East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-01-12

Il was ashamed when we brought
Secretary Lane up to these rooms"
said Tom Richardson in
Time To speaking yesterday of Pen
Brace Up. dleton's need of better
Commercial Club quart
ers. on the previous afternoon he
had told the ladies the same thing.
Local people also were ashamed of
those club quarters when Secretary
Lane was here. We have been asham-
&c of those rooms and that dark. dirty
stairway for years. Local people have
apologized for those rooms until they
have grown tired of it. 1t is the Gus
tom now to shun the place as much as
possible. 1t is a natural tendency, but
it is bad for the club and bad for the
town.
The situation is bad for the Com
mercial Club because it keeps the club
from having the prestige and influ-
ence it should rightfully enjoy. The
club should be a live active place,
rendezvous for businessmen and COM
munity workers. 1t is nothing of the
sort now. The situation is bad for the
town because visitors frequently
judge town by its Commercial Club
and as Mr. Richardson says the club
now is not like Pendleton-it is not
suitable for a town with our wealth
and community energy.
In the future We will need a good
Commercial Club more than in the
past We now have a state institute
ton here and that means the enter
tainment at times Of state officials and
legislators. Frequently We have inn
portant federal officials to entertain.
Next year there will be many visitors
here as a consequence of the Panama
Pacific fair We always have a host
Of prominent visitors during the
Roundup. 1t is poor policy to let
such people get bad impression Of
the town.
Why not make a change? 1t can
be done. Here's chance for loyal
community boosters to do some ef-
fective work for Pendleton. Get to-
gether.
According to story from South
Bend. Wash, that place spent 1885,
600 for improvements
Well Worth last year and has been
investigating. doing its own paving
work instead of letting
that work by contract 1t is claimed
the town has saved 81 a front foot
over the contractors price.
II would be worth while for Pendle-
ton officials to look this up and look
up the results of municipal paving in
other places aside from South Bend.
Seattle ard Goldendale are towns re-
ported as doing paving work direct.
Pendleton is not through with street
paving work. There will be consid-
ersble TO do in the future and the
best work should be obtained at the
least possible expense. If the city can
do the work direct and thus save the
contractors profits it will be possible
70 get that much more for our money
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What do the ants hope to gain by
further attacks on the gravity system
They claim they
The Only have no intention
Possible Motive. now OF trying to
block the project
Then why do they continue to slander
he project and assail the members Of
he water board?
Pendleton is paying over 100000
70 secure the Thorn Hollow water.
there is much pride over the prospect
of that water supply. II is justified
BECAUSE there will be an abundance
water and II is pure in quality II
III be splendid thing for the town
the best thing Pendleton has secured
a many years, IL not in the history Of
he town
Why Try tc spoil the effect Of this
reat blessing II the Thorn Hollow
,rojcct Is not an absolutely ideal pro-