The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-15

To such men food and shelter, withou the latter-day luxuries of reformed prisons, bring contentment. The, know worse predicaments than bein, in jail.
 TT is said that the managers of tn, l prohibition party will arrange fo speech-making campaign, provided MT. Ford accepts the nomination fol the presidency, as now seems likely Although the prohibition ticket has
 usually been head MT. Ford's Loose ed by a man of Purse Strings distinction, no or
 ganized effort was ever made to arouse interest in the cause. The policy will be different this year, and an aggressive canvass of the country may be expected.
 MT. Ford not being an orator would have to be represented on the stump by proxy, but the prohibition party, as small as it has been in numbers of past years, has never lacked talent for pub- lie discussion.
 The prospective standard-bearer is a generous giver, as evidenced by his open purse when Madam Schwimmer, the peace angel from Hungary, in- duced him last fall to charter the steamship Oscar II and take large company of pacifists to Europe for the purpose of getting the men out of the trenches and ending the war by Christmas.
 As the prohibition platform fairly bristles with peace, so to speak, MT. Ford, it is assumed, would find real pleasure in financing a campaign on a large scale.
 Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver, who was one of MT. Ford's guests and ad- visors on the peace junket to Europe, has been offered the vice presidential by responsible leaders of the prohibition party but, according to the Associated Press, he declines it, on the ground that he is a candidate for reelection to the juvenile court bench. But litter matter like that should not bar him for the higher honor.
 After the St. Paul convention nomi- mates MT. Ford for President Judge Lindsey may reconsider and get in the national race as his old friends run hing mate. Such a ticket would at east add color to the contest. T HE tremendous drives of the en- ! tente powers may possibly hasten the end of the war, but the probabilities are against peace before the summer of 1917. Great Britain has only now got itself in good fight ing form. All the military prepara- tion begun a year and half ago by
 Lord Kitchener was Lloyd c eorge's carried to comple- Strong Grasp ton just as the dis
 tinguished warrior and war secretary met an untimely death.
 Lloyd-G George as the successor of Kitchener at the head of the war of flee has a strong grasp of the situa- tion and is already an inspiration to and her allies.
 Neither Premier Asquith nor Lloyd George were ever given to over-state- ment. On the contrary they have been frank and plain-spoken in their public utterances. Now that these two men upon whom the greatest re- sponsibilities for the conduct of the war on the allies side rest, feel that they have their country's affairs in good condition, they venture to talk of their confidence in ultimate victory. When Lloyd-George says there will be no lack of munitions or ammunition he can be taken at his word. But If the allies are prepared to prosecute the war with unparalleled fury so are the central powers prepared to resist with their accustomed courage and power of endurance. If Egland is in for a long war, so is Germany. n OR many years the phrases "Lit- j. tie army men" and little navy men" were familiar in congressional circles. Not a few esteemed states men were so classed until President Wilson's administration launched it's national defense programme and made an issue of vital and inn
 mediate concern. Nation to Have Every broad-mind- B Great Navy ed man in public
 life who has piven