East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-01-23

cerned demands that this waste wa
ter be utilized.
Though spring work has not yet
started not less than half dozen
good new resi-
4 Healthy Sign. dences are already
planned for the
north side and IL is known that build
ing work will be started as soon as
practicable. New houses will also be
built in other portions of town. Al
number OF substantial dwellings are
under construction at this time. Yet
the demand for houses still continues
strong. There is scarcely a vacant
house TO be found anywhere and this
despite the fact home building has
been active continuously during the
last two years.
There is no occasion for pessimism
in Pendleton.
One suggestion made by the coun-
Gil fire and water committee is as
suredly worth fol-
\ Constructive lowing. 1t is the
Suggestion. recommendation that
during the summer
months samples of the water from
Thorn Hollow be tested by an ex-
perienced bacteriologist. Through
such a test as that it will be possible
to ascertain the exact character of the
water under the new system. For
purposes of comparison tests shoulo
at the same time be made of the wa
ter at the present intakes just above
town, so as to show the relative mer-
its of the two sources of supply. 1t
would also be interesting to have tests
made of the water from the north
fork of the Umatilla-for in the event
, the Thorn Hollow system does not
answer all purposes there will be but
one recourse and that will be to OBJ
tain water from the north fork.
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There is considerable sense in the
following comment by the New York
World on the ad-
\ Task ministration's plan
Requiring Time. of dealing with the
trusts:
The spirit of accommodation. kind
hess and patience with which the pres
ident is approaching the trust prob
lem carries no hint of compromise.
Whatever concessions the president
makes are not in principles; they are
in methods
Such outlines of the bills that he is
to recommend tomorrow as have ap-
peared agree that they are to pro-
hibit holding companies, regulate the
issuance of stocks and bonds, ccent-
uate personal guilt and increase the
financial responsibility of those who
combine in restraint of trade. These
are drastic measures.
Accommodation, kindness and patti
ence appear in the fact that the pres
ident civilly asks Big Business to rec
ognize the will and welfare of the
people; that before anything is to be
done full hearings are to be had and
that the proposed laws are not to
take effect until the country has had
| time to adjust itself to them, one or
two years hence.
The trouble with most reformers is
ton. Some of them appear to think
that the mere passage of law an
swers every purpose. They forget that
evils of long standing never have been
and never will be cured in day.
Every one Of the wrongs which this
administration seeks to correct has
been of slow growth. Favor here
privilege there and corruption some
where else have been necessary from
time to time to lay the groundwork
for aggressive monopoly and injus
tice. Power misused and power
abused not for day or year but
for many years have produced stu
alton which profoundly influences the
business and industrial lives of mer
who had no part in creating it.
AS patience and persistence are al
ways the supreme tests of the peopl'
in effecting reforms, it is well tina
1.-THE president exhibits these qualities
so clearly. If the people adhere t.
him and his methods. their accom-
plishments will be great. IL they fal
away because miracles are not hast
lily worked, they will renew their Owl
shackles.
In almost any sphere. but especiall,
lin government success depends
much upon knowledge of time as up
, on knowledge Of facts. Those VIII
cannot wait and those who do no
have the fortitude to undergo som
Inconvenience while readjustment
are in progress are usually the strong