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THE ENTERPRISE Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA. One Year Six Months SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictl^^ash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY OUTSIDE M ARTIN COUNTY $2.50 I.5C ® One Year Six Months No Subscription Received Under P Months Advertising Rate Ord Furnished Upon Request 1 Entered at the p^st office in Williamston, N. C., as second-das^ matter under the act of Con gress of March 3, 1879. Address all communications to The F.nter prise and not individual members of the firm. Tuesday, August 31, 1913. yrmxgnyr Just An Illusion Those of our people who rode through the last depression on the strong arm of the gov ernment and are now squanck llltk an abnorm al income are an illusion if they be lieve they can do that and then turn to the government for succor when adversity comes again. Aside from the reports announcing the cas ualties in the war ro.nes. the most shocking oj>, servations are centered around the old WPA ers and other reliefers who are squandering their earnings from day to day with no regard for the future. Surely, the money they are now squandering is their own, but let them remem ber that not so long ago they were receiving public money and succor from those who had worked and slaved to meet their obligations. Ready and willing to realize they were vic tims of a system not of their making, a thought ful people through the government went to the aid of the helpless. Some few objected to the humanitarian move, but the very iact that they were victims not of their own choosing brought them aid in some measure. While there will bo exceptions, no doubt, trie fate most of us will enjoy will be that of our own making, to a large extent. If we must squander today, then let us ac cept our fate without complamt tomorrow. Postwar Dream World New York Times. In some respects it appears that the post-wmr world will be a negative sort of place. At least, everyone seems to talk of it in negative terms —no unemployment, no Nazis, no traffic jams, no rationing, no wars, no after-dinner dishes to wash, no subway rushes (we’ll all be traveling in helicopters), no static in our radios, no slums, no worries. We’ll wake up to the warble of nightingales from our radio alarm clocks; turn on the tele —-v?,nd get ‘vghtcsv't while were dressing and eating; be wafted te work (what little work the new electronic ma chines leave for us to do); spend our week-ends in the South of France (the four-day work week will by that time be universal); order bouquets long distance, using television sets ingeniously tied up by the florist with a device known as a smellocast., a perfume reproducer that is cer tainly in the offing. Perhaps this is 'the new escapist literature, this talk of the postwar world. Hollywood dis ciples of the Cinderella motif have been put in the shade by a dream. An occasional skeptic tries to wake us up But what if the dream does not come trn^i\ -tails— or even in any of its details? Thats not important. What, counts is that we iive in a country that sees its Golden I Age ahead. Mussolini and Hitler wan* to turn I : the clock back Over here we can't-wi-it for it to be tomorrow Don't Sacrifice The Child Next to supporting the war program, parents and others can’t do a better thing than seeing that every child is in school, and that the child takes full advantage of every opportunity of fered him by the school during the 1943-44 term. In some few cases, it will be absolutely neces sary, no doubt, to keep the child at home and help with the farm work. But there is absolutely no acceptable excuse at this time for keeping large numbers of children out of school and blaming it on the war and resulting labor short ages. There are too doggone many useless ac tivities in this land to expect little children to quit their schooling to help relieve the labor shortage. Quite a number of workers could be released to vital industry right here in this county if we would reduce to a reasonable de cree our 'demand tor piea.sures._Vj/jyjjyny those j pleasures too much to envy others, but It is high I time to call a halt when we maintain those pleas ures at the expense of little children. It is time to eliminate some of our foolishness, recognize the facts and get down to business. The father who would wander here and there and keep his children out of school to handle the farm chores is little better than a skunk or a high wayman. And those landlords who do not try to keep their tenants’ children in school should remem ber that many a boy in this county has moved into the firing lines in the place of a big, healthy registrant who had been held down in ignor ance back yonder. Our indifference to educa tion and the welfare of the underdog is costing us millions in manpower today. There’s little that can be done to remedy that situation, but we can lift the disgrace and shame from our faces now by seeing that little children are nl longer sacrificed. The ignorant is having a small role to play in this war, and it is quite likely that his role will be even smaller in the postwar world. Par ents, if you would give your child a decent her itage, let it be in the form of a common educa tion. at least. Ignorance may have saved some from the draft, but ignorance is indeed likely to swallow them up before the current chapter in the world history is even partly recorded. The records coming from the school regis ters will tell much during the current school term, whether we are more interested in a means to solving our problems than we are in gaining added material wealth at the expense of little bits of humanity. The school authori ties have already compromised. Will the par ents and other patrons express their apprecia tion by. cooperating in the movement to keep ' every child, white and colored, rich and poor, | in school every possible hour during this term? TANK Fighting tanks need fighting lubricants -lubricants that will fight heat keep motor and gears working smoothly despite tough battle con ditions. So the U. S. Army uses Sinclair lubricants for many of its tanks, jeeps and other mechanized equipment. .... . .vWK'V«.WV.;.j - %v Sites ll ; ■ v To give your car tike same, sure protection?^*'! Sinclair lubricants from your Sinclair Dealer. To pro tect your engine, for example, he offers Sinclair Opaline Motor Oil. This famous oil stands up longer and lubricates better because it is both de-waxed and de-jellied. Use S»«wl««r Opaline to Jteep your SAVE WEAR WITH SINCLniK N. C. GREEN, Agent WILLIAMSTON, N. C, Bureau of Publlo Relatione U. S War Department V-MAIL ROUND THE WORLD—With V-Mait now in operaticn to and from all overseas scenes of military action, the War Depart ment is intensifying its efforts to bring about a g eater use of this safest of all overseas postal facilities. By holding the original letter at ths port of embarkation until the microfilmed copy has arrived safely at its destination, it is possible in the case of V-Mail to insure overseas arrival of every individual letter. Already well over 100, OOG.OOO V-Mail letters have been handled by the Army Postal Set vice iritnout a single loss. V-Mail received the highest overseas mail priority and always is carried by air. Pulpwood Cutting Is Very Essential Advises Committee War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt today clarified the attitude of the War Manpower Com mission as to the essentiality of pulpwood production in a statement to the Newspaper Pulpwood Com mittee. “Pulpwood is an essential war ma terial,” he said, “used among other things for making rayon parachutes, shipping containers and smokeless powder. “Its many wartime uses have cre ated a shortage which is rapidly be coming acute. With these conditions in mind, the War Manpower Com mission has recently classified pulp wood cutting and production of pulp as essential war occupations. “May I urge every man engaged in this essential woik, either part or full time, to give it the best he has in him. Let him remember that he is welding his axe and saw in the same struggle and to the same end that other men are wielding bayo nets and machine guns. "I know that the men who work | in the forests and pulp mills and the i farmers who cut puplwood from j their woodiots are just as patriotic | and loyal as any other group of Am- j encans. Now that they realize the . importance of their part in the war, I am sure they will respond with the \ extra hours, extra days and extra j effort that is the only possible an swer to this dangerous shortage.” Pulpwood cutting is now on a re vised list of essential activities and has been so specified in a bulletin on forestry, logging and lumbering sent to the local selective service boards by the WMC. The cutting of wood, including pulpwood, also is included among the essential farm products listed by the Selective Service as a guide to local boards in the defer ment of registrants engaged in agri culture. As in all such cases, however, the local selective service board is re sponsible for determining whether a specific registrant’s occupation is in support of the war effort. The WMC essential occupation list is the board’s guide. War Manpower Commissioner McNutt is the fifth top-ranking war Interesting Bits Of Business In U> S. •A group of deaf-mutes at Cessna Aircraft Co., after proving their pro ficiency at several jobs, have formed a blueprint-reading class to extend their usefulness still further. Fel low-workers call them Handi-capa bles.” agency chief to support the Victory Pulpwood Drive wuih statements ex y C -iui. ;n the war effort. The others are WPfa Chairman Donald M. Nelson, OPA Administrator Premiss Brown. ODT Du-'or Joseph E Eastman, '*'! i Sc-ejvtaJV R. Wickard. Sweet Potatoes The exceptionally large sweet po tato crop in prospect calls for in creased facilities for properly grad ing, curing and storing the crop to prevent a market glut and food losses. -* Feed Shortage The existing feed shortage will re quire that livestock numbers be re duced in line with feed supplies. It is expected that the cut will come in hogs and chickens for broilers. WE HAVE A PLAN FOR THE FUTURE W«-’re using 23c/c of our income lo Iniy War Bonds now. Of course it means doing without a lot of lit tle pleasures and comforts—hut nothing about war can be pleasant or comfortable! While our hoys are dying for freedom, the least we can do is back them up buying the bonds that can help end this war soon! Now here’s our plan for the future: when Victory is won, we’ll have enough money in War Bonds to buy and furnish the home we’ve always dreamed of; the electrical equipment and car we shall have done without so long. Branch Banking & Trust Co. WILLIAMSTON, N. C. “THE SAFE EXECUTOR" Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation '“Tell your f rationing board ; Vou are eutting ■pulpwood” ( Administrator of Office of Price ffininistration I I 1 XIulpwood cutting has recently been listed as an essential occupa tion and those engaged in it should now include such activities hi eon ' nection with any application for supplementary gasoline, tire, or automotive rations. **If you are using gasoline | powered equipment in sawing, , drawing or trucking pulpwood and it is absolutely necessary for you i to have an additional allowance, you should report the fact to your local rationing board, giving full . information as to the number of cords to be cut and the distance it must be trucked, have been set by this office and are j available upon application to your j nearest OPA District Office. There j is no present intention of revising these prices.’’/^ {<•? * I ns VICTORY PULPWOOD Approved by v. ^ Office of Price Administration I1. Sponsored by NST5W ,N. C. Pulp Co. $**«* PLYMOUTH, NORTH CAROLINA. I l Non :« the tins* to cut or tliin your lim*' her while price* aral high ami pulp wood) badly need.d. * Cut wUely an remaining tree* wil grow fatter and big* ger. Your foretter or ' county agent will help you (elect tract for cutting. , — f 1 E mKATa how iKkay . cord* you can cut. I Thou get in touch f with our local deal er, or telephone, or write u* for jtiii] IMdfiflitidBfl. | Or Contact Our Representative, Mr. J. A. Sexton, Plymouth, N. C.
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