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The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLI AMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA W. C. MANNING Editor ? 1908-1938 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year $1.75 Si* month* 1.00 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year $2.23 Six month! 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 1, 1879. Address all communications to The Enterprise ?nd not individual members of the firm. Tuesday, April 18, 1939. A Sad Commentary Williamston's municipal government was un animously given a stamp of approval at a nom inating convention here last Friday evening The action carries a certain degree of honor for the town's governmental heads, but it is a sad commentary on good government when only eighty-eight people in a town of approximately 4.000 turn out to participate in laying the foun aation upon which their government will op erate during the next two years The best government does not come as a re sult of severe and unfounded criticism; it comes only as a result of a keen and sympathetic in terest in its activities at all times by all the peo ple. Toward this end the present town authori ties should act to broaden the opportunities for a greater participation by the people in then government. The nominating convention with few exceptions has been lost in the march of progress. To keep step with the progressive march, our officials should make plans now to <3 have the primary system created by the next session of the legislature. Such action does not suggest there has been or will be a "bone of contention"; it merely means that the concepts of good government will be broadened, that a more representative government will be made possible. The Jitterbug Once described in sane and rational terms, this country had to invent the jitterbug to de scribe its crazy activities and the activities 01' its people. We have moved out of that smootli waltz rythm into an age of super-scrambled eggs where everything is topsy turvy and today lew know whether they are a'going or a'com ing Some say there'll be war, and some say there will be no war. Some say if Europe fights, we will fight, and some say we won't fight if Eu rope fights. Some say the number of unemploy ed is increasing, and some say the number of unemployed is decreasing. Some say more mon ey is needed for the unemployed, and some say less money is needed for the unemployed. Strange as it may seem, those who say unem ployment is incre-asing also say less money is needed for the unemployed. Some say the country is facing bankrupt, but in the same periodical it was pointed out that more automobiles are being sold than there were a while back, that more luxuries are be coming necessities each day, that what we "throw away" will more than offset the relief bill with enough left over to support the schools and the farm program. With all these facts and more, too, it is rea sonable to believe that the country itself is all right, but that some of its critics and experts have been bitten by the jitterbug and now have severe cases of the jitters. The Cotton Problem There have been advanced about as many plans to solve the cotton problem as there are senators in Washington, but pone of them seems to solve the problem to the satisfaction of all. After all is said and ddne there is only one solution and that is to put cotton stockings back on the fairer sex in this country. Since this sure solution will never be effected, it will be well to keep on wrangling and pick out the next best solution. The plan announced by the Agricultural Ad justment Administration a few days ago grant ing the farmer who plants no cotton or a por tion of his allotment a claim to soil conserva tion and possibly price adjustment payments lias its merits. But, most fanners will sneer at the plan, and if they did give it consideration there are those who would point out the de creased number of workers in the cotton fields and in the gins. It is really puzzling to under stand how some can complain about a plan that will throw farm labor out of work when to ignore the plan it will cost the farmer his land and hone. One of the great troubles with agriculture today has been the policy of allow ing the farmer to work himself to death, pay low wages and then selling his products at a figure below the cost of production. It is just as fair for the government to take all the cotton it has on hand and sell it back to the farmers at a loss as it is to expect a farmer to grow large cotton crops or any other crops, for that matter .and sell them on an open mar ket at a loss. Much argument can be heard in support of 1he industrial tariff, but no matter what sys tem one proposes to help the farmer there are those who declare the economic foundation will be destroyed. This country will be better off when the far mer gams his rightful recognition, and if dras tic steps are necessary to solve the cotton prob lem then let those steps be taken even if th>' heavy bundle of lint has "tw-tac burned up in storage or plowed up in the field. And let those who are opposed to such drastic action start and carry out a movement to hang that surplus lint on the legs of American women and around the bodies of American men. It might be well to stop the mad rush to the nudist colony. The cotton problem is a serious one, and like many others, someone is certain to suffer a loss. But. don't let the farmer suffer the loss alone. Tuberculosis Is Mass Murder Sanatorium Sun. Let's stop kidding ourselves that we care very much for human life. So long as we allow the white death to go on raging. Let's stop try ing to put it out of our heads that all of us ? grown-up citizens of voting age?are anything but accessories before the fact of the annual murder of Scores of thousands of American cit izens. Look yourself in the face and ask your self whether you are or are not co-guilty of murder, if you know in advance that murder is going to take place and do not do your ut most to prevent that death. In the matter of the infamy of TB's mass murder, there is no longer any excuse for you not to know? That, contrary to the pious, self-congratula tory hoorahs of certain public health evangel ists. TB is a mighty long way from being con quered. Its miserable microbe?that we could wipe out absolutely, if we wanted to?still kills 70,000 Americans yearly, and puts over 50,000 n danger of now needless consumptive death. That, contrary to all detractors of the power of medical science, TB is curable. In nearly 100 per cent of all cases when it is in its early stages. In nearly 50 per cent of cases of victims far gone in the advanced stages of the sickness. That, with the present power of TB science that could be made available to all, there is no reason why ALL cases of TB should not be dis covered when they are early and 100 per cent curable. Your tuberculosis is no longer early when you're already coughing, feverish, losing weight, sweating nights, nr spitting blond TtV early When You Have No Symptoms, but when the X-ray's magic eye can detect its dev iltry in your lungs. That, contrary to old-fogey notions still en tertained by many doctors, TB can never be wiped out of our land so long as the bulk of its victims are discovered after their sickness is already far advanced. The mass X-raying of communities is the one way to uncover early TB. The prompt cure of every early case so that no case can spread the death to others?if ac complished, would make the White Plague ne gligible within a generation. That it would be one of our most spectacular national economies if,, nationally*. we immed iately insisted that our president, the Congress, the several state legislatures and our local communities appropriated the necessary an nual millions of dollars to make a nation-wide TB fight really effective. Though they do not realize it, every citizen sick with TB is a com munity and national expense that helps to keep our budgets, in the fed. Every lost life from TB means the loss of that money for which our economy howlers now moan so piteously. It would cost our country a hundred times less money to wipe out TB in one generation than it is going to cost to maintain this ghastly lux ury for an indefinite period. Man's Mistakes Dunn Dispatch. Man learns a lot in a life-time, but most of his information secured in the school of exper ience comes too late for it to be of much value then as a guide for future actions. His imper fections lead to many mistakes, but he learns by doing and observing. The seven greatest mistakes of many have been enumerated by a writer recently as: 1. The delusion that individual advancement is made by crushing others down. 2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected. 3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we ourselves cannot accomplish it. 4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences in order that important things may be accomplish ed. 5. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind by not acquiring the habit of read Liagu- ' ? 8. Attempting to compel other persons to be lieve and live as we do. 7. Failure to-establish the habit Of saving money. Check yourself on the seven things listed as mistakes, and see if you are one of those who might profit by making a change. More Old Folks To Receive Benefits Legislature Increases Fund By Approximately $700,000.00 ? Raleigh? The just-adjourned Tar Heel legislature was swept by no Townsend plan hysteria or old age pension hokum, but it did make possible a tangible increase in num ber of old folks on the assistance lulls. ? At least both Mrs. W T. Bost, commissioner of public welfare, and Nathan Yelton, director of the old age assistance division, are of that opinion, although they haven't yet worked out any figures showing just how many will be added, nor where. They base their belief on the fact that the $4,400,000 which they will have from all sources (federal, state and county) for each year of the coming biennium will be approxi mately $700,000 greater than the rate at which old age assistance is now being paid. That $4,400,000 will permit them to pay out to the old people an aver age of something more than $360, 000 each month, against the present rate of approximately $310.000 (it was just short of that figure in March). They do not plan to increase the present average payment to the beneficiaries, an average which reached $9.54 in March, but rather to use the extra money to place on the assistance rolls the aged who are eligible by all tests but who have been kept off by the lack of funds to take care of them. ?Assuming that the average is kept at about $9.54, the $700,000 increase in availability would enable the placement of approximately 6,000 new pensioners on the lists. That is what the officials now plan to do. Both Mrs. Bost and Mr. Yelton view legislative action with relation to their department with more than mild approval. Both said they feel that the assembly made substantial though not too extensive, contribu tion to a well-ordered, safely based program of assistance to the aged I and to dependent children. For the children's aid there was no such marked increase in funds I as in the case of the old people, the I appropriation for that purpose mak ing available from all sources about $525,000 for each year, an increase of about $25,000 over current bud getary provisions. Viewed from angles other than the financial, the old age assistance pro- , gram was considerably liberalized and made more flexible by change ! in the residence requirements for | eligibles. Dividends Received From II. S. Forests Although the national forests in North Carolina are composed large ly of lands which had been logged prior to purchase by the federal government, they are already con tributing an annual net return. This consists of twenty-five per cent of the cash receipts and amounted last year to $8,57g.82. These receipts are from the sale of national forest tim ber and from oh efr ro mosflantOl ber and from other forms of land use from the three national forests in North Carolina?the Nantahala, the Pisgah and the Croatan. The iunds thus made available to local government units are used for pub lic schools and roads and are sup plemented by an additional ten per cent used by the forest service for building and maintaining roads and trails within these forests. The for est service also assumes a large share of the cost of constructing and maintaining public improvements, such as roads, trails and campground developments, using other funds ap propriated by Congress which amounted to $75,811 last year in North Carolina. Total receipts from the 158 na tional forests in the United States administered by fQgCgt Ht-rviro of the department of agriculture amounted to $4,871,133, twenty-five per cent of which was distributed among nearly one-fifth of the 3,070 counties in the entire country. The forest service points out that the largest receipts each year usual ly come from those national forests which have been under federal man agement for long periods and whose earning capacity has been improv cd by the systematic protection and utilization of their natural resources, j Receipts from the national forests in North Carolina, it is pointed out J will increase as the forests become ! more productive as a result of pro lection and management. vnTirr We hereby forbid any person or persons from dumping waste matter such as garbage, tin cans and paper on the grounds or premises of the" Skewarkee church. Unless the prac tice of using the grounds as a dump ing place is stopped we shall prose cute to the fullest extent any person guilty of this act. J H. Mizolle, Clerk, all 14 Skewarkee Church. NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina, Martin County. Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain deed ol trust executed by J. A. Getsingei and wife to 11 D. Batoinan, Trustee on the 20th day of June, 1928, and ol record in Martin County in Book X 2, page G33, and default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured and applica tion having been made to the under signed Trustee for a sale of the property hereinafter described: Now, Therefore, the undersigned Trustee will expose at public sale at the J. A. Getsinger home and farm, at Dardens, on the 28th day of April, 1939, at 12 o'clock noon, to the highest bidder for cash, the fol lowing described articles of person al property: All farming implements and mules used to cultivate crops on the said Getsinger farm for the year 1928, as follows: 1 dark red mare mule, 12 years, 1100 pounds. Matt 1 dark red mare mule, 12 years, 1100 pounds, Ida. 1 John Deere stalk cutter, 18 years. 1 John Deere disc harrow, 6 years. 4 Chattanooga 2-H turning plows, 10 years. 3 A Champion 1-H turning plows, 10 years. 2 Section harrows, 19-12 years. 1 Bern is Tobacco Transplanter, IS years. 2 Cole corn planters, 8-12 years. 4 Climax cotton plows. 5-6 years. 1 John Deere hay rake, 15 years. ' 1 Little Giant Bean Harvester, 6' years. 8 Tobacco trucks, 4-10 years. 1 Blacksmith wagon, 12 years 2 Farm carts, 10 years This the 27th day of March, 1939. H. D. BATEMAN, Trustee. Z! V. Norman, Atty. m28-4i BOND ORDER?BOARD OF COM MISSIONERS OF MARTIN COI'NTY FOR CROSS ROADS TOWNSHIP. Be it ordered by the Board of Commissioners of the county of Martin, state of North Carolina: 1. That bonds of Cross Roads Township shall be issued in the ajr. gregate principal amount of $50, 000.00 for the purpose of refunding the following described valid out standing bonds of said Cross Roads Township, to wit: $50.000.00, 6 per cent Cross Roads Township bonds, dated April 1st, 1921, due and payable $5,000.00 thereof on the 1st day of April, in each of the years 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 and 1946 2. A statement of the debt of Cross Roads Township, Martin County, North Carolina, has been filed with the Clerk of the Board of Commissioners of Martin County and is open to public inspection. 3. This order shall take effect upon its passage and shall not be submitted to the voters. The foregoing order has been in troduced. A tax will be levied for the payment of the proposed bonds and interest if the same shall be is sued. Any citizen or taxpayer may protest against the issuance of such bonds at a meeting of the Board of County Commissioners to be held at the courthouse in the town of Wil liamston, North Carolina, in the !-county commissioners room at ten o'clock, a. m., on May 1st, 1939, or an adjournment thereof. J SAM GETSINGER. Clerk of Board of Commissioners a4 7 11 14 18 21 25 28 V. S.-N. C. Pullorum Blood Tested $8.95 per 100 First Quality Rocks, Reds, Leghorns. Hatches off each Tuesday and Thura day. Mail osder receive prompt attention Lancaster's Hatchery Phone 241-1 WINDSOR, N. C. Let Us Serve You! This strong bank is always ready to serve you in any and every way consistent with sound banking principles. Our officers and our entire banking force and service is at your command constantly. We will appreciate the opportunity of hav ing you call upon and consult with us on all mat ters of this sort. Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Guaranty Bank & Trust Company WILLIAMSTON, N. C. Buy Sheet Roofing That Cannot Leak ?DON'T BE FOOLED? Look For The Name On Every Sheet You have the privilege to get the best for your money when you make a purchase, therefore why fool around and have something offered to you that is said to be "just as good". That is what is being told roofing buyers every day ... If it is just as good, why not demand the original Channeldrain roofing, either in O. H. steel or Cop-R-Loy. Remember the word Cop-R-Loy on Channeldrain is your absolute protection against rust?it gives many years long er service and cannot leak. Yes, we know there are some brands of sheet roofing that sell a little cheaper than Channeldrain. However, when you consider lasting value, Chan neldrain is the cheapest because it gives many more years of service than the average 5-V roofing. FOR SUPER PROTECTION AND SUPER ECONOMY WHEELING Channeldrain ROOFING EOO? Yes, Channeldrain is absolutely leak proof ? when it rains it drains. There is no 6ther roofing made that has the same drain as Channeldrain. Now, if you want sheet roofing, demand from your dealer Channeldrain. And if you want roll roof ing, demand Wheeling Cop-R-Loy roll metal ? something better for your money. W .H.Basnight &Co.,Inc. WHOLESALE DEALERS ONLY AHOSKIE. N. C.
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