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VOLUME XXXIV. eiy riiODUCTS must;1; , RE3IAIX HIGH OR THINGS WILL GO TO SMASH Tlie United States Department Of Labor Has Compiled Some,, Inter esting Figures Along This Line. You step into a store and buy a pair of shoes and are shocked' at the tremendous price. The clerk may tell you that shoes are high because hides are high, and that the farmer himself, is therefore, to blame. But if you happen to know much about how much leather is in shoes, you can assure the clerk that there is not over 50 cents' worth of hide in a pair of shoes, and that it is impossible for you to understand why hide prices should effect the price of shoes more than 25 cents a pair. And, of course the rejoinder to this argument is that wages hdaye gone up.'". "Wages have gone up." That is the excuse that is made everywhere, whether the high:priced articles be coal or a suit of clothes. And how much have wages gone up? The United States Department of Labor has compiled some inter esting figures along this line. In the shoe factories, for instance, the men are now getting 122 per cent more than they did in 1916. In three years (he wages of workers in shoe facto ries have more than doubled. That is the reason we have to pay twice as much for our shoes. The cost of hides scarcely enters into the matter at all. The cotton factory workers have also received unusual increase, and are now getting just twice, what they did in 1916. In most other factories, the increase has not been so great The iron and steer workers are get tine almost twice what they did in 1916, but the men working in auto mobile factories are only getting about 50 per cent more. Railroads Vv-orkers are getting 72 per cent more, although in some classes of railroad work wages . are double. Workers on men's clothing are get- ting 87 per cent more. The Department of Labor does not! deal with wages paid to farm hands L or with salaries of school teachers or at meeting July 14th. There being fees of lawyers and doctorsFarm no complaint or objections either in hands in Granville county seem to be i Person or in writing, cn motion of "getting' about '7.0' per cent more than Mr7 "McFarland the" following budget they did in 1916, which is probab- was adopted to meet current ex ly about the. same advance as other penses for the year ending May 3ist, workers have received on the aver- 1920: ag:e, although not nearly such a good Budget. advance as the workers in shoe fac- tories have received. School teach- ers have received scarcely any ad- vance, and lawyers and doctors still charge about the same scale - of prices. .. The cost of living is now supposed to be about 70 per cent higher than it was in 1916. Wholesale prices have gone up even more than this, but the average family can buy as much of what it needs, now with 31.70 as it could in 1916 with $1. Wages generally seem to have iiist about kept pace with the cost of liv- ing. But now that wages are so high, it will take a long time for the cost of, living to come down. High wages mean that everything is peg ged at a fairly high level. Farmers must remember this in selling their products. One dollar and twenty r-Mits for corn now is no higher than TO cents hi 1916.' Sexty-eight cent (,ats are no higher than 40-cent oats iii 1916. Hogs now have tosell for 317 to be: comparable with $10 hogs in 1916. ' As long. as wages remain 70 per cent above the price level of 1916, there should be no prolonged decline i:i prices of farm .products Every thing, must remain high unless we have a smash which throws labor out work and reduces wages. NKW FALL CREATIONS ARE. NOW APPEARING Hiiivts Are To Re Narrow Again This Winter, According to the Advanced Styles. New fall goods and wearing ap parel are making their appearance in the Oxford stores. . The early fall ostumes and hats are now on dis play, and a limited number of dress es. The tendency of the prices are toward, while the length of the skirts is slightly downward. The buyers who have returned from the northern markets state" that t'' designs for the fall and winter ''i jsses are very elaborate with prices very much advanced. The new dresses and skirts are to he narrow again this winter, accord ing to the early, fall styles.. Short coats with elaborate vestees are lead ing the fall styles, and many" new suit dresses of the same design are among the displays. " ' A few new hats have also appear ed. The trimmings are mostly feath ers and very sparing in quantity us ed, while' the materials of the hats are mostly velvets and heavy ; silk goods. . ' . PUBLISHED f j BOMBSHELLS PROPOSED TO ANNIHILATE H C. OF L. Senator Kirby's bill reduces per cent below present market rate. Senator McKellar's resolution ; S68 Probe by coalition com mittee. N .: Representative Igoe's resolu tion orders the Federal Trade Commission to probe food prices.. ., r i Representative James wants President to purchase necessi ties ,. and market them to con sumer at cost. ' ' Representative Kelley propos es "U. S. commandeer food held in colu storage more than three 'months. Senator Thomas wants taxes cut down as a starter. Senator Myers moves to re duce currency in circulation. Representative Huddleson's bill limits prices to amount " charged November 11, 1918 (Ar mistice Day). Proposal, much echoed, , that Wilson use the billion dollar subsidy wheat to pay the farm er the difference between the $2.26 price guaranteed and the market, as regulated by supply and demand. Administration names com- mittee to propose ways and means. WHAT IT COSTS TO RUN ' THE CITY OF OXFORD The Heaviest Single Item In the Budget Is the Interest On Bonds. '-' At a called meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Oxford, held in the Mayor's office July 29, Mayor Stem was present and presided over the meeting. The members of the board present were rMssrs, Williams,'! Yancey, Ray and McFarland. . The meeting. was called as requir ed by law to hear any complaint or objections, to the budget as prepared Executive department Police department . . General street .. ... Stable expenses Fire department . '. . Water .... ... ... j Lighting . . . . - Sanitary department . -Town property . . .. i Interest on bonds .. 'Sewer Cemetery .. .. .. . j Sinking fund .. ; Graded school .. . $2,900 .2,400 1,500 1,200 2,400 1,800 10,000 1,800 . . 600 1,300 6,300 Total .$38,800 GRANVILLE COUNTY WELFARE BOARD HOLDS MEETING Assistants Will Be Placed In Every Community of the County. The County Welfare Board, com posed of Mr. J. E. Jackson, superin tendent of welfare work; Rev. R. C. Craven, Mr. Graham Daniel and Mrs. Mary Cooper Evans, held a meeting in Mrs. Capehart's office Saturday. The latitude of welfare work was discussed and the far reaching results the board "desires to accom plish by a thorough organization' in the county engaged their attention. The board adopted a, plan by which every community in the county will . feel the' benefits of systematic wel fare work. . V An assistant will be appointed in every, community of the county to aid in carrying along the work. Wei- will name" the assistants and instruct them iave them in the field when hnnls oDen: The board and and the ap- pointees serve without compensa tion. . ; . n -. There are at best 6,000 school children in the county who will come under the watchful care of the welfare- officer and his assistants. Their health and morals will be looked af ter and they -will be put through some kind bf a physical examination to what extent is determined by the law covering welfare work. The board also.had under consid eration the work that is to be prose cuted among ; the colored people of the county. )j . TELEGRAPH OFFICE MOVED . ., -.-f . t. Novv In the Back Room of National Bank Building. v The Western Union Telegraph Company, has leased the rear voom of the National : Bank, , on .Bank street, and moved into liheir hand: gome new .quarters" Monday. . v';-''-v.". .- : . ' , - . " ' s LY-TOWN AND COUNTY OFFER BRILLIANT OPPORTUNITIES-AIL HOME PRINT. OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA; PLANS FOR A FINE HOTEL IN OXFORD , IS BEING DISCtSSED A Modern Fireproof Brick-and-Stone Structure With One Hundred Rooms Haunts the Dreams of the -Promoters. One hears much these days about a modern; fireproof 100-room hotel for Oxford, but the people of Oxford talk so much and act so slow that there is no- telling how long it will take to get things in readiness and erect the building. Just how far the project has ad vanced the Public Ledger is hot ad Vised, but it is stated for a certainty that the promotors hold options on two or three valuable sites in the business section of the town and that the determination to build a high class hotel for touritsts is strong.'; We already have a hotel here a bundantiy able to take care of the 'average man and the average crowd, as was demonstrated recently when the farm agents of Jhe district met he e and adopted a resolution thank ing the management of the Exchange Hotel for the manner in which they were entertained. . The new hotel wwid no ( doubt be operated along more elaborate lines. It would be a good thing tqMook at and a good place to stop and the charges would be in proportion to the service. You could not expect to fill the rooms with cheap Johns and come clear. Every, time . you ride on a hotel elevator or rinse your fingers in a " cut-glass , bowl it costs something, - to . sa nothing of the , steam heat, hot and cold water, lux urious furnishings, - three dainty meals per day served' by pretty maids. This will be the class of custom the new hotel will cater to. It is to be connected up with a string of hotels run in like manner, and a hotel man of wide experience says a high-class hotel in Oxford with 100 rooms is by no means too large to accommodate the number of tourists who know a good thing when they see it and pat ronize it as long as their welcome holds out. . It is claimed that a high-class ho tel, and by this we mean - one that is exquisite in appointment, is an in ducement to capital. - 7.t';Iest'''they would have elegant surroundings for themselves and. their families while they were erecting their homes and their manufacturing plants. i WHOLE-TDIE HEALTH OFFICER FOR GRANVILLE j Dr. J. A. Morris Will Put In Full 1,800) Time. - 2,70Crj' The Granville County Board of 2,100 fHealth, composed of Messrs J. Ennis Davis, chairman yBoard . of County Commissioners; Major T. G. Stem, Mayor of Oxford; Prof. J. F. Webb, superintendent of . , county schools; Dr. T. L. Booth, and ,Dr. W. L. Tay lor, of Stoyall, met Monday. The question of a whole-time health officer for town and county was debated atme length, and re sulted in the election of Dr. J. A., ' Morris, of Wilton. EXTENDS INVITATION TO HON. W. J. BRYAN The secretary , of the Granville County Fair is in correspondence with Hon. William Jennings Bryan. It is hoped that the great commoner will see his way clear to visit Oxford and deliver a speech at the Fair Grounds on October 14-16. b u i7l e t i n s WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. 3f.iin tainanee of one field army with a war stw) firth of 1,250,000 men, Is proposed in a bill establishing a permanent ." military policy was sent to Congress today by Secretary- Baker. The active force of this army would be 510,000 regu lars, while the remainder would be young men who had taken a a three-months military training course, which would be compul sory for all 19-year-old youths. This reserve strength . would be used to fill out the 20 infantry di visions and one cavalry division into which it is proposed to divide the regulars. , WASHINGTON,' Aug. 4- Four hundred and fifty thousand mem bers of the 'brotherhoods of rail way and steamship clerks, ; freight handlers and express, clerks to day Joined with other railroad workers in "demanding that un less something be done materilly , to., decrease the cost of living, our wages ' must be raised to give us relief." - J CHICAGI, Aug. 4. Grain and provisions chashed heavily down ward today in value. Selling was on a large ; scale, Influenced chief ly; by the widespread agitation agafnst the high cost of living. Within an hour corn prices drop ped 5 1-2 cents to 8 cents a bush el and pork $1.25 a barrel. De cember 'delivery of corn, the prin cipal option, fell to 1.49 1-4 and January pork to 48.00. ; NEW YORK, Aug. 4. Agitation against the nigh cost of living and: generally disturbed labor condi- tions caused prices to brake more than. $5 a bale during today's early. . trading ' on the cotton market. .. October contracts which sold at , 35.50 and closed at 34.30 on Satur 1 , day, ,. opened .at 34.00, and within fifteen or twenty minutes sold off under heavy general liquidation. TUESDAY AUGUST 5; 1919. OXFORD MAY PURCHASE 1 . FOOD FROM GOVERNMENT Mayor Stem Will Call av Meeting of the Tjwn Commissioners To Pass Upon the Question. Mayor Stem stated yesterday that in all probability the com missioners would assemble in extraordinary session this week with a view of passing upon the proposition to purchase one or two car . loads of government food which is to' be released in a few days. 1 Certain town officials are understood to favor purchasing at least fifteen tons of food. The commodities being' sold through various official agencies include tinned meats, vegetables, fruits etc. Canned beef, it is under stood, could be retailed for less than 25 cents, and other things in proportion. . r A ROMANCE THAT GREW OUT OF THE , WORLD WAR Sergt. Roy Williford's Sweetheart Pays Him a Visit At the Old Homestead. Our fine young soldier friend, Sergt. Roy Williford, who left one of his legs in France, came down from New York three weeks ago, where he is taking treatment preparatory to entering the vocational training school this fall. ; V ' . On arriving at the home of his father, Capt. Andrew Williford, near Berea, Roy talked incessently of his best girl , who lives in New York City. Miss Williford, Roy's pretty and vivacious sister,; hit upon the, scheme of inviting the young New York lady down to spend a couple of weeks with her. . This met with the approval of the good old father and mother, who feel that there is noth ing too good in this world for their noble son. And the scheme also met with, a hearty , response in the heart of 'Miss Belle McCormick, Roy's pret ty little New York friend. Members of the family met . the young lady on her arrival in Oxford and drove immediately to the elegant liOmiseftrSerea; family fell in love with her. The "fatted calf' was killed every day, and the young lady, whose heart and mind is sweet and pure, looked out upon the broad landscape and ex claimed with enrapture : "There is nothing quite so beautiful in all this world as the blue hills in Granville and my Granville friends in parti- - cular." Sergt. Williford and Miss McCor mick motored over to Henderson Friday and caught a train for New York. V ; V ' A TENDER MESSAGE FROM A GOOD OLD MOTHER Wishes the Young People Mucli "Happiness By, Right Living and Right Thinking. 'Beautiful indeed and fraught with Srave and tender warning is the message sr.Witted tov the . Public Ledger by a dear oldmother. She is. -no' "doubt unduly alarmed at the change that has jcome into the lives of .the young .people of the present generation, and the change has been for the better, but the dear old mother, tender and true, seems not to. realize that the young people at thi? da1"" and time are better quali fied to protect themselves than at any time in the history of the .world The letter follows: , . Editor Public Ledger: , -As a mother, and one who appre ciates the gravity and responslbn of womanhood, I have for several years past looked with sorrow upon the ever-increasing trend ot mcabfu society V to a greater laxity of mor als and a more complete separation from that which is pure and good and elevating. I would not be class ed as a moralist, neither as a critic nor an idealist, but as a tender," lov ing mother I come, and ask that our young women and young men stop and' give an ear , tcr ; the , .warnings; more correctly I should say, to the pleadings of mother,' and of wom en older and bettor fitted to advise, to teach, to warn. It is a sad traversity on the train ing qf the youth of our nation when it becomes necessary to appoint com mittees in some places to restraia and regulate the conduct of young people at certain places of. amuse ment. , I - We love our girls and boys, and our heart's de'sire is that they shall find true happiness, and true happi ness can be secured only by rigm living "and right thinking, certainly not by the foolish indulgence of vul gar and indecent amusements. We como to you, our childrer, not in an unkind spirit, but with : love, with . solemn pity, with' understand ing. We ' make , our appeal for;, the re-establishmeiit of riht living and a decent, order of things.' ! 7 - : ,A MOTHER. CHICAGO HAS GOT ENOUGH , OF THE NEGRO RACE! The Herald Asks Governor Bickett Will Engage In the Insurance Bust How Many Negroes North j ' nss Again. V : Carolina Can Absorb. jCapt. E. E. Fullet, who left Ox .mvfl ;w,OM . ' iord two years ago for Camp Sevier, , The Chicago Herald, one of the later ?mnr U wro w i I first papers m the Northwest to array C61U BUVUiB ouuui jyuMi white claiming that they were down-trodden and persecuted, sent the following telegram to Governor Bickett last Friday and requested an 'j immediate response: Many negroes who came here for war work are anxious to re turn South if the South needs . . them. . Their spokesmen ask us to inquire how many your State . can absorb. They are of the more . mdustrious class, distinct from the bad element responsi ble for the . difficulties here. . Please Rush Answer at our ex- . pense. ' . Not until fifty people had been killed in vthe riots and the hospitals ? uveruruwueu. wim wuuuueu aim uue hundred buildings burned to the ground and - three thousand women and children made homeless, did the Chicago people realize 'that the Sputh is the place for the, negro. They invited the negro to their city, they entertained them in .their homes and placed tnemseives on equality and made them what they I are. After nutting the devil into him, they request the Southern Stat- es to absorb them with al f attending evils, or else they will shoot him like they would a aog. Denver us trom tne unicago ne gro.. We have no such "people down here and -we don't want them to come down here and contaminate those that we have, v ' . The Boston people, too, have mis led the' colored people and made tHem believe that the people of the South are their Worst enemy. A i c lash between the races in that city will fionlfi snnner.or later, and ;when it does the colored people will know the white people of the Southwhere he is known and appraised at his true worth J COOPKi'Sr ARHQUSB JN , . HIIUIj;ii!SOi BURNED DOWJr k New One Will Be Built At Once. (Henderson Daily Dispatch.) Cpoper's Co-operative Warehouse, one of the oldest tobacco sales rooms in the city, was destroyed by firey the excessive rains, it is thought shortly after 1 o'clock Sunday after-' he 1919 crop will sell for as much noon. v ' '.; ' ' " money as did the 1918 crop.' Hun- The origin of the fire is a mystery, dreds of thousands of dollars are be Incendiarism has been suergested ? iner naid nut to tobacco rowers each but this cannot, as yet, be substan tiated. It burned so fast that all trace of its inception was obliterated. D. Y. Cooper, Jr., manager of the warehouse interests bf the Coopers, stated that the insurance would a-r mount- to approximately $12,000 or $15,000.. When it is estimated that the cost of replacing the 1 building will crowd closely upon $50,000, it may be seen that . the loss will . be very near $35,000. Great haste is to attend the re building. Eyery available man for whom space can be found to wield a shovel and pick or a mason's trowel will be put on the scene. TO HAVE AXTI-TOBACCO LAWS EXACTED IX ALL STATES OF THE UXIOX New York, August 4. After a two months' inquiry conducted, in - this city, Chicago, San Francisco . and elsewhere to determine . whether there was . a concerted campaign .to bar the use of tobacco now that li quor has gone by the boards the As sociation Opposed to National Prohi bition issued a statement here charging- that the Women's Christian Temperance union was backing a movement to have anti nicotine laws enacted in every state in the union. The organization is hopeful of having' Congress submit a constitu tional amendment before March 20, 1924, its semi-centenial, forbidding the cultivation, sale, use or export of the weed for i smoking, or chewing purposes. v . , . DURHAM TO HAVE A UNIT This Is Intimated in a Letter From From Gen. Royster to Maj. 3IcLehdon. '.' ' ' : (Durham Sun.) Durham is to have a . unit of the new North Carolina National Guard. At least this is the news strongly in timated in a letter received by Major McLendon from General B. S. Roys ter. This letter was received in r re sponse to one written by Major Mc Lendon inquiring as to the National Guard and Durham's chance . for, a unit. ' """ ; ; ' . v Col. a John T. Britt arrived' from Washington Sunday and is spending a short vacation at home, v ' - i ii i , .. mlm . .X NUMBER 62 CAPT. IS. E. FULLER SPENDING SHORT FURLOUGH HERE the Oxford volunteer infantry, re- turned rbm overseas two weeks ag0 reached home from Camp Mills Saturday. He is here on , fifteen daw flirlftllpv -at iha mA ftf time he will report at Camp Lee for final discharge. Capt. Fuller was among the first of the troops of the American Expe ditionary Forces and was among the' last to return. He saw much active service on the Ypres front, where he was at the head of a battalion for several months. He was later de tailed in the reclamation service and spent several months at Verdun, lat er going to the American headquar-' ters at Toul, where he was engaged (in checking up and tabulating equip- mentf supplieSt Mc. Capt. Fuller is a handsome, sol dier and the , service seems to have agreed with him. Col. Minor, who commanded the 120th infantry of the famous Thirtieth division, stated at the Fair Grounds here last 'spring that "Cant '-Fuller was one of the beat j and bravesrsoldiers ;of tne American' farmy. - , ; -v;-;:.. Jt was rumored here that Capt. Fuller would remain in the service, but his many friends here are glad ta learn that he will join his brother , 1n th inarnnnA hiisin which h established before going abroad. TOBACCO PRICES AT LUMBERTON HAVE. ADVANCED Three Warehouses Crowded Last Week and Prices Take a Jump (Special to the Public Ledger) ' Lumberton, August 4. The three large warehouses here were crowded with tobacco every day last week. Prices showed a substantial increase Pver the previous week . . have ranged from 45 to 65 cents the Pound, while the lower grades have advanced around 5 cents on the pound. . . ; s Jarmer ; sold . one s, curmg.. . Irom . Bir acrr---if4Z0-"pouBa-----aer"'"" Thursday for 64 1-2 cents the pound, or a total of $919.77 for the barn, Several others sold like "number of pounds for from 60 to 63 cents the pound. ' Whilo miirh tnhnrrn vas ininrpd week and business is on a boom. PRICE LIST OF GOVERN- MENT FOOD SUPPLIES . n rtTZZTTu -ruMvj -n..-' , No portion of the army food sup plies put on the market by the War Department and served , out through the Post Office Department has been received here, according to Postmas ter Lassiter, who said that all he knew about it was what he had read in the papers. It was announced from Washington that householders in all parts of the country were to share in the cheap distribution, and . it is considered likely that price lists will be received here probably next week. ,' PLEASE ANNOUNCE ALL THE - SPACE YOU HAVE FOR RENIN Those Who Can Share Their Homes ;- With People Who Have x No Place. Every day there is a legitimate de mand for rooms, and the demand is not being supplied by any manner or means. It would be well if every one who has any surplus room would make a careful estimate of - the amount of space they have that they could and would ' rent and let the fact be known. , There are always a certain amount of rooms for rent, but' the demand today is for "more than the normal amount of rooms, and this being true all possible should be done to relieve the situation and supply : the demands. , There are perhaps a good many homes in Oxford where rooms hate not heretofore been for rent that might supply some at this time of great need j : . Every "for rent'' room in Oxford should be brought to the front and made available. " Cohn & Sonvs Redaction Sale. Many people from town and coun-v. ty are availing themselves of the big reduction sale now on at Cohn & -Son's. Something to suit every man woman, boy and girl is found -in the f elegant stock of goods which is marked down to 4 suit; everybpdyi pocketbook. ' See the announcement : J of Cohn & Son on the, last page of, this' paper. 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