Newspapers / The Enterprise (Williamston, N.C.) / May 28, 1943, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Enterprise (Williamston, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Baal— THE ENTERPRISE Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLI AMSTOII, NORTH CAROLINA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year Ol'TS10E MARTIiTcOLTN'TY $2.00 r is ft, One year Six months $2.50 £ i 50 | No Subscription Received Under 6 Months Advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Request Ent« red 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 Enter prise and not individual members of th< firm. Friday. May 28, 1913. Saving For Emergencies There are confusing reports, no doubt, but vehicle operators will possibly find it to their ► own advantage not to ganibli during these un certain times Possibly ihere’ll be enough gas oline and tires to support essential driving with- 1 out lev;-Mpu3!!"S|ttPvng -the ivmatndc! of the war. and possibly pleasure riding can still be maintained via the black market route. How ever, there are warnings coming from reliable sources that should cause everyone to follow a more rigid economy in their driving. The synthetic rubber program is about to bloom but Rubber Czar Jeffers warns that the program will care only for the needs of the arm ed forces, that civilians may possibly get in on the program the latter part of next year. What will happen if the war needs increase? It is fairly certain that the present supply of tires for civilan use will be exhausted ere Jong, and it’li be grade III and recaps or nothing. One of the main solutions to the problem rests with the individual vehicle owner-operator. If he conserves ins tires by eliminating every un necessary foot of driving he will do more to solve his own transportation problem than Rub ber Czar Jeffers and all the rest. So far little has been said about the vehicle itself. There is no way just now to replace worn out cars and trucks for civilian use. While we have heard much about conservation of tires and gas, we are soon to iiear much about con serving the vehicle as a unit. If we are to be ready to meet emergencies in the future, we must act of < dir own accord to solve the problems, and not wait for oth ers to solve them for us. Hampering The IT or Trog-nm Everyone is ready for the other fellow to sac rifice, do with less and go all out for the war program, but there’s an over-all drive for more of the non-essential, certainly the less essen tial goods fur civilian consumption. Even though high military leaders declare, “The more metal we can expend in battle, the fewer the men we need to lose,” the Aemrican public is de manding more of the less essential goods. This demand is responsible to a large extent for a 14 per cent reduction in steel for the War De partment. a 20 per cent reduction for the Navy Department, a 22 per cent for the Maritime Commission, a 22 per cent reduction for Lend Lease and a 40 per cent cut for the Office of Defense Transportation. But as America gets ready to settle down and fight on the far-flung battle fronts, back home we are, according to reliable sources, produc ing twice as much fine jewelry, 25 per cent more costume jewelry, twice as much commercial laundry equipment, and there is a movement now underway to double the output of cook ing and heating stoves. The War Production""? Board, headed by men who see the world through a trader’s eye, has issued an order eas- ; ing its prohibition against the use of steel in inventory for non-essential purposes. “Manu facturers may use stocks of wholly or partially ' fabricated steel parts in the production of a wide variety of gadgets from electric hair curl- I ers to shoe buckles. ’Hie auto industry has just been given in .<•< n ased allocation of steel and ! copper for replacemejj^ parts, nr an allotment about 100 per cent of the demand made by the manufacturers. ’1 here is ,ui undercover drive on now to resume the manufacture of automo biles for the open market. The curtailment of goods for home consump tion is damaging the domestic economy, no doubt, but will the resulting damage to our economy back home be greater than that to the safety of our fighting men were we to with draw steel from war production for the manu facture of gadgets? How are we going to pay our taxes if we are not allowed to manufacture and trade in these gadgets and less essential things? is a common question. Well, that problem fades into insig nificance when young men by the millions re port to offer their being in the service of their country. Those of us who are so concerned ov er business as usual and demand the continued manufacture of the less essential goods will do well to study the problem and realize that bus iness when allowed to peter out day by day ov ; . . er a long period will prove far more costly than would a complete and quick adjustment to the demands of the hour. There’s a war to be fought and won, and the longer we insist on domestic production, the longer that war is going to last and the more lives, equipment and money it will co«t. When you call for the lux-u r;es, you ..are helping, cre ate a demand for th^se luxuries and the pres sure for diverting steel from war to the manu facture of those luxuries is increased. Indirect ly, when one does that he is helping to prolong the war and aggravating the danger facing someone’s son. brother or sweetheart. There’ll corne a day when nearly everyone of us will 'iaao-a World Wsr119 veteran -m the-eve nt Cvuii.vut .ngfir. ♦rtreeW—* "Let us ■ work today for quick victory so we can say that-we did everything possible, even unto the least detail, for the war program. Let not cne of us be charged with failure in the performance oi our tasks, even when it comes to delaying the purchase of gadgets and other items second ary to, the needs of war and to the safety of fighti/g men i Get Acquainted Several weeks ago visits were exchanged by soldiers and war plant workers, the soldiers go ing into the industrial plants and the industrial workers going into the camps for brief periods. A better understanding followed between the groups. f Details of the visit are not known, but the r general announcement telling that a better un derstanding resulted is sufficient to support j quite a few deductions, it is aparent that in A,he mad scramble for industry to discredit labor and for labor to pudfff rv\ n n't com ings, the real tacts on both sides have been ov erlooked. The very fact that the two groups reached a better understanding would seem to indicate that the true facts had been misrep resented in a controlled press, that capitalistic papers have a knack of “coloring” the news and ignoring so many of the facts. We have been told that labor is responsible for all that is bad, that the industrialists have lived an ideal life without sin of its own, There have been dark spots in our war program, no doubt, but the very fact that we are turning out equip ment at a rate greater than that reported by other nations combined should cause one to ad mit that all is not bad on either side. One of the obstacles in the way of greater progress is offered by those who would create disunity. There are those who are, no doubt, anxious to advance the war program, but who are equally anxious to dictate their own poli cies, fair or unfair, to others. Just now it wuuld be well to advance a “Get Acquainted" week for the civilian population. Let chosen groups go down into the coal pits and learn something about that dangerous bus iness first hand. The eoai miners then could go to other parts of the country and learn that ! thousands a re , barely , holding their heads above water in the swim for economic existence. Ir.Jtead of digging for die facts we accept propaganda morsels. We are for me War Labor Board when it rules this way, and against it I when rulings are made the other way. Keep America American By Ruth Taylor. Ever since I first heard Father Boland use the 1 trenchant phrase which is my text, 1 have felt j that in those three words, properly understood, ; lies the hope of unity, the expression of that for which we are fighting and the way to | achieve the Victory for which we ail hope. Keep America American—this is the defiant challenge of the finest idealism the world has known. It is a clarion call to action in the fight between the forces that would destroy and those which would build man up to his proper sta ture. Keep America American—this is no creed of isolationism, no shutting of the gates of the spirit to the problems of the world, no selfish hoarding of our resources of brain and body for the use and comfort alone of those already within our nation. Keep America American—this does not mean a yardstick of nationality by which to measure "om^eilow citizens. The yardstick we must use is that of the spirit—an unselfed devotion to the credo that all men are created equal. We are the first self-created people in the w'orld— not segregated by race or creed or color but bound together by a common bond of belief that we are all entitled to the rights and respon sibilities of freedom. Keep America American let us never forget that this nation was founded on unity, and that ^mwchieve unity men must act for the good of ! all,~not as self-seeking groups of individuals. Keep America American—-let us preserve our rights by careful usage of them. This country is the land of liberty, not license. Any change must come under the orderly processes of our own laws, not under the sudden whim of any dictator. Keep America American—let no disunity ap pear among us. Let us keep the old ideals of op portunity for all, not favors for a privileged few. Let us grant to our neighbors the same rights we claim for ourselves. Let us remember that the cornerstone of the nation is religious liberty, and let us not discriminate against our neighbor because of the faith, the class or the party to which he belongs. Keep America American—let us stand to gether and face the world as a united nation, dedicated to the protection and preservation for all men of the self same freedoms of speech, and religion, from want and fear, which we in tend to keep for ourselves. "ONE WORLD" ■' ' ■ ! I .. Know The AMERICAS AVIATION IN LATIN AMERICA WELDS HEMISPHERE SOLIDARITY “Wings over South America” in pre-war days was a magical phrase for vacationists, conjuring fascinat ing pictuies of shining planes fly ing over towering, snow-clad moun tain peaks in strange lands Wings still fly over South Ameri ca, but today, great ships of the air often take off from emergency land ing fields in remote regions, laden with strategic war materials. With the drastic curtailment of steamship service between the Americas, trans portation has been thrown almost wholly on air lines—for mail, pas senger, and even light shipping serv ice. The speedy, efficient air sched ules linking the United States with the Latin American republics, with a network of routes serving 30 na tions and colonies in the hemisphere crossing and re-crossing the Carib bean and Central and South Amer ica, are not only contributing vital- j ly to essential war effort, but to hemisphere solidarity as well. South American countries have for a number of years been the cen- j ter of pioneer aviation. Chile, with one of the longest national air routes in the world, has been an air pioneer since 1913, when its Military Air School was founded. Chilean avia tors were the first to fly the mighty Andes. Colombia more than 20 years ago inaugurated the first airplanes on regularly scheduled commercial operations. Peru, faced from time immemorial with the transportation problem of crossing the high and tugged ranges of the Andes, also ■arly turned to air communication. Most ndtabie advancement has per laps been made in Brazil, whose previously inaccessible interior has been pushed far westward as a re sult of fair transportation. From the United States, Pan Am erican Airways spread its wings southward, first, in 1927, in a little American-made Fukkci plane on a short, 90-mile airline between Key West, Florida, and Havana. Since then, Pan American airplanes have written history in the skies as they have penetrated deeper and deeper into the vastness of the South Am erican continent, with consistently shortened flying time, until today, the mouth of the Amazon, a distance of 1,200 miles, lies two short days of air travel from New York. Over 48,000 air miles cover the Latin Americas, from Mexico through Central America to the Panama Canal; thence down the South Am erican Pacific coast through Colom bia, Ecuador, Peru, and still further south to Chile. Followed then the sealing of the mighty hump of the Andes to Buenos Aires, and Uruguay. Previous travel schedules have been slashed from days and weeks to hours. One of the most vital and effect ive measures which have served to rid Latin American republics of German and Italian controlled air lines, a source of great danger to the United States, was the quick and efficient manner in which the na tional lines of the Americas gained control of the Axis-operated com panics. In 1939, the Axis powers had controlling operations in 26,000 miles of airways in the Latin American countries. Both the United States and Latin American governments acted quickly to rid hemisphere sol idarity of this menace.- On< by o««,~ the countries ‘‘*ooted out’ the Ax F. S. A. Increases i Egg Production According to figures released this week by the Farm Security Admin istration in Martin County, even the smallest of farm animals, can help win this war Let’s take the “old hen” and see what her part in the war effort is, A summary of records for 221 families or 1348 family members who received aid and assistance from the Farm Security Adminis tration, shows that in 1941 they had a total of 10.608 hens that produc ed ,56.775 dozen. •«»»» in. increased the zm-znbec of hens to 16. 90.168 dozen or an increase of 33, 393 dozen, eggs This made an av erage of 74 hens and 408 dozen eg. c f^r farm for 1942. According to nu trition, these 1348 persons need 33. 700 dozen eggs for home use, w'hich leaves a surplus of 56,468 dozen for the market. This Surplus would feed 1882 service men all the eggs they needed for 12 months, according to is dominated lanes, and as their routes were vacated, Pan American planes stood poised to lift their wings j^n the wrike of fast-disappearing ships of Nazi powers. American air networks in the southern republics are two and one half times greater than those serv ing the United States. In present war emergencies, this ready communica tion with the great South American continent constitutes a w eapon w hich will go far toward welding war ef forts of the Americans into ultimate victory food standards of the Army. Small tarn poultry flocks like those kept by FSA families may seem to add little to the egg supply, but when they are all added together, the amount produced really counts up. The Farm Security Administra tion is glad to help small farmers raise food for growing children and for the fighting forces. NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina. Martin County. Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed to the undersigned trustee by L. H. Gurganus and wife. Rose E. Gurganus, on the 24th day cf August, 1932, and of record in the public registry of Martin County in Book H-3 at page 80, said deed of ■UiMjfrite-vmg been faun having otej^maae in the pay ment of said notes and the stipula tions contained in the said deed ol trust not having been complied with, and at the request of the hold er of said notes, the undersigned trustee will, on Saturday, the 5th day of June, 1943, at twelve o'clock noon, in front of the courthouse door in the town of Williamston, N. C., of fer for sale to the highest bidder for cash the following described real estate, to-wit: Beginning at the intersection of Watts Street and Beach Street in New Town in the town of Wiliiams ton, N. C , thence along Beach Street I to S, C. Ray's line, thence alone S. C. Ray’s line to Mrs. W. T. Hunter’s line, thence along Mrs. W. T. Hunt er’s line to Watts Street, thence along Watts Street to the beginning, with the exception of lot on back of this property 120 feet wide sold to Jul ius S. Peel, by deed of reed’d in the public registry of Martin County in Book 03 at page 448. This the 4th day of May, 1943. ■rtain notes of wtM^SSC m7-4t ELBERT S. PEEL, Trustee. = Mr. Tobacco Farmer: Register for your Tobacco Fuel Oil now. Get your blank from the Ration Board; fill them out and re turn them to the Board at once. We will be glad to assist you with same. ' As soon as you gel your coupons, lei us fill your tanks at once, and we will keep them filled for you througout the season. Harrison Oil Co. Save your tires, sure-but SAVE YOUR WHOLE CARAS WELL! NT0 mr''f,5r how carefully you nurse your tires along, they -L \ woi do you a bit cf good if you neglect the car they're mounted on. 1 Not that we're trying to minimize the importance of proper ....».. a*.F* sr aa cwmpieVs a Vv gram as you cou’d find anywhere—including not only the usual inflation and inspection services, but also wheel align ment, wheel balancing and scientific brake equalizing. No, we don’t want to talk down the importance of your tires —we want to talk up the importance of your whole automo bile. New tires are being manufactured even during the war a certain number at least. But no new cars are being built at all That means your present car must last. And that means you need a program of complete, all-’round mainte nance service. Not just tire inspection. Not just lubrication. But these, things plus all the other vital check-ups, adjust ments, replacements and repairs that are so necessary to counteract the possible “ill effects'* of today’s low speeds and limited driving. We offer just such a complete, up-to-date program, Olds mobxle engineers have developed a “wartime service pack age" that will meet your every need. See us about it today. RUBBER IS VITAL S,her m*ter<*,1* «• ««i. «*>. ,V A a Your automobile 11 built largely of metals now urgently needed for war equipment Unnecessary repkcemenuth.OHf<ibe«void.fo<L. don't neglect other VITAL PARTS LIKE THESE l Brakes not equalised wear out fast. Worn linings result io nuicil iliuoii. Valves improp erly adjusted are subject to burn ing out and must be replaced. Distributor points, made of vital tungsten steel, must be kept adjusted. Msteas end pis ton rings will last longer if safe guarded by prop er lubncaoo*. YOUR OIDSMOBILE DEALER ALL-ROUND. ALL-QUALITY, ALL-CAR SERVICE Cf!A.S H- JENKINS & CO., Edenton. N. C. CHAS. H. JENKINS ft CO.. Williusuton. N. C. ChM. H. Jenkins ft Co,.- 89 E. Commerce St, Aulander, N.C. Cbas. H. Jraklrs and Co.( E. Main St., Ahoskie, N. C.
The Enterprise (Williamston, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
May 28, 1943, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75