The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-30

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day, but on the other hand it i
Too many innocent people are
Iity have a grievance.
Some means must and will b.
led disaster. The necessary lie
the trainmen and the railroad e
Bacon, aspiring to the senatorship.
But he is not in a class with Nc
Combs when it comes to all-round fit
ness.
Mr.. McCombs is a southern man,
but having begun his law practice In
New York and lived there ever since,
no one understands the politics or the
public needs of his adopted state bet
ter than he. Born in Arkansas, with
Alabama ancestry on his mothers
side, and prepared for Princeton in a
Tennessee school, his youthful career
and environment were similar to
Woodrow Wilson's.
Mr.. McCombs not only feels sure
that he will be elected senator, but
he talks as if he were equally as GER
tain that Wilson and Marshall would
carry New York and have votes to
spare.
~ INCE the locating or scout COM
- mittee to select a route for the
great Jackson highway south of Nash
vile made it's tour of inspection last
fall, considerable road work has been
done along the competing lines in Ala
bama an d
Renewed Activity in Mississippi,
Great Highway Project b Tut m u c h
more remains
to be done. The committee is sched-
uled to make a second tour early this
fall, after which it will render it's final
report to the board of directors of the
jackson Highway association at Nash
vile.
Owing to the torrential rains and
damaging floods in July it might be
well for the scouts" to defer their trip
until next summer. In the meanwhile
it is encouraging to know that good
roads leaders and active members of
the Jackson highway organization of
Alabama are taking steps to push a
building campaign through this state
with renewed energy. This is well.
There is an excellent chance of hav-
ing the highway from the lakes to
the gulf pass through this state via
Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile.
But even if the Mississippi route
should be officially designated, most
of the motorists from the north would
either come south or return home
through Alabama. An improved con-
tinuous highway is needed regardless
of the Jackson memorial. So let US go
on with the work with as little delay
as possible.
vAr HEN j. Frank Hanly, former
Wv republican and ex-governor of
Indiana, accepted the prohibition
party's nomination for the presidency,
he promised to conduct a vigorous
campaign, and he has hit upon novel
plan of doing
Prohibition Party's it. TIL n
Novel Campaign Plan nouncement is
made a n a :
tional headquarters in Chicago that a
"Prohibition Special" carrying the ex-
governor and the Rev. DIR. Ira Lam
drith, vice presidential nominee, will
start out in September for a two
months canvass.
1t will be scheduled to stop at six
hundred towns so as to give the people
an opportunity of seeing what pro-
hibition train locks like and hear the
arguments for the moral cause" at
first hand. In the event of a general
railroad strike it is expected that a
sufficient number of capable volun-
teers will be found to make up a
crew.
One of the prohibition leaders in the
St. Paul convention exclaimed in a
fit of enthusiasm that the ticket would
be in the race to win. If Henry Ford
had accepted the presidential nomi-
nation he could have been counted
upon to sweep the country, according