The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-27

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  tremendous, as shown by the huge or ders filled for the allies. As the United States is mobilizing a comparatively small army in the present crisis with Mexico, there is no reason why it should not be the finest equipped in the world. If there is any lack of this sort along the border it will be due to mismanagement, as our resources are practically unlimited.
 TT HEODORE ROOSEVELT having | completed his days of grouch- ing is now committed unreservedly to Charles E. Hughes. Thus the expected has happened. The founder of the progressive party not only comes out formally for the man who carried off the honors at Chicago but he urges his former partisans Roosevelt Now to fall into line and Out for Hughes follow him back to
 the republican fold. MT. Hughes, in token of his grateful appreciation of the colonel's support, has invited the doughty ex-President to lunch with him, and it should go without saying that the repast will be in the nature of love feast.
 Four years ago Colonel Roosevelt fought the republican organization and it's standard bearer, President Taft, with vengeance and made demo- cratic victory easy. He felt at the time no doubt that he could never again join the ranks of the stand patters. But now that he has made up his mind to forget the past he will aid all he can in rehabilitating the old party that he violently berated and unmercifully drubbed.
 While many of the progressives de- clared themselves for Hughes and Fairbanks before the leaders left Chicago, the bulk of them can now be counted on to do so. Enough of them, however, will class themselves as independents to weaken the re- united republican party.
 The campaign will be strenuous with the chances today in favor of Wilson and Marshall.
 THE most significant development l of the war noted recently is the tremendous sweep of the Russians, who have apparently put the Aus trians to flight in every direction on the eastern front. So far, the Russian
 advance directed Tremendous Sweep by General Brus- of Russian Troops iloff, has not made
 any appreciable change in the lineup" elsewhere in the war zones, but it has served to buoy the allies with high hopes and has no doubt had correspondingly depressing effect on the Teutons.
 The French have borne themselves gallantly in this war, but they have been on the defensive practically all the time. The Russians have provided by far the most spectacular phase of the struggle among the allies. Their first great offensive threatened for a time to sweep all before it, but the Russians spent themselves. They ran short of ammunition and the Germans had no trouble in pushing them back. Since their reverses the Russians have had a ''house cleaning" wholesale graft has been curbed and the Jap anese have provided the Czar's troops with unlimited munitions of war. The Russian superiority over the ! Austrians can hardly be questioned but the Germans seem to find no diff culty in checking them, on anything like equal terms.
 T HE flourishing city of Piqua, O.. l claiming population of nearly 10000, is about to lose some of the fame to which it is justly entitled as the home of Dr. Arthur Newton Davis dentist to the Emperor William.
 In noting the doctors arrival 1T New York recently on a visit to his
 native land one o1 Great Success of the newspapers American Dentist identified him cor
 rectly as being { citizen of Piqua, the capital of Miam county, in the Buckeye state, but sev eral reporters failed to catch the nam, of the town and wrote it Pickaway The prostoffice guide records no sucl place in Ohio, but 'Dr. Davis of Pick away" will go the rounds of the .press