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Who'* Main?
In a recent report to the Journal of the
American Dental Association, a Greenwich,
Conn., doctor warns against drinking too
much citrus fruit juice with detrimental
effects to the teeth and gums.
. At the bidding of the fruit growers we
.bought down through the years conserva
tively I-,all' carload and possibly a solid car
load citrus Iruits, and now the Connecticut
doctor comes along and says that two or
three oranges or one grapefruit per week is
excessive. He explains that vitamin C is ob
tainable from other sources.
It is apparent that the doctor owns no
orange groves. Hut. regardless of who owns
orange groves Hut regardless of who
owns or does not own orange* groves,
the public is entitled to know who’s right
the guy who advises the consumption of fruit
juices by tin* quart or the doctor who warns
against the use of more than two or three
oranges or grapefruit per week?
Alter reading an advertisement a few days
ago we are inclined to sympathize with the
doctor The advertisement just about de
manded everyone 1o eat pickles to restore
salt to the human body Hut us human be
ings apparently prefer the long way around.
We’ll spend a quarter for pickles to get
salt when we could get a pinch of salt from
the kitchen shaker for virtually nothing.
But we still would like to know who’s right
and who’s wrong about the citrus fruit
juices.
Musi Itr l‘roily (rood
Uncle Sam must be pretty good, but the
question is, How long will he be able to re
main good?
When the old gentleman gets into a tight
spot, he is battered around as if he were a
baseball Bailor demands higher wages when
it works for him. Manufacturers require
higher prices and greater profits on the
goods they make and sell to him. Millions
u nnt in be lelt alone to prev upon the ccon
omy.
Billions of dollars are sent across the seas
Uncle tries to preach and live democracy,
but the manipulators move in to make a
dollar even if their acts, in the end. will
cost the old gentleman a hundred or possi
bly a thousand dollars. Who cares?
It is not enough to rob the dear old fellow
of his dollars, but we must aggravate his
worries by hoarding this or that. We insist
rjn business as usual even when his back is
pushed to the wall and he is fighting for his
life.
When he calls for help, most of the nations
in the United Nations give him lip service
only, and back home we criticise him for
that which he has done and for that which
he has not done.
It is only reasonable to believe that Uncle
Sam can't be pretty good much longer un
less he gets help, a lot of help, and gets it
Soon
n In I * 11 ?
Last year the United States extended
Korea $120,000,000 to maintain its economy.
No one knows how much, if any, aid Russia
extended North Korea. But when fighting
came about, the ones we helped ran. and the
others fought. .Why is it?
When the Russians withdrew their forces,
they left behind a highly trained and well
equipped force of Koreans. We left behind
2.000 American officials and business men
and a few missionaries.
It is fairly apparent that the Russians did
not play around, while it could be that the
Americans were more interested in busi
ness than they were in fighting off aggres
sors.
Whatever our motive was, it is fairly ap
parent that we faltered and failed. Where
business may have made a few million in
profits, it is now fairly certain that this
country will have to spend hundreds of
millions to restore order, not to mention the
human life element.
Why is it after we pump millions in aid
into a country, and when a crisis develops
there are no guns, materials or organized
plan to meet that crisis? But a story says
that a few minutes after the correspondents
established themselves, iced beer was avail
able.
A commentator said a short time ago that
there was a 1 00 percent war in South Korea,
a 50 percent war in Japan and a 10 percent
war m Pentagon. That's a pretty poor per
centage in the face of a 14-billion armed
budget, '
True CrratnpsK
Once upon a time a little English girl was
among a group of students who were asked
to write a composition on “True Greatness.”
She was only twelve years old and she came
from a poor family where nobody had re
ceived too fine an education, so it was not.
expected that she would turn in to her teach
er anything very remakable. Rut that little
English giil surprised tlie whole class. The
tiny essay she produced, while lacking in
perfect grammar and literary polish, hacj
more simple sincerity about it than articles
which famous thinkers have taken weeks to
write. It rang so true that it was quoted all
over England. This is what she wrote:
“A person can never get true greatness by
trying for it. You can get it when you are
not looking for it. It is nice to have good
clothes. It makes it a lot easier to act de
cent, but it is a sign of true greatness to
act, when you have not got them just as
good as if you had. One time when Ma was
a little girl they had a bird at their house
called Rill that broke his leg. They thought
they would have to kill him, but the next
morning they found him propped up sort of
sideways on his good leg, singing. That was '
t rue greatness.
“Once there was a woman that had done' '
a big washing and hung it on a line. The
line broke and let it all down in the mud, but
she didn’t sav a word. She did it all over
again, and this time she spread it on the
grass where it couldn’t fall. But that night
a dog with dirty feet ran over it. When !
she saw what was done she sat down and :
did not cry a bit. Al^ she said was, ‘Ain’t
it queer that he didn’t miss nothing?' That
was true greatness, but it is only people who
have done washing that know it.” Vincent
Edwards, in Children’s Friend.
More Hysteria
Tlio invasion of hysteria and mediocrity
into our national thinking is no better il
lustrated than by the recent attack upon
Thomas K. Finletter, new Secretary of the
Air Force. In a letter to President Truman,
Clyde A. Lewis, Commander in Cheif of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars, protested
Finletter’s appointment because of the lat
Federalists.
tor’s association with the United World
Mr Lewis, who characterized Finletter
as "an avowed disciple of world govern- |
ment,” told President Truman that it was
“rather disturbing” to contemplate the
spectacle of Finletter heading “a most im
portant and strategic branch of our armed
forces.” . . .
It should be pointed out emphatically
that there is nothing sinister about the
United World Federalists. The organization
is a thoroughly legitimate and democratic
group which, as a matter of stated policy,
pursues its goal of creating world federal
government only by reasonable and lawful
means. Not all of us agree with the prac
tical approach, the haste, or even the goal
of the United World Federalists, but no one.
to our knowledge, has ever effectively
questioned its integrity and good intentions.
Truman reprimanded Lewis with the
declaration that “it seems to me that you
veterans should spend more time trying to
find out the good points of a man in public
office, instead of trying to tear him down.
It would be much more help to the country.”
Poston Herald.
Simplicity
The three greatest masterpieces in litera
ture, it is said, are the Lord’s Prayer, the
Twenty-Third Psalm, and Lincoln’s Gettys
burg Address. Incidently, recall their word
ing:
“Our Father, who are in heaven, hallowed
be Thy name.”
“The Lord is my sheperd; 1 shall not
want.”
Hardly a three-syllable word in them;
very few two-syllable words. All the great
est in human life are one-syllable things—
love, joy, hope, home, child, wife, truth,
faith, God. All great things are simple.—Ex
change.
A man’s true wealth is the good he does
in the world.—Channing.
Announce Special
i Prayer Services
Rev. K. II. Stewart, pastor o
Hamilton and Everetts Haptis
Churches. is railing "Speeia
Prayer1 Services" for his people
and any others who will join then
at Hamilton Wednesday evening
i and at Everetts Thursday at fi p
j m. Tlie public is invited to at
I tend.
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James Whitmore
Plays As Crook
James Whitmore, named Holly
wood's “outstanding discovery”
following his widely-applauded
portrayal as the battle-weary
sergeant in "Battleground,” is
continuing his meteoric film ca
reer with another remarkable role
in. "The Asphalt Jungle,” begin
ning Thursday at the Vicear
Theatre.
In the new M-G-M excitement
drama, he plays the wily, hunch
hacked operator of a hamburger
stand, who joins a gang of crimi
nals in a daring million-dollar
jewel robbery. The new role is in
wide contrast to his two most re
cent one the comedy valet in
“Please Believe Me” and the In
dian fighter in “The Outriders.”
On strength of it, h<< shares top
billing with Nancy Davis in his
next picture at M-G-M, Dore
Schary’s personally supervised
production of "'rile Next Voice!
You Hear . , .”
John Huston, who won two 11149
Academy Awards, directed “The
Asphalt Jungle" and also wrote
he screen play with Ben Maddow.
fogether with Whitmore, the cast
eatures Sterling Hayden, Louis
Jalhern, Jean Hagen, Same Jafle,
lohn Mclntire and Teresa Celli i
Tests carried out by the North !
Carolina Experiment Station!
ihow that the method and time of j
ipplying lime to alfalfa has more
•fleet on the yield than does the
ate of application.
this case FEELING is believing
No, the eye does not tell everything
—not in this instance.
True.it tel Is you Roadm aster is smart.
It tells you its big. It shows, if you
watch closely, that this brawny beauty
rides level and unperturbed even when
road-roughness has its wheels fairly
dancing.
A glance may even indicate how much
lolling comfort there is here—what
wide-open freedom passengers and
driver know' in this gay traveler.
But how can the eye tell you flow you
feel touching off the great power that's
under this broad bonnet?
How can it reveal the silken, swift*
mounting surge of oil-cushioned
take-off—smooth, silky, unbroken, as
Dynaflow Drive works its magic?
Even when you watch a Roadmaster
settle down to a long steep pull and
crest the top going away, how con it
v « *
tell you what thrill your spirits get
from such ability?
And what can it say of the lift that’s
yours traveling in a beauty that catches
all eyes, swivels passing heads, marks
you by its very lines as traveling in as
fine a car as any man can ask for?
No, these things you have to feel for
yourself, and we’re, delighted to.help.
you do so.
Y)iur Buick dealer wants you to know
about Roadmastkr firsthand—wants
you to drive it, try it, feel it out.
It doesn’t cost a cent to arrange sucn *
trial. It can do a lot toward opening
your eyes to the day’s highest standard
of fine*car feel and fine-car action—not
to mention “why pay more?’’ prices.
—How ahouk seeing your dealer right
■*wayP,
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Arthur ‘Guitar Boogie' Smith
and the Crakerjacks will appear
in person at the Watts Theatre on
Thursday, July 27.
This group is nationally known
as a result of their best selling
M(!M records and their CBS
radio program on Sunday morn
ings which is carried coast to
coast.
The crakerjacks will appear on
the stage for 4 performances. They
will present a program of frflk
tunes, romantic ballads and in
strumental novelties to please the
entire family.
Arthur Smith and the Cracker
jacks were awarded the coveted
Billboard award in 194H for being
the^outstanding folk and western
artists appearing over radio sta
tion of 90,000 watts in the United
States.
Their recording of 'Guitar Boo
gie', which was written by Ar
thur Smith, sold 2,500,000 copies j
which put it in the hit class. Their I
other MOM records have all been
top-sellers in the folk and west-*
ern field.
The Watts Theatre is proud to
present these famous radio and |
recording artists in a variety j
show of top-notch quality.
The versatile Arthur plays
electric guitar, fiddle, banjo and,
mandolin. He also sinf the novel-!
ty numbers and is noted as a i
composer of novelty songs and j
guitar instrumentals. Sonny ban- J
dies the rythm guitar and serves1
as master of ceremonies for the,
group. In addition, he does re
citation to background music.
Halph is the virtuoso of the ae- j
cordian and sings with the trio -
Ralph, Arthur and Roy - and in
duets with Roy. He also handles1
the comedy angle of the act very
adeptly. Roy Lear plays the bass
and takes care of the romantic
ballads department and sings
with the duet and trio.
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The 1950 National 4-11 Club
will be held in Washington, June
14-21. North Carolina will be rep
resented by two boys and two,
girls tc be selected on the basis j
of their outstanding record in club j
work.
NOTICK OF SAlJi I
OF PERSONAL PROPKRTY
Notice is hereby given, that un
der, by virtue of and pursuant to
authority conferred upon me, the
undersigned, as Administrator C.
T. A. of the Estate of the late Dr.
I. E. Ward, deceased, of Rober- I
sonville, Martin County. North
!Carolina, I will offer for sale, at
■ public auction, to the highest bid
der, for cash, at the Courthouse
Door of Martin County in Wil
liamstnn, North Carolina, at elev
en o'clock A. M., on the 5th day
of August, 1950, the following per
sonal property of the late Dr j. E.
Ward, deceased, to-wit:
One 1949 LINCOLN COSMO
POLITAN SEDAN AUTOMO
BILE Motor No. 9EII-24851 -Ser
ial No. W326620B.
The above being the Lincoln
Sedan automobile owned by the
late Dr. J. E. Ward, deceased, at
the time of his death.
This the 30th day of June <950.
R. L. Moore, Administrator C.
T. A of the Estate of Dr. .1
E. Ward, Deceased.
Hugh G. Horton, Attorney,
Williamston, N. 0.
Jlv ll-lfl
SPECIAL PROCEEDING
North Carolina, Martin County.
In The Superior Court
Before the Clerk
Rosa Staten Vs. Thurston Daven
K»rt, I.eora Davenport, Ocenia
avenport, Robert Davenport,
Lillie D. Hardy, Lena D. Hardy.
It Taken iiKnotc f/otr”
AND WE HAVE IT
HEATING
Sheet Metal
Work
LENNOX
AIR CONDITIONING
Approved
JOHNS-Y1 ANVILLE
Roofin'; Conlrnrlor
WHITE'S
HEATING AND SHEET
METAL WORKS
P. O. Box r>04
WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
PHONE 2220
Clifton Davenport, and Lizzie Da
venport.
The defendants will take notice
that a Special Proceeding, as
above entitled, has been institut
ed before the undersigned Clerk
of the Superior Court of Martin
County, for 1he partition of lands
described in the petition, which
has been filed in my office. The
defendants will further take no
tive, that they are required to be
and appear before me in my of
fice in Williamston, N. C„ on or
before July 22, 1950, and answer
or demur to the said petition or
the petitioner will apply to the
; Court for the relief prayed in the
petition.
This June 15, <950.
L. B. Wvnno, C. S C
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