The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-09
PASSAGE OF PORT
 AMENDMENT BIC
 BOOST FOR STATE
Prominent Citizens Comment on Benefits Derived From Development of Port
 of Mobile

With complete returns from Tues days election coming in Wednesday, assuring an overwhelming victory for the Mobile seaport amendment, many expressions of qualification were heard in Birmingham. A general spirit of deep satisfaction prevailed and everywhere there were heard ex- pressions of this feeling.
 Justification of this amendment should mean much to the people of Alabama" said Lee Clary, division freight agent for the Louisville and Nashville There is one thing con nected with shipping that Is auto- matie Give the railroads and the steamship lines favorable place to transfer freight and routing will take care of itself. With proper port facilities at Mobile and the present general advantage of about 40 cents d ton in favor of vessels shipping there instead of at New orleans, it is safe to say that Mobile will come to the front as a port city"
 0nBEttS U. "OOu
 T regard the adoption of the sea port amendment as epochal in the development of the state of Ala bama.,'- said Charles Francis Wood, engineer, builder of the port of Bir- mingham, and vice president of the Warrant Export and Discount cor poration. Tt Is splendid for Ala bama. It affects all the state. The tai.. Itafr. taf ,.ffll l. ize the benefit as much as the larg- est cities.
 Transportation costs fix the vol ume and value of business. They make or unmake lines of business, cities, states and even nations. The heaviest cost in the doing of busi- ness Is usually that of handling goods at terminals. With an equip ped seaport at Mobile we are strik- ing down that handicap on Alabama s commercial, industrial and agrieul- tural progress"
 g. l.. PostIethwaite
 "I am not surprised" said s. L. Postlethwaite. director of the Uni- versity of Alabama Million Dollar campaign The passage of the Mo bile seapert amendment is an index of the awakening of the people to great issues of this kind. It is a great thing, and 1t points to even greater things in the future, l con gratulate Mir Bowfe and the other leaders in the movement"
 ID. E. McLendon
 q regard the passage of the sea port amendment as the greatest thing that could possibly have happened to Birmingham and Alabama" said D. E. McLendon, president of tho city eommi ssion. Especially will ar adequate port be advantageous t' this industrial district. for it vii make possible the shipping of iron steel, and manufactured products bS way of the Warrior river, and ou through the port of Mobile. 1t wil open a gateway of commerce to Soutf America and the world. In fact believe 1t will be to Alabama wha New York city is to the state O l New York"
 pr. J. D. Bowling
 As every other good citizen, l re 1 joice in the success of the amend l ment," said Dr. J. D. Bowling, cit, | and county health officer. 'l realiz' | the need for an adequate seaport 1 one that will not only meet th' | needs for such faclllty, put one Una | will connect us with the rest of the world, and one that will be In keep ing with the resources of the state.' Mrs. MyrteIIe W. Shell q am delighted that the amend. men has passed said Mrs. Myrtelle w. Shell, city amusement inspector q feel that a seaport will mean much to the state of Alabama as whole It is not one section alone that will profit by the action of the voters Tuesday but every community and every interest in Alabama"
 Charles E. Jones
 "I regard the adoption of the sea port amendment as marking per haps the most important step Ala bama has, ever taken,' said Charles F. Jones, secretary of the traffic bureau Tt will cause many manu- lecturers to locate in this district so as to be near the port of Mobile in the equipped state which the amendment will enable. It means that Alabamians will use their own port. which Is the most naturally economic, instead of shipping their products through Loufsiana's port
 .As the port of Mobile is more and more equipped to handle ships the more ships will be put in there and bids for the states costal and ex- port business"
 Horace Hammond
 "As an Alabamian I sincerely re-