Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-24

The Portland Rose Celebration
"The whole world knows the Port
land rose,n was the prize winning slo-
gan, selected and adopted by the BUSH
ness mems association, Of Portland,
Oregon, TO advertise and boost the an
nual carnival of roses, In that city In
June, 1914. Harry Springer, a clerk In
the store of Konowitch Bros, and who
lived In Portland at the time referred
to, says this flower festival was the
grandest display of the kind that he
ever Witnessed. Fully three hundred
thousand visitors were in attendance
that year at this feast of roses, lasting
four days and taxing to the utmost the
housing capacity of this big metropolis
of the Great North West. The sun of
$500 payable in gold was awarded to
the winner of the prize slogan, pre-
viously mentioned. Curt Graef, of the
Pennsy news stand at Wildwood, also
saw one of these rose festivals staged.
HeNresided In Portland in 1911, when
he was employed as storekeeper at the
Portland Hotel. He has a banner that
was used in one of these parades.
"The whole world knows the Port
land rose'', is certainly very pretty and
very musical. It is probable the
winner took for q model the beautiful
and world famous sentiment,
Everybody knows where the
shamrock grows" 1t is marvellous
to consider the potency Of sentiments
and slogans in swaying the feelings
and the passions of the human mind.
That is why some one exclaimed In
ecstasy, "Let me make the ballads of
q nation, and I care not who makethe
laws.n The tremendous success of this
festival Of flowers out there prompts
us 10 ask, "Why not grow more roses
here in Wildwood ?" Why not have
a summer festival of roses for our city :?
1t might prove a winner, same as the
Portland fest does for hal section of
the Golden West. II that Oregon slo-
gan touched the heart of the Portland
ties, why would not the following
touch ours: Everybody knows the
Wild wood rose" or apply it to hydran-
ges If you will.
On each of the four days there was
a parade. In one Of the parades, five
thousand school children were in line.
We wonder if the "Man from Mime
sota,n Mr.. Yenney,~would have pos
sessed sufficient strategic ability to
marshal and direct a phalanx of m
bryo citizens like that?
Here is a new and nov thought as
far as the East is concerned, and the
JOURNAL suggests TO the Wildwood
Board of Trade Governors that they get
In on the ground floor on this PROPOSE
ton. Employ a Secretary who under
stands how TO stage something big and
grand like this, the result of which
would be not only to pour golden treas
ures into our laps, but to make Wild.
wood famous for flowers and beauty
and entitled to distinction as the
"Portland of the East" But in the
meantime put the paid Secretary at
work trying to induce capital to- build
the kind of a hotel that is SC much
needed in Wildwood-a house like the
Virginia Hotel at Long Beach, Califor-
mia, for instance. There is lots of work
for this $4,000 a year Secretary to do.
He must be a man of force and ideas
and know how to put the ideas into
concrete form. Get busy Board of
Governors twelve, cease holding star
chamber sessions aud transact business
in the open If you expect the $25 year
dues to be paid.