The Enterprise PatHahil Inry TMdn and Friday by tbc ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILUAMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA W. C. Manning Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cub in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY On* year $1.50 Sis months Jl OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY Ons fttT ?? , -1 12.00 Sis months 1.00 No Subscription Received (or Less Than 6 Month Advertising Rats Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the post office in Williamston, N. C., as second-class matter under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Address all communications to The Enterprise and not individual members of the firm. Tuesday, December 8. 1936 King Edward's Difficulties King Edward seems to l>e having quite a bit of trouble in his kingdom?being divided l>etween hb statesmanship and his love. I'erha|>s every person in the British Kmpire is interested in the outcome, and doubtless they have the right to say who they want a" th*'1, "'lor ' Many of his subjects seem to think that his taste is a little dull, since he noes so strong for divorcees, when are there a multitude of unmarried girls in waiting. Leaves and Fertilizers Southern Pines Pilot. One of the most deplorable sights about the town and country is the smoke rising from piles of burning leaves. In the use of commercial fertilizers North Carolina leads all other states The News Letter from the University Press says North Carolina con sumed slightly over a million tons last year, and no other state a close competitor, and that North Caro lina uses one-sixth of all the fertilizers used in the United States, and has been doing so for over two decad s. That is quite a record. If the farmer pay-, around $30 a ton for fertilizer at that rate they rec kon on about one-half of the gross income from the State'- cotton irop of half a million bales to pay the fertilizer bill. A lot of trouble with our impover ished soil condition is thoughtlessness on the part of Exhau-t ng the humus of the soil is one of North Carolina's most costly mistakes. A ton of rotted leaves has practically the same value as a ton of ma nure. AYe burn one and buv Tfip other l eft to He cay with a light covering of dirt, valuable material is ready for the garden in the spring, as decomposition of leaves is quickly accomplished. The News Letter says: "In no state is there greater need for soil con servation than North Carolina. If our soils could be built up to compare moderately favorably with our unexcelled climate, North Carolina would be an agri cultural paradise." To maintain plant life with any success there must be a return to the soil of what the plant has removed An cx|ieriment with the next downfall of leaves will mean response in the spring. An Intelligence Test for Democracy Philadelphia Record What is the Cnited States going to do about the Supreme Court? On November 3 the American people passed, mag nificently, one great intelligence test, when they re turned the Roosevelt Administration to power. Today they face a new intelligence test?inmaking the Roosevelt Administration's program effective in the face of obstruction from the Supreme Court. The overwhelming Democratic vote in the election was a mandate to the President and Congress to curb the |lower of the Supreme Court. Over the years the court has taken unto itself pow ers not specified in the Constitution, powers which the Founding Fathers never intended the court to Titrvei Cnfortunately, Those powers today are exer cised to block progress and to confuse our efforts to meet the changing problems of the times. Hut the court also has been and may again be a bulwark against local oppression and a shield for the liill of Rights. That brings the problem down to this: What is the best way to preserve the court and at the same time prevent it from usurping by negation the legislative and executive functions of government' This is the most important problem before our peo ple today It isn't an academic problem. We had to fight a Civil War in order to overturn a Supreme < onri decision which was out of joint with the times, with the Constitution, and with the will of a majority of the American people. So, we emphasize that this question today consti tutes a test of democracy. It is a question to be de bated in a sincere and rational way, with extreme statements and hot-headedness avoided on both sides. Let conservatives discuss the question without cry ing that the Supreme Court is divinely infallible, and that any person who wants to curb the power of the court is a Bolshevik with designs on "the American way of life." We had enough of that brand of de bate during the last campaign. Liberals, on the other hand, should be equally tem perate, should recognize the value of the court in pro tecting individual rights and civil liberties. Probably the mildest proposal would require that court decision holding acts of Congress unconstitu tional lie by a vote of at least 6 to 3. On the other hand, the most radical change advocated would have Congress deny the Supreme Court any power to pass -ott legislation. In between those two extiemes afe" many other proposals, of varying merits. For the good of us all, individually and as a nation, we must rationalize and not emotionalize the solution of the Supreme Court problem. *lfcu dent have to be tic/t to enjoy ticA whiskeyr I ?HHR "illI IIIII?IMMMHIM?B One case of this Hich Bourbon makes B a dosen or two grand gifts! ... and it doesn't take a barrel of money to buy it! Write the name "Old Quaker" on your Christ mas shopping list . . . It's a gift of richness for a dozen or two friends! A barrel of quality in every bottle. And it doesn't cost you a barrel of money-to buy it...t sale contained in a certain deed jf trust executed to the undersigned trustee by W. H. Hopkins and wife, Addle Hopkins, on the 30th day of December, 1922, and of record in the public registry of Martin County in Book N-2, at pace 349, aaid dead of trust having been given for the pur tfdse of securing a certain note of even date and tenor therewith, de fault having boon made in the pay ment of said note, and the stipula tions contained in the said deed of trust not having been complied with, and at the request of the own er of said note, the undersigned trustee will, on Saturday, the 26th day of December, 1936, at twelve o' clock noon in front of the court house door in the town of William ston, offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash the following de scribed real estate, to wit: Adjoining the lands of Elizabeth T. Green, N. R. Griffin, J. W. Hop kins. O. S. Green, containine 40 acres, more or less, and known as the Griffin Place and being the same land deeded to Elizabeth J. Green by Elbert S. Peel, trustee, by deed dated March 1st, 1822, and of rec ord in the public registry of Martin County In book K-2, at page 3. This the 23rd day of November, 1836 ELBERT S. PEEL, n24 4tw Trustee. AT YPVm DRuaetfTs TAKE COLty Santa Says See Davis' XMAS Stock Before You Buy Your Xmas Gifts This Year FREE WRAPPING SERVICE for YOUR PARCEL POST PACKAGES Davis Pharmacy ? wuiiamston Be Sure of CHRISTMAS MONEY Here's our plan: Deposit a stated amount each week or each month during the year in our savings department. Then next Christmas when you need money, it'll be here for you? On all savings accounts, against which not more than one check per month is drawn, we pay 2 per cent interest Start your account today for next Christmas?the amount you receive will be surprisingly large if you add to it systematically. A UAccounts Fully Insured to $5,000