The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-04-27
Aladdin's Lamp i'm Wenatchee.

The Spokesman-Review not long
ago said: Watch Wenatchee." Now
Wenatchee, like Tom Sawyer before
Becky Thatcher, does stunts before
the Spokesman-Review. The result
Is the Inland Empires "Spotless
Town"
A turn of the wrist-and good
streets, graded and improved, took
the place of poor streets, thus add
ing to the efficiency and health of the
town as we'll as to its wealth. A sign
to the genius of electricity-and
darkness was driven away from every
quarter, thus giving safety to the
night and lessening the need of po-
licemen. A word to the wise-and
the school children were taken from
the church Easements and lodge halls
and overcrowded schools and put into
a new high school and a new ward
school, thus inspiring new ambition
in pupils ana teachers alike and en-
abling all to produce better results.
The commercial club, too, by hous-
ing itself in new quarters that permit
full meetings of the members, has
multiplied it's usefulness and will fur
Their enrich the community financially.
There is an economy that loses
through not spending. There is a
spending that is economy because 1t
brings in more than it gives out.
Wenatchee is practicing this wise ex-
penditure. It's energy is the Aladdin
that rubs the lamp of prosperity, and
the slave of this lamp is the spirit
of enterprise.-Spokesman-Revjew.
There's a Reason for the Noise"
Our old friend, the Portland Ore
gonian, which has been blowing hot
for unconditional railroad franchises
in Spokane and sharply criticizing
the council, the Spokesman-Review
and all those Spokane citizens who
are insisting on terminal rates, can
blow cold enough when the railroads
want franchises in Portland.
For example, it said editorially
Sunday:
There's a reason for the noise
about grabbing of streets in Port
land, and the reason is found in the
city's experience. Railroads and other
individuals find it no longer easy to
obtain franchises or permits or re-
linquishments Of streets for the cheap
asking.
Biggest of all the grabs was that
of streetcar franchises in 1923,
which the possessors later sold to the
present owners for millions of dol
lars. A gas franchise was obtained
the same way and recently sold for
large sum of money to eastern in
vestors. The public levee, at the foot
Of Jefferson street, was grabbed by
railroad for a terminal. Streets
In various parts of the city were va
Gated for benefit of one person or an
other. None Of these concessions
yielded any part of their value to
the city. It is natural for the pub
lie to revolt against these gifts and
to demand that they shall cease. The
railroads that desire concessions for
bridge approaches and terminal uses
now find city authorities responding
to the public demand"
To the Oregonian it seems mon
strous injustice to the railroads when
Spokane's council offers to grant
| franchises on easy and liberal terms
IL they will abate part OF their I'M
Just discrimination tfor the granting
of terminal rates would be only par
| tial abatement), but with unblush-
ing insincerity it assails the railroads
when they seek Portland franchises
on far easier conditions than the Spo-
kane council is reQuiring.-Spokes-