The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19
Los Angeles Offers Proof of
 Port of Birmingham's Value

1 Fort ot BIrmIngham's Valu, THE outstanding item of the cen
 4 sus bureaus report of the 192t enumeration is the population of Lo, Angeles, which has forged ahead o. San Francisco and shows an increase for the decade of more than 80 pel cent.
 No other large city on the continent except Detroit has grown so rapidly in the same length of time. Neither is this growth to be attributed tc artificial causes, such as the taking in of large new territory.
 Los Angeles has grown because it has proved attractive as a place in which to reside, because it has be- come the country's largest producer of photoplay, because it is joy to drive over hundreds of miles of smooth, scenic highway and because it went out to the ocean and attached itself to that great freight burden bearer.
 Birmingham is about to duplicate two features of the Los Angeles stride. It is building permanent roads and it has gone out to the Warrior river and is hitching on.
 Los Angeles went just about the same distance to reach the ocean, twenty three miles. It took in San Pedro harbor at the beach and in- corpcrated narrow strip of land ex- tending there.
 Los Angeles became maritime city, so much so and so rapidly that it's ocean-borne traffic grew from one hundred and eight thousand tons in 1906 to three million four hundred and sixty-five thousand tons in 1915, an increase of $500 per cent.
 Recently Birmingham sent two shiploads of cast iron pipe from Mo- li]e via the canal to Los Angeles and San Francisco for California dis tribution. Prior to the taking in of San Pedro and it's placement on the ocean, this pipe movement would have been through San Francisco exclu- sively.
 Just as Los Angeles has become the port of a large part of California, the Port of Birmingham is about to be- come the port of territory extend ing to Montgomery on the south, to Columbus and Tupelo, Miss, on the west. to Chattanooga on the north and to Atlanta on the east, because only by shipping through the Port of Birmingham can the 20 per cent sav- ing in freight allowed this territory be enjoyed.
 Sam Gompers says s10,00o year lis all sufficient for man living in the ordi- nary modes of life" The newspaper workers of America will heartily indorse MT. Gompers' conservatism.
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 It looks as if Nicholas Murray Butler would never step from the presidency of a college to the presidency of the United States. The distance that intervenes be- tween the two jobs is great
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 The Marion, O., Star believes Senator Harding is the best man who could have been nominated. The Star is expected to speak a good word for the senator from time to time.
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 An eastern bard defies the hat-check pirate in rhyme. Since the hat-check pi- rate is too busy collecting toll from his spineless victims to read poetry, his feel ings won't be hurt.
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 Germany's professors are having hard time We find it impossible to squeeze out a single tear for those who publicly approved of all the Kaiser's government did
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 Just because Harding is hailed as the type of candidate who appeals to the average man, we should not jump to the conclusion that he'd sit about the White House in his sock feet.