The Enterprise
Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the
ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO.
WILL1AMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA
W. C. MANNING |
Ldilor ? 1908 1938
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Friday. May 5. 1939
Mostly For Looks
Everything is going in for looks and style
these days, and the trend is costing the public
a pretty price The lowly cabbage is placed in
a highly decorated can. The old cucumbei
pickle is packed in a fancy jar with exacting
carc, and a beautiful label attached to attract
the eye. In short, there has been too everlast
mg much put on the outside of the can and jai
and not enough o! the lood ol lite placed on tne
inside
No cruel criticism is offered, but the practic.
ol young high school girls and boys wearing
caps and gowns for commencement time is
loolish and next ty absurd Why does a parent,
reportedly burdened to the earth with taxes for
the support of the school, have to turn around
and pay a few dollars rent that his son or
daughter might be uncomfortably dressed
while some over-rated orator in a few drearv
minutes at commencement tunc prepared them,
lor life just as if the eleven years of school bad
been a failure? ?
Some few years ago in a western college, i
poor lad had worked his way to graduation
time. Unable to raise the rental price for a cap
and gown, he was denied bis diploma Tin
young man was reported to have told the dean
that he had rather be dressed in overalls and
have his mmd. clothed in knowledge and his
heart wrapped 111 the powei of sympathetic un
derstanding than to have an empty skull cap
.peri with a covered pun ol caidbuanl uitli?re
tail attached and a black gown wrapped around
a body bent to the dirt by a shallow custom
commercially promoted?more than likely by
the manufacturer of caps and gowns. The dar
ing lad paid his kind respects to the dean and
departed. If one had read the papers a few
years ago he would have read with certain reg
ularity where that lad, well advanced in years
then, was fighting the battles of the masses, a
man free of shallow customs and hypocrisy.
Judging From the Wrong End
This country had fallen into the bad prac
tice of judging from looks rather than results
In the schools there has been much talk about
ranks, ratings and training, and possibly these
factors are to be considered in rating a school,
but to really gain a definite rating it would
seem better to test the finished product.
We have demanded our teachers to take so
many doses oi this or that training, and then
accept their sheepskin credentials at face value.
tales they hold in their hands, and not by the.
God-given talent they hold in readiness when
they enti 1 the school room to teach and train
youths.
The teachei should make extensive prepara
tions before going into the school room to
teach, but the rank of progress should not be
based on that preparation alone; it should be
based, certainly to some extent, on the value of
the finished product.
There has been too much judging on the
make-believe plan rather than on the actual
results attained. -
Justifying Destruction
The old cotton problem is still with us. And
those who have been working to solve the prob
lem are possibly coming to the conclusion that
the old plow-up or plain out and out destruc
tion policy of a few years back was not such a
bad policy after all.
The leaden. in the movement to solve the
problem had the government buy the cotton.
That was one step Now they want the govern
ment to si ll the cotton back to the farmers.
Some want to barter. Others want to offei
premiums to sellers and red marbles as an add
(<1 inducement to buyers. After listening to all
lie schemes and plans, one must admit that the
old plow-up system was not so absurd after all
And one may add that there'll be some more
plowing done before the women of this country
start wearing cotton stockings and other cotton
garments with the hope of solving the prob
lem.
Give no bounties; make equal laws; secure
lite and prosperity and you need not give
alms" Emerson. -
"A clii'oi Iul look?makes a dish?u feast.'
Herbert.
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NOTICE SERVING SUMMONS
BY PUBLICATION
North Carolina, Martin County. In
Superior Court.
Fannie Coffield, Widow of Augustus
Coffield, Deceased, vs. Jane Over
ton and William Cherry, et als,
and Any and All other persons
claiming an Interest in the .Sub
ject matter of this proceeding.
The defendants, Jane Overton,
William Cherry, Josephine Morning
Davis. Thomas Coffield. Albert Cof
field. Jane Staton, Henry Staton,
Earl Brown, William Brown, Myr
tie Keel Mouic, Li/aie Coffield Hob
erson, and any and all other persons
claiming an interest in the subject
matter of the proceedings, entitled
as above, has been filed in the Su
perior Court of Martin County, in
which proceeding said petitioner is
asking that her dower be allotted
in certain lands wherein the defen
dants claim an interest. Said lands
being described as follows:
First Tract: A certain farm located
in Martin County which is bounded
by J B. Ha wis, Lester House and
Joe Williams, containing 55 acres,
more or less, and known as the
Rawls or Williams tract of land.
Second Tract: That certain farm
located in Martin County which is
bounded by J B Roberson, J. R.
Daniels and Jack Taylor, containing
105 acres, more or less,?and known
as the Jolley or Coburn tract of
land
Third Tract: That certain house
and lot in the Town of Roberson
ville, located on Railroad Street, ad
joining the lands of H. B. Moore and
Arch Roberson and known as the
Dougan house and lot or Susie Cof
field house and lot.
Fourth Tract: That certain house
and lot on the South side of Rail
road Street in the Town of Rober
sonville and being the premises next
to and adjoining the lot of R. L.
Smithes residence formerly known
as the J. E. Moore home place.
Fifth Tract: Being two adjoining
lots and houses thereon and the va
cant lot back of the houses on the
corner of First South Railroad Street
and Cochran Street in the Town of
Robersonville, and being the houses
which are commonly known as the
Theo. Lloyd and John Hassell lots,
said property being bounded on the
North by W. T. Hurst, and being the
lots 93, 114 and vacant lnt back tiL
same on the East side of property.
Sixth Tract: Being the two-story
house and the lot on the corner of
Viek and First South Railroad
Street, on the West of Ida Moore's
residence and on the South side of
her garage tot.
Seventh* Tract: Being the apart
ment house on First South Railroad
Street obtained from Phon Coffield
on the corner 61 Viek Street.
Eighth Tract: A house and lot in
the Town of Robersortville, N. C.
All other real property ownyd by
Augustus Coffield, during his cover
ture with this petitioner
Said defendants will further take
notice that they are required to ap
pear before the Clerk of the Super
ior Court of Martin County at his
office in Williamston, N C., on or
-before the-10th day of June, 193th
and answer or demur to said peti
tion, copies of which have been filed
in said office, or petitioner will ap
ply to the court for the relief de
manded in the petition.
This the 27th day of April, 1939.
L. B. WYNNE.
Clerk of Superior Court, Martin
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