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Entered at the post office in Williamston, N.
C., as second-clast matter under the act of Con
gress of March 3, 1879.
Aadiess all communications to The Enter
prise and not individual members of the firm.
Friday, September 7, 1945.
Undermining Our Economy
Over halt million dollars were spent for legal
liquor in this county during the last fiscal year.
That's quite a sum of money, even in prosperous
times.
It ls xpenditure^P^n sums for
tionable items that makes for depressions.
There was a time when that much money in
this county would have meant the difference
between “good times'' and bankruptcy. If that
money had been saved it possibly could be con
sidered a powerful force against depressions
and financial reverses.
No economy has been known to stand when
its props were knocked from under it. Those
who have a horror for accumulating money
should remember that there has been a lot of
fiddling going on and that, sooner or later, the
old fiddler will demand his dues. One doesn’t
necessarily have to be a prohibitionist to see
that; the first-year economist will point out the
truth in it.
One of the hardest things to explain away
in the postwar world is the large expenditures
for liquor, horse racing, mad pleasure and other
things of questionable things during the war
and immediately thereafter.
The greatest works are done by the ones.—
The hundreds do not often do much—the com
panies never: it is the units—the single individ
uals, that are the power and the might.—Spur
geon.
He who would arrive at the appointed end
must follow a single road and not wander
through many ways.—Seneca.
Churchill Alarmed
Leading the opposition, former Prime Minis
ter Winston Churchill recently expressed great
alarm over the trend of events in some parts of
the world, and warned against the Red Men
ace. Mr, Churchill, in his latest word barrage,
displays the same old fight that had so much
to do with winning the war. But the old war
leader forges that this is a aay of peace, that
other tactics are to be employed rather than
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fJermsr/-. "fr was not netvssary E' 'g
land to go communistic to do that. The record
shows that tvvc countries enter tabling widely
different beliefs could team together in a com
mon cause. Why can’t Mr. Churchill now ad
vocate a working team in support of peace?
Living in society style or manner of the
privileged, Mr. Churchill has never been able
to understand the other fellow’s viewpoint.
When England was in a desperate way, he call
ed upon his people to live up to their great tra
ditions. He was unconscious of the little things
which combined, made England strong even
at the brink of disaster. That’s why he was
stripped of his power in the recent British elec
tions. The people supported him in war, and
they cooperated in the war effort. Now, Mr.
Churchill is not cooperating with the people of
Britain or those in most parts of the world. He
chooses to fight against them. He is not in favor
of breaking up the British Empire, meaning, at
tho same time that he is not. in favor of the
rights of the common masses.
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cause the power of the few had been directed
for the benefit of the few century after century.
Mr. Churchill overlooked that fact that in deal
ing out that power, it served the privileged few
but brought war for the man time and again.
Mr. Churchill does not have to lie down with
the communist, but he must admit that his
plans and those of the others ahead of him fail
ed to maintain the peace. Possibly if those
plans had been altered from time to time, some
of the strife the world has suffered would never
have happened. Mr. Churchill, having failed
in that way, now waves the red banner as a
menace to the world, not the banner so much
itself as Mr. Churchill’s own actions.
Worst
Election irregularities are bad enough, but
the stinking condition is aggravated when those
entrusted with the job refuse to do anything
about them.
When good citizens and officials compromise
with crime they gain the favor of and encour
age the criminal and at the same time damage
that which is good in the sight of righteous men.
Seventeen thousand persons have left the
Federal pay roll since Truman became Presi
dent. Well, little drops of water, etc.—Exchange.
GRAPE Market
Opens September 3rd
As In Years Before
GARRETT AND CO.
W ill give you the highest possible dollar for your grapes. See the
agents listed helot* for containers and prices. Plant more vines and
care for the ones you have. Same prices for black and white varieties.
Pick them ripe. They weigh more. We buy the fairest way for all—by
weight.
Moore lee Company
Windsor, N. C.
L. B. Williams & Co.
Rohersonville, N. C.
Singleton’s Service Station
Highway 32, Washington, N. C.
Lindsley Ice Company
Williamston, N. C.
II. H. Stillman
Creswell, N. C.
E. G. Harrison
Plymouth, N. C.
Sexton’s Store
Jamesville, N. C.
J. S. Peel and Co.
Everetts, N. C.
Representative
Lindsley Ice Company
Telephone 99 Williamaton. /V. C.
GARBEIT & COMPANY, Aberdeen, N. C.
Atomic Descent
JAP ACCOUNTS broadcast by Radio
Tokyo .. i:d the atomic bomb that
hi! j; Led Hiroshima came down from
an American plane by parachute
(A, above) and later burst (B) be
fore it hit the ground If true, the
parachute explains how the plane
escaped—by flying fast and being
many miles av.av when the bomb
spread its ruin (International)
Okinawa Offering
Memories of Many
Trying Incidents
m • s - .
j Humor. Tragedy Recalled
Since Landing; Children
Are Very Pleasing
Okiniwa (Delayed) — 'With the
battle for this island ended these
are the pitiful sights you remember:
An old man, with all his worldly
belongings bundled in a kimono,
trudging down the road, leading his
blind wife.
A tiny child, clothed in tatters,
carrying a smaller child on his
back and leading an injured man.
A couple carrying a pole from
which a basket is suspended. Squat
ting in the basket is an old woman,
unable to walk.
An old man, his leg withered,
crawling on his hands towards our
lines.
These are not exceptions, but the
sort of thing Marines saw every day
in the campaign, and in every other
Pacific action in which there were
civilians.
Some are inevitable results of war.
But others are due purely to the
insistence of the Japanese army that
civilians follow the troops in re
treat.
Marines fought for hours, mow
ing down Jap soldiers, but later
these same Leathernecks clustered
around tattered civilians and strain
ed to be helpful.
There is the example of the am
bulance jeep which carried three
Marine casualties back from the j
front. Two of them were sitting, I
with Okinawan babies in their arms.
The ,third Jav m a^gj^che?;.,ffltlUL
little girl clutched tightly to his
chest as the jeep bounced over the
road’s bumps.
The kindness must have come as
a great surprise to these people
after the fantastic horror stories Jap
propagandist told about us. Every
civilian taken into custody cower
ed writh fear until he gradually saw
for himself that he wouldn’t be
harmed.
One afternoon, it took Marines
nearly an hour to coax a terrified
family from a caved-in bomb shelt
er. Finally they came out, one by
one. An old man, five women, two
young girls, seven small children.
None could tell how long they hid
in that hole without food or W'ater.
DRUGS
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Service
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CLARK’S
Pharmacy
Decrease In Acreage
Of Corn in the State
The State Agriculture Depart- j
ment reports that the acreage of j
corn for harvest this year in North
Carolina, now estimated at 2,225,
000 acres, is five per cent less than
that harvested last year.
General rains throughout most of
Eastern North Carolina in late June
materially improved corn prospects
and_ a good yield is now indicated
Soi^moisture was deficient in the]
T'ledmo'm auriiig1 ""me Jocfit "ftoTuri i
and th ' ';>• .'d a July Is'..
was below average Smce.Jji^JirsJ,
of the month, however, rains have
been general and the crop outlook
has considerably improved. For the
State, a yield of 21 bushels was fore
cast by the department’s Crop Re
porting Service. This estimate was
based on July 1 conditions. Last
year’s yield was 22 bushels to the
acre.
This season’s wheat crop of 6,412,
000 acres was about 2,500,000 bush
els less than last year’s record pro
duction. This decrease was at
tributed by the department to a
drop of 18 per cent in the acreage
harvested and a decline of two bush
els in the yield per acre. The re
port said that weather conditions
were “none too favorable’ during
the spring and wheat heads failed
to develop satisfactorily.
The increase of seven per cent
over last year in the acreage of
oats more than offset the slight de
crease in yield and a record crop of
8.568,000 bushels is now in prospect.
NOTICE
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North Cara^na^Maf./fl County. ^
The undersigned, Iiaving this day
qualified as administrator of the es
tate of W. M. Ayers, deceased, late
of Martin County, this is to notify
all persons having claims against
said estate to present them to the
undersigned on or before the 21st
day of August, 1946, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their re
covery. All persons indebted to said
estate will please make immediate
payment to the undersigned.
This the 21st day of August, 1945.
WALTER AYERS,
a24 6tw Administrator of
W. M. Ayers, Deceased.
C. W. Everett, Attorney, Bethel,
N. C.
NOTICE
North Carolina, Martin County, In
the Superior Court.
William Henry Dempsey vs. Janie
Dempsey
The defendant above named will
take notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Martin County,
North Carolina, to secure an abso
lute divorce based upon the defend
ant’s acts of adultery; and the de
fendant will further take notice that
MALARIA
CHECKED IN 7 DAYS WITH
LIQUID for
MALARIAL
SYMPTOMS
■ only as directed
she is required to appear before the
Clerk of the Superior Court of Mar
tin County at Williamston, N. C., on
the 22nd day of September, 1945,
and answer or demur to the com
plaint in said action on said date,
and unless the defendant answers or
demurs to said complaint on said i
date or within twenty days there
after as provided by the laws of the
State of North Carolina, the plain
tiff will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in the complaint.
This 22nd day of August, 1945.
L. B. WYNNE, Clerk
a-24 4t Superior Court.
! Under and by virtue of the cower
Wij'i at the iate Margaret
F„ dnrrannc of ■||—^ .
o ffh.e clerk superior court of
Martin County, N. C., the undersign
ed Executives will, on the 27th day
of September, 1945, at two thirty
(2:30) P. M. E. W. Time, in front of
the Guaranty Bank and Trust Com
pany door in the Town of Roberson- ^
ville, Martin County, N. C., offer for
sale to the highest bidder for cash
that certain tract or parcel of land
lying and being in Robersonville
Township, Martin County, N. C., to
wit:
“Thp Homeplace” of the late Mar
garet E. Gurganus, bounded on the
East by swamp, bounded on the
South by Mrs. Frank Matthews,
bounded on the North by Mrs. H. t
Bunting and on the West by Rober
son land, and being the share of land
inherited by the late Margaret Gur
ganiijj. ^ . t| , I, - ,|| af i ■ 1 tm_, . ,
""The last"ana nifnesr'iiailu' {JTff
of too percent of the price Did as
evidence of good faith.
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ELLA STATON TURNER,
SELMA MAE BUNTING,
Executrixes of Estate of
Margaret E. Gurganus.
Paul D Roberson, Atty. a-31 4t
First Sale
Wednesday
September 12, at the
& R&iley,
WAREHOUSE
Robersonville, North (Carolina
This house will have two sales
week after next ami we ask that
our patrons keep this in mind.
We are still selling Tobacco Higher
Adkins & Bailey
WAREHOUSE
V.
First Sale Tuesday
September 11th, at the
Red Front Wareh’se
First Sale Thursday
September 13tli, at the
Central Warehouse
First Sale FRIDAY
September 14tli, at the
Red Front Wareh’se
No sales will be held on Monday until further
notice. Please plan the marketing of your to
bacco according to the above First Sale.
For the highest prices of the season sell with
JIM GRAY, ANDY ANDERSON and
CHARLIE GRAY, Proprietors of the
Red Front and Central Warehouses
Robersonville, N. C.