THE 3I0KXIXG OHEGONTAX, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 14. 1922
PORTLARID'S GROWTH
NEK SEATTLE
Rose City Said to Covet
Other's Territory.
PAPERS WARN OF DANGER
Proposed Yakima Valley Railway
and Differential Grain Rate
Scare Northerners.
PUGET SOUND BUREAU, Seattle,
Wash., Dec. 13. The use of Port
land as a bugaboo to frighten the
fearful Seattleites has become quite
common of late. Portland's greedy
hands are shown already to have
reached into certain sections of the
state of Washington held to be
natural appanages of Seattle, and
Portland's covetous eyes are said to
be fixed on other trade territory
that properly "belongs" to this city.
. It is a little bit of the old stuff
that Seattle and Tacoma used to
"pull"" against each other in the days
of their more ardent rivalry; stuff
of the kind that small towns, gen
eraly and everywhere jealous of
local growth and prosperity, use to
resist the drift ot trade to larger
cities. In the recent application of
this line of thought there is no evi
dent purpose of giving offense to
Portland or of indicating employ
ment of any unethical methods.
Rather it seems to be the purpose to
pay left-handed tribute of praise to
Portland's enterprise, and to rouse
, here a spirit at least of emulation if
not of competition.
City Asked to Support Show.
First recent use of this argument
was made in behalf of the second
annual fruit exposition held in Se
attle last month, when a special
committee of the Seattle chamber
of commerce called upon the busi
ness interests of the city to get be
hind the show. One statement of
the committee appeal was as fol
lows: "Your support is necessary to keep
the fruit exposition in Seattle. Un
less you and other Seattle business
men take space for commercial ex
hibits and get behind the plan for
tying tile fruit industry into Se
attle, the exposition will undoubt
edly go to Portland, leaving Seattie
without a single point of contact
with the producing sections of the
northwest."
About the time this appeal was
made an excursion party of Seattle
Kiwanians were guests of the Ki
wanis club of Yakima, and there
listened to a stirring adress by W. J.
Hindley, former mayor of Spokane,
on Seattle's neglect of duty and op
portunity in the region east of the
Cascades. Mr. Hindley, according to
accounts of his speech published in
Seattle, warned the visitors that
Portland was busy with efforts to
annex all central Washington.
Cartoons Show Danger.
Inspired by Mr. Hindley's warning
a Seattle newspaper printed a car
toon in which a tree, heavily laden
with fruit, depirtf-rl the riches of
the trans-Cascade valleys. Olose by
stood a sturdy citizen labeled "fruit
prower," with arms outstretched
toward anotlur fieure of a man,
labeled 'Kea 1 1 !.'' whosi- back was
obstinately turiu-d. Behind the two,
creeping on all fours toward the
fruit tree, was tin-, third, and much
less dignified figure, labeled "Port
land." t
In spite ot these appeals, by letter,
word and picture, this year's fruit
show was not a success. The first
show of the. kind in Seattle, given
last, year just when the November
blizzard hit. the northwest, left a
deficit of around $71100. This year's
show, with almost perfect autumn
weather, ran behind about $12,000.
Both seasons the Seattle chamber
of commerce advanced a limited sum
of money for preliminary expenses.
Last year's creditors were to have
been taken care of out of this year's
profits. So far no plan of meet
ing the accumulated obligations has
been made public.
Fruit Show Failure.
The fruit exposition of 1921
brought together a fairly complete
showing of the products of all the
fruit growing districts of the state.
Unly two of the more important
eastern Washington districts partic
ipated this year. The decline of in
terest has been attributed to vari
ous causes: but probably more than
to any other cause it was due to
the effort made last year by one
of the Seattle men on the exposition
directorate, to have the fruit grow
ers themselves put up the money to
meet the deficit.
In a letter published in a Seattle
newspaper, telling why certain east
ern Washington districts failed to
take part in the 1922 fruit show, 1,.
L. Lynn, ex-secretary of the Walla
Walla Commercial club, goes ou to
say:
Yakima Line Feared.
"I do not believe you people real
ize in just what deadly earnest Port
land is going after the Yakima
valley trade. As surely as a certifi
cate of necessity issues from the
interstate commerce commission will
the projected railway cut-off be !
built, mainly with Portland money. I
Ihey are already planning cold
storage plants and cold storage
ship lines to handle a great fruit
business. Their commercial mis
sionaries are aggressively invad
ing the entire territory and, in
cidentally, getting a little business.
Tile differential grain rate granted
Portland because of a downhill haul
was startlingly revolutionary and
only the opening wedge for further
discrimination against Seattle. What
are you going to do about it?"
So far as the fruit show and the
fruit industry are concerned the only
answer that has yet been made to
Mr. Lynn's query is contained in the
proposal to expand Seattle's annual
exposition into a farm, ranch and
garden show, thus taking in a wider
range of agricultural interests. It '
is too early for definite organiza- .
tion and action on this, proposed
plan; and no public announcement j
has yet been made of means to fore-;
stall the purpose attributed to Port-
land by a "local newspaper, to "take .
the great middle Washington pro-1 1
ducing area and draw to that city I
business which normally should be i !
centered in Seattle." - If
HAZING CADETS OUSTED
Navy Department Adheres Severe
ly to Policy Against Practice.
WASHINGTON, D. O, Dee. 13.
Adherence by the- navy department
to a policy of rigid enforcement of
the anti-hazing .law at the naval
aeademy to prevent subjection of
underclassmen either to physical vio
lence or public humiliation, was seen
today in the penalty of dismissal
fiom the academy imposed upon two
midshipmen and the loss of one year
in their academy courses imposed
upon three others.
The two dismissal sentences re
sulting from the court-martial trial
cf the recent hazing eases at the
academy were approved Monday
ny president Harding, who at the
same time, on recommendation of
Secretaary Denby, approved modi
fication of dismissal sentences in.
the other three cases to the loss of a
year in standing.
The midshipmen dismissed were
Eruce H. Robinson, appointed from
Arizona, and Stuart H. Hawkins,
Massachusetts, while those demoted
in their courses' were Midshipmen
Thomas J. Casey, Massachusetts;
Thomas Ev Boyce, Indiana, and H. S.
Fisht, New York.
HUMAN FLESH VALUED
Woman Gets $1000 for Gaining
170 Pounds After Accident.
(Ey Chicago Tribune Leased Wtre.l
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 13.
If Shylock were to appear before a
1922 jury with his demand for a
pennd of Antonio's flesh, all he
could collect would be $6.92.
At least a jury. in Judge Arba S.
Van Valkenburg's court has fixed
that figure as the price of flesh in
its verdict, in the suit brought
against the Chicago & Alton rail
road by Mrs. Lorene Caldwell, 23
years old. Mrs. Caldwell, in her suit,
made ,one of the most novsl pleas
ever presented before a jury here.
She alleged that after being struck
by a Chicago & Alton freight train
in December, 1920, she' gained 170
pounds. For her affliction tne jury
awarded her $1000 damages $6-92
a pound.
The ft of Casket Charged.
ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 13. B. F.
Ware, proprietor of the Atlanta 'Un
dertaking company, and two negro
grave diggers, Claude Maddox and
Thurman Jones, were indicted by
the grand jury here in connec
tion with the alleged wholesale
"casket snatching" at a local cem
etery for negroes.
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Average to 12 Less
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ferneries fruit baskets sandwich trays candy baskets novelty
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