville a mong the many visitors to the auto races. , * * » • Mr. P. W. Balke, owner and driver of car number 9 in the races Friday returned to his home in Nor?olk Satur day afternoon in his machine accom panied by Mr. Paker. » • • • Miss Louie is visiting relatives in Ahosjcie. » ♦ • » Mr. and Mrs. .1. \V. Watts, Mi's Mary Gladys Watts and Miss Flry-i --heth Ha/iell returned Friday by mo; I tor from Willoughby Peach, Va. where I they.have been visiting Mr. anil Mrs. W. n. Watt •> for a month. i o I .... r Mi. and Mrs. Arlhui "White spent "TfSnTtay \Vtth the latter' : patent- ne,u I Washington. » • . . • Jli I' l'"""?talls ictureil ye lenliv from a lui'Tfies trip to Norfolk. V'\4 * . . Mr. Wheeler Martin, Mrs. Oscar Anderson and son, Oscar jr., and Mr. Mint Stubbs and son motored to Wake Forest Sunday. n ♦ • m Miss Penelope liiggs returned "ys etrday from 'St. V incents Hospital in Norfolk recuperating from an op r atiou. for appendicitis. She was fuel ' in liohgood by her brother, Mr. Charles liiggs. • • • M Mr. I.ynox Cox and Mr. Toe I Ross ' of Rocky Mount pent Sunday in town wiMi friends. . . » • Mr. und Mrs. John L. Hoger on spent Sunday in Tarboro with Mr. mid • Mrs. Charles Fraley. i': • • • • f M i sses Margaret and Mary Eliza beth l(ogerso;> are visiting (heir aunt Mrs. Fraley- in Tarboro. ' v . . • • 4 ' Mrs. Collin Harnes of Murfreesboro is visiting her mother, Mrs. Alexander Hall Smith this week. . • • • r Miss Ruth Roberts returned to her home in Norfolk yesterday accompa nied by Miss Margaret Manning \.ho *-twill visit her for few days. • ♦ • • Mr. J. W. Watts, jr. is a guest at Courtney Terrace Cottage at Virginia , Heach this week. • * • • » Mr. Roy Ward of Rocky Mount ■i spent the weekend in town with friends.- o« « • • Mrs. Fannie S. liiggs, Mrs. Carrie liiggs Williams and daughter, Miss Frances Wi+Hains and Mr. Harry A., liiggs leave tomorrow for Buffalo Springs, Va. where they will sspend a month. • « • « Miss Minnie Orleans of New York . City is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Orleans at their home on Church Street. • ' • • • • Mr. Roland Crawford of Baltimore lis visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 1 J. C. Crawford for a few days. • • • « - Messrs. Charlie Warren Cahoon and ? Lloyd Horton of Plymouth spent | Sunday i ntown with friends. DENOFA WON ALL PRINCIPAL RACES (Julius Peel) What was to have bee one of the greatest midsummer celebration's ever held in Martin County -under dae of Friday, July Kith- proved a very modest affair, as the entire week was mostly devoted to rain, and on Friday morning the hardest down pour yet recorded was in evidence. Aff ile morning exercises were p. t jioned, and hutklereds of people' Iron all-oyer Eastern Carolina phoiit d here to ascertain or not the progrtu i of field day stunts, auto-racing, bui becuev dancing, etc. would b ecarrie. l out, upon being informed of the rait', decided not to venture out. However, during the early after noon the sun shone and the people in Williamston, and the several thousand visitors gathered here, demanded .in auto race anyway, and altho the traik was entirely to wet, the events were well applauded by the large umber of spectators, and several thrill# includ ed, made evryone pleased with tiie racing card. The representative of the Norfolk Ledger Despatch, who was on hand to report the races, had the follow- / inp to say in Sunday morning'* paper: | Denfoa Sweep* Roanl al 1 Races in Carolina. Williamston, N'. C. July liith.J Nearly five thousand people at an | auto —race at—the Mai-tin County Fair Grounds yesterday*saw Toijjmv Denofa piloting "an Essex Special from Norfolk . weep the hgard and set a track record of "thirty-four seconds for half mile. Alt' Cooper, piloting a Chevrolet Special from Norfolk, went thru the fence, wreck ing his car and badly bruising him self. . . y • Alf Cooper experienced a miwM'b-| l«us escape when on the rifht hand J turn in the special track record speed race, be pot mixed up iin the sand, and crashed into the track fence poing at a rate of about fifty miles per hour. The ear turned completely over, in it, "landing bark oil its wheels. Cooper sustained on his right siile had bruises, but was ably bandaged by Dr. Warren, special sur g'eon on hand,. Many of the visitors remained in j Williamston for the Carnival dance I held the same night, and with the local orchestra augmented by nthe'i musician , the tun ie was indeed good. Al'tei the datliing at twelve o'clock a II ii 1111 M * of impromptu pat tit-: writ' lud.l.jn different nart* -of the cit) in honor of friend awl visitors.. The pud-uTuiiier 't "arifival Idl likel) be i epeated sonic tilfte in the fall, and carried out in it ■ entirety, as tin' rainy w-eel a real carnisal prograinnie such as was planned.' / OUR COMMUNITY Uncle Ned l,ee hears th** distinction of being the oldest citizen of Martin County, lie will celebrate his one liun dreth bi|'tliday September f>, 192.1, and has four generations of living derend aids, lie is half Indian and ball color ed and ha-, lived in Williams ton Town hip about ten miles from town. His children are veterans ot the Civil War. When asked why he did not visit our town, be replied, that he had heard times were so hard that he Mpeeted to see a great change in things and people bjit venturing out last-Saturday he met automobiles, nice looking farm horses and mules oil the road and good crops on the way side so Uncle Ned expects to make visiting a daily habit hereafter. He seems V think the present is only a jest compared to some peri ods of critical times in -his life and is assuring in his belef that tiling is all right if we will only ".sill tiight." t TIIE TARII I ON POTASH The farmers wdto- raised the pro 'po-sfd tariff on peanuts are now be itig punisheil by a tariff on potash. A tariff on potash is strictly a charp against farmers and operates entire ly in favor of a few rich concerns who built up a small American indus try during the war they have been handsomely paid. Now they are to receive tribute from fanners for all time to come so long as the Republican are in power. As we See it there are no people on earth more deserving of pity tha nthe farmer who believes their condition is bettere 1 by a -protective tariff and they never.pel, more than a crumb, when they nsk for bread they are given a stone. So when a farmer pains a morsel from a peanut tariff he faces a famine from duties on everything he buys oi uxes. It will not pay us to trade. Tar iff rhakes the rich richer and the poor poorer;'; I Miss Essie Peel is visiting her sis Jer, Mrs. W. P. McCraw in Tarboro. AUTO LAWS BEING RIGIDLY ENFORCED The following: cases bofcrre the mayor last week. State vs Larry Johnson—Assault, fined SI.OO and cost. State vs Anna Roberson, Sherry Johnson-—Diortlerly conduct. Kae,t fined $3.00 und one half of the*' cn. State vs J \V. Watts—Violating automobile law, fined SI.OO and cost. State vs Henry Gurganu*—Viola ting hog law, fined $12.00 and cost. State vs John 11. Mi/.elle—Violating automobile law, fined $1.0(1 and cb ;t.. State vs T. 1,. Roberson—Violating automobile law_fined SI.OO and cost. State vs (.'orwilus Bryant and John Isson Hyman—Affray, fined s2.f>o and one half of the cost. State vs Hugh Hurras, Jr. Viola ting automobile law, fined SI.OO and oost. State vs Frank Mabrv—Cruelty to animals, sentenced to five days in County*jail and fined cost of upkeep and court cost. State vs John Nicholson—Violating automobile law, lined SI.OO and cost. State V* Robert Johnson Violating lim*» law,- fined $2.0(1 anil cost. State vs Jordan Slade Violating h«\g law, fined $2.(10 anil cost State v Thelina Hrown—Violating automobile law, fined SI.OO and cost. ■ " State v II (\ llorton Violating automobile law, fined SI.OO and State vs Jauies Griffin—Violating automobile law, fined SI.OO and cost. State John —I lad ley—Driving automobile recklessly, fined $2.00 and co -t. THK TARIFF \iashngton, July IH.—Followiniv tliafr established methods of procedure this admin stration of putting the cart before the horse, the Repuhli cans are now in the act of d«batinj! and \pas ing a tariff bill when the entire business interests of the coun try* are clamoring fAr a revision »«fj the tax laws. The bill is we'l-amed the Fo.dney Pill for "Uncle Joe Fordney is the Grand Panjandrum of the tariff. To him the tariff Is a panacea; it cures corns, warts, bunions and chilblains; prevents falling out of the hair, : trengthens the kidneys, cleanses the liver, and is good for what ails you whether anything i the matter ,vith jnou are not. II is fashioned on tli,e old line of the I'asne Aldrich lull only more so. Il i being passed under a gage rule, which pn veu' umendiiients except on a lew sclimhile...' the I louse delegating its legislative function to the VV.iy and Means ('oniuiittee. The "jokei" in I In- bill is the "American valuation" clause,' by which v the value of the article is fixed at tb«. poll of entry and not at the port of shipment. 'l'lu> will nuke the tariff rates much high-, er than they appear to be under the schedules of the bill. For instance, as the I'hiladelphia Record points out: If a foreign article is. valued at $1 ami the same article here is valued at $2 and the duty, say, is Km per cent, the value becomes $4, duty paid The American manufacture! could taise bis price to $3 or even $3.50 und undersell his foreign competitor and the Treasury would get whuti^p* Reprei etative Garner (Hem. Tex.) who made the principal speech ugaiust the bid declared that under American valuation the present Underwood bill would yield more revenue than the Fordney bill. I sing the duty on straw hats which under the Fayne Aldrich bill was 50 per cent and (II 2-5 per cent under the Fordney bill as computed by him, as a basis of comparison, he said that the same scale ran thru the entire 34ft pages of tbe bijl.. Tfcit the bill will continue, if not S'j ttUlAtf jo •)«(!,> .)l|} OSU3J.)U{ mote or less obvious from even a cursory glance at the schedules, in inlilitioii to which it is predicted that it will disarrange the entire econo inoics of the coOJfti v. The agreement by which the bill is to be voted on July 21 means that it Wil pass the ,House on that-date by almost a strict partv vote, but i> may well lie doirtited if the bill be comes a law btaorfi the regular ses sion of thfs winter, first be cause a prolonged debate is certain in the Senate a radical revision if the bill as passed by the House, and r secondly, because it is proboble thnt the Senate will take up the tax le visiqn hill as soon as it comes f rcm the House and sidetrack the tariff iIF CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank the friends who came to our rescue so nobly Monday afternoon when the fire alarm was given. It is indeed gratifying to know that you are assured of assistance in a crisis of that kinw and we again thqnk each individual who aided us. HARRISON BROS an 4 CO IF YOU WANT QUICK RESULTS USE A WANT AD IN THE ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED 1898 MORE INTEREST MUST BE TAKEN IN THE SCHOOLS For four years prosperity shok u» up so that we neglected some of th« most important things of life. In fact we had almost reached the point of wild lunacy and had no tima or thought for the great branch of our .-social need—the school. No thought was given to the taking care of the teachers, no attention was spent with the boys and gills in study but we let things roll by* an dour children have naught the Fleeting phantom of pleasure and with the leaders of tke country we are al Iplunged deep in the seas of pleasure. All kinds, the good and the bad, the safe and the dangerous have become affected until today it is hard to tell just where we stand. There is one thing we know art'd that is that the old pleasure craft ho.- struck rock and umst change it* course or the shores of time will be strewn with the wrecks of humaa de struction. If the course we have been suiting has been unsafe and danger ous, then wo must get the chart and change the compass to the haven of more serjous and better thought. We must educate for a higher purpose anil better work than we have been performing. How shall we do it? Nothing will help education piore than a strong neighborhood ~co^ operation. We must find time to visit the school ami look into its work. We must find a way to help the teacher, we must cut some of the commercial ism out of the thought of both tht U'mhcr and the pupil and put duty anil strength id' character in its place. We have been taking up too much time teaching children how to make n living rather than how to live a life, we have gone so far along this lint- that we are more apt to applaud a man with money than we are a man with character. The modem idea to regulate the edeucational sy . teem from one grand central headquarter has failed already and it is now apparent that the only need for a central head is for the purpose of helep rather than domi nance. Our educators seemed to think that the tree made the roots but they have found their mistake and are willing to admit that the roots make the tree, for it is just as true that our colleges and universities depend on the rural schools for life as it is that a'trw depends upon its urotstW its I iff. Kvery neighborhood ' a teacher and if that neighborhood in doing its duty it will provide a good teacher. When we realize that know ledge is power and that education pays we will increase our zeal for our rural schools. Wh eneucdation reaches the country places as fully as it should, then our state may make rapid ad vancements with its most valuaM# product, an educated citizenship. Uni*- versa! education is our great neerf and the desired eequality will in no other way. In the rural sohoof lies our greatest opportunity. It should not be neglected. T. W. BKIELY IN JAIL i . i J. W. Briley who advertised in eur columns recently that he would hold uny one housing his wife responsible to law is now in th# County jail as a result of heating everybody up at his home and threatening the lives of his wife and children. Briley pleads insanity. There isn't anjudoubt bat that he is insane when M is swept away by his emotions of anger but that is a disease to all of and history and taught that a. bare hack wifilestore a subject to sanity immediately after the application. W« - strongly advise this medicine foil, a case like Mr. Brileys. Mr. J. W. Star has been called in Cj-eswell on account of the serious ill- his mother. Mr. und Mrs. Frank Barnes and son Francis are visiting relatives in Po komo City, Maryland. Martin County's Second Annual Fair, September- 20th, 21st, 23nd and* 23rd, 1921. The best equipped fait grounds east of Raeligh. He getting ready for the graat Fair, September 20th—24th. Mora preiums are to be given than were last year. Prepare to wis them. NOTICE If you want a nice tombstone or mi nument as a memorial to some da parted friend or relative see LEON E. STALLS Agent for the famous Georgia Mar bla Monuments , ♦