Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-04-12
CHAMBER BANQUET
ATTENDED BY MANY
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an Prof. o. L. Waller to respond to
the toast What's the Use?" Prof
Waller dealt with the situation re.
sulting from Americas participation
in the war in comprehensive man
ner, calling attention to the urgent
need of every man, woman and child
doing his or her part in winning the
war for democracy. As the four
most ponent factors in the campaign
for democratic supremacy over kai-
serism, Prof. Waller cited the sol
der power, engineers and chemists,
food conservation and production,
and money.
Thomas Neill, in speaking on
Community Spirit and Co-opera-
tion," stated that Pullman had been
the beneficiary of community spirit
and cooperation, as much as any
town in the state and has suffered
more than any town in the state
from the want of it.
He stated that the construction of
the Lewiston branch of the n. p. rail-
way from Pullman, instead of Whe-
Ian, at which place the company had
decided to make the junction; the
rebuilding of the town after the fire
of July, 1890, and the location of the
State College, were the result of COM
munity spirit and cooperation of the
people OF the town and of the coun-
try. That after the panic of 1898
the community spirit ceased, factions
formed and much bitter feeling arose
over the saloon question, with the re-
suit that citizens were ashamed to
register as being residents of Pull
man. After the town was voted dry,
however, the community spirit re-
yived, and has grown and made pos
sible the present chamber of COM
merce, noted throughout the state as
being the EN- bodiment of community
spirit and cooperation.
The speaker called attention to the
public school and said that It could
be made a business asset second only
to the State College, but that it re-
should be, the leading school in the
state. He said that the amount of
the school tax in this district, raised
by taxation, amounted to $37.25 per
pupil, which is the lowest of any dis
trict in the county except Steptoe,
which is 1925. The highest in the
county is Uniontown, which is SIS
per pupil, and the average in the
county is $49.42, Pullman has 825
pupils enrolled, Colfax has III, and
the Colfax tax amounts to $5O.65 per
pupil.
A tax equal to the average in the
county, levied in this district would
give funds enough to place the Pull
man schools in the front ranks in the
state, and on behalf of the school
board and the teachers, Judge Neill
asked that the community spirit and
cooperation of the chamber be ex-
tended to include the public school
system, promising that the board and
the teachers would do their part to-
ward making the Pullman schools
the model for the state to follow.
The banquet was prepared by j.
w. Robinson of Robinson's bakery,
and served by a beyy of young ladies
from the home economies department
of the high school with efficiency and
dispatch.
A center of attraction throughout
the evening was Jim" Kinney, son
of DR.. and Mrs. l.. G. Kinney, and
the youngest member of the cham
Der. Jim" had the time of his life
until r. NJ. VanDorn began TRADE
against the winners for robbing the
cradle to secure an advantage in the
contest count, when he took violent
exception to the remarks and refused
to remain longer in the banquet
room.