The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08

applicants. But owing to the Lone Star states vast area, to say nothing of its vast agricultural interests, Houston or some other city besides Dallas may secure one of the coveted "plums."
 The people of Alabama will con cern themselves only with the ques- tion of locating bank for this region. Birmingham's centrality is greatly in it's favor and this and other consid- erations can but make strong inn pression, and it is believed con- vincing impression, upon the board. But a concerted effort to secure the prize will be in order.
 The farm lean board should be able to complete it's hearings by Christmas, so that the new system may be in op- eration early in January. The rural credits measure will prove a great boon to the farmers of every section. It will be especially helpful to the farmers of the south. What the bor- rower will save in interest rate should eventually make him a rich man. IF MT. Hughes was as cold and un- | sociable as those who knew sev- eral years ago described him he has changed. He has been cultivating the glad hand habit. He now affects a love for comradeship and is turning
 out to be a ready Hughes Cultivates mixer. His run the Glad Hand ming mate, Charles
 w. Fairbanks Buttermilk Charlie he used to be called because of his preference for that old-fashioned beverage over other soft drinks-had the reputation of be- ing freezing in his manner when he was vice president in Roosevelt's full term administration. He has not been heard from since he was nominated last June. He is lying low in his home town, Indianapolis, and will probably not try to get in the spot light until the notification committee calls on him on the 31st of this month. It is said, however, that he, like his chief, has been studying the art of how not to be cold
 But whether or not MT. Hughes is able to keep up his newly acquired style of glad-greeting he is deter mined to make a record in the number of speeches he will deliver between now and November. Roosevelt was a strenuous campaigner and so was the late Benjamin Harrison, but Mr. Hughes on the stump will talk off" more words in a week than any other candidate for the presidency has cared to attempt. He has started on his much heralded continental tour. TATHEN Madame Rosika Schwim- w. mer of Hungary sought Henry Ford last fall and prevailed upon him to organize, finance and lead a peace expedition to Copenhagen for the pur- pose of getting the soldiers out of the trenches before Christmas and so end
 the war, she found Ford No Longer him not only in a an Easy Mark receptive frame of,
 mind but more than eager to adopt her plans. The Detroit philanthropist chartered ship and invited many men and women of national prominence and many more not prominent, but recom- mended on account of their earnest pacifism, to join him in very novel enterprise.
 A dozen persons of distinction, among them the Rev. Dr. Charles F. Aked, the Rev. Jenkins Lloyd Jones and Judge Ben Lindsey, accepted the invitation and sailed with the good captain of peace on the Oscar II. All told there were about 200 in the con- pany, but many of them were merely junketers.
 It was fools errand, but MT. Ford was an unsophisticated gentleman at that time and refused to see it in that light. Madame Schwimmer was full of mystery, but she vouchsafed enough information to assure the man who was footing the bills that everything would work out all right as soon as they reached Europe and had time to confer with pacifists in Scandinavia.
 The men in the trenches were not got out by Christmas. The war is being waged today with greater fury than ever. But it was hardly fair for the public to ridicule MT. Ford, when such men of affairs as David Starr Jordan and William Jennings Bryan