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The Watchman and Southron -Puhttstted Wedifesday and Satur day by Osteeja Jr^obllsliing, Company, Samier, sJ C. Terras: $"?00 per ftnomn-?in advance. Ore Square, first insertion .$1.00 ?$e# subsequent i^r^on .50 Contracts for three months or - Jonger .will be made, at reduced p^ea. . ? \ A11 communication s which subr serve- private .-interests' -will -je' . cliarged for as advertisements. Obituaries and., tributes of re :speet will be ciar&ed;Jfor. Tiie Sumter. Watchman was jroujtded in 18-50 ? and the True Southron in 1866. The Watchman and SoxstlvroD now' has the corn birred circulation and influence of both of the old pap^rs^.and is. man ifestly the ^st &dvertlsmg medium tn Suinter. - . . ROAD PROGRESS During 1922 there, were 20,000 ?miles of. roads built in this coun try/half with government aid. Those roads, end to . end, would reach about seven times',across the ^ntineot; As it is, they make .a jiet-work at - fine thoroughfares it;etching in" every direction. JSexi. year the program- may-be even more, extensive. It should be, for in spite of the progress that ; has been tnade, the percentage of tin Improved highways is still larger than of the improved: If higher standards of quality keep pace with ..quantity, a.nd-..ropairs and up "p.e.ep are given their full share of attention, in a little while the ve' ?fivJe-vrreeking. type, of road will haze vanished fx*om America, But tHsloss scarvdness as well- as miieage ;is. the constant objective, by the Vme. tomorrow's roads are built, .cay's will discotrat all -our gain. , THE W?XAV?KEE WAY The death of John Wanamaker, . foreraost of American merchants, arouses new interest in his career. Here, perhaps, is the most signifi cant; story tokl in illustration of his business methods.: When he started in the clothing business, his first day's receipts were $24.67. He kept the 67 cents to make change next morning and spent the $24 for advertising in the noming papers. There w-*s .aith, at a time when newspaper .advertising was consid ered .largely experimental, to be ?wM^Iga&d in wrttteaution .and -mod ^sr?^fi^,-Young Wanamaker's com i)e.titorsw?eTe glad to see him "blow In his money^H&at^y. - They thought he was a fool. And. one cy one, , he left them all in the rear. Other ? factory there... were in Wanamaker's remarkable . success -~bis inauguration of fixed'prices, plainly marked on all bis. goods, at a time wh?n bargaining was the rti!c; his granting customers the privilege of returning goods; his classification of goods and devel opment- of the . department idea; his quantity buying and rapid turn v .... . - overate.;. But he himself, always recognized that tho biggest factor oC all was continual, liberal, truth ful advertising, giving the buying public the .latest news about the things he had- to sell. lONX^R FIBE DAXGEB -_._. The fire menace increases as the rreather makes heavier demands on toves and other heading apparatus, f fixes .are to be. avoided precau ions must be taken. The safe guarding of small children and infirm persons from accidental burns is an added respensibiity at this season. . A fire chief makes the following ^'ggestion* along these lines: ''Keep_ children and infirm per sons away from open fires or . hot stoves. . ... "Keep the furnace under con . trol. "Insulate ail furnace pipes. "Do not leave hot ashes* In the basement.?'?* . * if heating with gas, turn it off at liight.^-^Watch for low -pressure. ft the ga^g^esrout,.-explosions- may follow. "" "Do not pile inflammable mate rials near the furnace.", Fires are bad things at any time. The burning of a home in the winter is. especially distress ing. Most fires are preventable. The secret of prevention is to take care enough. DEBT CANCELLATION F.onar Law says England cannot I pay America unless her debtors pay her. Or to put it another way, she cannot cancel what her war debtors owe her unless America cancels the, English- war debt. I The British premier may have meant it as an appeal to America to join in a general cancellation; In any event, however unwelcome the statement may be in iorae quar t?r?s. it is probably the truth. England wcuiJ Le bearing an enormous load if, in addition to the war burdens she is carrying- already, she undertook at, the same time to v : he.four or five billions eharg-! i^ed against her on Uncle Sam's books and forego the collection of an ? equal .amount lent by her to the: Allies, not?to mention the repara tion due her from Germany. It would mean that Great Britain was assuming, alone, a war debt nearly as large as all the Allies together owe the United States. And all of it would have to come out of the pockets of the British people, al ready poor and heavily taxed, as a result of the war.. This is not. saying that England; should not pay the United States. Neither is it saying that England jsbould not cancel as much of herj (.-rlaims on her foreign debtors as [she can. But it is evident that if i there is going to be any debt can j tu -nation at all, England will want the United States to take part of the loss. That is one of the prob (terns that Washington is now pre paring to tackle. SHAOTUNG The Shantung episode is ended as -far as Japan is concerned. Ja pan has formally restored that province, and its fortified seaport \oi Kiaochow, to China, taking her I soldiers and sailors and warships ? and going back home. /Taking also ler business losses ;r.for as matters (stand, 'Shantung has been an. ex pense rather than a profit to Japan, , unless it is considered that there twas a suffcient profit in driving out {C-ermanj- and thereby eliminating a! j stronghold of German business) * competition. ; JLapan has done what she prom-] I ised, : at . the - beginning of her j (occupation, at: the Versailles con ference, at the Washington arms ' c onference and at .variolas times in j between. She always , said she | [would restore Shantung to China, Ih jt nobody ever believed her. ^erhaps. Japanese, statesmen real !ly meant, or secretly Jboped,- to keep I Shantung. But at any rate, they [have now done what they, said they j would do, in their own time and I , way, and it is needless to go back of that; fact.. They have done it, moreover, when China is so divid i ; ed and. weak as to .offer^ no .coer cion, and when other, powers are too weary of war and too busy with nearer problems .to think of r *ercton. *-L?et credit be- given Japan for1 this act of good faith, as credit I would be given to .any. nation more j nearly, allied in color and blood. ! IST?DYOP i AGRICULTURE] : Public Schools of State Giving ? More Attention -to $2us I ? rsranch I Columbia, s: C.,:Dc, 23.?The 'Study of agriculture in the public 'schools of South Carolina has inr creased 700 per cent in the last five years, according to a statement to-' iday by Verde Peterson, director of rural school education in South Car olina under the State Superintend ent of Public Instruction. From an enrollment of 278 in i 1917-18, the first year that any con i certed effort was made to intro duce the teaching of agriculture; ; a id kindred subjects, the work has j j expanded until last year there was ja:n average enrollment of 2,658, the : r<?cords show, according to Mr. Peterson. The work was carried ( Ion the -first year in sixty schools! \ in eleven counties, under the di-" I rection of fourteen teachers; in 11.921-22, the last year for which ?complete information is available, j courses in agriculture were being j j given by 124 schools in thirty coun-' {tiefe by a staff of 96 teachers, j Although statistics for this schol astic year-are not yet available, iiir. Peterson declared that his. of jfiee had reports indicating that the (summary at the, end of the year's ? work in June would show a healthy I increase over the record for 1921 j 22. j In discussing the growth of the work, .-.Mr. Peterson cited the fig lures for each year, giving them as i follows: 3 918-19: 2*3 counties: 75 schools; 46 teachers; 763 enrolled. 1919- 20: 28 counties; 96 schools; 70 teachers; i220 enrolled. 1920- 21: 29 counties; 101 schools; II teachers; 1,571 enrolled. 1921- 22: 30 counties; 124 schools; j 96 teachers; 2.658 enrolled. The studen-.s are classified ac cording to thice. groups, Mr. Verde , continual. The first of these is the \ [high school group, in the work of \ which is included practically all of 'the rural high schools .of the! 'state. Then, comes the "junior! projects" courses, in which are en- ! ! rolled pupils^of the fifth^ sixth and (.seventh gratfes cf the rural schools. "The. third "roup is, in some re ; spects, probably the most import ant and inter.^ts.ig of the three," (Mr. Petersen .tkc3ared. "It is com i posed of pert-time students."* \ "These students," he explained,! I "are boys from fourteen years old j {and up who have been forced to j j remain out of school to attend j to their farm duties, and adults who j desire to learn the latest methods !of conducting their agricultural ac tivities. The classes are given at j night or in the day, according to; [the circumstances at each place.' j We find that this feature of the iwork is growing in every county .where the agricultural instruction courses have been .inaugurated." J In the high school groups, the students are. given ninety minutes a day Of classroom instruction, five days a week, Mr. Peterson said. In the junior projects department, the classroom work consists of from two to three periods a week. The classroom work of the students who are not- enrolled for the regular work varies according to circum stances. The instruction in agriculture, that is carried on under the super vision of Mr. Peterson is not con fined to classroom study, however. Every student Ls given practical instruction, the farms of the vi e'veity of the school-houses being used as "laboratories" for this class of work. In the case of the part-time students, they are given advice on their own farms and the teachers demonstrate the meth ods they have taught in the class room. Fractically all of the teachers employed in South Carolina are graduates of Clemsori College, ac cording to the state director, who added that the Smith-Hughes act, under which Federal funds are made available for the carrying on of this work in agriculture, re quires that teachers who are paid with the aid of United States appro priations must be graduates of some recognized agricultural col lege. .-?. ? ? ? Economy First Issue North Dakota Legislature Bismarck, N. D.,' Dec- 2 L?Fin ancial and public welfare problems, and others having to do with po litical considerations, 'will face the .North Dakota legislature when it convenes here January 3. For the first time in three regular sessions and two special sessions, it will not he controlled by the Non partisan , League, a small majority in both house and senate being members of the Independent Voters* Associa tion, a coalition of progressive re publicans and democrats. Questions of .economy will be the .first to come before the legisla tive session. State taxes have in creased $16 ?(HS MS9 since 1915, largely through increases ' in road and school taxation. Reduction in the number of banks, in the state also will be con sidered/ North Dakota has an average of a bank and a half per thousand population. The present law discourages consolidation of blanks and an act that will permit their turn over without closing or liquidation, is expected to be pass ed. Legislation also is expected looking ^toward the closing of in dustrial experiments, of the . league', that have proved unprofitable.. The. league closed the experimental, 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 partment and provision .for the opr erarion'?f the state owned mill at Grand Forks, are among other ex pected legislature considerations. One unit of the mill is running, the complete operation of which the Independent administration pledged "ah honest effort to determine if it is a successful experiment" Consideration' of a complete list of laws regarding children and the revamping of. the health laws of the state to meet present condi tions are the chief, welfare meas ures 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 systematize the present health agencies, with some attempts made at the enlargement of the field. See Unusual Winter Building Pro gram. Chicago, *Jov. 15.-?More than the usual amount of winter activ ity in building with residential work taking a prominent part, is indicated in a survey of activities made by The American Contrac tor, in twenty-seven states forming the main northeastern part of the United States. Valuation of the 2.141 contracts awarded for the week ending Oc tober 28, reached a total of $64, 348.400 and was but slightly lower than the weekly average for the first nine months of this record breaking year, says the publication. "The volume of contracts award ed during the last two weeks of October, which are normally dull,, shows that there is expectation of: less let-up than usual during the winter period," the paper states. "There are incontrovertible facts which show that building activity is in no danger of, a slump for months to ocme. "Contemplated work reported for the week ending October 2$' totaled $100,062,900. For the cor-; responding week of 1.921, this total was only $86,922,000 and "the val uation of contracts awnrded was^ only $51.718.600. Yet the fall of 1921 was considered a good opener for the spring season of 1922. "Of the contemplated work for that week, $46,491,200 is for resi dential building as against $12,-. .331,900 for business building and $7.025,300 for industrial building. While the demand for residence building has not diminished and: will not diminish for some time, there is little business and indus trial building going on and a pe riod of business expansion will add these projects to the field. In ad dition there is much educational and governmental building in; abeyance which must be done soon. "Skilled labor will be sacrce next year as it is now. Indications are that no reduction will be made in wages of common labor which is all absorbed. Material men are producing at Increased costs. The demand for labor and materials in the spring will equal the sunply. From such facts, a definite logical ? conclusion regarding future "build ing costs can be drawn by any one." PROBLEM Reparations Adjust ment by American Commission Looks Like New Scheme to Bring About Cancel lation of Wa^ Debts Due United States Washington, Dec. 21 (By the Associated ress).?A 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 of Europe. Although discussions of the '.pro?'; posai have been kept thus far out ride the formal channels of diplo macy, the exchange of views has developed a thorough understandr ing in authoritative circles ..that the United States, Great Britain and Germany all are willing to assent to the creation of such a commisr sion. The plan now is before Premier Poiricare and .h: is expected to make ? decision after he has con cluded 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. reparations payments. ? Officials of' the Washington gov ernment who from the beginning of the present discussions have been unwilling to do more than hint that a way -was. being sought; to render aid toward an European set tlement refused today to ; discuss the ?plan for an American; com-' mission, Secretary Hughes/ how ever, did issue" a statement, saying the "government had presented ;hc proposal" on the subject. ?" The procedure by which all of those directly interested are sound ed out before any definite "propos al" is submitted with governmental authority behind-' it is the usual method employed 1 in negotiations of great delicacy. The secretary's statement recalled an assertion made a few days ago' by; a' White" House spokesman who said in dis cussing the American .attitude -to ward Europe that it would not be proper to display on the stage all that was taking place behind th^e] scenes. H The plan for an American com*.! mission, first. was disclosed early today in an Associated' Press; dis patch from - London^ where the] proposal has been "actively .^rideri discussion. The dispatch* credited] the .chamber of commerce- of the] United States with' having first! laid-j the suggestion .before Secretary j Hughes and it w^as' learned'here to- j day that much of the actual dis cussion which has taken place since] that time has -been -conduetM^on i behalf of American industry .by of-j ficials of -the chamber. * ! At the state department; there j was a disposition to draw, a sharp line of distinction between activ ities of American and other "busi^ ness men in regard to the problem and the move made by govern ment officials themselves. It be came clear during the day/ how-1 ever, that the two groups had. kept in closest touch,, and -that not only Secretary "Hughes but Secretary Hoover and others high in the ad ministration were fully advised of el !orts made by President Julius H. Barnes of the chamber of com merce, and men in England, France and Germany who hold similar posts in the industrial worid to find ? formula for solution of the reparations problem. .Neither ?t the state department n?r at offices of the chamber of commerce was there any inclina tion to deny the published report from London telling of the unoffi cial plan and its communication to the Washington government. ' It' is known that Mr. Barries conferred last week at some length with Secretary Hughes. Asked if any official statement could be made in regard to this conference, state de partment spokesmen said today it would no.* be possible to do'so. At the same time efforts t? obtain a more detailed statement regarding Secretary Hughes' general denial of a government "proposal" aiso proved fruitless. Department officials made it plain they would not be drawn into a ny "departure from ' the formal terme **f the secretary's brief state men;, wtuch in itself avoided any mention of details. It follows: "The department of state can not discuss tentative proposals which are made to it -wkh respect to Eu ropean situation. The report that this government had presented to other governments a proposal for an American commission is un founded. Of course it follows that no assent of any government to such a nroposal received the atten tion of government officials, a. first effort t? bring the combined weight of industrial influence in the allied countries, Germany and the Unit ed States to bear on the repara tions stuntbling block were made nearly six months ago. In Ger many, Great Britain, the United States and France a series of pri vate conferences were held between, important figures in the internat ional industrial world. The move ment met with stiff opposition in France at that time, but later, ivhen the council of premiere fac ed complete rupture in London this month, the effort was renewed with ;;reat hopes of success in finding i common ground for a final rep arations settlement. "The proposal to create a com mission of American industrial eaders to measure Germany's eco norrtic capacity asoit is.today;aeems: to have been the, expression of . a concensus of opinion among, the business interests of all nations that such a'course would he wise sipee the United States is "a par??paht' in Germany's reparations pay ments." Mr. Banes' statement- makes the j American husiriess ..viewpoint'- on i that: fjuestion ..entirely piaip.. As^to just how such ? commis sionLwould be selected^.^rom what soprjee it v/ould draw " would be mkdjrv no definite "information was available. ? It has been sugjg&st&d in one .well informed quartet, how ever! : that the '.'formal proposal" for:' Mre ?iew' :study of Germany's economic situation might weTkcome J at proper time from ..the rep arations commission ??? itself. * That; hod*y-.might also' receive ithe report j -to''i^.nsed as "a basis for recom-! mentations to the allies for what ever! revision of schedules it show-1 ed .he necessary. '. -'??;'' r r-Ope effect of "the disclosure of] the -unofficial negotiations now in progress is to clear away Vmueh of the p.ir of mystery that has?? sur rtoufrtded the Washington govern ments! activities for the last few days* ' It serves as a logical'expla- J natiqii of veiled . suggestion s at the. White House and in, other offi cial quarters that the United States ytas bestirring itself to aid in a rep- j arafipps settlement,' : Jt; is recalled that official state-, msnisr. have .beep.; .made ;.-iier^i thatj there,is ''nothing imminent" in the! reparations situation.. Since theri prer^iers are to reasseinble in Par-1 is. January 2, and the, present Ger man; ^moratorium expires -J?tuiary^ .15*. tijia . statement.."has been .rtak- j exx'.-ijyb- mean, no definite develop ment . toward a settlement, was re garded as likely before, the. pre miers 'met.' It now . appears that] if the unofficial efforts'to reach a ] jbiajji^ of ^.settlement prior to . that j time: ^b?ld prove successful, \the j French, premier probably would he] in . a- position^-toV disclose the fact to ,i?is colleagues of the allied gov- ,j erhments. at ti*at time. V;'Sy:i , J^p'that event, it would be logical, ] it', is! said, to expect' another post-j ponement of the 'premiers' discus- 1 slons \ and probably aome. move to-; ward, a brief; 'ex^^ the^ mb'ratorium period ? tb: permit the proposed/ econcmiic ^u*dy Xo be made. Annual Report of State Board Cplutrabia, Bee. J2 i.-^6pexations of Sputh Carolina's .correspondence school '.of ''BabypIOgy" will /hei?is-. cu^e^.m the. annual report, now being, prepared,' of the. Bureau of Cnitd Hygiene of tneState Depart ment: .of Health. Th is "Study-hy-. bep^fit' of* the mothers yof the state. Through this, feature, of ,tne" hu reku's activities,' .which ;is *com paratrvely' new/but neVertfeless weU^s^tahlish'e^ci; every - mother - in; tft|;j^te''',ca'h have the;' b^frefit pi ? expert a dvice in the care of Jier chil dw&.': l!here is no \ cost, to the ] frSper for any of the service rend \* ^ferrnation pertaining "to I nurs ii>4r fahd general care ?of infants is j giye^hy't.he bureau; through -Miss R?th ^Moorel''~. a regtetered nurse.! sMlaaswars' hundreds of inquiries, j ey^y month, from anxious mothers i w;8b ate in 'doubt as to some * par- j tiCular phase of the; treatment. to i be ^iyen io theirchildren. . tJ the baby is failing, and the opinion of a doctor, is- desired, the bi#ed? is prepaeaY to furhteh the ^advice of one' of the leading b^^4pecialists of Columbia with bui] cost. This physician is em ployed on a part-time-basis, but his medlcaa knowledge and bis skill j iri^&ie treatment > of infantile dls- ; cases 'are placed at the disposal- of efery' mother .in the . state who wrjtW' to the bureau. Th'e. bureau, it was stated, at t'e'nipts to get an early start in as sisting- young mothers tb give'their babies proper attention. In order to anticipate needs^ the bureau has taken the "initiative, says the report, sending '.out pamphlets and leaflets based on the latest discoveries in ttils^lpartmeht of physicians' and nurses' work, as soon as,registry of births shows new arrivals. - Ap proximately 1,000 hew mothers re ceive this "Uter?t?re. each month. The work in this department be caine so heavy it was stated today, that aii " additional " secretary has be.^h employed to supervise trie.dis tribution of these booklets. This ofijcial also has as part of her dV tie$'efforts to encourage the moth ers^ 'to. continue to utilize the ser vices :of the^^ureau. OfficfaJs of the State Board of Health say this work of the child Hygiene bureau is increasing inj impocrt^tnee daily and that its oper-i atipns. in the future will be .greatly expanded if .their plans andvhopes! are achieved. Sunday School Class Entertained.! Mr. S. O'Quinn's Sunday School class, the 7. M. B. S., was enter tained Friday evening at the home j of Mrs. D. M. Campbell. Christmas decorations were used in the living room and hall. Nine dates of conversation were engaged In, also a contest in which Miss Anna Lease Walsh and Finley Williams were the winners of a' large box of candy, presented byi Mr. O'Quinn with an appropriate! speech. Hugh Knight won the booby pirze. Refreshments consisting of Ice cream and cake were served. '. . . Reider asks if a couple married near Christmas are yuletied. Yes. THE SALE OF THE YEAR 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. American Merchant Marine Officials ?k> g into Court/ to Secure Right- to Serve Li quor r Washington,'Dec. 22.?In a brief filed in the supreme court today by 'the International Mercantile* Ma rine in support of its ? appeal from the - interpretation given the Daugherty' ""bone dry" ruling by Judge Hand in New York, the .com pany contends that American ships can: not justly be prevented ixom serving liquor on the high, seas un der the prohibition laws and that i it is not. unlawful for vessels to bring their ships' stores of liquor into American; territorial waters. The position i.4 'similar to that set ?forth .recently by foreign shipping] companies in: abrief -filed with the same court/ ? Declaring;also that- should the| decision of Judge:-Hand- be sustain- j ^ed: "it will; be impossible commer cially to operate American .flag] steamers' in the passenger trade of S^^^^i^if5^*:*^ points opt that? the" great foreign transat lantic Briers wHl always be able to j sell liquor - on their . west bound; voyages, and against such compe tition the American lines will be sertousry handicapped, because, it. says,; Europeans will not travel by; American, steamers when they can cnme by foreign ' ships and : enjoy their usual ; wine. -Similar conditions, it adds, will prevail-in the South American: trade'on the north bound voyage,: while vessels south bound in-that trade can stock up with liquors; at: Bermuda or ?: Habana. The most serious competition will come, it asserts or. -the Pacific, wher.e in the par 'Eastern trade 'ships sailing from Canadian ports would have, diverted to them practically all the passenger business, j "It. seems inconceivable that con-j gress" would have intended to ex tend .prohibition to ships," the brief assets? "when the result of so\.4oing would be to nullify the national policy of the United States ..with respect to. shipping so far as passenger- traffic is concern-. ed> Whatever one's personal views may be cm the subject of -prohibi tion, "it must be admitted that it is- not possible- for American pas senger vessels which are dry," the brief continues, "to seek in foreign ports the patronage of subjects of those foreign nations whose customs and . diet: -prescribe 'wines-and other liquors." ^ The liquor which it is proposed to exclude ^frpm American ships~\was not manufactured, sold or trans ported within the territorial lim its' of the United States, the brief i stated, and nbne of it is imported into or exported from the; United States, v The "liquor, embodied in the ship :isfa part of its sea stores, never letups the ship, the brief, states,, but is consumed wholly up on the :.f\tgh s,eas or' in foreign ports. ".Unless the supreme, court re-I verses the action; Of Judge Hand steamship owners believe, .the. brief declares, "that a majority of the stewards and other' minor em-, plpyees of American vessels will become bootleggers." "It'is lawful," it adds, "to pur chase liquor in foreign .ports. To j smuggle it on; board a ship and j hide it' f here would be. easy and .j practically impossible of detection. Stewards and other minor em ployees of. American ships, tempted by large gains, would undoubtedly have" available ;a sufficient supply of liquor for any of the passengers who might wish it. In any event, the crews Of American vessels,, so i soon as a ship touched at a for-1 sign port, can reasonably be ex-; pected to stock up with whatever they may wish, at least for their own* consumption." ' Should Judge Hand's decision be sustained by the supreme court there would be a "gradual elimi nation of the American flag from passerer trade on the high seas," the brief states. Congress did not state in the constitutional amend ment or in the prohibition en forcement act that either was to apply ;to American vessels on the high seas or in foreign ports, it de Clares, and prohibition, it adds, should hot be .extended by impli cation when congress has the pow er to legislate expressly on the j ;gubject,;-"but has not done so." An Old Will in Court. __ Columbia, Dec. 22.?The con- j struction of the will of a man who I died in 1848 will be the subject of further consultation by the j State Supreme Court in an en banc session which will.be held here on December 29. The question arises in the case of Jane Purdy Stroth erer, et al. vs. E. H. Folk, et al., which was.heard at the last pre-" vfous en banc session of the court. W-4 NTED-r-Hardwood logs. We pay .lighest cash rrice for choice Ash, Poplar, Cypress and White i Oak logs of standard specifica-j tions, delivered to Sumter by rail or truck. We buy logs twelve months in the year and givej preference to loggers equipped to bring in a steady supply. What have you to offer? Sumter \ Hardwood CO., Sumter, S. C. -;-?-i WANTED?Several small tracts of good pine timber from 1-4 to o. million feet. We also pay cash for No. I pine logs 14 inches and up in diameter delivered to our new band mill at Denmark. S. C. The *7-'ckgraf Company, Denmark, S. <#!* ' a. a LICENSEiFOR MOTOR D8IVERS ? <r. ?*? ' ?'<* ?' , "' ? ? ? Secr^iry ?? St?tl: Highway Commission Drafts Recom * 'HicRffctiiORS Columbia, Bee: -23!?Tbe South Carolina legislature will be asked .to require the licensing of all mo tor vehicle drivers in one of the recommendations to" he submit ted by L. H. Thomas, secretary of the State Highway commission, it was learned here today. Although Mr. Thomas has not drafted the recommendations he will submit, in compliance with the instruc tions of the commission, he said that he probably "vPould endorse many parts of the uniform motor ?vehicle law proposed - by the Mo tor Vehicle Conference committee which is composed of representa tives of several of the large inter ests of the automobile world. Another recommendation that Mr. 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. 1 Regarding the proposed drivers' license, the secretary, of the com mission stated that the object of the license' would not be the se 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 were proved to have repeatedly violated the rules for driving would be deprived of their licenses, ac-; cording to Mr. Thomas* recom mendation and they would then be barred' from operating any motor vehicle on the the. public highways until such time as they could se cure another license. Inasmuch as the drivers' li cense is not now considered in the light of-a possible money-maker, it is Mr. Thomas' idea that the li censes should not be issued from year- to year but for an indefinite period or?-a period of years that the legislature may think wise. This pro vision , would spare- the "owners of vehicles the trouble of securing a new license every year and as it is proposed to make the license fee rather nominal,; the suggestion, it is believed, will raise no objection that the tax burden on the."public is being increased. Eyery person who drives an au tomobile or truck would be requir ed to secure a license,Which Mr. Thomas will recommend, would not be issued until the applicant shall have passed a satisfactory test to^demonstrate his fitness to operate a vehicle. Thus, every member^of a family would find it necessary to have a license-before being able to drive the family '^flivver?' ' Among the states now requir ing owner-drivers to be licensed, Mr. Thomas named Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland,. Mas sachusetts, Vermont. Michigan. New Hampshire, New 3eTsey, New 'York, Rhode Island,. Washington; West Virginia and the District of Columbia. In discussing his proposed rec ommendation thlrt the enforcement of the motor vehicle laws be 6n "-~-"-??-:-a". . .'l .? I trusted to the highway ;^&ejB0&&4 'ment, Mr. Thomas pointed out that ' such was the case . prior to the/ 1922 session of the general; as sembly. The department employs ?d two inspectors, who worked in cooperation with county and city .officers, to see that the motor laws were enforced. At the last session of. the assembly, howeyer tbeljpQ sitions of the two inspectors were abolished and the enforcement of the law was left entirely in the hands of local authorities. Enforcement. under this system* has not been satfefactory m ,many: counties, Mr. -Thomas' declared.: The reports to the department,/he; said practically show on their face that in some counties the officials ? do not require all owners of automobiles to secure . ?ie prer scribed state license plates. The; counties he has ir? mind, the sec retary asserted, show fewer auto mobiles registered for 1922 than Jar 1921, while in other comities large j increasee are noted. It is his pelief that practically every county'in the ? sta te has had an' increase in the 1 number of its motor v-ehieles in the' I hist few months and/that; if an ac tual decrease lias occurred, it Is diificult matter .to explain. DEATH RATE WTYPHOP South Carolina Highest Wif& Rhode Island J&m&i^ . Washington, Dee. 22.?Tie ty phoid death rate increased from 7.8 per 160,000 of . population. ?n 1920 to nine in 1921 in the .death registration area, which comprises thirty-four states and 8S per .cent ; of the population of the United" .States, the census bureau ?n : pounced today. The number x>f j deaths reported from (this eaaae totaled more than 8,0.00, oniy mne>/ I states. showing lower rates, in 1921 ..than in 1920. Rhode Island, with? jL60,000, had the lowest rafe\ jlas^year, and South Carolina,.-wt?i:/ ! 26.o^he highest: - j The states which reported de clines in 1921 were: . California, Connecticut, -Maine, Michigan. Montana, New. Hampshirer ;:K?rth Carolina* yermont and Washing-/ ton. Special Judge for Orangeimrgr ! Columbia, Dec 22.?!Members of ? the Orangeburg bar have petition--* ed Governor' .Harvey to- appoint Octayus Roy CcOieri, attorney of ] Moncks Corner and C&arJLeston, a ?special judge.to hold court at 1 O rangeburg in January, in the place;.. . of the late Ju^ge Epge^e B. XSary* j who was ;scheduied to .preside- over J that term of court.; Chief -^asece:: {Gary approved the petition; and;" I Governor Harvey has indicated that \ J he will appoint Mr. Cohen. . I h^?Ip ' Our entire ,'^oek of Rea^y^ to-Wear^and ??to i oil ,sale at ; ht0< off . -lAf early. Schwartz Bros. /? ^^fe [ - ???^:.m j Still, you' cap take a million dpV jlars and'make a mystery of almost any murder. > - SEE H. ^SHAVER" " ^ : v| At S?mter Canning Office :| In regard to Seed and Contracts for Spinach,* Beans, and.Ton^atoes. | Spinach Seed arrived today. 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