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The Enterprise PatlNfciil K?wy Tumim, ami Friday by th* ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA W. C Manning Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY On* year EUO Six months _ . . .71 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY On* year _ 12.00 Six months 1.00 No Subscription Received for Lass Than 6 Month Advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Raquast Entered at the post office in W illiamston, N. C., at second-clatt matter under the act of Congress of March 3. 1879. Address all communications to The Enterprise and not individual members of the firm. Tuesday, February 25, 1936 The Old Age Pension Plan The Townsend old age pension plan has put the politicians to thinking, and their main trouble- seems to be that they have not yet been able to find out which side will get them the most votes. It seems that Senator Borah has taken a middle-of the-road stand. At first he was dead against it. Now he has fixed tHt^amount at $60 per month. We figure that it will not be so long before every politician will have two speeches, one to use on older audiences and the other when speaking to young people. Of course, to their 65-year-old friends they will speak in a trem ulous voice, filled with sympathy, and the teardrops will flow down their cheeks.; then, when they appear before the younger gang, they will pity them for the great tax load soon to rest on their shoulders. There fore, the professional politician is not considered as a safe man to follow in making up your mind on the Townsend plan. After all, the puzzling feature of the whole question is to know what branch Of mathematics will be re quired to prove that the plan will pay its own way without a little loss. It would seem a little hard to believe that the government could give every man over a certain age $200 at the beginning of a month and by the first of the following month that entire $200 would again be in the United States Treasury ready to be given to the same man again. Of course, if this can be done, then the law of perpetual motion is a certainty and will be sustained by anybody's su preme court. Our fear is that when $200 is thrown into the whirlpool of exchange that a few pennies may be lost and some very close fellows would even pinch the lib erty off of it. Then, what will become of the younger members of the family? If mama and papa are draw ing $200 per month each, will these youngsters, when they grow up, be forth the shucks it would take to singe them? Will such a plan not ruin the whole of civilization to make life that easy? Will it not be better to obey the law of God and eat bread by the sweat of our faces, rather than to avoid every obliga tion and to live like sluggards? Do not give us a Townsend plan, or anything like it, unless the payments are very small. No Fear of an Unjust Verdict Hauptmann, poor fellow, has never been able to offer one word to prove his innocence. The only thing so far presented is his own denial, every word of which has been found false, even from his own weigh ing. Hauptmann is evidently the only man in the world who knows the story of the death of the Lind bergh baby, and it is practically certain that a full confession will make his case no worse, nor will it save him from death. Further denial cannot lift any bur den of guilt from his family. On the other hand, he stilL,bas time to face his God with the truth and put all his future troubles out of the way. The devil evi dently would say "Lie 'til you die," but that is not the proper thing to do. Not only is it better to tell all the truth for him individually, but the world will have more respect for his family. Judging from the evidence presented before the court, there is nothing for the court and jury to regret or fear that an inno cent man has been condemned. Courts Are Now Most Dangerous Goldsboro News-Argus. North Carolinians seem much more aware now of danger on the highways than many of them were a year ago. In the period, the membership of the highway pa trol has been increased. Its men have been freed from some forms of tax collecting so they might put more time on patrolling. Recently patrolmen were ordered to be more strict about arresting traffic law violators. Success or failure in large part of the legal cam paign for traffic safety now hinges on the courts, meaning each individual judge or justice of whatever degree of authority thany any traffic case is brought before. North Carolinians interested in safety will do well to watch carefully the records made by those who deal out decisions, to watch for dangerous toft spots or curvet in tome and to back up the firm Judges against the pressure certain to be brought a thetn in various individual i The Kind 0/ Legislators Needed Quite a number of people in many countiea are be ginning to announce their candidacies for Mats in the coming General Assembly, a thing that is hard to understand There was a day when it was consider ed a position of honor That day has passed array, and no one of any capacity should want it for the money there is in it. What the people need is men with convictions; men who can draw their own laws and not have to depend uti gambling lawyers from other states to come down and draw up our laws against punchboards, pin ball tables and the many other gaming schemes, with enough errors in them to make them of no effect. It seems to be almost impossible to get some legislators to remember their promises to their constituencies. We need fewer |*ople who represent special inter ests hanging around our legislature, with free liquor and lawyers to draw their bills for them. The hired lobbyist should be excluded from our legislative coun cils. They are just too much for a weakling to come up against. We need legislators who know tax prob lems and who are not trying to climb mountain peaks of fame and prominence. They should have the ca pacity to keep a true and honest balance between all classes and be willing to see the rich and the poor fare alike. ? Support the Sustaining Hand Ask the first hundred men that you meet, and ninety-nine will say that Herbert Hoover lied when he said financial conditions are not so good now as they were when he was president. Ask every mer chant, every banker, every lawyer and every doctor in your town and ask those along every road leading into the country, and all will say that business is much improved over that under the Hoover regime. Then make up your mind firmly to strengthen and support that hand that sustained you when you could not pay your ijnterest and taxes. IJon't let a conglomeration of falsehoods swerve you from the paths of justice and truth. The Cry of Communism The Roanoke Rapids Herald Because President Roosevelt seeks to help the lit tle man, because he has insisted that no man go hun gry, although there are no jobs, because he success fully tackled the biggest relief job ever faced by any President with courage and sympathy, he is now charged with fomenting class warfare and leading the country to Communism. You will hear that hue and cry rise higher and higher to the heavens as this campaign progresses. Those who listened to A1 Smith heard it; those who lisWned to former Senator Reed of Missouri this Tues day night heard it again. These "walking" Demo crats are being used by Republican politicians as smoke screens. They have been taught to say certain things and make certain charges which the Republi cans haven't the intestinal fortitude to say them selves. Now, all they need to do is to quote the one time Democrats and prove by them that the country is going to the dogs, either Socialistic or Communistic. Most Americans will not be fooled by this trumpet ing of the outs trying to get in. The record disproves every charge. All one needs do is to read the series of editorial shorts, "This Man Roosevelt is Ruining the Country," or the financial pages of any newspa per to see that America, and those very ones who are doing all the Communistic crying, are far better off under Roosevelt than they were under Hoover. You see that Americans have jobs, you see that their families get food and shelter, and no matter how gloomy the day might appear, there is no danger of Communism in America. Revolution and Communism will come only when we have a recurrence of the dark days of 1930-33, when banks were breaking daily, industry was par alyzed, small earnings were wiped out, soup lines could not 1st-gin to take care of the starving, cities were helpless to aid those on relief?those kind of times, when men, seeing their children hungry and not knowing where the next crust of bread is coming from; desperate men, ready>for anything; men full of despair, with no glimmer of hope?that is when Communism will come to America. And the very man who changed all that?who saw to it that none went hungry or hopeless?this so-called dictator, Roosevelt?instead of leading the country into the despair of Communism, by the very actions for which his foes now criticize him, SAVED this country from Communism. Socialism and Communism are not brought about by political action or_ governmental machinery; they come only when the hearts of men and women are filled with despair and their stomachs are empty of food. Bad Weathar, Good Crops Gales County Index. It is best to not pin absolute faith in too many of the old sayings, but most of us do cling to some of them. One which we especially think of at this time, and that we all believe because it has been proven by the past years, is that an extremely cold winter, or one with much snow and rough weather, means a good crop year to come. The best farmers, those who make a close study of their business, wilt tell you that frozen ground and snow serve to pulverise the soil. That, they say, usu ally means better crops. Then, too, long and hard freeies destroy many of the insects which are in win ter hibernation, making plans to attack growing crops. if there is anything to this "old saying", surely the year 1936 should bring an abundant harvest, and we hope the results will sustain the belief held by so many. And, not only do we hope that the harvest will be abundant, but we else are hoping that prices will be good when harvest tine comes. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having thai day qualified aa a rainiatrator of the eataic of lira Jai Wjrnn, deceaaad, late of llartiii County, North Carolina, notice hereby given to all persons claim* against estate of oaaaad to present lama to the dersigned for payment on or before the 22nd day of January, 1M7, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of any recovery thereon. All person* indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This 22nd day of January. 1836. THURSTON WYNN, 124 6tw Administrator. NOTICE or ADMINISTRATION The undersigned has qualified and is now acting as Administrator of Richard Rhghsnnth, late of the county of Martin. This is therefore to notify all per sons who have claims against the said estate to present them to the undersigned before the exjiration of one year from the date hereof, or tins notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons ow ing the estate anything will please pay the same. This the 30th day of January. 1936. JOHN A. WARD, Administrator Richard Highsmith, Deceased. H. L. Swain, attorney for Adntin istrator. }31 6tw NOTICE OF SALE Dnder and by virtue of the au thority conferred upon me in a deed of trust executed by W. Eli Rober tson on January 20th, 1931, and lecorded in book G-3, page 10, I will, on Monday, the 9th day of March, 1936, 12 o'clock noon, at the courthouse door in Martin County, Williamston, N. C., sell at public auction, for cash, to the highest bid der, the following land, to wit: First tract: Lying and being in Martin County, Bear Grass Town ship, and further described as fol lows: Beginning at a gum, a corner W. N. Roberson's corner, thence a southerly course along W N. Rob erson line, to W. N. Roberson cor ner, a gum, thence a southerly course down the run of a branch to a gum, a corner, in Bee Tree branch, thence a northerly course up a branch to a gum, a corner, thence a northeast course along a ditch to the corner of the ditch, a corner, thence a westwardly course along said ditch, and thence a northerly course to the beginning, containing ninety (90) acres, more or less. Second tract: Lying and being in the County of Martin, Bear Grass Township, described as follows: Be ginning at W. N. Roberson's corner on the Bowen road, thence an east wardly course down road to a stob, Courtney Bowen corner, thence a southerly course along Courtney Bowen line to a stob, a corner in R. H. Rogers line, thence a south west wardly course along said Rogers line to a corner, a gum in Bee Tree Branch in W. N. Roberson line, thence up said branch a northerly course along W. N. Roberson line to the beginning, containing forty (40) acres, more or less. This sale is made by reason of the failure of W. Eli Roberson to pay off and discharge the indebtedness se cured by the said deed of trust. This the 7th day of February, 1936. CALVIN AYERS, f7 4tw Trustee. NOTICE North Carolina, Martin County. Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed to the undersigned trustee by L. K. Rawls and wife, Hattie Rawls, on the 22nd day of April, 1920, and of record in th< public registry of Martin County in book U-l, at page 405, said deed of trust having been given for the purpose of securing a certain note of even date and tenor therewith, the stipulations contained in said deed of trust not having been com plied with, default having been made in the payment of the said note, and at the request of the own er of the said note, the undersigned trustee will, on Saturday, the 29th day of February, 1936, at 12 o'clock noon, in front of the courthouse door in the town of Williamston, of fer for sale, to the highest bidder, foi cash, the following described real estate, to wit: Beginning at a lightwood stob, running a west course to a green pine, thence down Thin Branch a south course to the run of Bear Grass swamp, thence an east course up said swamp to a pine, a corner, thence a north course sdong Mar tha Gurganus' line to a post, thence an east course along the said Mar tha Gurganus' line to black gum, a corner, thence a north course to the beginning, containing thirty-five <35) acres, more or less. This the 6th day of February, 1936. JOHN LEGGETT, f7 4tw Trustee. Elbert S. Peel, Attorney. NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of a judg ment of the Superior Court, Martin County, in a special proceedings en titled "C. C. Shields vs. C. S. Alex ander, Guardian, et al,'' the under signed commissioner will, on the 16th day of March, 1936, at 12 o' clock noon, in front of the court house door, Martin County, offer for sale to the highest bider, for cash, the following described land: First tract: That certain tract of land adjoining the lands of Richard Gatlin, T. T. Council and others, bounded as follows, viz: Beginning at a stake on a canal a corner of Warren Harrell land, running along the diviaion line Nil 14.40 chains to ? sweet gum, thence N. 18.30 W. 8.00 chains to a stake; thence N. 80 degree* W 31.30 chains to a stake in Gatlin line, thence along Gatlin line 8 3 W. 14.00 chains to Coun cil's corner, thence along Council's line S. 01 degrees 30 E. 17.00 chains to a poet on the canal, thence down the canal to the first station. Con taining 58 1-3 acres. Second tract: That certain tract of land adjoining the lands of T. T. Council. H. H. Gatlin, H. K. Harrell, it being lot No. 3 of the diviaion of W. B. Savage land, known as the Brown land and others, as follows: Beginning at T. T. Council's corner, running S. 35 degrees W 237 poles to Gatlin's and Council's corner, near Rogers Pond; thence 134 poles to corner of lot No 1, thence N. 51 degrees E. 154 poles to Hyman's cor ner, now J. R. Council's, thence S. 56 degrees W. 35 poles to a lane, thence N. 30 W. 58 poles to the be ginning. Containing 160 acres, more or less. This 11th day of February, 1936. J. L. POTMAN, fl4 4tw Commissioner. BUY EXTRA .QUALITY FOR MUST A FEW" P/LENTS MORE Wm > wHitur Beware Coughs fron common colds That Hang On No matter how many medicines you have tried lor your cough, chest cold or bronchial irritation, you can get re lief now with Creomulaion. Serious trouble may be brewing and you can not aEord to taha a chance with any thing leas than Creomulaion, which goes right to the seat of the trouble to aid nature to soothe and heal the lnflamec membranes as the germ-laden phlegm is loosened and expelled. Even if other remedies have failed, don't be discouraged, your druggist it authorised to guarantee Creomulaion ahd to refund your money If you are not satisfied with results from the very first bottle. QetCreomulsion right now. 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Electric Percola tors or Coffee Makers brew cups of delicious nut brown coffee. The Elec tric Waffle Iron makes golden waffles and short cake. And an Electric Table Stove cooks bacon, ham and eggs to perfec tion. Low prices and cheap electricity make electric appliances so easy and inexpensive to own and operatel Llectric Toasters ... $2.65 up electric Percolators . $4.95 up Wattle %lrcns $4 95 up Rk See Your Dealer or VIRGINIA AND POWEI^ CO.
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