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PAGE TWO THE ENTERPRISE Published Every Tuesday and Friday by The ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMSTON, WORTH CAROLINA._ W. C. M— tH ' Editoi SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advartce) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year » - Six months - • 7S OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year Six months - , I ;®° No Subscription Received lor Less Than 6 Months Advertising Rste Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the post office in Williamston, N. C., as second-class matter under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. • ; Address all communications to The Enterprise and not to the individual members of the firm. Tuesday, September 1, 1931 The Anti-Weed Ordinance That anti-weed ordinance in Williamston has gone on a strike —or perhaps it would be more correct to say that the sidewalks, streets hack lots, and front lots of. the town have formed a combination with the fixed purpose of utterly defying the law, and bringing forth a crop of weeds in the face of the open book forbidding it. The weeds have hushed the Woman's Club, blinded, the town authorities, ans |>erha|>s we would never h tve thought of the weeds but for the music and sting of thousands of mosquitoes which they brought forth and commissioned to terrify humanity wherever found. Poor anti-weed law. Thou hast been neglected, hu miliated, openly violated and evaded, and the pesky mosquito adds insult to in jury by singing your funeral dirge. #■ w Tobacco Grading ■ • " .' j Our government is helping the tobacco growers of j Martin County again in tobacco grading. Mr. S. H. 1 Pritchard, of the Department of Agriculture, is on the Williamston market, and i.«j at the service of every farmer in the county. He not only will grade on the warehouse floors, but will go to the packhouse of any farmer, without cost, and assist in the proper grad ing and classification of tobacco. The cry so often heard from buyers that tobacco is improperly graded should not trouble the farmer longer, because the standard fixed by the government, based on actual quality and kindred types, may be followed in every packhouse in the county without cost to the farmer, and the government is glad to furnish the service. Heretofore there has been a conflict between the grower and the buyer as to grades -th buyer always carrying his [>oint and building up big dividends, while the farmer loses his point and has to take a price so slow that it will hot cover production Cost. »• .» '• v —r - Cause and Effect Just a lew years ago a few big tobacco companies, with the help of a lot of warehousemen, buyers, hoi- ! tile farmers, merchants, and a few others, killed the ; cooperative tobacco market. Now the tobacco com panies alone have destroyed th oulsid market. Both have the same effect on both the buyer and the farm el—that is, the buyers' income grows rapidly, while the farmers' income goes lower year by year. Hut ! cigarettes, plug tobacco, and snuff they still stay high and go higher. A Hopeful Sign ' - ———— Some of the Eastern Carolina towns are building hitching racks in the back lots for horses. That is a good sign of returning prosperity. It shows that this era of extravagant wanton waste is passing by, and the folks are regaining their senses; and it is also helping to solve the parking problem. We are still in a stone's throw of prosperity, if we will only slow down and pay as we go, and reduce j our back debts just a little. But we must remember that we can not possibly j have everything we want and treat our neighlx>rs : square. We will have to be satisfied to leave our auto- j mobiles home and come to town on carts and hitch our horses in the back lots—just like the old folks, ! who built the country, did. False Tobacco Price Reports The wide variation of prices of tobacco reported in various markets of the State sounds strange and, un less we are mistaken, is proper grounds for a new law. forbidding publication of false reports of mar ket sales. In the final analysis, such reports cause farmers to lose money. When they get a report that tobacco is S cents higher in one town than in some other town, it only causes farmers to flood that mar ket the next day and force the price down. And, of course, tobacco companies are glad that the price is imported high. It gives the public a better impres sion of them. .No newspaper should publish any statement prices reported from a doubtful source, and when they persist in such a habit they should be barred from the mails. r - • ?|f:' PUSLIIMID KVHVY * TO—DAY ANO FWIPAV An Argument That Can't Be Right ! The friends of the railroads say if the farmers will pay them more freight they will be prosperous, and I then the farmers will be prosperous. This is. of course, argument coming from a kinder- I garten brain, because everybody knows the farmer has already paid all he has had to big folks in the ! past, and still he is not prosperous. One of the great troubles with the country today | j is that the product of the farmer and wage earner 1 i has been pilfered until the bottom rail, or foundation, of business has l>een crushed, and the whole fence has tumbled down. Too much has been taken from | the farmers already. They can not stand any more. It is hoggish in the extreme to go to the farmer and | ask for more when he is paying too much already. ' Yet the railroad propagandist is trying to make us ( In-lieve that the first step toward prosperity is to ! make them rich. We admit the railroads are in hard luck, and we are I sorry, but they have no right to ask or.demand legal prosperity at the hands of the farmers. I —- The future of the railroad is indefinite, because there has never been any big business in all the world's history that has crumbled so quickly as the railroad business has in the past decade. Time To Plan for Next Year A general warning was sounded early in the sea- I son, long before the seed were sown, against a big j crop of tobacco. Even the big tobacco companies ! warned against planting a big crop. Warehousemen were frank in advising farmers that prospects for prices were not good. Newspapers warned against producting a big crop of tobacco, advised less fertilizer, more distance be tween plants, fewer acres, so that beter care could be j given the crop. Priming of the lower leaves was not I advised, and farmers were |Persuaded to throw away the tips. * -It now turns oui4hat all this advice was gf#wd. If the 25 |>er cent of common tobacco was entirely gone that is, altogether out of existence, the remain- , ing 75 |>er cent would sell more than all of rt is going | to sell for. «. • . It is painful to see a family to go market and watch j the products of their labor go for half of the cost of ' i production.'* Now is the time to figure for next year ] ! :wd to decide to reduce acreage and production. • 'J' Save America Too Labor The "Wall Street Journal" is authority for the statement that during the first week following Presi dent Hoover's announcement of a year's moratorium in war debt payments the "value" of securities and commodities listed on exchanges throughout the coun try advanced -17,000.000,000. But, the "Journal" add5,^57,200,000,000, or more than 90 per cent, of this represented an increase in the price of stocks and bonds. That is not prosperity. It is just a recurrence of i the speculative madness which contributed so nia- j terially to the tragic smash on all exchanges in (k --tober, 1929. , Every right-thinking American wants our country to be generous in its treatment of other nations. However, the debate concerning what we are doing to pi Europe should not be permitted to distract I attention from the terrifying problems which confront i ys here at home. About 6,000,000 American men and women are j jobless and hundreds of thousands, and probably millions, of farmers are bankrupt. A Ixiom on Wall Street will not aid them. Their resources are exhausted and they have little or no credit. Winter is approaching. Where will they tur.n jp-lief when the snow begins to fall? In a s|H-ech in Indianapolis several weeks ago President Hoover said that to make America pros * [H'fou# was the best way to make the world prosper- I ous. Labor applauded that declaration. It was sound then and it is sound now. Our country is singularly blessed with every re source needed to make its peo|>le happy and content ed. To a greater extent than any other nation it is in a jwsition to order its own destiny. There is no reason why the prosperity of its people should be j dependent ujxin the decision of some foreign govern - i ment. I In normal times we consume more than 90 per cent I of what we produce and export less than 10 per cent. Our exports have fallen off, jterhaps one-half, but not j to exceed 5 per cent of our total production. Of | course, that decrease in exports has hurt us, but it j is not the principal cause of our trouble. Labor repeats, what it has said a hundred times before, that these hard times, with their long train of frightful evils, are traceable to an appaling decrease in the purchasing power of our own people. It is a malady which cannot be cured by "forgiv ing" the debts Europe owes us, and thus giving the big banks a better chance to collect some of the risky loans they have made abroad at extortionate interest rates. . _ « That is not sdid byway of criticism of the mora torium proposed by President Hoover. That is a generous gesture and if accepted will undoubtedly •be of material help to Germany. But at this mo ment Labor is frankly more concerned about what is happening at home. Instead of spending their days and nights worry ing about how to "put Europe on its feet" our states- s men should be at work on plans to give American workers jobs and to insure American farmers a fair price for the things they produce. - . . ' 7%'' wrwfWST - THE ENTERPRISE IN MEMORIAM In loving-memory of ray husband, Joseph "ft. Edmondson! who died one year ago, September 3rd. The one dearest to my heart is gone, The voice I love is stilled; A place made vacant in my home Can never more be filled. In happiness we spent our days; ' Much comfort we did find; ' It grieves my heart, it is hard to part, With one so good and kind. | For a long time he was confined, | In pain and anguish still; Yet patiently he seemed resigned, j To wait his Father's will. But all his labors now are o'er | And I will hear his voice no more; His body lies silent in the tomb; } He's gone to heaven, his final home. I could not wish him hack again, j But say, "Dear husband, with, God ' remain; I'll try to. reach that peaceful shore, Where we will meet to pa{t no more." Mrs. JOS. M. EDMONDSf/N. Hamilton, N. C. Farmers in Johnston county are growing more food and feed crops than ever before. Reports from sup j ply merchants show a 50-percent de j crease in sales of meat and lard and U one-third decrease in hay sold dur ing the first six months of this year. NOTICE OF SALE ' Under and by Virtue of a judgment 'of the superior court of Martin Coun jty in an action entitled "Minnie Har i (iisoti vs. S. K. Hardison Estate et jals," the undersigned commissioner | will, on the 23rd day of September, 11931. at 12 o'clock noon, offer for sale •to the highest bidder, for cash, in j ront ">f the courthouse door of Mar !tin County, the following described I laud: I A tract of land located in Diamond City, Griffins Township, Martin Coun j ty, adjoining J. and W. land oil three sides, and M. W. Bisscll on the oth ! er. Containing 25 acres, more or less, land known as the Diamond City land, j This 24th day"of August, 1931. B. A CKIT£HER, j a2B 4tw Commissioner. NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL Under and by virtue of the power ! of sale contained in a certain deed of j triist to the undersigned trustee by j Henry Kdmondson and wife, Maude Edmondson, on the 13th day of Oc- C ai once/ FRIGID AIRE ANNOUNCES 'NEw LOW Worthwhile savings. Re ductions apply to all models. Prices of Frigidsire equip* meat for commercial uses are also msterially reduced. Visit our showroom today. FRIGIDAIRE GUARANTEED FIR 3 YEARS * 6EH ERA I MOTORS VALBE B.S. COURTNEY WILLIAMSTON, N. C *V , ' WILLIAMSTON NO«T« CA " Qt - IMA tober, 1927, and of record in the pub lic registry for Martin County in book X-2, pfcge 533, said deed of trust hav ing been given for the purpose of se ! curing certain notes of even date and tenor therewith, and default having been made in the payment of the said ! notes and the sitpulations contained in the said deed of trust not having been complied with, and at the request ot | the holder of the said notes, the un dersigned trustee will, on Saturday, the 12th day of September, 1931, at J 12o'clock m., in front of the court house door in the town of William ston, N. C., expose to public sale for cash the following described property, io wit: " v . I First Tract: Bounded on the north | by F. M. Edmondson, on the east by I J. R. Etheridge, on the south by J.I A James and on the west by F. M. i Edmondson, conaining acres, more' j or less, and being the same land that ] was deeded to N. B. Wooten by El btrt S. Peel, commissioner, by deed 1 dated November 28th, 1924, and of J record in the public registry for Mar- 1 j tin County in book 1-2, page 274. : Saving and excepting from the oper-1 i ation of this conveyance the follow-! ling described land, to wit: Beginning' 1 at stake in the center of the road in front of the above described land, I thence along Abbie Edmondson's line 23 feet a westerly course to the cen ter of the ditch, thence along the ditch its various courses with Abbie Ed mondson's line a northerly course 1,722 Ytx a weakened, run-down condition," writes Mrs. F. 8. Perrlt, of Wesson, Miss. "I took one bot tle, and I seemed to Im prove so much that I sent for six bottles. Af ter I had taken the six bottles, I seemed entire ly well. "Before I took Car tful, I was nervous, rest less, blue and out of heart I felt depressed all the time. After I took Cardul, all this disappeared. "I gave my daughter - Cardul and it helped to relieve Irregular . . ." Thli medlolM hu been used - by woman for ov»r 50 tor Constipation. Inlt«Mtlon, I and Blllouane—. I i BEAU TV o SIMPLEST AID HOTyATEK ' l-il J FOR THINGS ELECTRICAL ONE beauty eid on which *ll the expert! agree k Hoi WiUr. Beauty ikopi are generout If 1 •ten ol hot mt'tr, whetever *l»e it included I | | |fl . • The %rm Uw of beauty it cleanlinett, whether it II {]' be >«•«% ef pe'»*o o' beauty of home, hence hoi ( P, tj I wai*' * be»a* « «i« r .Uit t ij. Injij x * haater provides en ample L| 1 Bmp »#» a» W noon or night. It it Kf| jliji j a**. c f>r t There it nothing to al'^l rtmtmK«r ci (or|«l • 'f C yW A smell down payment and eety monthly term 39& j jflß mat* t possible to enjoy thit modern eid to beauty He PBBH CDE »{] «>f pt'ion end home. Come in NOW end we will EB (fed | !rll you ALL afceut heating water Electrically. VIRGINIA ELECRIC and POWEK CCj^PANY 'i rc.-r— -■=&£.. u i "... .■-■■£>. , feet to a stake in the said ditch, thence on Abbie Edmondson's aide of the with Abbie Edmondson's line 16 feet road (which has been heretofore con to the center of the road, thence with }° 1. Edmondson and Ad tlie road, a southerly course 1,695 feet, b'e Edmondson) and also to convey it» various courses to the point of the P? rt °f Abbie Edmondson beginning, being by estimation 1 acre, 'tend on th same side of the pub niore or less. |tic road M the W. B. Wooten tract of c „j t„,. R .„- „ land in such a manner as to make the in the center of the road where the Public road a I the lands of Abbie Kdmondsons and Lena »® d » h f re,n conveyed and the Abbie Wooten join, thence in an easterly Edmondson part of lands, course the various courses of the road This the 12th day of August, 1931. '>9l feet to the run of Maple Swamp, ELBERT S. PEEL, thence with the run of Maple Swamp al4 4tw Trustee. a southerly course 24 feet to the Lena : ~ Wooten line, thence with the Lena Wotten line in a westerly course 678 leet to the road, thence down said road . a northerly course 18 feet to the point | of beginning and containing by esima- LIQUID OR TABLETB tion 1 acre, more or less. Relieves a Hea dacha or Neuralgia in I The yirpc e of this conveyance is 30 minutes, checks a Cold the first day, to cpntfey all of the W. B. Wooten and checks Malaria in three days. tractoflamicxcep^^ha^iaM^yms^^fij^j^jVß^OlMßAJßY^S^COLl^ mil wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm SRONG I IFE This bank is a good place in which to place your sayings. The business of the bank is directed by successful business men—men that are known throughout H the State for reliability and honety. As banking is a business proposition, they know the way things should be run, and they run them that way. Despite business fluctuations, this bank has always been sound—it has weathered every storm. HI Isn't this the bank you want your sav ings in? H SOUND BANKING AND TRUST SERVICE FOR EASTERN CAROLINA I Branch Banking | & Trust Company Williamston, N. C. Illllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllil Friday. September 4, 1931
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