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Start at the Root of the Trouble
The factions noticed during the
staging of the dance here last Monday
night attracted the attention of most
of our people from the dance itself to
the weapons used by each side.
One side said it ought to be stopped;
the other said very little, but the de
termination to have it was most no
ticeable. The real question floated
from the dance floor and entered that
field where we will lose a foot in order ■
to keep others from gaining a foot.
And what is the result wh#h such is
the case ?
Ever since railroads have been in 1
opeiation, there have been wrecks, and (
there will be wrecks as long as there '
are trains. But still we see that it '
is necessary for trains to run. We f
will have to suffer the wrecks to reap I
the gain. The running of trains in *
based on business. There have been '«•
wrecks known in dances, if you will •
allow us to term it as such, ever since '
there was a dance. But what is the
dance based upon ? Pleasure. And we *
suffer the wrecks for pleasure. Look- t
ing at the situation from this arigle, we '
would wish to see the dance stopped, t
Here the real question arises. We i
leed the baby sugar, and once he gets it
a good taste, he will continuously beg
fer it. We see that it is becoming t
injurious to his health, and attempt to f
Mop giving it to him. As a result, we
heai a loud bawl. The present gen- 1
eration has tasted the dance, and have
done so through som* one's negligence.
Tney have been allowed their sugar,
and now we try to take it away from
them. A loud howl is heard, and an ■
unkindly feeling results toward mem
bers of each faction.
Start something that will end in
developing a town or community, and
your effort# will prove worthless be
cause one pulls against it. The value
ie not weighed, but condemned be
cause another started it. This prevails
from the smallest movement to the
largest, in small cirile* as well as
large ones, in the church itself and
cutaide th church.
If a movement was started to es
tablish a public library in our town,
vou would hear the most objections in
the shortest time you have ever heard
in your life. The one who would sup
port a dance would send you away
with a sneer. The one who condemns
the dance would lend little of his sup
pert As a result, nothing would be
done. Those wh* like to dance and
do dance, finance their dances. But
do those who condemn the dance fi
nance or even try to finance a worthy
cause, such as a public library T Take,
fer instance, the establishment of a
public library here, which would go
a long way in combatting the tianc*,
because it would furnish thoee who
are not otherwise employed with
sult fat gain. The building of a play
ground fer the children woald divert
jfr+jr minds from the dance floor. A
Young Men's Christian Association
would be of much value. Of these
we have BOM. Yet, after we have
■Hawed our children to start at the
battel* round of the ladder, climbing
•lowly but surely toward a dancing
yml we get at the top and with a
Lash attempt u» best them back We
rtn-tM have been at the bottom round
We are against the dance, to be
plain. We have our reasons to be
against it. We think that other amuse
ment would ""be of piore value; wwild
be of more use in the shaping of the
lives of our young men and women for
tue duties that will eventually fall on
then shoulders. But we can't start at
the top; we will "have to go to .the bot
tom of the thing and there do' our
work.
THE SCOPES TRIAL
The Scopes trial has already worked
injury. It has caused the sala'of more
evolution literature than ever before,
viiich will be read by millions who
never knew of it before. In most
rases there will be no one present to
piesent the Bible, and for that rea
son, if nothing more, we may expect
to see the reading of evolution liter
ature increase much more than Bible
reading.
Catholics, Protestants, and Jews are
all a unit in upholding the Bible as
the true foundation of their religion.
If and the Bible con
flict then the base of the religion of
us all except the infidel, the agnostic,
und the atheist suffer a serious blow.
Doubtless theoretic science conflicts
more with the Bible than does proven
science.
VIRGINIANS GETTING TIRED OF
MACHINE POLITICS
Virginia is in the midst of a heated
political campaign, which looks some-
DISAPPROVES COOUDCL
LEVIATHAN FOR SALE.
VEST NICE GIRL WANTED.
ML. ROCKEFELLER, ACE M.
Bngland dlelikss President Cool
idgs'. fourth of July addsass aad
■ays there U nothing in It to
"■hew that the Prasideot has Mod
DVAldl tfe# foot# Ml
fist, however, lent whet inter
ests the United mates. The Faeai
dsnt HAS issatwul feets ooaeeaa
feg TEH! country. Be has mas
tered the feat that when you lend
sooner you expaet to get it bask
And he eoena to here mastered
the feat that the business of the
United States end of the Presi
dent is to attend to the Usited
States end beep out of foreign
#opiplkmtioci. %
THAT SUITS TH* UNITED
STATES.
A little gM of seven set AM to
rfx houses and was sent to an in
dustrial school for correction.
Not Uag ago this child would
have bean pualahed with death,
perhaps by burning, first being en
couraged to denounce the "wttch"
whose aril spirit# had compiled
bar to set the Una. The world is
not so bad as It was oaee, area if
It seems laaa religious.
The Government will sail great
aeean liners that don't pay, twaud
tng the Leviathan. Suppeee fee
richest country In the world would
run its ships without extravagant
frills, brass baads, eta., and allow
school teachers, Ugh adiool and
college atudenta to go to Burofe
and back nt coat, or, batter atul,
FREE of eoet. Hew much would
It be worth to this nation to have
*,OOO teaabars aad young students
aw aad study Europe every year?
& nothing o f Vlnd could b#
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VRE ENTERPRISE, Wl' UAMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA
BREAKING INTO THE BIG LEAGUE * A. a chahn
He TtoOK*H6« \ \\\f a
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what like a North Carolina contest,
since it has grown so warm.
It seems that the old line up is hav
ing considerable trouble in keeping
things .straight. This is the result of
the women voting. It was always the
fear of the bosses that the woman vote
would give them trouble, and Mr. Bird,
who. has for a time has been in the
gang, is liable to be defeated for gov
ernor, becau.sse the Virginians are get
ting tired of machine politics.
GOVERNMENT CANCELS DEB'I
AGAINST CHINESE J
The American Government has can
celled the debt which China owes her,
amounting to $6,137,552, which rep
resents the indemnities for the Boxer
outbreak.
More than a year ago Congress
passed an act empowering the presi
dent to remit the debt.
The Chinese ambassador has stated
ti.at their people wuuld never forget
tliir extraordinary act of Justice and
ea#s % pretty reined gM four
teen years old, for adoption." Be
haa on* adopted daughter and
wants another to keep her com
pany. Be wUlfglve th* adopted girl
every opportunity, eduostlan, tsar
al, kindness, care, love."
Or oouree he will, aU perhaps
EXCEPT opportunity. Opportun
ity to eat, dress, hire
frso of work is not dffVORTUIII-
What wouM Rosa Boaheur have
amounted to had a rich man ad
opted her. Bar girl friend painted
ffuft boxes to buy food for two,
while Rosa Bonheur painted pic
tares that made her famous, and
undoubtedly gave her self-sacrific
ing friend a slace in Heaven. Who
would have known Rosa Bonheur
had a rich man adopted her?
With lights shining along the
road, Uncle Sam's flying mail ships
go by night between New York
aad Chicago. That is progress.
And, beeauas it means develop
ment of the flying ship, it means
safety for the nation. Credit Port
waster New aad President 000 -
Uga - r
John D. Rockefeller is eighty-six
years old. He plays his usual
round of golf, wanther permitting,
quite oontcnt with 4t for 9 holes,
and with his milk and seltzer, toast
aad perhaps two ouneee of meat.
It is hard for some to ranlise
that golf, exercise that anybody
can take with a stick and a round
pebble, not move than 20 cent*
woi£h of food a day and a bed to
•leap in are all that Mr. Rockefel
ler geta from his great fortune. ••
What will history aay of John
D. Rockefeller, whose work and
suaeasi bettor than that of any
ether man, with the possible excep
tion of Henry Ford, typifies this
»/lifli4al ?
He will be praised because he
hae never set a bad example of os
tentation and extravagance to em
bitter the " jr.
All except his contributions to
knowledge will be forgotten in 600
years. But 1,000 years hanee, bie
toriea will cam the picture of
John D. Rookafeter and will say of
him: "Tbia la the man who proved
competition to be wasteful and un-
MMMIiy.
TMs map, [waving that sac
man eeuld successfully manags and
own aa Industry, laid the founda
tion of ownership by the people.
•» r.t la*t - — L »t
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tfood will on the part of the American
people.
A little nonsense now and then
makes fortunes for the song-writing
men. -
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A sneak is a woman who, was a
clinging vine before she is married anil
a suffrage ite afterwards.
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"Few of us care," the man
on the car, "how short tlve skirts are
worn outside of our own family."
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A Virginia wedding was delayed re
cently because the bridegroom fainted.
We understand, however, that the poor
feilw was mercilessly revived.
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It is reported that 5,260 people were
killed by gas in 1924. The statistics
divide the fatalities as follows: 50 Jn
hi led it; 200 lit a match to And where
it was leaking; and 5,000 stepped on
Wmmlß
Wbtia murder, hut an'
try hu got ur by the kair, our
agrtimlatk friend butts In and
Ms fttn'a nothin' there. The
gloomy proa peck bri#ht'ens ev
ery time he tafcas a look—an'
he want* to oall the doctor if
we think we see a spook.
There ain't no durability to
optlmiatic paint, when It makes
a rotten structure look like
some thin' that it ain't. And,
there's nothin' more disgustin'
than the optimistic guess which
would turn a dismal failure in
to un-aehieved success I
I dont deny the optimist is
nice to have along, on a voyage
where the undertow is tuggin'
at as strong —and I don't con
aider optimism a very grievous
fault, —only when it starts to
lyin' than it's time to call a
halt
B©—we nefcon that the op
timist may help to banish dread
-regardless at the dairy-fat
that's stored inside his head.
But, until the rule is altered /
that, a man ia bom to die, you
can't postpone the funeral w'fli
an optimistic \
fCQNtOITBO ft
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I have this day levied upon the
'and» and tenements for taxes due the
Hamilton Township Roads for the
year 1924, and which have not been
paid,
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And I will tell such prope/ty for
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Vl*.
J. K. Crisp, 40 acres Bunding land,
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J. W; Crisp, 15() 'acres Johnson land,
taxes $23.78, cost SI.BO, total $25.58.
■I T DAvisv 125 acre.;, residence, taxes
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W. E. Davis, house & lot, res., taxes
$29.12, cost SI.BO, total ~..530.92
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ing land, balance (25.00, cost SI.BO,
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$27.96, cost SI.BO, total $29.76
Mrs. C. C. Rawls, 1 lot, Haasells
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rod land, taxes $9.76, cost SI.BO,
U''Hi —511.56
This July 3, 1925.
F. L. HAISLIP, Tex Collector.
Jul 10 -31.
NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL
PROPERTY
In the district court of the United
States, for the Eastern District of
North Carolina.
In the Matter of A. B. Ayers, Bank
rupt
Pursuant to and ir, compliance with
ar. order of Marshall C. Staton, Ref
eree in Bankruptcy, in the above en
titled matter, the undersigned trustee
ir bankruptcy will on Monday, the
27th day of July, 1925, at 12 o'clock
ni. in the store formerly occupied bj
A B. Ayers in B»a* Grass, North
Carolina, offer for sale to the highest
bidder for cash the following describ
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The stock of goods and fixtures for
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