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Entered at the post office at Williamston, N. C.
as second-class matter under tl?e act of March 3.
1879.
Address all communications to The Enterprise
Says Farming Should be Chemical Industry
Chemists now claim that farming
must become a chemicaT industiy, ac
cording to William J. Hale, of the
American Research Council.
Doubtless there is much truth in
the statement. We already see won
derful changes, in the farming indus
try. We have learned to produce
mote - "and waste less. We wasted the
most valuable product in oil for a
long time, when the gasoline was
hauled far out to sea and poured in
the ocean to get it out of the way.
That has only been a very short time
ago. . ,
Cotton had one value 50 yeai ago,
the lint only. Now there is very lit
tle of the entire plant that is not
used for commercial purposes.; tHe
lint for a dozen things, principally
clothing, of course, hut for many
other. The seed, which was for
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many years of less'value than com
mon trash and had to he hauled away
*nd dumped into some ravine or
branch about the cotton farm, are
among the most valuable food prod
ucts for both man *ans beast. The
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cottonseed lard has taken the place
of hog fat, and is used in all manner
of foods. Then science has made the
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cotton seed one of the most valuable
paint products.. The hulls and the
heal are a valuable feed for stock.
One of the chief things that chem
ists have done is the transformation
of worthless materials into valuable
products by combinations or treat
ments. The cheapest materials to be
found are. now carving the same pur
poses that once required the very
highest-priced materials.
All this makes things uncertain.
When a scientific investion makes
Iread of stones, it naturally takes
less land and labor to produce the
t.ecessary wheat and corn to feed the
world. There was a time when we
could do nothing with corn but eat
it; now we can do a thousand
all on account of science.
The time may not be so far distant
when science will enable a man to
mix water and air together in a com
mon frying pan and prepare a good
breakfast.
When farming becomes to ,be a
chemical industry,- then every farmer
should know chemistry. The ideas
presented by Mr. Hale are not wild
dreams; they are problems our chil
dren will have to solve.
Discipline in the Home
Now, while we are engaged In pay
ing the penalty of suspended punish
ments, is a good time to reconsider
the more important uses of switch,
shingle, slipper, and hairbrush. With
madhouses and jails full of those who
vanquished parental authority in child
hood, we can the better understand
the question of »home discipline; a
question r as gungent as good roads,
the tariff, or political slush funi/s.
Experiments with false doctrines
and weak "isms" have been costly. It
is the wild oats that parents permit
to be sowed in the early years that
are reaped by our penitentiaries.
Remember when the long-haired
philosophers wept for a rule of rea
son in the home and plead for logic
as against spanking? Recall the ac
ademic campaigns against the cruel
ty of corporal punishment? There
ere those who do. Their faces are
hard and their records murky.
Money to Burn!
$562,761,466!
That was our nation's fire loss in
1925, according to the National Board
of Fire Underwriters, the country's
authority on the subject.
$13,689,432 —that was the increase
over 1924. The increase in the an
nual fire loss since 1923 is $403,769,-
969.
Who pays this tremendous annual
tribute to destruction? Not only the
owners of the property destroyed.
Not only the families of the 20,000
persons who die in fires every year.
Every resident of the country pays
his yhare.
For. this loss, exceeding half a bil
lion dollars annually, is what keeps
insurance rates high. These destruct
ive fires—one dwelling house burns
in our country every four minutes
clay and night—are what makes it
necessary for the taxpayers to main
tain fire departments. The national
fire loss is a national problem. For
TM KMTHtMtIfIfc—WILLLAMfITOJf. N. C
Ell Frances Lynch, in a delightful
and informative book called "Book
less Lessons for the Teacher-Mother"
makes this truthful statement: "A
child is never so happy and contented
as when he finds himself relieved
from the necessity of deciding wheth
er or not he will obey, by having it
decided for him, even through the in
strumentality of a switch or birch.
This explains why a delicate child is
often set on the road to health thru
the setting up of the simple process
of rigid discipline."
Discipline is a responsibility of par
ents. It is not to be dodged or un
duly mellowed. It is not to be passed
along to church or school. Expertly
ar.d consistently applied, it lubricates
the bearings of famiy life and re
moves many an irritating squeak and
rattle, forestalls many a serious
break.
that reason, President Coolidge has
set apart this week for public instruc
tion as to the causes of fires and
means of preventing them.
Just what this half-billion-dollar
drain on our national wealth means
may be visualized in this way: Uncle
Sam, in taxing the incomes of his
people, allows an exemption of $2()0
for every child. That is exempted,
presumably, because it is sufficient to
keep a child in school for a year. On
this basis, it appears that the money
we waste by fires every year would
keep more than 2,000,000 children in
school.
Yet we go on wasting it, for it is
waste, because it can be prevented.
Insurance experts, fire department of
ficials, and engineers firmly ttate that
75 per cent of the fires that cause this
tremendous total loss are preventable.
How? By being careful with
matches, cigars, and cigarettes?
Certainly; that would help. By keep
ing chimneys clean so that they dont
throw burning embers upon roofs T
Surely; that's a wise precaution.
These measures—all measures of com
mon-sense carefulness —are necessary
But caution alone wont sare our
cation *562,751,466. What is taore
needed is precaution. The reason why
buildings burn is that they are built
so they will burn. The fundamental
way to prevent their burning is to
build so it won't burn.
This doesn't necessarly mean that
the average home owner must adopt
expensive masonry constructions to
substitute the traditional American
wood-frame house. It means to build
wisely with wood—use wood but pro
tect it at its most vulnerable points.
The development of modern build
ing materials has made this possible
at a cost no greater than that of un
protected construction. For example:
A wood frame can be sheathed with
incombustible mineral in place of in
flammable wood sheathing. On the
inside of the frame a gypsum lath—
literally a rock lath—can be used in
place of tinderlike wood lath. An ar
tistic and beautiful exterior finish
can be put on the house through the
use of colored stucco. Or brick or
stone may be used. The roof can be
of Slate, asbestos, cement tile, or
other fire-resistive material. Insula
tion and fire stopping can be installed
in one operation between walls, floors
and over ceilings through the use of
dry-flll gypsum.
How much money have you to
burn T
NOTICE
Under and by virtue of an order
of sale made by the judge in the
stiperiro court at the September term
of court, 1926, in an action entitled
"Mrs. Nona Crimea vs. Harry Waldo,
ei al," the undersigned commissioner
will, on the first day of November,
1926, at 12 o'clock noon, in front of
the courthouse door offer at public
sale to the highest bidder, for cash,
the following described land:
Beginning at the mouth of a Cabin
t ranch at the run of the said Creek,
( running nearly a N courie, formerly
Abner Brown's line, to the mouth 01
Deep Ron Branch; thence up said
branch to the fork, thence nearly a
NW. course along formerly said Ab
ner Brown's line to a corner, a pine,
Pugh's corner; thence along the said
Pugh's line to James Brown's line to
a corner, a wrarwood; thence along
said Brown's line nearly a SE course
U, the center of a marsh, an ash and
maple, a corner; thence up the vari
ous courses of said marsh to a gum,
a corner, Thos. Price and Joe Browns,
thence nearly an E course to Thos.
rrice, a pine; thence along a line of
marked trees up the edge of the saii
marsh nearly a' N course to a pine
standing in the, mouth of a branch,
Benjamin Martin's libel; thence up the
Getting Money
Ahead puts Worries
Behind
Tobacco is selling high. Save some
thins: and put yourself in the independent
class so that you can run your busiess next
year on a cash basis. This hank will be glad
to have you deposit your money for this
purpose, and is able and does guarantee
absolute safety for your money.
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Farmers and
Merchants Bank
said branch t• a corner, a maple;
thence 86 poles to the road, Benja
min Martin's corner, a pine standing
on the S. side of the Toad; thence
down the said road towards Hamil
ton, to a white oak on the S. side of
the road, Jarrod Manning's corner, in
John Horton's line; thence along Jor
dan Watson's line of maxked trees to
a corner, an oak in J. Sherrod's cor
ner; thence along said Sherrod's line
of marked trees to a cypress, nearly
the run of Conoho Creek; thence up
the various courses of said creek to
the first station; containing 4«2 acres,
. no re' er less.
This the 4th day of October, 1926.
B. A. CRITCHER,
o5 4tw Commissioner.