The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 25, 1922, Page 6

A Big Fight Is areas will revert, not PORT. Hence, in six years gin to find itself in co portance to Seattle’s maritime future is shaping up. It may not come to a crisis for six years, but when it does it must be settled decisively once and for all. It concerns the question: Who shall control the shipping business of Seattle harbor in the future? . A big fight is brewing. An issue of major im- | in undispute The docks and piers and other waterfront im- ments on Elliott bay stand on ground that E known as harbor area. This harbor area be- Jongs to the state and was leased 20 or 25 years | ago on 80-year leases to various private con- cerns. They are paying for the use of this valu- able land very trivial sums, sums far less than taxes on lands of similar value would amount to. _ Beginning in 1928 the important leases Begin 4 expire, and by 18384 all will have expired. minor leases are already expiring. sible; hel _ Now, under the legislation by which the Port Port of Seattle; wi ‘of Seattle and other ports operate, these harbor the construction moe 60, @ months, $2.76; yeas, Outside of tne tte per month, * By wen, te Ry carrier, city, month. out of city, & 2 8 06, im the state of Washington. 0 tor 6 montha, or 08.00 per year, The Northwest “Gets Wise” “There was a meeting at Pasco Friday at which the Columbia Basin Irrigation league formed. But that wasn’t the big thing. ‘Half a thousand Northwesterners “got wise” to themselves at Pasco Friday—and t was the big thing. ‘They discovered that Seattle and Portland, Spokane and Tacoma, Quincy and ta, Bellingham and Hoquiam, Chewelah and The Dalles are sisters under their | For several years Spokane has looked on Tacoma as a joke; Seattle has jeered at : ; Ephrata has cracked jokes about Quincy, and Bellingham thought anything did was food for laughter. x discovered that this brilliant display of sarcasm resulted merely in a loss ff population, a loss of prestige and a loss of good, hard money, it took the half th just about two seconds to decide that, after this, the Northwest is going to “be the Northwest—and not a bunch of pee-wee communities making faces at each ‘ree ‘2 great Glecovery, and the reuite wil be far-reaching. This Northwest fs a unit now—not merely for the Columbia Basin Project—but for general fre out for 5,000,000 more people. We're out for more orchards, more wheat, berries, more poultry, more livestock, more Northwest manufactured products. out for more building, more tourista, more settlers, and more everything. got the climate—and we'll tell the world about it. We've got the water power we'll tell the world about that, too. We've got the land and the water to put it. We've got the money to fight this project thru to a finish—and we'll tell the we're no quitters, all together now: Cities and villages, scattered farms and lonely homesteads, and farmer, fruit grower and storekeeper, Orégon, Idaho, Montana and Wash- , marching, shoulder to shoulder and rank on rank. a to prosperity! ® Fisherman found $10,000 on the banks of the Potomac. Maybe that’s the dollar George threw across, with interest. | Sacre was Tr rere Way Wy te Every two minutes a divorce suit is filed in this country. Proving that one is born every minute. Pi who live in glass houses should not take Fen ak lessons. it If Ford has too much money why doesn’t he try raising chickens? Easy street is hard to find. ree 1 Hl rit esc--: | etter fron i ATVRIDGE MANN. Dear Avridge Mann: I note that you appreciate « little help and frankly state that contributions, now and then, are welcome from some other pen; and #0 I thought It might be nice to give Dan Landon some advice. So will you tell him, please, for me, that he must take one more degree, nnd go and get himself @ mate before he tries to decorate od high and noble mayor's chair and settles down to business ere. Brew The Seattle Star to the atate, but TO THE the Port of Seattle will be- ntrol of site after site that is now used by private concerns, and in 12 years possession of ALL the lands over which goods and passengers entering and leav- ing this harbor must pass. ‘ eee Of course there will be a struggle. Of course the railroads, some of the steamship concerns and some of the private warehouse companies will fight for a continuation of private opera- tion. The Star has fought from the pubiicly owned port. The Star helped, against the bitterest of special interest pass the legislation which made nning for a Pyeng to port pos-, to bring about the creation of the the voting of money for our present terminals; has Editor The Star; In The Star of April 19 you had an article addreased to the editor trom J. Duman, 126 Second ave. 8, in re ard to the municipal fish market. I would like to state tn your wor thy columne that each and every Word in that letter ls a falsehood, and that I went to the above address to #06 this party, and there te po such humber--124 Second ave. 6. ts « bar San surely must be a soap box ore tor, and his address is where his soap bes le. If he has any other address, | 1 would Itke to know {t. facta about our municipal fish mar Rebukes the thon ought te convinces Al Lundin and the organisation with the long name fighting the Erickson plan that he will have to direct some of his ora tory toward awakening our apathetic took the wholesome, clean interest in ctvio affairs that Lundin does, by the organised minority. same thing unless you can do some. thing to rouse your selfsatisfied bus Inesa man Trrickson, whose chief object ts to! hang on to @ $250 a month elty job | But they are so intoxicated with| | their own importance that nothing! short of bankruptey will get under) their aking, But why worry?, Per) haps It would be well in tiie long run | to make a horrible example out of fenttie by passing the Erickson meas. | ure. T can afford to take a chance; if the business man can. The Erick. fon measure will eventually take my home, and my job sooner, tf It passes. It will also take the business man's business, If it passes, vention. fled business man, who thinks that voting Is a pastime for the prole- tartat, will be to blame, and when he pays his taxes or loses out, he will biame his hard luck on the I. W. W. Defeat of this measure demands that business man and laborer march to the polls shoulder to shoulder May 1, and pull that trigger “No.” The —“|tmue te one of horse sense versus dreams. If hia scheme passes, new job will be as scarce as soap in a Hiwash Indian's hut. | FRED 8. WYMAN. If You Need Strength and "Reserve Power THE SEATTLE STA ing Over Port; Defends Fish Market ) Now, then, let us have some true Hf Civic Slackers | out at the general election for the, i Certainty they are aa bright as! fl stood behind every constructive step of the suc- ceeding port boards; and today is proud of what the project has meant for the city and of the greater future benefits it is certain to bring us. So The Star is quite ready for the issue of a a or public owned port to become crystal- ized. The Star feels that our whole maritime future and our prosperity hang on the port being public and free. e are competing ae San Fran- cisco, Portland and Los Angeles, public ports, and we cannot do so successfully if we allow this business to pass into hands where it must pay rofits to corporations. We found, as the ‘anama canal was about to open, that we were under a severe handicap because of private domination; and after breaking our bonds once, it is not sane to suppose that we again would throttle our commerce in that manner. Already a great deal of pussy-footing work y beking has been done by the private concerns to fish, and a fish @ fich with him Any time Mr. Duggan seve the. pounds of fish are dumped dally as Now, understand, I am not talking from hearsay, but our records are | here to prove everything I may, The trimmings = from our ket. We buy our fish en the open | t? $0 pounds, market, wherever we can buy the| °uld not be sold. cheapest, and mt! About @ month ago a state Inepeo , F" the munietpal fish market handles | didn't our honorable Mr. J. nothing but the best grade of fish, | mention this in his letter? Bvidently Mr. Duggan doce not It’s Your Fight pounds of fish that te thrown away! 600 / dally, and why he didn’t come and ot It, no he could give it to the Mil. Monair club? And, speaking about Mr, April hag been at the fish game more than 20 years, and the writer more than 12 years, and both have; worked tn the largest fish houses and | It's cannerieg on the ; z fe that for experience, Mr. J. Dug-| It means—iacking in harmony, it to the public on as email a margin as possi. tor took « sample of our oysters and ti @ pound did the same from six or seven other | -| fish markets, The municipal fish| Present, making alterations for the) 1, I would like to ask Mr. Duggan) know all he thinks he does about where he found out about this €00 Public Market. ~ TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1922. toward an eventual overthrow of the public port program, The turning of the county ferry sys- tem over to private exploitation was a first step in the plan. It is a “feeler” to test out the public temper. Each time one of the minor harbor leases expires, the same clique is actively busy at the port offices trying to — the way and es- tablish precedents, by little steps, for the “big push” several years hence, when it is hoped to turn Seattle’s great waterfront terminals over to private hands, And of course the same group is busy in this campaign trying to elect a commissioner who will be susceptible to its suggestions. That is one of the big factors which makes this election important. That is why you should sean the rsonalities, the capabilities and the records of candidates with great care. With that thought in mind The Star is going to discuss these ca: is week in ve candid manner. Tomorrow it will begin wit, Downie, Wood and Keene. LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word ts INCONGRUOUS. efficiency, | pronounced—in-con.gr '00-0us, Pacific coast, How with accent on the second syllable. | lacking In consistency, ? , Characterized © I would ithe to say here that the by dinagreement or lack of conform- fiah hanging together.” market is closed at ity, “not comes from—latin “in,” not, ank ; fish. market was the only one whone oye. Mw farmers’ market, but will open on4 «congruus,” similar. Another thing worth telling fs that| ters tested 100 per cent pure. Why| *#sin about May 1 Companion word—incongruity. J, W. APRIL, It's used like this—"It seems incon: E. J. MURRAY, t ‘ extravagance, when the father ‘himaeif is a spendthrift” the as to its sleeping qualities as well. of homes sleep all night, every night. Beds are jar-proof and noiseless. 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By woman ft has been decreed that this fair city he would lead must not be ruled by man alone, go for his past he must atone and grasp this chance, so truly rare, to answer some poor maiden's prayer. It ought to be @ cinch for Dan to find amaid who wants @ man; and if he wants the women's vote it's not the vest beneath the coat; they want to know that they may own a female power behind the throne . AVRIDGE DAME. Dear Dan: I pass along this Iittle note on how to get the women's vote; I daren't tell you what I'd do, if you were I and I were you, for any thing that I might say, might fal! to get the wife’s O. K. But I recall, when Ole ran, he photographed the Hanson clan, and when he put it on display the women voters won the day; it got their votes to let them seo the handsome Hanson family! 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