The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1915-02-18
FIFTH ANNUAL COMMERCIAL
CLUB BANQUET A BIG SUCCESS
Good Talks Good and Of Spirit Prevails
Forty-Three New Members Are Taken in During
Membership Contest-Crosby's Team Wins

"The Commercial Club will do yor
Good" was the subject assigned t.
President L. L. Lynn, of the Prossel
Commercial club. AS usual the gen.
ial county auditor warmed his hearers
with some good stories and then fired
at them some great big truths con-
corning the good commercial club
can do in any community. He said
that the commercial club will lido any
man good just exactly in proportion
as that man does the commercial club
good. He congratulated Kennewick
upon the fine get-together spirit
which it has shown upon so many oc-
casions.
w. H. Galvani, of Portland, chief
engineer of the Pacific Power & Light
company told the men, whats the
matter with the country" He de-
clared that the growth and develop
ment of the Northwest had been due
to the corporations which had enlist
ed the support of eastern capital. He
denounced the practice of corporation
batting which had driven capital un-
der cover and made it impossible to
continue development. He, said pros
perity would return only when the
"dear public" was willing to let cap
ital be invested where it will pay q
reasonable return on the investment.
w. T. Tyler, Northern Pacific Su-
perintendent, with headquarters at
Pasco, who was assigned no subject,
told of the conditions which confronts
the railroads today. He said that
they were facing big curtailment of
their transcontinental business occa-
stoned by the opening of the Panama
canal and that in the future they must
depend more than ever upon the de-
velopment of the interior and that it
would be along this line that their fu-
ture efforts would be directed. He said
it had never been the policy of his
company to oppose any enterprise
that would contribute to the develop
ment fathe territory along their lines
even though it were the building Of
another railroad. In carrying out
this policy they had never sought to
hamper the opening Of the Columbia
nor the development Of river traffic.
Mr.. Tyler was followed by Superin-
tendent A. G. Kamm, of the O-W. r. &
N. who said his company could always
be relied upon to stand back of the
Commercial club in any effort to build
up the community.
Wallace Struble, of Astoria, secre-
tary Of the Columbia & Snake River
Waterways association and special
representative of the Portland Cham
Der of Commerce, responded to the
toast, "The Open River" by telling
Of the plans for celebrating the open
ing Of the Cello canal. The celebra-
tion will be held during the week Of
May 3-8 and will start at Lewiston
with appropriate ceremonies at Ken
newick and Pasc6, Wallula, Umatilla
The Dalles, Vancouver and Portland
The Pasco Chamber Of Commerce, he
said, had voted unanimously to CO
operate with Kennewick in staging q
joint celebration between these two
towns and urged Kennewick to show
the same willingness with our friends
across the river. The evenings pro.
gram was brought to q close by Capt
w. p. Gray, who spoke briefly saying
that the people Of Pasco were ready
to cooperate with Kennewick in car.
rying out the suggestion Of Mr.
Struble.