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The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WHJ.IAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA W. C. MANNING Editor ? 1908 1938 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cadi in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year $1 75 Si* months .. ? 1.00 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year $2.25 Si* 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 grcos of March 3. 1878. Address all communications to The Enterprise and not individual members of the firm. Friday^ December 2+1938. Progress In a world where man's life is geared and his progress is measured in the material sense, it is good to have a spiritual happening to break the monotony at least once in a while. We look ex pectantly to the next census count. We bid for the factory whether it will prove a community asset or a sweat shop. We like to see property values increase. We like to see the wheels of the factory hum We have little time to mark the mile posts in religious progress, a progress that will possibly help us gain the ultimate goal we are seeking with eyes shut. Local Presbyterians celebrated ten years of progress Sunday when lhey worshipped for the first time in their recently completed church here. The achievement is a crowning event not only for that denomination, but also for all de nominations and the community and county. The event did not attract county-wide atten tion, but it advanced the ties of communities, and in the final analysis its importance ranks ahead of anv event recorded in the annals of G Martin County history during recent years. This Changing World Some years ago, farmers owned the land cov ering the rich coal deposits in West Virginia and other states. Farmers, for the most part, owned the rich oil lands in Texas and Okla homa and other states. A changing world turn ed farmers into disgruntled and poverty-hound ed coal miners, and the farmers in the oil re gions, have, surrendere-d?to the oil magnates. The transfers were legal, no doubt, but it is sur prising how the trend could so nearly approxi mate a goal of limited ownership and place thousands at the mercy of the few. Thsoe changes attract little attention and create no interest in this section, but eastern North Carolina is having a change of its own. The timberlands have been sold by the thous ands of acres for a mess of pottage, the trend of the times being to sell every tree and bush and buy the pleasures of the day. Right here in this county, hundreds of acres of timberlands have been sold and are being sold from week to week, the change causing one to wonder if it will not be the lot of Martin County people at some time in the future to work those timber lands more as serfs than as a free and indepen dent people. The purchasers are not to be censored. The blame lies with those who would sell their val uable possessions for a mess of pottage today and subject their childern to the rules and reg ulations of the few in the years to come. Farm Program Hartford County Hcrmld. An editorial in the last issue of the Lexing ton, N. C., "Dispatch" under the title "Construc ITveTdea" attracted our attention while looking over the pile of exchanges that is one of our chores to wade through each week. The idea the Lexington paper approved was" the interest shown by a group of business men of that small city, the existence of which to a large extent depends upon manufacturing, m sitting down together to consider plans and ways and means for developing the farming in terests of the nearby territory. Said the editorial: "It is gratifying when a city can draw in new capital and new citizens from afar for industrial expansion. But it is an even more substantial acquisition when a city can reach out and develop the latent resources in its own community, which includes the farm area within convenient reach." There is an idea with which we agree. And il it is a sound and constructive idea for an in dustrial town, such as Lexington is, for its bus^ iness men to give their time and thought to plans for building their community through cooperation in a program to build a better and more prosperous agriculture in the territory surrounding their town, how much more im portant it is that it should be the subject for thoughtful planning and full cooperation 15y The~ business men of Ahoskie, ' which is dependent almost entirely upon the commerce produced by agriculture. It is in this direction with cordial cooperation between town and country dwellers that con structive work can be done in community building. Europe is feverishly preparing for her next war with money she doesn't have to pay on debts contracted for the World Warld.?Delphi Citizen.-? ? THE LETTER-BOX ?? EXPRESSES OPPOSITION TO CROP CONTROL PLAN To The Editor: I see the New Dealers are herd ing them up, getting everything in readiness for the crop control drive December 10, but I shall be in a dif ferent line. I shall be in the line for liberty instead of bondage. They can paint the old house over and over. How beautiful and lustrous it will shine, but in its structure is the same old timber, very insufficient, in fact, dangerous to live in. It is filled with termites and eaten to the core. What was the foundation of this country, this great independent na tion, a nation that not only our citi zens enjoyed the independence and liberty of, but people from far off who came here to live and enjoy it with us? Was it founded upon the New Deal, or was it founded upon sound democracy established by our forefathers back in history? It was founded upon democracy by our an cestors who toiled day and night, pouring out their sweat for us, that we might have comfort more than they hid themselves. Now what are we doing but tearing down all ? yes, all that they have built up for us? The constitution has been over powered by amendments, so have the few privileges we once had, been taken away from us by the corrup tion of some other source. The New Deal is a pretty good revenue collector, but we have too many of them already. Consequent ly, it puts a big number of people who were looking jobs with the work picked out on the payroll. Well, they have that job, and the yoke of the payroll is hung around the necks of the farmers. You don't have to go to Germany to find pressure, we have it right here. Archie Roberson, Robersonville, N. C. German Author Tells Of Anti-Hitler Units ?'?<? Baltimore, Md. ? Oskar Maria Graf, a German author, told a meet ing sponsored by the German-Am erican League tor Culture recently that throughout Germany small groups of citizens opposed to the rule of Adolf Hitler have formed units and are awaiting an oppor tune time to rise up against the Na zi government. Following the meeting, called by the German-American Society to protest anti-Semitism in Germany, a telegram was sent to President Roosevelt, approving "what you have done to express the horror of the American people," and assuring the president of support "in any steps you may see fit to take." CAKD OF THANKS We wish to take this means to sin cerely thank all our friends who were so kind to us during the sick ness and death of our dear father, Henry Archibald Johnson. Each ex pression of sympathy was greatly appreciated and will long be remem bered. THE FAMILY. CARD OF THANKS We wish to take this means to sin cerely thank all our friends who were so kind Wus during the sick ness and death of our dear father, Henry Archibald Johnson. Each ex pression of sympathy was greatly appreciated and will long be remem berad, ? THE FAMILY. TRUSTEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE Under and by virtue of the power and authority conferred upon the undersigned by that certain deed of trust made by E. H. Jefferson and wife, Amanda R. Jefferson, dated July 13, 1936. and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Martin County, North Carolina, in Book T-3, Page 23, on account of default in the payment of the same, the undersigned will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bid der, for cash, at the county court house door, in Williamston, at 12 o'clock noon, on the third Monday in December, the same being De cember 19, 1938, the following de scribed real estate, situate, lying and being in the County of Martin, in the State of North Carolina, to wit: All that certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in Goose Nest Township, Martin County and State of North Carolina, on the Hamilton and Palmyra public road about three miles North from the Town of Oak Citv and bounded on the. North by said Hamilton and Palmyra public" Road' on the East by the lands of Carrie Norfleet and on the South and West by the lands of Carrie Norfleet, S. P. Green, Lemon James, and the Red Marsh Branch, con taining Three Hundred Eighty-four and live-Tenths (384.5) acres, more or lees, as shown by a map of same made by T. Jones Taylor, Surveyor, which said map is now on file with the Atlantic Joint Stock Land Bank of Raleigh and being the same and identical land described in a mort gage from W R. Everett and wife to the Atlantic Joint Stock Land Bank of Raleigh, dated June 1, 192S, and of record In the public registry of Martin County in Book X-i, at page 167 Reference feeing made to said map and said mortgage for a more perfect description of the lands here in conveyed and by such reference made a part of this description. And being the same land this day con veyed to E. H. Jefferson, and this Deed of Trust is given to secure the deferred payments on the purchase price. This the 16th day of November, A. D, 1936. J. FRANK HACKLER, Trustee Hackler A Allen, Attys Wilmington, N. C. nl8-4t DECEMBER CLEARANCE ON ALL Dresses, Hats, Sweaters, Skirts Realizing the necessity of a clearance sale owing to the large stock we have on hand, we have decided to reduce all La dies' Dresses, Hats, Sweaters and Shirts at and Below the Actual Cost Price LADIES' DRESSES REDUCED BELOW COST All Dresses Priced from 7.95 to 19.50 Reduced to ? X $5.95 to $12.95 DOBBS HATS?7.50 Value?On Sale $3.98 ALL OTHER HATS AT HALF-PRICE Our entire stock of sweaters and skirts reduced in line with the above items. Our stock is new and clean and every item in our store on sale, is a bar gain at the above prices. You'll need a new dress, one with genuine style and quality for the holiday. Don't wait until they are picked over. Sale Begins Sat. Dec. 3 Proctor Shoppe WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA BELKTYLER'S DECEMBER SALE! Sale! Entire Stock Fall Dresses DRASTIC REDUCTIONS IN ALL FALL DRESSES. OUR ENTIRE STOCK HAS BEEN PLACED ON SALE AT THESE GIVE-AWAY PRICES. DON'T MISS THIS SALE ? ITS A CHANCE IN A, LIFETIME. All naw slock?Loraly - naw fell styl*s in all tha naw fall colors. You afford to miss this opportunity. Coma sarly bafora / tha stock Is plckad over. $1.98 Now $1.39 $2.98 Now $ 1.97 $3.98 Now $2.97 $4.98 Now $3.33 $5.95 Now $3.88 $7.95 Now $4.97 $9.95 Now $6.88 $14.95 Now $10.79 SALE! FALL COATS Our Entire Stock of beautiful new tall coats priced for quick sale. All of the lovely new fall materials In all of the new fall colors for you to select lrom. Be sure to come esrly and select1 your fall coat at this great SAVING! $7.95 Now $7.39 $9.95 Now $8.88 $14.95 tNow $10.88 $19.95 Now $11.88 $27.50 Now $ 18.88 Use Our Lay Away Plan SALE! MEN'S SUITS HEW PATTERNS ? NEW STYLES ? AT PRICES YOU NEVER DREAMED OF. AH of the new materials In both single and double breaaleda lor you to select from. Come In today and select your new suit for the holidays. You are sure to find some thing to please you. $ 12.95 Now $11.88 $14.95 Now $13.88 $18.50 Now $15.88 $19.95 Now $16.88 Use Our Lay Away Plan Sale! Suede Shoes OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF LADIES' SUEDE SHOES AT DRASTIC REDUCTIONS FOR THIS SALE?Pump*. Strap*, and TUa la all ih* new fall colon. Take advantage ol our December Sale. Come in early and make your eelection before our atock is picked over. SALE! CHILDREN'S SHOES Good tough leather oxford* In both black and brown. A raal ahoo at an axcaptionally low pclco. So* them today. 79c $1.88 $2.79 $2.99 Natural Bridge Shoes All oI our NATURAL BRIDGE SUEDE SHOES it thU low price. Buy a raal high quality arch ahoa at a groat saving. Lovely stylos in all sisos lor you to select from. Bo euro to see theae wonderful valuos TODAY! $3.77 BELK ' TYLER COMPANY WILLIAMSTON, N. C.