The En terprise
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WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA
W. C. MANNING
Editor - 1908-1938
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, Friday, June 17, 1938.
Remember The Others
Long before a bond or share of stock misses
paying a fat, juicy dividend, one hears the
statesmen of the Josiah Bailey type start talk
ing about the helpless widow and the orphan
whose inconje is founded on stocks and bonds.
No one would want to see a person denied his
right to aTair return on the money saved by
one means or another and invested with the
expectation of an easy life in the declining
years that are sure to come.
But why harp on the fate of the widow or or
phan who is fortunate enough to have stocks
and bonds, and ignore the widow or orphan
who has no stocks or bonds.' f or every -widow
who draws an income from the bond or' stock
market, it is estimated there are 1,000 widows
who, with no assurance of home, adequate food
or clothing, strive day by day to earn the nec
essities of life and pay her bit in the numerous
and various taxes levied directly or indirectly
to meet the interest and dividend payments on
those bonds and stocks held by the more for
tunate widow
( Then therp are the human parasites still
drawing toll ih the form of interest on money
their fore bearers either rubbed from the for
ests, mines, and fields or swindled from the
orphans and widows of their hard-earned sav
ings. There are those who have worked and
saved in anticipation of the rainy day, but few
of them have come through bank failures, man
made depressions, get-rich-quick schemes un
scathed. Others were fortunate arid held both
ends together. But the American people have
not bothered to point out the distinctions. They
have buckled to the task and paid and paid.
They have not complained about the American
system as it applies to investments. They have
not questioned the system.
But what happens when they plead for a
floor for wages or a ceiling for hours? They arc
rebuked. They are referred to as communists,
socialists, wreckers of the American system.
What happens when the common laborer
pleads for the right to organize his ranks that
he might talk on' even terms with organized
wealth? He is pointed out as evil force. Anil
when a leader champions the rights of the com
mon masses, he is referred to as a dictator, an
undesirable.
Mr. Bailey has championed the rights of the
widow's investments. Let him now champion
the rights of the widow without investments,
giving both their due and not ignoring one for
the other If Mr. Bailey could take his eye off
-investments and direct it to the multitudious
problems now facing the masses there is little
doubt but what he would be a better senator. X
Send Notes At Home, Too
It was noble for England and the United
States to send notes deploring the bombing of
women and children in Spain and China. If
sendingTiotes will do any good, let the two gov
ernments and others continue to send them.
A review of the front pages points out in
bold relief the need of sending notes right here
at home. The headlines while chronicling the
bombing of defenseless Chinese also tells about
a speeding automobile plowing into a group of
3& people on one of our modern highways. And
the headlines explain that the driver did not
stop.
Apparently there is a great need for note
sending and more right here at home.
Not The Whole Story
Newt and Observer
In the Senate recently Senator J. W. Bailey
of North Carolina in the course of his consist
ent opposition to the Democratic administra
tion in Washington said:
Carolina Power & Light, preferred, 6 per
cent, is selling at $64. I know something about
that stock. That stock u> not owned by wealthy
people. It never has been owned by wealthy
people. That stock was sold by advertising in
the North Carolina newspapers. Widows who
received estates from their husbands invested
in it. Attorneys who advised minors or guard
ians as to how to invest money felt assured, and
advised their clients that this preferred stock
was good for $100. I remember buying some of
this stock for a widow 10 or 15 years ago. I
shall always remember gratefully that I advis
ed her to sell it at $110, before the present na
tional policy was inaugurated. Otherwise, I
should feel somewhat to blame for what hap
pened. }_ know that that stock is owned by the
great rank and file of the people. I know that
the preferred stocks in the power companies of
North Carolina are held by 15,000 people. They
are not Insulls. They are not criminals. They
are not owner executives. They are not even
politicians. 1 think a great many of them were
New Dealers. They thought that the investment
was good; and it was good until the national
policy destroyed it.
Back at the beginning of the Roosevelt ad
ministration the same stock sold for $20. Sena
tor Bailey and other utility apologists would
deny that the New Deal was entitled to any
credit for the difference upward. But certainly
not even they could hold it responsible for all
the drop from that happy day when Bailey's
client sold for $110 to the bottom which was
reached before the New Deal really began its
power and other policies.
Government And Business
El kin Tribune
Fortune, a magazine that easily may be con
sidered one of the spokesmen for big business,
in a lengthy article that should be framed
above the desk of every industrial executive in
the land, makes a sane analysis of what should
be the relationship between government and
business?a subject that now finds the conflict
ing arguments as far apart as (he earth and the
sky. ?
After tracing industrial arid business trends
that have forced government to take a super
visory hand in business'affairs, Fortune comes
to this conclusion: i
"Whether the present situation is permanent
or temporary is beside the point. Every busi
ness man who is not kidding himself knows that
he does not know how to guarantee, without
government intervention, the markets with
which alone his free, competitive capitalism
can function. Every businessman who is not
kidding himself knows that, if left to its own
devices, business would sooner or later run
headlong into another 1930. And every business
man who is not kidding himself ought to know
that as long as these things are so, the elector,
ate will force government into his affairs. It
is neither possible nor desirable for a democra
tic government to sit by while a third of its cit
izens starve and almost as many more fear for
their jobs."
The author of the Fortune comment holds
that "the failure of the marriage between free
capitalism and political democracy has not been
a failure in the principle of private enterprise
oh the one hand, or the democratic principle on
the other. These are still intact." The failure
has been in the assumption that the economic
system is not the concern of government.
If government has interfered in business, it
is largely because business invited it; if this in
terference has increased it is because business
has persistently refused to clean its own house.
We have the spectacle of six men indicted in
New York for looting investment trusts of mil
lions of dollars, control of which was gained by
the investment of only five dollars. Business
was not prepared and apparently had no wish
to outlaw them. Government via the law had to
sU?b in, and clehn house after it was dirtied and
has to pass more laws to prevent littering
again. And so it is as plain as the sunrise that
government interference in business stems
from the faults of business itself.
Those who say they will forgive but can't
forget an injury, simply bury the hatchet
while they leave the handle out, ready for im
mediate use.?-Dwight L. Moody.
Every great and commanding moment in the
annals of the world is the triumph of some en
thusiasm.?Emerson.
PROGRAM FOR WEEK BEGINNING SUNDAY, JUNE 19.
Turnage Theatre ? Washington, N. C.
Sunday-Monday June 19-20
"Adventure* of Marco Polo"
OAKY COOfEE and 8IGRID GURIE
T"??a*y June tl
"Law ol the Underworld"
CHE8TKE MORB1B ni ANN Mmm.?v
"Mr. Moto Takes a Chance"
rrra u>ue m mary magi; ike
Thursday-Friday June 23-24
"Her Jungle Love"
DOROTHY LAMOVJR and RAY MILL AND
Iihrtiy l?n? W
"Call of the Rockies"
with CHARLES STARRETT
Country Man Writes
Of Frame Of Mind
Reads Paper Before For
eign Relations Group
In Robersonville
By A. PITT KOBERSON
(Below is a paper read by Mr A.
Pitt Roberson before a recent meet
ing of the Foreign Relations Group
in Robersonville which is timely
and interesting.)
In order to understand the frame
of mind existing in Japan, it is nec
essary to know something of the in
fluences that have bourne upon
them and the mass psychology that
has probably developed from them.
Therefore it is essential to treat it
psychologically.
For a loiig period of lime, Japan
maintained what has been called a
closed door to the outside world,
which was brought to an end by
Admiral Perry in 1854. Soon after
because of the influence of Christ
ian missionaries, Japanese students
began to attend colleges and univer
sities in practically all the western
countries, and proved themselves to
be equal \Q anv students in the
world. This created a great deal of
national and racial pride in Japan.
At the beginning of the 20th cen
tury we find that the Japanese were
migrating to the western part of
America in great numbers. Due to
the fact that the Japanese in their
home country were subjected to a
rigid economic program, they ac
quired the habit of being extremely j
thrifty and economical. When they \
began to put into practice their cus
toms in America, that had formerly
became a part of their subconscious,
we find they were greatly outstrip
ping the Americans in the accumula
tion of wealth. ^Phis created such a
social complication in California
that laws were passed which pro
hibited Japanese from acquiring
property. As a result of this, natur
ally the Japanese greatly resented
the influence of the white people.
When the World War began the
Japanese interest was apparently on
the side of the Allies. But for some
reason, not generally known, the
Japanese, after reducing the Ger
man fortress in China, were not in
vited to participate further in the
Allied military program. This hurt
their national vanity and caused
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Htiving-qualiiied as administrator
of the estate of G. K. 'Terry, deceas
ed, late of Martin County, North
Carolina, this is to notify all per
sons having claims against the estate
of said deceased to exhibit same to
the undersigned for payment on or
before the fifth day of May, 1939, or
this notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons indebted
to said estate will please come, for
ward and make immediate settle
ment.
This the fifth day of May, 1938.
S. R BIGGS.
Administrator of the estate of
m6-(it G. R. Terry.
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What Will Hit
Family Do?
Jact ? few minute* aja,
he *11 a Heady wage
r, with a dependent
accident may prove fatal.
And then what will tna
belpieaa wife and (mall
children do?UNLESS
he haa provided for then
with Life Inauranoe?
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INSURANCE
them to realize the white people
did not give much consideration to
the colored races, which intensified
their resentment of occidental in
fluence in the Orient. Therefojp,
they arrived at the rnnrlminn? if
the white people considered it of no
concern of the other races what
they did, then it was of no concern
of the white people what the Japan
ese desired to do. As a result they
set about to adjust affairs in the
Orient to suit themselves as nearly
as they could, without considering
what the Occidental world might!
think. Which, in short, meant ex-1
pelting the influence of the white!
people.
The Japanese Jcnow that in no
place in the Occidental world do the
colored races carry on as extensive!
commercial and industrial activities
as the white people carry on with
countries inhabited by colored races
and it is with a great deal of jeal
ousy that they look upon China as
a potential field of consumption of
their commercial and industrial out
put. Therefore, they are trying to
establish themselves commercially
and industrially in the Orient, as!
the l> S. has in North America. Eng- i
land in Great Britain, and Germany!
in Continental Europe. In order to
secure and maintain China as such,
they are carrying on the same pro
gram that the United States, Great
Britain, r ranee and Germany-313"
during the 17th, 18th and 19th cen
which there ii always an invitation
to other countries to join, Japan is
afraid for Russian influence to in
vade China extensively. They fear
if that happens, the Soviet influence
in China will soon engulf Japan and
they might eventually be without an
empire. As a matter of self preser
vation they are trying to prevent the
turies, which is an attempt to ex
tend their frontier and establish col
onies, or puppet states in China.
Owing to the nature of the third
international emsting in Russia of
spread of Soviet influence in China.
All this taken together, ^ probably
formed a psychological background
for Japan's conduct in China.
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You Are Invited
To Attend The Lions Club
Merchants Exhibition
?And
CIRCUS
Warehouse WILLIAMSTON
Benefit of Blind Prevention
16 Circus Acts
Live Baby Given
Away ? Free Prizes
La Hue Bros.?Band
Dogs, Ponies and
Monkeys
Style Show
Come
Bring
The
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And
8 Miles of Crepe Pa
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Warehouse
Hundreds of
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Entertaining - Edu
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Help Carry the Good Work on
Dance at the Exposition
PAUL JONES
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Friday, June 24.
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Colored Night at the Exposition
Saturday Night. June 25 ? Dancing 8 to 12
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