The Washington herald., 1921-04-02
oREG0NIAN TALKS OF
WORLD FAIR PLANS.

When the Panama Pacific Inter-
national Exposition closed its gates
at San Francisco in 1915, after a
prosperous life of almost year,
, wiseacres said there never would
be another world fair, declaring
that the expense was too great and
that the erection of such elaborate
structures for only temporary use
was sheer extravagance.
Last week 1t was announced in
Washington that Philadelphia is
working on plans for an exposition
in 1926 to celebrate the 135th ami
versary of the signing of the Dec
laration of Independence and now
comes Robert G. Starr of Portland,
Greg, who, declares that Portland,
too, will welcome the world" to
that city in 1925 for the Atlantic
Pacific Highways and Electricai
Exposition
PORTLAND EVENT
FIRST PEACE EXPOSITION. =
Portland business men are al
ready engaged in planning for a
world fair in 1925 to celebrate the
completion of 10000 miles of paved
highways" Starr said yesterday
when seen at the Washington.
1T will be noteworthy in the fact
that it will be the first peace expo
sition to be saged since the end of
the great war. We expect that 1t
will stimulate business in the
Northwest and bring many tourists
who Will be led to settle in the great
land of opportunity that is still
awaiting men and women with
vision and Imagination.
I'VE hope to make this exposition
the biggest thing of the kind ever
held in the United States. Portland
Is ideally situated for such an event,
and Oregon and the Pacific Coast
are rich in scenic and historical ad-
vantagcs. The>-Northwest will be
Open to the tourists of the East
by means of the newly paved high
ways across the continent. Such
an exposition will fittingly celebrate
the completion of a work SO typical
of peace, the great free trade ar
teries of a nation equal in impor-
tance to the railways and natural
waterways"
SAYS WEST STILL
NEEDS PIONEERS
There still remains much work
for builders and pioneers in the
Northwest, in the opinion of Starr
and such an exposition will do much
toward attracting the attention of
the rest of the United States to this
section so rich in natural resources
and still unexploited possibilities.
Seattle had it's Alaska -Yukon-Pa-
cific, San Francisco it's Panama-Pa-
cific, San Diego it's Californian Paci-
hp IN Df fnfr
brought tourists and advertised the
wealth and advantages of the Pacific
Coast to prospective homebuilders.
The Pacific slope is above all an
ideal spot to live and we want more
homebuilders," said Starr.
I'VE have vast wealth in our
streams and forests. possibly
greater wealth than has ever been
taken from our mines. Mines are
exhaustible, but the wealth of our
orchards, grain fields and grasing
lands will never be used up. The
people of the Pacific slope are gen.
orally prosperous; the number of
automobile licenses issued in Cali
fornia. Washington and oregon is a
good index of the prosperity Of both
farmer and city dweller.
EASTERN CAPITAL
ALSO NEEDED
We need the East and its Deuple
We need Eastern capital. We must
harness our potential waterpower
for commercial use. We arc rap
idly evolving a remarkably complete
transportation, system by means of
the thousands of miles of highway
we have already completed and the
thousands more we shall have com
pleted by 1925.
BY means of motor car and rail-
way we must establish connection
between our seaports which look to
the Orient and the seaportS of the
Atlantic with their access to Ru-
ropean markets. We must make the
most of the trade possibilities which
the Panama Canal has opened up
with South America and our own
gulf ports.
We expect to capitalize our
scenic features as an objective for
all Americans who travel. In this
way we may get our money back
that We are spending on highways.
cashinE in our waterfalls along our
highways and at last taking our
visitors further west to the hiEgest
thing on earth-the Pacific