The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 13, Number 7, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 17 June 1920 — Page 2

The Syracuse Journal Democratic

Preston Henry Miles, Editor.

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Published every Thursday, at Syracuse. Indiana. $2.00 a Year Phones: Office. 4 - Residence, 994

Entered as second-class matter on May 4th. 1908, at the postoffice at Syracuse. Indiana, under the Act of Congress of March 3rd, 1879.

Thursday, June 17, 1920

Regarding the dam that' has been proposed by the Indiana Conservation commission there can be no doubt, since the mass meting in the schpol building Monday evening, that the people of Syracuse oppose such a step. It is apparent now, accepting Mr. Lieber’s explanations and guarantees, that much of the opposition manifested in the meeting rested upon misunderstanding. There can be no question of Mr. Lieber’s sincerity. He made it clear it is not the commission’s intention to raise the lake above ils preesnt level, as many of our people had thought. In fact, a dam constructed over the plans as proposed would be more facile in the disposition of flood water than the present structure. There would be no flooding of parts of the town and filling of cellars with water. Satisfactory arrangements could be contrived to insure adequate water supply for home use and fire protection with wastage reduced practically to nothing. There is apparently no need of alarm on this score. Mr. Lieber made no effort to mislead ?us into thinking we would not have to take care of our empty mill race during dry months; that we should have to pay for any changes necessary in our pumping plaht; that we chould have to meet the problem of sewage disposal. These are matters worthy of a little more concern, but after all do not get at the real point of the matter. Conservation of the water in the lake was given as one of the motives, although not the principal one, of the state’s effort to assume ownership of the dam. It is true that with the present arrangement water continues to be drawn from the lake during the hot, dry months of summer for running the city pumps, and also that a small amount may be wasting. Compared to the process of evaporation, however, the amount of water drawn off for and through the pumps is insignificant. The real motive is one of ownership and control, as Mr. Lieber admitted. At present the dam and water power rights are bwned and controlled by a group of men from Syracuse and from other cities, men interested in the welfare of Wawasee.

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We question the advisability of releasing this control to the state in the present circumstances. At some later time it might be the better thing to do—the present Syracuse Water Power company is by no means a perpetual organization. Nor have we any proof that the conservation commission will be perpetual—no more proof, indeed, than we had previous to the last legislature that the various departments thus combined would each be perpetual. In fact, the conservation commission is an experiment, begun only about a year ago. The Syracuse Water Power company was organized about forty years ago, for the sole purpose of maintaining a fairly normal high level in the lake, that Wawasee as a summer resort would be a success, and throughout these forty years there has never been a single instance to put in doubt the continuance of this purpose. The proposal did not originate with the conservation commission, but with a small group of cottage owners. If the cottage owners as a whole, or as a majority, had made the proposal the situation could be viewed in g different light. A fund has been raised and over subscribed Dy this small group of cottagers to buy the site and erect the if state funds were to be used we could perhaps look at the situation differently. We believe that Lake Wawasee must be made perpetual, and we do not doubt the commission’s sincerity ,but we do oppose the change of control i,n the present circumstances. a —o The chautauqua represents a worth while movement for the betterment and uplift of the community and deserves the full

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