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G. ALEX ROUSE, Owner ft Mgr.
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RADIO ADVERTISING
We wonder if everybody is as tired
of listening to advertising over the
radio as we are. We wonder if the
people who are paying for radio ad
vertising are getting their money's
worth out of it But at the same time
we wander how we could get many of
the really wonderful programs thatj
we hear over our radio if advertisers
didn't pay for it.
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Somebody das to pay j.ui
broadcasting. That goes without say
ing. Some broadcasting is paid for
by political and other propogandists,
and most of that sort of stuff we
have listened to is pretty dreary.
In Russia we understand people
cannot hear anything but propoganda
through their radio sets. In France
the government owns all the radio
stations but leases time on the air to
advertisers who, we understand, do
not make any very successful at
tempts at entertaining. In England
there is-a fairly liberal system of
government control of broadcasting.
Only one company is licensed to
broadcast and it operates all of the
stations in the British Isles. It gets
its revenue from an annual tax of ten
shillings, or about $2.50 on each re
ceiving set. You cannot have a re
ceiving set in England without pay
ing this tax. The government col
It cts the money and divides it with
the broadcasting company which de
velops and puts on its own programs
of entertainment and education, but
there is always a government censor
listening in and there is a dtecided
limitation of free expression of ideas
and opinions over the radio.
The last thing we want in America
is any kind of government censorship.
Freedom of speech and of the press is
one of the fundamental principles of
our democracy. There is always a
bureaucratic clique in Washington
which would like to control not only
all radio broadcasting but the news
papers and all public speakers as well.
The worst thing that could happen to
American liberty would be to let gov
ernment or any part of the govern
ment prescribe what people may think
or say.
Probably on tne whole our Ameri
can system of letting advertisers pay
for our entertainment is the best We
certainly get better entertainment
over the radio than they do anywhere
else, from all reports, just as we
have better newspapers in America
because our newspaper advertisers
make them possible. But we do wish
these broadcasting advertisers would
use a little more restraint and a great
many fewer words in telling us about'
the merits of their wares.
THOSE EUROPEAN DEBTS
The principal impression which
the international financial conference
makes upon us that the United States
is for the first time since the war
taking the part in international af
fairs which our country's position as
the world's wealthiest and most pros
perous nation demands of us. It is
announced from Washington that in
officially representing the United
States in the Conference on Internat
ional Debts our Secretary of State,
Mr. Stimson, and our Secretary of
the Treasury, Mr. Mellon, will take
no part in the political aspects of the
European situation.
It is very difficult to see how they
can keep out of it International
debts are necessarily involved in poli
tics. When a nation owes money the
method whereby that debt is to be
paid has to be decided in the long
run by the politicians of that nation,
precisely es the method of paying the
interest on town or school district
bonds and amortizing the principal
has to be determined in the long run
by the politicians of the town or the
school district
International debts are just like all j
other public debt% in that the prom
ises of politicians to pay them are not
always based upon the ability of the
town, county,' state or nation to pay.
That seems to be Germany's ease. She
owes moief than she can pay, but she
has given very- good evidence of de
sire and willingness to pay. All re
ports from Germany are that the peo
ple there are working harder and
longer hours than anywhere else in
the world and are living on next to
nothing in the effort to pay the heavy
taxes which the nation requires. Even
doing the beat they can the country
cannot meet its obligations. TV old
fashioned way of meeting a situation
like that was for the creditor nations
to send an army into the country Co
take possession of it The modern
way is for all of the natioaa to whom
^ to t
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SIXTH INSTALMENT
Rackruff Motors hire Rowena to ac
company Peter an a nation-wide tour
in their roadster aa an advertising
stunt At the last minute Little Bob
by is engaged to act as chaperon.
A few miles out Bobby becomes
tearful at being parted from her
sweetheart and Rowena insists on
taking her place in the rumbie so
that s. e can ride with Peter and
have him to talk to about Carter.
Rowena gets Peter to consent to di
vide the expense money each week as
soon as it arrives, and astonishes
Peter by eating^teo economically.
The three tourists reach Denver,
after passing through Buffalo, Chi
cago and St Louis, Peter and Rowe
na have many tiffs on the way while
Carter keeps wiring Bcbby to return
to New York. The morning after
th?v reacii Denver, Peter and Rowena
discover Bobby has deserted them and
returned to New York by train. They
are faced with the impossible condi
tion of continuing their trip without
a chaperon.
Rowena suggests to Peter that they
make a "companionate" marriage.
They are married and go to Chey
enne, where their actions, when they
ask for rooms on separate floors,
arouses the suspicions of the hotel
clerk. They finally succeed in getting
rooms, but not without exciting the
j laughter of the hotel loungers. -
? NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.
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Although Peter was furiously an
gry, highly humiliated, and blaming
Rowena for everything, he was kind
at heart and could not resist the
plaintive pathos in her voice, usually
so crisp and cool.
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"Good night," Kowena," ne saia, |
more pleasantly than she hod any
right to expect. "Dont worry. Ev
erything'll be all right."
After a sleepless night Peter was
down in the lobby at an unbelievably
early hour. But early as it was, he
did not precede the interested smiles
and stares of the day staff which had
replaced the night workers, clerks,
telephone operators and elevator
| boys.
Even at that unreasonable hour
there were loungers in the lobby. And
each and every one of them, and
even the head waitress smiling in the
door of the dining room, knew all
! about the young New Yorkers mar
I ried the day before in Denver who
demanded rooms on separate floors.
Confusion stung his face with burn
ing red.
He went upstairs, walked up, to
Rowena's room and knocked sharply.
"Yes, who?" called Rowena in a
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| bright voice that had obviously been
! schooled to register good nature in
t the face of adversity.
| "Me," he answered surlily. "'Chuck
your things into your bag and let's
I get out cf here."
( "How about breakfast?"
I "The hell with breakfast."
"0. K. by me," called Rowena, in
the maddening voice of one who has
! stoutly enjoined ones inner soul to
| smiles and sweetness. And indeed
even in her sleep Rowena had been
reminding herself that she must be
very patient with Peter for a few
days, as he was apt to be just the
least bit in the world cro33 about the
state of affairs.
Within an hour they were hurling
the dust of Cheyenne from the
wheels of the roadster and as soon as
the last outpost of the city lay buried
in the past Peter pulled off to the
side of the road and drew up to a
grinding stop. Then he turned to Ro
wena and his was not the look of a
newly married man.
"Well, you see what fools we maae
of ourselves," he began. "I hope
you're satisfied."
"Im terriblysorry," said Rowena
humbly. "I feel just. wretchedly
about everything. But I couldn't pos-1
sibly foresee such awful complies-1
tions, now could I, Peter? What ex- j
perience have I had with husbands I
and hotel registers and such mon
strosities?"
"Well just have to make the best!
of a suite or adjoining rooms hereaf-1
ter," said Peter more kindly. "It's
this demanding separate floors that
makes them give us the razzberry."
"But we cant have connecting
rooms, Peter," protested Rowena un-|
happily. "We just cant. We have to I
be terribly careful about things like!
that or we cant get it annulled.!
Dont you see, Peter, if we stay in ad- J
joining rooms dear serosa the coun-1
try, nobody in the world is going to I
believe we?we really did?stay in ad-1
joining rooms."
"Then we'll have to get a (Avowal
instead of an annulment I am not!
going to make a fool of myBelf like
that again." f J
"But we cant get a divorce in New I
[York," protested Rowena. "I wrote!
a story about that once?I know how j
the laws are. One of us would have ]
to go to Reno or Paris to get it and!
it would take every cent of money!
we can save (A the whole trip to pay!
for the divorce. And what good1
Tnats like you, Peter, said
get a divorce in New York. I'm not
going to be made a fool of there be
fore all my friends."
"What do you mean, made a fool
of?" Peter demanded.
"Why, having everybody think I'm
so no-good I cant hang on to a hus
band for two months! No, if it comes
to that, 111 give yotf grounds."
"You'll what?"
"Give you grounds for a divorce?"
"What grounds?"
"The same grounds you so magnan
imously offered me."
[ "Rowena, are you crazy? A wom
an cant do a thing like that Why,
it?it would ruin you. You're crazy!"
"01:, I am? Well, let me tell you
one thing, Mr. Peter Blande! I'd
rather have my friends think I step
ped out on you two months after our
marriage than that I couldnt keep
you from stepping out on me. It's.
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think for & minute that I'm going to
much more flattering, I assure you!"
"You would, Rowena; I honestly
believe you would. You're just that
dumb," said Peter. "However, let's
not fight over getting the divorce to
day. The thing to agree on now is
that we've got to put up with rooms
adjoining or ensuite and say no more
about separate floors."
"If you're too proud to ask for sep
arate floors, 111 do it," said Rowena.
"Id rather be embarrassed before a
strange hotel cleric than be the laugh
ing stock of my own friends."
"Yes, that would do me a lot of
good, wouldn't it?" demanded Peter.
To have my wife sail up to the desk
and register for me and ask for rooms
on separate floors. Oh, yes, that
would make everything fine and
dandy."
"Fm not your wife," stormed Ro
wena.
"I'm?I just happen to be married
to you?by accident. A?a sort of
detour."
"Worse luck," grow'.ed Peter.
Rowena opened the door and
sprang out.
"What are you going to do ? Walk
to Yellowstone?"
"I am going," said Rowena coldly,
"to retire in peace to my rumble
seat"
"Rowena, I ask you, don't be any
more ridiculous than usual," he
pleaded. "How's it going to look?
only two of us in a roadster and you
riding in the rumble seat in this boil
ing hot aim.?"
"I'm above worrying about how
things look," said Rowena. "I'd
rather be bounced and bruised and
blistered in the rumble seat than in
sulted in?in the lap of luxury."
She raised the umbrella with a vi
cious little click of the snap, ad
justed the cushions about her slender
body, %nd rode in the rumble in sol
emn grahdeur, leaving Peter to fume
futiely alone in front.
It was about the hour of sunset
when a sudden shadow blackened the
west, a sudden cool breeze touched
their faces.
"They must be having showers in
the mountains," said Peter.
But Kowena, deep in a painful sleep
of complete exhaustion, did not an
swer.
It was more than showers they
were having in the mountains?it was
cloudbursts, one after the other in
torrential downpour, and in less time
than it took for the cooling breeze
to sweep down the plain with refresh
ment for their tired faces, every dry
creek bed and parched arroyo that
led from the hot mountains to the
burning plains was flooded with
rushing water from the heights.
He guided .the .little roadster along
the yellow road toward another
the narrow rocky gorges through
which they had beett* passing at .inter
vals all d*y long. -The roar in his
ears grew louder, closer.
ft sounded ominous and threateattg. l
Peter looked to tha west and wad
amazed to Me a &alid wall of water
nearly as high as^the car sweeping
downrthe little canyon. t
Instinctively his foot pressed the
accelerator. The roaring wall of
water was close but'the arroyo itself
was closer,
and. drove it securely into a crevice
among the. rocks.
Rowena, suddenly aroused from her
exhausted sleep, had started up in
tenor at sight and sound of the tor
rential river bearing down upon
them. Prompted by an % innate im
pulse she struggled quickly up to the
seat of the rumble, intending to jump,
but. the car was flung violently from
beneath her and cheated of her inse
cure foothold she fell headlong, face
downward, in the icy water.
Peter* stunped by the unexpected
onslaught of water, was startled to
action at sight of Rowena whipped
helpless against the rocks by +he ir
resistible flood.
"You little fool, what did you
jump for?" he shouted, but even as
he spoke he was out of the car and
in less than a moment had her firmly
in his arm. Slowly he drew her back
until they had the support of the car
behind them against the cold pressure
of the water. * '
"I<?didn't!" she shouted as soon as
she recovered her breath. "Fell!"
"Sorry!" roared Peter regretfully.
"My fault! Shouldn't have tried it!?
No good racing af river!"
"Cheerio1!" comforted Rowena loud
ly. "You nearly made it!" ?
Other cars pulled u pbeside the
Other cars pulled up beside the
their willing assistance in getting Pe
ter and Rowena safely up on shore.
And Peter against the advice of the
tourists and the frightened orders of
Rowena, went immediately back to the
car for their bags. '
"All the clothes "^Ve've got," he ex
plained cheerfully. "They're impor
tant."
Fortunately the bags were not yet
soaked through and except for a few
articles on top the contents were dry.
Rowena and Peter, soaking wet, hur
riedly got out dry clothes and then
paused abruptly, regarding both the
crowd and each other with timorous
histancy:
"IH have my tent up in a jiffy,"
said a big .red faced Kansas farmer
with loud kindliness. "River'll be
down by morning, but we'll all have
to pitch camp here tonight Give me
a hand there, youngster."
And before he had finished an
nouncing his kind intentions he had
raised a diminutive tent and extend
ed his hospitality to the dripping pair.
"Key to the city, lady and gent',"
he said with a great laugh.
Peter made a hasty motion to Ro
wena who slipped quickly inside and
dropped the flap.
"Your wife, I take it," said the red
faced Kansaan, with a puzzled air.
"Yes," said Peter. "But, the tent
isn't so very big, and we're both so
terribly wet, and besides, I want to
have another look at the car. I don't
want it carried off down the canyon."
"Don't you worry about that car
brother. That there car is put for
keeps. At least till the river goes
down."
Other cars pulled up and their oc
cupants joined the enforced camp on
the river bank. They put up tents
and staked out claims here and there.
Children were set to gathering stones
and 'sticks for a fireplace. ? ?
Ali together they ate impromptu
supper on the plains, sitting in a clus
ter of. friendly groups about the fire,
and afterwards as the darkness fell
and the stars lit the black sky over
the black prairie, they gathered clos
er and talked. Some sang, and the
men smoked. And presently by twos
or by families they crept away to
their separate camps for the night.
.."Here's an old mattress you can
use," said the Kansas farmer, tossing
it across to Peter. "We've got an
other one. It's not very big but you're
not a very big family."
(Continued Next Week)
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. B?nd?, but Cuts Glass.
An American steel company, making
all grades of electric tool steels, an
"Bounces that it has produced an alloy
chisel steel which can be made so hard
that it wilt cut glass, yet may be bent
by being hammered over the edge of
an acviL
Fisherman's Luck.
? A monster trout weighing ninety*.
Ifcree pounds was landed by a Bet
last angler the other fay. The Beh,
aa ordinary brown trout, le the largest
trout caught in Ulster within the
I memory of the oldest Waltonian hjr
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COMMISSIONER'S SALE
Under and by virtue of an order of
the Superior Court of Pitt County,
made in the case of the Town of
Farmville, against Dennis Dupree,
Walter Hart and Blaney Joyner, the
undersigned Commissioner will on
Monday, August 10th, 1931, at 12
o'clock Noon, at the courthouse door
in the Town of Greenville, N. C., of
fer for sale to the highest bidder for
cash, the following described tracts
of land, to-wit:
1st Tract: Lying and being in the
Town of Farmville on the west side
of Main street, and beginning at the
northeast corner of Bettie Joyner's
lot and rims 100 feet in a westerly
direction along said Bettie Joyner's
line; thence at right angles, in a nor- i
therly direction and parallel to Main
street 30 feet, thence at right angles
in an easterly direction 100 feet to
Main street, thence along Main street
in a southerly direction 30 feet to the
point of beginning.
2d Tract: One lot on the west side
of Main street in the Town of Farm
ville, N. C., Pitt County, beginning
at the S. E. corner of A. L. Joyner's
lot and runs with said A. L. Joyner's
line a westerly direction 90 feet,
thence in a southerly direction paral
lel with Main street 16 feet to J. P.
Taylor's iine, thence with said J. P.
Taylor's line in an easterly direction
90 feet to Main street, thence with
Main street in a northerly direction
16 feet to the beginning. The lot
above described being the same lot
conveyed by G. E. Moore and wife to
D. C. Blount, by deed recorded in
Book U-9, page 592 of the Pitt Coun
ty Registry.
3d Tract: Being one other lot on
Main street in the Town of Farmville.
4th Tract: Being one other lot on
Main street in the Town of Farmville.
This property being sold to satisfy
tax liens against th'j same.
This the 8th day of July, 1931.
JOHN HILL PAYLOR, Commr.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Having qualified as administrator
de bonis non, of the estate of Austin
Porter, deceased, late of Pitt County,
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against the es
tate of said deceased to exhibit them
>o the undersigned, at the law offices
of John Hill Paylor, attorney, on or
before the 18th day of July, 1932, or
this notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons indebted
to said estate will please make imme
diate payment.
This the 14th day of July, 1931.
LILLIELALSTON,
Admrx. Estate Austin Porter.
V. E. Fountain, Attorney.
John Hill Paylor, Attorney.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given to creditors
of the said Barrett-Dail Motor Com
pany, that the said partnership of
Barrett-Dail Motor Company has been
dissolved by mutual consent. That
the said T. M. Dail will not be respon
sible for any further obligations of
the said Barrett-Dail Motor Company,
and that the said H. L. Barrett will
not be responsible for any further ob
ligations of the said Barrett-Dail Mo
tor Company. All obligations of the
garage formerly operated by Barrett
Dail Motor Company are to be paid
by the said T. M. Dail, and all obliga
tions of the filling station formerly
operated by Barrett-Dail Motor Com
pany are to be paid by the said H. L.
Barrett.
T. M. DAIL,
H. L. BARRETT.
John Hill Paylor, Attorney.
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