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PAGE TWO THE ENTERPRISE ' Published Every Tuesday and Friday by The ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMSTON, WORTH CAROLINA. W. C. Wt— ***» SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year 11-50 Sis monthi - —— OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year Six months No Subscription Received for Les« Thmn 6 Month® Advertising Rate Card Furni*hed Upon Request Entered at the post office in VY'illiamston, N. C., as second-class matter under the act of Congress of March 3, .1879. Address an communications to The Enterprise tnd not to the individual members of the firm. Friday, September 16, 1932 Disfranchise Officeholders Why should people who receive lax money in any way be allowed to vote? . Would it not be better when a man's hame goes on the roll as a receiver of taxes, either on salary, commission, or otherwise, to take his name from the poll books? We have in this state an army of more thin 30,000 people drawing salaries from governmental agencies. Naturally, when a convention or an election is held, the power that is in office generally has 30,000 votes to start with, and not only that but an army of cam paigning politicians. It might be claimed that this would disfranchise good men; yet it would not except by choice—since no man has to accept-office, and he would hlte his choice of a salaried [xisition or the voting franchise. , When the taxpayers choose their, own official ser vants, and the servant has nothing to do except at tend to his duties, things wil! be better in govern ment. - • _ On the Wrong Track There seems to he no more ungovernable organiza tion in the country than the American Legion. The members seem to cherish war by their advocacy of big army and. navy programs. While many millions of the world's finest citizens are preaching peace, the of this organiza tion rush in and whoop up a program of preparing for war. TAing the spirit of their program as the American policy, every dollar of American income for the next 50 years ftill be required to pay for wars past and wars to come, and our entire civilization will evqktually die in its own sin and iniquity. No ci|jntry has ever survived its own big war pro grams, and we are no different from the |>eople of the past. We are just as covetous, selfish, and tiigot ed -as any-of the past ages. Our tariff laws and our trade laws are no less sel fish than those of the past ages. The American Legion can make no greater mis take than to get "het up" and try to get the people of this country on a war basis is expending all we have for wars [>ast and future wars. It violates all the teachings of Christianity." The women dTfnol want such a program, the children do not want it, and no men want it except war profiteers, that is, the fellows who make war munitions and tie up the'world in financial chains. The Dollar Should Be Cheaper ■ We have a few folks—and .only a few—-who would lose by cheaping the value of the dollar. The other 99 per cent would profit by increasing the circulation of our money. U hich would lie the most fair thing t6 do —work to the advantage of the 99 |>er cent of the people or to the advantage of the 1 [>er cent? * Since almost every obligation in the world was made on a false expansion of the money systam, there is no reason why we should not expand the same sys tem for the purpose of paying these obligations. It is now less than 15 years since the banks of this country permitted the expansion five-fold sim ple promissory note, often without endorsement or security. That was poor financing. Now these same banks are opposed to the government increasing the amount of money in circulation. They know that if this is done, the debtors can pay their Obligations with fewer days' work, fewer pounds of cotton, or bushels of wheat, and that their own power will be lowered. The claim that if the government increases its money it will not be valuable is true to some extent. We admit it will lose its power to dominate, but it will make it easier to feed the hungry, and the peo ple will not have to sacrifice their homes to pay taxes. It is argued that only gold is a safe basis for the ***> it of a dollar, which is entirely wrong, because there is not enough gold in times of stresi, and gold is only good because governments say so. If they ■aid silver, a cowskin, a bushel of wheat, or any other substance, it would make it good and that commodity would always be worth up to the amount set out. More money is what we need. It will operate a gainst the money trust, which has a corner on our and would make it easier on everybody who has brain, muscle, and every other commodity to market or eKbange with other people. 'W --■* 'I * PUBLISHED KVBNV TUtSDAY AMC t'RIOAY A New Kind of "Bootlegging A new kind of bootlegging is making its way throughout the United States. Like all other kinds of bootlegging it is done for the money there is in it. 'This time, however, it is not alcoholic liquor that is being bootlegged. It is a thing even more popular —gasoline. The people of North Carolina are paying about $14, 0CX), 000 annually for gasoline, and it is estimated that the State is losing about $1,500,000 on gasoline that is brought in by the bootlegging methods. When we see a lot of drunkenness, we know that the alcohol bootlegger is at work, but when we go to a filling station and buy gasoline upon which the tax has not been paid, we never know anything about it. The public presumes that it is perfectly all right, without any knowledge of whether the tax has been paid or not. - Like the bootleg liquor business, the traffic is hard to detect and break up. However, the leading oil companies, i ch as the Texas Company, Standard Oil Co., the Gulf Refining Co., and several others, have organized for the purpose of breaking up this type of lawlessness in North Carolina. Another thing which the leading oil companies are trying to stamp out is the mixing of kerosene and naptha with gasoline. They find in some states that as high as 40 per cent of the kerosene is being used in this manner_wijich saves 24 cents tax on a 10- gallon tank oFgasoline. When the motorist buys 10 gallons, he gets an inferior mixture, the station gets 24 cents more profit, and the state loses the 24 cents North. Carolina, so far, has not suffered as much from the various methods of tax evasion as many other states, but it is said to be growing here. All motorists are warned to watch out for price-cut gaso line. The profits are so small on the2?egular gaso line that there is not much room to cut prices, un les sthe product is boot legged in or adulterated. A Short-Lived Boom That cotton pros|)erity got off on the wrong foot." The price went up just after all the old crop was sold and just before the new crop came in. So it would not have been any help to the cotton growers if it had gone to a dollar a pound. What the farmers need is good prices when they sell, not after nor be fore. Now, if the little price spyrt was a political trick, it certainly was a flop that will not last until No vember Bth. f Huey Long Grows One nf the strangest things in American politics is Huey Long's grip on the people of Louisiana. He was once looked upon as somewhat of a jackass— people generally taking him as a joke. Now, the strange things is that he is growing at home in pow ei and abroad in respect. In his short career in the Senate he has shown strength, and jsome wisdom. It now seems |>ossible that he may develop into a re sectable statesman. He has laid aside some of those senatorial dignities which have done the country so much harm already—a thing we all should Commend. Printing the News 1 he task of a country editor is not without its prob lems. Not everything that happens makes agreeable stories. Very disagreeable things take place in every community, and it is these disagreeable happenings that affect the lives of so many innocent people that prove the most bothersome problems for the average country newspaper editor to handle. In the case of those who offend against the public by being unfaithful to a public trust, or those who have proven guilty of serious offenses against the law of the land, the editor has very little room to exercise his own personal desires. These things affect the pub lic as a whole, and it is the public's right as well as to the public itnerest that such happenings be given publicity. Such happenings are part of the day's news that demand to be published. Many happenings in every community, however, are of such a |>ersonal nature only that no good pur pose would be served by giving pitiless publicity to the matter. These include mistakes of judgment, errors in personal affairs, troubles, domestic or other wise in which the general public has no interest ex cept for the sake of curiosity. To carry all such stories would serve only to bring embarrassment and sorrow into the lives of those who are already carry ing heavy loads and whose hearts are near the break ing point. Many of these are relations and connec tionywho are innocent of any part in such affairs and who would have made almost any sacrifice to have prevented happenings after it was entirely too late. Publication of stories of this kind have never yet and never will serve any real beneficial purpose. * In such cases arriving at just the right decision in each one is no easy problem. The editor is confront ed with some criticism regardless of what his decision in the matter may be. Printing these unnecessary stories always brings censure from the friends of those concerned who have reason to believe such publicity was unnecessary. Failure lo print them disappoints those who delight in peddling scandal and who always charge the editor with having been influenced or b. tight off. And yet these same peddlers of scandal would howl the loudest were their own questionable acts held up to public gaze through the columns of a newspaper. And so it is not only hard to please every one, but i' is utterly impossible. In dealing with such affairs the editor must follow the dictates of his own con science and form his own judgments without regard to the criticism that will come. The greatest satis faction comes in a knowledge that he has acted to w. rd others as he would that they should act toward him, and thefu rther knowledge that should he err on the aide of kindness and sympathy for the unfortunate his error will be forgotten by enlightened and great hearted readers of his paper. Sampson Independent. THE ENTERPRISE > • • -,*••- ■" " J WW* VHUVftT |I p; BOTm^N — vrsr. jx* j& 1 1 ~~~X or p QKMMSH Mt£ NVOWt UfctW I WT\«t To IHtVtfeVT THF ONt GftxCtfcV. CAtti, WMCtt "tWt CWftKOIMSUtt of TVm 6&WD- - IV t^\V.& PMaWXS THKW THO* 0? 6* K U*S. ?KRt iftEUL VMLtttY* ' . 1 —BBBBMIIBHmmm aa_«MBWWWMBM L «i».-u»«— L -' J * \ . . ..' *_ COUNTY'S SHARE AID DEPENDS ON| PEOPLES' ACTION —♦ — ! Federal Assistance Will Be' Given in Proportion To Local Work Done 1 -r- Martin County , may share in the distribution of Federal funds for re lief of destitution this winter in pro portion to the .extent that through its own efforts, both private and -gov-j ernmental, its citizens utilize their own resources to this end, accord ing to Dr. Fred Morrison, State di .ector of'relief. Federal assistance in this undertak- | ing, declared Dr. Morrison, is not to be substituted' for local relief efforts. On the other hand, it is provided on ly to supplement the maximum that local communities do for their own people and will be available only when the Washington authorities are con vinced that local resources in each communmity are inadequate to meet the needs for relief. In order, therefore, for this county to participate in the fund which Gov ernor Gardner will seek from the Re-' construction Finance Corporation for all of North Carolina, it will be nec ' cssary for its relief agencies, public and private, to make a thorough sur-' very of prospective needs of its des- ' titute people and then to furnish evl- 1 dence that it is undertaking to meet conditions with its own resources as completely as possible. When this shall have been done in this county, when all local resources for relief have been depleted and the relief needs remain unprovided for, it is the purpose of the R. F. C. to provide supplementary funds with which to complete the tas!K. and ade quately take care of the conditions of need and destitution throughout at! of North Carolina, its towns, cities, and counties. It is impottant, therefore, that each local agency and all citizens inter ested in thii essential program of con structive assistance tffcite their efforts immediately to forecast probable needs in their respective communi ties, then to pledge every available local resource toward meeting the -challenge of the needs arising from unemployment to the end that North Carolina may be fortified jn financial resource* Ao protect its people„frym the. rigors of want and the hardships being imposed upon them by a con tinuation of the economic disorder, j Through the office of Mrs. W. T. | Bost, state superintendent of public welfare, questionnaires have been for warded to various agencies in every city and county in the state seeking formal and definite information as to conditions existing, as to what lo cal efforts are being made to take care of the needy and destitute, and as to egact details of the situation which prevails in each community. It i» Nagging Pains are Warning Signals TEMPORARY pain relief remedies may save you much suffering at the moment, but putting a maak over a warning signal does not clear np the condition It waa tail ing yon to avoid. Whan periodic palna, due to a weak, ran-down condition, dls trrw jrou, treatment for the cause of the trouble should be started without delay. Take C»rhil to build up ar»ln»t the symptoms of ordinary womuiilv allux nt.i So many women praise CAnOIJI. It mu.t be *ood to have the widespread use that It haa today. Held at druc stores. Try It I ODD - BUT TRUE urged that every public and private agency engaged in any relief work last winter cooperate with the county, superintendent of public welfare in compiling this report, because the task is too big for one person and because it is important that a complete pic ture of all the effort of our community last winter be furnished the state re- j lief office and the R. F. C. Upon the basis of the composite in-1 formation thus obtained concerning in dividual community needs and indi vidual community effort, Governor Gardner will base his request to the R. F. C. for Federal funds to supple-' nient local resources for properly car ing for the needs throughout the ( State. PARMELE NEWS j OF INTEREST ! IN PAST WEEK: ■ • I Mrs. G. O. Crisp and daughter, of Scotland Neck, Mrs. Will Bunting,' of Bethel, spent the day Sunday with their sister, Mrs. Larry Bullock. I Mr. Elmer - Strickland, 'of Scotland j Neck, spent Sunday with Lee An- ( drews. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Edmondton, 1 of Bethel, spent Sunday with Mr». Edmondson's mother, Mrs. G. C. James. , Miss Juanita Bullock and Miss Mary TAYLOR AND GRIFFIN AT • Roanoke - Dixie Warehouse Tobacco is selling good. Try us with your next load. Here are prices of two loads we sold the 14th: I J Cleo Daniel 114 Pounds at *i 12.75 56 Pound* _ at 12.50 . 20 Pounds at 12.00 60 Pounds at 19.00 - *'■ J* -•••■- »* 70 Pounds _ at 20.50 Pounds at 15.50 40 Pounds at 21.50 226 Pounds at 20.00 111 Pounds at 27.00 r 104 Pounds _at U 24.00 72 Pounds at MOO —' .' 240 Pounds > at 31.00 It Pounds .... at 50.00 v "**. «*■ . ~ , * - ~T77 894 Pounds ... $192.50 548 Pounds $128.61 AVERAGE $23.47 AVERAGE $21.53 , ■v Next week we have Second Sale Monday, First Sale Tuesday, Third Sale Wednesday, Second Sale Thursday, and First Sale Friday. We can and will satisfy you on every sale you make with us. Your old friends, ■ Ill' Mill I If II JOE TAYLOR AND CLAUD GRIFFIN WILLI AMOTON JNOJTHCAgOLINA : Wildman spent tobacco opening day :' with Mrs. D. A. James. ' i Miss Rosa Lee Bullock, of Bethel, spent Friday with her cousin, Juan : ita Bullock. | Miss Janie Parker, of Woodland, ,is spending some time with her sis- I ter, Mrs. G. M. Cargile. Mrs. G. M. Cargile and her sister, { Miss Janie Parker, of Woodland, Have You Visited Our New Mechanicold Fountain? We have gone to the expense of installing a new "Liquid" MECHANICOLD Soda Fountain in order to serve you better. It's mechanically refrigerated. No ice necessary. Yet our ice cream is kept in perfect condition—no soften ing nor any chance of ice crystals. It's a miracle of sanitation and efficiency. Cone in today and see how much electrical refrigera tion adda to our service and your enjoyment. As to be shown how it works. J. Claud Leggett WILLIAMSTON, N. C. Friday, September 16, 1932 were visitors in Robersonville Mon day. Miss Irma Dough tie, of Mayo, was the week-end guest of Miss Dorothy Whitehurst. Miss Gladys Dixon has been serious ly ill for the past week, but is re ported to be improving now. Miss Bernie Deen Jackson, of Farm villef was the week-end guest of her sister. Engagement Announced • New Bern, Sept. IS. —The follow ing announcement will be read with interest by their friends here: Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Pollock announce the engagement df their daughter, Emily Elizabeth, to Mr. Wiley T. Crawford, the wedding to take place Saturday, October the first. Miss Pollock is a popular young woman, being well known for her talents along dramatic and elocution ary lines. She is a graduate of Peace Institute, Rakigh, and has also studied in New York. Mr. Crawford has been residing here for J the past year, a member of the State ! Highway Patrol. He came originally from Williamston. NOTICE North Carolina, Martin County. Having this day qualified as admin istrator of Ed S. Feel, 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. Peel. Elbert S. Peel, Attorney. Williamston, N. C. s9 6tw DR. V. RMEWBORH OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined Glasses Pitted Robersonville at Palmer's Drug Store, Tuesday after First and Third Sun days Each Month. Williamston at Da via Pharmacy, on Wednesday After First and Third Sundays Each Month. Plymouth at O'Henry Drag Store, Thursday After First and Third Sun days Each Month. At Tarboro, N. C., Every Friday and Saturday
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