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...ADVANCING SOUTH???Edwin Mims? Doubleday, Page...
...story of primitive disagreements. The Moros of the south???tall, fearless, ignorant, stanch in their faith that there is but one God, Allah, and that Mohammed is his prophet?despise the little "paternoster-saying natives [of the northern islands] who genuflect to this saint's fingernail and that saint's shinbone." As it happens, although the Moros generally get along amicably with General Wood and the whites, they are forever getting into trouble with the constabulary and lesser officials, who are nearly all Christian natives. The big Moslems and the little Christians are always stepping each on the other...
...Senators whose terms will shortly expire, 17 are Republicans, 15 are Democrats, 1 is a Farmer- Laborite. Of the 15 Democrats, only 3 do not come from the South???they are the two Walshes (Montana and Massachusetts), and Senator Adams (Colorado). If the Republicans should carry these three States and Oklahoma, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina?ah, what a land- slide !?they would have a working majority, provided they did not lose any of the seats they now hold...
...Taft's Cabinet) ; he conducted Hughes in 1916; and he conducted Leonard Wood on an expensive trip to the Convention in 1920. He is known as a specialist in Southern delegates, and there should be a keen duel between him and C. Bascom Slemp for the delegations from the South??? although there will not be so much to quarrel over since the Southern delegations have been cut (TIME, Sept. 24). Not in idle fun was he called an "astute broker of delegates...