THE ENTERPRISE I Published Every Tuesday ar.d Thursday by ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WRUASdSrOS4.WOsft.TW CARQl IN A SUBSCRIPTION’ RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) One Yrer_ §SJO Six *tontha_1.50 IN MARTIN COUNTY OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One Year _ fS M Six Months_1.71 Advertising Rate Card Upon RequeM Entered at the post office in Williamston, N. C-, as seeor.d-ciass matter under the act at Congress of March 3. 1879. Address all communications to The Enter prise aid not individual members of tba firm. No Subscription Received Under f Month# Thursday, Xorpmher 17. 1019 W\I IT hyr There's l tires! in the In ml After working in the steel mills forty-four years, one Andrew Girasek was retired three years ago. In recognition of his long years of loyal service, he was advised that qualifi cations had been met and that he was to receive a pension. When he receievd h;s first check, he learned that the pension amounted to exactly 29 cents per month. The amount was so small that the company reportedly lumped ten years' payments into one huge sum of $34 45. If faithful Girasek hasn’t starved to death by that time, he'll receive another payment about seven years from now. On the other side of steel's pension pic ture. Irving S. Olds, big steel executive who is drawing an annual salary of $161,300 ex clusive of bonuses, and Ben Fairless, another steel executive who is drawing an annual salary of $207,900, will retire along with others on $50,000 pensions from the com pany, plus several additional thousands of dollars financed now jointly by them and thier company. A. B. Homer, another steel executive who is drawing $263,280 annual salary, will be able to retire in abou* ten years with a pension of SI 10,460 a vear. Numerous other executive may retire with pensions ranging from S9.000 to S76.000 a year. Then closer home there is the story of an humble school teacher who was forced to retire on account of illness. The very dav she was forced to quit work, her pay was Stopped. There were no sick leave, to say nothing about a pension. Higher up the lad der, provision has been made to retire court judges and others. When the steel companies set up a pension schedule for the Giraseks and an entirely different pension schedule for their execu tives, they laid the foundation for the 1949 steel strike. A miserly pension with the teachers par ticipating just about all the way, has been set up for those who toil in the school rooms. For the most part, owners do not turn dumb animals out to face a cruel w Id after those animals have tendered faithful service for years. But the steel companies, the schools and a vast part of industry have been doing just that for years. It made no differ ence if the victims were human When the unsavory condition boiled to a head and a strike followed, the American press, with some exceptions, took shelter in ffctC CX.?' .. pryinrt jliniit tho feets of a steel strike on the good people and saying nothing about the conditions un derlying the strike. Equally Dintiirhing The atom bomb in the hands of the Rus sians is causing concern. But equally dis turbing is the conduct of American repre sentatives reported in Germany recently. The conduct of the officials—not all, to be sure—is disheartening, to say the least. Stories that make one shoudder came in the wake of the occupation forces. But now representatives holding the highest positions the American people can bestow, go to Eu rope, make perfect ass?s of themselves and create what must be a disgusting impres sion of all Americans. The maiming and killing occasioned by battle in the War Between the States have long been forgiven if not forgotten, but the conduct of the carpetbaggers and the work of the riff-raff from the North still cause animosity to bum in the minds of the South erner today. The horror and terror caused by the atom bomb at Hiroshima and the vast wreckage left in Europe’s big cities will be forgiven in time, but the conduct of our representatives bt they Civilian or military, will linger tc plague relations with this country genera tion after feneration. Surely, those who measure the conduct of our representatives ' can't help but be pessimistic about our good faith and our ability to lead the way to peace. — —C.redttable,. _ - ( Williamston's Boosters. Inc. did credit to the members and to the* tou r in the success ful handling of the town's second annual - harvest festival a short time ago. While advancing a greater spectacle than the one last year, the Boosters held the cos* to ore-half the 19-48 figure and worked on a solid foundation for supporting good will and friendliness among the towns and peo ple in this great section. Possibly no tangible return is t*. be notic ed immediately, but good returns will come in due time. During the meantime all can rest assured that something gr-xi is being ■ nurtured, that while the road might be dif- l ficult. there is good assurance that we are traveling in the right direction. The pro gress of the march will be measured in the support and cooperation accorded by the people of the town to those who would lead and work for a better town and community. A Symbol With Meaning Christian Science Monitor On these golden autumn days a new flag flutters in the crisp upper aii of New York’s skyscraper world. It is the flag of the Unit ed Nations, and it announces the rapid pro gress of the UN's permanent headquarters in that city. It announces also the slower but nonetheless real progress of the UN ideal in world thinking. The Philippine delegation has asked that the flag be flown throughout the African and Pacific areas which arc under the inter national trusteeship system. In such small yet thrilling ways does the ideal of a gen uine international authority begin to flut ter as a visible achievement before the eyes of the world. To the many millions of Europeans whose children were fed under the International Children’s Emergency Fund program, the UN was as concrete as the powdered milk and bean soup which came to their villages stamped with the familiar name. To natives on distant Pacific isles looking hopefully to ward better conditions and larger opportuni ties the blue-and-white flag with its olive branch symbol can become the visible and honored sign of the justice they long for. We cannot afford to underestimate the value of a symbol. Even less can we af ford to underestimate the unremitting ne cessity impelling men to continue their ef forts to hammer dream into reality—or to approximate more nearly the ultimate real ity which inspires their dream. C.nrrtiptnea* Moron In Reports state that it was not called by name by law enforcement officers in Ral eigh recently, but it was strongly intimated that corruptness had entered the picture in North Carolina. It has been suggested that some of the larger cities in the country are looking to the federal government for help in freeing themselves of the crime octopus. Surely. North Carolina is not bound by such chains. However, it is fairly evident that some law enforcement officers are keeping their backs turned while law vio lators, some of whom were said by Gover nor Kerr Scott to be arrogant, march by with immunity. Are the “good" citizens flouting the law? Are members of the underworld buying their way through the iuw enforcement net0 Whpn the liquor interests barge in, there wd? be ypajpromising done on *>the^rime fronts, and a dangerous trend will nave^te-* veloped. Altitude* Toward Life As a human being you have the choice of three basic attitudes toward life. You may approach life with the philosophy of the * turnip, in which case your life will consist ’ of being born, eating, drinking, sleeping, ma- c turing, mating, growing old and dying. The c second basic attitude is to look at life as if it were a business. If you believe that life ' is a business, your first question of life, nat- 1 urally is, “What do I get out of it?" Your first reaction, “How much is this worth to me?”—The third attitude toward life is the k approach of the artist. Here the underlying philosophy is "What can I put into it?" and the basic relation of the individual to his fel low men, one of cooperation and common sense History remembers best those who have contributed most richly to the welfare of their feliow men.—Reginald W. Wilde. Minute Musings: “If a man runs after money, he's money-mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it he's a playbov; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it he’s a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.” Aggregate Pre - Cooling Tanks ■****»' • * ar -1 f j The rock and gravel used in the concrete for the Bnggs Island Dam located on the Roanoke Riv er near South Hill, Virginia, is pro-cooled in the cooling tanks shown in the above photograph. This process helps keep TT?o tonrirte cool after being poured, otherwise heat of hydration resulting from the setting of large masses of concrete tend - to make thogmass of concrete expand during set ting with a severe ,-h nkage upon cooling. The result isjhat the concrete will crack. Cooling slows up the generation of heat so that expansion and Cant: action is more gradual and results in the elim ination of cracking. j War I veterans with "presumed” | service-connected disabilities to the rate currently being paid to | veterans whose disabilities are de termined to be directly service i connected. ! New Progressive compensation ratings are established for veter ans with arrested cases of tuber culosis. The law provides for 100 percent rating for the first two years following the date the dis i ease was arrested. For four years after that the rate is set at 50 per . cent. The law also fixes disabili ty ratiuys for longer periods and requires • a veteran to submit to .' ^ The 1950 Ford Deluxe Tudor Sedan combines ih? ni.rli.-’i slyH115 su widely acclaimed by the car-lmyin^ ; ». lie v\iui Lite ce.nmil at.u economy demanded of a family automobile. Smart new treatment of the grille and jmrfcfng lights and a iolerful new . mw^^iliefir* t n» Ford Iv-iory ilislinguish tilt front of the mv, . n„... irx'uie new non-sag front scat springs i.iv ,cj tvi !i a n. A fo ini . ybbor cushion, additional head room and smaotii . i; \ r \ -S and S- 10 percent disabled aui omes under cither ol these two utegories will receive an increase n his monthly compensation heck from $13 BO to $15. A lOfl ereent disabled veteran will get 150 instead of the $138 he now eeeives. Between these two cas s, the increases will be propor ionate. The law also provides addition 1 compensation for veterans with ependents who are rated 50 per mit. oi more disabled. Heretofore nly veterans with dependents .’ho were rate 1 60 percent or lore disabled were eligible to re vive additional compensation. The rates aie raised for World India Gets $10 Million To Improve Agriculture\ a» . . Washington—A $10,000,000 loan j to India—the second loan granted to that country within eight l weeks—was announced here by ?*he interna lionaf SariWoF Ifuci'm-* Struct ion and Development, one of the Specialized Agencies affili ated with the United Nations. Parts of the loan will be used j to finance part of the cost of agri culture! machinery needed by In dia for the reclamation of lands infested with a weed known as kans grass; the rest for the clear ing of jiajSs land? Bank officials said. It is expected that this will; help to increase production of grain and thus reduce the food de ficit which constitutes one of the most pressing problems facing In-' dia today. The loan is for a term of seven years and carries interest at the rate of 2 1-2 percent, plus com mission at the rate of 1 percent. Amortization payments, calcu lated to retire the loan at ma turity will start on June 1, 1952. The Bank on August IS, 1649, had made another loan of 34 mil lion for the reconstruction and development of India's railways. examination and follow prescrib ed treatment. The death compensation paid to wartime widows with one or more children is also increased The law also liberalizes present rules barring payment of romper, I sation for injury or disease in- ■ cUrred (not a result of his own willful misconduct) while under military or civil confinement. It holds such confinement to be “in line of duty” provided a court martial sentence of dishonorable* discharge is remitted, or in cases of civil confinement if the of fense does not involve a felony. Horses nnovrs vv*»c .. coverings in tne shape of socks or sandals before metal horse shoes were used CARD OF THANKS We would like to take this op portunity to express our sincere •£»f»?i^flr