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The Enterprise ?ad >iM?j by da ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMITON. NORTH CAROLINA W. C. Manning Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cub in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY On yau ? ? . ~r?SUB Sin mootha .11 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY On* yur RMO Six months ?. 1.00 No Subscription Received for Lew Then ( Month Advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the post office in Williamston, N. C., as second-class matter under the act ol Congress of Match 3, 1879. Address all communications to The Enterprise aud not individcal meuiheis uf the fiiiii.? Friday^ A ugust 28^1936 The Need ior Lateral Roads Roads are what the people want, and not just some short cuts between the towns. Let us remember last winter, when citizens living on many of the most im portant roads in our section were imprisoned for months at a time by the impassible roads. There seems to be an idea prevailing among many~ town people and quite a number of country (oiks thai. the only need is to connect up cities and towns and just go racing along.for no particular purpose other than the sweet ride; while those farmers who do not happen to live on the direct routes between towns i annul evn get to any kind of road Our highway commission has been kicked about long enough by weighty politicians in their efforts to build trade roads for cities and towns to the neglect oi villages, hamlets and farmers. What we need is more lateral roads, enough for everybody to get to some trading center and to a place of transportation, and not throw all the money away on big bridges and through roads. The rank and tile of the people have suffered enough at the hands of a few nests of politicians. The highway commission should be, furnished with thV rural school history of last wintersee how many schools had to close because of bad roads; and before they try to please town folks with through toads and fancy bridges, they sliuuld give more at tention to the downtrodden people living on the rural roads in the COUIltrV rnmmnniti??? The Lifeblood oi Modern Industry Petroleum has bec ame the lifeblood of modern in dustry. ft is driving 26,000.000 automobile, thous ands of steamers, antTall the airplanes. These will all be stilled and many industries will stand idle ^when the eat tit ceases to give up lis oil. ~Snd oiTTs the largest taxpayer in the world. Its annual bill is $1,125,240,826 for Federal, State, and local taxes, ft is indeed remarkable how low the price is. The price has dropped from 32 cents in 1920 to 12.90 in 1936?not counting the taxes. Com pare this price with those of Europe. We find in Italy the price is 80 cents per gallon; Germany, 53.cents per gallon; France, 52 1-4 cents; England, 30 3-4 cents; In the United States it is 18.82, in cluding the tax. The progress made in the development of gasoline has kept pace with that in teh field of electricity and it produces 1,732,000,000 horsepower, 85 per cent of which is used to operate motor vehicles. In addition, 232,000,000 horsepower are used in farm tractors and in motors tu create elertrir pn??r ?_ The Republican Onslaught The old guard Republicans are trying to scare the Democrats and the public by telling them of the grave dangers just ahead. They say that Roosevelt is going to ruin the country, when they well know there is no truth in the story. Business is good and rapidly growing better. The mills are crowded with orders; practically everybody is able to |>ay income tax and pay all their others taxes and interest, as well as some on the principal. The cry that we will never be able to pay the pub lie debt we have contracted to save our people froir starvation is entirely untrue. We can easily pay it out of the money that has been gouged out of tht working man and the farmer during former admin istrations and have money left. Beware of false goda. Remember the days whet you could not pay your way and get enough to eat, while Mr. Morgan was making millions. As long as the Mellons, DuPonts, and Morgans were making millions the Republicans were all satisfied; but just as soon as general prosperity was brought about they claim everything went wrong. Remember that the government is better able to owe money than you are; and with the Republicans in power nationally, both you and your government wiH be in debt. The Search for Happiness We do not take time to travel life's highway sob - erly and quietly. If we should, wa would find much joy In life that we pass fay and never see. ? ? We seem to have no time for anything except mak ing money. We get none of the sweet aroma from the wild flowers by the wayside; we can get only a passing glimpse of the beautiful growing crops in the fields: <wd we have no time for anything beau tiful. It is only the mad onrush that connects time and eternity, and all is past and gone. New methods and new opportunities seem to have crazed us. Things are so unlike they were in days past, when we had to depend on the slower methods of transportation and found more time far our so cial duties than we do now?when we have little time for any thing except dancing and playing cards. We find no time to visit the sick, little time to bury the dead. Very few of us have the time to entertain the preacher or our friends. And while we seem to be in a continual search for pleasure, we never seem to find it; and doubtless would not understand it if we met it. We seem to have changed worlds in these latter days; physical conditions having made such great changes in our lives. 1 . Tobacco /s King Sampson Independent Prices i>aid on the opening of the border tobacco markets last week are encouraging, not only to the tobacco growers, but to others as well. The tobacco crop has become the chief source of revenue for thr farmers of all this section of the state. Sotton may still be king in some sections of the South, but it has been succeeded on the throne by tobacco in Eastern North Carolina. Due to Providence, a shotr crop of tobacoc is pre dicted for this year. And it has ever been the case that a short crop of tobacco or cotton brings more money to the growers than a large crop. Two years ago the acreage was reduced and the price was satis factory. Last year the acreage was increased, and the seasons favorable, the result being lower prices. This year the acreage was increased, but weather conditions held down the production. If prices hold up in keeping with the opening, then business should, and will, be good during the fall and winter months. Why He Went Crazy Sampson Independent. This story, with various modifications, has been doing duty for a good while, but for the benefit of those who have not chanced to run across it we toll -it- gggin. . It concerns an inmate of a lunatic asylum, who, on being asked by a visitor how he got that way, re plied.: "It all started when I married a widow with a grown-up daughter. Then my father, being a widow er, married the daughter. That made my step-daugh ter my step-mother, and my father became my step son; my wife also becoming the mother-in-law of her father-in-law. "Then my step-mother had a son, who was my brother, being my father's son; but as the boy was the grandson of my wife, be was also my grandson. "Then my wife and I had a son. My father's wife is my son's half-sister, and also his grandmother. Now it is easy to see that my father became my step-ton by marrying my step-daughter. Therefore, being my father's father, 1 am also my own grandfather." The visitor stopped the lunatic at this point, thor oughly satisfied as to why he went crazy. Good News lor the District Citizens of the First Congressional District will be glad to know that Congressman Warren will not resign his seat in rpngrfSf tO accept a higher pmul inn in the councils of government. Congressman Warren has followed a course quite different from that of many other servants of the people, who are so apt to develop into job-holding |>oliticians just as soon as they get in office; He has added to his experience as be has gone along to reach x plane of statesmanship, and he has remained with the people and served them?a course to be much ad mired and highly appreciated. PROGRAM FOE WEEK BEGINNING 8UNDAT, AGO. M TRIO THEATRE ? ROBERSONVILLE "36 HOURS TO KILL"?with BRIAN DONLEVY - GLORIA STUART August SI Straight From the Shoulder" BALTa BELLAMY, Kutherine LOCKE Tueoday 8?|rt?rtw 1st "Oh SUSANNAH" - Gene AUTRY l*e To All Show Bofina 1# A. M. "EARLY TO BED"?with CHARLES RUGGLES AND MARY BOLAND ? 1-4 "HEARTS in BONDAGE" Ml MM DUNN ktiriijr "LONELY TRAIL" wttfc Mm WATNI The Williamston Fair Sept. 28th ? Oct. 3rd, 1936 WILLIAMSTON, N. C 'Eastern Carolina s 6 BIG DAYS 6 BIG NIGHTS * $1,500.00 Offered in Agricultural Premiums for Martin and Surrounding Counties. Tuesday, September 29?"Children's Day* for Martin and adjoining counties. AD school children under 16 years of age admitted free to main gate up to 4 p. m.; also children under 16 free in Grandstand Tuesday AFTER NOON ONLY. Wednesday - Thursday - Friday?Two Harness Horse Races each day, featur ing some of the fastest-steppers in the country. SATURDAY - PROFESSIONAL AUTO RACES CETLIN & WILSON SHOWS ON MIDWAY-25 Shows, 15 riding devices and legitimate concessions. Fireworks Every Night Greatest Grandstand Attractions ever presented at any Fair in Eastern North Carolina, featuring the "New York Broadway" revue. Make Your Plans Now To Exhibit at and Attend Your WiUiamston Fair Dur ing Week of September 28 UNDER SAME MANAGEMENT AS NORTH CAROLINA STATE FAIR If You Have Not Received Premium Book, Write for One HARVEY WALKER, Resident Manager North Carolina State Fair October 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. 17, 1936 RALEIGH SIX BIG DAYS aX BIG NIGHTS "One-Quarter MillionAttendance in 1936" $15,000.00 Premiums Offered To Farmers of North Carolina for agricultural exhibits. MONDAY, OCTOBER 12th?Official Opening Day. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13th-4Thrill Day"-featuring "Lucky Teter" and His Hell Drivers. Raleigh School Day. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14th-Governor's Day. THURSDAY, OCT. 15th?North Carolina Day?Farmer's Homecoming Day, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16th-North Carolina School Children's Day. H SATURDAY, OCT. 17th?Professional Automobile Races, AAA Sanction. Harness Horse Racing ? Wednesday, Thursday mid Friday BRILLIANT FIREWORKS DISPLAY EVERY NIGHT WONDERFUL GRANDSTAND ATTRACTIONS ? Featuring "The Revelations of 1936," and fifteen other distinct and separate attractions that will thrill the thousands who witness the performances. Make Your Plans Now To Attend The North Carolina State FAIR* "World of Mirth Shows" on the Midway OTHER FAIRS UNDER THE SAME MANAGEMENT: Week of September 28th Week of October 19th Rocky Mount Salisbury Week of October 26th Week of October 26th week ot November 2nd
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