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THE ENTERPRISE tablished Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING COMPANY Williamston, North Carolina .W. C. Manning Subscription Price (Strictly cash in advance) 1 year - $1.50 6 months 52 8 months 45 Entered at the post office at Williamston, N. C. as second-class matter under the act of March 3, 1879. Address all communications to The Enterprise THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT - QUESTION County government ix the big ques tion up for discussion these gloomy and perilous days. • It is being kicked around more than a step-child. College professors, the heads of State departments, in fact everybody that has a brass-toed boot is kicking county government. Some of them are telling the truth about it and some are not, because there is * some good reasoning on both sides. Hut to criticise county government in principle is nothing less than u vio lation of the foundation stone of Democracy. There exists a feeling in almost all of us that our ideas are the best. The legislature mukes all the plans for all of our county activities by giving us a luw to at every, point, which law tells us all the things we shall do as well as all the tilings we shall not do. The county commissioners happen to be the par ticular victims entrusted with the special business of levying taxes ac cording to law und spending the mon ey received according to law. It is a great job they have. Our form of government provides courts to criti cise and correct county commissioners and when it conies to criticising them everybody is helping the courts. It is a fact that the people select many good men to act as county com missioners who are entirely incapable of handling such a large business as naturally comes before them. Vet that will be the case regardless of who is charged with this important function of government of counties so long as political influence can be used in the selection of the commis sioner, commissioners, manager, or of county affairs. With ' one man to boss things it would be easier to approach him than it is to approach a half dozen. Another unfair thing in the gener al criticism of the county government plan is that the whole truth is not generally reflected. In our own coun ty the board of county commissioners is forced by law to levy and collect for school purposes 95 cents on the SIOO valuation, and turn this money over to the county school board. The commissioners have nothing in the world to do with the expenditure, though they have to levy the tax or be indicted. For general county purposes they' ation, which is the measley sum at their disposal, except a 10 cent tax for roads and bridges. Then if there is any unwise expenditures being made, the old county form, which is being so harshly criticised, is only re sponsible for one-fifth of the trouble, while the county school board is re sponsible for the other four-fifths of the errors, if there is any wrong be ing committed. H is perhaps safe to say that the county commissioners are getting as much per dollar expended as the board of education. Still there is no crusade against that system. There is ae reason why the same criticism should not lie against both. It can net be explained except perhaps that the school boards are operating mora ns the agencies of the graat central systea at Raleigh than the county r -«| There is no public business quite like the business that comes before the county commissioners. Their du ties are more nearly comparable to that of the head of a family than any other business or avocation. They start the year with the hope of good health, good weather, good crops, and good prices. The commissioners hope there will be no new paupers to help, no old ones to bury, no bridges to wash away, no prisoners to feed, not much court costs nor other expenses; but, like the householder, there are accidents and expenses unseen, all of which have to be taken care of. Un der our form of county government, mistaken are made, just as they are made by the best-managing individ uals in their affairs. Hut the real question arising is, "Do county boards corrupt the funds that come into their hands, and if so, vyill five men, or three men, serving in the capucity of county commis sioners be.more apt to do wrong than one man as county manager?" The State can not criticise the coun ty plan, neither for efficiency nor ex travagance. The State has recently spent |76,000 for an audit and still has to guess what it owes and how much it costs to run tlie penitentiary. County government has cost the people some useless expenditures in the past, but it has given the people as many blessings per dollar as any other tax "money that the people "oT North Carolina have spent. CONGRESS IS AFRAID TO GO e HOME There has been some mystery as to why Congress has not adjourned. The mystery has cleared away some what though since the record of their achievements has been reviewed. It has been found that they have done so little they are either afraid or ashamed to go home. The have almost talked themselves to death about farm relief, prohibi tion, the anti-trust law, Muscle Shoals the coal strike; yet nothing has been done for farm relief, nothing about prohibition (except lower the reserve) nothing about Muscle Shoals, except to get ready and build an excuse to turn it over to the fertiliser and power trusts at some day in the near future; nothing has been done about the coal question, except wait and let the barons fill their pockets on cold people's money, while the hungry miners shivered. One Washington observer has said . they were watching and waiting. That may be right, yet there is a differ ence of opinion about it, because an other says they im mH waiting. Certainy this does not apply to all, because there are still a few good men—even in Congress there may be found and there are those who faith fully perform their honest duty. So far as the folks are concerned, they will be just as well satisfied if Congress adjourns and goes fishing as to stay in Washington and make gas attacks and do nothing, GOSSIP j By J a met D. Tsyler « W only knew that gossip leads Co sorrow, pain, and woe, perhaps we •woald guard our conversation* mora carefully. Most of us do know this, yet we often state as facts what are nothing more than mere conclusions from our own— must I say—false im prensions. Gossip will wreck souls and breuk up homes. Have you ever noticed that those who go around with a lot of gossip and speaking of other's faults seldom do any real con structive good work. They seem to have more time than anyone else, and uFually have more faults. Anyone that will gossip—as we know the meaning of the word—will usually lie. They do not intend to tell falsehoods, no J do they tell something they know to be untrue, but they will make state ments that they do not know to be facts. And they are telling false hoods all the time. 1 attended a reception in a Chris tian home, and the guests were all church members. Supposed to be Christians. An incident during the evening would have been forgotten within the hour probably had some The BULL'S EYE U jjidToW— andmmmmmHii4 11 Meeting the "Bull" J Durham Smoker Face to Face I am just making, as the Politician says, "A swing around the Circle,' to see what was going on in "Real America." I had been in New York to long, I was getting a kind of a Sub way ' Slant" on things. I was be coming as narrow as a Metropolitan Newspaper Editorial Writer. My eye sight was getting so poor I couldn't see beyond the Hudson River, and my mind wouldn't function farther away than Albany, N. Y. I knew that New York was' 'amus ing the world," but I wanted to meet the fellow who was "feeding it." I am kinder oddly constituted. You can cut off my amusement, but if my food stops you are going to have an argument on your hands. I, as Editor and Proprietor of the Bull's Eye, wanted to meet not only the readers, but the ctnsummoi THlS Wonderful Product of OURS. (The American Tobacco Company and me.) Well, I wish you could see the type of Men they were, Big fine healthy upstanding He-Men. They were not the little Anemic* that has to tap his Cigarette on the box before he can smoke it. They were our Pro ducer* of our Necessities of Life. When I saw the type of He-Men smoking' 'Bull" Durham, it almost made me cry, that I wasn't a smoker myself. P.S. There will be another piece hen a few weeks (rum now. Look tor it. 1 DURHAM Guaraotccdlby rfujtmim* lee. MNIHStm ■ 111 Fifth Ara»i«, New Yetfc Ckf THE ENTERPRISE—WII U A MHTOtf, IT. 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V SALE OF VALUABLE FARM PROPERTY Under and by virtue of the author ity conferred upon us in a deed of trust executed by A. E. Lilley and wife, Carrie V. Lilley on the 22nd day of May 1925, and recorded ip book of mortgages X-2, pages 77-78, we will on Saturday the 24th day of July 1926, at 12 o'clock noon at the courthouse door in Williamston, Mar- PERFECTION OIL RANGE SEE THEM ON DISPLAY B. S. COURTNEY WILLIAMSTON NORTH CAROLINA PERFECTION OIL RANGE ' THE BEST MADE ■ jjrk •• " -« "* | Culpepper Hdw. Co, WILUAMSTON NORTH CAROLINA LEGAL NOTICES tin County, sell at public auction for to the highest bidder the follow ing land, to-wit: All that certain tract or pared of, land lying and being in William* Township, Martin County and State of North Carolina, containing 142 acres, more or less, bounded on the North by the lands of the Dennis Simmons Lumber Company, on the East by the lands of J. D. Hardison, on the South by the lands of W. C. Stevenson and Joe Styron and on the LEGAL NOTICES West by the lands of M. T. Gardner. This sale is made by reason of the failure of A. E. Lilley and wife, .Carrie V. Lilley to pay off and dis charge the indebtedness secured, by said deed of trust to the North Caro ira Joint Stock Land Bank of Dor ham. This the 14th day of June 1926. FIRST NATIONAL COMPANY, INC., TRUSTEE, formerty, FIRST NATIONAL TRUST 00., DURHAM, N. C. «-«-4t We Sell and Recommend For Any Information Call 155 i k • - We Have Them On Display. Free Demonstration
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