The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-16

lCOWelS, DaCn COWelS, tooCli oAuoiioo, tooth powder, white handkerchiefs, colored handkerchiefs and cool, serv- iceable slippers.
 It is probable that every guardsman who uses safety razor carried one of these handy untensils with him when he left home; and many of the other articles deemed necessary for comfort in camp life were doubtless packed away in most of the knapsacks.
 After the National Guard has been in service few weeks longer, articles which are now in plentiful supply will begin to run out," and if there is no immediate call from the first for the aid society's attention there will be before autumn. The appeals, there fore, which are being made today should meet with prompt response. It | is beautiful sentiment at any rate which moves the good women who form the society.
 TN the passing of James Hillhouse l the Birmingham district loses an- other of it's pioneers whose memory will be long and fondly cherished Born and reared in Scotland, not far from the home of Robert Burns, he loved his native Another Pioneer land to the last Passes Away it's hills and dales, it's traditions and | it's folklore-but coming to Birning ham in 1884 he soon became attached to Alabama and this state never had better or more loyal citizen. MT. Hillhouse was an expert in nin- ing and his early activities in this district played an important part in the development of the coal indus try. And while his vocation naturally brought him into intimate relations with the pioneer operators as well as the men who dug the coaB he was known and esteemed by all the people l unidentified with the upbuilding of Bir- nningham.
 Endowed with a strong mind and | ready wit MT. Hillhouse had positive opinions and expressed them, but so genial was his nature and so large his heart that he was every mans neighbor and died without leaving an enemy,
 We all knew him as "Uncle Jimmy" and his words of cheer, even when times were not the best hereabouts, never failed to have heartening eff feet on those around him. He will be missed, for men of his type are all too few. May his soul rest in peace! Ty HE war department has planned j. large recruiting movement for the National Guard. Regiments on border duty will be recruited up to full war strength. Nearly 60,000 guardsme1 have reached the Mexican frontier and mobili- Efficiency of zation is proceed National Guard ing steadily. It
 is believed now that 125,000, or practically the entire organized militia, will be doing patrol duty by the end of the present month.
 The new recruits, authorized by the army reorganization law, will increase the National Guard to 160,000, and these troops, with the 50,OOO regulars on the border, will bring the total number of men protecting the line up to 21O,OOo.
 Although the Mexican situation is no longer menacing to the United States, the Washington government will continue indefinitely to patrol the border. Had such precaution oeen taken six months ago there would have been no Villa raids and, there- fore, no Mexican crisis resulting from such warfare. Now that the United States has mobilized large army the troops will be kept where they afe until conditions in Mexico are normal. That may be year or it may be much l longer.
 Notwithstanding comment on the National Guards unpreparedness, heard in some quarters two weeks ago, there has really been little ground for criticism. Compare the progress of