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1925 FAIR DISCUSSED
BY LUNCH CLUB

With Truman Butler, member of the
state executive committee IN charge OF
bringing to naturalization final plans
for the proposed 1925 Portland exposi.
tion, the Tuesday Lunch Club Tuesday
devoted the full time of the meeting tC
the fair.
Mr.. Butler prefaced his talk in ex-
planation Of all that has SO far been
undertaken by the fair committee,
with an appeal for an expression of all
viewpoints of the exposition. He de-
clared that Re would especially wei
come any views adverse to the PROPOSE
tion. Except for two speakers, s. j.
Moore and Rev. w. II. Boldly, all re-
sponses were unqualifecly in favor of
the exposition. Mr. Moore stated that
he felt that the trend Of immigration
was westward and that Oregon will
eventually get great increase in pop
oulation without the fair. He charac-
! teriZed the plans as forcing the plant
and endeaVOring TO get something that
we would eventually get anyhow. lie
stated that he was strongly influenced
by the opposition Of many prominent
Portland men, who were heavy taxpay-
ers and declared that he had not yet
been thoroughly convinced Of the need
of the exposition. Mr.. Boddy's ex-
preston was in no wise an opposition.
He merely asked if it had been the ex-
perience Of states where past great ex-
positions had been held to show an
early resultant increase in population.
Mr. Butler gave a thorough synopsis
of all that has materialized so far with
regard to the fair. He called atten-
tion to the recent Portland meeting
called by Governor Olcott. He showed
how the entire proposition is contin-
gent on Portland voting a $1,000, 900
bond issue November l9 and then rails
ing an Traditional S1,0O0,000 by sub
scription. The state will then be
called on to vote 81, 900. 900 to be raised
by taxation in the next three years.
Mr.. Butler declared that the problem.
however much it might be one for the
taxpayers of Portland, was not one
for Hood River, the citizens of which
will, because of their location, be es-
pecial beneficiaries of the exposition.
He stated that Hood River county
would be called on to pay only $27 900.
MIR. Butler likened Oregon to
manufacturing plant, which has GER
tain fixed overhead expense. He stat
ed that this overhead at the present
had reached a point of crisis, and that
those proposing the fair felt that the
only hope would be to increase produc-
tion. in this case by increasing popula- |
tion. With an area greater than seven |
principal eastern states, he said, Ore
gon has fewer people than the city of |
Cleveland. Mr.. Butler cited pro-
posed policy of the Portland Telegram |
to make the fair entirely different |
from any other ever held, and make it |
a statewide exposition, one for ex-
plotting by daily trips through points |
Of scenic and natural resource, of all
IF Oregon.
In response to Mr.. Moore, Mr.. But
Ter stated that he had talked with
julius Meier, chairman of the fair or
Monday, and that the lat
Ter had expressed a great optimism
over the outcome of the approaching
election in Portland. Mr.. Meier, he
said, predicted that the election would
carry by a vote of three to one. In re-
gard to the men opposing the fair, |
Mr.. Meier, while all he said was in
according to Mr.. Butler,
,ited that without exception the oppos-
IT'S were men past 60 years of age and
representative of great wealth and
lass extremely conservative.
Mr.. Butler stated that the outcome
# the fair depended entirely on the
November election, but he expressed
Iimself of the opinion that the election
would carry and that the exposition
would be held-the greatest exposition
ver given in the country.
Others who spoke on the matter
we're: c. II. Vaughan, Judge Clan
lille, DR.. T.. d. Kanaga and Leslie
butler. The latter cited how the
northwestern Tourist Association was
costing the fair, which would. he de-
Jared, bring to the state an estimated
so, 900, OO0lfrom. foreign countries, who
ave already signified an intention of