The Enterprise IwJ Tiwiiiy and Friday by tha ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA W. C- Manning Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year SI JO Six months M OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year ? W Six month! 1-00 Ne Subscription Received lor Less Than < Month Advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the post office in \V illiainston, N. C, as second-class matter under the act oi Congress of March 3. 1879. Address all communications to The Enterprise and not individual members of the firm. Tuesday, January 28, 1936 Social Security Must Come So race of men nor any nation has every succeeded that failed to provide some type of social security. The first type of security practiced was the build ing of great walls around the cities and countries of governments to protect the rich and the poor from destruction by invaders, it being the common habit in those times for one nation, city or race to take the property and life of others at will. A great cost was necessary to protect a city and even a country with a wall from 20 to 40 feet on an average and as high as 60 feet in places and from ten to twenty feet thick. These protective walls are now seen in Da mascus, the world's oldest city, and in Jerusalem, where they were built centuries before the Christian era as were the walls around Babylon and China. The invention of gun powder made the walls worthless in protecting and affording the people se curity, and other methods had to be adapted. Con ditions drifted from one thing to another. Civiliza tion began to spread and [>eople and nations grew more peaceful New countries were discovered, new homes were found and men did not attempt to serae the possessions of others. Civilization brought to man a sympathy for the old and disabled, and alms houses were built in all communities where enlight enment prevailed. Then came a new thought, one that gave rise to old-age. poverty and sick-benefit insurance, giving some social security. The system was soon found to be an extortion in cost for benefits offered. The most forward-looking countries of the world have, within the past few years, [Kissed social security laws guaranteeing benefits to the disabled and the unemployed, which is most cases are created by em ployee and employer jointly and turned over to the government for payment under provisions of certain laws. Our Congress has passed an act to apply to the people of our country, and the measure is meeting with much resistance and severe criticism especially from the employing public ami the insurance com panies in many cases They seem to be determined to turn public opinion against the act. The employer claims it will cost him too much, and, of course, the insurance companies know it will skim much of the cream from their milk. Surely there may be some minor objections to the proposed security plan, but they are not as many and as bad as some would have the public believe. .As a matter of fact, however, tb ? employer is well able to take care of himself in ] shuffle, and the insurance people have never given as many benefits in the industrial field as the govern ment will pay, nor is the industrial insurance company half so sure with its risks as the government is. The main point advanced by the opposition is tax ation. We would like to see a people who are will ing to pay taxes for human advancement, but there are many who would doubtless stand by and see a friend or neighbor hunger and die for food rather than pay a few paltry dollars in taxes to furnish them the means of an existence, including a few joys and privileges of life. N'o people can advance in the line of social, moral or spiritual welfare when tax dodgers or tax haters ?re in command. Our government has for a time re tained 2 1-2 percent of its employee's wages each month and placed the amount in an old-age or dis abled- pension fund. And it has proved a great blessing to many in their old age and periods of ill health. & America's greatest danger is in the propaganda of ?elfish interests who want to rob the people of their income, and then let them die in poverty without even one hope to brighten their last days on earth. It will be a great day when strong men hush their ?elfish murmuring when they are called upon to help the weak. What we need is a generation of states men who are able and willing to find more opportuni ties to nuke the world better and have a willingness to support such acts even at the cost of taxes. Too Much Human Slaughter Three persons killed every day is too much of a human slaughter by automobiles in one relatively state. A few people, it it true, will be killed with the best of care, but when it comet to killing 1,095 people in North Carolina each year, it it cartain that a large majority of these deaths oc curred through gross carelessness ol one kind or aa kill thr drinking driver perhaps kdb than any other single class. The prevailing ?irj stna to be that a driver has to be reeling dnmk he fare he B dangerous As a matter oft fact, thr driver with oar or two drinks is even more dangerous, he cause he is not suspected. The driver urith two drinks requires three times as hmg to visualise approaching danger- in emergen ties and to transmit this realization to the control of his running machinery as it takes a man without li quor in him The driver who causes an accident and then comes into court and boasts that he was not drunk because he had taken only two or three drinks should receive the same punishment as the cmr who wallows and spews into the gutter. Too many times that son or daughter who is brought home a broken and mangled corpse ?fc killed by some -me who was only partially intozkaled: and then the tendency is to soft-pedal the whole af tair by saying he was not drunk. Then we find too many saying that a culpable driver was not speeding. They seem to think a driver is not speeding so long as the wheels touch the ground Sometimes young people pile up in cars in gangs, -mothering the driver so that he cannot handle the car properly, with the result that it goes into a tree, bridge, or swamp. And then some peo ple, especially young girls and boys, too frequently urge some boy who is driving his father's unpaid for car. to "step on it and see what she will do. Lots ! oi death- and many wrecked cars come from this urge from the frivolous. And then, of course, some [ trouble- from drivers who haven't sense enough to drive a car nor to do anything el-*. We must do something, and we must do our best to stop so much human slaughter. We should, all of one accord, do our several parts. The man walking along the highway must use more care, as well as j the man who drives. N'o driver should be allowed to drive who does not know the traffic laws. No person should attempt to drive an automobile if he has tak en as much as one big drink of liquor without three hours. No man should drive when sleepy. Every person should report every act of carelessness seen m any driver. We all need to back the courts and offi cers in their efforts to enforce the law. The sooner j all people recognize the necessity of observing greater care in the handling of automobiles and firmly re solve to observe common-sense rules of safety, the fewer deaths and injuries from automobiles there will be. Only Two Courses Open There are so many interests in America that an agreement is next to impossible on anything regard less of how good the plan advanced may be. The people want a neutrality law that will keep them out of war, and the young men who have to do the actual fighting are very anxious for the plan. The big (iroducers of war materials are against it be cause they think it will restrict their profitable tradr Now what shall we do? Save our people from the slaughter of war and our country from honknggiy. or shall we say that the profits of millionaires an more sacred and le: the munitions kings bring us into another war? If we continue to swallow the thought manufac tured for us by the wealth of this nation, it will not be lone before our claim to a free and imlejiendrni government will be gone. It May Be in the Constitution lltrltord" County II