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The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA W. C. MANNING Editor ? 1908-1938 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year $1.75 Six months - 1.00 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year $2.25 Six months 1.25 No Subscription Received Under 6 Months 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, November 18, 1938. Living on Predictions One of the main troubles facing this country and the world is the habit of living in the to morrow and ignoring the real facts today. If the big industrialist says we are headed for a depression next fall, we start drawing our selves into a shell. If [Tie manipulator starts "a stock rise, we rush to buy, thinking that golden profits will be ours next month or next year. The task of predicting is beyond the ability of everyone. Of course, one can take stock today and know with some degree of certainty what to expect tomorrow. But all this lone-range predicting is a lot of bosh. No longer than last June, Mr. Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors, was so pessimistic that no body but the Republican believed or wanted to believe him. The first of this month. Mr. Sloan, after predicting the end of time would come this fall, is stepping up production in his plants. Just before the stock market crashed in 1939, the big boys, the boys who see all, know all, were telling us how sound the country was, and then in the following years, Mr. Hoover told us about prosperity just around the corner. The index followers tell us a whole year in advance what price to expect for this or that commod ity or article. They are really the wise fellows. And while they may be sincere in their predic tions, the average man can say with about as much impunity that he knows just about as much about the future as they do. A people can know what to expect by the i way they live today. If we, as individuals, are following sane living principles there isn't a great deal to fear, no matter what and how much Babson, Brookmyer or all the others pre dict. Explanations Everyone came out of his den the day after the November 8 election with a different idea as to the meaning of the vote trend. The New Deal is dead now, some said. The Republicans _are~cprtain of the preaidency two years from now, some others said. Business is going to get better, still -ethers said,-and atiR-others said business is going to get worse. Imagine all this difference because a few house seats, about 79 or 80 to be more exact, were lost to the Repub licans. About 193a, me Republicans all went broke, and turned a bankrupt nation over to the Dem ocrats. Bucklings down to the job, the Demo crats soon started things going again, but the Republicans were on the outside and had to live without the juicy salaries received by them for so long from Uncle Sam and the taxpayers in many of the States. But under Democratic banners, the Republicans started making mon ey, and each year they tried to buy the elec tions. But, they say there was the federal treas ury to combat, and year after year, losses were written down for the Republicans. The results of Tuesday, November 8, show that the Republicans finally passed the feder al treasury in the race. And, to think, they have regained their shirts through the generosity of a Democratic administration. Kinston's Opportunity Kins ton Free Press. Goldsboro's News-Argus asks, in a sarcastic tone, "What can they be thinking about in Kin ston to go indicting and arresting and trying to convict a lot of bootleggers." It insinuates that the Department of Conservation and Develop ment is blind to the "big possibilities of Kins, ton." This town has long had possibilities of de velopment into one of the leading tourist at tractions in the nation, the News-Argus de clares. It asks us to remember certain attrac -tions ??f Parts. New Orleans' fame as a "wide open" city, the Barbary Coast of San Francis co. ?Kinston, the Goldsboro paper says, could be come the leading "good time" town of the East, without competition this side of the Mississinni _ "River. Apparently it has in mind the "good start" that the city has. Kinston could be made so popular that it would attract throngs of tourists to the State, the News-Argus continues. "Retail business would boom in Kinston. New hotels and tour ist homes would be built?Real estate values would go up. Increased liquor sales would make possible a cut in the tax rate. Kinston would bloom?'the play city of the Eastern United States,' a town wide open from dawn to dawn, America's 'premier small city' of whoopee. Kin ston people would coin money. But it would be a h ? 1 of a place in which to bring up chil dren " It is evident that the News-Argus thinks of the long-standing indifference of Kinstonians to vice in the city. There is no denying that it has been more tolerant of prostitution, liquor and other evils than any other small city in the East in recent times. A large element of the pop ulation opposes these things, of course. But it is an element passive much of the time. Occa sionally, it gets into action to end the evils, en counters a legal stumbling block and subsides into passiveness again. But this will not go on forever. There will come a day when something will shock the residents of Kinston into action, action that will result in the eradication of the evils in a day.- Kinston Free Press. Stop and Think Christian Observer. James Truslow Adams tells of a tribe of sav. ages in the Amazon Valley who made it a prac tice when on a long trek to stop now and then in order to let their souls catch up with their bodies That custom, says the noted historian, illustrates the plight in which a large part of 44ie world is in today. Mankind has so speeded up the process of living in this machine age that we have neglected our souls. We are better off in material things, but not spiritually bet ter. Years fago Steinmetz, the scientist, and Woodrow Wilson, the statesman, warned the world of this danger. And nineteen, centuries manity to consider what profit it would be to man if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul. There is no need that we cease our efforts to make progress in the ma terial world, but our greatest need is to have more concern for the development of the soul. What we need now is not only optimism, but also hop-to-it-ism.?American Lumberman. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as administrator of the estate of Buck Lawrence Gardner, deceased, 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 twelfth day of Oc tober, 1939, or this notice will bo pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settlement. This the 12th day of October, 1938. WALTER GARDNER. Administrator of the estate of Buck Lawrence Gardner. ol4-6t NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the District Conn of the Eastern District of North Carolina?Wash ington Division In the Matter of: Mock Thomas Rob bins T-A Robbins Shoe Store Bankrupt No. 639 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Monday, December 12, 1938, has been fixed, by an order of the Court entered at the fust meeting of cred itors. as the last day on which ob jections to the discharge of this bankrupt may be filed Such objections are required to be specified, to be verified, to be in du plicate, and to be filed with the un dersigned WHEELER MARTIN. U. S Referee in Bankruptcy Williamston. N. C November 9. 1938. nll-2t NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby given that by by the Clerk of Martin County Su perior Court and by the authority ior Court of Martin County, in an action entitled "Guaranty Bank and Trust Company vs. P. L. Salsbury et als" the undersigned commissioner will on Monday. November 28. 1938. at 12 o'clock Noon in front of the Courthouse door of Martin County, offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash Hie Blowing dei.enhnl trtiel of land: A house and lot 10 the Town of Oak City and on the West Side of the A. C L. Railroad and bounded on the South by the street, on the North by the lands of Conoho Bap tist church and S W and W W Cas per, on the East by Railroad Street, containing one-fourth (1 -4 > acre, more or less. This the loth dav of November, 1938 W: 11 OOBURN. n 11 -4t Commissioner NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of the power and au thority in that certain Deed of Trust executed by James Russel Cherry and wife to C. II Rogers. Trustee, beuring date December 21, 1933, re corded in the Public Registry of Martip County in Book 11-3, page 197. default having been made in the payment of the notes for which the same as security, and at the re quest of the holder of said notes, the undersigned Trustee will, on Satur day, the 10th day of December, 1938, at twelve (12) o'clock Noon, at the Courthouse door of Martin Ciiunt^^it^^luuoston^T^^^He^ for sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, the follow ing described tract of land, to-wit: Adjoining the lands of Mc. G Rogers, James F. Bailey and J. G Leary and others and bounded as follows, viz: Beginning at a post oak in James F. Bailey's corner in what is called the old Reade line; thence along Mc G. Rogers line North 90 E. 44 1-2 poles to a post in the Mc. G. Rogers line, thence a West course down to J. G Leary's line to a post; thence a little Southwest to a post; thence down the ditdh to a post at the canal; thence down the canal to James F. Bailey's corner, a post; thence South 88 E. 80 poles along James F. Bailey's line to the beginning* containing 20 acres, more or less. ?This the 2nd day of Nuvernbct", 1938 C. U. ROGERS. Trustee. Hugh G. Horton, Atty. n4-4t NOTICE OF SALE UNDER EXECUTION North Carolina, Martin County. W. II. Carstarphen and C. D. Car starphen. Administrators of the estate of C. D. Carstarphen vs. Whit Ruff in Under and by virtue of a certain execution issued by the Clerk of the Superior Court and directed to me in the above entitledaetittn, stttd ex ecution having been served on the -defendant and payment, refused. T will on Friday. Dec. 9. 1938, at 1" o'clock M.. in front of the court house door-in the town of William stn, N. C.. offer for sale and sell to the highest bidder fur cash to satis fy said judgment the following de scribed parcel or lot of land, to mat certain lot or parcel of land situate in the town of Williamston. N. C.. adjoining the lands of Jennie Ruffin and others, and being .a lot in the town of Williamston on Elm Street, beginning at a point on Elm Street 42 feet from Mary Carroll's corner; thence a line parallel with Mary Carroll's linr~a-distance of 90 feet to Jennie Ruffin's line; thence along Jennie Ruffin's line and the Tine of the S. S. Hadley estate a dis tance of 40 feet; thence a line par allel with Mary Carroll's line to Elm Street; thence along Elm Street to the beginning, same being a 40 foot front lot lying 42 feet front Mary Carroll's line on Elm Street, and be ing the identical lot deeded by said Whit Ruffin by deed dated Oct. 5th., 1038 to Maty Davis and husband and the same land prescribed in a eer _!iiili_deed-iii trust?to?HughrG. Hoi ton, Trustee, dated Oct. 5th., 1938, executed by said Mary Davis and husband recorded in Book X-3, page 1 to which reference is made. This the ,11th day of November, 1938. C B. ROEBUCK. nll-4t Sheriff Martin County NOTICE or RE SAl.t: North Carolina, Martin County. Jefferson E. James, Executor of the Estate of George James, deceased, and Jefferson E. James, individu ally, vs. Mary Lee Smith and hus band, Ken Smith, Irma Lee Rog ers and husband, Walter Rogers,! Esteen James, Lula Mae James, (lecster Wiggins and husband, Sheltie Wiggins, William Pearce, Waller Pearce. CotmIhi Brown and husband. Starkey Brown, Eli-' sa James Smith and husband. Cur tis Smith. Coleen James and Wil-' liam James. Under and by virtue of an ordei f re-sale made by L B Wynne, i lerk of the Superior Court of Mar n County, the undersigned rommis-. ioners will, on Friday, the 25tu da> f November 1938, at twelve o'clock oon. in front of the coifrthouse door i the town of Williamston. offer for i ale to the highest bidder for cash j le follow ing described real estate,, > wit: ? ~~? Lying and being in Gdbge jfi 'ownship, Martin Counts and Stat< f North Carolina, beginning at a1 take in the George James nnth eoi er of tiiis land and the land allot ?d to Jefferson E. James, thence forth 38 1-2 East 808 feet to anoth r stake.. North 33 1-2 West 2570 feet ) another stake, thence along the i 'om Shciiod line to the Osbbrn arner, thence along the line of the inds of Mrs. M E. Osborn to the George James path, thence along the W. L. Mitel! imr to a hghtwood post in a pine, thence along the J. A. Everett line and the Gus Bryant line to a swcetgum in Gum Pond; thence North 78 degrees West 4446 feet to the George James path, thence along the line of the land of D, L Howell and W. D Hyman to a stake corner of this land and the land of D L. Howell and W. D. Hy ti.an, thence along the line of D. L. Howi it and Leonard Biship to the Ge .rye .1.ni.es path thence along the Gii.ig. Janu s path to the beginning containing in all 564.24 acres and I" rm: JioWii !,>'~plat made by C. H. Hevelle on February 1st, 1938, and i f record in the Clerk's office of Martin County as part of this pro i i ??<11riir :u lots A R m.' n A deposit of It) per cent will be required from the purchaser at the sate This the 8th day of November, 1938 ELBERT S. PEEL and C WALLACE JONES. nll-2t' -Commissioners. NOTICE! Valuable Farms FOR SALE! We offer for sale the following farms: MIZELLE FARM: Located three miles west of Williamston. containing 56 acres clear ed, 94 acres in woods, having 12.5 acres base to bacco allotment and 20.1 acres base peanut allot ment. Will sell this farm for $8000. WHITAKER FARM: Located four miles northwest of Williamston, containing 165 acres cleared, 835 acres in woods, having 29.5 acres base tobacco allotment, and 55.1 acres base pea nut allotment. Will sell this farm for $12,000. A1AWLS FARM: Lotated five miles south of Williamston, containing 14 acres cleared, 9 acres i woods and having 4.9 acres base peanut allotment. Will sell this farm for $800. 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