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5-4 ' , VOTE TUE S D AY, N O V, 5TH, T VOTERS SHOULD VOTE TO CONTINUE UNITY OF COMMAND WITH WILSON (By JOSEPHUS DANIELS.) Last March the overshadowing need of the Allied world was a united front and a unified military com mand. President Wilson sent Colon el House abroad to emphasize Ameri-! ca's firm conviction, expressed from the day we entered the war, that the imperative need was for a single mil itary commander f or all the forces at war against the enemy. Lloyd George was urging the same essential need. Division of command defeat ed military unity, but until then it had not been possible to secure an agreement of all the Alies upon a single commander. Concurrent with the agreement upon General Foch (God bless France for furnishing such a leader) and the arrival of hundreds of thousands of militant and nghtjng Americans., the tide be gan to change. From Chateau Thier ry and the supreme military com mand of General Foch, the Allied forces date their victory and the brighter skies that now bend over us. Lesson For Voters Today. That stxi, which has proved its necessity and its wisdom, has a les son for American voters today. The oversahdowing issue in the election on November 5th is this: Shall the American well-fined position contin ue to be voiced by one responsible leader in the person of the President, or shall we substitute for unified command a discordant and differing debating society? Every voter who approves making Foch the commander of all the forces in France should vote to continue "Wood row Wilson as the Commander-in-chief of America's demands upon Germany. There is no escape from this plain issue. Lincoln pointed out how de feat of a Congress of his party would imperil his leadership in 1862. Ben jamin Harrison and Theodore Roose velt pointed out that the election of ? Democratic Congress would injure America's prestige and embarrass William McKinley. Were they right? We voters of the country de clared that they were. Same Reasoning Here. Then the same reasoning, with greater power just as this war and its consequences are greater gthan any other war, demand the election of a Democratic Congress in harmony with the Commander-in-chief of the American Army and Navy. I do not speak to dyed-in-the-wool partisans who put party first and con.nt.ry second. The aopeal must be only to the constantly increasing number of American voters, who, in a national crisis, refuse to listen to the anneals of party and respond to the clear high call of duty to coun try. These voters will say: "There tnll be t'rne enough to debate poli tics in 1920. This vear America must, present a solid front, under A mricp.'s chosen sDokesman. We will vote for Congressmen in syra pathv with his purpose nnd hs de mands which are armroved by all free nations f htne- with up." , Arty ofrtpr cove would be ' Mk making Foch Commander-in-Chief and elctinsr colonels and captains to criticize, badgf. debate, and delay his pro-am. This is a tim0 for ac- cr-i -1 J . V V command in Washington, as well as ! COL. HOUSE IN PUtlS. His Wonderful Knowledge of Events Amazes Statesmen. Paris, Oct. 31. E. M. House, special, representative of the United States government, has taken a house a auiet quarter of Paris not far from the French ministry of war. He has already had conferences with Premier Clemenceau, Field Marshal Haig, Viscount Milner, the British Secretary of State for War; William Graves Sharp, American Ambassador to France; Premier Venizelos of Greece, and General Tasked H. Bliss, American representative to the su preme war council. The precise information in posses sion of Colonel House relative to the European situation rather amazes statesmen on this side of the Atlan tic. They have not been aware that Colonel House, as head of a bureau at Washington, has been receivng for eight months the results of orig inal study from many sources, of con ditions in every belligerent country jn Europe. , , Order of Sales. On the fifth page of this paper, Mr. I- W. Mangum, proprietor of the Mangum warehouse announces the or der of sales on the Oxford market for the month of November. The sec ona sale next Monday win d ai Mangum and on Tuesday the first iucuigum ana on ruusua) i sale wilf be at the Mangum. OXFORD,, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1918 INFLUENZA CONDITION AT THE OXFORD ORPHANAGE IS GREATLY IMPROVED mm - There have been two hundred and fifty cases of influenza and a dozen cases of pneumonia at the Oxford Orphanage and not a single death. Thoes who were first taken with the influenza are being dismissed from the doctor's care. It has been a hard fight, in which the ladies of the town came to the rescue. It is thought that the epidemic at the orphanage will run its course within the next ten days or sooner. Mrs. W. G. Pace Dead. Mrs. W. G. Pace died at her coun try home here Thursday night after an illness of several days with dou ble pneumonia. She was a highly es teemed Christian lady and leaves four small children. Funeral arrangements have not been announced at this writing, but it is thought that the interment will be in Elmwood Ceemtery Saturday morning. THE VOTERS SHOULD UPHOLD THE HANDS OF WILSON It. Behooves Us . to Go to the Polls and Vote As the President Asks. Tuesday, November 5, is election day. The Public Ledger is a Demo cratic paper, but it is not partisan ship that actuates us in reminding the people of the importance of this election. It is our duty to uphold the Administration of President Wil son at this time. He says that we can do that by electing a Democratic Congress, it therefore behooves us to go to the polls and vote as1 he asks. There is another reason why we should do that in this district. We believe that ... the Republican candi date for Congress, John W. Kurfees, of Germanton, ought to be decisively beaten. He ought to be defeated not simply by Democratic votes but by the refusal of Republicans to vote for him. We cannot understand how the Republican party committed the grievous blunder of nominating him at this time. It can only be explain ed on the theory that the rank and file of the party had nothing to do with his election and did not know his record. The greatest service that patriotic Republicans of the district can at this time render to their own party is to defeat Kurfees overwhelmingly. And taht is just what some of them Will help in doing. The State Jour nal recently said: "The State Jour nal knows that Republicans of high character, lawyers and plain civili ans, have declared that they will not support him with his well-known rocnrd of onnosition to the war and violent disrespect toward those who declared it on the strengtn ot Ger many's offenses against our common humanity." We understand that such is the. attitude of some Repub licans in this county. We have it on the highest authority that two of the leading Republicans of Southern Granville and one or more in the Northern end of the county have de clared they will not support Kurfees. t? Amftmber Election Day, Novem ber 5. Let every citizen of the coun- I IJCi CF. Jv I . . j n-nA oiinnnrt mir PTPH 1 leader at this critical time. w - CTmp wrwn7Hr a Am TTTR FTjTT. Influenza Germs Can Not Live In Wot Water. An Oxford lady who had occasion to visit the home of her laundress, a colored woman, to learn why she had not called for the family wash, found conditions that gave her a pause. The woman was sick, or had been, and the clothes from her bed were soaking in tubs which were to be used for laundering the clothes of her customers. Influenza germs may not live m water some doctors rr.y ey don t but if the germs can be carried on clothes (which is also said to be op en to question), clothes washed, dri ed and ironed in houses where influ enza prevails might be a source of danger. In any event at this time when effort is being made to prevent the spread of influenza these matters may be worthy of consideration. TO BE LIGHT WITH TO OLDER DRAFT MEN Won't Be Put Through Training As Strenuous As Youngei Chaps, At Least At First. Washington, Nov. l.Older draft men are to be put into shape for ser vice through physical training exer Sses less arduous' than the course designed for the men between . 21 and 31 Camp commanders were or Terel today to train the older men grauuanj, ""'-ii suffer no ill stages, so that they will suiter no gradually, especially in - Lab' rnrir effects from over work. i . : ' 1 J! TURKEY HAS SURRENDERED UN CONDITIONALLY AND GER- MANY STANDS ON ONE LEG Fifteen Austrian Divisions Cut Off By Italian Forces and Are Re treating On Whole 'Front. SECRETARY LANSING ANSWERS TURKEY. London, Nov. 1.- Turkey has agreed to an armistice. THIRD OF ARMY CAPTURED Washington, Nov 1. Fifteen Austrian divisions, operating be tween the Brenta and ten Piave on the Italian front, have had their retreat cut off through the capture of the mountain pass of Vadal by Italian and Allied troops. ; AUSTRIANS BEG FOR PEACE London, Nov. 1.- The Aus trian commander on the Italian front has applied tto General Diaz, the Italian commander-in-chief, for an armistice, the Ex change Telegraph Company states. " ? ARMISTICE TERMS REACH BER LIN. London, Nov. ; 1. Marshal a Foch's armistice terms arrived in Berlin Tuesday night, the Vossische Zeitung of Berflin says COMMUNICATION WITH BERLIN CUT. Paris, Nov. 1. The 'Czecho slovaks have cut the railroad between Berlin and Vienna' near Bodenbach and German trains can go only as far as Schnadau, according to a Zurich dispatch to the Journal. UNITED WAR WOiCAMPAIGNi The Big Drive In Granville Attended With Interest. With the Fourth Liberty Loan fully sbscribed and out of the way, the time is approaching for the cam paign for War Work funds for the seven allied organizations working in France and in the camps, consist ing of the Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., Salvation Army, Knights of Colum bus, Jewish Welfare Board, Ameri can Library Association, . and the War Camp Community Service. This drive will be for $170,500, 000.00, and Granvile county's quota is only $7,400.00, which ought to be largely oversubscribed. The time set is the week of Novmber 11th to 18 th. This money all goes for the comfort and welfare of our soldiers in France and in the camps, and those in position to know state that this work has been the making of our army, which is now the finest body of trained fighting men in the world. These funds will provide the sol diers only home while in the ser vice, his church, his picture, shows, his schools, his theatre, his club, and every kind of help and service is ren dered them in these pla-ces, as well as in the front line trenches. Mr. R. H, Lewis, Jr., is chairman of the drive for Granville county, with Miss Bennette Gregory repre senting the ladies organizations, and the following compose the advisory committee: Messrs. A. H. Powell, W. B. Ballou, W. T. Yancey, J. F. Webb, F. W. Hancock, and E. T. White. The full organziation will be an nounced next week, including the town of Oxford, for which Mr. J. W. Horner is chairman. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. To the Voters' of Granville: On the fifth of November, the peo ple of North Carolina will vote on a change of the State Constitution to require a six months school term in every district. We are in favor of this change and urge the people of the county to vote for it. W. A. Devin. P W. Knott. John Webb. Jnc W. Hester, J. D. Harte. A. A. Hicks, . E. B. Meadows. A. H. Powell. B. W. Parham. R. H. Lewis, Jr. W. B. Ballou. H. G. Cooper. B. K. Lassiter. C. H. Cheatham. T. G. Curnn. J. A. Morris. E. T. White. F. P. Hobgood. D. G. Brummitt. B. S. Royster. EPIDEMIC AT STOVALL. Nearly Every Family Has Had a Case of Influenza. The epidemic of influenza is rag ing in and around Stovall. Whole families in that section are reported to be down with the influenza and no one to ndrse them. There are sev eral cases of pneumonia of a light type, it is said. j OXFORD TOBACCO MARKET TO ; OPEN MONDAY, NOV. 4TH ! i Churches, Schools and Theatres Will upen une Week Later. At a meeting of the Granville County Board of Health Thursday October 31st, at which renresenta-! nve Dusmess men and farmers were present, a motion was made and passed by the Board permitting the tobacco warehouses to open Monday, November 4th, and the schools, churches, theatres, county and com munity fairs to open after Saturday, November 9 th. This was done by the Board in con sequence of the improved , influenza conditions in the town and county and a representation to the Board that large quantities of tobacco would be damaged by keeping it in the present condition. The Superintendent of Health re quests that no person, in whose home there should be a case of influenza, attend any tobacco salse or oilier pub lie gatherings. The situation has improved great ly, but not sufficiently so for precau tions to be disregarded. SAM'L H. CANNADY, M. D., County Health Officer. TAVO NORTH CAROLINA MEN HELD PRISONER V ashington, Nov. 1. Nine' south erners are included in the list of 54 Americans held prisoner of war at German prison camps as announced by the war depadtment. They are Lieutenant Horace William Mitchell, of Corinth, Miss, at Camp Karlsruhe; Lieutenant Edwin C. Klingman, of Oxford, N. C, at Camp Rastatt; Lieutenant Aviator Alexander M. Roberts, of Gulfport, Miss., at Camp Villingen; Privates Pleasant A. Fain, of Spray, N. C; Joe Blankenship of Drill, Va. ; George Harrison Hicks, of Clarksville, Ga.; Louis C. Pendley, of Dunbar, Ky. ; at Camp , Rastatt; Henry McClarin, of Carthage, Tenn., and Frank Whitaker, of ,Knoxville, Tenn., camp unknown. The death of Private Roland Beaver, of Portland, at Camp Rast att, prevoiusly reported a prisoner of war, and the escape" of- Privater Frank" Sovicki, of the fourth United States infantry, from Camp Ratstatt, to Switzerland, were also reported by the war department. IT LOOKS LIKE WAR AT THE EXEMPTION OFFICE Local Board Working Over Time To Hurry Examination Of New Men. Things are moving along at the office of the Granville County Exemp tion Board just the same as if the old kaiser was within seventeen miles of Paris. The determination of the gov ernment not to relax its efforts to ward nrenarations for a long war is reflected in the office of the local ex emption board. Orders were received from the Adjutant-General's office in Raleigh this week to proceed at once with the examination of men in the new regis tration, and urging that precautions be taken in view of the influenza epi demic. Men previously summoned for physical examination had already been ordered by the board to appear this week, and notices were sent Monday, prior to the receipt of the telegram Tuesday morning, calling 100 more to report. So evident is the oneness of mind of War Department off icials, and so anxious is the local board to" be pre pared with ts share of the work, that officials here are even working extra hours to get everything in readiness for the calls for Novem ber which aggregate 7,000. men in North Carolina alone. For. this call Granville county will furnish ten white men and sixty colored men. As soon as conditions are such as to warrant the undertaking in per fect safety, questionnaires are to be sent 4o all registrants between 36 and 46 and youths of 18 years of age, who were not included in the first division of questionnaires sent out several weeks ago, only men be tween 19 and 21 and those from 31 to 36 receiving the blanks then. OXFORD COLORED MAN MURDERED IN NORFOLK Alex Boettcher, an Oxford colored man, was found on the streets of Norfolk last Monday night with a crushed skull and a bullet hole thru his brain. Boettcher is well known here as a "handv man" and often cleaned wells He visited his family here ten days ago and carelessly exhibited a large roll of money. He had about $300 in his pockets when he left here and it is suposed that he was murdered for his money. His remains reached here Wednesday and were given r Christian burial. - The epidemic of influenza, which is still prevalent in the State should not prevent voters from casting their ballots- on next Tuesday, according to a statement issued by the North I Carolina State Board of Health. NUMBER 87 PUBLIC LEDGER EXTENDS GREETINGS TO ALL GRAN VILLE COUNTY CHURCHES May TJaeir Light Shine In This Land of Darkness. To the churches scattered abroad throughout all Granville Methodist, Bapitst, Episcopal, Presbyterian, and those of every name and doctrine greeting: May grace to you and peace be multiplied. Upon every remembrance of you we give thanks to God and in all sup plications we make mention of you in our prajrers. For beholding your faith toward the Lord and the love which you have toward all the saints we rejoice in the fellowship and fur therance of the Gospel which God hath given as a light to shine in thjs world's darkness. 1 And this we pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment, sO that you may show in your lives the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offence unto the day of the Lord, being filled with the fruits' of righteousness which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. Since the decree of Caesar hath gone forth making it ' unlawful for the preachers to preach and for the people to assemble themselves to gether on the Sabbath day according to their custom, we have longed after you all in the tender mercies; of the Lord: And God, who makes all thing work together for good to them that love Him, will take the loneliness of these churchless Sabbaths and create a blessing to you. For the Gospel, by too much preaching and too little practice becomes a dull and common thing. In the days of old there came a time when the Scriptures were lost and when the people no longer had a teaching priesthood, and afterward the people heard the Word with glad ness when it was read, and rejioced even with tears when they were once more assembled for worship. So when the doors of the churches are opened for prayer, that which was done in former times as an ancient custom will be a fresh act of faith. You will be-glad when they, say ; unto you. Come, let 'us go up to the house of the Lord, to give thanks to the name of Jehovah. And let none of you neglect the as sembling of yourselves together .in that day. Even thQse whose custom it was to be absent,' should come then at the hour of prayer. For in themer cies of God you have been most won derfully spared. The strange and terrible plague that has swept the land has hardly touched your dwell ings. Thousands have fallen at your side and ten thousand at you right hand, yet has it not come night to you. Fire, flood and earthquake have been upon the earth in these last days. Whole cities have been blotted out by the storms of heaven and by the wrath of man and yet your homes are safe. Your young men have gone forth to a war that has swept away its millions and yet your sons save a very few have been spared unto you. How signally have they been spared, and can ' you pasS Him by whose mercies have been so great? And even more might the people come to give their thanks seeing that it both pleased the Lord to save the nations from the bondage and domin ion of the Beast. Your armies have gone forth with the armies of the Lord and the hosts of darkness and oppression are overthrown. In this great trial of the spirit and thought of man the greatest and most terri ble since the hosts of sin first rebell ed against the will of God you have done your part. In. the supreme hour of man's history you have kept the faith with God and man. For far worse than the whirlwind and the earthquake, more terrible than pesti lence and death is that dishonor which falls upon a people when in the hour of destiny they do not heed the voice of God. And having heard and understood your calling, you have escaped that spiritual death. And how shall you come before the Lord to appear before the high God? With offerings and with burnt offer ings shall you come and the freewill offerings of your thanksgiving? Obe dience is better than sacrifice, and unto you He hath given his command ment, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be your God. and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all the way that I command you, that it "may be well with you. NOVEMBER SALES. .The Warehouses Will Be Full All the Time. November will be the biggest month of the season on the local to bacco market. This month will see themarketing of millions of pounds which were kept off the market dur ing October by the health situation. October is ordinarily the busiest month of the season. - - Some one remarked that as a re sult of the added activity onithe leaf market .the pre-holiday- season here will be the busiest in Oxford's his tory. - .