The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24

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 Turing the last lB.C..FORBES: Ifar. First there was a serious Brought. Then came the foot-and- Ilouth trouble, which checked the tidal Have of, tourists. fseaI estate had IFtback,, and in Los Angeles the per Ietuai boom in new developments" Experienced considerable deflation.
 But all that is over now. The sun Ef prosperity Is again spreading over 1te golden state.
 This cheerful assurance comes from s[otley H. Flint, of the Pacific South
 est Trust and Savings Bank, of Los Angeles, who pitched his tent in that sty when it hadn't half the population zf it's neighbor, Long Beach, has to- lay. and who later became postmaster HE Los Angeles, when his salary of 1000 year was one of the five larg- Ibt paid in the whole community. "I should have been worth $50,00Qe00 Itday," declared Mir. Flint, eff only fad had more faith than had in Los Of course, always knew 1t E Has bound to grow, but it's growth has Ehssed all my imagination. The cen- 3is of 1920 gave us little more than half
 million population. A recent census kken by the Chamber of Commerce, lave us a population of 1,150,000, mak- kg us the fourth or fifth largest city
 the United States"
 Incidentally, while MT. Flint has not Piled up fifty millions, you do not beed to feel at all. sorry for him. He las done very well, thank you.
 H .--- " HHx- A-s lhe country" MT. FIintoa pointed out, merchants and bankers and lawyers Ind doctors and dentists and others Nave to compete against one another 1blt every train brings into Los Angeles lew customers and new clients. We aFow at the rate of hundred thousand H year. If a business or professional Nan can't round up his share of these lew prospects then 1t is his own Auh.
 h"Almost every family that moves to honey to invest-Los Angeles is one & the finest bond markets in the coun- Ny. Most of these incoming families Aust have a new will drawn up, giving Business for lawyers. Many of them hake tracks for a good dentist. In Addition to the necessities they must buy, most of them can afford to indulge n luxuries. Why, the automobile con- Hestion in the center of Los Angeles is Ms bad as 1t is anywhere in New York"
 Are you getting over your real estate IN,oubIes?" I asked
 # MT. Flint smiled. You people in
 Jew York andHin other places heard &hore about the real estate troubles of | los Angeles than we did ourselves. Of tourse, it's perfectly natural that other lbwns should delight in knocking Los tN far f1 hor fV, he country that hasn't seen some of &s citizens pack up and move to Los
 ngeles after making a competency.
 "The drought, and cattle trouble did
 urt things and there was halt in the
 gal estate boom in the outlying sec
 ons. although nothing to speak <of Smong city prosperity proper.
 "I made it my business at the end of
 ne June quarter to go over all our eal estate loans. Our institution had
 ome $1S000,000 loaned on real estate. J found that only two loans out of the
 yhole lot were more than 60 days over Nue."
 So many people have flocked to Los Angeles from other parts of the coun-
 -y that state societies galore have brunR up. These state societies hold Nnnual gatherings, sort of picnics, us- Hally in sycamore Park or Alncolh Park, and the attendance runs into the thousands. One Iowa gatherins at- kacted, it, was estimated, some 10000. N MT. Flint Is leading Shriner. He k director general of the executive Nonamittee handling the national 1925 Ahrine convention to be held in Los
 ngeles next June. Between 200 and .o0 special trains are being arranged. k A young friend accompanying MT. Flint, is a member of the Al Malaikah Nhrine band is Los Angeles and he hade the interesting statement that keyen -eighths of the members originally Hisited Los Angeles as members of Mhrine bands that had attended conven-
 ons there. They came, they saw, they
 -returned to settle.
 So many members of one Masonic bdge in New York have taken up their sbode in Los Angeles that they formed he Pacific club there with no mem- Hers.
 If any other city can match this rec Nrd, let is send along one of its leading #itizens and will be glad to proclaim
 achievements to the whole country. Printers ink helps. California knows hat