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m-r r“ THE ENTEHPK1SE Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILL1AMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) One Year _ Sis Months IN MARTIN COUNTY _ i.*0 OUT-TOY MARTIN COUNTY One Year '_ Sir Months_ l.'lt No Subscription Received Under 6 Months Advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the post office in Williamston. N. C., as second-clasi matter under the act of Con gress of March 3. 1870 Addt ess all communications to The Enter prise and not individual members of the firm. Tuesday, December 18, 1945 Profits According to figures analyzed by U. S. Gov ernment statisticians, the United States Steel Corporation in 1936-39 had average annual profits of $45,098,000. In 1941, the corporation’s profits soared to $157,160,000. Last year, the corporation’s profits dropped a bit to $157,094, 000, but they were still more than three times greater than they were before the war. The figures here represent profits after taxes. It is quite possible that the OPA has the above picture in consideration when it refuses to take the ceilings off steel prices. And it is also quite possible that the steel workers know about the treble profits, meaning that there’ll be a wage increase demand and a strike if the demand is not met. On Ignorance By Ruth Taylor Ignorance is a contagious disease, particularly when it is hitched up to an unwillingness to learn. I read this the other day and it is so good I’m passing it on to you. “Ignorance is the school of prejudices, and provincialism is its tutor. Its memory is stuffed with lies and its mind is warped by emotionalism. Pride is its book and snobbery is its pen. All the iiatreds and tears, all the cruelties and prejudices of childhood are perpetuated by it. It blinds the intellect and it hardens the heart. Its wisdom is wonderful and fearful; for it never learns what is true, and it never forgets what is false.” The only cure for ignorance is knowledge. “Men will be brutal so long as they believe ab surdities,” Voltaire said. The ignorance of the other man is not our personal problem. It is our own ignorance that must be met and mastered. We can be so big, we mustn’t be tiny — we can be so big, we neither look up nor down at other people—but straight ahead at eye level with our fellow men. That is the mark of the educated man. We must know not only our own side of the case, but we must study the other fellow’s side. As we yearn to know each other, we think more cIearly. prejudice is broken down and attitudes change. But it requires a willingness to learn and to understand. There are many different yardsticks for understanding, but none has ever surpassed the Golden Rule. If we would use this, we would i never allow the jealousy or envy that is ig 1 noranee lo stifle and deaden our, bettervm puises."* ' ' . Our Daily Bread By Ruth Taylor “The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread,” so wrote Hend rick Van Loon. The price of wheat has been responsible for \-nr- 5x-.w4Jt?t.U:«m ’.has.patriotism--- - ; wandered along the streams in the valleys or \ by the shores of lakes or oceans, searching for I food, and, from the exigency of his quest—from the insinct for self preservation — arose the struggle with his fellows. The fertile valleys of the Mediterranean— Egypt and the valley of Mesopotamia — were overrun by hordes of the hungry from less fer tile regions. Conqueror after conqueror swept I over the land, coming in, fierce with hunger, devastating, settling, giving birth to new cul ture, and in turn being overthrown by other hordes of the hungry. And while hunger does not now drive people in companies from their homes and pour them into other lands, any threat which excites the old hunger — fear, arouses the war spirit and stirs the migrating impulse. More new nations have been brought into existence by the cost of wheat than by the policy of self determination. Indeed the small nations have all had the need for food to back up their patriotism. Having been conquered nations, they felt like people in a rented house paying too much for something they did not own. They blamed the scarcity of food or supplies, high prices and everything they did not like on those who ruled. That is why there is so much inter nal disturbance after a nation frees itself. The people cannot see why they do not at once get everything they thought would come with free dom. That is the danger this winter. That is the practical “why” for feeding hungry, war-torn Europe. Hungry men do not reason. Hungry men grasp at straws. Hungry men strike out blindly and will barter their birthrights for food for their families. In our daily prayer we say “Give us this day our daily bread.” Note that we pray “us” and “our”, not “me” and “my”. Nothing can be for one alone. Whether it be freedom or food, — it must be for all. Can we not, must we not, share our bread with the hungry? The Example Of Smolensk Before the war Smolensk, a Russian city 200 miles west of Moscow, had 176,000 inhabitants, 8.000 buildings, 96 factories, 17 schools of higher education, 19 libraries. After the war it has 25.000 population, 700 buildings, no factories, no schools of higher education and no libraries. This sort of thing is one reason that the Rus sians feel pretty strongly about a hard peace for Germany.—Milwaukee Journal. Goals There must be profits, dividends, graded wages and salaries, bonuses and pensions. Without these there is no energy, no efficiency, no ambition, no self-development. Fancy a foot ball game without goals.—Herbert N. Casson. Crop Disease Loss Is Many Millions Losses Lom diseases on the major farm and truck crops of North Caro mV into many millions of dol ; lax?* , arid many of Cuese losses can be prevented or reduced with a great saving to growers, says Howard R. Garriss, Extension plant pathologist at State College. He gives a good example of what may be done by citing the record of L. S. Dilday of Ahoskie township in Hertford County, who dusted 5 acres of peanuts with sulphur to control leaf spot diseases and left another 5 wrvfur-fed a* ? check ►••a^sehtanMf field. When yield records were Ulmti&y Dilday, he found tuac tne dusted pea nuts had yielded an average of 2,142 pounds of nuts per acre as compar ed with 1,491 pounds for the undust e darea, a gain of 651 pounds of nuts per acre. Garriss believes in being conserva tive. In estimating what may be ac complished in dusting peanuts in North Carolina, he says that if half of the peanut acreage in the State were dusted with sulphur to control leaf spot diseases and if the gains were only one-half as large as those obtained hv Dilday, th" result would be about 49 million pounds of extra nuts, valued at about 4 million dol lars on the basis of October 15 prices. Garriss says that County Agent J. W. Ballentine of Hertford and other county agents of the State College Extension Service in the peanut area have done an excellent job in calling the attention of growers to the need for fighting leaf spot diseases on pea nuts and that their work on this one crop alone is saving their growers large amounts of money. Tests have shown that the cost of dusting can be paid for by the in creases in the yield and quality of the hay. -^ In a study made in Vermont, it was found that the average damage to an automobile involved in an accident was $56.20 when it was traveling 10 miles an hour or less. When the car was traveling over 50 miles an hour, the average accident damage was $454.67, according to the National Safety Council. NOTICE North Carolina, Martin County. In the Superior Court. In the matter of James S. Rhodes, Frank A. Rhodes, Janet M. Waller and husband. Luther H Waller and Bessie M. Mitchell and husband, Asher W. Mitchell, and James S. Rhodes, administrator of the Estate of W. S. Rhodes, deceased. Under and by virtue of an order of sale entered in the above entitled proceeding on the 3rd day of Decem ber, 1945, the undersigned commis sioners will on Thursday, the 3rd day of January, 1946, at 2 P. M., offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash Ion the various lots hereinafter de ; scribed the following described real [estate, to-wii: a . . . Lying and being in Hamilton Township, Martin County and State [of North Carolina, adjoining the lands of B. B Taylor, Roanoke River and others and commonly known and designated as W, S. Rhodes Mill . Landing 'Let.- • b . . , Lying and being in Hamil-1 ton Township, Martin County, and State of North Carolina, containing ! 29.38 acres, more or less, and being lot No. 12 of the Dr. M. I. Fleming farm, as shown by a plat of same, made by Sherman Ciodfelder, C. E., on the 14t,h day of Dec. 1923, a-copy ■ of which said plat is of record in the ] Public Registry of Martin County in J Land J)ivis;on Book No. 3 at p?e<s,6C 1 and being the same, land deeded to j W. S, Rhodes by Virginia Carolina ; Land Corp. and others, by deed 5aTed T Dec. 18th 1923 and of record in the Public Registry of Martin County in Book T-2, at page 281. c . . . Lying and being in Hamilton \ Township, Martin County and State jof North Carolina, bounded on the N. by Main Street, on the E. by the lands of Annie Jones, on the S. by the landsof Ben Stalls Estate, and on the W. by the lands of Rufus Burn lette Estate, being the house and lot 1 in Hamilton, N. C., occupied by Claude Salsburv d . . . Lying and being in Hamil ton Township, Martin County and State of North Carolina, bounded on the N. by the Methodist Cemetery and Slade-Rhodes & Co., on the E. by the Howell land and the Roanoke j River landing, on the S. by Main St., | the colored Baptist Church Lot and a | lot belonging to Slade-Rhodes & Co:, j and on the W. by the first street E. of From Street in the Town of Ham ilton, being commonly known and designated as W. S. Rhodes Groves Lands. i e . . . Lying and being in the Town of Hamilton, Martin County and State of North Carolina, beginning on Front Street at the N. E. corner of the Dr. Long Drug Store property, thence along the line of the Drug Store property to the line of Slade- _ Rhodes & Co. Store Lot to Main Street, thence along Main Street, to the first street W. of Front Street in the Town of Hamilton, thence along said street to Highway 125, thence along Highway 125 to the Clayton House land, thence along the line of Clayton House to the property of | Richard Raynor, thence along the line of Richard Raynor to Front I Street to the beginning and being the I land in the town of Hamilton on [ which is situated the Sherrod house, the house occupied by Lonnie Green, the house occupied by Rebecca Wil Ison, the W. S. Rhodes stables, and several vacant lots. Some of the above described tracts | will be divided as lots and offered | for sale as lots. This the 3rd day of December, 1945. ELBERT S. PEEL, H. G. HORTON, d 11 18 25 j 1 Commissioners. 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We have bought directly from manufacturers and our prices are right. See us before buying. Sales at MICKEY’S INN On Everetts Highway Near Williamston Why lose sleep about how to pay off old-fashioned mort gages? Save money by let ting us transform and streamline your mortgage into a modern amortised in strument that will let you enjoy real home ownership. Your home Is probably in need of essential repairs that couldn't be made during the war years. Borrow from us and make your home like new. Martin County Building And Loan Association
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