Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-25

ests on the Great Lakes" The st. Paul
Pioneer Press is pleased that sewage
disposal has been ruled out as q "legit-
innate excuse or valid legal reason for
abstracting water from Lake Michigan"
No expectation of an immediate in
junction against Chicago was expected
or desired, since. as the Wisconsin State
Journal points out. such an order would
have meant paralysis to the State of
Illinois," and it is only just that "Illi-
nois be given time to solve its sewage
problem" The present method of han
ding the problem is las unfair and
malodorous thing as there is in the
country" according to the st. Louis
PoSt-DiSpatch.
Defending the city. the Chicago Daily
Tribune says: Outside of Chicago it
may not generally be known that Chi
cago long ago determined to dispose of
It's sewage without dilution and that
number of treatment plants have al
ready been completed. The largest so
far placed in service cost close to
100000 and was completed only
few months ago. The courts
finding, therefore. will not force the
authorities to undertake anything that
was not contemplated, though the date
of completion may be advanced"
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Another point that is causing some
alarm in the Mississippi Valley is raised
in the statement by the Chicago Daily
News: so far as the future is con-
cerned the distinction between naviga-
ton and sanitation is merely theoreti-
cal. The Daily News has contended
ever since the joining of the issue be-
tween the sanitary district and the COM
planning States that the amount Of
water required to maintain the pro-
jected LakeS-to-Gulf 9-foot channel-to
which the Federal Government is fully
committed-will meet, incidentally, ever
sanitary need" On this question the
Louisville Courier journal says vigor-
ously: THE Gulf waterway is not to
be sewer, but an important artery of
commerce. 1t Is not for Chicago's spe-
cial advantage, but for the welfare of
the Mississippi Valley. This fact should
not be lost sight Of when the advocates
of the damage canal champion the prof.
ect to link Chicago with New Orleans"
Opinion generally seems TO be that
the question as to the waterway has
not been settled, leaving the Lake States
free at later time, as the Milwaukee
Journal puts 1t, Ito contend that Con-
gress has no constitutional power to
impair the Lakes for the benefit OF the
Mississippi Valley" On this same prob
lem the Grand Rapids Press voices the
opinion that before any increase in
the navigation permit is permitted, en-
cheering works to protect laks levels
should be constructed and demon
strated."
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Canada's interest in the matter of
lowered lake levels is noted in the Of
tawa Journal. Chicago" saws the
Canadian paper, sis hardly the sort of
community to give up anything that it
thinks it can hold without the maxi
mum of struggle, and it may be some
years yet before it completely ceases its
practice of taking what doesn't belong
to it. On the other hand, it is clear
that the position has been considerably
and that condttiaa which
was injurious to Canada, and which
threatened to become more injurious, is
in way to be remedied."
The Toronto Daily Star expresses the
hope that "the United States authori-
ties will take whatever steps are neces-
sary to ensure. that Chicago reduces
with reasonable celebrity its illegal use
OF Lake water"