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PAGE TWO THE ENTERPRISE PrtHilnl Rw*7 Tuesday s»d Friday by Ths ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WXIXIAIOTON^OKTI^C^WLIN^^ . «. C. M—lag 'SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cuh in Advance) IN MARTIN CQUNTY Om ymt - - Ik -month* , £ - 7S OUTSIDK MARTIN COUNTY OB- rear , MM £?* Z^. thi _v 1.00 No Subscription Received for Lssa Then 6 Month* Advertising Kate Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the post office in Williamston, N. C~ as secood-cWss matter under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. ■ _ •_• _ Address an communications to The Enterprise and not to the individual members of th# ir®. Tuesday, May 3,1932 A Duty of the Congress Secretary of the Treasury Mills warns Congress not to tamper with the currency. Certainly, he does not want the country to handle the money of the coun try. The rich bankers now dominate our entire mon etary system, which is one of the principal troubles with business today. ——. Congress ought to take hold of the entire circulat ing system of all kinds of currency. Then Mr. Mills, Mr. Morgan, and Mr. Mellon will not make quite so much money, and the common run of folks who do the work and the producing will get more. "" / Knowledge Our Greatest Asset Don't let anything destroy the schools. It is true they may not have been just what we would have had them be during the past IS years, yet the best money we have spent has been for schools, and the best money we will spend during the coming ten years will be for education. Knowledge is our greatest asset. A properly edu cated man dressed in rags is worth a lot more to him self and his community than a "dressed-up fool." Mr. Ford Is Wrong Mr. Ford made a big mistake in his figures when he said a working man can make SSOO a year addi tional by having a little garden patch on the side. The fact is a man can not make SSOO a yew by work ing all day and using both sides. Mr. Ford has made a lot of money, but he has no idea how little money the average fellow is squeezing through on. Labor throughout North Carolina today is averaging much less than S3OO per year. There are just too many guesses these days to de pend on all we see and all we hear. The Tobacco Industry Indicts It sell Forsyth County manufacturers paid,in salaries and wages to operators and laborers in the last year of available statistics a total of $14,222,588. The cost of raw materials, fuel, and current, was $101,542,081, making a total manufacturing cost of $115,764,669. •The total value of the manufactured products was $295,498,391, showing a gross profit of $179,733,722, or 155 per cent. When we take into consideration that more of this •huge profit should have gone to the men who pro duced it rather than to the men, who, by a system of market manipulation, crushed the producer, we see ■the need of a complete change in our methods of han dling things. It required 16,946 laborers to operate ■the factories, 250,000p people produced all the raw material, while probably less than 100 got most of the money. Out of each dollar's worth of manu factured goods, labor -3 cents, the man who ffurnishes the raw material gets 34 1-3 cents, while the (factory owner gets 61 cents. If anybody should ask why the tobacco farmer is (being sold out for taxes, just tell them they have been teaten up by the tobacco companies. In Gaston, the big cotton-factory county, the value of manufactured goods was $69,000,000, of which labor got $13,000,000, and all the raw materials cost $40,500,000. In this case, each dollar produced by manufactured products was divided about as follows: To the producer of raw material, 57 cent; to the la borer, 20 cents; and to the factory owner, 23 cents. In Guilford County, the value of manufactured products was $97,000,000. Labor got $16,000,000; the producer of raw materials, fuel, and power got $5,500,000; the factory owner got $26,000,000. Each dollar was divided as follows; About 17 cents went to labor, 60 cents to those who furnished all the ma terials, and 23 cents to the factory owner. In Durham County the goods manufactured were worth $138,000,000. Of this, labor got $6,000,000; the producer of nfw materials got $41,000,000; and the factory owners got $91,000,000. That is, out of each dollar, the man who furnishes the labor got 4 1-2 cents, the man who furnished the coal for fuel, elec tricity, for power, and all other things necessary, got 29 1-2 cpts, and the factory owner got 66 cents. In the other of the big three tobacco banufacturing counties, the ratio is practically the same as in Forsyth and Durham Counties. In theee theee counties the value of aaaufctuied products a mounts to the hage turn of $546,000,000, of whkh wshshsb avanv TViaroAY AND FWIPAT labor gets the measley sum of $25,000,000. The man who grows the tobacco, who furnishes his fields, his teams, every member of his family, uses all the fer tilizer he can get, set up half the summer to house, cure, and care for the crop, together with the men who furnish the coal, wood, oil, grease, gas and elec tricity to run the factories —all these combined get $177,000,000; while the few lords who think thgr should run and boss all of the country, including the three departments of state, get the huge sum of $344,- 000,000. , - The figures used are taken from their own reports, with the fractions omitted- Returning to the two counties of Guilford and Glas ton, we find the net value of all manufactured prod ucts to be $166,000,000; labor got $29,000,000 of this sum; the producer of raw materials, fuel and power got $105,000,000; and the factory owners got $32,000,000. It will be observed that in Guilford and Gaston, where furniture, cotton, and other useful things are manufactured, labor gets a fair share of the income, as also does the producer of raw materials, while the factory owners get only comparatively a small slice. In the tobacco-manufacturing counties, labor gets lit tle, the fellow who furnishes the raw materials gets little; but the few stockholders get nearly everything. Relief On a Croup Basis Greetuboro Daily News. The relationship of the soldier bonus and unem ployment relief, as injected by Representative La- Guardia into the house ways and means committee s consideration of the Patman bill for immediate pay ment of adjusted compensation certificates, was even more clearly and effectively delineated by Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of the Veterans' Bureau, in testimony which he presented at Tuesday's committee hearing. Answering the argument tl)at payment of the bonus would do much to relieve unemployment, General Hines c stated that only about 600,000 veterans are unemployed, although practically the same number are also on part-time employment. When this figure is contrasted with the nation's total unemployment, estimated in excess of 7,000,000, and declared only yesterday by Presidnt William Green, of the American Federation of Labor, to be increasing, despite the sea sonal activity which should better conditions at this time, the group discrimination, securd by a negligible but highly organized minority, is strikingly obvious. The distinctive trend to*, place relief upon a group basis, with the veterans far in the lead, is further re- j .vealed by figures given in Walter Lippman's article in Tuesday's Daily News. During the 10 years since 1922 the cost of veterans' relief has increased by $329,000,000 and of farm relief by $344,000,000. In Great Britain, for the same period, war pensions have decreased $150,000,000 and social insurance has called for an increased expenditure of $300,000,000. The comfxirative figures s|>eak for themselves. Great Brit- j ain has endeavored to better the lot of its entire pop- ' ulation, to deal with unemployment as such and upon ( a nation-wide perspective, in which the veterans are . being absorbed as a part of (jie civilian population. I In the United States the farm group and veterans i group have almost an exclusive claim to the benefits, while the growing army of unemployed wallows and suffers and begs. Catering to a favored class, especially during such exigent times, must appear to the unbiased as not only discriminatory but dangerous business. Progress Made in Governmental Affairs Smitkficld Herald. It seems to be the custom to cry down the achieve ment of our law-making bodies, both state and na tional. The alleged do-nothingness of Cdngress and * state legislatures often inspires wisecracks. The last North Carolina legislature came in for its share of criticism. The people did not get all their difficulties straightened out, and they did not hesitate to blame the legislature. After months have elapsed, however, and the work of the legislature is seen in retrospect, in some such manner as Governor Gardner summed up the achievements before the conference of governors assembled at Charlottesville, Va., to honor the author of the Monroe Doctrine, one can not but be impressed that considerable progress has been made in governmental affairs. It is certainly something to have placed all local financing under state control; to have provided for the consolidation of the state's three major institutions of higher learning; to have accepted the principle of state support of the six months schools from other sources than ad valorem taxes; and last, but not least, to have taken over the complete maintenance of 45,000 miles of county and township roads. \ —— . ' ' - Liberal Education The free mind of a free man which the spirit of edu cation in a democracy nurses to maturity knows no loyalty save loyalty to the truth, which it seeks to see clearly in the dry light of facts. The free mind of a man resists enslavement to pas sion and to prejudice, bringing to the bar of disinter ested judgment the pleas of all parties and all powers, and tirelessly searches out the motives that coin the catch-words of all classes, all cliques, all clans. The free mind ol a free man turns a deaf ear alike to democracy when it grows sentimental and to plu tocracy when it grows selfish. The free mind of a free man is independent alike of tyrannical majorities and tirading minorities if it happens that the truth abides in neither. The free mind of a free man inspires its motives with sincerity and informs its methods with science. The free mind of a free man, when called to posi tions ol power, is never guilty of Aying the things that will please rather than the things that are true. Thus education sets up new goals for itself up a democracy.— Robert Douglas Bowden. THE ENTERPRISE WWNIO TO THt HVQMlftftM V \ of Ttw • Tnm v% hot j£L~^^% ENOOOH TSAFfVC. THROUGH J THi HW 10 WMtftMIT / [Ajg^^^BTfr *wmo THE MCM KNO J|^HMH|^ 4^.' iSSSB - ~ A RWEft. Of «VlimUM( Kvm> MTCHMKN L D\tD MT A fcWJEfc Of GfNO\NC %OMC. VM TWIMftOf «»B *FTtR> StAOVUHO VOOR. MrrftiK l* IV T%«- * TOW* Of TOftfcCCQ •Ht WQOIVTtO TH*T * WWW « *Wtflfe© "* KU **o*lßS COMt TO H\% IS HO OH VON Of TWO STWtM • OHA HfttH TMfcT THIV COMTWIOO*\X • EbCH jl uiftu CAMTFMt fff (Ulll£ irin tui WW OWtU T\MO WW **o TtH POONM * mW CQKtWT 0* UALUC !NUO IM* OF TOBKCCO-'M SfAOKE VYM SO COHTMHINfc tR£U . THVCK THE WOttRNEKS CQOIO HflfT 3« E*Ctt QTKE*. -- -ti.n w~.t.~ _ . RESOLUTIONS /OF RESPECT Since God, in His infinite wisdom, removed from our midst on the 22nd day of March, 1932, our friend and co worker, John A. Getsinger, a member of the Martin County Board of Edu cation: Therefore, be it I Resolved, That we are grateful to I the Master for his life of useful service to his family and friends. Though on ly a little past the meridian of life, he was called to the world beyond. We miss his presence and his counsel, which was always pointing toward a better and more perfect service. The memories of our association with him will abide. That we extend to his family onr sympathy and commend them to the keeping of Him who doeth all things well. That a copy of these resolutions be spread on the minutes of this board; a copy sent to his family and a copy furnished the Enterprise for publica tion. The Hoard of Education of Martin County. W. O. GRIFFIN, Chairman. J. C. MANNING. Secretary. Probably Worth 30 The Hoopeston (III.) mayor receives an annual salary of 50 cents. NOTICE OF SALE OF~REAL — PROPERTY Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed on the 3rd day of June, 1929, by N. F. Brown to the under signed trustee and of record in the public registry of Martin County in book P-2, at page 509, said deed of trust having been given for the pur pose of securing a note of even date and tenor therewith, default having been made in the payment of same and at the request of the holder of same, the undersigned trustee will, on Mon day, the 16th day of May, 1932, at 12 o'clock m., in front of the courthouse dooor in Williamston, North Carolina, fp^p NeXT time you an out of fix aa the remit of ir> Mfular or faulty bowel movement, try Thedford'e Black-Draught for the re freshing relief it givea thousands of pcopla who tiki it ICr.K.W.OMfI,a construction aupar bitandant la Pulaski, V*, sajra: in i "Whaa Int ow atipatad, mjr haad achaa, m 4 I kava that dull, tired faaling-just not aqual to aiy work. I doat fMI hungry and I know that I nead ao ma thing to claanaa my ayatam, ao I taka Black-Draught Wa hava found it a groat halp." Sold bI 25-cent package*, Thodfordk | *Autw *b s: ,■ I I fc uS -^1 WILLIAMSTON IMWtigWOUM^ ODD-BUT TRUE for sale, to the highest bidder, for cash, the following described real estate to wit: Beginning at a stake on Commerce 1 Street, T. W. Davenport's corner, thence with Commerce Street 209 feet to an iron stake, thence with Casper brothers' line in a westery course 202 1-2 feet to an iron stake, thence with Casper brothers' and Ca»andra Hy-| man's line in an easterly course 237 1-2 feet, thence a southeastern course 162 feet with T W. Davenport's line to the stob in Commerce Street, the beginning, and containing one acre, j be the same more or ess. For further , description see deed to Mrs. Lou Brown, of record in book G-l, at page 274 of Martin County records. This the 15th day of April, 1932. A. R. DUNNING. ' al9 4tw Trustee. Ebert S. Peel, attorney. NOTICE OP SALE OPTjEAL PROPERTY Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed on the 29th day of September 1925, by Freddie Harrell and Alice Harrell to the undersigned trustee and of record in the public registry of Martin County in book Q-2, at page 433, said deed having been given for the purpose of securing a note of even date and tenor therewith, default hav ing been made in the payment of same, DR. V. H. MEWBORNr OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined Glasses Pitted Roharaonville at Nmr'i Drug Store, Tuesday Alter Third Sunday Each Month. Williamston, at Davis Pharmacy, on Wednesday After Third Sunday of Each Month. Plymouth at O'Henry Drug Store, Thursday After Third Sunday Each Month. At Tarboro, N. C., Every Friday and Saturday [ ll - the I llglgs)) Enterprise y «/ Is today the favorite news \ paper in 1,500 homes in rv Martin County. There it reaches an army of several j , \pt| \ thousand additional buyers, *F; u raam f counting the number of pos sible grown-ups in each ® \ ' NOW-MrMERCHANT— — j*dof ' isn't that the very army of j&? * / J reaeh? Aren't they the r / folks who SHOULD know about your wares . . . your saving prices? Then—up Welcomed CONSISTENT 111 1,500 ADVERTISING! -j. g- # Cuts and Copy Lowtst Martin County ""»«■»- *-« Homes Phone 46 I ' ■ -a *j' IB -■■ -- ■ r -jj ] ' -*■ •- "'** ■ ' d in%*t I*'**' - ' and at the request of the holder of same, the undersigned trustee will, on | Monday, the 16th day of May, 19 32, at 12 o'clock m., in front of the court house door in Williamston, North Car olina, offer for sale to the highest bid der, for cash, the following described real estate, to wit: Beginning at a stake on Commerce Street, ISO feet northeast of Cherry Street, the course of J. H. Aytrs lot, thence in 3 southeasterly course with }■ H. Ayers line 160 feet to a corner, thence with J. T. Daniel's line 60 feet in a southwesterly course parallel with i Conmierci^Stree^^g^iu^^^2^T^ GRADUATION SUGGESTIONS iP^ST SHEAFFER PENS $i Up Sets $2.75 Up M Jggjj HL Compacts, Amity, Leather Goods, Bill Folds, Purses, Cigarette 'Cases, Kodaks, Toilet Sets, Military Brushes, Dusting Powder, Shaving Seta DAVIS PHARMACY Next Door to Post Office Williamgton, N. C. Tuesday, May 3, 1932 Daniel'* line, thence with J. T. Dan iel'* line 160 feet parallel with Cher ry Street to a stake ia Cotmnarar Street, thence with Commerce Straft 60 fcvt to a Stain, the baginaiag, ob taining by estimation one-eighth m acre, be the same more or less, aigl being the same house and lot we now live on. This,the 15th day of April* 1932. P. H. COUNCIL, al9 4tw Trustae. Elbert S. Peel, Attorney. Screen Time IS HERE What do your screen and screen doors say about you I Do they say, "My owner can't afford even to keep his screens in repair? Telephcfne us today. We'll send out a man to estimate the cost of any screen work you want, ; large or small, and with out any obligation to you. We'll show you samples of shining new wire, samples of beautiful Logan grilles. Williamsfon Supply Co. I II