The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-06-13
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Being made
OUR SUBURB
False Publicity Sent Broad.
cast, Charge; Business
Swung to Portland

TACOMA. June IA campaign
to boycott Seattle business houses.
launched last week by the retail
druggists. had grown today TO notable
proportions.
Tho movement has oeen officially
indorscd by numerous commercial or.
ganizati6us. and has become the most
discussed subject on every street cor.
ner.
SEATTLE TRYING TO
CORNER" PuBLICITYs
, The reason for this sudden attack
Is the belief that an organized cam.
paign is being waged at Seattle to de-
prive this city OF publicity In the
East and elsewhere
| For instance:
the reSort of the Northwest confer.
ence recently held at Seattle is print.
cd under n Seattle date line. The
article states that Spokane. Portland,
Wichita. Great Falls. Butte and Seat.
tie were represented by large delegAr
tons Of credit men. but does not
mention Tacoma tho Tacorna won
the banner for having the iargest
representation.
In the japanese Chronicle QSobe)
the visit OF the steamer wenatchee
is mentioned as bringing to port a
delegation OF Seattle business men,
among them Chester Thorne. vice
president Of the Seattle Chamber Of
Commerce" .Thorne is a Tacoma
capitalist. chairman Of the port com.
mission and one OF the city's leading
! citizens.
In news films and In picture sec.
tons OF Eastern dailies and else.
where. Point Defiance park. the Col
legc OF Puget Sound. the speedway
and the stadium have been mention
ed frequently as "of Seattle"
CAMP LEWIS At
OUR CITY LIMITS
In Seattle publicity matter Camp
Lewis has been claimed as tho lying
virtually at the Seattle city limits.
In news stories and in picture cap
tons the scout cruisers Milwaukee.
Cincinnati and Omaha were spoken
of as being launched at the Todd
yard. Seattle.
In Eastern news items Elmer
Dover has been claimed as n Seattle
ite. SO also with other leading Ia
comans.
In the Raymond a whitcomb Co.'S
1921 prospectus Of its Pacific North
west and Alaska tours Tacoma is not
mentioned even as the gateway to
Rainier National park nor does the
name OF the city appear on the map.
Seattle gets big credit
In a recent Scientific American a
member OF the state university fac
ulty is referred to as Prof. Bell, of
the University OF Seattle"
PERSISTENT PROPAGANDA
FOR MANY MONTHS
These are typical examples. Ia.
comans here today wrnthily de
clared. OF a persistent propaganda
extending back over number of
months by which Seattle has sought
to deliberately steal Tacoma's pub
licity.
1t is charged here that this cam
paign is directed by some organized
bureau in Seattle. the usual belief
being that 1t centers In the Seattle
Chamber OF Commerce.
Tacomans agree that because OF
the difference in size of the cities 1t
would be natural for such mistakes
to occur occasionally. but they de-
clare that the steady stream OF them
now being noted could not conceiv-
ably be explained by mere mistakes.
Tacomans agree further that this
unfair work is doubtless done by
some few persons in Seattle and
that the idea back of 1t In not shared
by any considerable number OF rep
resentative Seattle business men.
But they insist that the business
men who are not engaged In such
an understa nding and who do not
believe In such tactics start n fight
at home to put an end to the prac-
tice.
Portland wholesale houses are
benefiting from the agitation. It
is easily asccrtainable here as fact
that already the boycott has resulted
in dverting a considerable business
In drugs, hardware. trunks, dry
goods and other commodities from
Seattle wholesale houses TO Port
land.
DRUGGISTS BOYCOTT
SEATTLE HOUSES
"Every downtown druggist here
already, has stopped buying from
Seattle houses" Everett II. McMil-