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PAGE TWO THE ENTERPRISE rtllilml KWT To— day and Friday by The ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA. —mmmsmm i — === ———— —r Pf. C. M— Bditot SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year Six monthi £ ■" OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY Oaa year - •*•{*} fljy months ————— —■■■■ *•[*' No Subscription Received for Lets Than 6 Monthi Advertising Rate 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 an communications to The Enterprise and not to the individual members of the firm. Friday, July 1, 1932 , On the Right Track The action taken by the Virginia Electric and Power Company in reducing salaries and wages of their officials and reducing their charges (or electricity is a forward step in restoring business to an equitable base. The company also did the right thing when it agreed to absorb the federal tax recently placed on electricity rather than charge it to its customers. While no authentic statement has been issued, it is understood that a reduction of about 17 1-2 |HT cent will be made effective in rates with the July ac counts. A 17 1-2 percent reduction in rates will mean than a customer now using $lO worth of cur rent monthly will get it for $8.25 under the lower rate, a saving of $1.75 a month. More of the spirit of live and let live is the thing most needed in business today, and it applies to both little and big business. False Issues Dominating wealth has put out so much propaganda for liquor that the people have lost sight of the great Issues that affect the foundation of our civilization and are quareling about the lowest thing that affects the lives of men and*nations. What the people of this country need is a good drink of wisdom and something to eat and not a drink of alcohoi nor a swill of beer. • • we hear very little about sure and permanent relief, because the voice of alcohol is drowning -the cries of the hungry. What we need is unselfish statesmanship that will not yield to selfish wealth, which is trying to blind the eyes of the people by whisky propaganda. An Unjust Proposition We have lots of people without jobs, sufferirffe fur food and clothing. On the other hand, there are a large number of people with two jobs. The chairman of the Federal Radio Commission, for instance, gets $6,000 a year as a retired Army officer, and SIO,OOO a* year as a member of the radio commission. He was retired from the Army because he was considered not able to do the work required, yet he was given another job at_a much higher wage a thing altogether unjust to a tax-ridden people. Yet General Charles NlcKinley Saltzman is getting $16,000 of the people's money without giving the proper service in return. SCHOOL DAYS B y DWIG mm... *» • jiiM To Be Commended Without definitely charging President HooVer with making more mistakes than any other man has made in the space of 2 1-2 years, we do feel that he should be commended for advocating a cut of one-third in our war expenditures. The reduction in war preparation costs is the best way in the world to balance a budget. A reduction in armaments would make unnecessary a tax on bank checks an increase in postage or an ever growing bond load. It will be a glorious day when the peoples of the world acquire enough knowledge and possess enough Christianity to be willing to spend more for peace than they spend for war. Remember, the United States pays three dollars of every four it receives for war obligations and war preparation. Fight Evil Rather Than Yield To It A good many people become discouraged because people are bad and disobedient. They want to de stroy all the laws that the devil refuses to obey. It has always been different with the real servants of God. The priests, the prophets, the apostles always refused to bow to the devil. If people would do the same thing now, our religion would count more before men—if we would fight evil rather than yield to it. A Mistaken Policy It is feared that there will be a change effected in text books for schools next term, and it is to be said right now that the people are in no shape to buy a new series of school books. It would be ade ided mis take to force the people to discard their "Id books and buy news ones just now. Instead of studying the ty|* > of books to be used, the authorities would do well just now to di /ise some plan whereby .b( !.s might be furnished poo; children at nominal rental fees. There is no one thing that cripples our s hool sys tem more than when so many children are unable to buy books. Some are kept out of school, i>nd others are held back because they have no book; for con venient study. When the State sees to it that every child is supplied with" books, we will have ft er grade repeaters who cost the State far more than providing books would cost. Of Great Importance Hcrtie News-Leader If balancingnhe Federal budget—the fact which brought into being the enormous tax bille that went in to effect this week—was for Congress a matter first in urgency to the life of the nation, the people are now thinking that a matter of £qual importance and lacking little of the former's urgency is a reduction of governmental expenditures that will as speedily as possible make such excessive tax levies unnecessary in the future. Congress may have performed a stu penduous task and accomplished a highly commend able piece of labor in balancing the budget, but so long as our representatives dally and debate over an economy program without doing anything to reduce expenses, while the country pays heavier taxes out of incomes diminished to the vanishing point, these rep resentatives need not look to the people for any praise or compliment. All of said representatives may be good at reading the wishes of their constituency and keep their ears glued to the ground to catch the swells of rising feeling, but unless they do something about cutting expenses, waste and extravagance, including a few useless employees and a large number of exces sive salaries, they are misreading the people's wishes and their ears are not properly attuned. After this revenue bijl that digs into everybody's budget, the people want economy much worse than they wanted budget balancing. THE ENTERPRISE MONTH'S REPORT IS MADE BY MISS LORA E. SLEEPER Travels 1,011 Miles in Coun "ty and Holds Total of 21 Meetings (By IliM Lora E. Sleeper, County Hone Demonstration Agent) The home agent traveled 1,011 miles in the county daring the month and held 11 meetings with adults and 10 with the girlt. A Council meeting was held by the women in Jamesville during the month There were 49 women in attendance at this meeting representing 8 of the 11 clubs in the county. The Jamesville woman invited the council to a fish dinner, which was much enjoyed. At this meeting, members of the council voted to Ijave each member pay if pos sible 5 cents a year for a welfare fund, so as to have something to work with before winter, the importance of can ning in all communities was empha- I sized. Excellent reports were turned jin of work done during the winter j months in the canning of meat. The Girls Council held its second meeting of the year with 18 in attend ance. Nine of the girls were in the county health contest and weres ex amined free of charge by Dr. J. H. ' Saunders and Dr. P. B. Cone. Three 1 girls scored 97 and above in the con test, Miss Naomi Harrell receiving a score of 98. The girls in the council after their business meeting were! taught to crochet by Mrs. Hodges. | The district meeting, comprising 5j ! counties, was held during the month.' ! There were 347 reported in attend-j ance. A very fine program was plan-j ncd for the day. Judge Winston, of I Windsor, was the speaker. Miss Mil dred Ives, of Greenville, was present and told the women what it had meant j to her to receive the Jane McKimmon Loan Fund money to enable her to go I College. Short playlets put on by | each county reporting the work were! a most interesting feature of the pro-1 gram. Total sales for the curb market dur- [ I inn thr month were $103.89, or an average per seller for each week of $2.27. 1 j BUY TIRES NOW; i PRICES TO GO UP Stocks Bought Before June j 21 Are Not Subject to Federal Tax Car owners of this city were strong ly urged today by Mr. N. C. Green of the Williamston Motor Co., Jocal Firestone dealers, to buy tires now in preparation for their Fourth of July automobile trips. "There is no reason this year," he says, "why any one should risk spoil ing his holiday enjoyment by driving on worn and unsafe tires. Motorists now have a wonderful opportunity to equip their automobiles with new tires at the lowest prices in history. With an excise tax on tires and tubes ef fective on June 21, it is unlikely that the chance lo buy at the prevailing low range of prices will continue much longer. "With the Fourth of July holiday close at hand and with an eventaal in crease in price inevitable, no one should miss this unusual opportunity. The pleasure you derive from a motor ing trip over the Fourth depends on your tires. It is the unwisest economy to mar your whole day through tire failure. The money saved in' trying to squeerti the last few miles out of a tire is insignificant compared with the expense and worry of an accident, with possible Injury to theunotorist and his family, as a result of smooth or worn tires failing to stop the car in an emergency. _ "In addition to the present low cost of tires, values have been greatly in creased. In Firestone tires, the gum dipped cord plies under the tread and the extra tough, slow wearing non skid trjrad give the motorist the lowest cost per tire mile in history. These are constructi >n features found in no other make of tire." . When Anthony Ciarko fell from a ladder at his home in East Greenbush, N. Y., he broke a leg— not his own, but that of his wife, who wa* holding the ladder so he wouldn't fall. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere ap preciation to those who were so kind and helpful during the sickness and I death of our dear son and brother, also for the beautiful floral given. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McClaron And Family. Cost 85 Cents To Put Rheumatic Cripple Back to work Again Now Joyously Happy While all his family looked on in astonishment and all his friends were amazed, one man took all the pain, swelling and agony from hi* tortured Joints in 48 hour* and did it with that famous rheumatic prescription known to pharmacists as Allenru— .you can do the same. Thi* powerful yet safe remedy is wonderful—it* action is almost magi cal. Just get one 85 cent bottle of Al lenru from Clarks' Drug Store, Inc.. or any live druggist—take it aa direct ed and if in 48 hours your pains have* 1 n't all left you get your monev back. It works just as swiftly with Neu-, ritis, Sciatica, Lumbago and Neuralgia. WILL PUBLISH ALL WRITINGS OF WASHINGTON At Least 25 Volumes Will Be Required; Only Four Are Now Ready The United States George Washing ton Bicentennial Commission an nounces that fonr volumes of the set of approximately 25 volumes of the Definitive Edition of the Writings of George Washington, are now ready for distribution. This publication of a complete collection of Washington's personal, military, and state papers has been one of the major activities which Congress assigned the Federal Bicen tennial Commission, as part of the na tion's honors to Washington during this two hundredth year since his birth. Nothing like this comprehensive edi tion of the Washington writings has been attempted heretofore, partly be cause private publishing houses re coiled at the expense. Fifty years aft er Washington's death, Jared Sparks, then president of Harvard, issued an edition of 12 volumes, in which he omitted numerous passages and "im proved" Washington's diction in oth ers. Sixty years after the Sparks edi tion, Worthington C. Ford brought out another 14 volumes, taken direct ly from the Washington manuscripts. But as Washington left a larger num ber of papers than any other president, these editions, large as they are, con tain less than 50 per cent of the whole, represented in 400 folders in the Li brary of Congress. As pointed out by Dr. John C. Fitz patrick, editor of this great compila tion and noted authority on Washing ton's writings, "the lack of a com plete publication of Washington's let ters has made possible the slanderous belittlement of his character by pres ent-day writers ... In one way we are indebted to Sparks and Ford for the hundreds of biographies of Wash ington now available . . . The pity df it is, however, that most of these biog raphies, so unsatisfactory because of their lack of complete information, have been read with avidity by the American public and so have been re sponsible for the vast amount of ex istent misconception regarding Wash ington ... It is not surprising, there fore, that one of our present day emi nent historians, John Bach McMaster, should have stated that George Wash ington is an unknown man."- > The present Bicentennial edition of the Washington Writings, according to Dr. Fitzpatrick, is not only an hon or to the first American, but will en able America to understand her own history more clearly, for the formative period of the United States is so en meshed with the life of Washington that it is impossible to obtain a clear picture of the founding of the nation without full knowledge of George Washington, the man himself, his per sonal as well as Jiis public life. The Bicentennial edition will now make this available. It will contain all the papers included in the Sparks and Ford editions, all the papers in the Library of Congress, besides many letters and groups of letters in the possession of various libraries, histori cal societies, state archives, and pri vate owners. In fact, Washington pa pers have been found in every state of the Union and in nearly every coun try of the world. v , _ The present Bicentennial edrtion was begun in 1930. The volumes, as ready, will be published by the Government Printing Office on 100 per cent rag paper, durably bound, 500 pages to the volurne, and each containing about 300 letters. Each volume will be Separate ly indexed and foot-nofcd with names and records of all individuals referred to. In addition to the four volumes now ready, it is hoped to have five or six others completed by the close of the Bicentennial year. The editing of this collection has , been done by Dr. John Clement Fit«- i patrick, of the Manuscript .Division, ' Library of Congress, editor of the i George Washington Diaries. Dr. Fitx ' Patrick's entire life has been devoted to pure scholarship, and he stands fore most among authorities in presenting the facts of Washington's life as drawn from his own hand. TELLS HOW TO DRY CORN AND STRING BEANS Home Agent** Says Dried Product Equally Good As When Canned Miss Lora E. Sleeper, home agents 'offers the following instruc tions that will prove of value in dry ing corn and green string beans: Corn.—Husk and silk corn, boil for twety minutes on' the cob. Remove from boiling water and as soon as it is cool enough to handle, cut off the grain, making two layers pi it. Spread on a cloth and place on a metal roof for drying. ' If your roof is shingled that will be all right, too, but metal ! will dry the corn in less time. Cover | with mosquito netting or tobacco cloth |to keep out insects. When the corn rattles it is dry and ready to store in a flour b*g or the like for winter use. If you desire it to be absolutely safe from insect eggs (that might have been laid while drying), place in a bread pan and place in slow oven (stirring often to prevent burning) for ■ few minutes before storing. Soak (as you do preserve*) and cook in the same water to tare all the food value. Try some, it is as good or better than canned corn. > Beans.—String' an*, cook three fourths done; place on Board or roof as fan would corn. Follow same direc tion* a* for drying corn for the re mainder of the process. Green butter beans can be dried al so. Try them in the tobacco barns. Can tomato juice by using the small tomatoes. Although there are only 150 families in Bondfield, Ontario, Canada, yet there are 1,500 children—an average of 10 in each family. Among the town's inhabitants is a 46-year-old great grandmotber. 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EXPERT VULCANIZING TUNE IN GOODYEAR RADIO PROGRAM Every Wednesday Evening Friday, July 1,1932 CARD QF THANKS It is with a sincere appreciation that we publicly thank our neighbors and many other friends for the kind and thoughtful deeds done and the expres sions of sympathy made' during the rocent illness and death of our hus band and father, James A. Teel. THE FAMILY. WANTS FOR RENT: SIX ROOM RKSl deuce on Watt* Street, with water and lights. W. A. Ellison, Belhaven, N. C. jyl 2t