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The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMS TON, NORTH CAROLINA W. C. MANNING Editor ? 19*8 1938 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year Si 75 Six months 1-00 . OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year $2.25 Six months 1-25 No Subscription Received Under 6 Month* Advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the post office in Williamston, N. C.. as second-class matter under the act of Con gress of March 3, 1879. Address all communications to The Enterprise and not individual members of the firm. Friday. September 9. 1938. A Downward Trend A review of the attendance records and cen sus figures for the schoot districts In Martin County offers something to think about. The perplexing problem apparently IS receiving no great attention from educational leaders, and the general public is jaccepting the downward trend as a matter of course. There were 4,359 white children of school age in Martin County, the 1937-38 school census shows. Last week 3,206 of that number report ed for work in the ten white schools. Where are the remaining 1,153 boys and girls who should be in the schools of the county? Prior to 1936, attendance figures were increas ing steadily in the county, but in that year al most 100 white children were lost to the schools The trend has been downward since, the schools last year losing almost another hundred chil dren. No material change in the opening-day enrollment figures is noticeable this year com pared with those of a year ago, but the 1937-38 census shows a gain over the previous period, indicating that the attendance upon the schools continues to decrease while the number of chil dren of school age continues to increase. The twenty-five out of-evpry 100 children who are not attending school in this' county are for the most part to be classified with the group that is presenting the trying economic, social and civic problems ol today. School authorities are not responsible to any great extent for tins bad situation. The blame rests at the door of an ill-operating economic system, a system that holds many children at home to do manual labor when the doors of storehouses are bulging with plenty and mil lions of able-bodied men walk the streets with nothing to do. The mothers and fathers may think it fine for their 75 out of every 100 children in the county to get an education and let the others drift. But the facts are before us now, proving beyond all doubt that the 75 are having to support the oth er 25, the ratio varying in size from time to time according to conditions. When a youngster is held at home to help do the manual labor, it will be well for the pub lic to step in and help remedy the cause that is keeping the little fellow at home. If we fail in that task, we are allowing a serious economic problem to take root and spread in the years just ahead. There are those in the 25-group who are hopeless; but all those in the 75-group will not prove successful. The solution of the problem dftes not rest so much in the warrant as it does in our economic system When a grown per son, the father of a family, is held to a task for the meager sum of 75 cents a day, the rainy days netting nothing, it is easy t? understand why little children are held at home to forage the streets and fields in an effort to fit their living into a cruel economic system. Some are shiftless, to be sure. Some are not to be helped, it is admitted. But those who don't want to pay a living wage, try to hide their sins behind such argument altogether. "Our farmers pay nearly twice as much for labor as your farmers pay in Martin County, ' a citizen from ari adjoining county said the oth er day "Our farmers seem to live equally aa well if not better than yours, and nearly all of their children are attending school," he ex plained. Here is one explanation of the bad sit uation as it exists right at home. Too many of our leaders who openly acclaim the advantages ol an education for every child are supporting an economic system that denies them the op portunity of those advantages. A solution to the problem is not easy to be had, but we, in this county, may learn something as a starter by going mtu the neighboring county and" ob serving how higher wages are enabling every one to live better. Last year when more than 1,000 white chil dren were out of school, there were more than 2,000 colored children who never entered a school room. And that's another problem. Attendance upon the white schools has reach ed the saturation point, the records show. Ap parently we have advanced as far as existing conditions will permit. We can't remain stable, and when a close study of the conditions is made one will find that we are going backward. The hardest job a youngster faces is that of learning good manners without seeing any.? Exchange. PRICES HIT BOTTOM DURINC OUR ''CLEAR THE DECKS" USED CAR SAI.E BEGINNING FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER ?>ili S?> rfcw t a/hp* m ftp conditioned and Cuaran teed I ted Can: ! 1937 FORD V-S Tudor. 60 Horsepower. Very low mileage, perfect con dition. Was $500?.Voir $425 Every Car in Our Stock It Priced To Save You Money" 1937 FORI) Coupe, DcLuxe. In Up-top shape; looks and run* like new. H'ai $500?iVoir $425 No Trade-lnt at Thete Lotc Pricet. at You Save Up To $100 1936 FORI) Fordor Deluxe V-S Sedan. Reconditioned from end to end. looks and runs like new. Wat $475?Note $100 1936 FORD Standard Sedan with trunk. A Terr dean and neat auto. In A-l mechanical condition. Wat $425?Note $350 NOTE: We have tim e I demons! rutors tliul we are offering at priees that will move tliem before the new models arrive November 1. It will pay you to rush <low ii to see these ears. Take your ehoiee, be ruiiM' never again in the town of Plymouth will sueli used ear val ues be offered. These demonstrators and all used ears must go to the bare walls?before tbe new ears eome out. Kusli down to see tliem SAYS MR. MANNING: "Friend*, my advice to you it: If you are not in the market for a used car, don't ttop at Plymouth Motor Com pany at you may over load or buy more than you need of uted cart at thete lout pricet." ('.an You Minn Them' It oniler/iil Used Car Tallies? 1936 FORD Coupe. You will be the luck l?'st man in town to buy this car. It looks and runs like new. this $425?/Voir $.{50 1936 PLYMOUTH Deluxe two-door touring car. Paint and tire# look like new. Perfect mechanical condition, A-l upholstery. Lovely looking automobile. W as $450?ISoic $575 1935 PLYMOUTH Deluxe Sedan. New paint, new brakes, new bushings, mo tor renewed. A beautiful car. ITflji #375?^o?f $500 ; t We Have Four Used PICK-UP TRUCKS thai you can buy at blf bar rains Lowest prices in history of town of Plymouth. Also sev en oihrr used cars from which to choose the price and make used car yon wish. PLYMOUTH MOTOR Co. Plymouth, N. C. J. R. Manning FORD J. B. Willoughby Expecting First Cotton Price Adjustment Payments Soon The first of the approximately $40,000 cotton price adjustment pay ments are expected to reach this county within the next week or two, according to unofficial information received here this week. In those counties where cotton is grown on a large scale and where the farmers filed their applications early, quite a few payments have already been made, it is understood. To date in this county, more than 400 cotton farmers have filed appli cations for the special price adjust ment payments. More than a hun dred of those who made their appli cations on or about the middle of' August are almost certain to receive their payments within a week or two. Farmers who have not applied for I the payment* are urged to do ao as early as possible, the time of . pay ment depending largely upon the time applications are filed. It is estimated that the approxi mately 1,000 cotton farmers in this county who are eligible for the pay ments will receive more than $40, 000. With very, very few exceptions the entire lot of them have com plied with the control law require ments this year, making them eligi ble for the payments. Payments will average around three cents a pound, and will be based on about 60 pet- cent of the base acreage for the past year. Martin farmers will be notfied di rect when their checks are received by the county agent and when to call for them. Asks Larger Aid Equalizing Fund For N. C. Counties A larger equalization fund to aid counties under the public assistance program will be sought at the 1939 session of the General Assembly, the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare announced recently. Meeting m Raleigh to consider the biennial report to the governor and the legislative body, the state board voted to ask for a quarter million dollar increase in funds for old age assistance and $150,000 more for aid to .dependent children. For each year of the coming bien nium a total of one and one-quarter millions will be asked for indigent old people while $650,000 will be asked for each year for distribution among North Carolina's needy chil dren. Present at the meeting were Col. W. A. Blair, Winston-Salem, chair man; E. Hervey Evans, Laurinburg, Mrs. Walter C. Crowell. _Munroe. Miss Carrie McLean, Charlotte, and Robert Hairston, Keidsville. State Welfare Commissioner Mrs. W. T. Bost stated in discussing the biennial report that an attempt was being made this year to make the booklet an interpretation of policies and practices of the new services the board is now rendering, particu larly under federal, state and local cooperation in welfare work. Miss Lavinia Keys, regional di lector, public assistance division of the Social Securty Board, Washing ton, was present at one session of the state board and discussed with $6,079 For Matron Service In Martin County Schools Washington, N. C.. Sept. 5.?Har ry Hopkins' office todiy notified Representative Lindsay Warren that the president has approed a WPA project for matron service in the public schools of Martin County amounting to $6,079. It must now be approved by the Comptroller Gener al. the members progress made in the state during the past year. "North Carolina^ greatest diffi culty now is the smallness of grants under the public assistance pro gram," Miss Keys said. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as administrator of the estate of Joseph B. Lanier, de ceased, late of Martin County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit same to the undersigned on or before the thirty first day of August, 1939, or this no tice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immed iate payment. This 31st day of August, 1938. C D, CARSTAHPHEN. Administrator of the Estate of s2-6t Joseph B Lanier. NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Washington Division. In Bankruptcy No. 654. In the matter of Thomas Poe Fleming, Bankrupt. The petition of Thomas Poe Flem ing, of Grimesland, North Carolina, for a full discharge in Bankruptcy, having been filed in said Court, it is ordered by the Court that a hear ing be had on October 3. 1938, be fore Honorable 1. M. Meekins, Judge of said Court, at Washington, North Carolina, at 12 o'clock M., and that all known creditors and other in TEXACO MOTOR OIL SsTssI T-y? ~TEXACO DEALER next time HARRISON OIL COMPANY ONLY RAILROAD CIRCUS COMING THIS YEAR! WASHINGTON MONDAY SEPTEMBER 19 THE OLD RELIABLE Greatest Wild Animal Train of All Time, Will rreasat the World's Largest Wild Animal Art. Battling It Ferorloas Jungle 1 Lion* and Tigers CHILDREN, 25r ? THIS DATE ONLY! terestcd persons may appear at said time and place and show just cause if any they have, why the prayer of said petitioner should not be grant ed. Williamston, North Carolina. This August 30, 1938, A. D. WHEELER MARTIN. U. S. Referee in Bankruptcy. s2-3t Reita Theatre?Washington Monday-Tueaday September 18-13 "Penrod s Double Trouble" with Billy and Bobby Mauch W eduesday-Thursday September 14-15 "Reformatory" with Jack Holt and Charlotte Wynters Friday-Saturday September 1C-17 "A Desperate Adventure" with Ramon Novarro and Marian Marsh NOTICE Sale of Farm Lands Notice js hereby given that on Tuesday. October 4th, 1938, at eleven o'clock, A. M., at Harrison Brothers & Company's store in Williamston, North Carolina, the fol lowing farms will be sold at public auction, to-wit: MOBLEY FARM: Located three miles southwest of Williamston, containing 84 acres cleared, 124 acres in woods, and having 18.4 acres base tobacco allotment. LASSITER FARM: Located five miles south of Wil liamston, containing 34 acres cleared, 31 acres in woods, and having 6.9 acres base tobacco allotment. RIDDICK FARM: Located two miles south of Wil liamston, containing 45 acres cleared, 55 acres in woods, and having 12 acres base tobacco allotment. RAWLES FARM: Located five miles south of Wil liamston, containing 36 acres cleared, 50 acres in woods, and having 8.5 acres base tobacco allotment. RAWLES FARM: Located five miles south of Wil liamston, containing 14 acres cleared, 9 acres in woods. WHITAKER FARM: Located four miles northwest of Williamston, containing 154 acres cleared, 846 acres in woods, and having 29.5 acres base tobacco allotment. MIZELLE FARM: Located three miles west of Wil liamston, containing 56 acres cleared, 94 acres in woods, and having 12.5 acres base tobacco allotment. ? BRYANT FARM: Located seven miles northwest of Williamston, containing 90 acres cleared, 85 acres in woods, and having 14.2 acres base tobacco allotment. PRICE FARM: Located four miles west of Williams ton, containing 62 acres cleared, 38 acres in woods, and having 8.3 acres base tobacco allotment. HARGETT FARM: Located five miles west of Wil liamston, containing 37 acres cleared, 50 acres in woods, and having 6.5 acres base tobacco allotment. GRIFFIN FARM: Located four miles southeast of Williamston, containing 31 acres cleared, 28 acres in woods, and having 7 acres base tobacco allotment. SMITH FARM: Located four miles southeast of Wil liamston, containing 20 acres cleared, 118 acres in woods - and having 4.5 acres base tobacco allotment STUBBS FARM: Located seven miles southeast of Williamston, containing 25 acres cleared, 109 acres in woods, and having 6.6 acres base tobacco allotment. BAZEMOHE FARM: Located seven miles southeast of Williamston, containing 10 acres cleared, 40 acres in woods. GRIFFIN SCHOOL HOUSE: Located four miles southeast of Williamston, consisting of a dwelling and lot of one acre. WINNIE MIZELLE FARM: Located two miles east of Bear Grass, containing nine acres of timber land. ROEBUCK FARM: Located six miles west of Wil liamston, consisting of a one-tenth undivided interest in 125 acres cleared land and 185 acres of wood land, sub --ject to the life estate of ftlrs. F.-J. Rwbudk CONOHO FARM: Located two miles north of Wil liamston, containing 56 acres cleared and 224 acres in woods. DAVIS FARM: Located three miles east of James ville, containing 9 acres cleared, 129 acres in woods. CHARLES GURKIN FARM: Located three miles east of Jamesville, containing 28 acres cleared, 27 acres in woods, and having 6.6 acres base tobacco allotment. WILLIAM GURKIN FARM: Located three miles east of Jamesville, containing 26 acres cleared, 10 acres in woods, and having 6.9 acres base tobacco allotment. CROMWELL FARM: Located six miles west of Wil liamston, containing 85 acres cleared, 141 acres in woods, and having 15.1 acres base tobacco allotment. HARRISON FARM: Located six miles south of Wil liamston, containing 76 acres cleared, 104 acres in woods, and having 18.6 acres base tobacco allotment. Terms: One-third cash, and the balance in seven equal annual installments. These farms are being sold under order of court for division. Full descriptions and particulars will be furn ished upon request and at time of sale. The services of a clerk to visit and inspect these farms will be given upon request at the office. This the 3rd day of September, 1938. HARRISON BROTHERS U COMPANY E S. Peel and R- L Coburn, Attys. ?6-2t
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