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PAGE TWO THE ENTERPRISE PehUebed Ewty Tuesday aad Friday by Tba ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WIUJAMSTON^_NOWH_CAROONA^_ W. C. M«nnfai« Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Btrictly Cash in Advance) . IN MARTIN COUNTY OM Six montfai —— —* ~ OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY 0 J9H - - - _ 1.00 No Subscription Received for Lett Than 6 Month* Advertising Rate Card Furnithed Upon Request Entered at the post office in Wiiliarnston, N. C., as second-class matter under the act of CongreM of March 3, 1879. Address ail communications to Ihe Enterprise and not to the individual members of the farm. mmlmmmß 1 ' I Friday, August 19, 1932 Six Or Eight Months Some people suggest the shortening of the schools by two months, which we think would be a mistake. We need 8-month schools—and some good, honest study without devoting so much time to some of the flimsy, trashy stuff which we think has crept into the schools during the past years. Nobody dsnies the fact that we are facing a most terrible dilemma, a condition placed on us not by eight-months pupils but by six-months pupils. With the conditions that we will be forced to face for the coming SO years, ouj greatest need is going to be in telligence. That that type of knowledge that will not be dependent upon what somebody tells us, but a broad grasp of world conditions for ourselves. If we educate our children, they will be able to handle our debts. If we do not educate them, it will be equal to dedicating them to the jungles of destruc tion and the dungeons of despair. It is true —and very true —that bills art hard to pay, and the way may seem hard for us. Vet we ought to know that we can not make enough money to pay our debts, nor can we give our children enough cash inheritance to pay them. On the other hand, if we educate our children with that degree of intelli gence that will produce honesty, truth, industry, and frugality, they will be able to meet the world on a common level, whether in war or peace. Educated people have never been slaves; uneducat ed nations have never known anything but slavery— economic, political, religious, and even the taskmas ter's lash. If we save the cost of extended terms now, our children and their children will pay dearly for it in coming years. Stay With the Right Crowd Trees will bear fruit after their kind. If the na ture of the tree is bad, it will bring forth bitter fruit. If it is improved and grafted into good stock, it will bring forth g6od sweet fruit. " The same thing applies to people. If they are given the right kind of culture, and kept away from degrad ing environments, they will be law-abiding, depend able people, but if not then they are more likely to be found in prisons or other like places. Slay with the right crowd —always. The Farmers' Strike So far as we know, the first strike ever staged which really struck at the root of the tree was pulled in lowa recently by farmers of that state, when they refused to feed the town folks or to let the markets supply them. Certainly it was a great blow to the toWn folks, who will soon get hungry. Most strikes are caused by poor people asking for higher wages in ca?h. This lime it is for higher wages for foodstuffs. The man with the money can wait and live without putting up wages, but the man who has the food can strike and starve the other fel low to death—whether he be rich or poor. The old methods of warfare was to l>eseige cities, keeping food from them. Both man and beast can be made to surrender when reduced to starvation. - More brotherly cooperation is what we need. Then we will have no strikes. Easy There Gotdsboro Transcript and Messenger. They're blowing on the prosperity horn again. Easy there, boys! , Prices on some commodities have gone up. Prices on stocks and bonds have taken a jump. But the only likeness to a whirlwind when a man climbs a steep, long hill is his puffing for wind. We have a long climb ahead. Those of us who don't just wait to be dragged along on the tail-end of the road-making gang have plenty of work to do, planning out where we'll lay out part of the road and then knocking that part into shape. If we look too hard at reflections of the light at the top we're likely to keep our eyes off what is just ahead -of us, and get an unpleasant tumble in our hopes. Let the other Jellow blow on the prosperity horn If he wants (o. We're going to use our wind for our work. PUBLItMID *V«*Y TU—DAY ahc rmPAY Statesmen Needed It is practically impossible to produce statesmen under our American political system, where men have no time to do anything except to seek votes. About the only thing in politics and government is the political line-up, beginning with the ward poli tician, and going on up to the highest offices in the land. Every man who wants a job has to line up his friends, and we vote for people and not for principles. The general idea of the American politician seems to be that if he can grasp the reins of government and all his friends get jobs, then all is well. We are built on the principle that if we can get and everybody else give, then government is good. We need more statesmen who have the ability, knowledge, and desire to give all people an equal chance. Liquor and Liquor Makers mmm Mß The National Distillers have announced a dividend, based on the prospect of repealing the liquor laws. Those are the same fellows who are furnishing the propaganda against the prohibition laws. When it comes to the question of honor, they will not meas ure up with the Free Union moonshiners of Martin County. The main difference between them is that the Free Union negro is trying to make a little liquor, evade the Jaw, and make a little money, while the whisky barons want to boss the government and pile up fortunes. There may be plenty of argument against the liquor law, but there is no argument to favor liquor. Normal American Life A normal American life is all Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh wants for his new son, according to reports in the daily press. That, in reality, is all any of us need. We Ameri cans have fallen into the error of creating extreme habits. We fairly go wild and almost worship the fellow that runs the fastest, the girl who swim far thest, or dances the longest. The man who throws or knocks a ball farthest is the hero of the age. We are abnormal in our praise of feats of play, and sub normal in our ideals of the accomplishments of work. We sympathize with Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh for the annoying publicity surrounding the birth of their first son, and also in the kidnapping case. What we need to do is to place a higher value on the worth-while things in life and stop saying so much about the feats which may be a positive injury. Deserves Consideration The question of paroling prisoners is getting to be a big problem in our governmental and social sys tem. So many young people are committing crimes 'that it makes it necessary that this question be care fully considered. The Federal Government has found great benefits in the parole system. Possibly a majority of the crime that we have comes from a spirit of thought lessness and the perpetrator is soon sorry for his mistake. Most of such cases should be paroled, in order that the individual may understand that the government is his friend and is not desirous of pun ishing him, but his crime only. Many young people have not had the advantage of a true frend. It may be that some have found lit tle friendliness in their fathers and mothers and have been permitted to drift with associates who have mis led them. It is much cheaper to parole than to punish, and for a good percentage of the people it is possibly bet ter. At least there are plenty of good examples where men have been much better citizens after having been paroled, than before they committed any crime. It is estimated that if all North Carolina prisoners who would be helped, and which would not hurt so ciety, were paroled, it would cut the State's expense around $175,000 annually. Why not give this matter more attention and help somebody who, at heart, did not mean to commit crime, and at the same time save the state a goodly sum of tax money, which is hard to get these days? Two Reforms Needed Our society needs two reforms —less extravagance and more purity. If we will work a reform on these two lines, it will do more to bring peace and prosperity than all the politicians combined can do. * * Opening Tobacco Prices Raleigh News atul Observer. Tobacco prices defy predictions or understanding. They are like the three things Solomon said were past finding out. A year ago the prices for the poorer grades of to bacco were so low that farmers got next to nothing for such grades. Buyers said they didn't want it, and took it for accommodation, paying for much of it not more than i or 2 cents a pound. The only grades they said they desired were the finest grades, and for these they paid better prices, but much less than formerly. This the exact opposite condition prevails. There is demand for the lower grades and prices, while still very low, are 20 to 30 per cent more than in 1931 at the first auctions. For the higher grades, which farmers have been encouraged to produce, the price is most disappointing. It is too soon, however, to know what will be the prices that will prevail during the season. The crop is about one-half of the quantity of the previous year. The demand in this country is said to be strong, but it is expected that the foreign countries will buy much more than in former years. It is upon this ex-' pected increase th%t the hope for better prices de pends. THE ENTERPRISE SCHOOL DAYS By DWIG . ' " IMT Tweak m owtl Me«i *n *m»r \ JW)B>. W «(•» * >l* Cftuc&tefMt M-MMLI _ I —— BtfH MCAU •* OMt VMt tuw, INtj rtft *m>.. I .—— — trrr"" « * ni mi ur m m» mm »*•** V—rTvT- /2 «e «m mm »««••*«•* «•>* —.—- i\ ■%m IM. mt W» •»' •«* *"* r A a \ SM>. MNT JtWA |ll»> * aitc i iA THE LETTER-BOX ♦ A WORD TO THE GROWERS OF TOBACCO The time has been when we had lots of tobacco grown in our county. We all felt that we had so much it mattered little where we sold, at home 'or anywhere else—almost anywhere was O. K. If somebody told us we could get,, a little more, whether it was so or not, we could afford to try it. Nobody would be hurt. Martin County had enough tobacco for al most everybody and still has a re spectable market at home. Well, friends, crop conditions have been such this year that whether we realize it or not, we have none to spare if we are to maintain a real tobacco market at home. When it conies to the serious-mit\ded citizens, we know we value our tobacco market as one of our priced assets. The local ware housemen have done all they can, and have operated the past few years at a great disadvantage in trying to make our market a real tobacco cen ter, and surely it is the best located market, and convenient to you. The warehouse owners and stock holders of the local warehouses have cut the rents in order to preserve the county's most prized achievement since its creation. But now comes the real test. Will the tobacco growers of Martin County preserve their own market and sell their tobacco in Wil-. liamston, your market, our market, and preserve its prestige? Your feeling and action this season will spell success or failure to your most valued business asset, the tobac co market of Williamston is at stake. We ask you to patronize it and work for it, and we will have nothing to dread. Sell your-tobacco elsewhere,] and the future is very uncertain. We ask the tobacco growers to market their tobacco in Williamston in 1932 and save the market. A CITIZEN. UNDERESTIMATE CROP Editor: My article in your paper about pea nuts a few issues ago evidently shows I was ydung in the peanut game. It read, "50,000 bags for Mar tin County," but after finding a crop reporter from the department of agri culture, Raleigh, 1 found that Martin County was listed in 1931 at 21,578 acres of peanuts with an average of 13 bags an acre. That would make 280,514 bags for this county alone. Now pray tell me if the cooperative exchange wanted to pool 12,000 bags of this 280,000 bags, -whose hands would they be playing into? I said in my article, put junibos at 5 cents a pound, pay the farmer ai>out $3.50 a bag and let him take a 30 per cent participating receipt for the bltance and pool that much—other grades in proportion, and you would get a 90 percent sign-up all over the United States where they raise peanuts. Under these conditions and figures, the peanut farmers would get back on their feet and meet the other fellows at the cross roads with every foot up, and somebody would yell in the next 'two years when they cut their acreage and put the brakes on. W. T. MEADOWS. • Wears $300,000 in Jewels » 1 Mrs. Harry Lehr, New York (N. Y.) society matron, wore he/ jewels, valued at (300,000, when she wai pre sented to England's king and queen at the Buckingham Paiace, London, Eng. NOTICE Having this day qualified as execu tor of the estate of Elisabeth Simp son, late of Williamston, Martin Coun ty, North Carolina, notice ia, hereby given to all persons holding* claim* JSftfSiSSISS HOJJTMCAJOyM^^ against said estate to present them to me for payment on or before the 23rd day of May, A. D. 1933, or thii no tice will be pleaded in bar of the re covery of the same. All persons indebted to said estate will please make prompt settlement. This 23rd day of May, A. D., 1932. E. G. BAGLEY, jy 12-6tw Executor. P^O^oj^Bß^reensborOjNjC^^ Mon.-Tues. Aug. 22-23 Wednesday August 24 I Thur*.-Fri. Aug. 25-24 JOE E.JJROWN pouß M^x BROS I Helen Twelvetree. LOCAL BOY MAKES GOOD in "MONKEY BUSINESS" I "TIKIACHiIirn" News - Mickey Moum Comedy - Short I UNASHAMED Matinee Mon., 3:15 Matinee 3:15 I COMEDY-NEWS Matinee and Night 10c-25c Matinee and Night ... 10c to All | »0c J Saturday, Aug. 27—BILL CODV in "TEXAS PIONEER"—SeriaI, Ep. No. 7 ■ 10c TO EVERYBODY Show From IToIIP- M. COMEDY There will be a special added attraction Tuesday evening at 9.00 o'clock —The GROMORE QUARTET, consisting of four local colored boys, will I endeavor to please you for about ten minutes. Public Meeting! For the Discu The Extended School Terms In Martin County wilj be held in the COUNTY COURTHOUSE, WILLIAMSTON Monday, August 22 AT 10:30 O'CLOCK All local school committeemen in the county art summoned to attend, and the public is invited to be present and discuss the matters coming before the meeting. Martin County [Board of Education SALE OP VALUABLE PARK PROPERTY Under and by virtue of the'authority conferred upon us in a deed of trust executed by Alexander Hill and wife, Cora Hill, on the 23rd day of April, 1926, and recorded in Book X-2, pace 293-294, we will on Saturday the 3rd day of September, 1932, at 12 o'clock noon at the courthouse door in Mar Friday, 'August 19,1932 tiir County, Williamston, N. C., tell at public auction for caah to the high' est bidder the following land to-wit: First Tract: Beginning in C. H. Davis lintf and running thense S. 4* 164 pole*; to thc%£ enter of Cedar Branch, Edd James' corner; thence N. 77 E. 14 poles; thence S. 72 E. 8 poles; thence N. 77 E. 12 poles; thence N. 1 E. 202 poles; thence S. 45 W. 48 poles to the beginning, containing 40 acres as shown by map made by A. Corey, Surveyor, February 11, 1926. Second Tract: Beginning at the head of a ditch on the Dailey Road on the Warren H. Hill tract of land and run ning thence S. 89 E. 33 poles to the center of Molasses Branch thence; S. 29.30 E. 23 poles; thence N. 84 E. 8 poles; thence S. 23 E. 8 poles; thence S. 14 E. 31 poles; thence S. 69 E. 9 poles; thence S. 46.30 E. 30 pole*; thence N. 85 W. 85 poles; thence N. 1 E. 79 poles to the beginning, con taining 30 acres as shown by map made February 11, 1926 by A. Corey, surveyor. This sale is made by reason of the failure of Alexander Hill and wife, Cora Hill, to pay off and discharge the indebtedness secured by said deed of trust. A deposit of 10 percent will be re quired from the purchaser at the sale. This tWfc 27th day of July, 1932. C. H. DIXON, RECEIVER FOR FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DURHAM, TRUSTEE, DUR HAM, N. C. a 5 4tw KILL MOSO^^S
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