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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-27
An Old YIN WIN in Court.

Columbia, Dec. 22-The con-
struction Of the will of a man who
died in lS4S will be the subject
of further consultation by the
State Supreme Court in an en- bane
session which will be held here on
December %. The question arises
in the. case of Jane Purdy Stroth-
erer, ct al. VS.. E. Fl. Folk, ct al.
which was heard at the last pre-
vious en- banc session of the court.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-27
Economy First Issue North
Dakota Legislature

Bismarck, N. LIZ Lee g I i.-ZFl = IeS.lrs1 III
ancial and public welfare problems.
and Others having to do with po-
li4ical consfd derations, will face the
North Dakota legislature when 1t
3conyenes here January For the
first time in three regular sessions
and two special sessions, it VIII not
he controlled by the NonDartisan
eague, small aajerity in both
house and senate being members
sof the Independ ent Voters Assocla-
Hon, coalition Of progressive re-
3publicans and democrats.
Questions OF economy will be the
first to- conae before the legisla!-
tive session. State taxes have iIl-
creased sIs,96s 1863 since . srl5, -,
largely through increases IN road
and school taxation. S. S.:
Reduction in the number OF
banks in the state also VIII be corr
:sidered North Dakota has an
average Of q bank and a halt per
thousand population. The present
law discourages consol ton of
banks and an act that viii permit
their turn over with closing or
liqtndation, IS expected to: be pass
ed.
Legislation also is expected
looking toward the closing OF in
sdustriai experim ments of the league
that have proved Improbable The
league closed the exnerimental
creamery at Werner and stopped
erection OF buildings in its home
building experiment. Most of these
INDUSTRIAL experiments were adopt
ed as Initiated Measures. Increase
IN the power OF the farm loan de-
partnlent and provision for the OPP
Grafton OF the state, owned mill ait
Grand Forks. are among other ex-
pected legislature considerations.
One unit of the mill is running. fhe
complete operation of which the
Ind ependent nistration pledged
san honest effort to determine if
1T is a successful experiment. = :Es
Consideration OF complete list
of laws regarding children and the
lrevamping of. the health laws of
the state to meet present condi-
tons are the chief. welfare meas
Eures TO be acted upon. A children, S
code commission has been at work
for two years and with the help
OF the children's, bureau at Wash
|ington, a system OF laws has been
compiled. The health laws pre-
.sented will be largely an attempt to
consolidate and systenatize the
present health agencies. with some
attempts made at the enlargement
of the field.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-27
EsNSE FOR
MOTOR DRIVERS
aary OF State Highway
Com mission Drafts Recon-
1ieHaafie

Carolina legislature viii be asked
to require the licensing ef all nae-:
tor vehicle drivers in one Of the
recommendations to be submit
ted by Thomas, secretary of
the State Highway commission, 1t
was learned here today Though
Mr.. Thomas has not drafted the.
recommendations he will submit,
in compliance with the instruc-S
tions Of the commission, he said
that he probably would endorse
many parts OF the uniform motor
vehicle law proposed by. the Mo-
tor Vehicle Conference committee
which is composed of representa-
:stixes Of several OF the large inter-;
sests OF the autonnob bile world.
- Another recommended that
Thomas has decided to submit
to the legislature is that the State.
Highway department be- entrusted
within the enforcement OF the mo-
tor vehicle laws of the state.
:ss Regarding the proposed drivers
license. the secretary of the COM
mission stated that the object of
the license would not be the SEE
curing OF revenue, but to provide:
a method OF checking reckless dis
regard by some motorists OF the.
rights of other drivers and of the;
public generally Persons who
We're proved to = have repeatedly
violated the rules for driving would
be deprived of their licenses. ac-;;
eording to Thomas's recom-3
mendation aud they would then be
barred from operating any motor.
vehicle on the the public fighwaysi
until such time as they could se-s
cure another license zss5;
IRasnMch as the drivers liz
.cense not now considered in the
light of a possible nloney-naker ,it.
is Mr.. Thomas. idea that the Ii
#canses should not be issued from:
year to year but for an indefinite
period ors a period Of years that
the legislature may think wise.
This provision would spare the
owners of vehicles the trouble of
securing a new license every year
Sand as tbs proposed to make the
license fee rather nominal, the
suggestion it is believed, will raise
no objection that the tax burden
son the public is being increased.
is-IIverv nprsnn N.J,n drives an aIi-
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-27

small tracts of
good pine timber from IA to 5
million feet. We also pay cash
for No. l pine logs IA inches
and up in diameter delivered to
our new band mill at Denmark.
S. c. The tZickgraf Company,
Denmark, S. g. AZ
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-27
atchnan md Soutlron

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hitnars trtibsifss of re-,
spset NH ae argsd fog
inter Watch man was
Ia fae True
"a The sVatchman
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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-27

Render asks If couple married
near Christmas are yuletied. Yes.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-27
THE SALE OF THE YEAR

IHE SALE UF HE 1EAR
Is now on at Schwartz Bros.
Their. entire stock Of Ready
to-Wear and Millinery are sell
ing at half off. The chance of
the year. Schwartz Bros.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-27

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sttagnes ana twas siearneu mere to-
DAY that Iancl OF the actual dis
Ecussion which has taken place since
that time has been conducted on
behalf OF Anaerican ndnstsy by Of
tieaals g 'i:l of thescha lnber. rs rs
the state department here:
was disp osition to draw q sharp
line OF distinction between actiYs
tiles of American and other busf4
ness men In regard to the problem
and the move made BY govern
ment officials themselves sba-
came clear dnrinrg. the day how isgs.
ever, that The two groups had Kent
in closest touch, and that not only
Secretary Hughes but Secretary
Hoover and others high il. the adj
nlfnistration were fully advised OF
.eiorts made by President Julius
III. Barnes of the Chamber OF com.
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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-12-27
AMERICA ! MAY
YET SETTLE
PROBLEM
Reparations Adjust
ment by American
Commission Looks
Like New Scheme to
Bring Alb ut Cancel
lation Of War Debts
Due United States

Washington, Dee. 81 flBy the.
Associated ress1 plan under
which an American commission
would determine how much Ger
many should be required to pay
the allies In reparations has emerg-
ed from the effort to, find a way
for extending American aid toward
solution of the economic troubles
oe Europe
Although discussions of the pro-
sposal have been kept thus far out.
side the formal channels Of diplo-I
macy, the exchange of views has
developed a thorough unde derstand- :.
ing in authoritative circles that the
United States, Great Britain and
Germany all are willing to assent
to the creation Of such commits
sion.
The plan now is before Premier
Poincare and h is. expected to.
make a decision after he has con.
,ciuded a series OF conferences with.
industrial leaders OF his own coun-.
try and of Germany. It IS assum-.
ed it will be communicated later:
TO all the nations Interested in
Preparations payments. = = s. 8
Officials Of the Washington gov
ernment who. from the beginning Of
the present discussions have been;
unwilling to so more than hint
that a way was being sought 70
render aid toward an European set
clement refused today 10 discuss
the plan for an American COM
mission, Secretary Hughes, how
seNes did issue a statement saying
the government had presented no.
proposal on the subject. Z. 50 s.
The procedure BY which all Of
those directly interested are sound:
ed out before any definite sproposs
e, is submitted with governmental
authority behind It Isl the usual
method employed IN negoti tiafiofis
of great deicacy The secretary,s
statement recalled an assertion.
made a few days ago by White
House Spokesman who said in dis
seussing the American, altitude fo-
ward Europe that it world not he.
proper TO disp play on the stage all
that was taking place Behind the
scenes. ~ $ - g
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-29
FORD ON COAL PRICES.

Henry Ford sharply will close all his industries September inability to get su fcen coal This action will throw employment directly company go into it's
 MT. Ford charges which evidently lieves profoundly.
 He that there collision between operators and heads of railroads to keep prices and adds that price of from to dollars ton at the is extreme fteering MT. Ford says Railroads and mine in to keep the prices There trying to balk them and for tired of trying
 If Mr. Fords charges true and it is to be hoped that they not true that heads of railroads light in their understanding the social industrial phenomena which all about them.
 If the conviction should be brought home the try that these times of tremendous difficulty of getting higher prces the railroad have done what Mr. Ford charges writer in the world the people the tempt especially if successful with energy structure.
 Mr. Ford however having made these charges the country to furnish the evidence which he bases An accusation and dangerous should not be made ones say however important he may be, however wellmeaning. There the risk that he ritated and saying what to the front of his mn do and the risk that he may mistaken saying is not
 Mr. Ford should offer proof of collision Then the American people will know how to act
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-29
OWNING THE POST OFFICES.

Postmaster General Work proposes government shall all the buildings in which postoces stead of part of them. The four cent to build post offices leases
 rental sufficient to permit the lessor and sometimes much per cent borrowed money
 government building is free from leased building Uncle about cent The Postmaster that the reform would the government billion during the next ten years
 How much saved would depend of course upon the amount the government invested in it's buildings building Which government occupies which is con- sruced for the purpose, usually ornate and ex penslve affair than building which it government buildings should represent than the rented buildings time before any ing would be realized and be no saving inc building enough larger and keep equal to the rent of the building succeeded
 The Postmaster General has been through and no doubt has in mind scale of construction that duce the economy he claims.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-29
THE HoUsEwoRKER's HANDS

In loose calculation, it may easily be assumed that the majority of pres ent-day women are doing housework. Many women who once hired their housework done for them, due to changed conditions of living, are do- Ing their own work today. The young couple, and often it is a business cou- pie, solve their home making prob Iems by starting life in the attractive housekeeping apartment, The bus mess women who prefer to board are the exceptions, although most of them add some housekeeping to their tasks TOT the sake of a home of their own making.
 such conditions mean work which would make a woman's hands Ioo1. coarse, if she did not take precautions against 1t. A generation ago a won1- an was excused if her hands showed the effects of her housework: all though most of them were So sensf- tive about their reddened hands as to Keep them covered in gloves when ever possible. Today, a woman must present dainty hands in spite of her houseWork. And she usually does.
 Know a woman who has done most Of her housework for 20 years without ever showing any trace of if on her hands. Since she installed modern equipment for the work she mas rarely needed gloves to protect her hands. Her method is to scrub the hands and clean the nails a num- Der of times during a period of work. She claims this keeps the skin from becoming grin1y. She also uses honey and almond lotion after cleans
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-29
{H9 Dietand Health ! ss1s..yy.so, By Lulu Hunt Peters. MD ss--"' .sor @ Diet Heat aid1 Key Hte CaEarssV

are delicate instruments. Roughly
 described, they consist of an arm band connected to a graduated scale.
 The arm band is made of an elastic bag. This is usually placed around the upper arm and pumped full of
 air until the circulation is cut off from the main artery of the upper arm.
 The amount of pressure which it takes to do this is equal to the high est or the systolic pressure in the ves- sel. The pressure is registered in
 millimeters but usually in giving the blood pressure just the figures are
 given. Instead of saving the systolic pressure is 125 mil1imeters, one sim ply says the systolic pressure is I25 It is generally held now by physi- clans that the highest or systoIic pres
 sure taken alone is not of so much i'm
 portance as the diastolic or lowest
 pressure, because the systolic pres sure varies SO.
 For instance, the excitement of having the blood pressure taken may send the systolic up 20 points Some
 physicians discard the first reading
 on account of this nervous factor
 One physician relates that a patient who expected bad prognosis- fore cast as to the probable result of a disease-had his blood pressure rais- ed 33 points. This fell when he was
 assured that he was going to get
 better. and it rose again when he
 began to complain of his insomnia. and his worries!
 The diastolic pressure more nearly
 measures the resistance. It is de- termined largely by the tone of the vessel walls and is much less subject to variations than the systolic, and 1t gives more reliable information, All of the authorities agree, how
 ever, that continuous high systol:c pressure-or, as we say ordinarily. high blood pressure - will cause
 changes in the vessel walls known as
 arterio-sclerosis, or hardening of the
 arteries.
 Normal blood pressure for adults
 should be approximately 100 plus one half the age.
 TomoTrow-BIood Pressure-Part TT Copyright, 922, George Matthew
 Adans)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-29
The Girl With The Jazz Heart
 BY ROBERT SHANNON

SYNOPSIS
 kittie Swasher, switchboard operator at the BeIrood, New York City, receives a request from the occupant of Suite 1918 to come to see her. kitt1e ac- cepts the strange invitation and meets Miss Maud Smith of Ogal- laIa, Nebraska, who is very much upset because, as the result of an advertisement in 2 matrimon- fal paper, she is to meet young man, Miles Sproggct, in New York, and be married.
 kittie advises Maud to go through with it. But Maud balks. kfttie hits upOn a plan. Just then the y}hone rings. Miles Sprogget is announced, and is shown up % Miss Smiths suite. kittie passer herself off as Maud, while the real Maud says she is Kittie Swasher. Miles does not appear at ali suspicious.
 They go to the Gold Jazz room at Swanheimer's where Kittie orders an expensive dinner. Then she turns her attention to the dancing. She asks Miles to dance but he pleads an injured foot. With his consent she dances with a professional dancer.
 While Kittie is dancing. Miles and Maud hold an interesting on love and marriage which is interrupted by an attendant who summons Miles to Kittie's aid, Miles leaves the table in haste and finds Kittie the center of a free-for-aH fight. He gets Kit tie to the dressing room. He then returns to the table and re- suInes his talk on marriage with Maud. He maintains:
 "When it comes to love and a woman-well, they both defy all ruIes-It's all chance It's like I said you've got to trust to your Iuck''
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-29
BLOOD PREsSURE-Part I

Every day. in every way,
 My pressure gets lower n lower.
 Have you high blood pressure
 Are you worried for fear you may die suddenly of apoplexy or heart disease or kidney disease if your higher? Don't worry about it! Don't let it get higher. Reduce it. It is easy.
 What will raise blood pressure ? Many things. There is a normal tenn porary rise in blood pressure after eating, after exercising. excitement, change of position from sitting to standing, etc.
 There may be an abnormal rise in blood pressure from: l, Psychic in- huences-fear, excitement, anger, worry; 2, Overeating and over-drink- ing; 3, Over-exercise and over-work; {; 4, Toxemias (poisons in the blood emia, mean blood) from poisons swa1- lowed or admitted and retained in the system from infections and chronic diseases; 5, Obesity.
 Can all of these factors be control led! Yes, to a large extent.
 Before we discuss this control let me tell you some things you should know about blood pressure. Blood pressure is the pressure or tension ex- erted on the walls of the blood ves- sells by the blood, caused by it's being driven through the constantly dimin- lshfng size of the blood vessels. When spoken of simply as blood pressure, we mean the arterial blood pressure usual taken on the main artery of the upper arm.
 The two chief mechanical factors that maintain and regulate the blood pressure are: 1, the heart, 2, the blood vessels, especially the elastic di- iat1ng and contracting arteries.
 There are two rythmic fluctuations in the blood pressure. The highest phase, or systolic, is during the con- traction of the heart; the lowest, or hastollc, is during the rest period of the heart. The difference between this pressure is known as the pulse pressure.
 instruments to measure blood pres- sure are called sphygmoman if 1t means anything to you. They
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-29
Demand On Coal Mines Of Great
 Britain Large

London, Aug. 29-A question of
 immediate practical interest raised ln England by the American demand for British coal, is that of the ca pacity of the British mining industry to meet the demands with the least injury to the requirements of other cust omems
 The pressure continues to increase, and it is estimated that the Ameri- can requirement will soon approxi- mate 100000 tons a day. The ton mage already taken up, however, does not justify that estimate, for the fix lures reported since the boom began representa- a deadweight capacity of between 6oo,o0o and 7oo.ooo tons ed with is the advent of Canadian business There are many indica,- tlons Of shortage in the supply of bi- luminous and anthracite coal from the United States on which Canada, under normal conditions, depends ex- .clusively, and in the event of a con- t1nuancy of the coal and railway diff ficulties in the United States. a strong demand for large supplies of Eng fish coal from Canada will doubtless soon have to be reckoned with. CS~- America, there is a growing demand from Germany and the Scandinavian countries for Northumberland, Dur ham, Yorkshire and Scottish coal
 There are markets in which South Wales competes only to an insignifi- cant extent, but the more the north epn coal fields export to the Contin- ent of Europe, the less they will have for shipment to America and the more acute will become the demands from the United States for Welsh coal. This gives rise to the ques- ton as to what the Welsh coal fields can sell to America under existing conditions
 The margin for the coal exporting districts is about 6S0,000 tons "a week No arbitrary limit can be placed to tn eQuantity which it is possible for the collieries to produce in a seven hour day, but the circumstances un- der which trade has been carried on dMaing the past 12 months go to show that it is not possible to i'm prove to any appreciative extent on that quantity.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-29
'Nor mine" said sprogget.

''Nor mine." said Sprogget. [ Maud Smith glanced from one mar to another, and then to kittie. Why what was lt?" she asked. Did you two gents have a run in?' kittie asked. '2This ain't the gent, is it Miles, that was battlin all around me?" Sprogget assured her that it was and explained to Maud that they had had a momentary misund erstandine kittie glowed appreciatively on her champion.
 Slip her there!" she cried. ex- tending her hand across the table You busted right through the crowd and fought 'em all away from me like buzz saw she explained to Maud fought 'em off and laid a dozen cold before Miles got to me-" Always ready to assist a lady, said Fredericks, relinquishing Kittie's hand with pleasant pressure Didn't know MT. Sprogget was a friend when he came charging through the scrimmag ge.''
 Come up here often?" he asked Sprogget.
 Sprogget denied it. I'm from Ok lahoma," he added
 'Its rather a celebration" Maud smith told the stranger. ''Mr Sprog- getts to be a bridegroom tomorrow ,,
 Freder1cks congratulated him. That kittie was the scheduled bride ap- parent1y never occurred to him. for he smiled understandingly at Maud.
 Great little stitution-matrimo- ny. Always intended to tie up myself when found the right little girl Somehow, though I have different ideas than those which appeal to most young women contemplating the holy bonds''
 'Indeed?" said Maud interested
 Yes; I have my own ideas of han p1ness. Give me the bright lights and the syncopated accompanimens of a good jazz band. I guess I'm what you call a naturaI-born stepper Ia rather be a native son on Broad way than sign away my life as a. Hrdeside companion. got started wrong, guess, and I've always mixed night up with day.
 Kfttie gave him a friendly nod You ain't so far wrong at that. brother she said You onIv got one life to live.''
 T can't see it for a steady diet" Sprogget remarked. Give me a, new country and a rough country. where there's lot of hard work to be done. That's my own particular weakness. l like to feel the wind come blowing in from across the hats''
 Gro Be Continued>