The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-15
State Aid to Develop
 a Great State Need

a Great State Need TIT is not too early to talk lending 0 the states credit for the devel- opment of Alabama's port at Mobile.
 The amendment enabling the state to do this is to be voted on Novem- Der 1. Those who appreciate the part which our inland waterways and our port are to serve in the destiny of the state cannot be too busy between now and then infusing other minds with similar conception.
 Louisiana's legislature during the course of years lent state aid to the port of New Orleans until the total had reached twenty-seven million dol lars. What is the result? New Dr. leans is the second port in the United States.
 What other result attended this vast investment? Earnings more than sufficient to take care of it. The development of the port of New Or leans has not cost the people of Louis jana one cent.
 What New Orleans is to Louisiana Mobile is to Alabama Mobile does not belong to Mobilians, but to Ala ,barnisns. Muscle Shoals does not be- long to Florence and Sheffield, but to Alabamians.
 State aid for port development is state aid for the development of every commercial, agricultural and financial interest and every mill and factory in Alabama.
 The Dublin, Ga., Courier-Herald pub lished dispatch about the Alabama pri- | made whirlwind campaign for the re- election of Underwood to the Senate" So he did, but the commoner was not aware of it at the time.
 x # # A Pittsburg chemist claims that high grade sugar can be made out of ordinary sawdust at a cost of about cents a pound. If that's true, a sawdust ''cor- ner" should follow in the natural course of events.
 William Dean Howells made lasting reputation in literature without the as. sistance of press agent Also, he wrote more than seventy books, and not seven, as was enormously printed in The Age Herald of yesterday. # # Y | A physical director in Illinois says in- ability to wiggle one's ears is a sign of weakness It is also an indication that one can never hope to become motion picture comedian
 1 # < # | Two brothers of New York state have invented a device to Stabilize cows tail A long felt want is some contriv. ance that will keep a mules heels on the ground.
 | An American investigator who has just made secret tour of inspection in soviet Russia, says the fred" regime can't last six months longer When have we heard that statement before? l When Bobby Burns sang, "A mans a man for a that" he had no idea that g lounge Hazard" would ever be able tt put on overalls and look at distance like an honest toiler.
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 It is announced that the imperial Ger man throne will be sold at auction il America. It ought to be just the thing for a shoe shining parlor. 4. # <
 The de luxe hired man insists on spend ing at least three evenings a week a the nearest movie theatre, if he has t, borrow his boss automobile to get there | # x z
 The imminence of a diplomatic crisi in Central America is not so alarming a the imminence of an economic crisis il North America.
 One of these days rabid republican for Josephus Daniels and the Washington monument will do the ''shimmy"
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 While Alabama viIidcated herself i the eyes of the nation by re-electing Sen ator Underwood, the vindication was no } strong enough.
 One of the richest countries on tn globe in natural resources, Mexico has population that assays very little gold. * !. <
 Switzerland may eventually expel he royal refugees, but the question arises