The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-13

T HE admission of the American
 Trust and Savings Bank of Bir- minghar: to the federal reserve sys- tenn means a broadening of the bank ing business of Birmingham.
 This institution, thought not yet having reached its second decade, IS
 one of the strong Another Bank in est institutions in Federal Reserve the south. It has
 made a wonderful record and the fact that it now be- comes a member of the federal reserve system means an extension of It's business.
 President Crawford and his board of directors have made splendid rec ord in their management of the af- fairs of this bank. It has been a credit to Birmingham and the south and The Age-Herald extends it's con- gratulations on it's becoming mem Der of the federal reserve system.
 
 TyHE other day Mrs. George Oscar U Starr, widow of the former gen. eral manager of the Barnum & Bailey circus. carried out her husbands wish and scattered his ashes to the four winds from the deck of the liner Phila-
 delphia. Mrs. Starr Day of Circus is an old woman Thriller Is Past now, but back in the
 sos the billboards heralded her fame as "Zaza, the hu- man cannon ball." She was shot out of a gun into a net before gaping thousands in all parts of the world.
 That was one of the early circus ''thrillers." Looping the loop on a bicycle and in an automobile came later. Every year the circuses vied with one another in providing dare devil feats which would surpass all previous attempts.
 But the supply of "thrillers" ran out. It seemed that there was limit, not so much to human recklessness as to ways of showing it. Then, too, the public became satiated with thrill ers." Perhaps the incredible feats of aviators, obviously impossible in a circus tent, exceeded all previous ex- hibitions of dare-deviltry to such an extent that the clumsy devices of the circus, although more dangerous than the modern aeroplane, were sent to the scrap heap.
 However, there is no lack of thrills in the circus of today. Many of the performers risk their necks just as blithely as of yore, but the human cannon balls," the loop-the-loopers and the high divers have departed. ~ OLONEL ROOSEVELT is still M looking to war with Mexico to give his impetuous nature an op- portunity for heroic achievement While he has promised MT. Hughes republican standard bearer, active SUD- port in the campaign, he will excuse himself from political harness if his
 country calls hin His Mind Still to the battlefield on Mexican War The dream of mill
 tary glory pos sesses him-it would be cruel to le the word obsess slip in-for every body knows that the colonel is th embodiment of valor and patriotism and would rather fight for the nation honor than make speeches for the re publican candidate for the presidency MT. Hughes is counting on grea help from the colonel, of course, bu if volunteers for Mexico are needed the hero of San Juan hill woul' promptly cancel all appointments an' place himself at the disposal of tn, government.
 Within the past few days Colone Roosevelt has submitted in detail hi military proposition to Secretar. Baker. He refers to the division h. purposes to command as reinforced division, for it would be twice as larg'