The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-14

TT is reported that transatlantic l Zeppelin freight and passenger service will soon be inaugurated be- tween the United States and Germany. A new type of super-Zeppelin will be used and the first vessel to arrive
 will be the "Z. Zeppelin Is Due Deutschland" If to Arrive Next the trial trip is a
 success, the service will be continued. A cargo of dyes, chemicals, mail and perhaps some passengers will be carried.
 Like the submarine Deutschland, the new aerial liner is expected to make it's appearance suddenly and unexpect- edlv. For obvious reasons it's departure from Germany will not be heralded abroad.
 The ingenious Teutons have already astonished the world with their sub marine and nothing seems impossible for them to accomplish now. Captain Koenig is the hero of the hour, but he will be forgotten when a giant Zep- pelin merchantmen comes down out of the skies at one of the eastern ports and it's jaunty, super efficient captain disembarks as calmly as if crossing the ocean in an airship were nothing at all to get excited about.
 A HERO of the North sea battle "A was John Travers Cornwell, boy IS years old, of H. M. s. Chester. Rear Admiral Beatty paid tribute to him in his official report of the
 battle and the cap- Bow Hero of tain of the Chester North Sea Fight wrote letter to
 the lads mother in which he eulogized her gallant son.
 Young Cornwell was mortally wounded, but stood calmly at his gun, exposed to the enemy's fire while the dead and wounded lay about his feet. "His gun would not bear on the enemy" wrote the captain, but he continued standing at his post, quietly waiting orders.
 The boy died, but his fame is se- cure. He had been at sea only few weeks, recruit from the training school. On the gallantry of this boy and many others like him the great ness of the British navy is founded. HIH HE democratic party was never
 more solidly united than it is today and in this fact alone it has an exceptionally strong advantage over it's opponents. The democratic legis- lative record makes telling appeal
 to all classes of MT. Hughes and voters, but along the Progressives with great achieve
 ment nothing gives such a sense of assurance to the rank and file as absolute party harmony.
 Time was when the republicans had a way of keeping together. But when the monotony was broken there were enough independents in pivotal states to give the country grateful change through democratic victory.
 In 1912 came the widest breach in the republican party. Colonel Roose- welt, with his progressive bolt, all but wrecked it. But when the colonel and many of his prominent followers re- turned to the fold and pledged allegi- ance to MT. Hughes the "Old Guard'' took heart again. Some imagined that the fusion of republicans and pro- 9ressives was practically in effect.
 
 But there is where the disappoint- ment comes in. Not only was it im- possible for Colonel Roosevelts rep resentatives in the Chicago convention to deliver the progressive organiza- tion in its entirety, but many who had appeared willing are now as pro- nounced in their opposition to the re- publican ticket as if they had never heard of an alliance; and for MT. Hughes, worse still, larger body of progressives in New York, under the leadership of John J. O'Brien, will con-