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The Enterprise Publiahed Every Tueeday ud Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA. W. C. MANNING Editor ? IMS-IMS SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year $100 Six months 118 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year $180 Six months 1.80 No Subscription Received Under t 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 1 1870. Address all communications to The Enterprise and not individual members of the firm. Friday, October 16, 1942. Helping Win The ITarV, Here is what your War Savings Stamps and Bonds will buy for the U. S. Air Corps: Thirty cents will buy 1 message bag. One dollar and a half will buy 1 pair flying gloves. Five dollars will buy first aid aeronautics kit. Eighteen dollars and seventy-five cents will buy 1 winter flying jacket. Fifty-two dollars will buy 1 bombardier kit. One hundred and fifty dollars wlil buy one parachute. Two hundred and sixty dollars will buy 1 pi lot flying clothing and equipment. Thirty-four hundred dollars will buy 1 aerial camera. Fifty thousand dollars will buy one pursuit plane. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars will buy a two-engine bomber. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars will buy a four-engine bomber. Labor Goe? To The Bat For Farmer When the farmer was being branded as a traitor by the dominant press and radio, labor, organized labor, came out strongly in his be half and declared, "He (the farmer) is not get ting exhorbitant prices for his crops. He is not a profiteer, and we can't win the war without him." The one big puzzle in this country is to un derstand why the farmer and factory man have been played one against the other. They are both working men, and narrowed down to the final analysis, they are customers of each other. Skillful maneuvering has had them at the throat of each other for many years when they could have come together for the common good of themselves and for the common good of the country. The farmer has been blamed when he sold his corn at 13 cents a dozen and the consumer had to pay an average of 43 cents a dozen. The factory worker has been condemn ed when his labor hardly entered into the man ufacture of a dress and the consumer had to pay an exhorbitant price. The stand of organized labor relative to the recent farm fight is expressed by Labor as fol lows: Farmers have received a raw deal from the daily press and the radio commentators. Of course, there has been an exception here and there, but, in the main, the men who are ex pected to produce the food needed to feed our people, and our allies overseas, have been pic tured as a group of greedy grafters intent on lining their own pockets, whatever the effect may be on their country. In a word, the daily press and the radio com mentators have lied about the farmers as ven omously as they have been lying about organ ized labor all through this war emergency. It would be impossible for them to go farther than that. At the same time, Congress has been belabor ed because it dared consider the farmers' side of the case. One highly-emotional columnist suggested that the "weakness" thus displayed by Congress made a dictatorship inevitable. Others charged the lawmakers with "coward ice." Altogether it was a disgraceful spectacle. Now, just what are the facts? Anyone who calmly surveys the situation must feel that the farmer is facing a real crisis. Conscription and the comparatively high wages paid in war in dustries have deprived agriculture of much of its manpower. To make up for their grievous loss, one of two things must be done: The drafted manpower must be returned to the farm or the farmer must be able to go in to the labor market and promise workers de cent wages and living conditions. The better way would be to keep skilled far mers on the farms. It seems silly to draft an experienced farmer and then raise the price of farm products to make possible the hiring of a less experienced substitute. The farmer is not responsible for that dis turbing situation. Those in charge of the ma chinery of conscription should have displayed sounder judgment. But that's water over the dam. The fanner is confronting a condition, not a theory. The prices he receives for most of his crops are be low "parity"?a fact concealed by most of the papers. Some of his crops are above "parity" but, taking it by and large, he is far from be ing a profiteer. Those who handle the farmer's crops are the real profiteers. They neither sow nor reap, but they pocket the greater portion of the "consum er's dollar." Propagandists of the press and the radio have nothing to say about them. There is real danger that thousands of farm ers will be forced out of business. That would be a disaster, because while our country can get along without newspaper "columnists" or radio "commentators," it can't get along with out the farmer. In fact, the "boy" on the firing line, the farmer and the industrial worker con stitute the invincible trinity which will event ually pull Uncle Sam out of the Slough of De spond. So Labor refuses to add to the torrent of abuse which has been rolling over the farmer. We believe he is entitled to a fair return on his labor. That is what we have asked for other workers. We do not believe the farmer should be satisfied with less. The Churches And Civilisation The Common Defenae. Broadcasts from Berlin to the Netherlands complain of opposition to Nazi rule, by the Dutch and the opposition is referred to as "blind, childish and stubborn." The Nazis pre tend that this resistance is the work of only a minority in Holland. It is described as "conser vative" and the Dutch are told that "conser vative elements have always resisted every form of progress." Again, the Nazis ascribe the minority opposition in Holland to "intellect uals" and to "the irreconcilable attitude of the churches, the teachers, old fashioned parents, and dissolved organizations which continue to vegetate in secret." Obviously, the people who belong to these groups represent an important segment of the population. The Nazis try to describe them as "reactionary, backward and thus unimportant." The churches, teachers, and old fashioned parents may be conservative. They are never unimportant. On the contrary, they conserve the essential principles and ideals of society which maintain civilization and offer whatev er hope there is for its improvement. Civiliza tion requires that we all agree on certain prem ises, rules, and methods of procedure. It is a way of living together. Among other things, democratic civilization requires that we all agree to the proposition that man is sacred, that deprived of life or property without due process of law. The churches, which the Nazis ridicule as "reactionary, backward and thus unimport ant," have prayed and worked for centuries to persuade us to agree to this proposition, and this is what the churches seek now to con serve. Supposing we renounce it now and declare that henceforth we shall attempt to live to gether some other way. What do we get? What do we get it we abandon the principle that man is sacred? We get the murder of hostages, the destruction of Greece by famine, the an nihilation of whole towns and villages. What do we get if we abandon the principle that man's rights are inalienable? We get the sup pression of speech and press, the persecution of religion, the burning of books, the death of in dependent thinking. What do we get if we abandon the principle that a man may not be deprived of life or property without due pro cess of law? We get the confiscation of proper ty, large and small; mock trials before military tribunals which send thousands to their death without a chance of being heard. What do we get? We get tyranny ? and something worse than tyranny. We get barbarism and chaos im plemented by terror, with which the conserva tism of the churches has nothing in common. For the churches are conservative in the same sense that civilization must be and every ty rant who conspires to destroy civilization will always find them there, blocking his path, fi nally defeating him. Indeed, the churches are the "irreconcilable opposition." Warning To John Barleycorn Christian Science Monitor. Mayor La Guardia's warning to the liquor dealers that wartime is an occasion for less ra ther than more drinking should be heeded. The Mayor of New York is not a fanatic. He speaks the thoughts of many average Americans; the trade would be wise to listen. But will those who profit from soldiers' and sailors' spendings over the bar do anything about it? They have set themselves up in busi ness near camps and bases, and have lain in wait for boys on liberty and leave. They hire extra help and add special attractions on pay day. John Barleycorn's methods may have, changed somewhat since the days when run ners met the sailors at the gangplank and the soldiers at the barracks doors, but his aims are the same?debauchery and degradation prompt ed by greed. What has been said about liquor and the arm ed forces is equally true of workers in war in dustry, and the beer and whisky sellers have not been slow to take advantage of the situa tion created by swollen pay envelopes and a great flow of new money. 'The decent people of the country," says Mr. La Guardia, "are not going to stand for de bauchery." It is an adage that he who would conquer na tions must first conquer himself. Similarly if civilians expect the fighting forces to keep themselves clean and undefiled, might they not help to set an fexample? CHURCH NEWS CHURCH OF THE ADVEN1 St. Luke, the Evangelist. Church school, 9:45 a. m. Morning prayer and sermon, 11 a. m. Evening prayer at 8 p. m. The Woman's Auxiliary will meet on Monday at 4 p. m. with Mrs. J. H. Saunders. St. Elizabeth's Auxiliary will meet Monday at 4 p. m. with Mrs. Henry Handy. METHODIST Church school, 9:45 a. m. All who are not attending elsewhere are cor dially invited to attend our school. Morning worship and sermon, 11 a. m. Rev. D. A. Clarke, who is as sisting the pastor in evangelistic services, will preach at both serv ices. The subject for the morning sermon will be "The Bountiful Na ture of God." Evening service. 8 p. m. Mr. Clarke will preach on "The New World Or der." The public is cordially invited to attend these services. With the evening service the series of meet ings will come to a close. The W.S.C.S. will meet at the church Monday, 4 p. m. All the mem bers are urged to attend. Mid-week prayer service, Wed nesday, 8 p. m. Choir rehearsal after prayer service. The board of stewards will meet Monday, 8 p. m., at the parsonage. HOLLY SPRINGS METHODIST The pastor will fill his regular ap pointment at Holly Springs Sunday afternoon at four o'clock. The pub lic is cordially invited to attend this service. Jamesville Baptist Regular services at Jamesville Baptist Church Sunday. Subject for 11 o'clock service, "Will We Know Each Other in Heaven?" Your pas tor will be looking for you. Please be present. The public is invited. HOLINESS Saturday night and Sunday will be the last appointment for this year. Everyone is invited. Beginning Friday night, October 23, and continuing through Monday, October 26th, the annual^conference " will convene at the Williamston church. Anyone in Williamston who can accommodate some of our visit ing pastors and laymen please no tify B. D. Wynn or S. T. Harris. CHRISTIAN Bible school, 9:45 a. m. Morning worship, 11 a. m. Sub ject, "Conversations at Midnight." Young People's meeting, 7 p. m. Subject, "High Points in Church His tory." In cooperation with the meeting in progress in the Methodist Church we will have no service tonight. Monday, 4 p. m., Circle No. 1 meets with Mrs. A. J. Manning, with Mrs. A. R. Dunning and Miss Ruth Man ning as joint hostesses. Circle No. 2 meets with Mrs. John L. Goff, with Mrs. J. T. Edmondson as joint host ess. Choir rehearsal Tuesday, 8 p. m. Wednesday, 8 p. m. prayer serv ice. Subject, "The 'Musts' of Jesus: They Must'." > BAPTIST Bible school, 9:45 a. m. Lesson top ic, "Growth in Christ." Worship service, 11 a. m. Sermon subject, "Carrying On." Training Union, 7 p. m. Worship service, 8 p. m. We will worship with the Methodists in their revival service. Attorney Elbert S. Peel made a professional business trip to Halifax yesterday. The "old oaken bucket" is coming back, WPB is encouraging manufac ture of wooden pails and tubs re quiring not more than 15 per cent metal. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having this day qualified as ad ministrator of the estate of the late Levi James, deceased, of Martin County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons holding claims against said estate to present them for payment on or before the 16th day of September, 1943, or this no tice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said state will please make immed iate payment. This the 16th dav of Sept., 1942. JESSE JAMES, Administrator of the Levi sl8-6t James Estate. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Having this day qualified as Ad ministratrix of the estate of James Walter Harris, this is therefore to notify all persons owing the estate to make immediate payment there of and to notify all persons having any debts against the estate to pre sent them within one year from date hereof or this notice will be plead ed in bar of recovery thereon. This the 23rd day of Sept., 1942. MARTHA OSBORNE HARRIS, Administratrix. H. L. Swain, Atty. s25-Gt ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having this day qualified as ad ninistrator of tbe estate of the late ?Villiam E. Robertson, deceased of Vlartin County, this is to notify all >ersons holding claims against the aid estate to present them for pay nent on or before Sept. 21, 1943, or ? this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons Indebted to said estate will please make im mediate payment. This September 21, 1942. CHARLIE A. ROBERTSON, Administrator. Greenville, N. C. s25-flt You Said It! Prices Are Higher Tobacco prices continue to set new rec ords daily on the ROBERSONVILLE Market. Many farmers have sold this seasou for their first time on our mar ket, and ull have returned home com pletely satisfied with the way their crop sold. .V * FOR A GOOD SALE AnyDay IN THE WEEK . . . Take Your Next Load To The Adldns&Bailey Warehouse Robersonville Wo Guarantee To Sell Your Tobacco At TOP PRICES! WE HAVE KEPT FAITH! Our boys are fighting on the battle fronts of the world. Wherever our Army, Navy or Marine Corps go into action, Southerners are in the middle of the fight Here at home Southerners are carrying on in defense work of every description with the same enthusiasm our boys are showing on the fighting fronts. Every defense plant in the South has had to overcome tremendous prob lems in bringing their production to die record peak necessary to supply the ever-increasing demands of war. j Here in the Atlantic Company we too are meeting the problems brought on by the war in the traditional South ern spirit Shortages of metal for bottle caps, raatricUuoa on deliveries to conserve rubber and gasoline, shortage of man power due to enlistments of personnel in the Armed forces?and faced with unprecedented demand, we have in creased our production to the limit of our capacity without sacrificing quality one iota, in order to take care of the business that has formerly gone to competitors who have abandoned this market and are now devoting all their efforts to serving their own home com munities. Realizing that the demands of the wartime job create struin and tension which make all the more vital the need for a relaxing glass of good Ale or Beer occasionally, we pledge ourselves to make every effort humanly possible to insure both our customers and trade alike against any avoidable shortage of Good Old Atlantic Ale and Beer, 4L?and
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