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1--' " " """ VOLUME XXXIV. TWEXTY-FIVE REASONS v WHY OUR PRESENT PROSPERITY WILL CONTINUE The War Tom Country Cannot Com pete With America For Many Years to Come. 1. Foreign demand for our goods is greater than the supply. 2. All line of industries should and will enlrage and -multiply in or der to supply the demands. 3. We have a merchant marine that we never had before. 4. We will now export manufactur ed products where in the past we have principally evported raw mater ials. 5. We have better world-wide banking facilities than ever before in our history. 6. Most of the world's financing for developments, improvements and restoration must be done here, and it is only natural that the purchases of materials and supplies will be made here. - 7. Germany will not be a compet itive factor in the future, as in the nasi, for reasons of prejudice and the fact that her trade attention will o i a. i- a fi "- I be connnea to rtussitv ana me J?ar East for many years to come. 8. The profits from foreign trade will circulate here in Amedica and bring increased" purchasing power, prosperity, to our own people. 9. Our Allies and our enemy are more warworn than we, with their more than three Years of war; they will not be as able to supply world markets as quickly as America, for it will 1jake a longer timbe for them to get back into-industry. 10. We have found in the past four years that we can produce more and better goods., and cheaper, with our well-paid labor than Germany with her low-paid and child labor, for reason that our Itaaor does more work in a given time. 11. Being manufacturers for for-; eign trade rather than just exporters of raw material, our payrolls will be j larger for more purchasing power, prospeity, at home. j 12. We have leaned to produce at , home what we used 'to import the ' money we used to sendi abroad will in the future stay here. 13. We have spread a knowledge of American manufacturing and transportation methods in France, which means that they will want our products and machinery- in adopting them. 14. We have learned that waste is criminal, which will aid our future prosperity. - 15. The young men returning from iiDroad will have better health, de mand higher standards of life, and all for their greater productive and purchasing powers and to greater general prospeity. 16. We have leaned to use" the tractor on the farm within these four years of war, and which will mean a greater innovation and as much to our added future prosperity as the introduction of steam into general industry. , ' 17. Think of the boom .to the tex tile industry and merchandising in dustry by more than four million men buying civilian clothes. 18. We may be unprepared for peace, but if we are as unprepared for it as we were for war why, may ihe Lord help our trade rivals! vr 19. Even the prosperity we have ' accumulated will make apurchasing power that will keep) us generally prosperous for three years. 20. America has lost little man power in the war; Europe has lost much. 21. Our shelves of ordinary require ments are now empty. 22. Our cities require vast build ing projucts. 23. Our railroads require repairs, replacements and extensions, and which is in itself a veryv large con tribution to our prosperity in pur chasing power. 24. If we can stand the test of war in prosperity, we can stand the test of peace in prosperity. 25. More people in more parts. of the world have been made receptive to new ideas and new utensils of life than ever before, by reason of this war they have been introduced to artificial ice, sanitary deyices, laun dry machinery, and everything down to the safety razor the demand for which we can supply. Criminals Taken to the Pn Sheriff Dee Hunt and Deputy Lyon took Will Hurt, Bn Teasley and Bud Simpson, all cplored, to the peniten tiary Tuesday. , They made the trip in an auto. Hurt enters upon a sen tence of eight years, Teasley four years, and Bud Simpson one year. Mr. j. r. Owen a prosperous far mer from "Vance county has moved ou Route 5 in Granville and says he must have the Public Ledger. v PUBLISHED SEMI-WEE LETTER FROM DR. HAYS. Hopes to Return to Oxford At An - Early Date.,.,". ' : Writing from the U. S. A. Hosnitjrf No. 19, Oteen, N. C, Feb. 11, Dr. B.4 a, icuci tu tut; eaitor or '4- V. T- t. . I me ruDnc Leager says in part: "It has long been my purpose to write something of army life for the Public Ledger but I have . realized that the hearts of the people of Gran ville have been with the -boys in France. When one can read of how Luther Davis and ,young r Willif ord stood up in the middle of" the road and topped cannon balls; of how Lindsay Taylor put to flight a house full of German' sharp shooters and of how William Hill Powell and Wav erly Harris; raked -German prisoners out of "No Man's Land" when they ought to have been at home raking up their mother's front yards, I say that when people can read of things like this they have no time to read about the conduct of a tubercular hospital. However, this is a very wonderful institution and I am go ing to write you a letter about it Meantime, those of us who left home and loved ones to enter the army are hoping that Uncle Sam will soon be through with us arid that he will permit us to return to our occupa tions of civil life." ' . GERMAN ARMY NOW ONLY 200,000 MEN Forty Per Cent of These of Doubtful N v. Value, Erzberger Says. (Paris- Special.) Mathais Erzberger, one of the Ger maai commissioners, volunteerd a statement that the German army con sisted of only 200,000, forty per cent ofwhom were of doubtful value. He said that the German army had been demobilizing too quickly and that it was inadequate to maintain order in the country. , Apart from the conference Edz berger made a number of declara tions, saying particularly ' that "the political, future of Germany was fixed by "President " Wilson's Yourteeri points'." He asserted that Germany would henceforth be a new country, adding that it would be genuinely democratic and would loyally partici pate in the league of nations on' the principle of political and economical equality. He said that Germany was ready to agree to disarmament on land and sea and in the air. Erzberger admitted tnat Germany made a mistake in 1871 when she did not consult the people of Alsace and Lorraine as to their fate. -He expressed the hope that France would not make the same mistakej in annexing Germans without call ing a plebiscite. GERMANS QUOTE SCRIPTURE. They Have Begun to See the Light f rot Dayv The Gazette of the. Cross, a Ger man publilation, is credited with the following: - "At the beginning of last year we "were a proud," all-powerful people, crowned with the laurels of victory. Here we are nowdisarmed' and giv en up, hand andvfoot, to the mercy of the enemy. Our invincible army has been beaten. ""The passage in Scripture which says, 'You will be despised among all nations,' has come true to us.. "Shame eats into our hearts. For that which is the most terrible for us is what we cannot accuse God or the world for what has become of us. We can accuse only ourselves. "We have only to beat our chests before the grave which we ourselves dug." . CRAZY BOY FIRES SEVEN SHOTS AT CLEMENCEAU The Condition of the French Tiger Is pronounced Good By the Doctors. (Paris Special.) v Emile Cottin, who attempted to as sassinate Premier Clemenceau Wed nesday at the xorner of the Boule vard Delessert, i in jail. Seven shots were fired at the Prem ier one of which struck him in the arm. His condition is pronounced good by the doctors. ' Examination of the automobile in which the Premier was riding when he was shot showed seven bullet m?he father and mother of the 'as sassin are simple working people. Neighbors of Cottin sar he wasf a irreat reader of novels and books on SSonomy and sociology, but that he was neither a user of drugs nor to Wacco. He is a carpenter by trade and is 23 years old and has been un der treatment an affection tne heart and a disease of the larynx. Kit AND COUNTY OFFER BRILLIANT OPPORTUNITIES ALL HOME PRINT. OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA ATTENDANCE AT- SUNDAY ' SCHOOL AND CHURCH Many Lost Interest While the Doors Were Closed During the Influ enza Epidemic. After diligent inquiry the Public Ledger learns that the attendance at the Sunday schools'' and the church Services, both white and black, has been below normal since the doors were closed, .following a close down of several weeks on account of the. influenza epidemic. jf It would be interesting to know why such a condition exists. Is it possible that church members became indolent during the close down? And is it possible that indolent parents fail to see the necessity of sending their children to Sunday "school? It is a sad day in the life of a par ent and child when they-are no long er under the influence . of Christ's teachings. " 'V JL The Public Ledger has seen many men and women down and out be cause they failed to keep up their itit. terest in the church and the Sunday school. Whether the parents attend services or not, it is their duty, as a part of the" social fabric, to see that their children attend Sunday school. Is it possible that the churches and the Sunday schools are negligent and have not the garce to extend the hand of goodfellowship to those who have not, the grace to enter in ? y f It is absolutely essential that .ev ery man, woman, and child in this community should be brought under the influence of-the Gospel of Christ. THE COTTON SITUATION. The Crop Was Made on a Basis of 35 Cents a Pounds And Is Now .' . Selling For 22 Cents. The present cotton situation is dis tressing. The crop was made on a basis of 35 cents a pound and is now selling for, 22 cents. The situation of the manufacturers is as precarious as that of the farmers. They have much high-priced cotton and cotton goods on ; hand, 't They made ; their contracts and g employ ed the on the basis of high prices, and today they can find no market for their goods. . .. . ; - All good men in every walk of life will desire ' to relieve these dis tressing conditions. Measures must be devised for holding the cotton we have and reducing the acreage of the next crop. To' this end, a great Cot ton Convention was held in Raleigh on the 11th day of February, and the Governor . was requested to ap7 point a committee of seven men to take charge of a campaign for hold ing the cotton we now have and for reducing by a,t least Tme-third the next crop. In his message to the people of the State, Governor Bickett saysr February 22nd is Washington's birthday, and will be celebrated as North Carolina Day in every public school in tbe State. A most attrac tive program for the day has been prepared by the State Department of Education. I earnestly urge every teacher in a district where cotton is grown to have some farmer explain to the people on the 22nd day of February the exact cotton situation, and get them interested in the cam paign to hold and reduce. "At every school house let dele gates be selected to attend the great Cotton Convention which is to be held in every court house in the cot tbnbelt of the State on Wednesday, February 26th, for the purpose of thoroughly organizing the, county. I beg air good citizens, farmers, man ufacturers, bankers, and men of all I classes and conditions to attend this meeting at the county court house on Wednesday, February 26th, to the end that the common sense and judg ment of the people may be pooled and the "wisest measures possible de Vised to meet the distressing and de moralizing situation that now con fronts our people-" RUMORS THAT THIRTIETH DIVISION IS ON ITS WAY HOME DEND3D Has Not Arrived At Its Port of Embarkation. Charleston, S. C, Feb: 20. Col onel Lawrence Brown, Ui S. A., de barkation officer of the southeastern department, has; issued a statement denying widespread rumors that the Thirtieth division had sailed from France for America and would de bark at Charleston February 21. The latest official information receiv has not yet arrived at its port of em ed here i sthat the Thirtieth division barkation. -, Program of Music. The music department of the Wo man's Club will give a short program this evening at 7 o'clock at the Bapr tist-Philathea .supper in celebration of the National Week of Song. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 21, 1919. I GERMANY TO DEMOBILIZE 1 - : ' . . I -'c 'DOWN TO POLICE" R A STR Helgoland, And Keil Forts To Be De , " molished ; Final Armistic Condi- tions soon to be Published; Ger- man Warships New Interned to Be vvc Surrendered and Destroyed. In the definite armistice terms now being drafted, Germany will be call ed upon to demobilize all their troons which are not considered necessary 10 her normal peace existence and" band over to the allies all war mate rial above requiremnts limited to an army of between 25 and 35 divisions. There is also toy be a vigorous con trol of her war plants and the possi bility of war material production. Helgoland and Keil. ; The conditions include the demoli tion of the forts on Helgoland and the Kiel canal, the surrender for pur poses of destruction of the German warships now interned, and the op ening of the Kiel canal for civil transports. It is stated that Ger many will be left with a fleet large enough, for defensive purposes. , Strong Fortifications. The strong fortification on the is land of Helgoland lis one immense bomb proof, and the batteries are so placed as to be invisible from the sea. The heavy guns there 11 inch and 12 inch weapons probably were reinforced during the war by-15 inch guns. The guns are mounted in steel turrets of great thickness. AH the batteries and observation posts are connected by subterranean pas sages and the roads leading up to them run along galleries which are shell proof. The guns have a range df 10 to 15 sea miles. : THE COUNTY MULES LrVE ONxEASY STREET They Are a Good Lot of . Mules and Spend Much of Their Time In Meditation. It may be of interest to the people of the county to know that the eight of ten mules that belong to the coun ty are well cared for: They are dom iciled on Williamsboro street, near thetrusiness section ; of the. townand they get three square meals . a day. Many of the . farmers of the county are "up and at it" long begore the official county mule is groomed and fed. "Isome respects these mules re minds, us of some ol the non-producing negroes of the county, who hang around town too much. It makes no difference in what part of the coun ty the mule finds himself on Satur day he wants to come to town and spend the week-end at the county mule hotel. v J ,. Of course, the commissioners have done all they could with their limit ed means to provide accommodations for the mules, and the accommoda tions they have provided are none too good for good mules. But the proper place for a mule hotel is on the outskirts of town. In fact, it wouldn't be a bad idea to have three "hang outs" for mules in the coun ty one each in the northern, central and southern part of the county so thatthey would be closer to the work in whatever section their pres ence might be desired. A MAJOR LANDIS RETURNS FROM NORTHER MARKETS Some Lines of Goods 'Are Plentiful While Others Are Scarce. Major Will Landis, buyer for the firm of Landis & Easton, accompa nied by Mrs. Landis, returned from the northern markets 'inursaay. visited Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York. Major Landis states that he made substantial purchases; that while some of the lines are -still high and scarce other lines show some improve ment as to quantity and price. It will be a long time, said Major Lan das, before all lines of goods become normal, continuing be said that he is satisfied that the entire country will continue to enjoy an era of prosper ity. .;: ' : ;-;";; BURLEY TOBACCO. The Weed Brings $82 Per Hundred On. Kentucky Market. News has reached here of the most remarkable sale of burley tobacco in the history of Kentucky. The sale occurred in a warehouse at Danville, Kentucky. - v Two prominent tobacco growers a fews days ago sold, a lot of 4,730 pounds of the burley weed at an av erage of $82.08 per hundred pounds. The sale netted the farmers $3,882. 40. The lowest basket sold for $75 per hundred and the highest for over $90.00. ':':':i&i-S;2::i - Burley tobacco as ; a rule does not average as high as the bright leaf weed of the Carolinas, and for a lot of over 4,000 pounds to bring 82 cents a pound, tobacconists consider it a truly remarkable sale. OUR NEW YORK LETTER. j Unwounded Officers- and Fill the Hotels. Privates (By Mail to Public Ledger. ) New York, Feb. 19. The camps in the vicinity of New York are full of men from overseas. Many of the officers will be sent to Lakewood, N. J,. to recuperate. Work' on the arch of fame which is to commemorate the deeds of the New York soldiers overseas is on Fifth avenue and is progressing well everywhere there -is evidence of thought of the returned soldiers. The city is full of them ahd no one passes a wounded soldier without proffer of assistance. The unwounded 'officers and pri vates fill the hotels in' the evening making a brilliant and interesting scene. The undischarged sfhldiArs know how to keen lrttio n i en traditional languages but the min- Republicanism "caused" the Feder ute he gets" his discharge he begins I ah operation of public utilities and to talk. He tells who's who, and aPPealed to his auditors to help him whaVs what in, the army. j save tne country from indescribable In passing through the station at disaster- ; Former Senator Marion Washington, I met a soldier with -his t Butler' in true Butlerian style, de left leg gone, wounds in his face and ! nounced the dominant party in gen hands and who looked like death it-' era1' wnile specifically calling down self. I stopped and spoke to hirm x anathemas upon the heads of former told him J was, from North Carolina. j State Democratic Chairman Warren He exclaimed "North Carolina! iiand of tnose "higher up, who aided fought with the North Carolina men. ! and abetted. him in his efforts to 4tt7"v. o t i 1 t 4. 'thwart the Will Of t.hp nennla in fhc i uwei j. dan.cu. i went lux u : the Hindenburg line with them." he said. He was being helped to the train by a middle aged woman whom ! he had met on the train. Seeing that 1 he was so badly wounded Hhis wo-1 cnangea irom those placed in the en man had gone to him and taken veloDed by the absentee voter; sick charge of him. "and." said she. "li.men at home in' their county were am going to see this boy home.' THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENED. Sheriff Dee Hunt Has Proven That He Is No Friend To the j t . Liquor Element. During tne recent campaign in Oranville county Sheriff Dee Hunt, who at the time was a candidate for cratic ticket; legal votes were re the office of sheriff, was charged with Jected; registration books were not affiliating with theVhiskey element, available fr registration; Republi- WTe are tellkig the story just as it happened-during the campaign. Two or three well known citizens went so far as to use names and say. that Mr. Hunt had promised the liquor men that; he would "wink the other eye" 'if elected. ' Mr. Hunt was elected and things drifted along, and the other day one of the men who were accused of be- "issuing tax receipts and dating same ing in the moral stunted class metj"Dack to Ma 1, absentee votes chang one'of the well known citizens whored and other tickets substituted; ef- hadcharged him with being the ring; leader of the whiskey gang, and to him he said: "Well, my good friend, how do you reconcile the fact' that Sheriff Hunt has been in office a little oVer two months, and during that time destroyed nineteen whiskey plants?" "Why," said the good, citizen ad dressing the moral runt," we must admit that the unexpected has hap pened."v " CAPT. JESSE PITCHFORD PASSED TO HIS REWARD WEDNESDAY He Was a Brave Follower of Gen. ' Lee. Capt. Jesse Pitchford, 78 years of age, died at his home in the suburbs of Oxford last Wednesday morning after a bref illness. The i death of Capt. Ptchford re moves from earth one of the bravest followers of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He was connected with the commisary department and made frequent trips to, Tennessee ! and- Kentucky to pur chase horses and mules for the Con federate army. Capt. Ptchford was a membeV of the Oxford Presbyterian church. He had many friends, especially among the little folks who delighted to hear hm talk about his varied experience during the war between the States. Capt. Pitchford is survived by one daughter and two sons, as. follows: Mrs. John Suit, with whom he was living when the end came; Messrs. Lee and Len Pitchford, of Oxford. The funeral was held from the resi dence Thursday morning, conducted by Rev. E. G. Usry pastor of West Oxford church, who was a close per sonal friend of the . deceased. The interment was in Elmwood Ceme tery. The pallbearers were : Messrs. S. C. Hobgood, R. I. Daniel, J. F. White C. J. Turner, J. J. Medford, L. F. Smith, S. H. Usry W. E. Currhi if THE VAGRANCY BILL. Senator Long of Montgomery Would Make All Who Are Able Find Jobs. ' . ' The vagrancy bill, proposes to strike out the phrase "without visi ble means of support" and substitute therefor .words which will require all persons to work if they are' physi cally and-mentally able to do so, no matter with their means of'support consists of. ' - NUMBER 15 HUNGRY REPUBLICANS WANT TO SCALP THE DEMOCRATS In the Convention at Greensboro They Charge Democrats Writh Ev ery Kind of Fraud They Can Think vjpf , Even to Voting the Dead Marion Butler Is In Command. The meeting of Republicans in Greensboro Saturday is briefly sum marized in Sunday's Greensboro j "News as follows: Plans for placing th : Australian ballot, fair primary and general elec tion laws on the statute books, oust ing the Democratic party from con trol of State, presenting North Caro lina's electoral votes to the Republi can nominee for the Presidency in 1920. : True Butlerian Style. s "Will H. Hays, chairman of the national Republican executive corn- mmee' eulogized the principles of . -w ... v recent election." Resolution Adopted "Soldiers were voted without their knowledge or consent; tickets were. voted as absentees; many men pur suing the ordinary avocations of life at their homes were voted as absen- ; tees; non-residents were voted; men who had uot paid their poll-tax were voted; dead men were voted; in'ti- midation men were .told they would be sent to the camps under re-classi- 1 ncation unless they yoted the Demo- can tickets hard or impossible to'bb- tain ;b allot: boxes neither sealed nor locked; . registrars unlawfully re quiring transfers of residence and 'knowledge doing so votes bought; two or more voters voted on one tax receipt; fictitious checks used) in pay merit of poll tax soldier and Other absentee votes destroped; sneriff's roris 10 prevent eiecnon in itepuDii can districts, Republican judges not allowed to see, absentee voters' bal lots; stuffing ballot boxes; voting ! soldiers whose only intention was to. register and who thought and believ- promised exemption from military service in exchange for a Democratic vote;' soldiers' votes known to be Re publican arrived too late to be cast; no registration books at polling places; secret counting of ballots; tax receipts forged; blockade whis key, money and intimidation utilized to the end of Democratic success; registering and voting minors under 21 years old; registering voters in the State prison as absentee voters "and voting them; placing on regis tration books absentee voters who had not registered and voting them; registrar refusing to attend on elec tion day with registration book, thus preventing election in Republican precincts, saying "he was going hunt ing," voting absentees without pay ing poll tax upon instruction of Dem ocratic officials towaive poll tax re quirements; voting registered absen tees who died prior to the day of election; chairman of ounty boards of elections providing fictitious tick ets four different names in- the same county as Republican nominee for sheriff. MUNITIONS OF WAR. There Are Now Only Three Church , BelLr in Coblenz. Coblenz, Feb. 21. In this German city of more than 50,000 inhabitants, there ; are but three church bells. Before the war Coblenz, .now the headquarters of the army of occu pation, had scores of church bells but all but three of them were taken by the German government to be turned into munition of war. STOVALL NEWS ITEMS. Among the S to vail people who made a trip to Richmond last week to hear Billy Sunday were: Mr. L. C. Wilkerson, Miss, Helen Gill, Mrs. Ed Lumpkin, Mrs. Walter O'Braint and Mrs. R. R O'Briant. . Miss Alice Culbreth is the guest of her brother, Mr. Oscar Culbreth. Private Jim Slaughter, U. S. N., returned to Norfolk Monday. Much interest centers in the bas ket ball game here Friday at 2 : 3 0 Stem against Stovall.
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