The EiNterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLI AMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA W. C. MANNING l-diuir ? 1MUK-1M8 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cush in Advance IN MARTIN COUNTY One yeai $1.75 six rnuntna ' ~ " ~ ? ijw OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year $2 23 ? ? ?? IJi No Subscription Received Under 6 Months Advertising Rate Card Furnished Ujxm Request Entered at the post office in Williujniston, N C . as second-i lass matter under the act of Con gress of March 3. 4#79. Address all communication, to The Enterprise and not individual members of the firm tritlox. Sr/th-mluT /. /'AW. ( lii'il. II" 1 nlurs terns. local, stall and national, tin y sh'jrtild check the value received from such a system Possibly t would be better foi taxpayers to stop grumbl ing so much until they determined for them selves if they are getting value received for cv ?ry dollar paid in taxes. Nihety-nuie out (,1 ?* buiidid w ill tell you that axes are high and should be lowered, but harri v one >ut of a hundied will even consider the ?alue he receive: directly or indirectly from the jeneral tax system In this country we have joined together 111 hifting to tin g veiomental agencies the bur ien of handling those activities that were once landled bv the individual. Hut in shifting the lurden, we have denied the agencies the neces ary tax support to handle those duties. Before re can expect tax reductions of any consequen lal size we must accept the responsibility that omeone must assume in earing for the needy, he helpless, the poo: the unemployed And, in ddition to that. w< must mot expect so much rom tin- public agencies. It max sound a bit strange to some, but there ire many good reasons to believe that we have ome ncanur reviving more for our tax dollar han w< have lor '.he fun spi nl 111 us as ail illlli , idual In leeent years, and even now, we point out he hugi gpvi rnmental expenditures, expendi tures that might bankrupt the nation. Hut some low or other one feels that all the billions that lave been spent were not spent in vain There has been w astc. greed and possible cor ruption accompanying those expenditures, but jelore we Would stop those expenditures in their entirety we wquld investigate in an ef fort to eliminate any w aste greed and corrup tion, We would check, not with mal intent but in fairness to ourselves, the work of the public employee and see if be was giving value receiv ed for the dollars we pay him in salary. But we don't have time for that; we just sit aaek and complain because every dollar we .an get by fair or foul means is not let in our iwn hands to squander Accidents, illness and death, like lightning, make little impression until they strike close home. - Exchange. School Hay* Vacation days for several thousand school children in Martin County come to a close this week, and already a few, expressing themselves as true individualists, are declaring their liber ^-Ur^^are-bcwg-tofft-liom, them hy the educators ordering them back to the institutions This school business is a serious business, and while it should be lightened with an adequate plav and rest schedule, the youth of this coun ty. .tate and nation should be impressed with the importance of the training offered them Too often thev have been directed.-tO-fonsidl'X the value of credits, degrees and diplomas at the i spouse ol the more important things, li a child can be taught to think for himself, and made to r< ; In-e that liberty and its allied freedoms are to he hi !11hu 1 eO among all peoples, then that child has laid the-foundation for a successful life What lie lai'is to learn in the school can he read ov acquired in practical life But he must lirst recognize the guiding forces such as honesty, homes and righteousness If a child can be taught to think for himself, to recognize the lights ot others and value truth and honesty, he need not worry about passing this or that course, (or there is a world of time to learn the few facts that a world traveling head-long into a departmentalized fate will require ti few wars bene. (If i out our system calls for the successful . a .age of a ...jgijcd courses, and it will futile for the individual to (?iimhaLaiucli rvarystem 4t I In far bctlci to ad hi re to the system ab .ri> afl it has to offer bub at the satne time, value tin othei features tiiat an vitally neces sary to a successf ul life. No Snr/irisc Bertie I.eUner Ailvame There was no surprise in the low prices with which tobacco markets opened last week. Also, there was little complaint; the low prices were accepted as the expected and inevitable result of ovei planting and over-production. Even those farmers who were most bitterly opposed to the government programs of control against pricc-di stroving surpluses wen1 not hopeful en ough to expect anything other than low prices as tin1 result of lilting all restrictions from to bacco plantings this year, and there are few but that will agree that less tobacco and higher prices would have been better for all concern ed. For no matter how much liberty que is al lowed in planting tobacco acreage, there is no profit in liberty when the tobacco is sold at prices forced to. or below, the dost of produc tion because too liberal use of liberty has caus ed an excess o! tobacco to be grown, '1 here may be joy in such liberty as this, but there is no profit in tobacco grown at the prices that arc be ing paid this season as a result of it; and, gen erally, it is to he understood that the object of the dreary labor of tobacco growing is for prof it, not tlie liberty to glow unlimited and un wanted quantities of tobacco. The privilege, however, of choosing betw'een this doubtful liberty of unlimited production without profit, as contrasted to the profitable prices tobacco farmers in previous years have enjoyed under self imposed -programs of acre age restriction under government supervision, will again bb given to farmers sometime this fall. Restrictions were rejected last year fortius crop and the low prices brought no surprise Now, the question is, whether the tobacco farm crs are ready to return to controlled production and profitable prices. If this is what they pre fer, all they need to do is ask for a chance.to vote on the question immediately'and when it is submitted to them to cast their vote for the government's assistance in a program of control ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE North Carolina, Martin County. Having this day qualified as ad ministratrix of the estate of Nathan B LilJey, deceased, this is to notify all persons having claims against | said estate to present same to the undersigned or her attorneys with mg twelve (12) months from the date of this notice, or this notice wiH bo pleaded-in bar of their re covery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This the 28th day of August, 1939. MABEL LILLEY. Administratrix of the Estate of Natlian B. Lilley. Peel & Manning, Attys. a29-6t ADMIMSTKA TORS' NOTICE llavmgqua.lifi' d as, administrator of th'- estate of J. H. Saur.dc is. de ceased lah ill Martin County, .North Carolina, this e to notify all per : on. having claims against the estate '4 said deceased to exhibit them twA?r? ?ml |>1?? . . . rn Jm finer, clearer reception, ttiiali In lli?- Buill-in Sufiei \rrlil H?atem. I" rrrnjtt Irlriitimi ^iiuml. A* I ' operelleo lUiiiUmar * ?ml ? il i?i-1 ? ill i lrri in Ua'idl' . PHILCO ISOC #2.'{.50 Woo lard Furniture Company 00 YOU BUY SINCLAIR H-C 1 GASOLINE? YOU BET. H-C IS SO GOOD l'/2 MILLION MOTORISTS USE IT DAILY kV You'll like the way Sinclair dealers .treat you N. C. GREEN, Agent ? Williamston