The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. W1LIJAMSTON. NORTH fumnu w. c. manning Editor ? 1908-1938 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. Tuetday. July 22. 1941. , I'ay in ihr Army Typical of most of us Americans, we over emphasize our arguments with claims that will not stand up in the face pf the real facts, and ignore more plausible claims. Much has been said about the $21-a-monlh man in the Army. A report released under a Washington dateline -by a press association a few days-ago says that instead of receiving $21 a month, the average man in the Army receives $36 cash each month at the end of four months. The report reads, in part: Apt mldiem -mmc up the tanks tu first class private, non-commissioned officers, and -specialists, -and-the?pay ranges up "to $126 a month for a master sergeant. It is judged that about two-thirds of the Army of 1,400,000 men by mid-summer will be getting $36 as first-class privates or still better salaries for higher ranks." In addition to an average salary of. $36 a month, the apt Army man gets his board and clothing free. His medical bills are all paid by the government, and he even buys his cigar ettes and other similar items at cost. The conservative soldier at the end of the year can easily show a cash reserve of at least $300. How many common workers, tenants and others back home can show such a reserve at the end of the year. The man getting 50 cents an hour has $80 at the end of the month to fi nance his living and all other expenses, includ ing medical attention, and to build a cash re serve. How many are able to save a penny, and isn't it an actual fact that the end of the month finds him in debt? The wage-earner back home in most cases has a family to support It umnlH? appcaiMhat the Army man holds an advantage when it comes to pay. Now, it is agreed that the selectee surrender ed his-eivic rights at Uw caU id Uncle Sam. -atid that many injustices have resulted. It is agreed that the man in the Army is subject to attack. There are things the selectee wishes-he-cnuld escape, but where there is one selectee wish ing he was able to escape this or that, there are ten back fiomi who wish they could duck out of the hot fields or lay down their tools ip the . sweatshops and join the more-fortunate "Vt the resorts for the entire summer. This life is no bed of roses, but we must re member that for us it is better than for most oth ers, that each of us has a part to play and that we can't do our best when we think the othei fellow has the easiest job or is getting more pay. Babton Spmks After reading recognized reports released by * the government and after agreeing that rising prices demanded an increase in the family budget, the breadwinner will be flabbergast ed to read Roger W. Babson's forthcoming ar ticle in which he declares that living costs to day are 10 per cent below those experienced in 1929, and that prices have climbed only a wee five per cent since the war began. Mr. Babson is offering his syndicated story to the suckers for a dollar, a proposed transac tion which in the face of the facts can only add * to costs. There is doubt" if Mr Babson will en lighten his clients, and there is reason to be lieve that he will through his article widen the gap between labor and the general public. If ever there was a time for a closer unity among all ranks that time is right in this hour But Mr. Babson will say that propaganda "issued by labor leaders and men in Washington anx ious to get more authority and create more Gov ernment jobs," is responsible for all the talk f about increased living costs. He also will say that building costs have increased only nine per cent and that 70 per cent of that increase is traceable to labor and taxes. Mr. Babson should have the facts at his com mand, and he should be right, but it is difficult to follow him when the food advertisements show one- and two-cent and sometimes three cent gains in prices for certain foods from week to week. A local builder said just a few days h ago that a certain type of flooring purchased the early part of this year for $65 is now selling for $85. Increases, not as marked as that but considerably above Babson's nine per cent fig ure, are reported for nearly all building mater ials with the possible exception of brick. And, yet, Mr. Babson comes along and wants to sell his opinions for a dollar and to leave the im pression with the people that labor is gouging the consumer. Irish potato farmers and others can see no good reason for food price increases, it is true, but they and the consumers would like for Mr. Babson to explain f" 'hem "^V print for those commodities have increased to the consumer. Maybe some of Mr. Babson's broker clients can help solve the problem. And while Mr. Babson is explaining that, he will do well to explain why an official govern ment bureau says that living Costs jumped 3.7 per cent from mid-May to mid-June to boost the total to 13.3 per cent since August. 1939. Earns His Title Charles Lindbergh, the ex-Colonel and the once over-inflated hero, is looking to fiery Har old Ickes for an apology. It seems as if Secre tary Ickes did a most ungentlemanly act when he associated Lindbergh with Adolf Hitler's organization of spies and agents in this coun try. All of which causes one to wonder wheth er Ickes is to be "called" or whether Lindbergh himself is to be held responsible for the title with which the secretary so effectively crown ed him recently. It would appear that the de flated hero earned his own title, and while Lindbergh may be a sincere gentleman and pa triotic citizen, he will have to pull out of Hit ler's camp to prove it to the people of this na tion. Senator Kevnolds' Embarrassment Now York Times. A short time ago Senator Reynolds of North Carolina became chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs by virtue of the moss-cov ered, Senatorial practice of "seniority." This is the practice of filling an empty post (in this case maed empty by the death of Senator Shep pard) with the member next in line in point of political survival, whether or not he is well qualified for the office. Senator Reynolds was obviously not well qualified. He has been in vi L olent disagreement with the foreign policies of this Administration and it was a poor service to democracy to let him take the chairmanship of so important a committee in a time of crisis. The first result of this blind following of a worthless precedent is now apparent. Last Thursday, acting at the request of the War De partment, Mr. Reynolds introduced two reso lutions to extend the period of training for Se lective Service men and National Guardsmen. The next day he described himself as "embar rassed" by his own action, declaring" 1 hate to be put in the position of voting against my own bills, but I am afraid I am going to have to do it." It puts an unnecessary strain on democracy when a man is placed in the preposterous posi tion of speaking for an Administration of whose Tnajm policies he is an-enemy. - It is reassuring news that despite Mr. Rey nolds' "embarrassment" the question of a long- ' er period of training will be brought to a prompt test in Congress. This was the decision reached -itt a White -House conference yesterday. It is the onlv wise decision that could possibly have been made. To demobilize more than two-thirds of an incompletely trained armv, in the midst of a World Wai and at ujit'-uf-iho great crises of our history, would be an act of reckless folly. .JWe have no possible alternative but to ask in the names of our democracy, that the young men who have been selected for service by a genuinely democratic method continue to stand at arms so long as our democratic institutions are in danger I'eanul Publicity in Oklahoma The Baltimore Sun. In the current issue of the Country Gentle man is a bright little, story under the signature of R A. Shaw, telling how Bristow, Creek Coun ty, Oklahoma, became the "Peanut Capital of the World." Peanuts, according to Mr. Shaw, were tried out in Creek County in 1905 with good results, but the local farmers preferred- eetton. Then they found oil under their cotton fields and turnip to oil. When the oil boom collapsed, Bris tow felt the full weight of the depression and its up-and-coming Chamber of Commerce seiz ed upon peanuts as a lifesaver. "The City of Bristow," says the writer, "stood solidly behind the farmers and finally resort ed to a piece of ballyhoo that advertised the industry here from Boston to San Francisco and assured the farmers of an iinlimit"^ mar ket. The City Council passed an ordinance re quiring, on penalty of fine and imprisonment, that a peanut be served with every glass of wa ter given in a Bristow cafe; and when the ordi nance was 'violated' the petty offender was 'ar lested' and cameramen shot the act. Story and pictures traveled far and wide and orders and fan mail came into Bristow from coast to coast." Bristow the Peanut Capital of the World. This is news indeed. It is news to Georgia, which grows more peanuts than any other state in the Union. It is news to Alabama, which is sec ond in production. It is news to the peanut belt "of Virginia and North Carolina, which, com bined, grow more peanuts than Georgia. It is, we venture to say, news to Senator Carter Glass, who, because of his interest in the Virginia in dustry, proudly dubbed himself a "peanut poli tician." It is news to $he readers of seed cata logues wherein the only two kinds of peanuts offered for sale are "Spanish" and "Jumbo Vir ginia."" Bristow the Peanut Capital of the World. This is the best joke since that of the little town whose realtors declared it to be the center of the world because it was equidistant from all points of the horizon. "ARCTICS" \v> fe/i i "r II 1'6 / r^\w^v1 j Food Chain Adopts ">-I)ay \\ ook Policy For All Divisions Jacksonville, Fla , July 17 ?John A HarfTord. president of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company today announced the adoption of the five-day work week for retail store employees as the company's nation al policy. Tha five-day, 4H-hour week. first in the history of the retail food bus iness, was introduced on an experi mental basis in A & P stores in a few eastern states two months ago, Hart fortl said, and will mm- I... extended ? , ?oinciiuuu throughout the entire A & P organ ization "as far and as fast" as possi ble. ! : 1 "Frankly, however, we must rec ognize," Hartford said, "that in a few states and some cities the intro duction of this shorter work week may be delayed or even prevented by state and local labor regulations and local agreements." In Jacksonville, Robert M. Smith, president of the Southern Division, said that the shorter week will be in effect before Labor Day in A & I* food stores in hundreds of commun ities throughout this area. II.- point ed out that the pay of employees uf fected by this policy will remain the same as for the six .lay week and although employes will work only live days a week, stores will con llliue to serve customers six days as usual. " "The new schedule is (lie latest Step in the company's traditional pol icy of creating and maintaining for its employees the highest wages, the shortest general hours and the best working conditions in the industry," ?bniltlL said-.. -"Dururg?tie-?past?26 years A & P has repeatedly, broken with the traditional duwn-to-dusk Working schedule of the food lmsi "ess. and since 191"? we have been aide to rrdmr our store i-mriln.,.. work by 34 2 per cent, or a total of 25 hours." Those improved working condi tions have never been achieved at tin- cost of increased-prices to our customers -or lower returns to our suppliers They are the employes' share of the general reduction in op crating expenses resulting from the coosisienily increasing efficiency of our method of distribution. rhe A A P's annuul report to stockholders, issued last month, re, veals that there j? MO conflict be 'ween low prices and good working eoiiditlofis it Shows that our cus tomers are currently enjoying the lowest retail prices in relation to our coats in the history of the grocery industry, that during 1940 our grow ers and shippers received 13 per cent more of the consumer's food dollar than they did in 1937; and that we Were still able last year to give our employes actual <*,ge increases and added compensation totaling more than $4,000,000." Mr. Smith pointed out that the new A & p schedule is in sharp con trast with the latest figures for working hours in the food industry contained in a survey made a year ago by a group of Washington, D. C labor unions which revealed that the average working hours for retail employes in individual grocery stores in that city were 63 1-2 hours and :"r food chain store employes 54 ., - EXECUTOR'S NOTICE North Carolina, Martin County Having qualified as the executoi cL of G<'or?'' Williams, de ceased, this is to notify all persons having e aims against said estate U: present them to the undersigned within one year from the completion will b, P?i S"'n not,te or same ^L^J^joade^mbartoanyrecoy THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Motorists turned from the beaten highway paths to boost the accident record figures a notch or two over the week-end. and while one of the accidents barely missed being a serious one, the victims escaped unhurt and the property lass was not very large. The 1940 and 1941 figures are running neck and ' neck as far as the number of ac cidents and deaths are concern ed. but the recent months hold an edge in number injured and property loss amount. fer a comparison of the accident trend: _ first, by corresponding weeks in this year and last and for each year to the present time. 29th Week Comparison Accidents Inj'd Killed Dam'ge 1941 I 0 0 $ 50 1940 i) 0 0 00 Comparison To Date 1941 53 44 2 $17,175 1940 53 37 2 $ 6,405 Prices For Foods Arc Going Higher $ Despite record earning power in the U. S., that old maxim about more' guns meaning less butter is coming true once more as America edges nearer a wartime economy. Accord ing to the national bureau of labor statistics, the folks in. New Jersey X>aid 31 per cent more for pork dur ing June than they paid a year ago. Eggs were up 37 per cent. Butter, which cost 32 cents a pound in June, 4-940,- was up to 41* cents. Although statisticians cannot place their fin gers on a single reason for such in-' creases, they're due in part to the hearty appetite of Uncle Sam's draftee army and !|I^??m?oertu"* cases. to purchases by Britain. So called "luxury" items are going up, too, of course. For example, a 2( per cent increase in the retail cost of liquor can be expected, what with the projected $1 -per-gallon federal tax boost, higher operating expense and rising cost of practically every raw material used in the product. So j that's The other side of the story, and it does cast a sobering shadow over the optimistic tidings of industrial output and wage increases. Return to Richmond Mr. and Mrs. Irving Hull and daughter returned to their home in Richmond yesterday after a week's visit here with relatives. They were accompanied home by Mrs. Hull's mother, Mrs. G. W. Hardison, who will spend a few days with them ery. All persons indebted to said estate will pleest- make in lined late settle-' ment. This the 27th day of June, 1941. RUSSELL WILLIAMS. Executor of the estate of jly 1 -fit George Williams, deceased NOTICE North Carolina, Martin County. In The "Superior Court. County of Martin against Mandy or Mary Lewis and Town of Parmele The defendant, Mandy or Mary Lewist above named, will take no tice that an action entitled as above ... ior Court of Martin County, North Carolina, to foreclose th^ taxes on land in Martin County in which said defendant has an interest; and the said defendant will further take no tice that she is required to appear before L. B. Wynne, Clerk of the Superior Court of Martin County at his office in Williamston, North Carolina, within thirty <30) days af ter the completion of this service of jjuhheatior^by^iotice and to answer AMERICA S BIGGEST NICKEL S WORTH ftUM IWOlMM^MrMkOT) or demur to the complaint of the' plaintiff in this action, or the plain tiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said complaint; This the 3rd day of July, 1941. L. B WYNNE. Clerk Superior Court jy8'4t of Martin county. " NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the author ity contained in that certain Deed of Trust recorded in the Public Reg istry of Martin County in Book H 3. at page 227. said Deed of Trust hav ing been given to secure a certain ' note of even date and tenor there with, and the stipulations therein contained not having been com plied with, at the request of the par ties interested, the undersigned Trustee will, on Monday, the 28th lay of July, 1941. at 12 00 o'clock ML in front of the Court House door in the Town of Wiliiamston. N. C., >ffer for sale at Public Auction to ihe highest bidder for cash, the fol-1 owing described real estate: LOT NO. 1: Being Lot No. 10 in he Moore Field, adjoining Amy 'urvis on the West fronting N street 78.8 and runnilig back to two parallel lines S. 41 45 feet east to he depth of 130 feet Being same and purchased from Wiliiamston ?md and Improvement Company by George and Jane Rtce. Recorded in took E-l. page 112. LOT NO 2: Beginning 73 feet from Broad Street at corner of Lot No. l m Block B in the Moore Field plot, thence Eastwardly along the line of lota 1 and 2 about 130 feet to Lot No. 4; thence Southerly along Lot No 4 to Jane Rice's back corner; thcni'l' along Jane Rice's rnmpr about 130 feet to a Street; thence along said Street to the beginning, being same land purchased of H. M. Burras by George and Jane Rice. LOT NO. 3: Beginning at the cor ner of Pine and North Streets in the Williamston Land and Improvement CompanyMuorr?Field.?i milling North 42* East 72.8 feet to Augustus Purvis corner; thence along his line South 41 3-4* West along Pine Street to the beginning and being Lot No. 19 Being same land purchased from Williamston Land and Improvement Company 1-11 in Koiifin^. Il give* >o|i many years longer service ami wlien il rains it alruins. Often limes yam will l>e told that some other Sheet Hoofing is Just As Coital us Chan na'l Drain. Why take this eliauee! Demaml the original. Pleusi- keep this in mini! that when you riale along the ronal ami sea- a rusty roof "That's Not Chunnel Drain." So as pro teetion to yoursi>lf, see thut the woral Channel Drain is on eyery sha-a-t of iiii-tal you buy. SOLD BY THE BEST MERCHANTS EVERYWHERE W. H. Basnight & Co., Inc. WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS "We Cover E at tern Carolina" lHOSKIE NORTH CAROLINA