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Too Much Play And loo Lillie Work It is admitted that all work and no play is bad. It is also admitted that ail play and no work, or very little work, is worse. Schools in North Carolina are completing their first state-supported ninth-month term. These are difficult days and trying times, and maximum results hardly are to be expected, but there are too many instances where advantages have been flouted, where half-cocked little wise guys glorify pert smartness rather than the basic principles. Indifference to lasting ideals in education is expanding until the text book is about to give up to the funny sheets and the movies as the basic medium of imparting in formation and learning. No charge is directed against the individual pupil, the teacher, the official or the parent. Pos sibly the present generation is no worse than the one before it or other previous ones. But the outlook is not very encouraging, and unless the trend is checked the system is going to bog down under top heavy weight. Despite an ever-expanding curriculum, the schools have not yet successfully tackled the problem of teaching youth the importance of preparing a basic foundation for future devel opment. That truth is generally learned in la ter life, however. Some learn it when they en ter college and find they can't keep up. Others learn it when they enter employment and find that their foundation is too weak to meet the test. Youth may play, romp, dance and sing, but nine hundred and ninety-nine will find that that isn’t worth a cent when they are called upon to accept responsibilities in government, society, business or other fields of endeavor. THE ENTERPRISE Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One Year —---— Six Months •OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY Ore Year —L_ Six Months .12.50 83.00 _ 1.75 No Subscription Received Under 6 Mouths Advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the post office in WUliamston, N. C., as second-clasL matter under the act of Con gress of March 3. 187K. Address all communications to The Enter prise and not individual members of the firm. Friday, June li, 1945. iT'-ffrmi.T Discard the game schedule? No. Discard ex tra activities? No. But don’t let them destroy i the basic purpose for which millions of dollars i are appropriated and spent—the securing of a j ETsic education. It is not to pass judgment, on our youth, but to point out that there has been too much play and not enough work in our schools this year. Conditions demand that many of the drawbacks and shortcomings be overlooked. And in this j day of easy money, the general public does not call for an exact accounting. However, unless the present trend is checked, tough sledding for the schools is to be expected when adverse con ditions present themselves ana the anti-social groups rise to point out that the advantages of the long term were ignored, and it's time for tax spending retrenchment. -at Liberal Democracy And Free Enterprise --® Charles J. Duke of tne College of William and Mary was quoted recently as saying that the future of liberal democracy and free enterprise will depend entirely on the ability of the peo ple to achieve a higher order of economic or ganization in terms of more jobs and higher na tional income. There can be little valid argument against the plan, but it is disturbing to see how some cliques and clans while still shouting for the plan are busily engaged in trying to feather their own nests. The danger of the cartel sys tem has been aired, but will some other evil present itself to plague the national and in ternational economy? The college man places possibly the right interpretation on liberal democracy, but isn’t it a well established fact that some see in liberal democracy the right to exploit the many for the benefit of the few? Free enterprise does not mean that a monopo ly has the right to go forth destroying compe tition by foul and questionable means. There are too many big men in the big place? including some at the head of the Army and Navy, trying to bag the surplus now held by the government for a few of the largest indus trial giants. Big industry need not be placed on the chopping block, but little business must have a fair chance if liberal democracy and free enterprise are to exist. -$ About race ———<3> During the last war, Italians marched into Trieste, and in due time Trieste became Italian, the deal having bc'en executed with the bless ings of the rest of the world. In World War II Marshal Tito occupied the town, and now Brit ain and the United States, the Britons espec ially, are greatly disturbed by the accomplish ed fact. Could it be that the Britons, their fin gers smeared with oil and their palms itching for Balkan metals, are more interested in main taining favorable concessions through a gov ernment they can control than they are in sup porting movement toward an honest-to-good ness democratic government and a lasting peace? It is just another about face, and in both in stances the turn was in the wrong direction. ★ We landed a knockout on the jutting jaw ★ We kicked the paperhanger in the swastika * NOW LET’S SINK THE RISING SUN! Q * M&MA &EC7R/C Youth About Recovered From Wounds Received On Saipan Ned Cunningham Is Subject of Account In Medical Journal lYeif Vi as FlrSTSwuaily in the Pacifio To Bo Troated By New Method Pic. Edward P. (Ned) Canning ham, Jr., Wiliiamston young man. was critically wounded in the Sai pan campaign. His case attracted unusual attention in the medical profession ana was the subject of a story in a recent issue of “Hygiea,” medical journal. The story and pic ture of the young man appear here by permission of the American Med ical Association: First is the story of Marine Pfc. Edward P. Cunningham, Jr., of Wil iiamston and Smithfield, N. C., son of a man who runs a small tobacco drying plant, a staunch member of the First Presbyterian Church. This is the story of Cunningham and his pins, of the first full application in the South Pacific of the Castless method of treating fractures. Cunningham and many like him have caused excitement in the hos phal compound. They have been dis cussed in the nurse's quarters, in the doctor’s huts, in the corpsmen’s bar racks, in the galley and in the ware house. “Dr. Sideman’s pin-up boys,” the staff calls the ward. Perhaps he is a pin-up boy today, Cunningham says and smiles. He certainly wasn’t thinking of pin-ups the day his unit started up a preci pice to get at some Japs who stood between the Marines and Garapan, Saipan’s capital. Just as they neared the top, the Japs loosed their snip ers on the Marines. One got Cun ningham. It was late afternoon. The jungle around them -was still full of snip ers. He would have to sweat it out there; he couldn’t be taken back. For a splint, his budies tied his carbine to his leg. A corpsman arrived, dressed the wound, gave him mor phine, and covered him with twigs to hide him. When it got dark, his buddies dug a foxhole, and one of them stayed with him, whispered reassurance during the night, and when Cunningham stirred, held the canteen to his lips. It began to rain just as the wate. ran out, and his buddy covered him with a poncho. Cunningham drank from the puddles that formed on the raincape. Next morning he was taken back on a litter, after being given plasma Undergoing Treatment for Wounds Critically wounded in the fight for Saipan, Ned Cunningham, Williamston native, is pictured ■ and morn morphine. His next mem I ory is of awakening aboard the So jlace, when they put a cast on his leg. Then more sleep. X-rays of Cunningham showed that a bullet had gone through his thigh bone, shattering the shaft and H aving six pieces of bone embedded there. The limb was shortened four inches. Here, certainly, was a man who would limp. This was July 11. On July 13, Lieut. Comdr. Sidney Sideman, : USNR, in civilian life a Chicago tbone specialist, took the cast off Cunningham and “pinned” him. Here is how Dr. Sideman describes the castless method, the use of pins: "In stead of pulling the limb for weeks to get it in place and putting a cast on to hold it- we pin it and pull it at the same time, then put the pa tient to bed, and let nature do the healing.” Bob Hope, the comedian, passing through the ward on his South Pa cific tour, found in his spontaneous resource of wit another way to say it: “Instead of the man on the tra peze,” Hope said, “the trapeze is on the man." Lieut. Comdr. Sideman inserted five stainless steel pins into Cun ningham's thigh bone, three above the fracture and two below. They were connected outside the skin by metal rods and put in a complicated vise called an “anatomic splint.” The pins in Cunningham’s legs were secured to this machine, and in it as he received treatment. The young man, now stationed at Camp Lejeune, is virtually re covered. his leg was manipulated until the j bones were back into their normal I length and position. That was the j “pulling” which might have taken 1 weeks with the familiar pulleys and bars above his bed. The fracture was set. X-rays proved that the right pieces in Cunningham’s thigh bone were in the right places. Now to hold them there until they formed what doctors call a solid union. To do this, the doctor simply put clamps on the pins and to them attached the connecting rods. Thus the fracture is held secure. During the past month Cunning ham has needed only routine post operative care; sedatives and good nursing. Nature is doing her work. The bones are growing together. Cunningham, Lieut. Comdr. Sideman now says, probably will walk with out a limp. There were upward of a hundred men with fractures aboard the So lace, men whose bones—shattered by land mines, mortar and rifle fire —looked, under X-ray, like the broken and twisted girders of a FOOT MISERY When feet burn. sting, itch and shoe* if they were cutting right into the flesh, get a bottle of Mocme’a Emerald Oil »nd rub well on feet and ankles morning and night for a few days. A real discovery for thousands who have found blessed iclief. Moone's Emerald Oil is easy and pleasant to use—it does not stain. Economical—money back If not sat ined* Ciood druggists everywhere. CLARKS PHARMACY WAR ALL OVER !. NO NEED CUT PULPWOOD. NOW! >omb-devastated building. Twenty >ne were “pinned.” Not one of these Marines has had an amputation, an irm or a leg cut off. Not one should i iff or any shoitening of his limbs. Lieut. Comdr. Sideman is frank to idmit that infection at the point the lin is inserted was a danger in the jse of this technic. Yet, not one pin ies been removed from these men :or that reason. The answer: pen cillin. The heat and humidity of the South Pacific make almost anything seem better ♦hsn a cast. One thing is the sheer discomfort 1 causes the pa'v’ont. Another is that the cast would have to be changed frequent K* out "hf'-'+f that.^aujfg^cxtcjisive lime and skilled hands. In'a lew weeks Cunningham will be up. He can use his hip. foot and ankle joints now, a tiring he couldn’t do if he was ;n a cast. Some of his buddies with less serious fractures are al ready up. taking the cheerful South Pacific sun, lounging under the co conut trees. It would be false, however, to say that these men are well. The pini. w ill be kept in the men until there is a solid union of the bones. When this union will take place is natures secret—certainly, it is a matter of weeks, not days. They are happy, nevertheless, because their worst fear has been quieted, the faar of losing an arm or a leg. “He’s a healer, not a cutter,” a Marine said. “Fd let him work on me any old time.” CARD OF THANKS We wouid like to thank all our friends and relatives for the kind ness shown us during the recent ill ness and death of our wife, daughter and sister, and for the beautiful floral offering. May God bless each and every one. CAg^Cy^Ogj^d FAMILY^ '4' <4 FGODisSCARCE! WONT GO HUNG® wmMtmcAmP. FRU/F/'M PUTTING UP Mppfy NOW to your Ration Board for the extra sugar allotted you. for canning fruit* and berries. Dixie Crystals PURE CANE SUGAR The war in Europe is won! Your pulpwood played a big part in winning it and in keep ing our casualties as low as possible. Now our Army and Navy are preparing to go into the Pacific with greater power. The Jap has only one hope: If American workers on our home front relax and take things easy, our forces will not get the sup plies they need. Less supplies means more dead and wounded. Then (so the Jap hopes) a war-weary America will agree to a “soft” peace and in another generation the Sons of Heaven can try again. Pulp wood Shortage Acute The need for “double packaging” vast quan tities of supplies for shipment across the Pacific has pushed pulpwood requirements higher than ever before. There must be no let-up in the flow of pulpwood now. Keep it coming till the Jap too is licked. DON’T WASTE PRECIOUS TIME * ★ CUT ONLY TOP QUALITY WOOD NORTH CAROLINA PULP COMPANY PLYMOUTH* WORTH CAROLINA, ♦«■***, VICTORY PULPWOOD CAMPAIGN ******
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