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PUBLIC LEDGER-WEDNESDAY, MAY 20TII, 1914. PUBLIC LEDGER AND OXFORD XBANNER Entered as second-class matter at Oxford postoffice. Published Semi-Weekly by BRITT & COBLE. Jno.T. Brltt, DanA.Cobl EDITORS AND OWNERS PRICE OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year $1.50 Six Months Three Months . .50 ADVERTISING RATES One year contract 10c per inch, net, ea.cn insertion, i m f "-- , Siv months 12 l-2c per inch, net i each insertion, run of paper. Three months 15c per inch, net, each insertion, run of paper. PREFERRED POSITIONS On one year contract 12 l-2c per inch net, eioa insertion. Six months 15c per inch, net, each in sertion. . - Three months ISc per inch, net, each insertion. . . One or two months 25c per inch, net, each insertion. Reading notices 5c per type line each insertion. Cash with order to those not having an account with us. Col. Theodore Roosevelt will stump Illinois this fall against the three former "stand-pat" Republican Con gressmen, Joseph G. Cannon, of Dan ville; William B. McKinley, of Cham plain, and William A. Rodenberg, of East St. Louis, who have announced themselves candidates fo re-election. o Persons under 40 years of age are to be shot if found smoking opium at Changtu, in the province of Sze-Chu-en, China, after the expiration of a period of 21 days. The campaign against the habit has reached such a point that all opium smokers in the province are compelled to submit themselves to a course of treatment. o The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch prints a group picture representing four generations, three women and a girl baby. The great -grandmother is on ly 55 years old, the grandmother only 34, the mother 18 and the baby six months. In the picture the three wo men look nearly enough of one age to be companions. The grandmother was a mother at 16 and her daughter was married at 17 or before. o The impression exists in Washing ton that Secretary McAdoo will re tire from the Cabinet in the next six months to become Ambassador to France or chairman of the reserve bank board. While denial was made at the White House, those who Know the situation say that his re maining in the Cabinet will become so delicate as to compel the President to change his fixed purpose not to disturb his official family. o Xo v e o c tit? 11 v si j-i s3 A fi AAA vast r r-r than are available now to harvest its splendid crops. The rainfall has come at just the right time and there is every prospect of a bumper produc tion of wheat. The crop promises to be good all through Oklahoma, Mon tana and the States adjacent, as well as in Kansas. A Macedonian cry has been sent out for help in gathering this great wealth brought out of the soil. If the unemployed want work they can find it in Kansas. It is an interesting fact that Hon. Charles Henderson, Troy, Ala., who has just won out in the second prim ary over Hon. B. B. Comer for the governorship of Alabama, married a Raleigh girl, Miss Laura Montgomery daughter of Mrs. S. H. Montgomery, She has two sisters, Miss Ida Mont gomery, stenographer in the State Department of Insurance and. Mrs. C. M. Williamson. Mr. Henderson has been for some time chairman of the Railroad Commission of Alabama. Mrs. Martin Carden , a successful poultry raiser, living near Skidmore, Mo., is the owner of a duck that lays black eggs. The duck is of the com mon white variety and is exactly like its mates. The. eggs laid by it are of the usual size and shape but coal black, and glisten as though coated with shoe polish. On the tip of the small end of each is a bluish-white spot. Mrs. Carden is saving the eggs for setting, and is anxious to see what kind of ducks they will hatch It is not necessary in order that a man shall be a loyal and patriotic American that he shall hope for war The best citizenry of this Nation to day is praying that war with Mexi co shall not come. Only the exploit ers and Hearsts - are shrieking for Mexican blood which they would stake through absent treatment by the sacrifice probably of thousands of brave American lives.' Ex-President Taft was right when he told 2.500 impetuous Yale students practically clamoring for war with Mexico, that it it came it would be no trail of glory, but a trail of woe and that all of them would look back to regret it There are 100,000 students enroll ed in professional schools in the Uni ted States this year. Of these 85. 102 are in endowed institutions and the remainder in institutions support ed from public funds. Trained nursing is the profession which has the largest number of students, .34 417 taking the course. Law is the next, with 20,878, and then .follow medicine with 17,238; theology, with 10,965;, dentistry, 8,015; phar macy, .0,1 b 5, and veterinary medi cine with 2,334. New York has the greatest number of students in pro fessional schools, with Illinois second and Pennsylvania, Massachusetts aad Missouri following in the order named. THE TEST OF MAN A contemporary says that news paper subscriptions are infallible tests of a man's honesty. They will sooner or later discover the man. If he is dishonest he will cheat the printer some way; says he has a re ceipt somewhere, or sent the money and it was lost in the mail; he has not been getting the paper regularly; or he will take the paper and not pay for it on the grounds that he did not subscribe for it, or only wanted it a certain length of time. But the sor riest specimen of them all is the man who gets behind with his subscription and refuses to take it out of the post office having the postmaster to mark refused on it and send it back. And on a parity with him is the man who moves away and says nothing about it putting it up to the postmaster to notify the publisher. Thousands of professed Christians are dishonest in this particular, at least, and the printer's book will tell fearful tales in the final judgment. o NO LONGER IN THE INFANTRY The march of the Confederate vet erans at their annual reunions is no longer an infantry parade. At Jack sonville it was a parade of cavalry and the automobile corps. The vet erans' spirit is still unbroken. They are anxious to march as they did in the brave old days when they were W I .. . J 1 . young, it is nara ror mem to realize that old age has come, an enemy they cannot defeat. . After awhile even the horses must be given up by most of the paraders and automobiles will be used almost entirely. Something of the feeling of the veterans who know that they can not march a-foot in future parades can be imagined but only they them selves know all the poignancy of it. They ask for no sympathy. They meet the enemy of passing years as bravely as they met their foes in the sixties Their spirit is willing, but they do not wish to confess it, the flesh is weak. If the reunion pa rades are to cover a long stretch of streets the infantry, even the surviv ors of Jackson's famous "foot caval ry," will be drafted into the cavalry and motor arms. . o SHOUT WEIGHTS The worm has turned. The only troub'e about it is tnat it did not turn soon eno lgh. This from the Statesville Land mark is good reading: "One thing brmgs on another. Julge Long, of Sfc.tesviik , presided at the term of Rowan Superior Court v.t which the Salisbury Ice & Fuel Co. was convict ed of .false pretence, having sold 1, 750 pounds of coal for a ton. The conviction rind the judgment of the lower court was last week affirmed by the Supreme Court. The institu tion of this suit stirrt-d an investiga tion of weights and measures in Row an county and other cases of short age have been unearthed. The grand jury of Rowan Superior Court, sa5s the Salisbury Post, last week returned five bills against the Landis Milling Co. and George H. Corriher for giving short weights. If similar investigations were made, short weights and measures would prob ably be found in every community. The losses suffered by buyers, and sometimes by sellers, on account of short weights and measures, would astonish the natives if unearthed." The worst feature about this short weight business is that numbers of men have scales that are imperfect. If these imperfect machines were all in the interest of the merchant or the man using them, it would be plain "how come," but we know of some where the shoe is on the other foot. This goes to show that officials some where are not doing their duty. There is supposed to be one man in each county whose duty it is to test weigh ing machines and keep them right. While some merchants are perhaps geting hurt, nine-tenths of them are making by it. Take the man who is selling you abutter, or the woman either. There is no denying the cheat ing that is systematically going on by the use of the moulds said to hold a pound. Test a hundred of them and perhaps not three will show a pound. The disgusting part of it is that they all know it. Daily Record. DROPPING THE PINT UNCLE SAM: "KEEP RIGHT AHEAD. IMEhS" THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY One side of Mexican intervention would be the loss it would cost the United States. The other side would be the damage it would do to Mex ico. " Those who believe that it would be a boon to Mexico probably are either very ignorant or have caught the point of view of Mexico's exploiting classes. John Reed, a magazine writer who has returned from several months with the rebel army in the interior of Mexico, makes this point pretty clear in a letter-, to a, New York pa per. " '. "' . " , .' He says that the revolution "was and is nothing but a revolution of pe ons," who are fighting for land. ; Madero lost because s he could not or would not carry out the land-distribution policy. Villa and Zapata have won their battles because they personified the hopes of the humblest peons for a Mexico . in which every man ; could till his own ; ground. Hu erta is the creature and ally of the exploiters. r ' - ' : -. , ' The effect of intervention would be disastrous to the hopes of these pe ons. "If we can ever withdraw," says Reed, "we shall leave things worse than: they, were - before an exploit ing class firmly entrenched in - the places of power, the foreign inter ests stronger because we supported Yniuf ''M L Harding In Brooklyn Eagle. -Berryman in Washington Star them,-the great estates securely re established, and the peons - taught that wage slavery and not individual freedom is the desirable thing, in life." If we can keep our hands off, the peons' struggle for liberty may yet be successful. If we interfere it will be doomed to failure. It would not be hard to see where the path of a liberty-loving democracy ought to lie in such a crisis. All the American dollars invested in Mexico are not worth the slightest gain in the wel fare of the oppressed masses of that country WOMEN AND WAR The National Federation of Wo men's clubs has adopted the peace propaganda, and now clubs of this kind have been formed throughout the United States. One prominent woman says that since it is an undisputed fact that the children are the chief assets of the nation because the boys and girls of today will be the men and women of tomorrow, it is important that ideas of peace shall be kept with them. She believes that it is all right for the children to have their drums and their music and their marching, but she opposes any movement to teach rifle practice in schools, declaring that no nation should be taxed to teach its boys the art of killing. It is therefore well to bear in mind that the civilized world is spending some eight million dollars every day to keep up its preparations for war, and that five million goes for interest to money loaners to finance the prep arations of war. Perhaps a million dollars a day is used to pay officers and men; the balance goes into the hands of the manufacturers of war supplies jof all descriptions. When the air is charged with the fear, and likelihood of war, war nat urally is the result; It should also te remembered that the war debts of the different nations are so heavy that they put a tremen dous b'urden upon the present genera tion and an immense one upon the generation to suece4 It is theef ore a sensible thing to oppose the . war spirit says an ex change. . ..-. marriage and the uneugenic babies will gladden the hearts of fathers and mothers as they have for all the years "that have passed. o EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA BLACK LANDS CUPID AND SCIENCE After several days of learned dis cussion the scientists who met at Bat tle Creek reached the conclusion that it is impossible with our present lim ited knowledge to breed a race of thorough breed men and women. ... - It was found that the scientist knows too little about the laws of heredity to "breed perfect' men and I women by selecting mates," as one of the doctors phrased it. After all men and women are to go on - selecting their mates just as they have in the past. The days of romance are not ended. Cold science will not take the place of human pas sion. . The doctor will not " displace Cupid. '' . ". . t " -' . - It didn't require the Battle Creek conference with its. tons of ponderous papers to convince mankind of these things. Common; sense and wise laws may assist in developing a better race of men and women. The observation of the' laws of nature and healthful out-of-door amusements will bring us nearer to the perf ect physical man. . , , -v The reduction""br possibly the elim ination of war , will put an end to the destruction , of the : "best . we breedll' The isolation of the feeble-minded will prevent the reproduction; oft the hopelessly unfit. .. ; , . ' -; '. -y ; ' :f ; But so far as we can f orsee, down thru the ages men and women wrill go on in the" same homely old-fashioned way, thru courtship to non-eugenic Referring to the National Drainage Congress at Savannah to the fertility of the black lands of Eastern North Carolina, State Commissioner of Ag riculture W. A. Graham of Raleigh said: "The timber on these tracts is fell ed broadcast at about $7 per acre, generally in the fall and -winter. In 2vlarch fire is-put in the timber and the fallen timber burned as far as the fire will do it. A man with a stick two inches in diameter and five cr six feet long and a small bag or poke of corn goes over the land mak ing holes three or four inches deep as corn rows would run, and dropping two or three grains in each hole and covering with his feet. No further cultivation is given, only to cut the bushes and weeds until the corn gets high enough to smother them. The iand will yield 100 bushels or more of corn per acre, and a fine crop of soja beans. If anyone thinks this, is 'stretching the blanket,' I invite him to visit these lands in August, as I have done, and see for himself." E FOR U Li GOOD COUNTRY HOM Home of the late J. Frank Cole. Will Sell as a. Whole or in Part 269 Acres in all. Terms Easy. Good Land, well fixed and in splendid neighborhood. For further par ticulars write or see Sam C, IHEo-waici, SWIJJ, FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS To The Voters of GranvfUe County. I hereby announce mysef a candi date for Register of Deeds,subject to the action of the Democratic pri mary, and respectfully ask the voters of the county to give me their sup- port. J. J. RENN " 4-S-tf. ; aria or Chilis & Fn for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVE Five or sis doses will break any caie, if taken then cs a tonic the Fever wiOi return. It acts on the liver better tif Calomel end does not gripeoreickts.il GIRL IS WANTED A sweet, nice-natured girl of sixty, for a better half, who isn't ashamed to go to church in a sun-bonnet and low heeled shoes; who has cut her wisdom teeth.; who doesn't frizzle frazzle her hair like a crow's nest; she needn't be good looking so she isn't so blamed ugly as to give a fel low sour stomach to' look at; she mustn't be a" hearty eater nor weigh over 250 lbs.; she mustn't have a snub nose nor stand-out ears; nor particular about size of feet; must have spirit but not temper; any sized mouth will do so it don't reach from ear to ear; she mustn't have a big firm-set jaw; don't want her to be too good; she may be knock-kneed but not bow-legged; she mustn't be overmeek, but flare up and stand be hind her colons when she has good cause tp get mad; above all she mustn't be a tapgo-turkey-trot-sling- er, nor one of these, freak concerns styled suffragettes. One answering to these qualifications needn't trou ble to set her cap for an old codger who' is willing to surrender and be come her. darling on sight.T Paul Pry, Reidsville, N. C. The state Republican executive committee has beetj called to meet in Greensboro Majt 26 to select a place and date for e meeting of the state convention. V DO YOU NEED THEM ? I have for sale rvlo good horses and a surrey. Calljapd see them. J. ROBT. WOODi Oxford, N. C. At FOR SE1 I hereby announ OR yself a candi date for the Senate from this dis trict. T. G. CUHK1N FOR RENT- r fine pasture foi reasonable. Regist within. C. H. C! tf. IE A LARGE rent. Terms ?edJerse3r Bull EATHAM. Iw4t 2 I J: mwm i co. 6 :v:i-.oiaiSrs' Carnations a Specialty. 1 Orders Proirnllir Filled 7 ' ? Corner Polk and RALEIGH. fain? Streets. ! f -...THE... fit Mil lit h I Ji -jl'L et 'a fin flflu aortas -----j, Surplus - - -$ggj3
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