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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-05-23
ADMITS THEY HAD DIFFER
ENCES OVER BUSINESS MAT
TIERS. BOTH PROMINENT.

Dispatches from Columbus state
that Lucius F. Humber was shot and
killed Thursday night in his home at
Girard, Ala, and his wife, Mrs. Leila
Humber, is ir jail at Scale, Ala,
charged with the killing. She denies
the charge, but admits that she and
her husband had had some differences
over business matters and she says
that he threatened her life.
In brief statement just before she
was taken to the Russell county Jail
at Scale, where she will be held for
preliminary trial, she declared that
the shooting was accidental that the
pistol was discharged in a scuffle en-
gagged in between the two while she
was trying to get it from her hus-
band. She said that Mr.. Humber had
on several occasions threatened the
lives of her children, Alice and Rob-
ert, and her own.
Mrs. Humber was hysterical, break
ing into sobs as she talked, and when
it became known that she was to go to
Scale she almost collapsed. She was
carried to the Girard Jail following the
shooting, where she remained over
night.
Husbands Charge.
In his dying statement Mr.. Humber
told Dr. Elrod, the attending physi-
clan, that his wife shot him. 1t is claim
ed he made the following statement:
when l came in she just commenced
shooting at me. She accused me of
stealing everything she had. She shot
me as long as she could. She did her
very best. | want all to hear that"
Mrs. Humber was hysterical Thurs
day night and was unable to talk CO.
herently about the tragic events which
resulted in her husbands death and
her imprisonment Between fits Of
weeping she told disjointed story Of
the alleged struggle, interspersed with
irrelevant illusions to former misun-
derstandings between Mr.. Humber
and herself.
Mr.. Humber was 70 years old, and
for 80 years was a prominent and sue
cessful business man in Columbus,
where for many years he conducted a
warehouse. He is the father of Mrs
F. D. Patterson, of Cuthbert, and Mrs.
Humber, who before her marriage to
Mr. Humber, was a Mrs. King, is the
mother of Mrs. J. c. Patterson, also
of Cuthbert, and the awful tragedy IS
very much regretted by large circle
of friends and relatives.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-05-23

For decades the southern farmer
has dreamed of two mechanical de-
vices to take the drudgery out of cot
ton culture, a cotton chopper and a
cotton picker. Fairly successful chop
pers have been built and on the mark
ct for the past several years now, but
the demand for them was never so
urgent as it was for a practical cotton
picker Inventors by the score have
spent lifetimes trying unsuccessfully
to perfect a machine which would pick
more cotton than a man could, and
do it without injuring the stalk and
unriped fruit.
In the machine worked out by l..
c. Stukenborg, of Memphis, Tenn,
one farm writer believes the problem
has been solved. Stukenborg's machine
works on the vacuum suction princi-
pie, but, unlike previous suction
"pickers," it is not allowed to envelop
the whole stalk, taking not only cot
ton but leaves and sometimes bolls.
A nozzle about the size of a mans
fist is used, and is guided by a man
who stands on the ground and directs
it in pursuit Of individual open bolls.
Run by Dynamo.
Four flexible tubes, each with its
nozzle, form the equipment of each
picker, and a tractor provides both
locomotion and power for the suction:
The tractor power is not transmitted
direct, but runs a small dynamo, which
in turn, runs the suction motor, giving,
it is claimed, much more uniform oper-
alton.
The picking machine" does not
move steadily forward, as previous de-
vices have attempted to do, but pro-
crosses about fifty feet at a time, when
i; stops to let the operators gather al,
the staple within the radius OF the
flexible tubes.
The nozzle at the end of each tube
is provided with two small revolving
drums, equipped with bristles, which
draw in the locks with which they
come in contact The cotton is clean
ed by being thrown against a screen
at the center OF the machine, where
an air blast takes out dirt and trash
picked up. This is the feature which
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-05-23
Committee Fixes Rules
For Coming Primary
Candidates Must Enter By July lst.
Convention to Be in Macon.

July LIST, at midnight, as the closing
date of the entry list for candidates
for governor and other state house
officers has been fixed by the sub
committee on rules of the democratic
state executive committee, at a meet
ing held in Atlanta. ~
The committee fixed $3.50 as the as
sessment on candidates for governor
and $50 as the assessment on candi-
dates for all other state house ofhces,
including judges of the supreme court
and court of appeals.
Macon was selected as the place
and October 4th as the date for the
democratic state convention.
The committee further provided
that county democratic executive COM
mittees shall hereafter be elected by
democrats at intervals OF two years
either in the state primary or the
county primary, and that county COM
mittees shall consist of not less than
one member from each militia district
and city ward.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-05-23
Does Your Back Ache?

It's usually a sign of sick kidneys,
especially if the kidney action is dis
ordered, passages scanty or too fire.
quent. Don't wait for more serious
troubles. Begin using Doan's Kidney
Pills. Read this Dawson mans testi-
mony:
]. M. Norton, retired policeman, SIS
E. 9th ave, Dawson, says: When
l was on the police beat | was out in
ali sorts of weather and must have
caught cold in my kidneys. My back
was lame and | suffered with dull
heavy ache in the small of it that prov
ed very annoying. The kidney secre-
tions passed very regularly and were
scanty l had severe pains in the top
of my head and spots came before my
eyes. | read about Doan's Kidney
Pills and purchased box at Lees
drug store. They soon helped me and
several boxes dispelled the pain from
my back and head, and also rid me
of other ailments"
Price 60c, at all dealers Don sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy-ge
Doan's Kidney Pi11s-the same THAT
Mr.. Norton had. -Milburn Co.,
Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.-adv.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-05-23
COW EATING COTTON FROM THE
BOLLS SUGGESTS TO AN INVENTOR
THE PLAN FOR A PICKING MACHINE

lit is claimed makes the cotton worth
from $40 to SIS a bale more to the
spinner than hand picked cotton.
Leaves Unripe Cotton.
JJnripe cotton, which does not slip
from the boil as easily as mature cot
ton. is not gathered by the machine,
as the bristes are too flexible to grasp
it. it is claimed. One point of vantage
to the farmer, according to the man
ufacturer, is that from SO to l5O less
pounds of seed cotton are required to
make a 500-pound bale of lint. EXclu-
sion of dirt is given as the reason.
Another instance of the "d1scrlm
nation" which the machine appears to
exercise in the selection of the staple
it picks is that weevil-damaged cot
ton, which clings to the boil much as
does unripe cotton, also is not picked.
A cow is said to have furnished the
inspiration for the drum and suction
combination which features Stuken-
borg's machine The inventor, alter
having spent many years trying to
perfect gathering device, watched, a
strayed COW eating cotton out OF the
bolls for the seed in it. She accom-
plished the picking" by means OF her
rough tongue, which suggested to
Stukenborg the bristle-studded spools.
Outfit Costs $1,415.
After getting the picker part OF his
machine worked out to his satlstac-
ton, Stukenborg looked around for. a
suitable tractor which could supply the
power and locomotion. The "picker"
sells for $3.50, and the tractor brings
the total to $l,415.
In the advent of the new spider
like machine Harry F. Ross. in the
indianapolis News, sees an end to the
romance of the southern cotton field,
immortalized in song by Stephen Eos
ter, writer of "Old Black Joe" and by
writer's of many popular melodies
since
The new picker, however, is claimed
to make up in efficiency what it lacks
in romance, hand pickers who could
CLEAN 100 pounds of staple a day be,
ing enabled to touch the 4OO-pound
mark. Negro labor is adapted to run,
ming the suction nozzles, it is claimed
by the manufacturer. -----.-.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-05-23
Watson Protests Army
Conviction of Albany Man
Malone Slew Fellow Officer Who De-
stroved His Home in France.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Protestt
against the conviction in FRANCE OF
CAPTAIN Rosser c. Malone, Of Albany,
Ga. for killing fellow officer who
had broken up his home was made IN
the senate today by Senator Watson,
of Georgia, after he and Senator Haf-
ris, of Georgia, and Representative
Park, of Georgia, had visited the war
department. c:.
Senator Watson said that Captain
Malone was sentenced to twenty years
Imprisonment by the military court
martial, although, the senator assert
ed. the offense was beyond the pow
er of that tribunal. Citing the constltu-
ton. the articles of war and other
statutes Senator Watson commended
that military court had no jurisdiction
over other than military officers. He
said such convictions should be set
aside.
Senator Watson said that if Captain
| Malone had been able to summon wit
inesses from Panama he would have
been acquitted within ten minutes by
civil jury by being given the bene-
fit of the unwritten law" Senator Wat
Ison said he had so advised the assist
ant secretary of war, and he asked
that the authorities give immediate and
careful consideration to his point that
military tribunals were without Juris
diction over civil offenses.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-05-23
Cabinet Changes Soon;
Reorganization Of Bureaus
Most Important Feature Would Be
Consolidation of War and Navy De-
r,artments into That of Defense.

Plans for recognizing government
departments, expected to eliminate du-
p1ication of work and achieve a saving
of $300,000000 a year, were virtually
completed at a recent white house
conference. Several changes in the cab
met will result if the plan, which has
been in course of preparation for
months, is adopted by congress.
President Harding, it was learned,
has virtually reconciled the objection
of some cabinet members to certain
features of the scheme, and intends to
submit the completed draft to con-
gress in the near future. The outstand-
ing features, as agreed on, are:
Consolidation OF the war and navy
departments into a department OF de-
tense, to be headed by one cabinet
member. Creation of department OF
public welfare and education requir-
ing the appointment of another mem
Der of the cabinet. Consolidation OF all
bureaus where overlapping exists.
There are about IS instances Of dupli-
cation, which is expected to end with
the reorganization.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-05-23

EOLKS who have had their radiators repaired
/ by us get enthusiastically verbal about it and
that helps our business. Take their word for it
we're radiator repairmen by special appointment
to his majesty, The Veteran Driver
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-05-23

DIR. Sam r. Ray, Houston, Tex.
DIR. H. NJ. Dobbs, Admission, Ala.
DR.. H. A. Boaz, Dallas, Texas.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-05-23
uopSFS AND MULES
HAVE INCREASED
,,np 2l472,z2 OF FORMER
AM AM r ysY ANIMALS SCARCE.

Although the number
larses and mules in cities and
Of Nv decreased approximately SO per
town. ',t,yeen 1910 and 1920, the total
cen. H., w. in the United States increased
lprlo ,sr cent in that period, with an
- ~, Of 218 PEI cent in horses and
ll'''a. conf in mules on farms, accord
u ~ hnlletin of the Horse Asso-
Ca a1,p, oractical elimination of tn
~ horse for business use and tn
G ,n+ Of motor trucks have caused
adVel IsoI IN in the cities" the bulletin
the G'0 IT. does not Indicate, however,
statoGh, horses and mules in towns and
that NIL ,,,;II decrease indefinitely, for
citles ors certain kinds of city work,
tneIe d" short hauls, slow hauling
sucn .,,' a. crowded districts and deliv-
tnror rSntes which involve many stops,
e ag;cb are most efficiently and cheaply
% Tane bv horses, and to which horses
o C heing restored as the facts ana q
are as+ figures become generally known.
Scarcity of Good Animals.
The bulletin said there was a mark,
ID scarcity Of good young horses ana
,,ries that the birth rate has not kept
n l,lG,so with the death rate, and that a
pa !: oer cent increase in breeding VIII
;1st hold I'D present strength, put
, iii NOT allow for normal expansion
" horse and mule use. j.
III The he bulletin quoted the United
States census of January l, 1920, as
eLoTing 2l472.772 horses and $780,
En- mules in the United States, a tota!
~ u 283413 head, and an increase OF
S56 663. or 10 over the number OF l9lO.
Tbe 1920 census also showed that
10 767 nj horses and 5,532,39 mules
were on the farms, grand total OF
BE- 10o552 head, representing an IN
Frease OF 546,823 horses or ZIG per
cent and an increase OF l,33d ,o/9
miles or 32.4 per cent over 1910.
a total of 2,083,S61 horses and
mules was shown in the census to be
Engaged in non-agricultural work, in
Finding those in cities ad towns. OF
fbis number 1,765,611 we're horses and
B7S 90 mules. This was declared to
be decrease of nearly 80 per cent
krom 1910.
Breeding Held Back.
Discussing the question of whether
4 Breeding would be resumed this spring
tbe bulletin stated that "the shortage
b good young horses has put farmers
Generally in a mood to breed their
nares: but as stallion and jack own
rs have been unable to make money
curing the last few years great many
ave gone out of business"
The result is" the bulletin continu-
that thousands of communities
there breeding would be resumed It
ires were available will be held back
rom doing so. In more fortunate
Communities, however, breeding will
renewed enough to supply replace
ents needed in farm work, but it
i'll take at least two years, and per-
laps more, to bring the birth rate
Ap to the death rate.
"We may look for gradually in
reaSing prices on horses and mules
pr the next FIVE years, at which time
hey probably will reach the peak Tor
bis particular cycle They will then
high enough to stimulate breeding
Nerywhere, and as is always the case,
yer production will follow. This will
ring back low prices about 10 or Il
Fears from now"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-05-23
SOUTHERN METHODISTS
ELECT FIVE NEW BISHOPS
DR.. Dickey, of Griffin, Ga, Is One of
Number So Honored.

At the nineteenth quadrennial con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South FIVE new bishops were
elected as follows:
DIR. J. E. Dickey, Griffin, Ga.
DIR. w. B. Beauchamp, Nashville,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-05-23
SALE OF CHICKENS AT
ASHBURN NETS $1,034.0C

A chicken and hog sale at Ashburn
the past week netted the farmers OF
Turner county $1039.95 for chickens
and $2,61984 for hogs.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
Manners in Life

the United States so unfavored. dis
regarded and abandoned as to create.
even among the humblest immi-
grants. first impression very un-
favorable and among other foreign
visitors or residents a carefully re-
pressed conviction that we must be
barbarians or we would not be so
deaf and blind TO the simplest courte-
sizes of daily intercourse. But there
is reason to believe that this is not
an overstatement of a mortifying
fact. II this ook-deliberately ap-
pealing to Americans through what
sometimes seems their single instinct
in life. namely. to get on well-shall
teach the masses of us that personal
courtesy to everybody with whom
one is brought in contact. or even
proximity. should be as instructive
as breathing. life would instantly be-
come so much easier that it would
seem like living in another world. 1t
is difficult to speak in measured
words of the enormous waste of hui
man kindness and sympathy dried
up i'm millions of naturally well dis
posed people by the rudeness and
lack of consideration for others
which is so great a blemish in the
character of so many Americans at
the present time. If Mrs. Bailey's
book could stem the tide long enough
for people to realize what each per
son loses in personal comfort and
self respect by the general needless
ness in this matter an improvement
would be almost automatic.
The book is wise and useful from
beginning TO end. The chapters upon
the everyday relations in the family.
the treatment of servants. the train
ing of children. the rights and duties
of guests and hostesses on home
manners" and personal efficiency
all are good as gold, money in the
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
May Sinclair in Philosophical Field

deliberately built up a system with
out mind by leaving consciousness
out. For she feels that mind ought
to be brought in only when all other
solutions have been attempted and
found unsatisfactory. This, she
thinks. has proved the case. and
idealism should be grateful that
realism has made the test.
But the real security of the idealist
theory rests upon the distinction be-
tween primary and secondary con-
sciousness. 1t is a distinction fire.
quently overlooked. Primary con-
sciousness is concerned with "all the
objects and events and relations and
conditions Immediately present in it,
whether perceived or conceived, re-
membered. anticipated or willed." 1t
includes all the sensd, the raw ma
terial of judgment. Secondary con-
sciousness is more comprehensive: it
involves reflection, reasoning, &c.
This distinction enables the idealist
to admit some of the realist's most
The New York herald., 1922-06-11

mellow driftwood. with the essence
of the deep sea.
They are mostly mere episodes.
these verbal packages, etchings. sill
houettes. fleet glimpses of strange
quays and harbors. bizarre human
gargoyles. the waits and derelicts of
the worlds furthest shores. San
Francisco Bay, Ponta Delgada, the
Gates succeed one another like diz-
zily dissolving views. Snug Ben
gals. weedy Eurasians. wiry little
Japs, fair headed Teutons. French
Cantinieres drift endlessly by, like
perennial carnival. And everywhere
Is a redolence of strange. nostalgia
smells. the clean. wholesome odor OF
Stockholm tar. the CRIME and stencil
of a northern whale ship. paint
sun, the thousand blended. haunting
odors of the Orient. There are many
character studies that linger in the
memory and one genuine short story
in the technical sense: Errors of
Judgment" 1t is a tragic story of
sea captain whose loss of ship
kept him from the sea for twenty
years--since ship owners have long
memories. And when in middle age
he gets new chance as junior Off
Ger and the coeksure young captain
In command drives the vessel on the
rocks and is swept overheard the
older man redeems his early errors
of judgment by a miracle of sea-
manship that saves all lives on
board-except his own.
Mr.. Bone is happy in the combined
possession of a colorful style. keen
sense of humor and a real under
standing of the finer shadings of
good technic.
FREDERIC TABER COOPER.
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important statements. for applied to
secondary consciousness every objec-
ton that realism brings against con-
sciousness itself holds good. "Once
admit that primary and secondary
consciousness are, and are separable,
two distinct though related acts of
the individual self, and you can
afford to let both consciousness and
the cosmos rip. Holding fast to the
distinction, you can have all the
idealism and all the realism you
want"
Her references to ultimate con-
sciousness will seem to many like
the flight to God" which realists
long have said that idealists INDUCED
in whenever necessary to bolster up
a bad argument. But the book is a
brilliant critical study of recent ten
denotes in realism. Any one who
enjoys metaphysics will find the
journey through it highly stimulat-
ing. Those who do not enjoy meta
physics will never read a page of it.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
Broken StoWage

BROKEN STOWAGE. BY David w.
Bone. f. p. Dutton & Co.
n explanation of his title the au-
thor reminds us briefly that
when a cargo is to be slowed
shipshape and sailor fashion odd
packages of miscellaneous form and
size are greatly valued as wedges
and quoins to fill odd corners and
are carried at small rates or free of
charge. Such ''oddments of the
freight market" are known in sea
parlance as broken stowage. The
present volume. he implies, is a
cargo of such small packages, "odds
and leavings trigged up to serve
good purpose" and he begs the
reader. like a kind soul, to accept
them without warranty.
Now. IL your special need Is a
good. old fashioned yarn of sea ad-
venture of the Fenimore Cooper or
Captain Marryat sort, full of mu-
tinies and pirates and few ship
wrecks for fun measure-in short, if
what you want is human melodrama,
with q ships deck as preferential
stage setting-then this book is not
for you. There is little adventure in
it. and many of its pages are not on
shipboard at all. But il you have
an inborn love of strange, exotic har-
bors and alien peoples, if you love for
its own sake the vast stretch of toss
ing water. the heave and lift of the
planks beneath your feet, the salt
tang of ocean spray. then emphati-
cally this is book after your own
heart, since. afioat or ashore. II is
permeated TO its inmost fiber. like
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pocket" if you like. and certainly
peace in the soul for all who are not
too stupid to value them.
Possibly our national habit of
needless hurry underlies much OF
our trouble. If this book could be
read by even one-tenth of the people
who need to read it the result could
not but be a noticeable improvement
on the very lines of daily behavior
which need it most.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
Book Exchange

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THE VALUE OF GOOD MANNERS.
Practical Politeness In the Daily
Concerns of Life, By Margaret EN-
erson Bailey. Doubleday. Page
Co.
NHE author of this book has
"geared" it for readers in the
United States at the present
time. and therefore. very judieiously
no doubt. has a first chapter sum-
married. in these words: Are good
manners worth the price? Regarded
by the Puritans as dangerous, looked
on by later generations of Ameri-
cans as inconvenient and undemo-
cratic. they are to-day regarded as
a wise investment, yielding big re-
turns" And her final chapter is
headed. Courtesy first. the new busi-
ness slogan
The first question asked by con-
temporary American. when faced by
a new business proposition" is.
What is there in it for me-" Since
the matter of succeeding or failing in
ones life calling is of considerable
importance. Mrs. Bailey takes the
ground that since "polteness pays
large dividends. politeness is a pay
ment 20 be offered in advance. as a
sort cf retainer of the other mans
good viii And as a business propo-
sitionr then she advocates an unfor-
getting effort to be courteous in
every undertaking.
Ii is not fiattering to the self re-
spect of the rank and file of Ameri-
cans to realize that what people in
most other countries regard as the
natural courtesies. almost the COM
mon decencies OF life. have been 10
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elements dear to the American
heart.
And as regards Americas tennis
future, the author declacss: Amer
lea is rich in potential champions
and richer still in the ins,inct for de-
velopment revealed by t. ose who lead
lawn tennis on the other side
SAMUEL BROOKMhN.
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Lawn Tennis

TWENTY YEARS OF LAWN TEN
NIS-By A. Wallis Myers. George
H. Doran Company.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11

no one is better ouali-
fled to write of the last twen-
ty years of tennis than A.
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THE VALUE OF GOOD MANNERS.
Practical Poiiteness In the Daily
Concerns of Life. By Margaret EN-
erson Bailey. Doubleday. Page &
Co.