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Tuesday. August 21, 1928
Elder Sylvester Hassell
In the death of Klder .Sylvester Hassell Martin
County has lost a man who in many respects was its
leading citizen. ' .
In culture, he stood out ahead of any other man the
county has ever produced, in education, he far sur
passed any other citizen the county ever produced. In
piety, reverence and meekness, he was the equal of
th best. '
He was the man of the town and county whose ver.v
presence not only demanded but received the res|>ect
• of every person. Not only did the finer type of citi
zens respect his pretence, but the rougher ty|>e of
•ple would reverence his presence. If he chanced to
pass on the streets or the highways, they would bow
in respect to him. ,
He spent none of his. tiiye in railing and arguing on
any questions, although he had his own convictions
and was well versed on all questions and issues, re
ligious, social, and political.
He was always wise enough to lay up treasures in ]
his heart to enriih his soul, rather than his pockets.
He was big enough to do little things and passed noth
ing by simply because it was small,
He turned not from the. weak |>eople
who passed his gate, but opened U> them with gladness
and failed not Ho comfort and help.
His works not only follow him in his charily and
kindness, but as a preacher and teacher his tine quali
ties were transmitted and multiplied in the lives of
others, \ s>
The people of the county in appraising his works
r may well say that in his eighty-six years of life he
made of himself Martin County's truly greatest citi
zen.
Infant Mortality t
Infant mortality is increasing in our State. Kighty
two out of every one thousand babies born in N#rth
Carolina die before they are one year old. Ihe ma
ternal death list is also unusually high, with the death
of 7,500 mothers and babies in this State- each year.
There should be more serious consideration given to
the causes.
The North Carolina Board of Health's Hulirtin does
not discuss the various causes very extensively in its
recent issue devoted to thsi subject. The Bulletin does
state, however, that "It is undoubtedly a social prob
lem, a medical problem, an economic problem, and, it
seems to us, nearly every other sort of problem."
If this is true, and our social methods are killing
mQlhers and babies, we should he more careful about
out social methods. If our medical equipment is not
adequate, then it should l>e extended. If our economic
condition is such that mothers and babies are dying
in North Carolina for the want of proper food, then
great Is the pity, and the |>eople are under greater ob
ligations to help to eliminate at least some of this
cause.
Tke Health bulletin, touching the general field of
causes, says, "And'it seems to us nearly every other
sort of problem.'' A very wide range of causes may
be embraced in this summary. Doubtless those cases
where babies are found hidden in trash piles, along
the roadside, or in the sewers would fall in this line,
of causes.
At least one of the problems should demand im-*
mediate attention; that is the social problem. If het
social habits of the people of this State are causing
the death of hundreds of mothers' and thousands of
children each year, then it is time to prove our social
habits. If society is making such a deihand on a wo
man that it causes the death of her baby, thn society
is a murderer.
While these things are deplorable, it is even sadder
when we are told that conditions
worse. Since women are beginning to smoke cigarettes
extensively, it is predicted that many unsound chil
dren will be bom in the world, with diseases of all
kinds preying on them, especially of the nerve type
diseases. No matter how sound the mother, how per
• feet the attention of physicians and nurses, the cigar
ette habit may bring diseases, idiocy, or lunacy to the
babe.
It is somebody's business to improve the various
conditions that are causing the death of many people.
Doubtless the politicians will entrust this noble work
to the cburch. But the church needs the help of more
more nurses, more hospitals, more teaching,
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in order that it may do more to improve conditions.
Now, what will the politicians do when they are
called on for appropriations to extend the health work
of the State. They should come across like men and
help improve these conditions, so far as institutions
and teaching is concerned.
Education-Mad
According to the statistics furnished by the Federal
Bureau of Education, all the reirtainder of the wor|d
outside of the United States has 95Q,000 students in
colleges ana universities, while the United States alone
has a total of 1,000,000, or at least 50,000 more than
the balance of the world all put together.
A rough estimate of the number of children in the
secondary schools of all the world, outside the United
States, places it at 5,700,000, while in the United
States alone the number is 4,200,000.
The |x>pulation >f the United States is one-fifteenth
of the population of the world, but it has more than
one-fitth of all the student sin all manner of schools,
with 29,000.000 of these, as against 109,000,000 for
the world at large.
This is at once an explanation,of America's present
greStness and a prophecy of its place in the sister;
hood of the nations of tomorrow. An educated |>eople
will be a dominant people, just as the educated man
has it all over the illiterate.
Jt may Be, a&isonie are contending, that America is
education-mad, but it is rather a fine sort of mania to
be afflicted with. Better to have that sort of national
lunacy than the sorts that seem to have others rather
completely by the throat. -Charlotte .VVi vs.
Grading Tobacco
Are the farmers going to |>ay more to produce this
year's tobacco crop than it will sell for is a question.
It now seems that he is.
From the beginning, it has been very expensive; a
hard year to start the crop, a hard year to cultivate,
very expensive to house, and now seems as if some
farmers are so anxious to rush their crop on the mar
ket th;it they projxtse to pay big prices for grading
Many tobacco folks say the crop this year need not
be graded very closely, since all tobacco seems to be
about the same grade, and that tying is the main job.
If the laborer gets the same price as in previous years
and the grower gets very mufh less, the farmer will
go broke. It will be a good thing if all parties inter
ested can arrange to distribute the loss or gain, as the
case may lie, evenly among all cjAcerned.
The Little Man
It was the little foxes that destroyed the crop, and
the same may yet be truelof some of our leading busi
ness institutions. J
It is said that the word, "Don't smoke Camels," is
passing down the line from the mouths of 50,000,000
laborers. All because the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
would not hear their servants in their a[>peal for the
opportunity to negotiate for more wages and better
living conditions.
Only a few thousand people were pleading for help,
and the Reynolds company felt with jts power of
wealth it would be able to pass them unnoticed, which
it atempted to do. But the cry of the laborer as heard
by of smokers, laborers, too, who heard
the cries of their friends. Now, if the Reynolds prod
ucts are to be boycotted by the laborers of the world,
it will not be long before the Reynolds dividend will
drop.
It is never a good plan to tread on the poor and
weak, because there mayjie some little things which
we have not thought about that will rise up to de
stroy us. We can not afford to neglect the little man
in our business, nor in our government.
Do School Trucks Pay?
Does it pay to carry children to school by truck.
This practice has possibly passed the experimental
stage. . •: '. '
Martin County carried 652 pupils to school in trucks
last year at a cost of s7o.>9 per day, a total cost for
six month* 120 days of $8,484.88. Ihis i* less
than 11 cents per day |»er pupil,
Of course, it costs money to transport children to
school, yet if they are too far from school to walk, then
they must lie 'carried* even if it does cost 11 cents per
day.
The Kellogg Plan to End War
If Secretary of State Kellogg completes his proposal
to outlaw war, it will be, by far, the greatest accom
plishment of the Coolidge administration. But for
Henry C'alwt Lodge and Jim Reed, the plan proposed
by Wuodrow Wilson would have been in operation for
eight years and the American people would already
have saved pillions of dollars.
" The Kellogg proposal is the sani? scheme that Wil
liam Jennings Bryan came so near getting signed in
1914 and 1914, whep the war began, and which was
the plan revived by'Woodrow Wilson at the end of
the war. * *
The Kellogg work is easy, because it was fanned
in the mind of Bryan before the most terrible experi
ence of destructoin by war the world ever witnessed;
after which the nations of the world, in their broken
condition, cried for peace. But when proposed in the
United States Senate, Lodge on the one side and Reed
on the other stabbed it to death.
Without thought of irreverance, we are forced to
say that it is perhaps a good thing for the world that
Henry Cabot Lodge is dead and Jim Reed relegated
to the political scrap heap. '
Let us all work for the world peace which Bryan
conceived and set in motion, Wilson almost achieved,
fand Mr. Kellogg is carrying forward. •" •"
rHE ENTERPRISE
DEATH OF ELDER
HASSELL
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chasing the paper, he moved it to Wil
liamston, from which office it was pub
lished 'Continuously until a few years
a|;o, when,he turned the man
afctment over to others of his brethren,
I>»it he remained on the-editorial staff
ui til his death. His work as editor
was always of the highest order, liter
ary. yet so simple and plain that any
reader could understand it. Like most
church papers, the income was small,
a»ii it is doubtful if the income cov
eted the cost. However, the paper
generally carried the announcement |
thnf "If any person desires to read the
paper and is too poor to pay for it, it j
v.-ill be sent free."
Books and literature were the close j
companions of Sylvester Hassell. He j
hai one of the finest libraries in the
State, which contained, ahionK others.)
tin Bible in the original Hebrew and 1
in many of the foreign languages; the
J*yriar version; the Septuagin version;|
the Polychrome Bible; the Catholic
Bible* the Book of Mormons; also all
ibt new and modern versions of the
Bible. He also had the works of Whit- j
field, Wesley, Jonathan Kdwards, and]
a Complete line of Hebrew literature.'
He kept all, works of science up to
date. He" also kept 111 close' touch.
with all events of the day and knew ;
what was going on in the business and i
l-( litic,al world.
Mis broad knowledge of literature'
putj>im far ahead of bis time. He was I
tlTe first teacher in the State to give'
a normal course, and it is;
said that he gave the first courses in ;
agriculture and horticulture taught in
the State at the Wilson Collegiate In-j
stitute in 1872. Professor Westbrook, j
oi.e of his teachers, having that de-'
partmenf of the school. In his efforts
to make his work as a teacher the best
to he had, he visited Harvard and'
Princeton and studied methods, scien- j
tifi'c instruments, and also co-education. 1 *
No one knows, yet it is |uite pos-
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sible that he had read more than any
person in North Carolina, and he never
used glasses and could always see well.
In ability and the knowledge of
things he towered high above his fel
lowmen. In meekness and gentleness
of spirit he was consent to be the low
est among men.
WANTS
Singer Sewing Machine Shop, 115 E.
Main St.. and am prejjared to do dress
making, altering, hemstitching, and pi
coting. All work guaranteed. Mrs.
I W. H. Ward. al4 Btpd
BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 1. MY
mill will be run strictly on a cash ba
• sis, charging 30 cents a bushel for
| grinding. Not toll accepted. No grind
ing will be done on Saturdays. J. H.
I Micelle. ; a2l & 28
1 STRAY HOG: LARGE POLAND-
China boar has been at my pasture
tot about a month. •Unmarked. Own
er will please come for him and pay
cost. E. G. VVaters, Route 2, James-
I ville. a2l 2t
' FOR SALE: ONK FINE SQUIR
reI dog. Guaranteed. Reason for
'Veiling. Unable to hunt. J. W. Green,
; Williamston, *N. C. . ' a2l 28
I AM PREPARED TO DO FlßST
class tobacco grading. Rooms at lite J
lrick Warehouse. Good grading and I
good care of tobacco guaranteed. Give
me a trial. (J. T. Newton. ltj
PURSE LEFT IN SOME ONE'S
car Sunday at Hassell funeral. Purse !
contained $3 or $4. Finder please re
turn to Mrs. J. D. Brown. a2l It
WANTED; DOGWOOD, FIVE
inches up in diameter lengths, 5 feet
and.up. Also white ash logs, yellow,
»)> plar logs. Address Albert R.
Box 1010, Norfolk, Ya. , > a2l 5t
W. G. Peel vs. W. A. Nelson
Execution
Notice of Sale of Real Property Under
North Carolina, Martin County; in
the superior court.
By virtue of an execution to me di
rected from the superior court of Mar
tin County in the above entitled action,
1 will, on Monday, the 3rd day of Sep
tember, 1928. at 12 o'clock m., at the
courthouse door of said county, sell
to the highest bidder for cash to satis
fy the said execution, all the right, title
and interest which the said W. A. Nel
son, the defendant, has in the follow
ing real estate, to wit:
Beginning at Fred Jones' corner on
State Highway No. 90, and running
cj-stwardly along said highway to Tdfc
Roebuck's corner, better known as Ed
Jolly's corner; thence southwardly a
long said Roebuck's line to the Par
meie Canal Company's land; thence
wesfwardly along the canal to Fred
Jones' lines, and following the said
Jones' line to the beginning, contain
ing (60) sixtv acres. %ore or less.
A. L. ROEBUCK,
a/' 4tw Sheriff Martin County.
NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina, Martin County; in
superior court.
U. S. Hassell vs. Alfred Walker
By virtue of an execution directed
to the undersigned from the superior
court of Martin County in the above
entitled action,. 1 will, on Monday, Sep
tember 17, 1928, at 12 o'clock, noon,
in front of the courthouse door of Mar
lin County offer at public sale, to the
highest bidder, for cash, the interest
which the said Alfred Bennett has in
the following, real estate, to wit:
One lot situated in the Town of |
Ji-mesville, N. and bounded on the
north by Washington Street, on the
east by lots of H. G. Griffin, J. SJ
Godard, and J. VV. Ward, on the south
LONG TERM
FARM LOANS
AT 6 PER CENT INTEREST
Semi-Annual Partial Repayment of Principal
With Interest
Put your (arm on a business liasis with fiAids from a FARM
LOAN running from 20 to 33 years
Clean l ? p—Paint Up—Make the Farm a Home for a Healthiei
Happier Family
Loans made promptly on improved farm lands for:
Paying off existing indebtedness; payment of balance
of purchase money on farm lands^- improving soil, pur- *
chase of livestock; purchase of fertilizer and farm imple
mrn s; remodeling farm buildings, painting, etc.; new
barns, dwellings, tenant dwellings, etc.
DIVERSIFY FORLARGER PROFITS
Below is listed the attorneys who are our legal representatives—
see any of them if you need funds
E: S. Peele, Williamston, N. C.
J. C. Smith, Robersonville, N. C.
Joseph W. Bailey, Williamston, N. C.
ATLANTIC JOINT STOCK LAND
BANK OF RALEIGH
al4 RALEIGH, N. C. 12tw
Tuesday, August 21,1928
by W. H. Hopkins land, and on the
west by I. T. Coltrain, same being one
fourth acre, front, and one acre deep.
This the 10th day of August, 1928.
A. L. ROEBUCK.
al4 4tw Sheriff Martin County.
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of a judgment
in an action entitled "D. G. Matthews
vs. Jasper Harrell. et al," the under
signed commissioner will, on the 12th
day of September, 1928. at 12 o'clock
noon, in front 'of the courthouse door
oi Martin County, offer at public sale
tc« the highest }>idder. for cash, the fol
lowing tract of land:
Beginning at a stake at the corner
of A. D. Peterson's and the Copibs
place; thence along the line of the
Comb's laud, 760 yards to the corner
ui Freddie Hafcrell estate; thence a
lJ*g the line of Freddie Harrell land
in an easterly course 760 yards to a
stake; thence in a southeasterly course
760 yards to the Steven Brown land
now owned by Colin Green; thence
a southwest course 760 yards to the
corner of A. D. Peterson and the
Combs place, the beginning. Contain
ing 37 1-2 acres, more or less.
This the 10th day of August, 1928.
B. A. CRITCHER,
al4 4tw Commissioner.
NOTICE
Having this day qqualified as Ex
ecutor of the estate of Burwell
Green, deceased, late of Goose Nest
Township, Martin Cotyity, all persons
holding claims against said estate
arc hereby notified to present same
for payment to the undersigned on or
before the 2nd of July, 1929 or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of any
recovery. All persons indebted to said
estate are requested to come forward
and make immediate payment of the
same.
This July 2. 1928.
SAMUEL OUTLAW,
7-6-6t Executor.