The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILUAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA. 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 $3.25 Sim 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. Friday. October 3. 1941. The Poor Are Still With U* Much has been accomplished in solving the problem caused by poverty and want in this country, but it must be admitted that the poor arc still with us Reports from the school lunch rooms in this county state that almost as many free lunches are being served today as there were two or three years ago. It is indeed difficult to under stand the cause of such a condition when jobs go begging for workers and when farm prices have just about doubled themselves. After al lowing for those cases overtaken by misfortune, there seems little reason for continuing our cast relief system. This newspaper is just as bit terly opposed to the apparently self-perpetuat ing relief system as it was strong for feeding the hungry and caring for the needy when con ditions prevented them itoin gaining a liveli hood back in the thirties Baek in those trying days, this paper voiced the humble opinion that the hungry should be fed and the needy cared for even if the task brought the nation down in to bankruptcy But when corn cribs are bulging, the larder filled to .overflowing and when farm commod ity prices are rising, it appears foolish to sit American \outh dow n to a free meal and teach them to expect something which they or their parents could earn for them. It may be neces sary to maintain the relief setup on a small arale today but if the relief agencies frill bo ther to read the handwriting on the wall they will curtail 'their programs and get ready for the shock that is certain to coirie Progress tow ard that end now may prevent an uprising later on when the average citizen faces the new tax schedules If the relief system has to be continued on an extensive Scale, the guardians of human wel fare had better start revamping that system With nearly ten years of experience to their credit, the relief agencies should by now have a fairly definite idea for approaching the prob lem. The poor are always with us, but nothing has ever been said that the deadbeats must be in cluded in that group. Merely Taking Lp the Slaek Apparently this nation is turning to nation al defense merely to take up the slack in our prosperity program. Bending over backwards in the name of prosperity, we are supporting the national defense program only and when it fits in with the almighty dollar and individual gain. Poor ole country is getting little more than the crutnbs falling from heavily laden ta bels. The industrialists have moved only after be ing spurred by high and tiandsome profits. Labor has stalled for higher wages and all the accessories. Some few small manufacturers may have been forced out of business, but the automotive industry in the first seven months of 1941 made over half a million more passenger cars than it did in the corresponding period in 1940. We have bought defense savings stamps and bonds only with that money left after satisfy ing every whim and fancy. And in so many cases there was no money left, and consequent ly no stamps or bonds were bought in those cases. There hasn't been a war fought yet but what the people were called upon or were forced to sacrifice, and the sooner we recognize that vei^r evident fact and take definite action the better we'll survive the ordeals, trials and tribulations that are confronting us. History tells of the great suffering in 1776, and the scars and hardships experienced in the sixties are still evident in the Souths economic structure, admit it or not. We rode high and wide on the World War bub ble, but millions are still suffering from the shock accompanying that great fall in 1919. De spite the indellible writings, we are strangling our fellowman, struggling among ourselves to gain a commanding position on a high limb, making ready, unconsciously perhaps, for an other great fall. Possibly the shock could be lessened if we were to temporarily abandon or at least drastically alter our present economic schedule, and turn our efforts to the task at hand; namely the defeat of Hitlerism and the establishment of safetv for America and Am Behind the Battle Front Despite the mass murder and almost unbe lievable destruction of property in battle, the war in Europe is exacting possibly a greater toll of horror behind the fronts where thous ands are being tortured, mutilated and starv ed It would seem that America would wake up and offer to do even more than she is do ing to alleviate the suffering among helpless -mankind and to realize that Hitler and his fel low runts in world murder are not to be trust ed. There have been many horror stories be hind the battle lines, but to satisfy our own peace of minds we casually dismissed them as false Just recently, Representative Celler in the halls of Congress offered as valid some strik ing happenings as they were reported by reli able persons who had witnessed many of them. In recalling the appalling conditions. Repre sentative Celler said, in part: Europe before Hitler was divided and sub divided into national and international differ ences and disagreements. Today most of Eu rope is united?in hate, of Hitler. It is a solid union of grim abhorrence that ignores boun daries and racial and social prejudices. Poles and Czechs, blond Norsemen, and swarthy Greeks and Slavs are, now bound together by a common vengeance A Gestapo reign of terror in the conquered provinces has caused this fedi ration of venom and hostility to t e 1 lakenkreuze and all it im plies Rapine, pestilence, disease, plunder, and famine have aroused an opposition that even torture cannot still Reprisals are rampant. Tons of thousands of political prisoners have been seized and forced into refined torture chambers. -Thousands +4?pastors, priests, and rabbis are summoned by the Gestapo and in sulted and defiled They are forced to substi tute prison clothes for their religious garb and are forbidden to conduct mass or say prayers. Regardless of age or infirmities, they are- forc ed to do degrading manual work to clean la trines and scrub floors Thousands of laborers and intellectuals re sisting Nazi tyranny are machine-gunned and massacred Scores caught escaping are brought back and subjected to sadistic cruelties. Here is a typical case of torture of students in Czech oslovakia who protested the ousting of certain ! professors because of their beliefs. Hundreds | of these students were beaten into insensibility | by blows from thick clubs and cudgels. Still others had their ears torn off and their eyes struck out by blows from whips. Groups of four youths were given whips and ordered to slash at each other. If they did not attack with suf ficient savagery, they were goaded on and burned with flaming torches or slit with sharp swords. A number of girl students seized in raids were dragged into large open spaces and violated in view of bound male students, who were powerless spectators of these horrible scenes. Their cries of anguish and fright were met with new and more cruel tortures. These are but a few of the dreadful rites practiced by the German soldatih the so-called Herren volke. These wretched soldiers are the van guard of the master people (the German) who would make Sklavenvolk (slaves) of all other people. The most tortured nation is Poland, where many thousands have been machine-gunned and gassed?murdered for what the Nazis call eu genics?the Poles being a lowly, inferior race, according to the Nazis. Mass executions have claimed more lives than did the Polish-German war. WAIT EACH OAV WTM. ill^l vambif \ miMM IDEM WTIl lAKIIt tllPUT, IAIEIBI, I.C. CHURCH NEWS METHODIST Church school, 0:45 a m. Morning worship and the jH?ly Communion, 11 a. m. Epworth League. 7 p. m. Evening service, 7:30 p. m Mid-week prayer service, Wednes day, 7 30 p. m. The circle of the Woman's Society of Christian Service will meet at the home of Mrs J. W. Watts. Monday. 3:30 p. m. Mrs Watts and Mrs Rog er Critcher, hostesses Promotion Day will be observed in the church school Sunine^stumj^u^Har-^ nett's Branch, thence Westerly up the run of said branch to the beginning, containing Six (6) acres, more or ELBERT S. PEEL, less. This the 6th day of Sept., 1941. sl2-19-26-o3 Commissioner. COLDS j i Relieve misery, as most mothers do. Rub the* M1 throat, cheitlf IlIKa and back with *# *w time - tested W VAPORUB Attention Tobacco Farmers WE CAN USE Large Quantities of Scrap Tobacco At Top Prices Now W. I. SKINNER & COMPANY WILLI VMSTON, N. C. Turnage Theatre ? Sunda.v October 5 "Buy Me That Town" LLOYD NOLAN and CONSTANCY MOORE Monday-Tuesday October 6-7 "!\avy HI?d" Kleanor Powell, Ann Sothern and Robert Young HORT SUBJECTS m Now when quality and long life mean more than ever gives you new models^ with 15 improvements over last year's 1/tCCfTSUCCtSS f Aumrmv THE FINE CAR WITH THE LOFT FRICE? 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