The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-15

to the country, and if it has enabled
the farmer to make two bales grow
where one grew before, what is lit
tie 100000 appropriation?
If this has been an extravagant
Congress, it would be unfair to call it
such on mere GRANGE at the figures
T1HE other day Matthew Leidgen, a
i 9-year-old boy of Milwaukee,
shot and killed his playmate in quar-
rel.
A few years ago this boy would have
been sent to a reformatory, which
would have
The Surgeons Knife been worse
Instead of Prison crime than the
one he COM
mitted, because he suffers from lapses
of memory and acute moroseness. In
stead of treating Matthew as crini-
nal, the court ordered an operation
performed for the removal of piece
of denied bone in his skull.
Four years ago the boy fell on the
sidewalk and injured his head and This
fact saved him from the reformatory.
The public no longer SCOTS at such
cases, for the skillful surgeon has
stepped in and saved many an unfor
tunate who might have been doomed
to lifetime of suffering, long periods
of Imprisonment or perhaps death for
having committed crimes for which he
was not to blame.
THE farm loan board will begin a
i transcontinental tour next week
for the purpose Of giving hearings to
farmers and others interested with a
view of determining the lines of the
twelve farm loan regions into which
the U nj t d
Farm Board to States is to be
Have Many Hearings divided under
the rural cred
its act and also selecting a city in
each region for the location of farm
loan bank.
When the federal reserve board was
ready to proceed it divided the coun-
try into regions before it sent out its
locating committee to hold hearings
as to the claims of various contesting
cities for the reserve banks. There
were only about twelve hearings, but
many of them lasted several days.
The farm board has mapped out
different sort of programme. 1t will
have a hundred or more hearings in
as many towns, but they will be lin
tied in most cases to one day.
Those seeking to be heard must have
their facts we'll sifted and must prac-
tice the art of rapid speech.
While the board may have charted
the country tentatively, assurance is
given that nothing will be decided I'M
til after the hearings are thoroughly
digested; and it is promised that all
questions touching bank location will
be settled on merit.
Notwithstanding the effort of the
board to expedite organization bust
ness, it will be next spring before the
rural credit system will be in opera
ton. But as the farmers are to be
greatly benefited when the time does
come they will wait with patience.
AIR. HUGHES is no longer the
lN -whiskered man he was
when he first entered politics. J. Ham
Lewis was the New York lawyers
only rival in public life in the matter
of facial adornment. Each wore a
large pink
Hughes Improved by beard, parted
Clipping of Whiskers in the middle.
The jokesmiths
never tired of referring 10 the
whiskers of these two personages.
Lewis reduced his beard several years
ago and at one time appeared with
only a mustache, but Mr.. Hughes
held on to the greater portion of his
until he was honored with the repub-
lican nomination for the presidency.
While the latter had begun the
clipping process during his residence
in Washington as an associate justice
of the supreme court, it was hardly
noticeable to the ordinary observer.
the pert photographers were still hav-
ing their fun.
But campaign photographs repre-
sent Mr.. Hughes with comparatively
little beard. He has whiskers on his
chin long enough to brush and part.
The mustache seems to be of its usual
fullness, but the rest of the hirsute
growth has been closely trimmed. The
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