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PAGE TWO ulljf Enterprtfip PoMMted Every Tuesday and Friday by The ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. NORffH CAROLINA w. C. Manning Edltor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly. Cash in Advance) «■ IN MARTIN COUNTY One year ~f. : " J? Six months OUTSDE MARTIN COUNTY One year . Six month* No Subscription Received for l.ess Than C Months Advertiaing Rate Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the post office at Williams ton, N. C., as second-class matter under the act of (. ongress of March 3, 1879. Address all communication to The Enterprise and not to the individual members of the nrtn. Tuesday, April 10. 1928 Lighting The Highways The electric power companies are advocating lights on public highways. The Illuminating Engineers So ciety says that State highways could l)e lighted for 2 per cent of the cost of building them, which would be alxnn st>oo |*r mile That sum.is not so large. But what follows? Sup|x>se the State should light the 70 miles of its roads in Martin County. At S6OO per mile, it would cost $42,000 Then there would Ih- the upkeep. But we have nt>t struck the knot for the people and the cream for the power companies, because it would cost at rent, and .the power companies would draw from Mar tin County about $85,000 a year for that purpose. It is said that lighting the roads would double the traffic at night. - If that theory is correct, then let the lieople pray for more darkness rather than pay for j more light Being aware of the side roads, proponents of the highway lighting plan do not exhibit enough cheek to suggest any moral uplift from lighting the highways Of course, the light companies charge darkness with automobile accidents. If they were to go far enough with their investigation they might discover that one arm drivers cause more accidents than glaring head lights. Eighty-five thousand dollars spent on the side roads each year to enable folks to get to the highways would help more than to spend the same amount on electrify--, ing the hard-surfaced roads. The D. A. R. Black List Lie Who is responsible for the "Black List Lie f Ihe news was recently broadcast that the Daughters of the American Revolution were blacklisting and dub bing as cowards all Americans who are trying to form peace relations *nd establish peace pacts and courts for settling disputes between nations. Now, the head of the D. A. R. comes back and brands all such state ments as bare falsehoods. It seems, that a fellow named Marvin claims to be the key man—unfortunately he does seem be the key to the house of corruption and he apparently wants to decoy the. Daughter® of the American Revolu tion into his house. Probanda of the false type is trying to undermine the principles guaranteed us by ~the fathers of the D, it R. Where Does The Money Go? The American Rescue Workers have been banished from the Streets of Charlotte by a city ordinance for bidding them soliciting funds on the streets. This or dinance was upheld last week by the Supreme Court of North Carolina by a decision of 3 to 2. There has been rivalry for some time between the Rescue Workers and the Salvation Army as to the begging privilege of the two institutions. The Sal vation Army, having the jump on the Rescue Workers, has gathered many millions and done much good. Most people who contribute have heard of the war rharities of the Salvation Army, but how many people enow what becomes of most of the money now con tributed to either of the organizations? , It seems that "Salvation" makes a stronger appeal than "Rescue." * „ * '. \ • Forest-Fire Bugs Should Be Punished " t The fire fiend (some call him the fire fool) has been putting in his deadly work and burning over thouasnda of acres of land, destroying valuable timber, in many sections of Martin County recently, filling the air with stifling smoke. It seems harder to enforce the law against the burning of woods than it does the prohi bition law, and yet it is more open and flagrant. Moat loraat 6m are started by people who own no land themselves and who have little interest in their neigh bor's affairs. When may we expect to see the people of the SUtc such fire bugs aa pass along and drop a match that burns up timber, game animals, and birds, dam lygjf the land thousands of dollars, to the bar Out of hundreds of fires of illegal origin each year ■jniartfci County, there is leas than 1 per cent of the HjMm brought to the courts. Uniform School Term Only Fair • ii ■ .... i,7 . _ * When will the rural child be put on the tame foot ing with the city child in the matter of education to a question that has been asked many tunes. The answer is, When the country child demands it. It is a strange thing that he has not already demanded it. It may be that the fault does not lie with the child but is chargeable to the parent, who has for his ex cuse tha the can't spare them from the farm. This is not a valid reason. In fact, it is false economy. One of the reasons why there is no profit, or at least lit tle profit, in fanning »• because school children are kept out of school to raise too much cotton, tobacco, and peanuts. When the farm children of the South are kept in the cotton field only four months each year and in the school, where they belong, eight months, there will be a profit in farming. It is a mistake to say that children must help mak* a living and can not be kept in school If such is the case, then we have a very unsound and unbalanced economic system. , If the business of the clerk or lawyer is such that he can raise his family and school them eight months in the year, then something should be done to place the agricultural classes on a plane which will enable their children to have exactly the same opportunity that the town man's child has. The only reason we do not have a uniform eight months school is because the rural child does not de mand it, and the wealthy cities are rather selfish to thrust it upon them. V ——— ——— The Loser Squeals '»■■ ' Everybody regrets that cotton gamblers depressed the market last year and caused cotton farmers of the South to lose $250,000,000. Yet there is a good fea ture to it, and the whole South rejoices that Texas robbers outrobbed New York, the crowd that has rob bed the farmers nearly every year for the last 40. Now that the New Yorkers have been worsted, they are whining. Good enough for them. They seem to have forgotten how many times they have tapped wires and bought information. One thing the .quarrel is doing for the country is the fact that the people are able to understand better some of the ways in which they are mistreated in price manipulation. We are getting to a great pais when every man in the country, governors, Senators, officers, judges, solicitors, lawyers, doctors, bankers are trying to get rich quick by speculating in cotton. Some say it is a fine thing for the fanner, which is, of course, untrue, because whatever is made on cotton speculation ultimately comes out of the cot' ton, and cotton, or the man who grows cotton, has to l«y for every clerk and all the other coats of manipu lating the market, except occasionally when they catch a bull or a bear. It is not considered good taste or sportsmanship when two gamblers clash for the loser to squeal. • m' Shooting Too Quick There is danger in shooting too quick. Such was the case with Mr. L. T. Warren, of Nash County, on Saturday night, when he was planting watermelons near the house of one of his colored tenants. The col ored man saw Mr. Warren and thought be was a night prowler and shot him, badly wounding him. Of course the was excited and thought Mr. Warren some one else. But the question is that the shooting of a human being is not permissible simply because he comes to or about the premises of another. Fre quently our best friends come around us at night, and to shoot without hailing may cause a life of trouble. Some people seem to think they have the right to shoot a man who steals a chicken or goes to their potato or watermelon patch. Mr. Warren was planting watermelons at night by the light of the full moon in April in order to get a good yield. Of course, if Mr. Warren had about com pleted planting his melon seed, he may get a good crop, but, on the other hand, if be had just commenced and has to finish planting when the moon goes down, how sad it will be to get no watermelons. Of course, the negro is fully exonerated, becauae a negro has never been known to hurt a man who was planting watermelons before. A Menace That Threatens * Hickory Record A menace resides in the tendency to combine. Throughout the whole country the merger it becom ing more and more common, and aa the smaller cor porations are absorbed into larger ones, the life-blood of community commerce is being slowly drained. We have chain stores of every variety, chain mtvtog pic ture and vaudeville theaters, chain railway systems, chain garage and service businesses, and chain this and chain that. The logical result of thia system it to slim ins te competition and strangle the individual operator el commercial enterprises. After this end has been ac complished, the price field is in the hands of the combinations, and whatever they are minded to charge is the price the ultimate consumer will have to pay. Such a monopoly may facilitate commerce for a short period, but in the end it is bound to terminate in commercial and financial dimeter. Whenever the element of competition is driven out as a factor in any enterprise, the tendency is toward stagnation and col lapse. The governments of our State and Naftien ought to do something in connection with the combination trend. Else the State and the Nation art gains to pay a dear price for their negligence. HB BNTERPRIS NOTICE Under and kjr virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain deed of tn»t executed to the undersigned trus tee on the 20tfc day of July, 1921, said deed of trust being of record tn book G-2, page 336s and having been given for the purpose of securing notes of even date therewith and the stipula tions not having been complied with, and at the request of the holder of said notes, the undersigned will, on the 2nd day of May, 1928, at 12 o'clock, in front oi the courthouse door of Martin Coun ty, in WilUamston, N. C., offer for sale at »uW* c Miction, to the highest bidder, for cash, the following described land: Funeral Director and Licensed Embalmer Only Licensed Embalmer in Martin County B DAY AND NIGHT AMBULANCE SERVICE Excellent Service at Most Reasonable Price B. S. COURTNEY WILLIAMSTON, N. C, Day Phone 155 Night Phone 94 - Iniy the same make of car Again ? • 'i 87&% of Buick owners ( practically nine out of every ten ) answer "yes"—a greater degree of owner loyalty than any - other leading make of car can claim. Owners know car value! Drive a Buick and experience the fullest measure of motor car satisfaction 1111 BUICK SBDANS $1193 to $199) ' COUPBS $1193 «® $1»0 SPORT MODELS $1193 to $1323 AMfrimmf. 0. ». rUmt. U.k >W rwni «• to fcr *i ■ *T%» C M.A C. frnmrnftm. »*» m—t 4—irMt, it i.ifath. "n. a. riddick MOTOR CAR CO. "The House That Service Built" Scotland Neck, N. C. 1 Big Reduction In. COATS ||[ WE ARE NOW OFFERING OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF | COATS AT COST, AND THEY MUST BE SOLD WITHIN THE Hi NEXT FEW WEEKS. THIS IS A REAL OPPORTUNITY TO || TO BUY A SPRING COAT CHEAP. THEY ARE NOT MADE j ii OF INFERIOR MATERIALS. OUR REASON FOR MAKING § || THESE DRASTIC REDUCTIONS IS TO MAKE MORE ROOM. | || FOR SUMMER GOODS. \ , J | YOU SHOULD CASH IN ON THESE VALUE?) AT OUR i | | LOSS. ALL COATS NOW ON DISPLAY. | i Harrison Bros. & Co. The house and lot in the town of WilHamstoa, lying on the west «Me of Hanghton Street, bounded on the north by Cherry Street, on the eaat by Haughton Street, on the south by the lands of C. H. Godwin, and on the we* Sthe lands of E. P. Bunch and J. W. odges, and being the comer lot and also the second lot from Cherry Street, and being part of the land deeded to James S. Rhodes and S. J. Everett, and being the same premises described in deed of trust to the Martin County Building & Loan Association, dated December 18, 1916, and recorded in book S-l, page 5. This 2nd day of W. C. MANNING, a 6 4tw Trustee. Slip yokr CottoV into HIGH GEAR \ with Leunasalpeter ( Ammonium —Sulphate —Nteaata) 26? Nitrogen —= 31.5? Ammonia the balanced, high-onolyoia top-rlraaainf, that givoa your nitrate and ammonia at tha coat of aiiHMil alone. Um 73 to ISO lbs. par acre, and pull throucfa abaad of tha crowd with a good profit on four cotton. Tbto «a YOUR YKAK if you food your cotton rifht. LKUWA SALPETER to for sola by daators erwwhua. Writa for deacriptive booklet to ' , " i i Synthetic Nitrogen Products siT\ (S&\ Corporation L. \ "**' Nltrfi* frmm Air" - — —-ggSEBggBW New gay colors for your porch furniture In one easy afternoon—with Duco YOUR porch will be the quickly be given vivid, most popular place in attractive color —with a the house in the coming hand-sprayer and Duco. summer months get it It's easy to apply, even if * ready now. Give the you have never done any wicker chairs, the porch painting before. And every swing, and other furniture article you do in the after the benefit of bright, en- noon will be dry before during Duco colors. dinner time! In the range Your porch furniture of Duco colors there are can be made to loofe like many cheery, summery new —and you can do it in shades and tints especially a single afternoon. Come suitable for porch furni in and let us show you ture. Let us help you get how wicker can easily and started—today. piaUimi ' B. S. Courtney, Local Dealer Tuesday, April 10,192 i
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