The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA. W. C. MANNING ? Editor ? 1908-19U I SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year $1.75 Six months 1.00 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year $2.25 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, 1879. Address all communications to The Enterprise and not individual members of the firm. Tuesday, June 24, 1941. ISo Duplicate*. I'leanc ^^Wtiile there is no suspicion, not to mention proof, to doubt the good intentions of our big dollar-a-year men in Washington, one, after re calling the unconsciable deals pulled in the last year, can't help but plead for fair and square shooting in the impending struggle. There is little justification in picking, up a man drawing a fancy salary in private employ ment and place him in government service at a lone dollar a year. The practice when it comes to government isn't like that in the colleges where learned men volunteer their services for alma mater, and while it may be all right to pick up the "cheap" men, it just doesn't make sense. Charlie M. Schwab, the late steel mag nate, was one of those dollar-a-year men in the last war. According to the record, Mr. Schwab was no thief, but he was a robber. It is alleged that Charlie's personal expenses ran up to $250, 000 in a single month which is even worse than the recoil established by some of our own peo ple who spend $200 a month on a $100 salary. Just recently it was revealed that Mr. Schwab, the mighty steel man who practiced fraud at the expense of his own government, died al most a pauper, the executors of his estate de claring that it could not pay out. And then there is today a government suit pending in the United States Supreme Court against Bethlehem to recover millions in ex cessive profits collected by that company fiir shipbuilding contracts negotiated by Schwab when he did business with his own company while representing Uncle Sam. If there is to be anything left of the Ameri can order, no such facts can be duplicated in the present crisis. (miisp Fur Strike? and Labor Trouble? Buried in the public press, if carried at all, are a few pertinent facts that would seem to indicate that labor is not to be blamed so terri bly much after all in striking even in defense industries. We hold no brief for the saboteur, thr-radical who would actually confiscate and destroy, but in this fair land of ours it is only reasonable to expect a fair deal for everyone. It is apparent that the public, misled or misin formed or just indifferent to the problems is not getting all the facts. Dug from the pages of the Congressional Rec ord and recognized to have an official standing are a few facts relatives to the recent strike at the North American Aviation plant in Califor nia. It is not to be denied that the workers went too far in that instance, but the causes underly ing the strike will help to show the regrettable result reaped there. Last year the total valuation of the whole plant was listed at $12,366,590. During last year the company made a net profit of $7,090,335.78, meaning the profits after depreciation, taxes and the various deductions created by high-ton ed auditing systems had been sliced off, left the owners with an earning more than two-thirds as great as the entire plant was worth. It is al so pointed out in the Congressional Record that J. H. Kindleberger, president of North Ameri can Aviation, was paid a salary of $166,350 last year, and that J. L. Attwood, the vice president, received the little salary of $78,533.33. As for the salaries of the workers at the North American Aviation, they ranged twelve cents below the average for the entire indus try, and it is understood that the worker in the aviation plant is receiving less than the auto factory worker on an average. The minimum hourly wage in the North American plant is 50 cents. North American stock not so long ago was selling for $1 a share. The shares are currently quoted at $14. Last year a dividend of $1.25 per share was paid to the stockholders including General Motors who owns 29 per cent of the stock. There is a certain group in this eountry to day who would eat the farmers' produce at a price below the cost of production. And there is a certain group, many being in both groups, who would enslave the working man that their profits can be doubled, tripled and so on. Lit tle is said about the price of manufactured ar ticles when the profits are rolling in, but the people of this nation are led to believe that ev ery time the price of a plow of farm machine advances it is because the working man is get ting high wages. We in this country are not playing fair with the common laborer, and possibly we won't play fair with capital when the shoe is shift ed to the other foot. We must, if progress is to be made in executing war preparations and keeping this nation on an even keel, try to look at both sides fairly. It is disheartening to see a farmer shout when a fellow laborer in the fac tory is enslaved, and it is equally dishearten ing to see a factory worker shout when food prices fall below the cost of production to the farmer. Patriotism in Safety Christian Science Monitor. Independence Day in the United States will be celebrated this year in a martial atmosphere. Yet there is no reason for this observance to involve the use of more than a judicious mini mum of firecrackers, rockets, and pinwheels. Already too much detonation of explosives is going on in the world without supplementing it with expenditure of gunpowder for entertain ment. The quality of that entertainment has always been marred by the appearance on succeeding days of doleful lists of persons injured in the procedure. Hcarteningly the number of such casualties has materially diminished in recent years. The improvement of this situation is due largely if not almost entirely to the adoption of State laws regulating the sale of fireworks and, in fact, practically prohibiting them ex cept for supervised community displays. Nine states had such laws at the outset of this year: Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, and West Virginia. Five states have adopted fire works control laws this year, of which the Arizona and Maryland statutes arc irr effect and the new Minnesota, Ohio, and Florida acts will take effect next year. the number of reported injuries from fireworks decreased from 1,700 in 1938 to 85 in 1939 and 58 in 1940. This sort of a saving of human re sources and faculties for useful work either in peacetime or in defense represents practical pa triotism. People Are That Way Riding along the highway the other day, El der P. E. Getsinger saw two small children and a dog playing beside the road. Slowing down out of respect for human life, the minister heard the mother of the children call the dog No warning was issued to the children. To be sure the lady did not think mo/e of the '(tag than' she did the children. But people are that way and they do those things. OLD HAND, NEW GLOVE Beer Committee Enters Third Year Raleigh?Tlie Brewers and North Carolina Beer Distributors Commit tee has entered upon the third year of its "clean up m^close up" cam paign under the supervision of an en larged executive committee. - J. P. Price, of Greensboro, heads the 12-member executive commit tee which will serve for the 1941-42 fiscal year. Other members are: J. O. Angel, of Asheville; Ed S. Yar borough, of Fayetteville; Fred Mills, of Wadesboro; R. J. Jenkins, of Kin stun, and J. W. Jackson, of Wilming ton. representing the distributors; C. M. Wright, of Newark, N. J.; C. L. May, of Newark; W. H. Huster, of Cincinnati; Walter Bartlett, of Nor folk.; David T. Gallo, of Norfolk, and Fred Hitchcock, of Greensboro, rep resenting the brewers. W. S. Bur russ, of Raleigh, is treasurer and ex officio . member of the committee, and Edgar H. Bain, of Goldsboro, is state director in charge of the indus try's self-regulation program in this State. The executive committee will meet three times a year, it was de cided. and the general committee will meet annually in either May or June of each year. Since the committee was organ ized in May, 1939, it has cooperated with local authorities in the elimina tion of 170 undesirable outlets in 51 counties, Bain announced. Issue 21st Edition of] Bawl Street Journal The^21st annual edition of the Bawl Street Journal is out. Publish ed by the Now York Bend Club, it burlesques Wall Street, kidding pro found-fiscal pluasex. Theme song-of this years' edition is "There'll Al ways Be a Wall Street." Other head lines: Stock exchange floor offer ed New York City for use as aquar ium . t . Sears-Roebuck to handle sale of U. S. Bonds exclusively. One" brokerage firm advertises: "If any of our employees want to drive army tanks, we won't stand in their way." Another -advertise*- "haby blond***/' Retail Business Is Ahead of List \ ear Retail business stiil zooming, with nation's department store sales 14 per cent ahead of last year for the first five months of 1941 . . . Total employment in the United States hit an ail-time high of 50,i50,000 in April, reports the National Indus trial Conference Board?and at the same time unemployment dropped to 5,412,000, which is the lowest for any April since 1930 . . . Defense in dustry had several pieces of good news: Production of aircraft en gines in May is figured at 3,500 un its, about 1,100 more than the Jan uary total . . . Lockheed claims all time American record for first five months of this year, building and delivering $45,871,500 worth of planes, more than it produced in the whole year of 1940 . . . General Elec tric has completed the turbine for the battleship South Dakota, and it's being launched more than a month ahead of schedule . . . Equipment for another battle-wagon, the Massachu setts, is 10 weeks ahead of schedule . , . And the public bought $441,782, 000 worth of defense savings bonds and stomps in May, the first month they were on sale. Farm-Home Week Reg istration Begins Miss Ruth Current, State home demonstration agent, announces that registration for the annual Farm and Home Week at N. C. State College has begun. She invites Home Dem onstration Club women to make their room reservations at once to insure desirable quarter^ Farm and Home Week will be held this year from August 4 to H. Three thousand or more farm men and women are expected to allend and enjoy an "educational vacation." Miss Current said that room reser vations may be made by sending a $1 fee to Mrs. Nolle Meacham, State College Station, Raleigh. The rooms wjll be assigned in the TTrdrr that requests are received. Miss Current said that money will be refunded if reservations are cancelled before July 20. ' Trend Toward Reef C.attle Production In R ake County A definite trend toward beef cat tle production is becoming increas ingly apparent in Wake County, re ports J. D. Thompson, assistant farm agent of the N. C. State College Ex tension Servicer NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Washington Divi sion. In Bankruptcy No. 758. In the matter of: Paul Samuel Ras berry. Route No. II, Farmvllle, N. C. Voluntary Bankrupt. Notice is hereby given that Mon day, July 14, 1941, has been fixed by an order of the Court entered at the first meeting of creditors as the last day on which to file objections to the .discharge of this bankrupt. Such objections are required to be specified, to be verified, to be in du plicate, and td be filed with the un dersigned. WHEELER MAHTfW, i U. S. Referee in Bankruptcy. Williamston, N. C. 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