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THE ENTERPRISE Sj Publ^heri Every Tuesday and Thursday bv ^ ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO, | WILLIAMSTON NORTH CAROLINA X I A iawg*r »roJ OCI \< ,-Ui Carolina 'mss amoci.u a vL T nsxsstaaewrsaa&x X SI ASCRIPTION RATES ft ft (Strictly Cash in Advance) I K IN MARTIN COUNTY: \ W One Year 53 00 X ft Six Months 1.75 V | OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY | s V One Year S3.50 ft $ Six Months 2.00 ft s ft No Subscription Received Under B Months ft | ~~ ..'-' | Advertising Rate Card Upon Request ^ ft Entered at the post office fice in Williamston. ft alter under the act ft ft N C.. as second-class ma ft of Congress of Match 3. 1870. I ft Address all communications to The Enter- ft ft prise and not individual members of the S | firm' f | Tuesday. August 24. IV54 * Eisenhower HeronI Hooverism still reigns in the White House. Eisenhower's record parallels that of the great engineer in that all was dealt out to the few and little was ever meant to reach the many. Candidate Eisenhower promised 100 per cent parity to the farmers, and by main strength lowered it to 82 1-2. all the while wanting it lowered to 7S percent. He promised full employment. Today, there are well over 100 surplus labor cen ters. He promised a balanced budget. It is several billion short of that goal. The national debt was to be lowered. But he recently called for and got a higher debt ceiling. He urns not to become President to liqui date the people's interests in natural re sources. But he gaye away oil fields worth billions of dollars. He bowed to the pro gram outlined in 1948 by the power trust. The people were to get consideration, but unearned income for the few is taxed less than that ol the wage earner. He talked about free enterprise, but he supported contracts without the advantage of competitive bidding And contracts have been awarded to high instead of low bid , ders. Some say the Eisenhower record is a great one. but it is for the few and not the many, and it is one not in the interest of the over all economy. Hoover Myth Reading (Pa ) New Era A calculated campaign has been under way for the last few years to surround ex President Hoover with a halo, synthetic as it may be. presumably as the first step to ward a form of Republican sainthood. Unfortunately for the boys directing the strategy, their efforts to rewrite history are futile since all the propaganda in the world cannot remove the stigma from Hoover’s do-nothing record in the great collapse and the great depression of the early thirties. What’s more. Hoover, by his very utter ance alienates millions of Americans who have not changed their attitude about his ineptness and poor leadership at a time when economic disaster in America put millions of Americans on bread lines and gave Communist agents their best oppor tunity to spread a doctrine that breeds on miserv and hardship. On his 80th birthday this week, the de pression President attacked what he called Presidential misuse of power during the 20 years of the New Deal and Fair Deal. He then joined in McCarthy’s most obnoxious smear to charge that Roosevelt and Tru man’s regimes were responsible for the svowth of, Cnmmunirt tyranny These statements, of course, merely prove that Hoover is as blind today as he was in the dark ages of the 1930's when he con sistently forecast a chicken in every pot. 2 cars in every garage, and prosperity just around the corner. In those days workers were grateful for the appearance of Franklin D. Roosevelt on the scene to restore order in the Nation’s banking system, to put people to work; to launch such great social reforms as social security, public housing, minimum wage legislation, bank deposit insurance—to men tion only a few. Perhaps this was the abuse of Presidential power Mr. Hoover now de plores, but we doubt whether anyone with depression memories would agree with him. We also doubt whether the American peo ple will “buy” his argument that Democrats were responsible for Soviet growth. A look at recent history reveals that it was Presi dent Truman wholaunched the aid program tot Greece and Turkey to halt Communist expansion: larged trie JNortn Atlantic Al liance to retain allies in Europe against the Reds: launched the foreign aid policies that kept our friends from falling prey to Rus sia long ago; and called the Commie bluff in Korea Another look at recent history reveals trial it was the present Republican administra tion that sat silently on the sidelines while France sold out 12 million people to the OfiTrt re iff jM 5 PW E : « i hower who removed d»e Seventh Fleet from Formosa so Chiang Kai-shek could attack the Red Chinese mainland, even though everyone in his right mind knew Chiang couldn’t fight his way out of the proverbial paper hag In fact, news reports indicate we may shortly have to defend Formosa against Communist attack. The big monev boys allied with the reac tionary press are determined to remold for mer President Hoover into the role of an all-wise elder statesman whose words are weighted with wisdom and authority. They know he will plead the cause of special priv ilege and will get big headlines for his every utterance. Reverence and respect for old age are laudable, but we doubt very much whether the American working people owe Hoover more than that. \oir Is Tlir Timr To save worry and block failure next spring, the more than seven thousands of Marlin County youths should realize that now is the time to act. Few children can expect to make a record during the coming term of school if they waste their time, dis regard their lessons and remain indifferent to their tasks laid before them each day. Parents will have been derelict in their duties if they allow their youngsters to fol low the custom of all play and little work. It is not suggested that youths be stripped of all pleasures, but it is necessary that some work and study be crowded into the modern day schedule. Much has been said about recreation. II is high time that something be said about work and study. It is readily admitted that the present-day lad is smarter than those of a quarter ven ture ago. But this complicated world today is calling for smarter young men and women. In other words, the youngster to day has to be just about twice as smart as tlie lad of a quarter century ago to hold an advantage when lie starts out in life today,. Martin County is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars tor the education of its youth. And the young students should be made aware of the urgent necessity for hard study and work in and out of school. Tests, examinations and reports have their place, hut a school can be rated, to a great extent, by the way the pupils employ their time and the interest they show in basic school work. The lad who hangs around the pool parlors, the piccolo joints and places social events ahead of his school duties mav pass ins work, but nine out of ten who do just that will never make the grade. Now is the time for pupil and parent to decide what the score will he next spring. I.et's All liiliolr II illi Now some doctors trace lung cancer to the air. rather than cigarettes, which is a re lief to all thos# who would find it easier to give up breathing than smoking. Tire Col umbia (S. C.) State. 60 Second Sermons By Fred Dodge TEXT: “Joy is not things: it is in us." —Wagner. in The teacher heard a burst of laughter from the back of the room. She walked down the aisle and stood over a small boy. “lommv. she said. "You mustn t laugh out loud' hi Tiit"school room. ~'*A. "1 didn’t mean to do it,” Tommy replied, "1 was smiling and the smile busted.” If you wanted to search for happiness, where would you look? So many of us ex pect to find it m things and circumstances. Let us not make the mistake of believing that these will bring happiness. Our happi ness or our sorrow comes from within us. The things or the circumstances which we think bring us happiness, will leave others unmoved. That is because we pin a happy label on one thing and a sorrow label on another. To someone else, the labels might be reversed. It is the value we place on things and circumstances which makes them happy or sad. If we would be happy, then, let us prepare a thousand smiles to bestow on things and circumstances. Happiness is ours to make for ourselves. Joy is not in things. Joy is in us. ON RADIO WIAM I v_ _ J Rev. Carl A. Matthews of New port News, Va., will broadcast over WIAM Sunday, August 1; Sunday August 8; Sunday, August 15; and Sunday August 22 from 12:25 to 12:40. Mr. Matthews will also conduct an evangelistic meet ing at the Macedonia Church of Christ beginning August 25th through September 5lh. Lighthouses For Radar Stations Washington The Air Force says it plans to spend more than a million dollars apiece for a string of radar towers to be spot ted in moderately shallow water about 100 miles off the Atlantic Coast. The Air Force announcement did not give the number of tow ers planned in a move to give add ed warning of the possible ap proach of enemy bombers Re portedly the chain will extend from Newfoundland to Norfolk, Va. The tall sentinel posts, nam ed "Texas towers” because of their resemblance to offshore oil drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexi co, are designed 1o spot planes which might pass undetected through a more distant string of radar warning craft. The Engineering News Record, a McGraw-Hill magazine publish ed m New Voik, said the over-all cost of the towers would run from 15 to 20 million dollars, not-count log ^adar and other equipment. Ttfe^Air Force said basic construc tion alone would cost more than a million dollars for each. The News-Record said each tower, resembling a lighthouse except that the top will be filled with radar equipment, will stand on a platform of at least 15.000 square feet. That would be the equivalent of 100 by 150 feet, but the magazine said the shape will vary depending upon the shape of the shoal on which it stands. Each platform, the account con tinued. will have Uving quarters for 20 to 00 men, complete with power plant, recreational areas, and a space for helicopter land ings. Kailrornls Would Abandon Many l nprojiluldr Linas The nation’s railroads. Which last year lost a record $704,600,000 on passenger service, are seeking to recover economic strength by pleas fori permission to abandon service on more unprofitable lines. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE North Carolina, Martin County. Having this day qualified as Administrator of the Estate ol Annie P. Jones, deceased, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to exhibit saint to the undersigned Administrate!* within twelve months from the date of this notice, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their re covers’ All persons indebted to said estate will please make im mediate payment This 19th day of August, 1954. Elbert S. Peel, Jr. Administrator of the Estate of Annie P. Jones, an 24 k I se 7-14-21-2K Wae.XI.W'oSV (kssoheat) vfwXL^1 °iLX2 i 10 WJLUAMSTON, N.C. NOW'S THE TIME TO FIT YOUR BOYS AND GIRLS W ITH NEW BACK - TO ■ SCHOOL CLOTHES Tor Boih Boys and Girls of All Agos At Prices That Are Easy on the Family Pockeibook! 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