The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-04-10
CHURCH GIVEN
Big BOOST AT
CLUB BANQUET
Fruitgrowers and Business Men
Show Enthusiasm for Local
Mfg. Company
STIMULATE STOCK SALES
Congressman Summers Unable to At
tend Send Message Pledging His
Support of Project

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Altho Congressman John w. Sum-
mers, of Walla Walla, was detained at
his home on account of recent opera
ton for the removal of his tonsils,
the 'More Water, More Grape juice
banquet at the Hotel Kennewick on
Tuesday evening was one of the most
enjoyable and important get-together
affairs held in the community for sew
eral years.
The banquet, which was given un-
der the auspices of the Commercial
club, but paid for by the Church Mfg.
company, was held for the purpose of
giving impetus to a united commun-
ity movement to hasten the building
of the Kennewick Irrigation District
project and the financing and building
of a larger fruit by-products plant
here. More than one hundred repre-
sentative business and professional
men, fruitgrowers and farmers, were
present and evinced genuine inter-
est in the two projects. Altho the
number of the banqueters taxed the
facilities of the place, an excellent
menu was prepared and admirably
served under the direction of Mr., and
Mrs. w. H. Emerson, the new pro-
prietors Of the Hotel Kennewick dining
room.
Altho confined to his bed, Congress,
man Summers sent word that the peol
pie of Kennewick con absolutely rely
upon his hearty and active support of
the local irrigation project and that
before going to Washington, D. G., he
will spend day here viewing the
lands to be irrigated and collecting
data regarding the project.
NJ. M. Moulton, secretary of the
Irrigation district, explained that
there never was time when prospects
for getting an appropriation for the
project looked brighter. Putting the
project thru, he said, is no longer a
question of engineering. It has re-
ceived the unqualified endorsement and
approval of the reclamation engineers
and has been recommended by the
board of review. 1t is now up to con-
gress and getting the project is now
largely a matter of politics not par
tisan politics, rather matter of pi-
loting the project thru the somewhat
intricate legislative channels in con-
gress. Because this is true, Mr.. Moul-
ton claims, it is highly imperative that
there be formed here hard-working
organization to get behind the propo-
sition and see to it that it is properly
presented to the congressional COM.
mittees and kept out of the pigeon
holes Of committee rooms.
Mr.. ioulton made strong plea for
the reorganization and the reanima-
ton OF the Commercial club. The ex-
cuse that there is nothing for such an
organization to do, he said, was no
longer valid. The directors of the Ir-
rigation district, he said, can not car
~ forward the campaign nor can a
lew men, but there should be united
and well organized community back of
it.
The proposition of the Church Mfg.
company to enlarge it's plant by the
sale of $125,000 worth of preferred
stock upon which annual dividends of
per cent are guaranteed, was pre-
sented and explained by several local
speakers.
An outline of the arguments pre-
sented in favor of the community sup
porting the local manufacturing con-
cern follows:
In determining the worth of any en-
terprise, two questions must be con-
sldered: first, can it succeed; secondly,
II 1t does succeed, what will it mean
to the community? The success of
any manufacturing enterprise depends
nrst, upon a constant supply of raw
materials, second, dependable supply
Oh competent labor; third, markets for
It's products; fourth, ability to COM
pete in those markets.
Can the Church Mfg. company sue
ceed; can it measure up to these four
essentials of success? The clark"
grape area in the United States is
limited and in no other section do the
concord and Worden varieties of
grapes GROW To ouch narfactinn &C in