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PAGE TWO THE ENTERPRISE PobUMd Imjr Tneaday and Friday by Th« ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA. • W. C. Manning - - - "d** o * SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year Six months OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY O-. J. .1 12.00 S*® year -1 oo months •*•- No Subscription Received lor Less Than 6 Months 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, September 9, 1932 Don't Lose Your Head Don't lose your head because folks say times are better; cotton going up, tobacco selling higher, the bond market stronger, and stocks active. Just re member that much of the arithmetic which says "No matter how much you make, if you spend more, you will go broke." „, It will take ten years of hard work and saving to care for our big losses during the past ten years. Lack Honesty of Purpose * The allied powers of the world have dilly-dallyed along for a dozen years in a mere pretense of arms reduction, without honestly trying to do anything for the world's good. Now, Germany comes back into the picture and boldly states that she will carry out her own military measures, disregarding what other powers say and do. Had the world acted with an honest purpose and in good faith, it is very likely that Germany would not have had any such thoughts of war preparations. The trouble with people and countries is that they lack honesty of purpose. The Tragedy at Ottawa '•As I look towards the future of our civilization L see ahead only two causes that may brinj; it finally one is another European war between the great powers; the other is a geneial resort to protec tion." These wise words of Gilbert Murray, one of the greatest of living Britishers, doubtless wire not re peated by any of the speakers at the Ottawa confer ence, which is now near adjournment. His warning, however, is one that the British commonwealth of nations cannot overlook. Ini|)erial preference, reci procity and tariffs against nations not ol the British commonwealth have all been advocated as means of assuring imperial solidarity. In the outcome, the rivalries they create within the empire may be dis ruptive. The United States, not less than the* British com monwealth, have reason to dread the animosities that hostile tariffs arouse, For 60 years,'relations be tween the United States and Canada have been a model for the world. Since the enactment of the Fordney-McCumber tariff and, more particularly, sine? the Hawley-Smoot act aroused resentments and retaliatioifin Canada, we have been destroying rapid ly the good will created in the past. If the Ottawa conference results in the expected accords within the British commonwealth, it may be the greatest tragedy that ever overtook the Anglo-Saxon |>eoples. It may pave the way to their division, when their division will be their ruin,—Richmond News-Leader. Tammany Drops Walker Folks are demanding more from their officials. Even Tammany can not swallow all of Mayor Walk er's grafting. His friends are. going to drop him. That is the next best thing to the rise in the price of cotton and tobacco. Newspapers and Congress • - ♦ Congressman John H. Kerr seems peeved at the newspapers because they write up Congress in derog atory terms. We can not understand why he should complain, because the paper tha^tells most of the bad things done in Congress Is the Hon. Mr. Kerr's own paper, the Congressional Record —the paper of 'all papers that tells of the most mean things done in the country—the tales of dirty politics and politicians. One thing Judge Kerr may be sure of, and that is that when Congress comes clean and stands squarely for the people's interest rather than deal in a lot of political gas to fool the folks back home, then he will •ee no derogatory articles in the newspapers. The judge is wrong on one other point. He should give the papers credit for printing more Congression al shop-made propaganda to popularize the members with the folks back home than they do in criticism of Congresr. s Our personal opinion is that if the rank and file of the people knew more about the Washington gov ernment, including Congress, they would think no ■ore of it than they do now. We refer all people to the Congressional Record for their decision—that is, Judge, or Congressman, Kerr's paper. PUILIINIO KVBRV TU—PAV AMC KWIPAY A Harmful Attitude We are not attempting to pass on whether Sunday baseball is right or wrong. . However, we are sorry to see the attitude of many people who are willing to fill the body, mind, and soul of men so full of ques tionable things that they have no time to think of God, the Creator and Preserver of Life. So far as we know, there is no recorded history of man which shows his success when he has followed his own dictates, either in his work or amusements. For th&e is a law that governs us all, and we infringe upon that law when we neglect all" else except our worldly desires. When little towns and small communities open their gates to commercialized pleasures on Sundays, the churches will be greatly weakened in their every activity. And certainly any activity of man, either for business or pleasure, that hurts the church must be wrong. A Dangerous Practice It begins to look like people are in danger when other people have insurance on their lives. It is ad visable to have the honor tested of those who hold policies by which they will profit in another s death. If too many selfish germs are found, cancellation of the policy is the remedy. •*- You Can't Legislate Prosperity J •" H' as kin gt on ■'Progress. Congressman Lindsay C. Warren, speaking before the Greenville Rotary Club last Monday night, made the assertion that "you can not bring about a return of prosperity through legislation." A very true statement, but it is surprising how many people will "disagree with it. There are many indi viduals in this nation of ours who hold the govern ment responsible for all their ills. They blame the government for the depression, for bank failures, for the low price of farm commodities, for unemployment, and for everything else of an adverse nature. They censure the Federal government, the various state governments, and their own individual county and municipal governments. All sorts and varieties of remedies have been sug gested in connection with existing conditions. Most of these, to quote Mr. Warren again, are "nothing but opiates." They jnay bring about a temporary relief, but after that brief' period has passed conditions as a whole will'"be worse than they were before. You can't legislate prosperity. The sooner our people quit looking for hope in that direction and learn to depend upon their own resources and their own activities, the better off the country as a whole is going be. Our government is a great institution, but it's no Santa Claus. Neither is it an Aladdin. How One Farming Couple Succeeded Many of us have been so busy all these years talking about the deplorable conditions of ourselves and the country, as a whole that few of us realized something really could be done about it.—' It is to be admitted now that success cannot be found that way, and that the old cash crop system is not to be depend ed upon.- The following story told by B. W. Hutchins and appearing in the Christian Science Monitor, is very timely: I started in Rutherford County, and my first lesson was learned from Barker's famous almanac. , Later I ac> mutilated more knowledge in the university of hard knocks and always have been a student in that institu tion. My wile and 1 began housekeeping on a sh,are-crop ping plan, the landlord furnished everything. We tried that two years without success. In with cotton only 6 cents a pound and this our only crop, we realised that some drastic change had to be made. We" leased another farm near by. Determined to get away from cotton growing as much as possible, we be gan raising hogs, starting with fine stock. We made some money from this sideline in the six years spent on this farm. While everything did not run smoothly/ we saved money and in 191 V, bought 34.5 acres near by, practically all of it wooded land. Spare time was used in cutting timber with which we built our house. Our object in buying this unimproved land was to get good soil on which to farm. We sold our hogs and moved into our present home in 1920, and set out peach trees from seed planted the first year. We succeeded in lifting the mortgage off the farm in six years and since that time have not been on speaking terms with mortgages. Now we have about 20 teres of cl.ared land. One of our neighbors farms live acres of it wliile we take care of the other IS acres. , Two and one-half acres of our farm is in orchard, the same in truck, four acres in corn, and six acres in cot; ton. We average from 500 to 700 pounds of lint cot ton per acre. It is our aim to grow such crops as will distribute our work through the entire year, producing enough to live on without cotton, and having something pro ducing revenues every month in the year. We are never out of work. k Among the things we raise for sale are potatoes, corn, beans, melons, plums, peaches .pears, grapes, figs, rasp berries, cherries, strawberries, chickens, eggs, milk and Latter. We specialize in peaches and strawberries. We have something to sell every day in the year and don't have to worry about the price of cotton. We often sell different products in one day. • We sell' to local stores and private families. We sell stores in one town and private families in another. Local business men, we have found, are ready to co operate and lend us a helping hand if we have high tirade products in attractive packages, if we are honest .".nd sell. to merchants only. The merchant helps us L ■ d we help him. 1 leasant View Farm is a happy place. We are all ccr. tented and busy. And most of the general proa-, perity that abounds can be traced directly to my wife's industry and energy, . THB ENTERPRISE • « *slll ow u«**e6 «com& - — t& MUD -wstwi #w«o*v V\C*«C * 00,1 s **" vwm6 BkIWL * X V* >5 rtOMC MR UHOtR w/'tw i. w v *\ tF^il ' " r **» j" | Mtu w£*r v V / vf 1 )»\iwk»* f v/y I i. I *oi*.£ *• • * 1 W»* « K >**tl '/y '' j 5V (\\ / * y)\ *€*** H *ow ) W #W*U«HtAR Yt 0 '/. /0\ \4tX r )}) 1 • OEu««t **. ( / >^ v ; RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT Be it resolved by tbr Tobacco Board I of Trade, of Williamston, North Car olina, That in the death of our beloved friend and co-worker, J. Whitman Booles, we feel that we Jiave suffered a distinct loss, not only in business, but in valued fellowship and friend ship. I And while we most humbly bow to the power, wisdom, and love of the I Father in heaven, yet we deeply de-j plore his untimely death. And be it further that,' as a recognition of pur high esteem 1 for him we hereby resolve that these 1 resolutions be recorded upon the pages of our record in memory of him, and ( V copy forwarded to the Williamston , Enterprise with a request the same be published, and that copies be for warded to his family. Respectfully submitted, TOBACCO BOARD OF TRADE, I Williamston, N. C. September 7, 1932. ♦ CORN SHORTAGE' IS REPORTED IN WENONA SECTION Unfavorable Weather and Low Price Will Cut j Yield in Half Plymouth, N. C«., September 9. J.ow prices in 1931 and unfavorable weather in the growing season this year has resulted in. a scarcity of corn in one of the most abundant growing sections in North Carolina, it was learned today from N, Rosenthal, of Wenona, a farmer who has lived in this section with the Blackland Test Farm for 17 years! Lack of rain up until the present is described as one of the important rea sons for the unfavorable season. Far mers in the Blackland section of North Carolina use no fertilizer except do mestic and hardly or none of that as this land is especially adapted to pro ducing corn. There is little for sale in that surplus and many will have to buy. This corn is used for food and for livestock feed, either in the green, en silage or dry state, including the grain and plant ntajter. This crop respond* better to'the usage of. livestock and green manure. Many use it for feed ing to livestock and selling the animal on the market as a finished product. Last season there was an acreage of corn in Washington Coun ty of some 2,000 acres in the last three years with a total acres planted in 1931 of 12,120. The yield per acre in 1929 was 19 bushels; in 1930 it was 26 bush els, and in 1931 it was 27 bushels. This is the average yield. Now, in the 1932 season farmers, including Mr. Rosenthal, think that DIZZINESS relieved fcjr Black-Draught "I decided to take Thedfortl'a Black-Draught, as I had been hav ing bilious apeUs," writ* Mr. Chm* j t B. Stovena, of Columbus. Ind. "Wins /Int billow I (Ml sleepy and tired liA do not feel like doing my work. I gat awfully dtsay. I know than X chat I had Wtar take something. After I found how good Blaok-IJreaght i la. that la. what I have used I «rueaa It rtda me of the bile, for I feoffes*- ter don't feel Ilk* lam dropping off to sleep every time I alt dowit . ffcat, to roe, la a very bad feeling. Jfow yon m o«t Black-Draught tfte farm of S KTBUP, for OHOMM. Days We'll Never Forget the acre In other words, leading fhe acre. In other words, leading growers think it will be a half crop all the way around. In 1931, therej were 327,240 bushels produced in Washington County, and it is generally WATTS WILLIAMS I Mon.-Tues. Sept. 12-13 JANET GAYNOR and "TWIT T7TPQT VTT AP" Short ' N#WB Matinee Monday, 3:15 CHAS. FARRELL in 1 tlEj P llxQ A I Ht/lIV lQc and 2Sc Wed.-Thurs. Sept. 14-15 Friday September 16 Saturday * September 17 I MARLENE JOE E. BROWN TIM cCOY DIETRICH Ixl "THE RIDING 'The TENDERFOOT' TORNADO* "Shanghai Express" With Glnfer RO G TRGI LEW Cody COMEDY and , SERIAL COMEDY and SHORT COMEDY and i NEWS Shows from P. M. Only 10c to Everybody Admission, ioc and 25c Only 10c to Everybody [LAST CALL] All Delinquent Tax Payers Will Be A OCTOBER Ist 1 4' - _ _/ - —— . " | - - T - —; ''■ \ . Part Payment Will Be Accepted * u A . . - - -;■> * - • NO FURTHER EXTENSION WILL BE GRANTED. THIS MATTER SHOULD HAVE YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. C. B. Roebuck ' SHERIFF - MARTIN COUNTY WIULIAMOTON NO»TH CA^Oi-.NA ;' agreed among the growers that this ; season there will be a little more than ij 175,000 bushels. In 1929 corn sold for 98 cents a i bushel, and 89 cents in 1930, with an average price of 45 cents in 1931. To- Friday, September 9, 1932 day it sells for about cents a bushel, while in the early season it sold for as low as 25 cents a bushel. The trend is upward. A number of persons own ing livestock have produced less than it takes to supply them and there will be little or no surplus to be sold in this section. In 1929 the total corn crop in the county sold for $£04,261, while in 1931 it sold for The acre was valued at $12.15 in\l93l, and today the value is about half on account of the lack of yield in' one way of looking at it, and on the other hand it is expect ed that it will bring a good price to promote the value on account of short age. ; \ NOTICE North Carolina, Martin County. Having this day qualified as admin istrator of Ed S. Peel, this is to noti fy all persons having claims against the said estate to present them to the undersigned or his attorney within one year from the date hereof, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the said estate will please make immedi ate payment. This the sth day of September, 1932. JOHN CASSELL, Administrator of Ed S. Feel. Elbert S. Peel, Attorney. Williamston, N. C. s9 6tw DR V. H. MEWBORN OPTOMETRIST Will be in Roberaonvill*, William ston, and Plymouth Two Day* Each Month During September, October, and November; Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Respectively, after First and Third Sundays of Each Month. (alotabs ■ TRADE MARK MM. For !azjr liver, stomach and kidneys, biliousness, indi tes? ion, constipation, head* ache, colds and fever. 10? and 35* atdealera*
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