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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-04-29
Knox Trial is
Now Under Way

Montross. Va April -. Tit"
trial Of Miss Sarah Knox. the nurse
charged. With III" murder OF MtS.
Margaret E,aStlako ;tt Colonial
Beach. &ot under Wy after Jud:;"
Chinn had ordered all women from
the court room.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-04-29

Natchez, Miss. April "a Sc
rious slough appeared in the Mis-
siss;ppi between Byrne and Euck-
ridge, about j miles above New
elton, La. today. y crack about
40 feet long with clear water show
ing developed. The threatening
condition caused great apprehen-
sion for 4 time and men were rush
ed from adjacent points to combat
the new trouble. Late reports
from Ncwellton stated that the
levee i now in a satisfactory con-
dition.
Engineers stated that all levees
in the Fifth Louisiana levce district
are holding.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-04-29
WOMEN FAVOR
FORD'S BID
Expected to Pass Resolution
Urging Acceptance

Baltimore, April 21.-Thc Mt
ional League OF Women Voters -
eNpec ctcd to Vote a resolution rec
ommcnding that the govcrnrscn:
accept Henry F'urd's offer ior Mus
Gle Shoals.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-04-29

g.
Fort Worth. April 25.-John J.
Mccain. Fort Worth city engineer.
issued a statement tonight, in which
he declared that the levees around
The rivers which broke here early
today and flooded loWlands Of this
city We're "dynamited by unknown
parties, and that an investiga
ton by grand jury would be de-
Handed immediately.
..IIt is our opinion that the leyee
did not break of It's own accord
but was dynanaited and as soon
as the situation is relieved we are
going TO place the facts before the
grand jury and demand an inves-
tigatioa.v Mccain declared.
This decision is based upon a
made to me by John j.
Lyden, field supervisor and a
member of the levee board for the
last l2wyears, in which. he declared
he had men patrolling the levec all
Monday night and all day Tues
. day and that it was his opinion
that the levee was dynamited
I'VE are not placing the blame
.upon any one bat We are going to
piaee the facts before the grand
jury
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-04-29

New Orleans. April 27.-I hoax
has occurred in the Mississippi
levee at Poydras, ten miles souif.
Of here, and three hundred and
fifty families are fleeing Cor their
lives
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-04-29
Matter OF Dyes.

The Gtah senator asserted tnat
the chemical foundation claimed
TO own all the patents and trade
marks on dyes as Il result OF the
sale TO it of such patents and trade
II arkS seized by the alien property
custodian during the war, and de-
clared thar Il decent regard Tor
treaties and international law for
Eadc such seizures.
The only thing 10 do" he added.
is 10 restore the seized property
to the German nationals. We are
not pirates nor are we brigandS.
Chairman McCumber OF the IL
nance committee defended Ameri-
can business men from what he
said had been the attacks made on
them by Senators King and Jones
ODcnlocrats) OF New Mexico il ad-
dresses yesterday. He told the
senate that he had seen printed
warnings to Americans travelling
abroad to beware OF the merchants
of certain foreign countries because
they would rob the American tour
lists. He added that no such warn
ing had ever been given about
American business men.
In opening his address Senator
Simmons told the senate that Il
study of the bill in connection with
existing conditions in this country
and abroad made ii perfectly
clear. tha, il was framed with
view TO enable the industries pro-
tectvd to advance further present
..cNcrSSiNclX high prices.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-04-29

Fort Worth, April 26:-The
rain continued TO fan today, max
ing the flood conditions more men,
acing. with the continued rapid rise
of Trinity river Fears are express
ed that the death coll, placed at
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-04-29

St. Louis. April 25.-More than
$500 persons are homeless and at
least $500 homes in the Trinity
valley between Arlington Heights
and Fort Worth, Texas. are in
undated. according TO advices re-
ceived by the Southwestern division
of the American Red Cross here
tonight.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-04-29
TARIFF Bill,
IS LOADED
WITH DANGER
Sen. Simmons Points
Out What It Means
to American People
Rates Are EXces-
slve

Washington. April 2G.-SumnlinG
up a three hours attack on the
pendin. tariff bin today in the sen
ate Senator. Simmons Democrat
oc North Carolina declared that il
was his "dclihcrate Judgment that
the measure was ''frauSht With
more danger 10 the people Of the
country and the institutions under
which they live than any bill which
ever crossed the threshold OF this
chamber.
The senator said he supposed
the measure would be passed, not
because il met the Judgment OF the
senate. but because Z considerable
part OF the majority of the senate
are willing TO forego their oppo-
Sition 10 what they regard rs un-
just impositionS upon the people in
order to get concessions for those IN
whom they are especially interest
ed
Departing from the text of his
address. which had been prepared
after what he described as careful
study of the bill, the Democratic
leader said there should be no de-
liherate delaying tactics on the MI
noriuy side. but that there must be
iull and free discussion ito make
clear what this bill If passed will
mean TO the American people.
SI;l5 DpubIa HatnS
He declared that the rates in
the bill were from 40 TO so per
cent higher than those Of the ill
1ated payne-Aldrich" tariff bill and
were double those in the Under
wood law. Enactment Of the
measure. he asserted. would result
in higher costs of living increased
unemployment and the further
monopolization of American indus
tries"
The senator charged that the
rule followed by the finance CON-
mittee in determining rates. TO-
sether with the superadded rate
making powers conferred upon the
president. makes rate fIXlnS al
most as much "a matter OF political
and personal patronage as the dis
tr!bGtion OF federal offices
After Senator Simmons con-
cludcd. Senator King (DemocraD
of Utah continued his analysis OF
the chemical schedule. begun yes
terday. He charged that the pro-
vision in the bill making it unlaw-
ful 10 import dyes in containers or
packages bearing the trade marx
OF dyes registered in the United
states was "A joker" added TO the
measure in the interest of the so
called chemical foundation OF
which practically all dye manu-
tacturerS in this country are MEM
berS."
The Washington times., 1922-10-07
SelfHelp in
the Home

IN an interesting article in Amer
lea at Work." Paul w. Brown
i gives statistics showing the
marked decrease in the number OF
domestic servants in America. He
thinks the cause is the increase IN
the number of labor-saving me-
chanical devices, such as the
vacuum cleaner, the power-washer
and electric flatiron, the electric
toaster and percolator, the power
operated icebox with its refriger-
ating plant, ETC., etc.
No other cause is mentioned, and
yet, although the increase in the
use of the machine is an important
one, there are other more impor
tant causes. The high wages of
the domestic servant, the latter S
independence and greater and
greater unwillingness to do general
houSework.
The factory is more attractive
than the home to greater and
greater numbers of girls, for free
dOm IN the evening is assured ana
the social contrasts are not forced
constantly on their attention. They
are thereby less humiliated.
These are the causes which en-
barrass a multitude of households,
and lead not only to the greater
use of the machine, but what is of
vastly greater social Importance, to
greater self-help. Mothers and
wives do more of their own work,
and children are by necessity
drawn into the useful and con-
structive work of home life.
The situation is a good one in a
double sense. The domestic SER
want is passing away-which is as
it should be in a democratic society
and the master" class is learn
ing to serve itself.
The Washington times., 1922-10-07
The Laundering
of Newspapers

THE United States Forest
Products Laboratory has just
i developed a process to de-ink
old newspapers. Then, repulped
and remade, they will be absolutely
fresh newsprint, good as new.
The process is cheap, and this
rebirth of used papers will salvage
much of the 100000 tons of news
print required annually in America
to tell the people what is happening
in the world.
Every year the pulp mills swal-
low up forest area 900 square
miles in extent. If there were
unlimited quantities of spruce, the
principal source of supply, the
problem would not be so serious.
There are not enough standing
spruce trees in the United States
to supply the industry for the next
twenty years.
Scientists are hot on the trail of
substitutes, with all the zeal of
hunters for buried treasure.
The Washington times., 1922-10-07
Frances Philosophy

IT is pleasant to see the char
acteristic quality of a great
i writer reasserting itself occa-
sionally in the news. Anatole
France, the most distinguished of
living Frenchmen, refusing to lend
the prestige Of his name to the can
didacy of a reactionary political
writer, Maurras, for election to the
French Academy, gave his dislike
of partisanship as reason.
Although he might be called an
advanced Socialist" the entire
work of Anatole France is shot
through with non-partisan phi
losophy-with tolerance and gentle
irony, an aloofness from all creeds,
political and other, and a constant
adherence with the spirit.
A great scholar, understanding
how the institutions of men come
and go, he is ironical about all
absoluteS. In the above connection,
although he saw that Maurras
doesn't belong in the Academy, he
said something which showed his
habitual reaction to such institu-
tions. "The days of the Academy
are numbered like those of the
greater part of our institutions, /"
he remarked to the reporter. To
the latter he introduced a young
boy, with the smiling words: MY
grandson. He is reactionary.
Naturally"
In seven words Anatole France
expressed his philosophy of life.
The Washington times., 1922-10-07
Fair Play to
Immigrants

YYNCLE SAM will permit the
entry of only 357,903 immi-
- grants during the year which
began July l. Three per cent of
it's representation in the United
States, by the census of 1910, is
the limit of the newcomers any
country can send during the
twelve months. When this quota is
reached, bang goes the gate, the
"welcome" sign is taken down, the
disappointed excess has to take its
little bags and boxes and go home,
at the expense of the steamship
company.
The quota of any country may
be exhausted in a few weeks or
months. There is a rush to get in
first that is as feverish as the in
vasion of new gold field. Every
ocean liner is now crowding on all
steam to land its cargo of immi-
grants, as if they were perishable
fruit in a rising market.
Recently, the parents of a girl
still in her teens were admitted
and she was sent back alone to
Turkey because its limit had been
reached. Separation of parents
and children is not uncommon.
Immigrants who have scrimped and
saved and struggled to reach the
land of the great hope are often
turned back in agony and despair
under the very shadow Of the
Statue of Liberty, on mere ques-
ton of statistics.
Whether this basis of restriction
Is wisest and best may be open to
discussion. In any event, it should
be administered more kindly, more
humanely and sanely. 1t relegates
entrance into America to the lot
terry class.
The remedy is simple. Serially
numbered permits to the limit of
its yearly quota could be issued for
each nation. These might be en-
trusted to American consuls, who,
after testing candidates for admis-
sion, could issue the permit. When
these were all distributed, the i'm
migration from that country would
stop automatically. Unused per-
mits could be cancelled and new
ones substituted.
Let entry into America be selec-
tive, dignified and assured to all
having permits, not a wild scrim-
mage, unfair to the alien because
he is forced through ignorance to
play game of chance with fate to
get under the wire of statistics.
And let those who are admitted
be given the glad hand" which
will help them at once to feel at
home in this land of the pilgrim S
pride.
The Washington times., 1922-10-07
Science Queries and Replies
lr Lucien Larkin-
Director of Lot0e Observatorv

did the solar system enter
Aquarius?"
Inc solar system never e,.
tered Aquarius and never car.
All astronomers know that the
Sun. its majestic retinue ~
eight planets, twenty.six moons.
one thousand asteroids. about
one hundred comets and several
meteor streams as one happv
or maybe unhappy family. ire
moving at the specific speed OF
1875 miles per second toward the
giant sun Vega. But Il IL
thirty.eight degrees forty.threc
minutes north Of the celestial
equator; while Aquarius is near
the equator. Such epochs a I'd
ages are man made"
Real ages as Archean, Palc-
oEoic, Cenozoic. Subcarniferou 4
Jurassic. Deconian and the Ike
recorded In the geological strait
Of the earth, separated by well
marked characteristics a.
called ages, epoChs or periodi
The age Of G,acistion, when I;
Northern Hemisphere of u
earth was covered by a layer I
ice, IL properly called an ~.
The Washington times., 1922-10-07
WAYSIDE WISDOM
AN AUTUMN LOVE SONG.
(Copyright, ls1f.O
BY S. E. Kiser

nARLING, Aprils far away,
~ Summers roses all are dead:
From the scenes that once were gay
August merriment has fled!
Spring, when all the world is green,
Brings the heart a quicker throb;
In October, though, I've seen
Love still active on the Job.
DOETS sing in praise of June
l. As the time when love busts loose;
When the ground is blossom -strewn
Every gander loves goose.
But we two need not complain
II the leaves are turning sere;
Castles still are built in Spain,
We can still be dreaming, dear.
TRUE, the brook has hushed its song'
i Much is old that once was new;
Still Pm yearning right along
As yearncd In May for you!
LET the dead leaves fall and let
All the vines be stripped, my sweet;
There are starry evenings yet,
Coaxing you is still treat.
nON'T be stingy, implore.
~ With your kisses or your smiles;
Summers gone, but Autumn's door
Opens on fair afterwhiles!
Even If it isn't May,
And If Aprirs charm has fled
| am willing any day,
With your help, to lose my head.
The Washington times., 1922-10-07
Go In AL OUer
BY DIR. Charles Fleischer-

TdEY say that when the late
Lord Northcliffe was to be
knighted and was given the
usual chance to change his
commoner name of Harms.
worth. he chose Northcliffe be-
cause it begins with an IN"
Doubtless, unless you are in
the secret. you are asking your.
self the high-brow equivalent
Of What has that to do with
the high price of cheese?"
Just this: That IN" plainly
stands for Northcliffe and Sc.
cretly for-Napoleon.
Because, you see, this famous
publisher fancied that he re.
sembled. in figure and in spirit.
the much more famous Corsi.
can.
1t was an amiable weakness,
one which many Of us share
with him. Not that we imagine
We look like Napoleon, but we
love to feel that we resemble
the great ones of the earth.
And so we do, essentially.
For we are all of the same spirit
stuff.
The Washington times., 1922-10-07

grow.
~ Great lights from little
filaments flow.
Forty years ago and more Edison
invented the electric bulb. The
best it could do was about fifteen
candle power.
Recently the Illuminating En-
glneerS of America in convention
at Swampscott, Mass, looked at a
giant 10000 candle power bulb
which has been developed for mo-
ton picture studios by engineers of
the General Electric Company.
The light has a bulb twelve
inches in diameter and eighteen and
half inches high.
Its light is the equivalent of
2,4OO ordinary household lamps.
Its tungsten wire filament is
ninety-three inches long, in four
coils--enough filament to supply
$4,000 of the usual household lamps
1t burns So worth of current per
hour.
Three such lamps use as much
current as the average trolley.
A Schenectady motion picture
studio which will use thirteen of
them will have electric sunlight on
switch whenever they want it.
The Washington times., 1922-10-07
SAP and SALT
BY Bert Moses

Bert
Copyright. 1922 by Premier Syndicate 1nc)
Making things is easy; selling them isn't.
The disease you are afraid of is the disease
you get.
Love can live without language, but words
alone will keep hate alive.
Governments commit far more crimes than
they prevent.
It is simply amazing how little you can get
along with when you have to.
When cleverness is overdone, It becomes an
aggravated form Of stupidity.
The brain and stomach are partners; what
hurts one hurts the other.
Getting the first husband is much more
difficult than getting the second or third.
Hez Heck says "A veil muses. things all
up when you try to kiss thrS,gh It,"
The Washington times., 1922-10-07
Something to Think About
BY Bruno Lessing-
LONG, LONG AGO.

what we read and what we
studied? But man wiping his
nose on his sleeve four hun.
dred years ago-ah. yes, that's
real and understandable. I've
often seen it on the Bowery.
T was in this sixteenth cen.
L tury that the Puritans in
England protested against the
use of organs in churches. 1t
was an innovation which, as
one clergyman declared, was
"rending the Church Of Christ
and scattering the flock" In
the year 1862 a convocation NJ
parsons took up the matter and
supported the organ-by a ma.
jority Of one.
Today it's mighty poor
church that has no organ. And
Ihe sweet uplifting melody
that rises from countless pipes
Is vastly more inspiring than
the majority of dreary, long.
winded sermons that are droned
out. When music stirs YOUR
emotions, you feel. When
words hammer against the tym.
panium of your ear, you think.
And. II they are stupid words
you fall asleep.
RCT all these little histori-
- cal sidelights afford in.
teresting material for thought
They reveal steps in the con.
slant change which is going on
And they also reveal oddities Of
human nature which seem
never to change.
Copyright. 1922 King F..tu,.,
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1922-10-07
NO HOME AGAIN
By BUGS" BAER

OUTDOOR meals are over for
" skeeters. Folks are moving
back to city fast as their panics
can carry EN-.
0VERLAND furniture season
" is here. Every bou. evard Is
garnished with interior decora.
tions. There are some unusual
furniture exhibitions on every
detour.
COMMON people start moving
~ their instalment treasures
from restricted suburbs to town.
They want to get back into
form. fitting apartments before
their quota is exhausted for
October.
DESCLT is that they live in
IL vans. Like gypsies. They
are bouncing back from noun
tains, lakes and seashores. Fliv'
yers are loaded with door mats,
chifforobes, ice boxes, baby car
riages. kitchen stoves, rustic
chairs and other prize winners
in furniture tournaments.
OOKS like centennial ami
- versary Of cooperative chain
stores. Each flivver scampers
along like 1t was going direct
from manufacturer to consumer.
THEY move furniture out IN
i snrinR Move II back in fall.
II wanders around so much that
state ought to make EN- license
ice boxes and bureaus like sight
seeing buses.
IN old days, when you saw fur
niture piled up In neat spin
ters on sidewalk. 1t meant that
some landlord had put 'em out.
NOW, when you pipe family
~ sobbing over their outdoor
utensils on curb, It means that
landlord won't let 'em in.
IT'S your own fault. Once you
get your bird's.eye lumber
planted-let II stick there. Don't
stampede it into woods for sum-
mer and then chase It back in
winter.
DOOR old flivver is supposed
L to seat two. Two families.
Also their emergency wicker.
ware, stepladders and coal
bins. They lose some chunk of
furniture at every bump in
road.
SECONDHAND trail from As.
~ bury Park to Liberty street
ferry is lined with crippled sofas
and morris chairs. You can
step along any boulevard and
pick out your own parlor suites.
DARLOR lamps. aquariums and
L bathtubs are milestones along
fugitive turnpike.
COMMUTERS drop everything
~ In their low.rent fever to get
hack into neutral zone before
their landlords sue 'em for de.
sertion.
The Washington times., 1922-10-07
THE great are like the rest of
us-only more So"

us-only more So"
The curious thing, however.
is: That we are so willing to
seem like the great in their
faults and defects, the while we
fail 10 respond to the noblesse
which should oblige us to emu.
late their qualities and powers
as well.
Note how commonly persons
who pun will justify themselves
in Shakespeare, who was a no.
torious punster.
Many minor poets and artists
and litterati carelessly cruise
the coasts of questionable Bo
hemias because this or that
dead master is known to have
been more or less self.indulgent
or careless of conventions.
However. Shakespeare is not
the transcendent genius of Eng.
The Washington times., 1922-10-07

Can there be scientific
theory? - ConStdnt Reader,
NeWdrk, n. J.
IMPOSSIBLE. There may bc
i theories relating to science,
in fact there are many. And
theories have existed rega"3.
ing science since science Le.
gan. But the instant one has
been proven beyond a remo'e
doubt, It becomes science.
Science has to be true. ANY
theory proved ceases to be
theory at that instant and bv.
comes a very peculiar thing
science.
What is the Aquarian Age?
When did the last Aquarlan
,ns , Of the Aauarian epoch?--
Three Inquiries IN same days
natl
TlHERE is no Aquarian Ay'.
Il and cannot be. Aquarius
IL an imaginary sign in the
Zodiac, and does not exist
more than a line between New
York and Connecticut.
Two OF the letters contain
the absurd question: "Wh N
The Washington times., 1922-10-07
Stars and Stripes
SPEAKING OF FISH.

SPEAKING OF FISH.
Scientist has discovered that fish really
fall in love. Sure Every poor fish does
You can always hear plenty Of knocks
in your car when your relatives are riding
with you.
Bohemian" is person who will
take you to dinner II you will lend him S.
Some people get their sciences mixed
Hipology Is the study of the hrose, not
the study OF the blind pig.
The Washington times., 1922-10-07
DEMOCRACY.

One trouble with the democ.
racy spirit seems to be that
everyone wants TO live, dress.
and act like a millionaire. There.
fore, the class that receives tips
will always flourish, and they
that give tips will always be
poor.
The Washington times., 1922-10-07
DIETETICAL NOTE.

DIETETICAL NOTE.
Poincare is a vegetarian. Hugo SHINES
eats meat. Lloyd George lives almost
entirely on crises.
II Mathilde Mccormick does go into
opera as reported, It will be only natural
for Max Oser to watch the performance
from stall.
A well.known artist says that the mod.
ern girl has no heart. We can see from
the present styles that she isn't wearing
Il on her sleeve this MAR.
The Washington times., 1922-10-07

A BOUT seventy.five years
"A ago a painstaking French
student by the name of Mon.
tell wrote a history of the
French people. I came across
some extracts from it the other
day. They are worth repeat.
ing.
I'm 1852 physicians in France
were first allowed to marry"
I'm the sixteenth and up to
the middle of the eighteenth
century, il was customary TO
begin dinner with meat and fin.
ish with soup"
Under Henry VII men wore
earrings of precious stones"
HN the sixteenth century
i butchers were whipped
who sold meat in Lent"
I'm the sixteenth century, in
France, only rich people had
pocket handkerchief; others
used their sleeve"
"In the seventeenth century,
the inhabitants of one part Of
Dijon had the right Of kissing
a woman just married as she
came out of the church"
OUCH little sidelights Of his.
- tory bring to us a sense
of reality and the humanness Of
men and women who lived cen.
turtles ago far more vividly than
do the chronicles of the high
spots. Charlemagne. the Cru.
sades, the Spanish Inquisition-
what are they, after all. but
names evoking recollections of
The Washington times., 1922-10-07
NETS WILL BE NEEDED.

The substrata Of Ehowdom no
doubt read with alarm a con.
temporary's recent article headed
open Season on Hams"