The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-07
CAPTAIN ROBSON
 ON THE AEROP[ANE Sees a Great Future for It in
 Times of War FINE LODGE TEMPLE VIII Be Built By the Scottish Rite for Southern Jurisdiction
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 VIII Lead Senate
By RALPH NJ. wHIrEsIDE

By RALPH NJ. wHITEsIDE
 Washington. November 7-(Specialo- Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson sees great future in war for the aeroplane. So impressed is the Alabama statesman with the possibilities of the flying man as an agent of destruction that he pro poses to add to the cirriculum at West Point and Annapolis the scientific study Of aviation and when Congress meets next month he will seek to have this idea engrafted into law.
 The war and navy departments are awakening to the necessity for preparing to wage war in the air, but are not in accord, fully, with Captain Hobson s idea of having the teaching of aviation done at the naval and military acade- mics. Their idea is 10 establish special schools of aviation for officers in the prarie country where there not so many difficulties in the way of fight. The Hobson idea, which has many friends Is that the men should learn to fly under conditions which exist where the need for the air warships will be greatest. along the coast.
 Whichever is decided upon one thing is sure aviation for army and navy is to get a good deal more attention from
 Washington is to have the handsomest lodge temple in the world when the new temple of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the southern jurisdic- tion of the United States is completed
 Ground will be broken for the new building in December at Sixteenth and s. streets N. w
 Grand Commander James D. Richard son says nothing will be spared to make the new temple second to none in point of architectural beauty, inside and out.
 The men selected to pass upon every detail in construction and ornamentation are men whose reputation, in the art world are both national and interna- tonal
 If the purposes of the supreme council are to be carried out the new temple will reflect artisticaly and symbolically the councils Masonic glory in being the parent of the worlds councils.
 The cost of the new site was sl64.000 and the cost of the temple when com pleted has been estimated at $10000,000. The entire project has been placed under the personal control of Grand Com nander James D. Richardson, who, in making his prepa rations. has kept in close touch with each of the active in- spectors general.
 "The temple is not a one-man idea" said MT. Richardson, 'sbut the result of the best thought in the art and archi- tectural world"
 least. by President Taftheul--
 Efforts to break up the "sold south in the interest of the republican party have been called to a halt temporarily, at least by President Taft. Capt John Capers. republican national committed man, of South Carolina. had planned to hold a republican convention in that state on October 26 to organize a new movement for republicanism. It had been intended to hold similar conven- tions in other southern states.
 Coming just prior to the elections, the proposed republican convention stirred the negro voters, who considered it movement toward forming a close corporation of the republican whites. The presidents name was being used with the intimation that he approved the plan, and this was causing consider able trouble As the president had not until recently heard of the plan, he wanted more time to consider 1t, so, on his recommendation to Captain Capers, it was decided yesterday to indefinitely postpone action.
 Who is going to lead the senate in the next Congress? Both the republicans and democrats will be under the neces- sity of selecting leaders in the place of Senators Aldrich and Money who retire
 There are likelN to be lively fights for. the leaderships in both parties. that is likely for the senate.
 There will be a general shifting Of high ranking officers Of the army with in the next several months because of retirements and promotions. The first change will be made on November IA through the retirement of Brig. Gen. A. l., Mver. now in command of the de- psrtment of Texas. He will be succeed ed by. Brig Gen Ralph w. Hoyt. now commanding Fort D. A. Russell Wyo.
 Col. Montgomery M. Macomb. Sixth Field artillery. now on duty on the general staff, will be appointed briga- dier general to the vacancy caused by General Myers retirement. Colonel Ma comb will be assigned to command the military district of Hawaii. Mai. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, former chief of staff, will sail from San Francisco on December for the Philip pines, where he will succeed Maj.-Gen. William P. Duvall as commanding gen.
 
 Duvall will be placed on the retired list on January 13
 Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston. com mandant of the Army Service school at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, will be trans | ferred to the command of the depart ment of Luzon, of the Philippine d. vision. Brig Gen. Ramsay D. Potts, now in command of the department, is | on his way to the United States. He | ;e cufferinp with eve trouble l Brig. Gen. M. P. Maus. now com manding the depar rtrnent of the Columbia with headquarters at Vancouver bar racks. wash, will be transferred to com the law-making body hereafter, 1t will not be the fault of the heads of those institutions, but of the trustees-or the | legislators.
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