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' 1 ll 0. ALSX BOl'SR Owner * M,r.| EVA HORTON SHACKLEFORD1 Socitty Editor ft Suimriptkm Price: || One Year $1.50 ? Six Moathe 75c. II I | ADVERTISING RATES: I! Display (Mini mam) 30c Par Inch. I j Readers, Per line 5c if AS Lefal ariva. 5c a Bm p?Wk.(| Published weekly and entered as If .Second Class Mail Matter at the if Postoffice at Famville, N. C., on- T J der Act of March 3rd, 1878. Jj ON LIVING IN A SMALL TOWN! There ?re so many reasons whyj people who live in small towns have | a better time of it than those who I live in the big citiee that there iantj room to put them all down here. But I one of the things that make oar city I cousins mad is that we small town I and country folk have so much more! to say about the government of our! state and of the nation than they do. j A writer in a recent issue of The! American Mercury points out that! one voter in Echols county, Georgia,! as much to say about the state's I affairs on election day as 35 voters in Atlanta. Atlanta has 11 per cent of Georgia's population and pays 24 per cent of the ad valorem taxes, but has only 1.4 per cent of the members of the lower house of the state legis lature. That disclosure ieaas VilC A1W.. - York Times to remark that one voterl in Putnam county, less than thirty! miles north of the big city, has as! much to say at Albany as five voters I in New York itself. There are simi-1 lar situations in every state which! has large cities. Chieago is always! complaining that "down-state" mem-J bers run the Illinois legislature, while the constitution of the State of! New York contains a provision which! prevents New York City from ever! having a majority in either house of I the legislature. This condition is a survival of the! original distribution of political au-l thority according to locality and not J according to population. And, on I the whole, we see no reason to change I it. Population has been drifting away I from the farms in the past few years, J but a whole lot of the drift never got j any farther than the nearby country! towns and villages, and now there is I beginning a swing back from the big! cities to the land again. Farmers have their troubles, and! so do? small town business men, but! they are trifling compared with the! troubles of city people in times of in- J dustrial distress and unemployment. I For one thing, the city dweller has [ to have cash in his pocket or starve, j We know many good citizens who I don't handle as much cash in a year as thousands of city folks spend for a month's house rent, but we haven't} noticed any of them starving. And the few who have had hard luck and have had to have help from their neighbor; haven't had / to sacrifice their self respect in accepting a lift over the temporary rough going. As far as we can find out, the small towns of the whole United States have got along better through these past two years of depression than the big cities have done. And if there is anything really worth hav ing in city life that we havent got right here at home, wie don't know what it is. On the whole, perhaps, ifs just as well that the cities dont run every thing, so long as people have to eat and we country folk have to raise their food for them. I THE MODERN CAVALIER In the old days, the man on horse-] back was a superior creature. At] ? least, he regarded himself as such. In] ? the feudal system the man on foot] had no rights which the cavalier was I bound to respect It was up to the! pedestrian to get out of the way. j I Here rode wealth, caste and arro-j ? gance; the peasantry most make way I I for the gentry. The old tradition of the superiority I of the eavaliei^died hard. It seemed I I so much more noble to ride a horse I and give orders to men on foot than! it did to follow a horse along a fur-1 I row, that there persists, even in I I America, the legend of "gentility'' j I typified by the man on horseback. I I That, by the way, is one ofthe rea-l I sons why the cowboy of western fic tion ani the movies, who in real life | I ia merely a farm hand whose job ra-l I quires him to ride a horse, is such afl ?' figure of romance in the eyas of I I There is something of the same I many parsons who drive automobiles j ? only arrogant contempt for people on I I tjhoee wbo drive shabbier or cheaper! I toough at them to account for a high j causod by tba nntmrtohfla I cavalier lnrttrHirtr 1 hands of thousands who are unfitted for it by training and .intelligence. Even in the older days there had de veloped the motto "noblesse oblige," which signifies that nobility recog nized its responsibility toward the lower classes. It would not do to run down the commonalty too reck lessly. But there are thousands of motorists today who recognize, ap parently, no responsibility toward anyone, and who seem to become in toxicated by the sense of power as soon as they sit behind a steering wheel. For such drivers, who are responsi ble for most of the highway acci dents ana deaths, there is but one remedy. To try to impress a sense of social responsibility upon such people is worse than useless; they simply don't know what you are talk ing about. Prompt and severe pun ishment for every infraction of the motor vehicle laws and regulations resulting in accident or death i3 the only deterrent. A mere fine is not enough for most of these lawbreak ers. Imprisonment without option, and revocation of the license to drive a car, once it i& generally understood that these penalties will be enforced upon all alike, may result in time in making our roads safe for* the ordin ary, law abiding citizen. "TRANSATLANTIC" IS SMART AND ORIGINAL Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran Head Brilliant Cast Which Plays for High Stakes on the High Seas ^ One of the most interesting pic I tares of the season will be shown at | The Paramount Theatre Monday and Tuesday, September 14-15. . 1 It is "Transatlantic," a Fox pro I duction, which has a long list of ! screen favorites, beaded by Edmund I Lowe, in its cast | "Transatlantic," briefly, has to do ; with the tangled lives of a dozen or so men and women who set out from an American port for Europe aboard a de luxe liner. Unknown to each other before the vessel slips its moor ings, they speedily become involved in a tangle which takes the entire voyage across the Atlantic to un snarl. Jo T nuu ft ViicrH AUVOIU la zsQznonn uuiiii) ? w0 class gambler of the Robin Hood type. We also find Lois Moran, daughter of an old German lens grinder, played by Jean HereholL Then, too, there is John Halliday, a wealthy banker; his wife, Myrna Loy; a Swedish dancer, Greta Nissen, and other fascinating figures. Lowe befriends Miss Moran, and she immediately falls in love with the handsome, debonair gambler. Bliss Loy enlists Ins aid in saving her hus band from Greta Nissen, and Lowe has plans of his own for taking over some of Halfiday's surplus cash, withl which he is fleeing from his tottering hank. Lowe is convincing as the light hearted and light fingered gentleman who lives by his wits. tfisf Moran is sweet and lovely as the young German-American girl, concerned over the fate of her father who almost loses his nund at the news of the bank. dlpnihK^ersholt, of w owe,^ gives an ^wweiy account 'it Mini.f fa . :c. I-? ? - ? FARMVILLE MARKET8H0WS GAIN QVEB FIBST WEEK; TOBACCO FKtCBS OW INCLINE A definite dinb of tybwrft prirw |:wma noted ah the Farmville market yesterday (Thursday), the average preaching the peak of the aeaso^i $9.00 per hundredweight Buyers paid $14,341.32 for 159,848 pounds off the golden weed. The average for this week up to and including Thursday's sale wae 8.32 (The Enterprise going to press before Friday's figures can be ob tained). The total poundage' was $96?30, which sold for the hoop sum of $58474.03. These figures have neither been juggled nor padded, but are quoted as actually received from Supervisor of Sales Hobgood. The average price for the Farm ville Tobacco market last week was about the same as last year, but many of the markets were below their i opening week average by several points, it was noted. | The jump of nearly a dollar the hundred from Wednesday to Thurs ' day's average was conaiddhed a good sign by owners of the better grades of tobacco, since it wa^the offering ox these grades which resulted in the increase of price. Heavier breaks are expected next ? week and should the price hold its ; gain or increase during the week next Thursday and Friday will probably ' be the banner days of the season up to the fourth week. Mondays and Thursdays have seem ed to be the favorite selling days on this market this season, heavier breaks being experienced on those days so far. thd, fam bo?c A ?ogh wSSr- - - - -*- - -1 ?^ ?Hr ' n - flHUKCHup:'.,/'. I I I I f?y W> '; I POOD Henry Ford's order that every married ipan employed in his Iron Mountain plant must plant a vegeta ble garden next year is an interest ing experiment which will be criti cized by several different kinds of people. Commission men and dealers in garden produce will see in it a possible loss of good markets. And the people who think that an em ployer has no right to dictate to his employees' about anything except their actual work in the factory, will regard this order as in invasion of the individual worker's rights. My own view is that the results of the Iron Mountain experiment, if rec ords are carefully kept, as I assume they will be, may prove to be the most powerful stimulus to the gener al movement away from the cities and back to the economic indepen dence of the small landholder who raises most of what he and his fam ily consume. WORK In my home county, Berkshire, Massachusetts, there are three impor tant industries. One of the General Eleetric's manufacturing plants is at Pittsfield, the county seat, or as the old timers call it, "the shire town." Nearly all the writing paper used in America is made in the mills along the Housatonic river, including the paper on which the Federal Govern ment prints money and bonds. And the limestone quarries of Lee, Adams and West Stockbridge in good years pay the New Haven railroad a quar ter of a million dollars in freight charges on building and agricultural lime. None of these industries is running on full time these days, but we see and hear little evidence of anything approaching real distress. One of my nearest neighbors has eleven children at home, three more married. He works in a paper mill when it is running, sells the milk from ten cows through the local branch of the Dai rymen's JLeague, grows feed for the cows and a pen of pigs on his hun dred acres, besides cutting enough cordwood every winter to keep his house warm. He is a lot better off than the city worker who has noth ing to fall back on. ENGLAND The f^ll of the Labor Government I in Ehgland, and the desertion of the I Labor party by Ramsay MacDonald I and other leaders does not necessar ily mean the end of the Socialist I movement in G> Britaim, but it I does mean that the effort to force I social and economic changes faster I than they can be paid for his failed. I The trouble with almost every move I ment for social reform is that its I proponents want to change every I thing instantly. I Great Britain's new government is I pledged to balance the budget, that is, I to cut down governmental expenses I to a point where the income from all I forms of taxation will meet them. I that will slow up such reforms as employment insurance and the nat ional housing program, but it will keep England out of bankruptcy and I help restore world trade, which in I the long run probably will be -just aS I beneficial for the workers. It takes I mote than one generation to change I the course of social progress. The president of the largest sav-1 ings bank in America is advising his up their money, to draw it out aftdl Bpend it foi^ things which they will I laaed later and which they oaf buy I ieheaper now thangt any . timf since the war. Tin* is good advice. True thrift consists not in hoarding: cash tojmr a hcme^f^e^mple, or the the passage of ."?I 1 - ? i i ty-threej now it is about twenty-Rev- j en. Not ao many children, grown- * ups living longer. V . \ This change is boond to be re- J fleeted in every phase of life. We < will tend to take a more reasoned, ! less emotional view of social, politi- ; cal and economic matters, for exam- 1 pie. We probably will lose as a na- ' tion some of the pioneering, adven turous spirit of youth. We will grow 1 to value security more than excite- ! ment There were boys of twenty one among the leaders of our Revo lution, the signers of our Declaration I of Independence, the drafters of our Constitution. Today we look on. a man of thirty as rather too young' for the serious responsibilities of gov ernment We are in danger of becom ing stodgy and conservative, as a nation, unless more young men forge their way to the front a political leaders. THE HUMAN PUZZLE By EDGAR A. GUEST Men do mad things, Good and bad things; Some will cheat to gain an end, Some will even rob a friend; Others, though, would rather die Than to profit by a lie; Some will drink and some will not, We are all a curious lot. You're a puzzle unto me, I, to you, am mystery. Watching men, as they go by, We are moved to question why This man runs and that man walks, Why that one so glibly talks, And another down the way Cannot find a word to say. This one pleasure seems to gain Prom a joy which we disdain. You're surprised by what I do, I'm astounded oft by you. We are fellows of the earth, Brothers all by common birth, Yet we daily come and go, Wise and dull and swift and slow, Clever, foolish, good and bad, Swayed by passion, chance or fad. One goes straight and one will turn, And just why we never learn; I do things you wouldn't do, Well, I shy the same of you. During the month of September, 3wine growers of Beaufort county will have a regular sales day for hogs each week at Washington when co operative shipments will be pooled. Five Pitt county growers sold a car of 80 nogs for $1,126.64 cash through the county farm agent last week. Lespedeza is now being grown to sufficient extent in Edgecombe coun ty for the growers to organize a farm tyur for studying the crop. ? ; , NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION. In the Superior Court North Carolina, Pitt County. Estelle Johnson vs. Lee Johnson. The defendant, Lee Johnson, will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Su perior Court of Pitt County, North Carolina, to obtain divorce on grounds of five year separation, and the said defendant will further take notice that he is required to appear at the office of the Clerk of the Superior . Court of said county in the court house in Greenville, N. C., on the 3d day of September, 1981, And answer or demur to the complaint in said ac tion, or the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in said complaint. This the 3d day of August, 1931. J. F. HARRINGTON, Cleric Superior Court of Pitt County, North Carolina. John Hill Paylor, Attorney. ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having qualified as administratrix of the estate of Jesse Gay, deceased, late of Pitt county, North Carolina, this is 4c. notify all persons having claims against the estate of 4<l|id de ceased, to exhibit them to the under- $ signed, at Farmville, N. C., on or be- i foris the first day of August, 1932, or \ I I Six And a Hall Years from Now? Study the Picture Above i! In which class will yon be? Penniless, bunting1 for a job OB?a man making some headway in the world of affairs, one who took ad vantage of earlier opportu nities in Life by SAVING and carefully investing his money? ? |jj The moral is obvious? SAVE while your earning capacity is at its best. We invite your account. % $2.50 a Week Now Will Mean A Cool Thousand Dollars by Then. ? jj OUR 33RD SERIES OPENS OCT. 1! <>* . < * Plan now to start Saving the Building i; and Loan way. None better for you. i ji 5 Per Gent on Full Paid Shares in $100 i \ Blocks. Drop in and talk it over. is id Farmville Building & Loan Ass'n. f G. A. Rouse, Sec-Treas, Farmyille, N. 0. j \ id ? " . id ODD?BUT TRUE , -s-^w \\\ ^ 7wi,NlltA6t 0F_1HE BUHD ! I TltjEPEC. Mtt\CO, LOCATED IN I A ROOM DESERT COUNTRY \S i ^ WADE DP OP 44 HOUSES. THE , ^ HOWES OP ABOUT 200 PEOPLE. | Pali OP WTOW ARE suw^ ac-I * COIAPOUNDED AKNOALW. tNTHEVEMl 1:0NE ,]t W|?iJU>1W?l MMWWT IX) v I OVER $ 69,24% QOQOOQOOO000000.000, ! | 000.000.00^0^,(^^.000.
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