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PAGE TWO THE ENTERPRISE PiUUM Ewry Tuesday and Friday by The ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. • WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA. w. C Wggto& Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Caih in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One jaw Sis months ■'* OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY Ona jww ~ f.OO Six montht 100 : No Subscription Received for Less Than 6 Months j Advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Bec|i:*^t Entered at the po»t office in Williamstoi. N i a* aecond-ctass matter under the act ">! '>iu. ,r » » of March 3, 187 V. I Address all communications to Itu t ■ ' and not to the individual members of the tirw. j Friday, December 9, 1932 Poverty Threatens The condition of the peanut farmer is deplorable, much worse it has been at any time in history. Today's market is said to be«about three-quarters of a cent per pound, which means home sold under mortgage and for taxes, neither of which is so bad as the thousands of hungry, shoeless mothers and children in the peanut belt. The peanut has for many years been the backbone of the farmers' standing with the doctor, the tax man, and Santa Claus in this section. Under persent conditions the grower will not even get in sight of the doctor, the tax collector Santa Claus, or a Christmas dinner. Now is the time for the farmer to take a stand to defend himself—not by force but by sound, sensible thinking and deliberate action. The poverty dragon is at the door and threatens to consume us and our families and close the gates of opportunity and free dom. Government Pay Cuts Hoover is drastic, yet probably just, in his attempt to slash government expenses. We do not like to question his motives, yet he may see his boys walk ing out and is willing to see the incoming Democratic hosts, who are soon to march to the pie counter, suf fer a cut in wages. It is, to be hoped that the Democrats will bear it with patience and not go to whining for more offices and higher pay. It so hap|)ens that the officeholder has the best salary of any class of people right at the present time. Perhaps the President's program will meet with a fight, however, as it proposes a cut of $127,000,000 in soldiers' benefits which is now being paid. Vet why should not the soldier who is at his regular job and still drawing a pension take a cut along with the of ficer who takes his cut. Why Farmers Are Slow to Organize Farmers are slow to organize, yet they should not be too harshly condemned, because every step they take and every move they make they encounter a highly organized business. Hence it is hard for them to cope with organizations that excel them in effic iency. But when the farmer organizes his business as tightly and efficiently as the other fellow docs, he will have the most powerful organization in the world. He will then be able to defend himself agafnst un fair trade and the hand of the oppressor. He will be able to regulate the kind and quantity of food the world eats. There are large numbers of farmers, which makes it much hard for them to organize than when only a few are concerned. But. we have to look with sym pathy rather than with censure on their efforts. Thorough Study Needed Many counties in North Carolina have organized county institutes c' government. A very important thing for any community is government-that serves and protects at a cost that is reasonable. We are bound to have some system of government in all civilized communities, or we will soon go back to savagery. These county institutes of government are organized for the purpose of studying the lundamentals of gov ernment, as well as the science of the proper opera tion of the same. We frequently neglect our obliga tion* to promote and carry on in the proper way and fall into the error of kicking and "cussing" when things go wrong—a great mistake. What we need to do is to find out what our loyal government is costing and just what values we are getting. Then we will know how to regulate salaries and how much service *re should get for our money. As in practically everything else, we complain the most about the things of which we know the least. And What a Difference? If you are hungry for bread, don't go to Washing ton, because the police will not let you go within two Mock* of the Capitol. If you are thirsty for beer, then go to Washington, where Congress will receive yon with open arm*. There i* a difference. PUBLISHED KVBMV TU —DAY *Mt KWI PAY A Simpler Life The quality of our food and the price of our clothes has very little to do with our happiness and useful ness. In fact, if some of our foolish pride could be knocked out of us—until we all would be willing to live more simply and less expensively, we would great ly increase our real happiness. Just think how it degrades a man to buy rich lux urious food which he is unable to pay for. Then, fine clothes has ruined men and women by the thousands in various ways. —■ If hard times bring the human family to the point where it is willing to live the simple life, then hard limes will be of some value at least. We need more of the simple life, and doubtless it will have to be practiced in a very large measure by most people in the near future. Trading At Home Will Rogers is right most of the time. But not when he says stop trading with our neighbors. If we had bought more of our goods from foreign na t'ons at cheap prices rather than from our own tariff • rotecttd home extorters, and paid them from 25 to 40 per cent unfair profit—our money would not now be bunched in a few hands, with the rank and file of the folks starving, We now have the highest tariffs ever, and more hungry folks without work or any prospect of a job. If we had free trade with the world, it would not hurt the jobless and hungry. In Or Out? Transcript and Messenger, Goldsboro. The old rhyme has been changed in Alabama, so that it ought to run like this— " 'Twas Christmas in the prison, v'The convicts were not there—" For in Alabama, those prisoners in the state peni tentiary and prison camps who have maintained good enough behavior are paroled over Christmas to spend some time with their families. This year the longest parole time ever has been an nounced, from December Ist to January ISth. The news report from Alabama says that the parole is very seldom violated. Wonder if we couldn't try out something like it in North Carolina this year, even if the period be but a week instead of 45 days? Secretary Hyde's Report New York Times. Only a month ago the radio was still eloquent with Republican tributes to the Hawley-Smoot tariff as "the very basis of safety" for the American farmer, his one defense against an adverse world. The annual report of the Department of Agriculture does not lend support to this doctrine. Secretary Hyde points out that "from August, 1929, to August, 1932, prices'of all groups of farm commodities, at the farm, declined nearly 60 per cent." During the same period "non agricultural prices at wholesale declined 24 jsfer cent." In other words, prices of things the farmer sells have been declining at least twice as rapidly as those of things he buys. Vet it was supposedly for the pur pose of "putting agriculture on a par with industry" thaf the Hawley-Smoot law was enacted. s'■ ' ■ Sad Results of Failure To Start in Ample Time . /. • -i Ucrtjord County Herald. The present chaotic peanut market, when all the producing area is distressed at starvation prices, forces " the conclusion that growers are largely to be blame (if there is any blame to be attached anywhere) for the condition, because they would not and will not even rr-v take steps to protect themselves against such r ark ts as the present one. To be sure, there is clam or now, and farmers are in meetings almost every day. But they are largely protest meetings against con ditions that have already arrived; and one distin guishing characteristic about all of the gatherings is the lack of unity of action in any project advanced or any idea promulgated. It has almost begun to look like a hopeless case for peanut growers, insofar as it affects their will to organize any sort of marketing organization among themselves. It is as one speaker said in Murfreesboro a week ago, "they have met, they have talked, they have 'cussed' the market and the cleaner, but not once have they ever shown any semblance of confidence in one another nor thrown themselves whole-hearted ly into any concerted plan of action to help them selves." Whatever is done now in the distress we find ourselves will not be lasting; the very nature of all proposals we have heard about are for temporary relief from dumping peanuts at the cleaners' doors. There is no action looking to preventing a recurrence of the same thing next year and in future years. Our sympathy is with any well-intentioned move ment to "pull the ox out of the mire" and to snatch the peanut growers from sure disaster. Admitting* we are in the throes of threatened ruin and woe with respect to oyr peanut crop and sympathetically lean ing towards any movement that will offer the ray of hope, for the sake of ourselves and the future of the market, why can't a marketing organization be formed that will function every day in the year— an organization of growers, if you please, unattached from other factors in the growing and marketing of peanuts? Why wait until disaster conies and the is sue is forced? It is the grower's problem, and the mandate is his now to lay the foundation for organization that will head off any recurrence of this year's condition in the peanut market. . " ~ ' THE ENTERPRISE RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT On Friday morning, October 28th, 1932, from her earthly home in Wil liamston, North Carolina, Sarah Mar garet Manning entered into that per fect rest "which remaineth for the peo ple of God." Therefore, be it resolved: First: That in her death the Ladies' Aid Society and the Missionary So ciety of the Christian Church at Wil liamston lost from their ranks a faith ful, devout and humble servant of the Master, who for forty years worked untiringly for the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ. Second: That the community is rich er and finer because she gave unsel fishly of the treasures of sympathy and love to all people alike. Third: That the members of the so cieties who enjoyed the sweetness and light emanating from her very pres ence, honor her work as the best done in the community and shall miss her wise counsel through the years. Fourth: That her bereaved husband and children have "the comfort which comes from an unclouded memory of one who lived justly and loved mercy and walked humbly with her God." Fifth: That a copy of these resolu j tions be sent to the family, one to The Enterprise for publication, and writ ! ten on the minutes book of each So- I ciety. I Signed: Mrs. A. R. DUNNING, Mrs. T. F. HARRISON, Mrs. R. J. PEELF. Williamston, N. C, November 29th, 1932. • RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT "Whatsoever a man soweth, That shall be also reap." With love, affection, and solemnity, we, the men's Bible class of the Bap tist Memorial Sunday School, Wil liamston, N. C., contribute our love, our aid, and our greatest respect to the bereaved family and loved ones of our devoted and loyal classmate and brother, Harry L. Meador, who de parted this life Tuesday, November 1, 1932, at the age of 53 years. As we assembled in our classroom the following Sunday morning we dis covered a missing link in our chain, which will leave an aching void - this world can never fill, but we gave it up to Him who doeth all things well. ' I, the writer, have been blessed with the privilege and opportunity through his aid and assistance of attending the class of which he was such a loyal member for about three years, and I can not recall a single Sunday that I was present that I did not shake his hand. He was jovial, he was friendly, and always had a word of cheer for those with whom he came in contact; there fore, to meet him was to meet a friend. He was widely known in the bus iness world as an honest and reliable citizen, and was better known in his church and Sunday school as a loyal and Christian gentleman. "Whatsoever a inan soweth, that shal Ihe also reap." He sowed friend-; ship; he reaped friends. He sowed j affection, he reaped love and honor; he sowed benevolence, he reaped hos pitality. And the personal acquaint ance that we had with him, we tru»t that he sowed to the spirit he of the spirit may reap life everlasting. Of course, we mourn our loss, but it was once appointed for man to die, and after death the judgment, and we are resolved to meet him in that City of God where the golden cup will not be broken, and the missing link be welded in our class chain. The Men's Bible Class, Baptist Memorial Sunday School. By W. C. Gardner. NOTICE OP SALE Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of the power of sale con tained in that certain deed of trust executed by Edward James and wife, Delia L. James, to the undersigned trustee, and dated the 6th day of Jan uary, 1931, and of record in the pub lic registry of Martin County in Book : C-3 at page 402, and at the request of the holder of the note of indebted- j •ness thereby secured, default having been made in the payment thereof, 11 will, on the 15th day of December,' 1932, at 12 o'clock noon, at the court- I house door in Martin County offer j for sale at public auction, for cash, the property described in said deed of trust as follows, to wit: Bounded on the east by the lands of Cora Hill, on the south by the lands of Eli Gurganus Estate, on the LION BRAND SALT WILL SAVE' your meat better. Car unloaded this week. C. O. Moore. It Surplus Peanuts Production Must With Consum The world knows that there is a surplus of peanuts. Not a surplus because there is not a demand, but a surplus because there is lack of'ability to buy, an enforced surplus. We will do our part in removing this surplus from the edi ble market. The price we can pay is even lower than the present shell ing markt, but peanuts sold us will not come into competition with those sold the legitimate shelters. We are prepared to use one hundred thousand pounds per day for our purpose. Write us and send half pound sample of what you have. We will tell you what wc can P a Y- We prefer them in bulk rather than in bags. Sopona Mills, Inc. SANFORD, N. C. Manufacturers ot Peanuts and Soya Bean Oil WILLIAMSTON MOWTH CAWOCiW* I west by the lands of the heira of Fletcher Brooka, and on the north by the old Jamesville-Plymouth road, containing forty-two (42) acres, more or less. ] This the 14th day# of November, 1932. W. H. COBURN, n22 4tw Trustee. • ——_______________ NOTICE OF SALE OP REAL PROPERTY Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed on the 12th day of June, 1929, by W. H. Leggett and wife, Ceceilia Leggett, to the under signed trustee, and of record in the public registry of Martin County in 1 Book C-3, at page" 29, said deed of trust having been given for the pur pose of securing a note of even date and tenor therewith, default having been made in the payment of same and at the request of the holder of same, the undersigned trustee will, on Monday, the 19th day of December, 1932, at 12 o'clock m., in front of the courthouse door in Williamston, North , Carolina, offer for sale to the highest j bidder, for cash, the following de j scribed real estate, to wit: Beginning at Bob Leggett's south eastern corner on the street in front jof Watts Grove, thence along Bob Leggett's line to Leggett's Lane, thence easterly along Leggett's Lane to Harrison Brothers corner, thence along Harrison Brothers line to J. A. Leggett and wife's corne, thence a round their line to Latham Thrower's line, thence his line and Hattie Throw er s line to the street first mentioned, thence along said street, to Joe Leg gett's corner, thence around his lot back to said street, thence said street beginning, containing 2 acres, wAn Honest-to-Goodness j» I "Christmas Gift"! The real honest and unselfish thought of a jra Christmas Gift is not only to make your wife A V? but the whole family happy; and, since this is & true, is there any way that you could provide SM or guarantee their happiness like you could with & £r a modern life insurance policy? Ask yourself, and answer honestly, the fol ml lowing questions: If you should be called away— ST Could Santa Claus come to see your chij- JS| W ' Could your wife meet the light and wa- 'S Sg Could your wife meet the grocery, wood, a Jy and coal bill? - Jg Could your wife meet the clothing and School Book bill? W| MM Could your wife meet the doctor and 0k ffL drug store bill? jflC 2jF Could your wife pay either the taxes or jnjj Wjf Would your wife be as comfortable as Ijg you would have her in her old age? Jy Don't gamble with your wife and children's 0m Bf happiness—keep the home fires burning. It is your duty to provide for your wife as long as 5r she lives—not as Jong as you live. Guarantee jn M them mafiy happy Christmases by buying a & modern life insurance policy on your life. | Leslie Fowden 3 fr THE LIFE INSURANCE MAN fjjf For Complete Information more or less. This the 18th day of November, 1932. ELBERT S. PEEL, n22 4tw Trustee. NOTICE O PSALE Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain deed of trust executed to the undersigned Trustee by D. C. Cowan and wife, dated 30th day of April, 1927, and of record in the Register of Deeds Of fice in Book Y-2, page 232, to secure note of even date therewith, and the stipulations in aaid deed of trust not having been complied with, and at the request of the holder of said note, the undersigned Trustee will, On the 12th day of December, 1932, at 12 o'- clock, Noon, in front of the court house door of Martin County, offer for sale, to the highest bidder for cash, the following described land: Bounded on the North by W. J. Cowan, on the East and South by Samuel Rogerson. and on the West by John R. Harrison, containing 30 acres, more or* less, and being known as the James A. Cowan home place, and being all of the land which he died seized and possessed except about 18 acres. This 11th day of November, 1932. B. A. CRITCHER, n-15 4tw Trustee. NOTICE OP SALE OP REAL PROPERTY Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed on the 29th day of Sep tember, 1925, by Freddie Harrell and wife, Alice Harrell, to the undersigned trustee and of record in the public registry of Martin County in Book Q-2, at page 433. said deed of trust Friday, December 9,1932 having been given for the purpose of securing a note of even date and tenor therewith, default having been made in the payment of same and at the re quest of the holder of same, the under signed will, on Mondy, the 19th day of December, 1932, at 12 o'clock m., in front of the courthouae door in Williamston, North Carolina, offer for sale to the highest bidder, for caah, the following described real estate, to wit: Beginning at a stake on Commerce Street 150 feet northeast of Cherry Street, the corner of J. H. Ayers tot, thence in a southeasterly course with J. H. Ayers line, 160 feet to a corner, thence with J. T. Daniel line 60 feet ' in a southwesterly course parallel with Commerce Street to a stake in J. T. Daniel line, thence with J. T. Daniel line 1(50 feet parallel with Cherry Street to a stake in Commerce Street; thence with Commerce Street 60 feet to a stake, the beginning, containing by estimation 1-8 of an acre, be the same more or less, and being the same house and lot we now live on. This the 18th day of November, 1932. - T. H. COUNCIL, n22 4tw Trustee. Elbert S. Peel, Attorney. How Doctors Treat Colds and Coughs To break up a cold overnight anu re lieve the congestion tliat makes y t cough, thousands of phjrfrtaas are no./ recommending Calotnlw, th* MMse.-.fe? I calomel compound tnWctf that girc v. i the effects of calomel auJ Mlts wiii-oi.t the unpleasant effects of cither. One or two Ca'otabs at bedtime wltli t glass of sweet milk or water. Neit n. >rj.- ing your cold has vaaiebtd, your iystwi is thoroughly purified and you are feelln? fine with a hearty appetite for breakfast. Eat what you wish, —no danger. Calotabs are sold in 10c and 89c pack ages at drag storea. (Adv) Lost 20 Lbs. o{ Fat In Just 4 Weeks Mrs. Mae West, of St. Louis, Mo., writes: "I'm only 28 yrs. old and weighed 170 lbs. until taking one box of your Kruschen Salts just 4 weeks ago. I now weigh 150 lbs. I also have more energy and furthermore I've never had a hungry moment." Fat folks should take one-half tea spoonful of Kruschen Salts in aglaas of hot water in the morning before breakfast—ft's the SAFE, harmless way to reduce as tens of thousands of men and women know. For your health's take ask for and get Kruschen at any drug store —the cost for a bottle that lasts 4 weeks is but a trifle and if after the first bottle you are not joyfully satisfied with re sults—money back. Turnage; Theatre Washington, North Carolina » Spectacular Stag* Attraction ' Monday; & Tues. DECEMBER 12th and 13th "LOVELY GIRL * REVUE" ,j JACK BUXKrs with « "Jolly" Babe Jolly aa TooM* 1 Tarawa" m Virginia Turner »• "Snappy Btepper" rf ■ O Lynn Dunn [b "Topical Tuneemith" •' "sr; with Louis Oraon at tha That Tall Party Slim Vermont Star oI Mlnatralay , Elsie Jeubert * Acrobatic ITanisi j f Ensemble of Bight '• "Lovely Girt' Tap * Dancers d Turke Mcßee, Jr. d Dancing Xyiephonlet tt Harry Joyce t Ethel Chaffee Adagio Dane era "" 1 111 l )t HO ADVANCE IN PRICES^ 1111 On tha Screen A That New Talking Picture Hit 1 "DOCTOR X" " Next Week's Program^ Wedneeday December U «UTH CHATTERTON in , "THE CRASH" ■■' 1 1 ( Thursday and Friday, Dec. IS-I* mmiKP "PROSPERITY" It. Saturday December 17 KEN MAYNARD in» "The Taaa Qufl-Plghter* ,l