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Mixed Winners.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Sir: VIM
ners for 1916.
For President, Theodore Roosevelt,
first In war first in peace,
For United States Senator. William
Barnes. guardian of the Constitutions
and brave enough to oppose all policies
looking toward pandcrng to the illt-
crate and unthinking voter.
For Governor, any man with even an
elementary knowledge OF the states
finances must be opposed to back stair
policies in state and nation. \ mere
front" won't do.
What chance would any Wilson Muir
ply ticket have against Republican,
Progressive outht such as this?
4. BELL RINOEa
New YORK, January -.
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AS TO A WORLD UNION.
Political Unions Have Been Made by
Conquest, Not by Ci,ll Pacts.

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SUS--SU. The
difficulties you editorially suggest IN the
way OF world union on the bass of con-
sent Of the governed are undenaD.e.
Civilization never produced such state,
and the only world union IL ever did pro-
duce was achieved not by peace con-
gress but by conquest. The American
Union Itself is a conspicuous example
OF the fut.lity OF conventions and the
efficacy of war 1t was not at Annapolis
that the Federal Union had its birth, but
At AppomattON. II there is one thing
more than any other about which his
tory Is emphatic il j. this. namely, taat
union. which j. the sole source of peace
and hence the highest work Of civ.,2a-
tion. can he accomplished only through
the agency of q Cunqu.ror i}ut wh.i"
union must % effected by war. let t Tot
pc supposed that any union can last which
maintains Itself by Wholesale subjuga-
tiOn. There is only one safe foundation
cor political union. and that is local s"ls-
government. wise and benevolent con-
qu.ror may abolish military frontiers
mpnopoliZe armament and rspr.Ss COM
pe'.ng pt't4otisms, yet the success Of a!
this ~ measured ,u duo time by the pro-
portion OF satisfaction and dissatisfac-
tion among the populations involved,
Th"re Is one feature NJ all successful
political unions which any one can rec
og'i2e II is the causing Of political
and geographical units to tally. The
Roman Empire was composed of the
populations OF natural units, Italy. Gaul.
Spain, Britain, Greece Asia, Egypt and
Africa. During the war between our
states the fact soon became apparent
that the ContenlinS populations inhab-
tied the same natural unit, aud that
nature therefore was on the side OF
al stsTi ,l.,,
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THE FRUIT OF WAR.
Some Results That Modify Its Awful
Incidents.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: The
horrors OF the greatest or wars cannon
be exaggerated. but some good appears
in the future results OF 1t. Then, too,
IL is now apparent that the conflict might
have been infinitely more DISASTROUS II
ii had been postponed until Germany
produced Bismarck able to divide her
foes. or until England had actually got
into civil war, or had her councillors
petticoated by woman suffrage or been
poisoned through ard through by the
doctrines OF the pacifists.
War. indeed, is hell, but you cannot
picture our United states without the
background OF the Revolution. nor can
you see our great new South excepting
AS "a result OF the civil war. which de-
stroyed slavery. overthrew the slave
holding aristocracy and 80 dignified in
dustry and economy that capital wae
willing to help the new development.
And now in Europe there are few
happy signs. According to the highest
British economic authority, Sir George
raish. Britain Is paying for the war
with her income rather than with hcr
principal. She is selling American Sc
curities hut buying those OF her allies,
and while the change may not be desir-
able, II Is far better than the using up
OF capital itself
III
OF sydney Brooks, who shows US a pow
erty stricken but wonderfully improved
England, the curse of caste destroyed,
everybody frugal and industrious and
the Government in the hands OF those
who reach power only through service
to the state The trenches surely are
the Jewellers OF social barriers Perhaps
even the labor unions of England may
be humbled by the war
Possibly the most unlocked for result
OF the war is benefit to he derived
by the Belgians: yet Horace Fletcher
assures us that their deprivations have
stamped out the ordinary diseases OF
GENERALIZATION and that now the birth
rate IL advancing. II to the Belglans
could he given enough cloth to keep
them warm they would pull through and
in a reasonable time after the war be a
happy. self-supporting people. the COM
ing generation being superior perhaps
20 the going generation.
Who that has watched the struggles
OF the French people lately ana their
pouring OF gold into the national treas
ury can doubt that France Is being born
again, and that the new France will be
In most respects far superior 10 the
aute-belum France?
Seen too close. nothing seems worse
than war. hut seen in perspective and az
"A process or evolution. that pitiless evo-
luton which cares nothing for the suf-
fering OF individuals. war has different
aspect War IL better than national dis
honor even for the generation which
fights. and Infinitely better for the next
succeeding generation.
J. IIowARp CowrERTHwArT.
NEW YORK. January IL.
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Prom me CA1Stion Hcrald

FROM me thrSfidn Hcrdd
When the GypsIes hrst appeared IN Eug
land In the fifteenth century tho name
gypsy was given to them by tho Euglisn
people, who believed them 10 have come
from Egypt The French hy similar
mistake called them Hohomiaus, But
careful study Of this race, and especially
OF their language, shows that they cane
originally from India, The gypsy Ian
guage Is derived from the Sanscrit, as
are the other Aryan languages OF India.
similar error was made by the English
when they called a distinctlvely American
bird n turkey, under tho impression that
It was an importation from the Ottoman
Empire and by the French when they
called the same bird COZ dInde, believing
that Il came from India
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crises, the only talents that he pos
sesses become a handicap to him and

NiApVps thC Ouiy tuicutb tuuL uS pOS-
sesses become a handicap to him and
a menace to his countrymen.
Lacking the genius Of a Cesar, u
Napoleon. Lincoln or Grant,
though his books may be found in the
same libraries with theirs, he Is likely
to show the white feather Mt ono
time, reckless derring-do at another.
to be always shifty. ineffective. incon-
sistent. destroying to-day what he
painstakingly bullded yesterday. He
becomes a reproach not to authorship
ms such but to an electorate that
was blind to the teachings Of the past
which show that, while the pen may
be mightier than the sword. the mere
wielder Of pen at the head OF any
nntion Is peril to that nation mt II
time when the sword Is devastating
the world.
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tion1 We think not. Repeatedly has

tionf We think not. Repeatedly has
General VILLA charged the Admins.
tration with deserting him, and there
have been rumors that he was threat
ening revenge. As between the STU
premacy Of CARRANzA and American
intervention VILLA would choose the
latter. The San Ysabei horror Is
proof Of 1t. Both the President and
Congress must bear this in mind In
considering what action shall be taken
in dealing with the gravest of all the
complications that the policy of
watchful waiting has produced.
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The san Ysabel Massacre.

The seventeen Americans and one
canadian who We're taken from Il
train 10y NillistaS M San Ysabel, II
station on the Mexican Central fifty
miles southwest of Chihuahua. plum
dered, stripped, stood up against u
wall and shot in cold blood had re-
ceived ASSURANCES from the Carrapzn
Government, which Mr.. WILSON rec
ognizcd on October 10. 1913. that they
could safely proceed to Cu>i to reopen
the mines there.
The tarrunHa Government is in
possession of JuarcZ. chihuahua and
Torreon. and is operating the railroad
from JuureZ Ia the city of Mexico.
also the railroad from Vera Cruz To
the capital. ON january | General
OBRtGoN left Ii paso in his private
car for Mexico city. intending tn re-
main several days at chihuahua
Thousands of NilliStaS have recently
surrendered and amnesty has been
granted them. For almost three
months the only arms exported to
Mexico passed into the hands of Car
ranzistaS, nn embargo being imposed
and presumably enforced against
other factions To aid in the pucifi-
cation of the country Mr.. WILSON had
permitted the transportation Of Car
y,rI, 4
ritory to Nogales and Aqua Prietu.
The Washington Administration,
having rejected the claims of VILLA
and taken up CARRANZA, Withdrew its
moral support from the one and gave
its entire confidence to the other.
backed by all the political power il
could exert, including the appoint
ment Of an Ambassador. On the eve
of the CnrranZa recognition Amcri-
can ConsulS We're recalled from the
territory controlled by General VILLA.
with the result that ne Immediately
disclaimcd responsibility for the safety
OF Americans, which previously he
nhu guaranteed.
What the atrocity at San Ysabcl
signifies Is that the First chief Is i'm
potent TO pacify the country l25 miles
from the border which has passed
under his jurisdiction, and is unable
to protect Americans travelling ON a
trunk line within about an hours
ride of the modern capital Of chihun-
hua garriSoncd 10y his troops What
assurance * there, then, thai he can
exercise authority and protect life
and property in districts not traverse
by the railroads? Obviously none
whatever in any case.
The situation IS ugly and critical.
The whole American border is ailame
with resentment and anger. men cry
ing to heaven for vengeance. All the
more reason, therefore, why the Ad-
ministration should keep its hcnd. All
the more reason why Congress, which
has something to say about the mat
ten, should remain cool and cooper
ate With the President to tind an hon
Orablc and effective way out of the
difficulty, II II Is possible short OF In.
tervention.
Does II need To he demonstrates
that the design of those who com
mitted the outrage was TO discredil
CARRAN2> and precipitute interven
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To luE Enlrnn uf THE SrN-->,r. am
not surprised at tho coercion Of neck ease,
bat what can hr done In tho matter?
Better to he icnd than oU' -. fashion" and
as some prominent "hubcrdAshrr" or lead
Ing gents furuishcr' has drnreel that
mufrers must he worn, that settles H.
OF course II il a fal. and of course II
ls not far removed from idiotlc, hut what
matters that why not Eiye the sober
minded p'ohding youths of to-day their
share In the marvellous cccentriyI,ics Of
apparel that now dominate the minds aud
existence OF their female companions"
r. A. TArLAs.
BRooRIys, January 10.
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Settling the Question In lows.

Logan correspondence Dcs Moin,s Leader
and Register
Merne johnson. eight-year- -old son OF
Mr. and Mrs Alfred johnson OF Logan.
has been invited to speak at public meet
ings at Underwood next Friday and Satur-
day afternoons. He viii speak on '"rhs
war and Public Opinion the same sub.
ject on which he spoke recently before the
Harris Grove Farmers Olub at Missouri
Valley. The boy has = remarkablc grasp
OF public QUESTION: anA spsahs vita o..
sncy ana power.
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rom The hth'n|u ~

After al, the popular glorlnratlOn of
Rpeigh as the frst English smoker will
probably endure az long and a. strongly
as any or all Of these discussions. and It
has never been better expressed than in
the words Of tho rchoolboy Tor was It the
professional 'howlcr' maker'l who tells
US that
"Sr Walter Raleigh Introduced tobacco
into England, and when smoking It In this
country said to his servant; Master Rid
ley. we are to-day Lighting candle In
England which by Gods blessing Will
never he put out
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could not lawfully or properly make
such an agreement, nor could the Gov
ernor or the warden lawfully and prop
From Superintendent RILEY's defence.
Weak, immaterial, evasive; are Gov
crnors and wardens and other great
men to be held TO tho inelastlc provi-
sions OF the law?
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Is the Mesopotam,an campa,en ,

Is the Mesopotamian campaign 20
he another instance OF an important
enterprise undertaken without provid-
ing for sufficient reenforcements? Lon
don is now dreading the capture of
General TowNsHEND's army and the
trapping OF General AyLMERs reliev-
ing force.
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II Mr.. JAMES HOPPER. the California
real!st, is legally French citizen and
IL wanted at the front he might as
well embrace the opportunity 10 prove
with his pen that truth is stranger
than fiction.
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Are all the doors and corridors OF
Sing Sing posted with This way OUT
signs? No consideration for the con
venience OF the guests should be
overlooked
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We are all hoping that both parties
will agree on somebody, and that need
not necessarily be Colonel ROOSEVELT .--
GEORGE W, PERKINS.
PhonoCraphic but not emphatic.
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Railroad engineers and steamboat
pilots stricken a. the post Of duty
have companions to take the throttle
or wheel. hut the case Of the chauffeur
Who collapsed while driving his car
in city highway suggests new
danger less easy to guard against.
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Mrs knicker-- DO YOU tell yolr h,y.hsnd
domestic troubles when he comes home al
night?
Mrs Bocker-Nrver; I always phone him
about them during the day.
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Every true Republican must deplore
the occurreng es Of 1912 2-Er-Ssndtor
BuRToS OF Ohio.
And a great many not particularly
true, but very hungry.
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Dutch rather chilly toward Fonn's
scheme me--Ncuspdper headline
Neither hostile nor friendly; model
OF neutrality?
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" our fricnds ThO fdror Us icnh mann
scripts and Illustrations fOr publication rush
10 haze reJectcd articles r,tUrn,d fbev must
in all cuStS sent stamps yor that puggOse.
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Luck defeated the British at Gal
lipoli says JOHN MAsEFIELp. Poetic
license?
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London ofiro. Efiingham House. Arun-
de- street. strand.
Paris ot'cr. Rue dc la MIchod.crc. OF
Rue du Quaire Septembte.
Washington Once, llibhs Building
Brooklyn otiice, lO5 Livingston street
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VIII the Colonel be dee-lighted 10
take second place on the Gary ticket?
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BRooRIYs, January -.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-30
CONTINENTAL ARMY
 IS OPPOSED IN BOTH
 SENATE AND HOUSE
(COntInucd from Page Onc)

any committee in opposition to any in crease whatever in the army or navy.
 Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the Senate military committee said tonight he was confident his committee would turn out without great delay a well rounded bill providing for all the ele- ments of national army of million or more men.
 So far as the navy is concerned, there has been little on which to judge the feeling of the House committee, but it seems evident that a considrably in- creased building programme for 1917 will be favored. In genera; discussion among members of both houses the prevailing opinion seems to be that Secretary Dan iels' fve-year programme finally will go through and possibly be augmented in some particulars.
 Before the Senate military committee, the only one to hold hearings today on the preparedness plans, William Barclay Parsons of New York, representing Amer ican engineering societies in all lines, ad- vocated enactment of the war department scheme for a reserve officers corps He recommended also the enlistment of me chanics, railroad employees and specially trained workers of all kinds in reserve cOIDS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-30

smile playing in the corners of his mouth, was placing pegs in a wooden board to learn the letters, as we entered the room he heard us and recognizing that We were strangers he asked. Whats your name, lady," Mrs. Ullman, I said, What letter is that? I'll make it for you," and when he was told, his baby fingers fumbled around until the pegs were inserted right and the letter was made.
 One of the most interesting cases was a blind boy, at least boy he looked, but we found out to our surprise that he was 20 years old. He was learning to weave, put in chair bottoms and make ma attresses. He had been married three years, his wife is a teacher in little country school and their baby is living with the boys mother The poor fellow had only been blind two years. While working on the roads a dynamite blast went off too near him and put out both his eyes. He had come to the school to learn a trade. In speaking to him of his family, he said: This is a bad way to be all scattered-but it has to be until I can take care of them myself again, and while your heart ached at the mis- fortune. your heart also rejoiced that here was a place where he could find industrial training to make his future life useful and worth while to his family and him. self.
 Mrs Manning, the wife of the superin- tendent, who, for several years, was q teacher in the institution, told remark able and interesting story of a girl who had been pupil in the blind school She was one of the girls that may be classed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-30
PRESIDENT WILSON
 STRIKES FIRST BLOW
(Continued from Page One,

is believed to be in a conductive hu- nor. His plans of legislation are bitterly opposed. His foreign policy is serevely criticised. and republicans in arraignine that policy, have charged him with cow ardice, even treachery. And "big busi- ness is said to have organized against him. As result the President, figu- ratively speaking, has taken off his coat and gone abroad to meet all enemies and to express himself candidly, though tenn peGately of those who have bitterly re- Viled him and his administration,
 Despite obvious strong opposition, Bran des it is believed. will be confirmed In polling the Senate respecting the ap- pOintees chances, eastern newspapers nave registered Senator Bankhead with the opposition and Senator Underwood as doubtful. Neither, however, has said how he will vote when the time for voting las come
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-30
FOR THE ADULT BLIND

Until the appropriation is given to cover
 the Laverty bill for workshop or school for the adult white men of the state
 there is no way of teaching them or the
 adult white woman or the colored adult blind, who must not be forgotten, to get a trade or even read CT write. What is badly needed in the state at present is a traveing teacher to visit the homes of the blind persons and instruct them there. It is to be hoped that in the course of time the Birmingham Asso- citation for the Aid and Recreation or tne Blind will be able to have sucn teacher in the field.
 | There is nothing so hopeless as being idle and if this is true of seeing people | how much truer it is of the blind Civ ing them something to do is the greatest charity on earth and is an obligation the state should assume
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 4-inch Natural Pongee 39c 33-nch Natural Pongee 49c 40-inch Georgette Crepe 1.5O 40-inch Silk Mixed Crepe 79c. 36-inch Fancy Silks, stripes and checks 100. 36-inch Crepe de Chine, extra quality, LOO. 36-inch new Tub Silks 9Sc. 36-inch Satin Striped Tub Silks Shifting 125 40-incl Pee Wee Taffeta 200. 32-inch extra heavy Shifting Crepe de Chine 1.75. 4O-nch Striped Plsse Crepe 200. 40-inch finest quality Georgette Crepe 175. 33-inch Natural Shantung 69c. Womens soc Undervests 25c. Womcns Italian Silk Vests, special 100. Womens 12.50 Sweaters, special 8.95. Now Gossard Corsets in, special 25O. New Memo Corsets in, special $50 Children $ 25c Body Waists, special 19c. 500 Silk Waists, Spring style, special 3.95. 500 and 600 Spring Waists, special $50. $50 values in Crepe de Chine and Jap Silk Waists 25O. 400 soiled WirtImore and other soiled Waists 49c. table of exceptionally pretty lace and embroidery Corset Covers Soc.
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3x12 Administer Rugs, beautiful designs and colors, 25OO
 9xl2 Wilton Rugs, heavy quality designs, $500. 9x12 Wilton Velvet Rugs, Oriental and floral designs, 1495
 9x12 Body Brussels Rugs good assortment of designs, 23.75
 Best of Printed Lnoleums special 65c Best of nIad Iinoeums 85c to 15O per square yard. New Scr1ns, in white and ecru per yard 15c New Curtain Nets, beautiful designs, 15c to 25c. Sun Fast Drapery Fabrics, new colors 35c New Cretonnes most extensive assortment 2Oc to 75c. Full length and width Lace Curtains, LOO and 200 pair. Heavy Net Curtains, ecru white, 150 to 300 par
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l6-ounce fine thread Mops 29c. soc fine string Brooms 33c. Fine Glassware, odds and ends, 25c. 49c Pecans, per pound 33c. 50 White Enamel Ware G different utensils), 98c. Picture Frames special table, 69c; are worth apnble
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-30
DEMOCRATS TOLD TO
 STICK TO THEIR GUNS
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time ago, it was said that Colonel Taylor,
 retired at the conclusion of the last ses-
 sion, would again aspire to seat ir l Congress- At present, however, it is indicated that he will not offer. In the Third, MT. Steagall seems to be strongly entrenched. In the person of J. J. Speight, former secretary to Repre- sentative Clayton, he has a source oi danger but it is reported in Washing ton that MT. Speight will await the con- clusion of Mir. Steagalls second term be- fore asking the people to honor him SC signally.
 WILL SCREWS RUN?
 While there was gossip sometime age of opposition to Nr. Heflin, that gossip scarcely got out of it's swaddling clothes It is evident now that the representative will not be opposed. There has been nc mention of opposition to Mir. Oliver since the redistricting of the state. and the removal from his zone of William B Bankhead. It begins to appear that MT Oliver will become a fixture in Washing ton and that MT. Bankhead when he reports from the Tenth, will "come tc stay"
 The other members of the House delega- ton have their hands full. MT. Dent when interviewed today by The Ase-Her- ala corresponG< declared that he was confident of reelection. w. B. Sanders of Pike has announced his candidacy il the Second and there is at present re- newed gossip to the end that M. Ii
 Screws, city judge of Montgomery anc former member of the state senate Will
 < AfY
 Dents friends are writing him that he will have no serious trouble
 MT. Blackmon of tne Fourth has oppo- sition in the person of H. NJ. Judge o1 Columbiana, who is a member of the legislature The Fourth representative received good news today, however, tt the effect that it is now improbable thai either Judge Sims or Hugh McElderry ol Talla dega will verify former gossip tc the extent of becoming candidates. BURNETT'S HOME RUN MT. Burnett of the Seventh has two op ponents, l.. B. Rainey of Gadsden ant Watt T. Brown of Ragland. Monday, MT Burnett spoke at Centre, made his for nal announcement for reelection, and re turned to Washington the following
 morning. He declares that he is delighted with the situation, and feels confident that the people will return him for an other session. It is announced as true that State Senator John A. Lusk has de cided not to enter this race.
 In the Eighth, Representative Amor has opposition in the person of w. w Callahan of Decatur. Mir. Callahan Washington hears, is preparing to mako
 an active and vigorous campaign. Judge 1 Almon, nevertheless, receives assurances 1 from his friends throughout the distric 1 that he is certain of being permitted to | serve a second term. He has even re | ceived advice to remain in Washington and ,'leaVe it to his people,
 1 h. the Ninth, Mir. Huddleston will be op posed by State Senator Thomas J. Judge