The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-01
CONVENTION SPREADS TEXAS
 INFORMATION.

Whatever may be the fate of the Presidential ticket that nominated at Houston, that grow ing metropolis and the Lone Star State are get ting a lot of publicity and the people of the country a corresponding amount of education from the convention As a result of the conven- tion thousands of people from various sections of the country visited Houston and Texans who of the country visited Houston and Texas who before about that wonderful section of the United States. The impression wholly favorable Those who took enough time to read the litera- ture that provided by Texas civic bodies particularly those of Houston, and to make lit tie independent investigation became without ex- cepton, enthusiasts for that wonderful country and firm believers in the future greatness of Houston
 For many years, measured by conditions else where, Texas's cities have been much smaller than the States resources would warrant For decades the Lone Star State has led all the States in agricultural production and stood at near the head in many other activities including com merce, railroad mileage and the actual rail ton mage moved, oil, lumber and mineral production. Her wealth has ong been prodigious. Yet it is only comparatively recently that her towns began to into metropolitan cities
 Without disparaging the greatness of Dallas, Fort Worth San Antonio and other great cities of the State it takes prophet to of the Nations most important metropolitan centers Houston's ocean ship harbor and Gal weston Bay, with Houston the probable center of population. Houston, Galveston, Texas City and other points in their vicinity already con- stitute of the largest shipping centers of the United States The Houston canal and Galveston Bay lined with miles of ocean-going ships taking cotton, oil and other commodities for the marts of the world while the delegates were at Houston Notwithstanding the scores of build ings in Houston between sixteen and Histories in heighth, building progressing in all parts of the City. The accumulated wealth of the sec ton witnessed by the magnificent colleges, hospitals, libraries and other public institutions that had been built and presented to the muni- cipality and other organizations by those who had reaped fortunes in the State Innumerable fine residences and apartment houses being added to the .innumerable fine residences and apartment houses already occupied and they were being filled fast constructed. Many fine residential additions and suburbs being developed, the residences being designed for those of all conditions of finances The architecture of both the elaborate and less expensive buildings of the best the country possesses
 Texas is wonderful country--its size and wealth of resources and development warrant the use of the "country'--and she has wonderful cities with Houston the indicated metropolis of the metropoli.
 It would not be appropriate to write of Hous ton without paying tribute to the people who make the city with their whole hearted hospital ty their wide-a-wake enterprise, their intelli gence. education, polish and good taste in all that is best of the twentieth century.