The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-25

half -witted persons were held crim- inally liable for not reporting such cases to the authorities, the public might be better safeguarded, but even that plan would in many in- stances be cruel and unjust.
 DRoF. HUGO MUENsTERBERG ! of Harvard declared in a recent lecture that he has never yet found a person he could not successfully hypnotize within very short time" As the professor numbers the Kaiser
 among his Great Opportunity for friends and Professor Muensterberg did not ex- cept that august parsonage, he has a great op- portunity to do something for Ger many, as well as the world at large. Now, if the professor would hypno- tize the Kaiser, and incidentally few other Prussion "blood-and-iron men," who assuredly could not resist his power, if their Emperor could not, the problem of what is to be done with Germany could be speedily settled. | The Kaiser could be disabused of those grandiloquent ideas which are held to blame for Germany's present woe. He might even come to see the necessity for abdicating and helping to make Germany a splendid democ- racy with no thought of place in the sum-" save that to which it is rightly entitled.
 However, Professor Muensterberg admires the Kaiser tremendously. He wouldn't hypnotize him if he could, and if he did hypnotize him he is so convinced that William can't be im- proved on that he wouldn't make a single suggestion to that end.
 TT is said upon high authority | that the dominant note of MT. Hughes speech of acceptance next week will be in the nature of an at tack on President Wilson's inter national policy, especially his attitude toward Mexico. The republican stand ard bearer and Dominant Note of his campaign Acceptance Speech committee have
 been holding ex- ecutive sessions for the purpose of agreeing upon arguments to be used against the democrats.
 So popular have been the economic measures adopted by Congress and so strong is President Wilson's position before the people that the republican nominee will have little to say about legislation under the present admin istration. His councillors are in doubt even as to whether it will be advis- able for him to discuss at any length the tariff.
 MT. Hughes may win the applause of politicians of his own party by 1 finding fault with the administrations treatment of Mexico. But the business men of New York and the great mass of people throughout the land are glad that MT. Wilson has succeeded in keeping the country out of war. Never were republican leaders so hard pressed for campaign issues as they are now. But this does not mean that the democrats will win in Novenl- Der simply on their record. Concen- trated efforts will be necessary to in- sure a signal victory. And no one understands this better than Chair man Vance Mccormick
 r AST year after the committee of L the Jackson Highway associa- tion had made an inspection tour of the two proposed routes from Nash vile to New Orleans-one through Alabama and the other through Mis- sissippi-for the purpose of recom- mending the line To Locate the deemed best, final Jackson Highway decision was post poned until Oc- tober of the present year. This action was taken by the directors of the as- sociation in order to allow the good road organizations in both states to make further progress in the work of improving certain links that were found in bad condition.
 During the winter and spring con- siderable headway was in evidence, but owing to incessant rains this sum- mer and resultant floods, road build ing has not only been seriously inter fered with, but in several localities in Mississippi as well as Alabama