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The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WH4.IAM8TON. NORTH CAROLINA W. C. MANNING I Editor ? 1IN-1U1 ? SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year Su monUis 1.00 V? OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year 12-28 Six month! 1 25 No Subscription Received Under 6 Months Advertising Kate Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the post office in WiUiamston, N. C.. as second-class matter under the act of Con gress of March 2, 1879. Address all communications to The Enterprise and not individual members of the firm. Friday. January 12. 1941). If hat About The Hoover Period? E Hofer and Sons, spokesmen for big business and who apparently know all the solutions to all the problems, offer a "hot" review of the in dustrial news for the thirties. From way out in Oregon they shout that the thirties will go down in history as the greatest and longest de pression in history After referring to trial and error method advanced by the present-nation al administration, the spokesmen express a longing for the good old days?to be exact, the Hoover days. And what about the Hoover period? Have thev forgotten it? II will be remembered that - big business spokesmen and big business itself looked eagerly to Washington in 1933. Those who are having a great deal to say now about the activities of the government and its plans for running the country apparently have for-_ gotten the trying times of the early thirties. They forget that problems have become more perplexed, that while those perplexing prob lems have sent nation after nation to war, this country holds an even keel But they still main tain that the New Deal is not the way. Then, what is the right way? Nothing has ever been more clearly and painfully demonstrated than the fact that the Hoover methods will not work. The Hoover sys tem had every chance in the world to demon. strate its merits A patient people waited month in and month out, yes, year in and year out for that prosperity around the corner. Big business exercised a power far greater than that allow ed or other wise annexed by the President, and yet the top blew off and the bottom fell out. If ever a system was given an opportunity to suc ceed, it was the Hoover system. Laborers labor ed for fifty cents a day. Farmers fed the mil lions from the resources of nature and from hands that never received a reward, expressed or implied. Thousands died for the want of bare necessities of life, while Hoover and big busi ness sat idle in anticipation of around the cor ner prosperity. If the administration in Washington could have been free of the great business men who flopped in early 1933, it could have demonstrat ed its worth. But as fast as business got back on its feet, its leaders began to howl, and with the exception of the few months following his inauguration in 1933, President Roosevelt has had the howlers to listen to while he tried faith fully to unravel the knots that were tied so tightly by the Hoover administration before him. No, the New Deal never had a Chinaman's chance to show its merits once the machine was repaired and private enterprise yelled to cast aside its machinist. If hig hiisfhrss had pnllod with Roosevelt as it pulled with Hoover, there would be a different story for E. Hofer and Sons to review in their stereotyped and far from en lightening Industrial News Service. Patting Aruuml The' Criminalt Criticised for turning harlots free to invade other territories, Judge Paul West in the Ral eigh City Court declares he does not favor the adoption ofwomen whose character is ques tionable. Tfiey belong to other places, the jur ist said. What Judge West overlooked is the fact that Raleigh may or may not have'representatives in other cities who are proving a problem for officers in those places to solve. Surely, if a valuable citizen from some other city wander ed into Raleigh and held the possibility of en hancing the material, civic and religious life there, Judge West would do all in his power to claim him as Raleigh's own. Then, let him ac knowledge his duty as a guardian ol the law, to uphold that law and try to stem the tide of crime that is being shifted between towns and cities Crawy Government Those far-seeing prophets who have talked about budgets balanced and unbalanced and .. called the government rra7y for feeding the hungry and clothing the naked and trying to help a helpless agriculture, now have some thing to talk about, really When a government proposes to leave its needy in the lurch and de sert a helpless agriculture Just to feed extra millions to the war lords, it is time to talk. The government must be going crazy And the peo ple must be going crazy, too, for the voices are few and feeble that rise up to point out the fol ly of such action. National defense may be necessary, but the expenditure of billions for armaments should be secondary to a prosperous agriculture. One will find prosperous farmers ready to fight for their country. Those who have re ceived aid in time of need from their govern ment will stand by that government. A down trodden farmer figures he owes no debt to the government that will cost him his life, and the jobless, neglected and scorned, cannot be ex pected to offer his all, his life to such a govern ment If the task of government narrows down to preparing for war or solving the problem of agriculture-and the problem of poverty, it will be well for the government to undertake the solution of those problems in order. War has not been declared, but there are down-trodden far mers and poverty-stricken millions whose pleas have been made all these years. Hxam/Ae Of Patience And Tact Jesus managed to get along successfully with a group of twelve intimates which numbered: a fiery political revolutionist; a dreamy, affec tionate mystic, a volatile, explosive enthusiast; a slow-moving, slow-thinking, devoted martyr; a cautious, skepucally-minded hero; a guileless^ and noble pietist; a thrifty, hardheaded busi ness man; and one misguided genius who prov ed a traitor, but not until his Master had en deavored to save Turn on the brinlc of treason, that chose for him and for all, the death of the cross. This troubled world awaits extraordinary hu man beings in this Christian sense of the term men and women of extraordinary patience, courtesy, tact, and courage; extraordinary jus 1 mri g"f?d will?human beings who keep on trying out these virtues, putting them to the test no matter how hard the going or how quixotic they may seem.?Edgar DeWitt Jones in The Detroit News. A Netc Year Prayer (loldsboro Transcript and Messenger. Here is something the candidates for gover nor of North Carolina ought to pick up for their platforms. If they don't, the next gen eral assembly ought to attend to it anyhow. North Carolinians pay over one million dol lars a year to have the state inspect and check classification of the gasoline they buy. Yet the big gasoline companies are racing in the competition with each other to get busi ness by providing better gasoline than the state classifications call for. All that state inspection money is wasted, except possibly for checking on a few small distributors of gasoline of un known brands. A million dollars a year is a lot of money. We bet the people would rather spend it themselves than for the state to continue wasting it on needless inspection. And if the state is going to continue taking the money away from the peo ple, it could be put to more valuable uses. Giving That Goes On Giving Christian Science Monitor. Christmas dispatches by the Associated Press tell two very appealing and inspiring stories. One is about "Old Bill" Dixon, of the little Hocking Valley coal mining village of Monday, Ohio. Mr. Dixon, lean and sinewy after sixty years of mining, passed out Christmas presents of bags of coal dug with his own hands from a shaft 111 his back yard. He reopened the mine when other workings in the area closed down, and has often put in ten-hour days with his pick rather than take an old-age pension. The other item tells of the Yuletide hobby of Engineer Joe Gerard who makes a run between Fort Worth, Texas, and Purcell, Oklahoma, on the Santa Fe Railroad. Mr. Gerard could have retired on a pension several years ago, but one reason ly stays at the throttle is that he may toss out gaily wrapped and padded packages of toys and candy, which he buys himself, to the children who wave to him during the year along his 2<J0-mile run. Some of them have nev er seen any other Christmas giving. These men have given something intangible and enduring to themselves, and a priceless ex ample to others. Turnage Theatre ? Washington, N. C. January 14-15 "C?Uiver'a Travel." A OOtXMt CAKTOON rEATUM U-lf Thursday-Friday January li-li "Dead End Kida, On Dreaa Parade" JOHN UTEL and DEAD KWP MPS Saturday January M "South of the Border" . OENK AUTBT ALIO SELECTED IHOKT SUBJECTS METHODIST Regular services next Sunday rooming and evening. The General Missionary Council of the Methodist Church in America is being held this week in Charlotte. The pastor, Rev. S. J. Starnes la attending and wit! speak at the Sunday morning service here next Sunday on the subject, "Echoes from a Great Religious Meeting." Sunday school, 9.45 a. m. Young Peoples Meeting, 6:45 p. m The public is cordially invited to attend all services. CHRISTIAN Bibje school, 9:45 a. m. Morning worship, U a m. Subject: "The Measuring Line." Young People's Meeting, 0:30 p. m. Evening service, 7:30 p m. Sub ject: "Life's Depths." Junior Philathea Class meets on Monday at 8 p m. with Mrs. Noah Hardison. Mid-week service, Wednesday. 7 30 p. m Subject: "Ministering An gels." The church board of the William ston Christian Church elected the following officers for the ensuing year: E. S. Peel, chairman of board; JL W RnnHnrant, \ iri? rhairman J C. Manning, clerk of the church and secretary to the board: N. K Harri son, treasurer. CHUKCH OF THE ADVENT 2nd Sunday after Epiphany Church school, 9:45 a. m Morning prayer and sermon, 11 a Evening prayer and sermon, 7:30 p m. Holy Trinity Mission, Bear Grass Evening prayer and sermon at 3 p. m. Everyone invited to attend and worship with us. Baptist Regular services will be held at Piney Grove Baptist church Satur iay and Sunday at 11 o'clock, the jastor, Rev W B Harrington, has innouhced BAPTIST Bible school, 9:45 a. m. Morning worship, 11 a. m. Ser mon-subject: "A Christian's Indebt edness." Young Peoples meeting. 6:30 p. m Evening worship, 7:30 p. m. Ser mon-subject: "Accepting Wm-pimni bilityT1 PRESBYTERIAN The regular services will be held at all points. This is the Sunday for preaching throughout the county and there will be services at Roberson's Chapel at 2:30 p. m. and at Rober sonville in the Woman's Club at 7:30 p. m. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be observed at all worship. NOTltE Of KEN ALE Under and by virtue of an order, of resale made?by L. B Wynne, Clerk Superior Court uX Martin County, and the newer of sale con-1 tamed in a certain deed of trust ex ecuted by Hr D. Cowin and wife. Mary Jane Caw in. on the 1st day of February. 1800. and of record in the Public Registry of Martin County, in| Book C-3, Page 203. said deed of J trurt having been given for Ihe pur-1 pose^f^ecunn^^^^ertairwiote^^ even date and taoor therewith, the ; undersigned trustee* will, on Mon day. the 2?th day of January. 1M0. at 12:00^d'elock M in front of the courthouse door m the Town of Wil liamston. North Carolina, offer for sale at public auction, for cash, the following described real estate: Beginning at a gum in E. C and J as R Harrison corner, a Northerly course up Cratt Branch to corner, a gum in Claude Whitehurst line, H. US. Harrison corner, thence a aouth lern course along J. W Cow in and Claud Whitehurst une, tnence along B- S. Covin's line to a corner in B S. Covin'* line, thence a southern course to J. W. Covin's line, thence an eastward ly course along J. W. Covin's and Jas. R Harrison's line to the beginning, containing twenty seven (27) acres, more or less, being the land we now reside on. Dated, this the 10th day of Janu ary. 1040 DEWEY LXGGETT. Trustee. AUCTION SALE! Notife is hereby given that under and by virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Martin County entered in that eertain action therein pending entitled "Martha I'iland and others vs. Annie Bellflower and others," the undersigned Commissioners Hill. 011 Saturday, the 20th day of January, 194(). at the Home Place of the4 late W. F. Bellflower, in Goose Nest Township, Martin County, North tlaroliua. where the said Mrs. Annie Bellflower now resides, at two-thirty (2:30) o'clock I*. M.. offer for sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder, for rash, the following described personal property, to-wit: "One peanut pieker; 1 stalk cutter, 1 wagon, 1 cart. 2 wheel plows,3 cotton plows, 2 turn plows, 2 double turn plows, 2 cotton planters, 1 peanut planter, I tractor, 1 disc, 1 section harrow, 1 cart hodv. 1 double plow, 1 transplanter, 1 corn plant cr. I mower, I peanut planter, 1 section harrow, I double plow, 1 scoop, 1 cart, 1 wagon, 3 cotton plows, 2 turn plows, 6 rolls of wire, 1 guano sow er. 1 pea weeder, 2 wheel plows. 6 tobacco trucks, K nudes, and 1 horse, together with harness be longing therewith, and all other farming imple ments belonging to the estate of the late W. F. Bellflower." This sale is being made pursuant to report and liuds of the Keferee in this case uiul for division between the tenants in common, the owners thereof. Place of Sale At the late residence of W. F. Bellflower, deceased, in Goose N'esl Township. Murtin County, North (airoliiia. DATE OF SALE: JANUARY 20, 1940. TIME OF SALE: Two-Thirty (2:30) o'clock P. M. Terms of sale Cash. This the 30th day of December, 1939. HUCnrGTH O RTO N ELBERT S. PEEL mMMISSIONKRS. _ Announcing the Opening of Dixie Motors, Inc. WILLI AMSTON, N.C. Authorized Sales and Sendee for PLYMOUTH and DODGE AUTOMOBILES AND TRUCKS TO MY FRIENDS IN MARTIN COUNTY ? I ttiih to extend you a cordial invitation to visit our lie* show and sales rooms in the former N. C. Equipment Building in Williamston, and I will personally appreciate a chance to serve you again in my new field. Let me show you the new 1940 Plymouth and Dodge before you buy any make of automobile. WILLIAM EVERETT, MGR. Service Department Now Open EXPERT MECHANICS TO SERVE YOU ON ALL MAKES OF CARS DIXIE MOTORS, Inc. WILLIAM EVERETT, Manager WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
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