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Tuesday, September 27, 1932
Real Wisdom
High Point factory owners and factory workers
have displayed more wisdom in their business rela
tions than any people we have heard "of recently.
While both sides were dissatisfied at their lot,
thev showed good stfnse by not getting mad and mak
ing things worse. Both the owners and laborores are
entitltd to sympathy for the bad condition of things
which has pressed down hard upon both the investor
and the worker. A strike would only hurt b«th.
Now they understand each other better. They have
more respect for, each other and are in a position to
get together with some plan of fair play for both
;shfes: -y~ -
Operating on a Low Level
American politics are run on too low a level. We
need more construction an(l IVss destruction. Just
as soon as one political party gets in power, it centers
all efforts towards usurping the powers of government
to itself.
It would l>e much better if people of all parties
would unite on all measures for good and drop all the
evil and dangerous things. It is more important to
save America and her people than it is to save any
political party. Vet, |>arties i will use every scheme
to hold the jobs' and get the money and other ad
vantages for themselves and their friends.
It is a fact that the platforms of political parties
are schemed oftener to get votes than to protect the
needy.
Since so many of the big officeholders have been
caught riding the folks and squandering public money,
we find ourselves in a maze of wonder and disgust.
Much of the scandal and sharp trading in the State
and Nation seems to have been among the official
families, and it really seems that people will grab
deeper and work harder to get their hands on tax
money than on any other kind of money.
Costly Marketing
Why will farmers rush tips as geen as posion and
as black as night to market when the price is one,
two or three cents per pound? The chances are that
if fhe tips were given a little time to season out and
ripen up that many of them would double in value
and command a greater price. In former years, far
mers have followed the habit of grading and selling
lugs and following immediately with tips. But with
the prices of tips so low, the farmer need not fear a
lo«? by holding that part of the crop. Certain grades
of tips passed by buyers last year are now in favor,
the particular tobaccos selling for five and six cents
a pound Green tobacco nearly always improves with
a little age and attention. With this short crop, far
mers should not sell tips with any life in them too
quickly.
Too Many Strikes k
There are too many strikes in this country. What
we need is more Christianity. It will stop strikes
because it would make men treat each other honestly.
Since we went off on a tangent of money grabbing
during and following the war, we have given sharp
trading tactics more thought that we have given fair
play in business principles. Now that we are poor,
we are mad. We have forgotten how to settle things
right.
Peace Is Needed
South American countries are having many little
wars—probably half a dozen .or more. There are
two on the Pacific coast, one on the Caribbean Sea
and a few in the interior and on the Atlantic side of
that vast country. Regardless of the number, we have
to give those peoples credit for knowing better how
to run wars than we do. They fight on a cash basis
or purely as an act of patriotism. They don't try
to tax the country for four generations to keep up
their "exes" and pay interest and war debts. They
go right ahead and whip or get whipped and take it
like men. In the United States and Europe, we
borrow everything we can and then remain broke un
til we want another war to please the wealthy.
While we favor no war of any kind, we do admire
savafe war tactics more than we admire our fancy
Modern civilized wars in which men are blown up and
blown down, mowed down, gassed and drowned and
PUtLItHIO KVIMV
TU—DAY AMC KWIOAY
result in causing the remainder of the to be re
duced to economic slavery for a century.
The very things man needs is peace. When cove
tousness is abolished from the hearts of men, we will
have peace. All men ought to preach truth, honesty
and peace. * A i ft
Railroads and the Trucks
Rocky Mount Evening Tell grant
A movement is on foot here and in other North
Carolina cities where railroads mean much to the
welfare of the city to enlist the aid and support of
as large number of persons as is possible in the rail
road campaign for a more equitable regulation of the
highway transportation system. Employes of rail
roads, whose employment depends almost entirely
upon the condition of railroad business, are quickly
in sympathy with the program of railroad officials,
representing all roads in the State; business men like
wise are reported as interested in further regulation
of a system of transportation that threatens to af
fect seriously the whole scheme of rail transportation.
It is needfess for this newspaper to go into a de
tailed study o) the part of the railroads, possessing
extensive real property subject to high taxation and
burdened with franchise taxes that add to the difficul
ties, have played in the construction of highways in
N'orth Carolina. Taxes collected from the roads
from the inauguration of the highway building pro
gram in 1921 until the present time have and are
being devoted to the cause of highway debt service.
The counties owe large sums for road bonds and
railroad tax is being collected to help discharge the
obligation. The railroad is in the position, as a
property holder and a taxpayer, to present a petition
to the legislature with every right for earnest consid
eration. The preparation of this petition has been
started with railroad employes—holders of real pro
perty and solid citizens in every community—form
ing the nucleus. They will encounter no real oppo
sition in obtaining thousands of signatures of quali
fied voters.
Just what form the regulation of highway trans
portation may take is a mitter for debate. From the
standpoint of salaries and wages, it would be bene
ficicial to North Caorlina if commercial transportation
on highways were definitely restricted. No group
of employes in North Carolina is quite so well paid
as those workers who serve railroads. Comparatively
speaking, wages paid in North 'Carolina industries
are pathetic. Wages paid to truck drivers and as
sistants, we can say with confidence although we have
no statistical information upon which to base ac
curate statements, are not in the class with railroad
employes performing similar services. The railroad
engineer and the railroad brakeman, corresponding
to the truck driver and his assistant, generally be
come independent, establish their own home and be
come substantial citizens in their community. In
herently they are no better fitted, perhaps, than the
truck driver, but their earning power is greater and
the regular wage scale permits them a greater free
dom for expansion. The contention of this news
paper is that all workers, if we take with any degree
of seriousness the political premise that our standard
of living is far superior to that of other people, are
entitled to attain economic freedom and protection
against old age and sickness through their steady ap
plication to a chosen trade. The railroad provides a
pension system, maintains hospitals, and permits em
ployes to guarantee their wages in the time of sickness
through a system of insurance. This type of employ
ment for the whole of industrial North Carolina be
comes an object for attainment. But until we ar
rive at that point, it is feasible that what has been
established should be portected.
Railroad transportation is less expensive than high
way transportation. The simple fact that a motor
truck will haul twenty or thirty bales of cotton be
tween two points for less than the railroad will haul
it does not mean that the cost of transportation is re
duced. We complain of taxation, yet millions of dol
lars are poured annually into the highway system to
maintain beautiful roads and these taxes comes from
all classes of people. The motor transportation in
dustry is not paying taxes in proportion to its high
way destruction. The man who drives his pleasure
car and pays seven cents per gallon on .gasoline for
the support of the road system and who pays county
tax rates on his home for the discharge of county road
bond obligations is sharing with the heavy truck the
expense of highway transportation. That is patently
unfair, particularly when railroads, operating in
competition, are called upon for similar taxes.
One of two things is justified: Either trucks oper
ating in competition with railroads for the gain of
truck owners should be taxed in keeping with high
way maintenance costs or else they should be limited
in size. We prefer the latter course.
On a commercial one and one-half "Ton truck re
cently we saw a load of eight tobacco hogsheads
"weighing approximately four tons. An additional
one ton for the weight of the truck increases that load
to five tons. Yet, twenty passenger cars passing over
a weakened place in the highway, and there are in
numerable weak places, would not cause nearly as
much damage nor require as much upkeep as the one
truck. But the taxes the State collects from the
twenty passenger cars through the sale of license
plates and gasoline is out of all proportion to the
truck drivers.
The highways were built and are maintained for
the people of this State, railroad workers, textile
workers, business men, pleasure seekers—the taxpay
ers of North Caroiina. All highway users bear part
of the burden. This petition, being prepared in North
Carolina, deserves the ear of the Legislature. Regu
lation of commercial users of the highways is essen
tial. It is the hope of this newspaper that the next
General Assembly will take cognizane of this petition
and this prayer for relief, and that constructive regu
lation will be the result. « "
THE 6NTBRPRISK
TELLS FEW FACTS
ABOUT OUR SUN
Recent Eclipse Focused At
tention of Millions on
Great Star
By cTb. HASSELL
Since the sun created considerable
interest on August 31st, when the
moon was passing between it and the
earth, a little light on the former
might be in order. Many citizens
! viewed the sun that day through
smoked glasse; ,and as the phenom
ena passed on the smoked glasses
were thrown away and perhaps our
citizens will pay no more attention
to tlie sun until another eclipse.
But such should not be tI)C case,
should study the sun more, and
learn more about this great star that
gives us light, etc. The sun is said to
be one of the small stars in the milky
way, and, according to scientists, there
are approximately 30,0000,000,000 stars
in this home circle. Studies indicate
that the diameter of this galaxy is
200,000 light years, a light year be
ing about 6,000,000,000,000 miles.
The sun is the nearest star to the
earth, and of the stars the most im
portant. It is a ball of fire, radiating
the heat and light which makes life
possible. Compared with the other
stars, the sun is only of medium size,
but in comparison with the earth and
other planets, it is enormous.
-The diameter of 4he sun is-864,100
miles. Its average distance from the
earth is 92,897,400 miles. Light from
the sun reaches us in 499 seconds.
The solar system, which consists
of the sun and the heavenly bodies:
revolving around, such as the earth J
and other planets, the meteors, and,
the comets, occupies but an infinites!-,
mal part of the universe. Although
light front the sun reaches us in 8 1-3
minutes, it requires 4 3-10 years forj
the light to reach us from the near-
NOTICE ~
Having this day qualified as admin
istrator of the estate of James Edwin
Harrell, deceased, late of Martin
County, North Carolina, this is to no
tify all persons holding claims against
said estate to present them to the un
dersigned for payment on or before
the 22nd day of August ; 1933, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of any
recovery thereon. All persons indebt
ed to said estate will please make im
mediate payment.
This the 22nd day of August, 1932.
W. H. HARRELL. -
a3O 6tw Administrator.
SALE OF VALUABLE~FARM
PROPERTY
Under and by virtue of the author
ity conferred upon u& in a deed of
trust executed by Mrs. Ida Clark, un
married, on the 3rd day of April,
1925, and recorded in book-X-2, page
25, we will on Saturday, the 22nd
day of October, 1932, at 12 o'clock
noon, at the courthouse door in' Mar
tin County, Williamston, N. C., sell
at public auction, for cash, to the high-
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(alotaLs
M TKAO« mark RB«.
For lazy fiver, stomach and
tidaeys, biliousnesa, indi
gestion, constipation, Head,
ache, cold* and fever.
101 and 35# at dealers.
WILLI AMSTON
JJOWTH^AggUNA
It's Starting:
est bidder, the following land, to wit:
Beginning at. a stump on the S. side
of the Williamston and Everetts road
on the lead ditch bank near the fork
of the Williamston and Bear Grass
road, formerly J. B. Burroughs, now
Willoughby's thence said
Bear Grass road S. 73.30 E. 998 ft. to
an iron axle, thence S. 35.50 E. 1064
ft. to an iron stake on the S. side of
the A. C. L. R. R., thence S. 36 50 E.
1492 ft. to a stake, thence S. 49.50 W.
14.62 ft. to a sycamore, thence S. 49.05
W. 470 ft. to a stake, thence S. 1.30
W. 264 ft. to Bullock's corner, thence
S. 82.30 W. 850 ft. to a stake, thence
N. 13.25 W. 214 ft. to a stake; thence
pointers, thence N. 9.05 W. 2280 ft.
a stake on the side of the A. C. L.
R. R„ thence N. 31.05 W. 1312 ft. to
a stake, thence N. 84.30 E. 834 ft. a -
long the Williamston and Everetts
road to a lightwood stump, thence N.
21.30 W. 336 ft. to a stake, thence N.
6.30 E. 140 ft. to an iron stake, thence
N. 85.45 E. 450 ft. to an iron stake;
thence S. 32.15 E. 450 ft. to a stump,
the beginning, containing 204.22 acres,
less the A. C. L. R. R. right of way,
5.17 acres. This tract of land is sit
uate in Cross Roads Township, Mar
tin County, and state of N. C., and
bounded by the lands of A. P. and
J. T. Barnhill, jr., on the S. and the
Allen lands on the N., by the lands
of John Bailey and the lands of George
Taylor as is evidenced by a plat of
the said land.
This sale is made by reason of the
gag AUTUMN Gj
WT quotation that prompts us to ask |
r 4 —when the "autumn" of your life rolls J
you be happy enjoying the fruits of
your labor and thrift in earlier years?
Life Insurance will assure you this
ftiflilß "" I happiness and- give you protection in IBHK
WffPw A I y° ur old age. Wise spending, sane sav- ffHjßl
ing and a definite program through our
insurance company will keep you from |BKm
MhW'' the poorhouse and save you many an
embarrassment in your declining years. jiyß^
kw Come to see us. Competent advice |6|jE^JHbs
plus cersonal service are y° urs here * or jp)(^^|j|||
"
failure of Mrs. Ida Clark, unmarried,
to pay ofj and discharge the indebt
edness secured by said deed of trust.
A deposit of 10 per cent will be re
quired from the purchaser at the sale.
Peanut Bags
SECOND HAND, MILL RUN
4c Each
The Columbian
Peanut Company
Tuesday, September 27, 1932
N. 41.05 W. 298 ft. to a gum, thence
N. 78.35 W. 231 ft. to a stake with 3
This the 16th day of September,
1932.
INTERSTATE TRUSTEE
CORPORATION,
«23 4tw Substituted Trustee.
NOTICE OF SALB
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in that certain deed
of trust executed to the undersigned
trustee by K. G. Strawbridg'e and wife
Blanche Strawbridge, on-the 13th day
of June, 1932, and of record in the
public registry of Martin County in
Book S-l. .at page 200, said deed of
trust having been given for the pur
pose of securing a certain note of
even date and tenor therewith, and
default having been made in the pay
ment of said indebtedness, and the
stipulations contained in said deed of
trust not having been complied with,
the undersigned trustee will, on Wed
nesday, the 28th day of September,
1932, at 12 o'clock m., in front of the
courthouse door in the town of Wil
liamston, North Carolina, offer for sale
for cash the following describtd real
estate, to wit:
A house and lot in the tdwn cf Wil
liamston, N. C., on the old]William
ston-Hainilton road, and being on the
north side of said road, a(id begin
ning at a stake cn the Hamilton road,
D. D. Stalls' corner; running thence
along the Hamilton road towards Wil
liamston 50 feet to a new street; thence
along the new street a line at right
angles with the Hamilton road 150
feet; thence a line parallel with the
Hamilton road 50 feet to a stake, D. D.
Stalls' line; thence along D. D. Stalls'
line to a stake on the Hamilton-Wil
hamnton road, the point of
and being the same tract of land con
veyed to O. R. Roberson and wife,
Mary M. Roberson by the Carolina
Farm Land Company, said deed be
ing dated the 3rd by of January, 19i0,
and of record in the public registry
of Martin County in book D-2, at
page 84.
Dated this the 19th day oi August,
1932.
WHEELER MARTIN.
s6 4tw Trustee.
DR. V. H.~MEWBORN
OPTOMETRIST
Byes Examined Glasses Fitted
Robersonville at Fulmer's Drag Store,
Tuesday after First and Third Son
days Each Month.
Williams ton at Davis 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