The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-06-13
TACOMA OPENS TRADE
BOYCOTT ON SEATTLE
PERHAPS TACOMA
HAS A GRIEVANCE

A STAR REPORTER went to Tacoma today
"A and discovered that Seattle is being 'boycotted
by many organizations and institutions there
This was news to him, and probably to nearly
everybody in Seattle except the wholesalers who have
been officially notified Of the boycott.
The reason is this
Tacoma claims that in Eastern newspapers, trade
publications, film reviews and magazines there is
consistent Seattle propaganda to make everything
in the Puget Sound country appear an adjunct OF
Seattle, the existence of Tacoma being ignored This
has been carried to such extent Tacomans claim.
that residents of the neghborng city referred to
as "of Seattle; that Tacoma schools and parks
referred to 'in Seattle that Camp Lewis is To-
Gated at the Seattle city limits and that The Noun
tain not only is called Mount Rainier but is made
to appear in park with Seattle the nearest gate
way.
Tacomans think there is a studied purpose in all
ths-that the city of Seattle and the business of
Seattle generally want to claim everything in Ia
Seatte's own, completely ignoring the fact
that the other city is some miles away and leads
separate existence.
thinks straight can expect to gain anything by in
cluding Point Defiance park. the Tacoma Stadium,
the Todd shpyards, College Of Puget Sound and Coy
ernor Hart as among the city's attractions
Yet Tacomans point to large number of in
which things such these have been done.
Whatever agency of publicity is cutting these capers
ought to be called to task 1t is easy to understand
how inexperienced smart aleck ad writer
publicity man might consider it Clever to annex a
couple of counties-but certainly person in POSI-
tion to pass this "copy' should send Il thru.
We know doggone well that the United Press doesn't
send out stories of Tacoma happenings under
Seattle dateline, making them appear taking
place in Seattle.
If there is any serious agency in this city that is
systematically decryng neighbors possessions it
ought to be stopped The greater likelihood is that
there is such agency that the repeated affronts
to which Tacoma objects merely the result Of
essness lack of knowledge that connects everything
in the Puget Sound region with the biggest city
thereof coupled with occasional over-enthusiasm of
some individual
Here in Seattle we are prone to locate anything
within 50-me radius of the national metropolis
"of New York" The pet peeve of Newark, N. j., Is
that nobody regards it city. Yet it has nearly
a hundred thousand more people than Seattle
Oakland has the same grudge against San Francisco
that Tacoma has against Seattle; Akron has the
grudge against Cleveland, ST. Paul against
Minneapolis, Ogden against Salt Lake Council Bluffs
against Omaha.
The smaller city always takes these things serious
ly the larger city often does not.
No responsible citizen in Seattle wants to rob Ia
coma Of any of its heritage We don't even give a
darn about The Mountains name, except that like
most of the rest of the nation have the habit of
calling it Rainier" If there IS anybody here who
is trying deliberately to rob Tacoma of her fair name
let us feed him to the dogs