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The Enterprise Published Every Tueaday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMS TON. NORTH CAROLINA ? Editor ? 1908 1938 ? I W. C. MANNING ? SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year $1 75 Six months 1 00 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year ~ $225 Six months 1.25 ?Wn Rnh?srripti?n Received Under 6 Months Advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the post office in Williamston, N. r :19 SfPiinH.fltKs' r imHor tho ;iCt of Con gress of March 3, 1870 Address all communications to The Enterprise and not individual members of the firm. Friday. February 2.i. 1 <>W. .4xm'ls Regardless of its flaws and drawbacks, Amer ica's spending since 1SKM has not been in vain. Instead of censoring the program in an effort to give vent to some minor grudge of a person al slant, it would seem fat better were we to take, stock and recognize the assets as they are reflected in new school buildings, parks, rec reational centers, medical buildings and last but not least the conservation of millions of our youth and the almost countless needy and uncm ployed _ -No administration before or even a long list of administrations combined even considered the expenditure of more than thirty-three bil lion dollars m the period of a few short years But no administration or several administra tions combined can point out with pride the long list of last assets created by ji thoughtful and understanding government as can the present administration. Into every nook and corner, to the sweat shop, to the farm and to the needy in-the hov els and slums, a helping hand has been extend ed by the present administration The opposi tion can bray about the debt, but the facts them selves challenge the truthfulness of their state ments -when tlioy shout to high heaven that bii? lions of dollars have been squandered. It has been said that great financiers got their start and maintained their domineering posi tions in the financial world bv selling second hand armaments and other goods to the govern ment at exhorbitant prices in years gone by In the course of history, billions have been squandered under the disguise of contract bids and shady acts Such doings never reached the front page of the controlled press, and the good politician never breathed a word of com plainl to his listeneis trom a political platform.? But today when human beings are weighed in the balance, our good friends whoop and howl about spending, forgetting all the while that the ?school Ikiuics, public buildings, the recreation al centers, the return to home and farm own ership and yes even the lowly WPA privy that dots the landscape from coast to coast stand as one great monument to the progress of this administration, a progress that embodies the greatest of assets ever amassed by any govern ment anywhere over a period of tens of years. Surely, when these bold fagts are recognized, urn nni1' p"- '>???? ' 1---- rn?"i" ???? liabilities v Imliriiliml t nil ('.ollrctive Debt ' 11?h?' i uj .' ii^j'i tiit private tit bl w thta coun try umtiuntcd to a cool one hundred and twen ty ddve iiiiliiUL_do]J^sJ_andJhejK>ta!j)ub}icjl?l!i_ the same year was $35,700,000,000. A decade has spent itself and the total private debt is $90, Ttltt.tttttr.tmtr; a reduction 61" $34,300,000,000. The public th lit today amounts to $(J9.100;000,000. an increase of $33,400,000,000. It is readily seen that tht total debt, private and public, is one li' 11 ion less today than it was in 1930 It would seem that the private debt back in 1930 wotfTd have caused the alarmists to alarm, hut nothing wa heard from the big Wall Street financiers about the private debt and its allied dangers It was about that time that the ham mer started pounding on the auction block and home after home and farm after farm was sold from under ti n countless thousands who had labored long years to own and call home. Tie official figures plaee the total debt at a point less today than it was ten years ago, and it does seem reasonable to believe that since the debt r smaller there shoulcj be no more alarm now than there was ten years ago. Possibly the shut in the" debt from the indi vidual to th< collective group is causing some worry among the capitalists who apparently would rathei see individual necks deep in debt than to see the debt spread jointly upon the rhmii111 n?ui~U.il l si rung as well as npnn the shoulders of fli<? weak.' It was pointed out some time ago that the debt burden, that is the interest rale. 7s not as self-called greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Hamilton-. ?f wider Gartet^Glass, the fi nancial wizard as Secretary of the Treasury. It was also pointed out that despite the increase in the public debt, the total interest burden is smallei today than it was under either Mr. Mel lon or Mr. Glass. Ilifitiiwiy Fart* Ami Safely Hint* Aliiiu.5G.per cent of last year's motor ve " tiit li: fatalities -occurred" in rural areas. Collision .is the commonest form of rural high way accidents, while pedestrian accidents oc cur most often 111 cities. Courtesy leads to safety, especially in night driving Take the right-of-way when it is offered ? don't insist upon it. A clean windshield will reduce headlight glare. In case of an accident your first duty as a driv er is to stop and give assistance to injured pr'r-^i sons Well-adiusted headlights reduce eve-strain The English Bible By REV JAMES H SMITH Pastor H illiamston Memorial Baptist Church. How much do you value your Bible* Would you sell it at any price if you knew you could not get an -other xinc like it? Do you appreciate it so much thaF you read-it daily? Does its teachings help you in your everyday living and business trans actions* You can buy a Bible for one small dime. But if you want one and don't have the dime plenty of people and Bibl< publishing houses are rea dy to give you one free of charge not because the Book is inexpensive and cheap, but actually because it costs so much and is so valuable. Ten cents would scarcely buy food en ough to furnish the calories needed for the body for Imlf a day, but ten cents will buy a Book that will guide you to bread and water which if par taken of will keep you alive forever. The Holy Scriptures were written in three languages by thirty-six au thors over a period of fifteen or six teen centuries. As one studies its history he wonders if he can ever appreciate it as he ought. When you read from yours remember that it came to you at great expense to its inspired authors, its "faithful unto death" translators and its martyred believers and teachers. This Book which is now read in more than one thousand tongues came to us through fire, bloodshed and agony. Wycliffe and the Bible He believed that the Sacred Scrip tures were the property of the peo ple and that the English Bible in the minds and hearts of the people would reform and purify the English Church. When be was being tried in the Black Fliars' Synod, London, 1378, the major accusation against him was for translating the Scrip tures and making them common and open to. laymen and women . . "so that the Gospel was being trodden jinHf.r fiuit r.f m.inn " Aftf ? Ni'pr* ? days' deliberation?the synod con demned his teachings and work and a little later excommunicated him. However, in a short while he was allowed to return to his quiet par sonage at Lutterworth, where, with old Latin manuscripts and commen taries, he Jabored until the whole Bible was translated into the mother tongue. (Nicholos de Hereford is credited with half the translation of the Old Testament part of the trans lation.) For the first time in history Eng land had the Bible in the language of the people, but Wycliffe had some powerful enemies who were plan ning to take his life, but-about the time tire king, Pope and friars were ready to strike him, on the last day ol the year 1384, "lie was not. for GocT took him." Forty years later his bones were dug up and burned, and the ashes flung into the little river Swift which ran by his church at Lutterworth. "As the Swift bore Jjiem-into the Severn and the Severn - into the narrow seas, and they again into the ocean, thus the aches of Wycliffe is an emblem of his doc trine, which is now dispersed over all the world." His new Bible was being widely read when Parliament forbid its cir culation. Readers of the Book were burned with copies round their necks, men and women were execuF" I ed for teaching their children the ments in English and children were forced to light the death fires of their parents. Possessors of the Wy cliffe Bible were hunted down as if they were wild beasts, "but what God had spoken could not be stop Just Like His Dad "Well, what are you going to be, my boy, When you have reached manhood s years A doctor, a lawyer, or actor great. Throngs moving to laughter and tears?" But he shook his head, as he gave reply In a serious way he had: "1 don't think I'd care to be any of them. I want to be like my Dad!" He wants to be like his Dad! You men, Did vou ever think, as von pause That the boy who watches your every move Is building a set of laws? He's moulding a life you're the model for. And whether it's good or bad Depends on the kind of example set To the boy who'd be like his dad ~~Would you have him go everywhere you go: Have him do just the things you do? Arid see everything that your,eyes hehold. And woo all the gods you woo? When you see the worship that shmes in the eyes Of your lovable little lad. Could you rest content if he gets his wish And grows to be like his dad" It's a job that none but yourself can fill. It's a charge you must answer for. It's a duty to show him the road to tread Ere he reaches his manhood's door, It's a debt vou owe for the*greatest joy be nad; On this old earth to This pleasure of having a boy to raise Who wants to be like his dad! Prom an old scrap book. Author unknown. Used at Scout, Cub and Dad Banquet in Everetts, Wednesday. February 21. 1940 pod by the breath of man." Tyndalr and the Bible One hundred years after Wycliffe William Tyndale determined, - re gardless of the cost, that the Bible must be spread among the English people. One of his opponents said- to him. "We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's." Tyn dale rose and said, "I defy the Pope and all his laws; and if God spares me I will one day make the boy that drives the plough in England to know more of the Scriptures than the Pope does." The invention of printing and the revival of Greek learning would as sist hunr The-know h dge of?Greek it/mild take him back nearer the orig-1 inal New Testament and the print ing press would make copies of the Book for him at the rate of two ev ery mirtute. (Wycliffe's Bible was based on the Vulgate and being hi"! manuscript form it took a copyist ten months to make one copy of it.) In 1524. seeing that there was no room in England for him to translate the Greek New Testament into Eng lish. he left his native land, never to see it again. At Hamburg, Germany, in poverty and distress, and amid constant danger, the exile worked 1 on his translation so diligently that I in the following year his Testament was ready for the printer's hand. He went to Cologne to have the print ers do his work but was forced to escape in order to save nis precious sheets of translation. He escaped to Worms and there had many copies made. Soon thousands of them were scattered over England. Thousands I of the copies were seized and burn-1 *-4-wi*h ?"inmn reren umy.jitjy?e old cross of St. Paul's as "a burnt offer ing most pleasing to Almighty God." o?;il JlinncunHs annulled their place. About 15,000 copies were is sued during the first four years People were reading and learning from the New Covenant and Tyn dale was still in exile. When he was invited to return home he refused To" come because he knew how an gry were the bishops. <Tt> be continued next week) $ J. A. Wilson, farm agent of the State College extension service, is urging every Polk County family to grow at least 15 vegetables in its home garden this year. Services To Be Held In Everetts Church By J. M. PERRY, Pastor Regular worship and preaching services will be held in the Christian church in Everetts next Sunday. Mr. Garland Bland, a special music stu dent, now at A C. College; will bring a message in song and the jun ior choir will sing. At both morning and evening ser vices the community may expect real enjoyable, helpful services, both ID Minimi :>nH simp Th<? pastor ufill preach at both morning and evening Take your family and your friends. All members and friends in the community are cordially invited. The superintendent of the Bible School is anxious for a great Bible school at 10 a. m. Interesting Hits Of Business In II. S. A cotton stamp plan for distribu tion of cotton goods through regular trade channels to needy families will be started on an experimental basis next month ? similar to the food stamp plan . . Nations at war were heavy fruyers of United States cop per in 1930, so much so that slocks of refined copper at end of year were 46 per cent less than at end of 1938? Japan was major buyer, but in last seven months France alone has spent $60.0GQ,000 here for copper . Great er tonnage of chemical fertilizer pre dicTed Tor 1940 as result uf gains in farm buying power. CHURCH NEWS CHURCH OF THE ADVENT Third Sunday in Lent Church school, 9:45 a, m Morning prayer and sermon, 11 a. Tuesday Litany,5:15 p m. Wednesday Litany and address, 7:30 p. m. Thursday Holy Communion, 10:30 a m Friday Litany with junior choir, 5:15 p. m. St Martin's, Hamilton Evening prayer and sermon, 7:30 p. m. Tuesday Litany and address. 7:30 p. m. .. " BAPTIST Bible school, 9:45 a. m Morning worship, 11 a. m. Sub ject of sermon: "Seing and Using Our Opportunities.*' Young people's meeting, 6:30 p. m Evening worship, 7:30 o'clock. This service closes the month's study on missions and a motion picture on j missions in China, a picture sent to us by the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board. Richmond, Va.. will be shown in the evening service. Rev. Mr Piephoff will project the picture. PRESBYTERIAN The regular services will be held at all points Sunday. The sermon subject will be, "It Takes Temptation to Make a Man." Have you ever wondered why we have so many temptations? Have you ever said that you were tempt ed so strongly that you could not re sist the temptation? Is it possible for a person to so live that he will nev er be tempted? I once had a man say to me," It is much easier for a minister to. do the right thing than for the rest of us." Was he right? Do we all have the same kind of temp tation? Is temptation a sin? You, who are so sorely tempted, come and wor ship with us this Sunday. RIDDICK'S GROVE Regular services will he held at Riddick's Grove Church Sunday at 2:30 o'clock METHODIST Church school, 9:45 a. m. Preaching services at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. "The Strength of Unity" will be the subject at 11 o'clock. "Thumbs and Great Toes" will be ?the-subjcct at 7;30. Epworth League meets at 6:45. ?Ail members are espe?i?Wy lirgff1 to be present Sunday mgrning and night. The public is cordially in vited. CHRISTIAN The regular schedule of services wiiTT*. observed in the Christian church Sunday 9,262,068, ' people bought Used Cars j and Used Trucks from , t, .WifBW . it I Chevrolet Dealers during t the last six years. DoasmilH?"sdo~ see your CHEVROLET DEALER FIRST for the best USED CAR VALUES Let's get together . .. W you wont ? lota model cor or truck wMa modern bnprevamanti ? for a vory mount of oaoooy . . . We hove what you want If you hav? on old or cor on a flno. Into ?odd uitd i cor . . . \ Ym hove jwnar we wqmi 5 ttAS0N5 WHY YOU Will SAVf BY BUYING NOW! (AUC All u??d cars * priced to sell fut, In order to moke room for more trade-ine. C A VP Hoy now?be l'M" 1 fore price# riee ?end M*e the difference. (AVE Snee winter con "V dltienlng el old car. penee on yoor SAVE s*** * ? tkm on your < car. Trade up now. 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