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The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLLAMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA W. C. MANNING Editor ? ISO* 1918 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance; IN MARTIN COUNTY One year .. - . - - ^ Six months 1.00 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year $2.23 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. 1878. Address all communications to The Enterprise and not individual members of the firm. Friday . July 7, 193V. Hp'II find Com pel i liori Here Thomas E. Cooper, who has the alleged repu tation of creating a lot of noise, is making plans to aggravate that reputation if and when he runs for governor of North Carolina. Poor old Tom may be heard in some towns in North Car olina. but he'll encounter some stiff opposition in Williamston where auto horns toot and toot, night and day. and+trt-s "squeal'' at every cor ner including the one in two arms' length of the police- station. Mr. Cooper will have reason to believe he has visited a steel center if he ever comes to Williamston. If Cooper is to register success in Williamston by carrying on a noisy campaign, he just as well form a partnership with one Silas Green and bring the entiro band along. , ?? : Speaking of noises. Louis Graves, in his Cha pel Hill Weekly, writes: "Thomas E. Cooper, of Wilmington, has been talking about running for Governor, and it is reported that, if he does, he will use a sound truck in his campaign So it appears that the people of North Carolina may be subjected next summer to a vast volume of one of the most odious forms of noise. "The citizens of this state have been lucky enough, thus far, to have only a long-distance acquaintance with sound-truck campaigning. They h^ve read in the newspapers about how O'Damel got to be Governor of Texas by haul ing around a hill-billy quartet and amplifying their whines and yelps alternately with his own speeches, and about the use of methods of some what the same sort in Louisiana and Arkansas. Of course the more enlightened of North Car olinians have prayed that such a curse would never be visited upon their state, but there are probably hundreds of thousands who will wel come this kind of ballyhoo, and, when we re call the success of Bob Reynold's vaudeville performances in his campaign for Senator in 1932, we shouldn't be surprised to see Cooper, if he carries out his sound-truck threat, capture a tremendous vote. "There ought to be legal protection for the public against useless and excessive noise. An ti-noise ordinances have been enacted in New York and some other imrt, whiti- They -have nut wuiked perfectly. It is generally agreed that they have brought considerable linprove ment. They were enacted for the rriHi" porprna* of mitigating the automobile horn nuisance, but they could just as properly be invoked against a political candidate who raises a din up and down the streets and through the countrysides with a phonograph and singers. A candidate de termined to use such equipment and such a crew should be made to hire a hall or at least to go to some grove or lield, distant from the centers of traffic, where as many nitwits as he can attract will be free to assemble but where he will not annoy decent and sensible people. "We wish that here in our own village of Cha pel Hill the authorities would take steps to re duce unnecessary horn-tooting. Of course the plague cannot be ended completely, with as many stupid and inconsiderate people as there are at the steering wheels of cars, but exper ience has proved that it can be reduced. The automobilists who blow their horns unneces sailly, especially on residence streets after the bedtime hour, ought to be arrested and fined. And when one of them is nabbed too late at night for him to be able to find a bondsman, a few hours in jail will be no more punishment than he deserves." Out Of The South This is the land of poor wages in the midst of plenty of ignorance at the door of opportunity, of exquisite culture and lewd barbarism, of high birthrates and frightful mortality, of kill ing work and easy living, of thoughtlessness when thought is needed. This is the breeding place of exaggerated types and opposites, the home of the great statesman and the vacuous windbag compelling his thousands. Here is the home of the Negro liberator and the avenging lyncher, here the miscegenator and the racial purist, the philosopher and the holy-roller, the man of common sense like Johnny Johnson and the blazing idiot; here the ambitious educator who spit on all his efforts, the florid aristocrat and his hungry hound dog, the musi cal and imaginative genius whipped back to his endless furrow; here the starveling share cropper and the machinery plantation, the pure democrat and the blighted one-gallus man; here the home of the first American dream upon this continent?a nation of liberty and free men and justice unto all. In song and story, in history and criticism, in sociology and economics, in surveys and maps and graphs, in thousands of books and pictures of every sort and name the writers of America have of recent years sought to interpret this mysterious section, to define its meaning to the world and prepare a cure for its many ills. Lately the President of the United States has himself joined the number. And out of all these inquiries the true nature of this^strange re gion we call the South is to be found. And the evils that fly up out of it like the wheeling buz zards will be finally driven off, and the car rion of ignorance and poverty notv corrupting the body politic will be cleansed away. Let us hope so. Let us work to bring it to pass. ? From the Preface to "Out of the. Syuth," the Life of a People in Dramatic Form, by Paul Green, published by Harper and Brothers. Under Hoover It ox a bit refreshing tu turn back to the old records and note that all that is wrong in the country today I" eh:irfli?:ihlii In thu prmiont administration in Washington. Discussing the plight of the railroads, Samuel O. Dunn, editor of the Railway Age, nine years ago, wrote, "The railroads are suffering as much from the effects of the present depression as any other of the country's industries. Their net operating income in the first quarter was 32 per cent less than last year (1929), and was the smallest since 1922." It is interesting to note that Mr. Dunn points out that other industries of the country were suffering along about that time, and it\will be remembered that the next two years, 1932 and part of 1933, added to that suffering. Remembering those hectic days, we close our eyes when we think of what might have hap pened. of what was almost certain to have hap pened, if that Republican administration had continued in power just a few more months af ter March, 1933. President Roosevelt and his New Deal may pot and has not solved the problems of this country, but he saved the country from wreck and ruin and shall we add internal strife and revolution to the list. When we talk about what's happened in this country since March, 1933, we should stop and go back to those hectic days and recall the causes for all the things that have followed in due course these past few years. harm-To-Markvt Hoailt Farm Bureau News. We believe that the time has come for N. C. Farmers to give serious consideration to their state road system. Federal apportionment of highway funds to the several states is now ear-maked by Con gress for three classes of work: 1. Regular Federal aid. 2. Secondary or field roads. .'1 Grade crossings and eliminations. To supplement these funds the tax payers of North Carolina have been pouring millions of dollars annually into the road program. We now have a good hard surface system connect ing towns and cities and a very poor feeder or iarnnto-market system. We realize that- these inter-city highways must be kept in repair in what might be termed "the pink of condition," to prevent highway hunui'du. Are we going in for a program of "through national super high ways", city to city boulevards, or shall we first get our feeder farm-to-market roads up to par ?out of the mud so to speak?before we pro vide for the super highways for the cross the continent type of tourists. The real highway issue has been beclouded by the clamour of oil companies and others against diversion of highway funds, leading the farmers to believe that if diversion of highway funds was prevented, the farm-to-market road program would be financed. This is not true, di version or 110 diversion, the oil people, corpor ations who furnish material for road building, operators of heavy trucks and others interested in concrete roads are pulling evry wire possi ble to widen the present concrete system and to increase the present hard surface mileage at the expense of farm-to-market roads. Farmers have to travel these negledted ru ral roads and the crowd who raises the loud est howl about rural roads does not even get dust on either his car or trucks operated. If the farm-to-market roads are- ever improved, it will come as a result of the demands on the part of farmers who travel these roads. The far mers of North Carolina should demand that two cents per gallon of the gas tax paid into the State Treasury by ear-marked and spent on farm-to-market roads. This Would result in an equitable road system. As it is now, when the roads get impassable, the Governor allots two million dollars for ru *15l roads and everybody applauds. Why per mit our farm-to-market roads to get in this shape? Who Is to blame? Why not have a fund that will make our rural road system an all weather road system. We are paying enough gas tax for each system to receive a fair share. Candidates for state offices will soon be shell ing the woods for votes, that will soon be shell tor farmers to make known their wish about how their road tax money is to be spent. ' Living Standards Are Rising Rapidly World's Fair visitors leave with a better appreciation of how the Am erican Standard of living has been enhanced by the combined scientific efforts of many industries to perfect a single product. An example is af forded in the transportation zone of the New York fair, where the labor saving benefits of the "gasoline age" are dramatized through the presen tation of modern farm implements which owe Ihetr speed, ease of opera tion and low upkeep to development of rubber tires on which they move. Just 100 years ago, records show, it took 47 man hours of labor with sickle and flail, to harvest 20 bush els of wheat. By 1900, using binder and thresher, the job was accom plished in six man hours. Now, with the streamlined, rubber-shod com bine and truck displayed at the ex hibit. it is estimated the job can be done in two hours, a profit and la bor saving achievement which im presses fair visitors as matching the boons that technical progress has given to the industral world. ADMINISTRATOR S NOTICE Having qualified as administrator of the estate of Emily Whitley, de-1 ceased, late of Martin County, North | Carolina, this is to notify all persona having claims against the estate ofl said deceased to exhibit them to the of June, 1940, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settle ment. This fifth day of June, 1939. J. S. WHITLEY, Administrator of the estate of j9-6t Emily Whitley. ADMINISTRATOR S NOTICE North Carolina, Martin County. Having this day qualified as ad ministrator of the estate of Ethel V. Barber, deceased, this is to notify all persons having claims against ] said estate to exhibit some to the un dersigned or his attorney within one (1) year from the date of this notice,' or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebt ed to said estate will please make j immediate payment. This the 13th day of June, 1939. CHARLES C. MARTIN, Administrator of the estate of Ethel V. Barber. Elbert S. Peel, Atty. jl6-6t TRUSTEE S SALE OF REAL ESTATE Pursuant to the power and author ity contained in a certain deed" of trust dated the 18th day of January, 1935, executed by Alton E. Grimes, single, Carrie Louise Grimes Whit field and husband, Lester L. Whit field and Jessie Walton Grimes Mob ley and husband, William Ernest Mobley to T. C. Abernethy, Trustee, which deed of trust is duly register ed in the office of the Register of Deeds of Martin County, North Car olina, in Book N-3, page 507, secur ing a certain note payable to Home Owners' Ixian Corporation, default having been made for a period of more than ninety (90) days in the payment of said note as provided therein and in the performance of certain covenants set out in said deed I of trust, and demand of foreclosure having been made by the holder of said indebtedness, the undersigned Trustee will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the Court House door in Martin County, Williamston, North Carolina at 12 o'clock noon on the 17th day of July, 1939. the following described real estate to-wit: Lying and being in the Town of Robersonville, Rob eraonville Township, County of Mar tin, State of North Carolina, and more particularly described as fol lows: All that certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the Town of Robersonville. bounded on the North by the lands of R. L. Smith and Oscar Smith, on the East by the lands of H. O. Whitfield, on the South by Second Street, and on the West by the lands of the Estate of J. H. Grimes, and more particularly described by a plat of same made by Sylvester Peel, surveyor, on the 24th day of January, 1934, now on file with the Home Owners' Loan Cor poration and more particularly de scribed as follows: Beginning at the corner of this land and the southeast corner of the lands of the Estate of J. H. Grimes on Second Street 233 feet eastwardly from Mam Street, thence along Second Street North 82* 30' East 210 feet, thence North 7* West 205 feet, thence due West 243 feet, thence South 6* 15' East 141 feet, thence South 83* 15' East 31 feet, thence South 6* 15' East 92 feet to the beginning on the north side of Second Street, and being the same land allotted to R. E Grimes in Special Proceedings which was duly recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Martin County on March 20, 1901, in Judg ment Book 3, page 330. This property will be sold subject to 1939 taxes. The purchaser at this sale will be required to make a cash deposit of 5 per cent of the purchase price to show good faith. This the 14th day of June. 1939. Trustee. Hugh G. Horton, Atty. jl6-4t NOTICE OE RE SALE Under and by virtue ut a judgment of the Superior Court ut Martin County in an action entitled "M. D. Wilson et al v. William Andrew* et al" and an order of re-sale, the un dersigned commissioners will, on the 14th day of July, 1939, at 12 o'clock Noon, in front of the Courthouse door Martin County offer for re-sale to the highest bidder for cash, the fol lowing described lands to wit FIRST TRACT: Being the house and lot and one acre of land upon which said house and lot are situated as described in Will of the late Moses Andrews. SECOND TRACT: Bounded by Highway No. 90 and a road leading from Highway No. 90 to Daniel and Statun Mil), 25 acres of land which was allotted to Aaron Andrews in a special proceedings in Book 10, page 2, now owned by M. D. Wilson, the Smithwick heirs, Eason land and others. Containing 75 acres, saving and excepting house and lot tract. THIRD TRACT: What is known as the Moses Andrews old home place, adjoining Isaac Nichols, Highway, a lane, l^ylla Griffin land and contain ing 6 acres, more or less. FOURTH TRACT: Bounded by Highway No. 90, ruad leading from Highway No 90 to Daniel and Staton Mill, church and Georgia Cotanche land. Containing One-Fourth (1-4) acre, more or less This 28th dayo f June, 1939. B. A. CHITCHER, E. S. PEEL, 11. G. HORTON, jn30-2t Commissioners. NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY Under and by virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Martin County entered in that certain Special Pro ceeding entitled "Joe H. Woolard, Administrator of the Estate of Syl vester Webb vs. Mary Elizabeth Webb et al", the undersigned com missioner will, on Monday, July 24, 1939, at twelve o'clock noon, before the courthouse door of Martin Coun ty at Williamston, North Carolina, offer for ule, at public auction, to the highest bidder for eaah. those certain tracts or parcels of land in the state and county aforesaid, and more particularly described as fol lows. to-wit: - FIRST TRACT: Beginning at a white bay in Jack Swamp and run ning along a line of marked trees to a cypress in Beetree Swamp; thence with the run of Beetree Swamp to the road: thence with the road to the beginning, containing nine (0) acres, more or less, and being the same Unds conveyed to John H. Webb by Eli Revels and wife, Mary A. Revels, on November 25, 1871. See deed recorded in Book V, page 438, Martin County records. SECOND TRACT: Beginning at Williamston and Washington road in the run of Africa Swamp, running up the run of said Swamp to a gum, the old Sowell and Lanier corner; thence with the said Sowell line to Jack Swamp to a pine stump; thence to a comer bay, the Smithwick and Lanier corner; thence to the William ston and Washington road; thence withsaidroadtothebt^inningjCon taining by estimation twenty (20) acres, more or leu, and being the same lands deeded to John H. Webb by Eli Revels and wife, Mary A Revels, in 1877. See deed recorded in Book AA, page 168, Martin Coun ty records. THIRD TRACT: Beginning at a point Bee tree or Africa Swamp, near two small hollies, Godfrey Roger son's corner: thence N 11 1-4 E along a line of marked trees, said Roger son's line, 62.64 poles to E. S. Peel's corner; thence S 68 1-2 E 29 8-100 poles to a post near a line tree be tween E. S. Peel and L. D. Ward; thence S 11 1-4 W 62 poles to the edge of Beetree Swamp; thence up the various courses of said Swamp to the beginning, containing eleven (11) acres, more or less. The highest bidder at said sale will be required to make a deposit of ten per cent of the amount bid, pending confirmation of said sale by the court. Terms of sale, Cash. This, June 19, 1939. M. D. JEFFERSON, in30-4t___Comrrussioner__<_ Attention Farmers Yon are mm harvesting year To bttccu Crop. Don't spend money only to lost- it. lie wise uiul protect it with Fire liisnruiiee while in the Park House. INSURE WITH US NOW! K. B. CRAWFORD All Kiiuls of Insurance Tobacco Farmers! We have u complete stuck of the necessities you'll need for the housing of your tobacco crop. Check thii lilt and See Ui? Thermometers ? Alarm Clocks Compressed Air Sprayers Twine ? Lanterns ? Nails And Many Other Hardware Itemi You'll Need In Harveiling Your Tobacco Crop. WOOLARD HARDWARE COMPANY WILLIAMSTON, N. C. 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