The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-12

ciate the exceptional advantages WHICH
this state offers for modern economic
dairying; and, of course, fewer still in
other sections of the country are well
informed in this respect.
The dairy show in Massachusetts,
will afford splendid opportunity OF
letting the north and east know what
we have in soil and climate and what
can be produced in grain and fora ge
crops.
There is steady increase in dairy
products in the United States every
year. 1t is estimated that in ten years
the total value Of this country's milk,
butter and cheese has gained nearly
40 per cent. Last years production
was: Milk, 7,466, 4O6, 1884 gallons; but,
ter, 1919, 425, 263 pounds; cheese,
about 800, 900, 900 pounds. The aggre-
gate value of these three items, as as
certained by the census bureau, was
1855, sO1, 246.
Along with crop Investigation the
dairy business in Alabama will take
high rank and will add greatly to the
wealth of the state. 1t should receive
a strong impetus from this years
dairy show, assuming, as one has a
right to, that the Southern railways
special train will be we'll patronized.
n F by any hook or crook Mr.. Hughes
u should be elected President, Col
onel Roosevelt would have right 10
feel that he should be the power De-
hind the throne, so to speak. After
he was in
Roosevelt and Perkins duced to de-
Bend Their Energies cline the pro-
gressive NOM
nation and support Hughes, the col
onel seemed to think he had done
enough for the party of his former
But as the moose vote is greatly
divided, the republicans cry to tne
colonel for help. Even among the pro-
who were inclined to return
to the republican party there is serl-
ous detection. If the election were
held tomorrow a large majority OF the
,oloneps one-tine following would
vote the democratic ticket.
George w. Perkins, Roosevelt's ar
dent supporter and master of ex-
,hequer in 1912, helped to engineer
the fusion" deal which gave Hughes
The place that logically belonged to
The hull moose. But Perkins has the
hypnotic gift and like all magnetic
individuals he makes strong personali-
,ies-as strong as the colonel-do his
way and think it all right.
Well, the colonel and Perkins and
other ex-progressives are mixing with
standpat republicans before the cam
era and will figure boldly in the
movies"
At Chairman Willcox's urgent re-
quest, Roosevelt is to be the chief
advisor of the Hughes campaign, and
although the chances for a republican
in November are very slim
Roosevelt would try to kick the "old
guard" aside and pick out the big
plums for his friends. Mr.. Perkins,
being a financier Of national reputa-
ton, would fit into the cabinet with
the treasury portfolio. He might pre-
fer foreign mission, however. The
colonel would simply insist on Per-
kins having his choice.
The election is nearly two months
off, but the big places are usually pre-
sometime in advance. Still,
at this juncture, with the hope of vic
tory anything but bright, consideration
Of White House affairs may not be
alluring. But if the colonel, moved
by the gloomy situation, infuses life
into the Hughes campaign, he would
be a near-President, at least, in the
event of Hughes election. And that
would be an improvement on Barnes,
Penrose or Crane.
1T0 HE time may be drawing near
y when women will no longer be
able to shoot their own husbands,
other women's husbands and unat-
tached bachelors and then escape pun
ishment by working on the sympathies
of jury.
The other day in Chicago . woman
shot and killed her husband for no 9TH
err cause,
The Fair Defendant and apparently,
the Sympathetic Jury than his re-
fusal to
drop divorce proceedings which he in
stituted after coming home one day
and finding his vile entertaining a