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volume xxxni.
OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA WEDy . V
FEBRUARY 6, 1918
NUMBER 10
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EVERYBODY MUST ECONOMIZE
BUT OLD UNCLE SAM.
Get Out Your Forty-Five Page In
como Tax Primer If You Are
Worth, as Much as One Thousand
J)oilars You Must Make an In
come Tax Return Before March 1
Next.
Economy and Congress are total
strangers. Those kill-joys have
gone to the expense of printing and
distributing a large edition of a forty-five
page income tax "primer"
just to inform you how to pay a tax!
But wouldn't you rage if the sur
geon charged you for typing a long
letter to explain just how you
should send his fees for amputating
your leg?
There are some things, however,
which even this income tax primer,
which you must pay to have printed
and circulated fails to clarify.
The President of the United
States pays no income tax on his
salary. Very good.
But can you give a sound reason
why General Pershing must pay an
income tax upon his meagre salary
while State and county officers es
cape the tax.
Admiral Sims, at the head of the
American Navy in hostile waters,
can hardly be overpaid, whatever
his salary, but Uncle Sam dips into
his pocket for an income tax. At
the same time he fails to tax the
salary of Governor Bickett, or any
other Governor.
Nor does you new
"primer" eluc-
idate the following:
A young married man who draws
$25,000 a year income from invest
ments bequeathed to him by his
grandfather pays a tax to Uncle Sam
of only $1,81.5 a yearr
But his cousin, who works for a
living and earns $25,000 from a coal
business or any trade in which he
has invested $50,000 of his own
sweat-earned savings, must " pay
Uncle Sam $9,590 a year.
Another cousin is a lawyer and
earns $25,000 a year, but he must
pay $1,520 more tax than the idler
who got his income from the sweat
of his grandfather's brow.
We say your "primer," costly as
it is. fails to explain these incon
gruities of our new Federal tax
laws.
Two brothers have each $10,000
cash. One puts it all in a house.
The other prefers to pay rent, and
he invests his money in United
States Liberty Bonds.
The brother who owns a house
pays no income tax for his $10,000
property, but the brother who loan
ed his $10,000 cash to his country
pays a tax on his income derived
from his bonds.
Every unmarried person, man and
woman, who had an income of $1,
000 or more during the year 1917
must make an income tax return be
fore March 1 next.
Every married person whose in
come exceeded $2,000 last year
must file a return by the same date.
It may cost you a $1,000 bill if
you fail to be on time with your in
formation. And if you try to hocus-pocus
Uncle Sam with a false statement
the penalty may be doubling your
tax, plus a $2,000 fine, plus two
years in jail.
If somebody gave you $1,000 for
a Christmas present, that is not part
of your income in 1917.
A farmer's products are not con
sidered income until he sells them.
Thus if he raised crops in 1917
worth $10,000 and fed them to cat
tle which will not be sold until 1919
pays no income tax for last year.
If a fanner exchanges a basket of
s for twenty pounds of sugar, he
consider the price of the sugar
income and record it in his tax
otement.
Turkey-Oyster Dinner.
The elegant turkey-oyster dinner
planned by the Oxford Methodist
Philatheas to be held next Thursday
and Friday, has been postponed on
account of the severe spell of weath
er. The date of the dinner will be
announced later.
Wheel Company Incorporates.
The Garman Wheel Company
Oxford, was recently incorporated
with $50,000 capital by C. S. Gar
man and Dr. E. T. White of Oxford,
and C. J. Delone, of Hanover, Pa.
THE UNITED STATES FOOD
ADMINISTRATION SAYS:
There is no royal road to
food conservation. It can only
accomplish this by the volun
tary action of our whole people,
each element in proportion to
its means. It is a matter of
equality of burden; a matter of
minute saving and substitu
tion at every point in the 20,
O00,000 kitchens, on the 20,
OOO.OOO dinner tables, and in
the 2,000,0000 manufacturing
wholesale and retail establish
ments of the country.
THE TOWN MAN AS A FARMER.
Viewed From the Aristocratic
Standpoint of an Alarm Clock.
The Public Ledger recently print
ed the names of well-to-do-men
about town who will engage exten
sively in the cultivation of crops
this year. Some of them wera
reared on a farm, and no doubt the
work will be familiar to them, but
no one should be above consulting
the old stand-bys of the county who
have weathered the storms of the
past and come through with a good
substantial bank accounts
There are a number of farmers in
Granville county who count their
annual earnings from the farm as
high as ten and twenty thousand
dollars. A lot of them are finan
cially able to take a trip around the
world, view the scenes at Monte
Carlo, stop at the big hotels, tip
the waiter and sleep until - seven
o'clock every morning, just like the
town man, but they didn't accumu
late their wealth that way, and the
town man who expects to come clear
should get out of bed as soon as the
old rooster calls him, just like these
successful farmers have been doing
all of their lives.
The first thing that a town man
does when he goes to the country
to personally conduct a farm is to
purchase an alarm clock and set it
to ring at 6:30 a. mV T. B. Bobbitt
and Herbert Crews never saw an
alarm clock; Commissioner Reubin
Heart and Sandy Satterwhite shot
their old roosters twenty years ago
for failing to crow at the break of
day; Graham Daniel and Carl Pip
er take a cold bath every morning
at four o'clock; Crawford Knott
and Norf Crews get awful mad when
they don't smell fried ham as early
as 5:30 a. m.; Senator Titus Currin
and Hamilton Cheatham are up ev
ery morning in time to see the first
gray streak in the Eeastern heav
ens; John and Jasper Dean and the
Pitts Brothers are also early risers
and keep everlastingly at it. An
other good man, capable of advising
the town man how to come clear on
the farm, is J. L. Newton, who rec
ently sold his farm down on Tab
Creek, in Vance county, and pur
chased the handsome farm of Capt.
Will Fleming adjoining the County
Home for the Aged and Infirm.
When it comes to farming, the
town man's heart is in the right
place if you can get him out of bed
early enough. Like the editors of
farm papers, they can tell you how
and when to do it, but the "doing"
has a different meaning to them.
THE NEAV TURN-KEY.
Officer Hutchins Has Six County
Boarders.
Mr. Conrad Walters having sur
rendered the keys of the county
jail to the High Sheriff of Gran
ville, officer J. A. Hutchins, the new
ly appointed jailor, entered upon
his duties February 1st, and his
first official act was to feed the
prisoners.
The menu consisted of fat pork,
corn bread, ginger cake, peas, fifty
fifty coffee, and it was served cam
auflague tin-war style, the color
scheme being one-sixth white and
five-fifths black. Old Nancy Ann,
who is well known in the commun
ity and highly esteemed by the light
fingered fraternity, received the
jailor and the tin pans at the cage
door.
Officer Hutchins will continue to
serve on the town police force until
February 15th; on and after which
date he will be a full-fledged deputy
sheriff and a terror to criminals. He
will be the "cqurt-cryer" at the
February term of court, and is now
committing his little speech to mem
ory. Mrs. C. A. Gregory, of Rocky
Mount, is visiting her ' parents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. L. Brown.
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PAGE'S APPEAL TO
THE RETAILERS AND
PEOPLE OF STATE.
To the Retail Merchants of North
Carolina,
Gentlemen:
Your attention is respectfully
called to new orders of the Food
Administration, Avhich provide:
1 AH retailers are forbidden
to sell wheat flour except in com
bination, pound for pound, with
other cereals. These other cere
als are as follows: Corn meal,
corn flour, edible corn starch,
hominy, grits, oat, meal, rolled
oats, buckwheat flour, rice flour,
edible wheat shorts oa middlings,
corn grits, barley flour, cottonseed
flour, milo, kaffir, sweet pota
to flour, Potato fiour, feterita
flours and meals, soybean flour,
peanut flour, cavava flour, tare
flour, banana flour. '
3 Dealers may sell one pound
of whole wheat in combination
with one-half pound of other ce
real substiutes, as the whole
wheat flour contains 25 per cent
of wheat middlings and bran.
3 The retailer .is required to
distribute the flour he receives as
equitably as possible among his
customers, so that no customer
shall receive more than his fair
share. The dealer must sell not
more than 24 to 48 pounds of
flour at one time to any custo
mer in a town or city, nor more
than 48 to 98 pounds' to a cus
tomer in the country.
4 Because of the necessity
and desirability of selling smaller
quantities of flour as a result of
the new ruling .regarding .com
bination sales, our recent ruling
fixing the maximum price of flour
at $12.50 is hereby revoked, and
merchants are authorized to
charge their usual profits up to
one cent a pound on flour in
quantities less than 24 pounds.
Very trnlyr yours, : w
HENRY A. PAGE,
Food Administrator for North
Carolina.
Raleigh, N. C.,Jan. 30, 1918.
CALL LAST INCREMENT
OF FIRST DRAFT FEB. 23.
Movement WilL Last . Five Days, and
Will Complete Quotas of All
The States.
Provost Marshal General Crow
der announced Monday that the
movement of the last increments of
men selected in the first draft will
begin on February 23 and continue
for a period of five days.
The number of men which will be
started to the Southern cantonments
on February 23 includes:
Camp- Jackson, , South Carolina.
3,386 (negroes).
Pending the forwarding of these
regulations to the various local
boards the examination of regis
trants for service under the new
call, soon to be made, has been held
up.
Of this total up to December 23,
7,9 51 have been accepted, leaving
8,023 still due. Of this number the
State is due to send 2,832 white
men and 5,191 negro men.
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They're digging a grave for. Bill Hohenzollern, of Berlin. And
there is really no use of his carrying on any further, because his date
is set. If he is at all obliging, he will die some time during February.
Of course, he will very likely choose the last day of the month for his
much-heralded end. Lucky it isn't Leap Year.
Bible prophecies, as interpreted, show that the end of the war and
Mr. Hohenzollern's rule on earth are near. And Mr. Hohenzollern must
know it himself, because he could hardly get by with his "Me und Gott"
exclamations if he didn't read the Bible.
Readers of the Bible appear to be able to "prove" nearly every
thing by the Scriptures. Some affairs do not come off according to
schedule, and then they find they used the wrong time-tables. Referr
ing to the fourth, fifth and eighteenth verses of the thirteenth chapter of
Revelation they find :
Fourth And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto
the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying: Who is like unto the
beast? Who is able to make war with him?
Fifth And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great
things and blasphemies, and power was given unto him to continue
forty and two, months.
Eighteenth Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding
count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man and his
number is six hundred threescore and six.
When this war started Bill was fifty years and six months old. That
is 666 months. And he is given 42 months, which means February,
1918. Figures do not lie.
So, good-bye Bill!
RETADL.ERS CAN PURCHASE
CORN MEAL FROM FARMERS.
(HENRY A. PAGE, F. A.)
There is no objection to the
retailer purchasing cli meal
from farmer customers nd sell
ing them back a part of their
own meal. In fact this prac
tice is highly desirable be
cause our merchants are going
to find it rather difficult for a
little while to secure a sufficient
quantity of other cereals to
sell with their flour. This is
a seeming hardship upon the
farmer who has been accustom
tomed to having his corn
ground into meal for his own
use, but it is an infinitesimal in
convenience compared to the
hardships and inconveniences
that are being suffered by many
other classes of our people as
a result of one order or another
of the Food ; Administration,
Fuel Administration, and oth
er branches of the Govern
ment. NO HOARDERS OF FOOD
IN GRANVDL.LE COUNTY.
We Nominate B. W. Parham County
Food Administrator of Our Joys
and Sorrows for the Period of the
War.
Mr. B. W. Parham, the elegant
gentleman of handsome' features,
emaculate linen, copyrighted walk
the Beau Brummell of Granville
County has not been joy riding
and tangoing after the pretty girls
for the past week or ten days.
Seated at his desk in his hand
some office over the First National
Bank, with a dozen or more farm
ers and handlers of food crowded
around him, Mr. Parham, the food
administrator of Granville county,
said :
"Well, we are not in Berlin, and
there is where we want to be!"
- Mr. Parham has a heart in him
big enough to feed the .right wing
of Pershing's Army. He has been
in his office early and late for the
past few days, and not one time has
he shown signs of fatigue or wear
iness in well doing. He told his in
terviewers that it was a sin and a
crime to hoard food at this critical
period; that the food laws, if prop
erly administered, was the greatest
weapon to win the war, and that he
desired and anticipated a ready and
hearty compliance with the law in
the county.
Mr. Parham gains much by ap
pealing to the patriotic sense of the
people and at the same time exhib
its a firmness. They see in him the
justice of the cause he represents,
and no one among us is selfish
enough to store and withold food
from our soldiers and from those
among us who must pay exhorbi-
tant prices for the necessities
life.
of
Returns From Northern Markets.
Mr. Charlie Cohn, buyer for Cohn
& Son, has returned from an ex
tended trip to the Northern mar
kets where he purchased an exten
sive line of goods. He states that
dry goods and notions are more
reasonable than was anticipated.
The crowded freight terminals, says
Mr. Cohn, shows some "improvement.
SIX - SIX.
POLITICS WARMING UP
IN OLD GRANVILLE.
All of the County Officers Will Be
Elected This Year.
If one would place his ear to the
ground, Indian fashion, and listen,
he would hear ' whispering here and
there of a political nature. A
clean slate on the county ticket has
caused a few unheard of and unex
pected candidates to make their ap
pearance with the ground hog.
In the county, every office must
be filled again, including the clerk
of the superior court, who alone in
list of officials is elected at intervals
of four years, . the others coming up
every two years.
The Primary.
In the race for county offices, a
primary for both Democrats and
Republicans will be held on the
first Saturday in June, which this
year is on the first day. The pur
pose of this is for the nomination of
candidates, and the election will be
held, according to the law, on No
vember 5, the first Tuesday in that
month.
The Soldier Vote.
A factor to be reckoned with this
year will be that of the soldier vote,
and the men now in the national
service, or who will be in the ser
vice at that time, whether in France
or in America, will have the oppor
tunity to vote. In the event of a
close election by voters back here at
home, it may require the ballot of
the men in the army to decide the
contests. Most of the men in the
army branch of the government ser
vice registered before they left here
so that they might vote in the com
ing election, and this privilege will
b accorded them, no matter where
they "may be.
The Town Election.
A mayor and full board of town
commissioners will be elected May
7, the first Tuesday in that month.
The present mayor and board have
served so well it is not thought that
there will be any change.
CAMP SEVIER SOLDIERS
SOON TO GO ABROAD.
Seven Hundred Mechanics Will Pro
ceed the Division of Which the
Oxford Company is a Part
Many Hear Governor Bickett.
Seven hundred mechanics of all
sorts are being chosen from the 30th
division for immediate service ov
erseas, the military authorities hav
called for that number from Camp
Seyier, Greenville. Suitable men
are being taken from the division
whereever found, and selection and
examination has already commen
ced. The loss of this number of
skilled men will be keenly felt by
the command.
Stricter observance of uniform
regulations have been issued at
Camp Sevier directing commanding
officers to see immediately that
their officers and men are properly
uniformed. Extreme variation from
regulation has been found in hats,
cords, leggins, officer's . overcoats,
raincoats, shoes and in the wearing
of knitted garments. Especially ob
noxious to the military authorities
is the wearing by enlisted men of
the quartermaster corps of bright
yellow "mercerized hat cords, easily
mistaken at little distance for the
gold cords of general's. Such cords
have been ordered removed at once,
whether proper ones can be immed
iately found to replace them or not.
Profitable Hog Growing.
Every farmer can prepare to grow
his pork cheaper than he can buy
it.
It will therefore be of interest to
every farmer to hear Mr. Shay, a
noted and practical hog grower of
North Carolina tell how he does it.
Mr. Shay will speak at the Court
House in Oxford on Thursday next,
February 7th, and at Creedmoor
Friday, February 8th in the High
School Auditorium. Let every farm
er hear him and get his plans.
Creedmoor Auto Company.
Elsewhere in this -paper will be
found the special announcement of
the Creedmoor Auto Company. It
will be seen that this company has
made a substantial reduction in the
price of cars.
Short Session.
The County Commissioners held
a session in Oxford Monday. There
being nothing of special interest to
engage their attention they finish
ed by the middle of the afternoon
and. went home.