The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-29
Anti Saloon League Will
 Be Silent on Candidates
San Francisco Has Established Reputation Which Makes It Premier Convention City-Farmers' Representa-
 tves Have Clash With Union Labor Leaders

, is fact that the republicans are already laying plans for the selection of the Cali fornia metropolis in 1924 That the dem oorats will return to San Francisco is con- sidered certain.
 No convention city has received more advertising of a worth while nature than
 San Francisco. The democratic conven-
 ton was the first in which no delegate suffered from overpowering heat. San l Francisco surprised and won the last ! ing gratitude of all delegates and visitors | by religiously refraining from sougfng
 the public It served excellently at very
 moderate prices And San Francisco's g
 other convention city. In comparative
 sense, it is doubtful that any other con vention city was hospitable.
 In the event that San Francisco does become the convention city, and as such | the host of countless thousands every four years. certain of the most pro- nonnced characteristics of the people of that city will become a matter of nation wide knowledge. In the first place the people of San Francisco are proud and jealous of the reputation of their city Each man is very proud to be referred to as a native son the son of a native son. And each man keenly resents the propensity of visitors to refer 10 san Francisco as Frisco.
 A native son was heard by this corre- spondent to rebuke visitor who had repeatedly referred to the city without the prefix. When the visitor intimated that | 1t didn't really matter, the native son |. very sarcastically replied
 And were you in San Diego pre-
 sume you would persist in calling that city Diego'?" To which unanswerable
 proposition the visitor had nothing to say.
 And the people of San Francisco never refer to the earthquake which destroyed that city some years ago. If a visitor talks of the earthauake, they display inn patience, and finally, as if in desperation, exclaim, T suppose you mean our grea. fre?"
 While great fire Is disastrous. it's memory is not as appalling as that of ar earthquake. For an earthquake may recur at any moment. And so determined are the people of San Francisco that it be rot advertised as a favorte rendezvous fer earthquakes, that they are thorough lv convinced it was only the effect Of a fire that they suffered "in the very long ago and almost forgotten past"
 Tn after years. delegates will probably abandon the Canadian trip when return ing east The Canadian Rockies are grander if anything than the American although among them all there is no individual which attains the elevation of Massive, or the Collegians. or Pike's Peak. or Shasta, or Hood, or Helena, or Rainier. But the grandeur of the scenery cannot cause the patient submission the part of visitors to those who attempt to reap financial harvest because of the difference in value between American and Canadian money.
 The Canadian Pacific diners. for in stance, proceeding on the theory that payment will be made in Canadian money. increase the price of each article the menu card p per cent, and attach a mar ketable value of sauces, Worcester shire being listed at 10 cents. When pay ment is made in American money. the conspirators not only refrain from tabu. lating the difference in value. but persist in returning change in Canadian moneI If a visitor pays a Pullman conductor Sj for berth, he will hand over an identi- fcaton slip and s15 in Canadian money for the travellers $20 federal reserve note.
 As a consequence, when the train crew reaches the American line they are en- abled to turn in American money and re- ceive Canadian money plus 12 per cent. And the traveller turns in his Canadian money and receives something like s for BIO And he concludes to abandon Canada in the future, or transact his business with a bank before crossing the DOT. der.
 But that is no argument against San Francisco. And the republicans have heard so much regarding the California as a convention city that they are planning to go there four years hence.