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t . j jlj jjM.t j m rA mm r n. ivi 11 n- u' u- 1 v mmriT m ittv r A-rtrrrmrr r -wit -m ttt t Titt - - . "j.xunjy jliu uuujxix via, nixiijijiAJXT UFFORTTJN1TIES--ALL HOME PRINT. . VOLUME XXXIV. T ETTER FROM REV GEORGE T. TUNSTALL Hopes to Return to His Churches Here Next Fall James Turner is Chaplain of the 120th Infantry. Paris, France, v 3Iy Dear Home Folks: Little did I dream when I left Ox ford that an armistice would be sign ed on November llth and that J would eat my Christmas dinner up on the Rhine with the army of oc cupation. This is as beautiful and as modern a city as you can . well find in America. Prices are exhor bitant. The people are kind to us. Everything is under very strict mil itary discipline. The army and the "Y" are making plans to be here a bout six months, but many hope that -we shall be able to leave within a, shorter period. I cannot make any positive statement as to my return to the States. To. Y" called for some one to be sent up by the divisional director to go up with the army of occupation for not less than four months. I was fortnate enough to get to come, and I think that after from four to six months up here I can get released to return to my work. I met Jim Turner, an old school mate in Paris on the 14th of Decem ber. He is the chaplain of the regi ment that the Oxford boys are in. He gives a thrilling story of their glorious work. Most of them came through safely. I found the day I life Le Mans to come up here that the North Carolina boys were on a rest l?ave and were stationed within fifteen miles of the place I was lo cated. I could have gone to see them so easily, and should have been so happy to have done so if I had known this earlier. We have had a glorious Christmas Day here, but every one of us want to eat our next Christmas dinnr with our mothers. I am quite sure that I many of us shall get home by early j sDrinsc, but don't look for us for a1 few months yet. With all good wishes for a '"happy and prosperous New Year and with the seasons greetings, I am. Your faraway friend, G. T. TUNSTALL . X. C. LEGISLATURE AGREES ON PROPERTY VALUATION The Object Is to Secure An Honest Basis For Taxation. The joint finance committee of the house and senate this afternoon un animously agreed upon the revalua tion of North Carolina property for taxation will not be undertaken for this year but will be begun at once for listing in May of 1920. In the summer of next year, after the prop erty is listed, a special session of the general assembly will be held to lower the tax rate. The machinery for getting the pro perty on' the tax books has not yet been worked out. The joint commit tee states that it is actuated by a de sire not to increase the state's income so much as to secure an honest basis for taxation. The tax rates in cities and counties will be lowered in the same ratio as the state tax rate is lowered. PROHIBITION NOT YET A DEAD ISSUE Distillers Have Billion Dollars With Which to Fight. A Washington special, says that there is lots of talk about taking a backward step on prohibition. Some - the metropolitan papers believe that the returning soldiers will de mand a return to the grogshop. The distillers are said to have more than a billion dollars to fight the prohi bition laws in the courts. They ould challenge the constitutionality of the amendment just ratified. There is not a chance. Prohibition 18 a fixture. It came steadily along, until it took in the entire, nation, John Barleycorn may not be dead, but the traffic is to end a year from now. The soldier boys will not undo bat their fathers have done. , THE HUN DEAD ARE SEEN V AS A GRUESOME TOLL Germany paid gruesome toll as a Penalty for continuing the war so l0nS- The Allies did not see their asualty lists, but facts seen by the eye speak for themselves. The Huns id, and it was a terrible price that as exacted from them. This is sftown conclusively in the third U. S. FL a!War Picture, "Under Four ags," announced by the Division of ums, Committee on Public Infor mation, which will be exhibited at e 0rPheum theatre soon. The jounce elsewhere in ,thifl paper 'arrival of a sunerior lotM. well oken horses and mules. It is said me finest lot of horses and es eve brought to. that section. TWO OXFORD BOYS GETS LICENSE FOR LAW PRACTICE Hobgood ! Royster and Clyde Earl Gooch. Ten of the thirteen applicants who went before the Supreme Court Mon day for license to practive law in North Carolina were successful ac cording to the announcement of the court yesterday. The only woman among the applicants, Mrs. Irene Fay Graves, of Chapel Hill, not only pass ed but in the opinion of the court presented the finest paper submitted. The only negro who took the exami nation failed. The successful applicants for . li cense as announced by the court are: 'Royal Hobgood . Royster, Gran ville Co., Oxford, son of Gen. B. . S Royster. Clyde Earl Gooch, Granville Co., Oxford, son of Mrs. Alice Gooch. Marvin Ewing, Bolton, 'Richmond county; Joseph Page, Robeson coun ty; Jeter McKinley Scarborough, Charlotte; Louis Carr Allen, Wake; Alsey Fuller Mitchell, Transylvania county; Charles Curtis Anderson, Greensboro. THE 'WILD CATS" PUT UP A GREAT FIGHT Says Achievement at Cambrai Was Astounding Feature of World War Losses Heavy. Senator James W. Wadsworth; - of New York, in a speech in the United States Senate Wednesday, told of the great fight made by the Thirtieth di vision, the "Old Hickory" the "Wild Cat," composed of North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee troops The fight took place between .St. Quentin and Cambrai. "On September 29 the Twenty Seventh and Thirtieth divisions ' of American troops were launched ag ainst the Hiridenburg line at the place where the canal comes out of the tunnel under the mountain," said Senator Wadsworth. "It re quired three days for them to over come it. Their losses were severe. Frankly, Senators, I do not see how i-JSiirtiC' apposition and come but alive. The achievement to me is astounding. I think it would be so to any other civilian who sees that maze of trench es and underground passages, acres and acres of barbed wire, and the ca nal itself emerging from the tunnel on the north, going forward to a tun nel on the south, which had to be crossed. Remember that the men were subjected to a fearful fire from their left flank as they pushed their way into this position." NUMEROUS FIRES IN OXFORD DURING THE PAST WEEK Most of Them Were Caused By Absolute Carelessness. The fire Wednesday at the resi dence of Dr. Scott Hunt at the junc ture of Front street and Raleigh road, was caused by a spark falling on the roof The damage was light. The timely arrival of the firemen averted a conflagration. ; ; There have been five fires in Ox ford duringthe past four or five days. The most of them were caus ed by the carelessness of some one. The blaze that flared up at the John son warehouse a few days ago was caused by a cigarette. . v People should be very careful with fire at this '.time of the year when the wind is usually strong. WILSON IS SILENT IN MIDST OF RUINS WROUGHT BY ENEMY "No One Can Put Dito Words The Impressions I Have Received," He Delcares. (Paris Special.) President Wilson has made his Wir. tn the battlefields, visiting Chateau-Thierry and Rheims. At theJ close of a tour that wok mm t a dozen razed villages, ending m the ruins of the historic cathedral at Rheims, the- President said: No one can put into words the impressions I have received amongst such scenes of desolation and ruin That was Mr. Wilson's onlyv expres sion of his feeling after a trip every Frenchman has hoped he would make before he takes part in decid ing what, is to be exacted from Ger many for the devastation of North ern France. MERIMAN-YOUNG WAS SHOT . ON MR. JENKIN'S PLACE In the write-up of the Meriman Young shooting scrape in the .Herri Jane ?ast week we stated th the billing was at the home of Ody Jen The fact is, Mr. OdyJenkins Is a highly esteemed gentleman. The shooting took place on his farma Wile from his home and he knew nothing about it until it was all ov- TWO OXFORD SOLDIERS ; AWARDED THE DIS TINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS Sergeant William Hill Powell and Sergeant Graham W. Harris Cap tured. Several Prisoners. The' commander in chief of the American Expeditionary Forces, in the name of the President, has a warded the distinguished service cross to the following soldiers: Sergeant William Hill Powell, Machine Gun cqnip any, 120th In fantry, IS 19 09 7. In the attack on the Hindenburg line near Bellicourt 29th September." 1918.t.hi s.rnt wno at that time was a private, with four other soldiers, was lost from their platoon during the smoke and heavy fog. This soldier imme diately took charge of the1 four other soldiers and continued to advance. Under his guidance they destroyed a machine gun nest, captured seven prisoners and a machine gun. This machine gun they immediately put into action and fired two thousand rounds against the enemy. After firing they proceeded on until they reached their objective. It was on ly by initiative and personal bravery that this was accomplished because of the artillery and machine gun fire to which they were at that time sub jected. Sergeant Graham W. Harris, Ma chine Gun company, 1 zom infantry, 1319104. In the attack on the Hin denburg line near Bellicourt' 29th September 1918, this Sergeant, : with five other men, was lost from his platoon, during the smoke and heavy fog. : He kept these men together, however, and continued to advance in "the face of a terrific artillery and machine gun fire. He succeeded in reaching his objective, beyond Nau roy, and made a personal reconnois sance 600 yards in front of his ob jective, and remained there until or- dered'.back. He captured several prisoners and assisted in breaking up three machine gun nests. His bravery and initiative was m0st!UAL CHURCH SERVICES WILL praiseworthy.- , flprco'iTit Pnwpll is the snn nf 1Wr f.mniari vr.nnm in Oxford as Waverly Harris, is the son of the late Thomasflaarris. Both of them are fine young men and they will wear their honors with becom ing dignity. 9 ; 200,000 OF TROOPS TO STAY IN FRANCE TO MARRY THE GIRLS Paris, January 3 0 . At least 2 00 , 000 Americans now in the army will remain in France, according to a statement made by a prominent mem ber of the American Colony in Par is. The majority will remain, it is said, because they wish to marry French women, and -the rest because they are charmed with French life. Lyon-Winston this week receiv ed One car of horses and one car of mules. This is an exceptionally fine lot strong, well broken horses and mules5. See announcement elsewhere in this paper. How the United States Army Grew After the; Declaration of War IN TWENTY MONTHS UNCLE SAM'S FIGHTING FORCE MULTD7LIED ITSELF BY TWENTY. How the United States army grew after the declaration of war against Germany is one of the most interesting pages of the history of the nation. It is a story told in figures. When America entered the war only one person' in each 580 in the nation was in the army. When the war ended more than 2.5 per cent of the entire male population between the ages of eighteen and thirty-one years was in the army. On April 1, 1917, America had an army of 190,000. In twenty months it virtually multiplied itself by twenty. In twenty months an army more than ten .times as" large as America had at the beginning of the war had been enlisted, trained and sent abroad. How the army was built up and how many were sent abroad, month by month, is told eloquently in figures furnished by the war department, as follows: - In U. S. and Foreign Possessions In the American Expeditionary forces 1917. April 1 .". . 190,000 ' V. . 190,000 July 1 480,000 20,000 -.' 500,000 August 1 516,000 35,000 551,000 September 1 ....646,000 45,000 691,000 October 1 ... 883,000 65,000 948,000 November 1 996,000 . 104,000 1,100.000 December 1 ...V...... 1,060,000 129,000 . 1,189,000 January 1 . . . . 1,149,000 v. 176,000 1,323,000 February 1 1,257,000 225,000 1,482,000 March 1 ............. . 1,386,000 255,000 1,639,000 April 1 1,476,000 320,000 1,796,000 May 1 j. 1,529,000 424,000 1,953,000 June 1 .. 1,390,000 722,000- 2,112,000 July 1 ... .... 1,384,000 996,00 2,380,000 August 1 ......... . . . 1,365,000 ' i;293,000 .2,653,000 September 1 . . . .... ... 1,425,000 1,576,000 3,001,000 October 1 . .. ... 1,599,000 c rl,834,000 ' 1 r 3,433,000 November 1 .......... . 1,672,000 1,993,000 3,665,000 These figures are; not final, because more men were landed between November 1 and the signing of the armistice, the total being considerably over two million. STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN WHEN . ; SfOU LEAST JXPECT,1 V 0 " Thes is a Man In Oxford Too1 Wealthy to Accept a ' Fat " .mucus dOO. j There is one man in Oxford capa-1 ble of .. holding any position in the! gift of the Government. The fact ! that we had never seen him do an v-1 thing but whittle we were nnrtor tVio ? vi uci o tu urepare ior pm- impression that he would, 'sooner or barkation to return home will be later, whittle himself away. 1 landed at Charleston, S. C. if the Our friend was sitting on the ; War Department can prepare facili bench in front of the court house, ties ; there to handle so large a body whittling as usual, when we approach of men. : Thft nii n u ! ed hini and whisnered intn hie nai.';tft.r.Tn-..T-!,- that we WniH , JTI in procuring a government job that would pay! The boys will be loaded on nine him t-n l6t! 4'5 a year' 1 transPorts and will land at New York Still whittling, he asked uncon- -or Charleston. - If any large shins cerningly, but nevertheless courte- are used they will have to go to New ously: York. "What is it?" - While no definite plans for parad- W expected to see his hear leap . ing this -unit have been fixed ofli 5? -i , -We handed , cials thought it probable either the .. H followinS clipping, but it I entire division or some large portion didn t phase him: j of it will be paraded at Charleston The war is practically ended but and Columbia. . ; . war work is not. The ordnance de- , .- partment of the army alone needs THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL 200 senior cost accountants at en-' " ' trance salaries ranging from $2,000 A HPPy Combination of the Inter, to $4,200 a year; 300 junior accoun- national Sunday School tants fAat entrance salaries ranging from $1,200 to $2,000 a year; and 300 clerks qualified in accounting at entrance salaries ranging from $1, 000 to $1,800 a year, for service at ordnance establishments throughout the Unietd States and in the head Quarters at Washington. The in come tax unit of the Bureau of In ternal Revenue is in need of. a num ber of traveling auditors and resid ent auditors, ,at entrance salaries rang ing from $1,800 to $4,500 a year." We spoke of the incident to banker friend, and to &ur astonish- tne class are telling the other mem ment he chuckled all over when he j bers that Judge Devin wil be present, said: ' , "TXTU-rr tviXn Ann have to , work; he has iai' income ranging any- ix j , luau. Lujan uvu . . where f from $4,000 to $6,000 BE RESUMED NEXT SUNDAY Present On Time. The Sunday school and regular church services will be resumed in Oxford next Sunday at the usual hours appointed before the quaran- tine regulations caused them to be closed. ' It is to be hoped that the moral and religious people and the back- sliders, too, will be in attendance Sunday school at 9:45; preaching at ir o'clock: ' evening service at 4 7:30. NEW EPIDEMIC IN GRANVILLE One That Soon Exhausts the Ener gies of the Victim. There is an epidemic of hiccoughs in Oxford and the county. Some of the patients suffer for twenty-four hours and become completely ex hausted. One of the old time remedies is one-half teaspoon of sulphur dissolv ed in water. The Public Ledger will not recommend the sulphur treat ment. Better consult a doctor. j THIRTIETH DIVISION WILT, "LAND AT CHARLESTON AND DEMOBOLIZE AT COLUMBIA . , Landing At Charleston. War TWart. ment Says, Depends Upon Ability w aewmmoaate So Many Men There. . (Washington Special.) The Thirtieth Division which now is nnHor ,miA.n - i'T11' y"umDia. s. c. for demobilization. I , ; Lesson. i After a close down for threeor four weeks on account of the influen za epidemic, the people of Oxford will have an "opportunity to attend Sunday school next Sunday. Judge Devin is at home this week and he will expound the Internation al Lesson to the Baptist Baraca class next Sunday morning, and we I know of no happier combination than the Law and the Gospel when thus brought together. A large number of the members of and the indications are that the en- tire class will hear him with great : interest. THE HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE , Let Us Hear From The Oxford Boys and Girls. , One hundred and, fifty high schools tnave enronea ln-tne-fctigir School den bating Union of ; North Carolina for ' the seventh annual State-wide con- test. The query is: "Resolved That the j Government of the. United States f should adopt a policy of requiring j a year of military training for all j able-bodied men before they ' reach the age of 21. Bulletin No. 31, entitled "Compulsory-Military Training," has just been issued by the Bureau of Exten sion of the University, and will be used as a handbook of material by the debaters. Thfs bulletin, ,100 pages in . length contains briefs, out lines, and selected articles bearing on both sides of the query. ' The indications are that this year's contest of the Union will be a very successful one. The Wilson High School won the Aycock Memorial Cup in last year's contest. THE PEOPLE ARE NOT BUYING CHEAP ANTITOXIN Only Twenty-Two Out of Fifty-Seven Cases Investigated Bought 25- Cent Doses. The way North Carolinians contin ue to buy diptheria antitoxin at from $3.00 to $5.00 per dose when they can get it for 25c per dose, is not al together understood by "the State Board of Health. A recent investi gation of fifty-seven cases of dipthe ria in the State shows that antitoxin was secured for twenty-two of the patients at tweny-five cents a dose, while for thirty-two it cost from $3.00 to $5.00 per dose. The bill paid by one man for diptheria s anti toxin of a private brand was $46.65, whereas if he had bought the anti toxin provided by the State Board of Health he would have saved over $40.00. In keeping with the policy of the State Board of Health to investigate all deaths from diptheria to know where to place the responsibility for the deaths, the State Board of Health has arranged to furnish the people of the State diptheria antitoxin practi cally free only twenty-five cents per nackage. The people are advised to request the chairman of their coun ty board of health, who is aiso me chairman of the county board of com missioners to keep a sufficient sup ply of this preventative on hand to 'meet the demands of the people. BDLLY SUNDAY WELL BE THE MAIN ATTRACTION Visitors to Raleigh Can Also The Free Tank Show. Billy Sunday is scheduled to preach a sermon in the auditorium In Raleigh next Monday. " A free tank show for the ' edifica tion of the visitors will be staged at 2:30 o'clock Monday. 1 . AUSTRALIAN SOLDLER-POET . THRILLS OXFORD AUDD3NCE The Story of the Terriflc Losses of the Landing Party At Gallipoli Signaller Tom v Skeyhill,. poet soldier, who lectured to the fac ulty and student body at the Ox ford College Tuesday night and to a select audience at the Orpheum Wednesday night, gave a thrilling,' vivid account of the storming of the Turkish defenses in the Gallipoli cam paign in 1915,' and of how the An- 'glo-French attempt to strangle Tur key and put her out. of the war re sulted in failure by a mere combi nation of circumstances. " He con firmed the old report that ' had the Allies persevered one day longer the mighty defenses of. the Dardanelles would have tottered and the Turkish forces there would have been com pelled to surrender for lack of am- ' munition. Skeyhill opened with a tribute' to the poets, who he said had not only fought with their pens but with the sword, and many of tnem had given their all for the freedom of the world. After naming a number of the leading romanticists both early and late in the great struggle, the sol dier poet took his audience away to the campaign on the Gallipoli "penin sula. He touched upon the train ing in Australia of his own unit, then followed it to France, thence to the Near East when the Gallipoli campaign was launched. The story of the terrific losses of the landing party at Gallipoli, of how they stormed the Turkish de fenses, were mowed down as grain before a- scythe, and how, in the r f face of it all, they carried on, and finally won. It was a combination of adverse circumstances, over which the soldiers, tne bravest who ever faced the enemy until then had no control, Skeyhill said. , He paid a glowing tribute to the work of the women, and said it was they who had really won the war, that they gave the cheer and the comfort to the soldier in the field and hospital, and,, it was they who had held the second, or home'" de- f ense.--" The "war's - horrors and its 'sacrifices ' on the field of battle, he said, might be forgotten, but the work of the women will live on and on forever as long as history is- re corded and read. Skeyhill closed with a brief refer ence to reconstruction problems, and called upon his audience to receive the returning soldier with open arms and see to it that he found employ ment. He said that capital and labor must get together, and that many other things must be adjusted when the peace treaty is finally settled. He drew great applause from the crowd when he said that wherever in Belgium Germany had battered down a house Germany must be made to put back a better one and to pay to the uttermost farthing for her wrong doing. OXFORD SCHOOLS RESUME. Every Precaution WilDjpe Taken to Safeguard the Pupils At a meeting of the school Board Tuesday night it was decided best to open the schools on Friday, January 31, so-that no time would be losfln starting off Monday. The health of ficer had reported it safe and wise to reopen the schools. The public is asked to bear in mind the fact that every precaution will be taken to keep the pupils safe. They are asked to cooperate in ev ery way to make this effective. Wise supervision has been effective in many places. It should be here. The graded school building can be kept warm under normal conditions and will be. At the high school building it is a hard matter to do this but all that can be done will be for the comfort of pupils and teachers. Parents are urgently requested to visit this build ing during the spring and thus be in a position to say what sould be done about the building for another year. One visit will be sufficient to convince any parent or .friend of the need for a new modern high school at once. What will you do about it? . G. B. PHILLIPS. PRESDDENT WELSON WILL MAKE SECOND TRD? TO FRANCE He Has Been Hoping Another Trip Would Be Unnecessary. (Paris Special.) , Much as President Wilson hopes to avoid a second trip to Europe, it begins to look as if the trend of the peace conference affairs would cause him ,to feel compelled to recross the Atlantic in the early spring. Recent statements purporting to announce that the . President had planned to re turn, to Paris after go ing to Washington in February were founded,; it may be said, on no defi nite' Information. -
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