THE ENTERPRISE Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. W1I.I .IAMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cast, in Advance) One Year - Six Months -12.50 1.50 IN MARTIN COUNTY OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One Year _ Sis. Months _*S.fKt „ 1.78 No Subscription Received Under 0 Months advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Request Entered at the post office in Williamston. N. J., as second-clast matter under the act of Con ,;r**ss of March 3. 1879. Addi-ess all communications to The Enter prise and not individual members of the firm. Tuesday, January 22, 1946 W ho's Busiest? In this postwar world of confusion and con trary opinions, it is difficult for one to see or even think just what is taking place. How ever, it is fairly evident that the material and even the consequential things in life are receiv ing more attention than those designed to en rich and give the people a more abundant life. The amusement world is expanding rapidly and there are plans well advanced for expand ing it even more. Is the religious world main taining the pace' More motor cars are being promised. Wash ing machines are to appear in greater numbers. Labor-saving gadgets are being invented in great numbers. Is our educational system maintaining the pace? While segments of sci ence are offering us a less burdensome life, is education moving into the fore to teach and train us how to make the best use of this new life? New inventions naturally throw' our economy out of adjustment, but if we are to reap lasting benefits from those inventions we must main tain our balance. An automobile in the hands of a careless driver is a potential weapon of death rather than a means of transportation. A wash ing machine that saves the householder time to engage in questionable activities, helps in one way and causes damage in another. Give us the new gadgets and all the labor saving machines, but let us learn to fit them into a pattern of life worth living and guard against deterrioration. We can’t afford to be come soft now wdien a hard and solid founda tion is needed to get and maintain lasting peace. We must strengthen our weakest supports in i I,- - -- UUJ. * v-u, * V. --- O O and educational, to effect a balance that will strengthen our positions rather than weaken them. We are fussing and "cussing” this thing and that thing because we can't get a new car, a new this and a new that it i$nH necessarily this thing or that thing causing al1 our headacn^s just now. We are out of balance and badly need adjustment. There is no return to normal times; we will have to make adjustments and create normal times, not times exactly like those before the war, but times when all elements necessary to a sane and wholesome life are in balance. We can’t blame all this juvenile and adult de linquency on strikes and shortages of materials In other condemn one group for allow ing bad conditions to exist when wc are failing in our own parts. If we fail to teach and train our children how to live rather than how to make money and quit there, we are setting the stage for things and conditions far worse than our present plight caused by work stoppages. It is time for us to look around and see who is busiest in this world: the forces of evil or the forces of good? and to get busy ourselves in maintaining a happy medium Two W orthy Drives The two drives now in progress, one for used clothing and the other for funds to carry on the fight against infantile paralysis, are worthy of our every consideration. We have won the war at great cost, and we can well afford to spend more in winning the peace. Once the peace is won there’ll be no need for more spending for another war. By contributing our used clothing—down to our backs, if necessary—we can do a great deal to ward winning the peace. It will not mean much to us to part with a few garments, but those gar ments will mean much to a ragged people in other lands We spend billions to win the war; let’s help keep it won by sharing our old cloth ing with the victims. Then, too, Christianity would have us share, not only our clothing but also some of our other possessions. The infantile paralysis drive this year finds our people indebted to the National Founda tion, and it is up to us to meet that solemn obli gation. When hundreds of our people, mostly little folks, fell victim of the disease year before last, the National Infantile Paralysis Foundation moved into our State and lent every possible aid in addition to contributing more than half a million dollars to help the victims. In the name of suffering humanity, we ap peal to our people to support both drives to the limit. Don’t wait to be solicited; contribute your cash to the infantile paralysis fund and deliver your used clothing to the receiving sta tion in your community. The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerable small ones.—F. W. Robert son. «i NOTICE! Taxes Will Carry One Per Cent Penalty On FEBRUARY 1st This Penalty Will Be A