The Enterprise Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMS TON, 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 $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, November 25, 1941. Mutt Agriculture Bear the Burden? The Industrial News Review, owned, edited and published by E. Hofer and Sons, Portland, Oregon, and apparently subsidized by Big Bus iness, says that price increases of farm products constitute one of today's serious inflationary problems. Most of the economists say that farm prices are still below parity, but the industrial lords come out with the declaration that rising farm prices are going to wreck the country. Agricul ture has been bogged down all these years. Must it forever continue to operate at a loss that our American economy might be maintained? It is a dastardly system that would permit one group to enjoy prosperity while the other group is forced to play the role of slaves. The Industrial News Review, finding an out let for its too-often damnable voice in the col umn of a lazy newspaper editor, has harped about many things during the past, but never has it" had anything to say about those tragic periods when Big Business held the reins and drove the people to starvation and many to suicide. The wolfy Review has expertly played agriculture against labor and vice versa, over looking the cunning and sneaking practices of the parasites, the dead-beats, the robbers who have waxed fat off the sufferings of those who toil. If the Review would enlighten a confused people, then let it publish the fat profits ac cruing to its clients. j Eii wriwmj' /t*tr The economy axe is being raised in Wash ington preparatory to a swift strike against un necessary spending. The move is a dangerous one in that there are those who would strike out every relief agency whether it be worth while, good or bad, necessary or unnecessary. The move is also dangerous because classes are likely to be arrayed one against the other with the farmer demanding that the axe blow be directed against non-agriculture, or labor de manding that the blow be dealt against profits, or profits demanding that the blow be direct ed against wages offered workers on the relief program. This is no time to kill the WPA, the NY A, the FSA, or any of the other agencies conceived and advanced in the name of needy humanity. It is time, however, to strike out needless spend ing. It is time to wipe out the human parasites that have sucked the taxpayers' money and brought condemnation down upon agencies that otherwise would have been accepted with out question by all true Americans. Throw out those who have maneuvered plans, and projects to perpetuate themselves in high-paying jobs. The business of employing more highly-paid supervisors than there are common workers should be choked to a certain death, and the politicians who hand-picked the high-salaried group should realize now that some action should be taken to remedy a rotten situation. We have spent many dollars in the name of re lief and haven't gotten much return. The re turn from a tax dollar under ordinary circum stances is greater than the return from an in dividual's dollar, but not so with the money that has been spilled through the loose fingers of a top-heavy relief system, meaning most of the alphabetical agencies. No figures are available, but go to your relief projects and you will find that the taxpayer is getting only a small per centage value for his tax dollar. The loose sys tem is to be condemned and not the agency it self. The casual observer sees too everlastingly many supervisors, foremans. The system, in many instances, is bogged down in worthless red tape, and the flow of reports is endless. No wonder there is a paper shortage, and no won der that some of the agencies are facing certain death as a result of their disgusting records. Possibly the educational system should be supplemented in this and other states, but when an agency comes along and spends on youth education nearly half as much as is being spent on the State-supported schools in North Caro lina, it would appear about time to call a halt. For instance over in Greenville they recently opened what they call a resident center of the National Youth Administration. The center con sists of fourteen buildings including such units as an officers' lodge, administration building, infirmary, shops and dormitories A release, de scribing the center, says in part, "An organiz ed recreational program has been recognized as an imperative need for youths enrolled in the center. A qualified recreational leader has been employed . . The center pays the student $30 a month and furnishes him medical and dental services. It is all right to educate the youth of our land, but it appears that the common taxpayer is be ing called upon to train young men for indus try. There was a time when industry and the trades had their own apprentices. They work ed out a plan with the trainee, and while there were those cases of sweat shop practices, the plan succeeded fairly well with the trainee showing a genuine intei'est in his work. Ap prentices are needed now, if reports are to be accepted at their face value, but instead of the young man entering a trade as an apprentice he has to be paid $30 a month by the taxpayer to prepare himself in a half-baked way for em ployment. There are the vocational departments in most of the schools, but somehow or other they would not furnish high-salaried positions for the dear friends of the politicians New and costly systems had to be established, and un til our economy is converted lock, stock and barrel into a socialistic one, 90 per cent of those entering the centers have no business there. And when the country jjets its 1941 tax hill it is going to call for an accounting And it is go ing to learn that some of the self-perpetuating agencies are-demanding mere than John Lewis is demanding. 'Get Thin Over H ith" Christian Scienca Monitor. The choice before Americans becomes clear er day by day. They have decided that no firm peace is possible until Hitlerism is destroyed. Morally and industrially they have enlisted to help destroy it. The big' remaining question is, Fast or slow? William Knudsen put it to Amer icans plainly at the Fight for Freedom rally in New York when he said that it is a choice of continuing at the present rate of defense pro duction on the chance that years from now "we finally will so outrank the Nazis that they will not be able to go on any longer" or of piling on "every ounce of steam to get this thing over with." The Director General of the OPM realizes better perhaps than anyone except the men in the front line who are waiting for weapons or fighting with Inferior ones, how much of a start the Nazis had and how slowly their opponents are catching up. As Mr. Knudsen said, today wars 'are won in the shop." After all the talk and all the appropriations?even after all the work on defense?the Nazis and their slaves and satellites are-stilh-winftmg 4his one, winning it in the shop. The Germans geared their, economy to war several years ago. Some statistics show that if present increases are sustained American and British war production will match Axis out put in another year. John D. Biggers, United States Lend.Lease Director in London, said the other day that by 1940 the democracies would go ahead in production. And every week the Russians are losing great quantities of war materials and the means of production?large ly because they lack planes, tanks, guns equal to the Nazis. Mechanized war should be "right down Am erica's alley," as Mr. Biggers said. The Unit ed States potentially has more industrial pow er than all of Europe. Once it really becomes serious about making the machines to stop the Nazis, the world will see something new in production. But so far America has been only half-hearted. It has produced pleasure cars more than ever before in its history rather than tanks in any quantity. It is still on a 40 hour week, while the Germans work 60 to 80 and the British nearly as much. America is de voting only about 20 per cent of national income to the war effort, while in Germany and Brit ain the figure is from 50 to 60 per cent. Ameri can military production is still less than Brit ain's. Whether Americans wish to stay out or go in, most of them today realize that the best hope of peace is in destroying Hitlerism. Work will doHjat. Work will win. Whether victory will come scion or late depends vitally on whe ther America really, goes to work. Only Uncle Sam Sleerl Worry Labor. The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey does not like the Mexican government's pro posal for a settlement of the long-standing con troversy over the expropriated oil lands. Mex ico wishes to retain the lands it seized, but it is willing to compensate the owners on what it regards as a "reasonable basis" and suggests it has $9,000,000 on hand for a first payment. Our State Department is acting as a sort of go-between, and our Treasury Department is expected to put up the money, in the form of a loan to Mexico. The oil men feel if they continue to demand better terms, our State Department is likely to urge Mexico to make more concessions, and if Mexico is not putting up its own cash, but just borrowing the money from its friend, it is like ly to yield. About {he only one who has any reason to worry is our old friend, Uncle Sam. Will he get his money back, and when? Stockpiles of Food for Peace The Cnited Stales figures that stockpiles of defense food will "exert the maximum influence at the peace conference table" when Europe ends her present struggle That's win the (iov eminent has asked farmers of North Carolina and Other states to help produce these slock piles of food, says Dr. I. O. Schaub, director of the N. C. State Col lege Kxtension Service. The up 1><-r picture shows barrels of dried inilk. just as Rood a year from now as today. The picture above shows a warehouse fill ed with Iiurc drums of cheese, even better with aging. Mutual Admiration 1 i l(lli( TS Urged To Protect Forests, ? .? ^With the main hunting season now undi i way, forest wardens are urg ing all hunters to exercise every care against fires-. The following appeal was released this week by County Warden Marvin Leggett: The woods are extremely dry, due I to the extended drought. At the pres ent, there is a deficiency in rainfall of several inches for the year. Campers, hunters, loggers, wood cutters and all other persons enter ing the woods are requested to be careful with fire. Oppossum and raccoon hunters are especially asked to cooperate by not building any fire in the woods as even a small file is exceedingly diffi cult to put out. Wlnle the woods are so dry and fire will burn down to pure min- raj soil, which is from two inches to as much as one or more feet plm Our forests have a tremendous property value at this time when so much vyood, lumber and other forest products are needed for national de fense. Forest fires destroy the present and future crop of trees arid are harmful to game. Be sure that your match, cigarette ' ? t pipe a Ik s are entirely out before | you drop them. Do not make any fire rTTi tin* woods, unless absolutely nee i : aiy and clear away all combusti ble material for a space of ten feet condit ions So please think of all this while Miss Fur Industry admires her re flection after she had been crowned, as one of the hlfchspoU of the dem it #1 onstration put jjpi in New York by the fur industry to boost the sale of U. S. defense bonds. Her Majesty is Mary Ellen McNulty Fvt. Sam Nelson, stationed TIT 'amp Lee, visited In n during the ipjidays Parking K?TO?;iiiziii?i llic \ a I lie ol reserving possible parking spaee for Wiliiamston Visitors We. the niii(iii)- s Keady ?. . . ~ HITS THE SPOT ? ?? ??????< J?** ooly b, P.p.iCol. Compel L?p, AMERICA'S BIGGEST NICKEL'S WORTH Auttiortud Bottlor: (Nam* of Local Bottior to bo uioftad hort) Want AGood Mule? Ilood. strong and healthy. m \ vol in mi ii m.ioim: n;n i:s unckkasi:: HOLT EVANS I I M E S A V INC . I Ao II ailinf! 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