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To Danger Here
Dr. Brockman Says Pres
ent Treatment Method
Holds Dangers to Health
By C. J. BROCKMAN
(Department of Chemistry, Univ
sity of Georgia)
The three most vital problems in
life are to obtain pure air, pure
water, and pure food. These are
necessary not only for comfort and
well-being, but the very existence
of man depends on them; not only‘
. sufficient supply but absolutely
pure. Chemistry has a very def
inite role in producing a city water
cupply, both in quantity and in
purity. 4
Ground water may be consider
el as having two sources: either
surface drainage, as in rivers and
streams, or in wells. My readers
know that in populated areas river
water is not safe to drink in a
“raw” condition, yet in north
Georgia, practically every town
and city of any size is dependent
on its river water for drinking
purposes,
Water and Health
Rain water is pure if collected[
after gt least thirty minutes of
continuous raining. All rivers, of
course are supplied from rain
water, but in the red clay regions
of Georgia these rivers are muddy
pecause of finely divided clay and
organic matter of animal or veg
etable nature which are collgcted.
Becides these visable impuritlesl
there are also bacteria which are
dangercus to human health and
which must be eliminated before
the water is safe to drink. Sur
face water will also contain some
compounds known in chemistry as
“salts”., When certain salts are
present the water js termed min-1
era] water and these waters have
very desirable physiological ,fpt‘op-f
erties in many instances, These‘
dissolved compounds may be of a
nature to producer what is ca,lledl
“hard water” — which dees not
Jather easily with soap. The water
supply of the City of Athens is
not hard, in any sense of the word.
However, it is not (soft. I fs
classed as moderately hard or
moderately soft. It is an inter
mediate value.
Now, may T ask this question?
“llow many of my readers have
ever been sufficiently interested in
their city water supply to have
made an inspection visit to their
city water works?” llf you will pay
such a visit you will see more
interesting things. The water at
the beginning of the treatment
may be muddy, have an unpleas
ant odor, and be generally unfit to
drink. After treatment it often but
not always comes out sparklingly
clear, pure and. ready to drink.
If vou have allowed river water to
settle inv tumbler, you wilk find
‘that it does not clear up. It must
be clarified as we term it, by
chemical treatment. |
This clarification is accomplish
&d by adding a very small quan
tity of aluminyn sulfate and
perhaps a little lime. These com
pounds react chemically to produce
a 4 gelatinous substance known to]
the chemist as aluminum hydrox-c‘
ide. This treated water is run into
the sedimentation basin, where
dow circulation allows the alum-1
num hydroxide to settle and to
arry down with it most of the
uspended solid matter. From the
edimentation basin the -water
asses to the sand filters housed
1 wooden or concrete tanks. The]
‘ater seeps through the sand and
he gravel, but the solid matter
i retained and the water comes
at erystal clear. This filtered
vater will be freed from some of
te bacteria, but there are enough
0 them present to make the water
dngerous wunless further treat
ment is used. y
Killing Germs
The best germicide known for
witer purification on 5 large scale
I 8 chlorine. This chemical is
shipped from the factories as a
liwid contained in eylinders. You
'enember that chlorine was the
fist “war gas” used by the Ger
mns in 1915. Thig gas is bub
bad into the water as it comes
fim the sand filters. I use the ex-
Dression “this gas” because* when
4 cylinder of liquid chlorine is op
bosed the liquid boils to form the
gas—one addition of this chlorine
Wil kill any disease producing
bacteriy which are not removed
by the sand filters. The Qquan-
Uty of chlorine used depends on
the quality of the raw water, and
O course its bacterial content.
By these two chemical treat
ents a clear pure water may be
broduced. The -question i, “can
this treatments be uniformly suc
tessful?” The answer will be most
fmphatically “yes”. If you ex
dmine the health statistics of any
own which’ has a loyal water.
Vorks you. find there very few
“ises of typhoid fever. Practically
all of the typhoid fever is found
' localities where there is mo city
Water supply. . ;
Deficiertcy Cited
Now we must ‘answer the ques-
Uon “wherein is there a defiency
I the present Athens water
Works?”. In the first place there
'NO meams by which a close
“tmical control of the addition
! nécessary chemieals can be had.
“he result is t—hat%xe plant does
"0l produce clear, sparkling water
‘‘ntinually. How many times have
You poticed this? ,
Did you ever notice e odor of
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Ward Meetings Are Called For Bond Election
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CLARKE LEGISLATORS ASKED TO RE-INTRODUCE PAVING BILL
Bill As Passed Regarded
As lllegal, Councilmen
Declare Last Night
RETAIN TAX RATE
Broad Street |s Made Traf
fic Boulevard, And
Parking Prohibited
A resolution requesting Clarke’s
representatives in the legislature
to re-introduce a bill designed to
facilitate and economize paving
overations in Athens was adopt
ed last night by the mayor and
council .
The bill was originally intro
duced by Senator Lamar C.
Rucker, who is also city attorney,
and an amendment was attached
to it by Senator Rucker changing
the method eof electing the city
recorder and city attorney and
extending the term of office from
one to four years. As amended, the
bill Has passed the senate and
house of -representatvies. In its
present form, the mayor and
council have been informed, the
bill is illegal. In order to elimi
nate any future legal difficulties,
Councilman Charles S. Martin of
the Second ward last night intro
duced &4 resolution in council re
questing Representatives Carlisle
Cobb and Jake B. Joel and Sena
tor Rucker to introduce a new
pabing bill. Councilmgn Martin's
resolution was- adopted by unani
mous vote.
- City Needs Legislation
It was pointed out by Mayor A.
G. Dudley and members of coun
cil that the city needs the legis
lation which adoption of the pav
ing bill, in order to enable it to
@o ahead with paving plans. Un
der the proposed legislation, the
city and prpperty owners on
streets selected for paving will
save about one-third the cost of
construction. The baby bond
plan, Mayor Dudley said last
night, has proved unsatisfactory
and cumbersome. ¥ the legisla
tion now sought is obtained, it
will be possible for the city to
finance its paving program more
easily and more streets can be
paved.
Sufficient time remains, it is
said, for the Clarke representa
tives in the legislature to obtain
action on the proposed paving
measure.
Council last night also adopted
the tax ordinances for this year.
No change was made in the ad
vaorem tax rate which remains at
17 mills.
An ordinance was adopted
making Broad st2et, which was
recently paved and opened to the
public, a traffic Boulevard, and
parking on this street is also pro
hibited by council’'s action. It was
also ordered that the houses on
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11-Year-Old Prince
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New Siamese Ruler
BANGKOK, Siam —(®)— Prince
Ananda, elevep vears old, today
was officially proclaimed King of
Siam and ‘arbiter o+ the ebb and
flow of the tides” as the national
assembly voted approval of his
accession to the throne abdicated
last weck by the prince’s uncle
Prajadhipok.
The lad, who now is in Lausanne
with his mother, Princess Mahidol,
sister-in-law of Prajadhipok, will
govern his people under a regency.
This will consist of three men,
two of whom are princes of royal
blood. The president of the regen
cy will be Prince Abitaya. a neph
ew of Prajadhipok, Prince Anuw
abana,’a cousin of Prajadhipok, angd
Chag Esyn Yomara),
THE NEws IN A NUTSHELL
By Jack Braswell
The Clarke county 4-H club
council will meet Saturday 10:30
’a. m., in the Clarke county court
house. ’
A resolution requesting the
iClarke ‘county legislators to re-in
troduce a bill facilitating and eco
pomizing paving in Athens was
[adopted by the mayor and the city
council last night. "
“The Late Christopher Bean,”
the winter production of the Uni
versity Theater, will open tonight
at 8:30 o'clock in Seney-Stovall
Memorial theater. : 3
Although reports are incomplete,
than $1,600 has been raised to
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for the chief and party, and where do they get this feud stuff
about Jim Farley, left, and Huey Long? Just a look at the pair
here, chumming on the links at Warm Springs, Ga.. would put
that notion to rout. But—sad to say this picture was snapped
two years ago, when they were guests of Roosevelt during his
vacation at the Georgia resort, and what a <change just a sow
months make! Now. Huey’s clamoring for Farley's scalp, -de
-3 manding a Senate probe of Jim’s manifold activities.
Nine Persons Are Killed In
Explosion of Utah Oil W‘e!—l_
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Herman Talmadge, Geor
gia Debater, Compares
“Kingfish” to Hitler
NEW ORLEANS — (#) — Her
man Talmadge, son of Governor
Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, took
a few verbal slams at Senator Huey
P. Long in a debate here last night
but later apoligized to his audience.
-Long recently was warmly
greeted at Atlanta by Governor
Talmadge when the Louisiana sen
dator addressed the legislature in
that state.
Young ‘Talmadge, representing
the University of Georgia in a de
bate with Tulane university, com
pareq - Long with Hitler of Ger
many, Stalin of Russia and Musso
lini of Italy.
Later young Talmadge apologiz
ed for his remarks after being
mildly and jokingly rebuked by
Moise S, Steeg, sr., debate chair
man. 2
Talmadge and Aubrey Evans,
upheld the affirmative of the sub
ject “Resolved: That military train
ing be compulsory in lahd grant
colleges in the United States.”
Joseph Trum and Bascom TaHey,
of Tulane, argued the negative.
No decision was rendered at the
end of arguments. :
While arguing that military
training was valuable and just as
a compulsory training in coileges,
voug Talmadge said Long was a.l
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(he Boy £cout permanenti organiza
tion fund. |
Concerted campaign launched to
day to put over the $75,000 water
works vond election here March
15.
Athens faces an impure water
supply unless more modern puri
fying equipment is provided, Dr, J,
C, Brockman, chemist said today.
houses in an amended form.
Senator Fred Scott predicted to
day that the senate would reverse
its previous decision and pass the
Pope. proposed constitutional
T— e %
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Athens, Ca., Thursday, March 7, 1935.
Many Others Injured as
Nitro-Glycerine Charge
Explodes Too Soon
ST. GEORGE, Utah.— () —A
premature explosion at an oil
well claimed the lives of nine
persons last night and injured at
least a dozen others gathered to
watch the spectacular ‘“shooting”
of the first well in this district.
A deadly charge of nitro-gly
cerine, dropped into the unfinish
ed well, exploded prematurely, rip- ‘
ped the derrick from its moor
ings and hurled onto the crowd
which surrounded the well. The
terrific blast rocked thé country
side five miles south of here. |
Among the victims was Mr. and
Mrs. George Alsop. Alsop was
general manager of the Arrow
head Oil corporation which was
drilling the well.
The other victims were:
Joseph Empey, St. George, elec
trician.
Gail Nicholson, Salt Lake City,
Empey’s son-in-law. :
William Maloney, St. George.
Ray B. Nelson, St. George
dairyman.
Mrs. Joseph Snow, wife of a
prominent St. Gecorge attorney
and former state legislator.
C. M. Flickenger, oil driller in
charge of the “sheoting.”
Ellis J. Pickett, St. George at
torney, witnessed the tragedy
from his motor car, parked about
120 feet from the well.
“I was sitting in my ecar with
Mrs. Pickett, not far from the
well,” he said. “After the first
charge went down. Mrs. Pickett
became nervous and I backed my
car away another 60 feet. The
second charge went down .and it
exploded before it reached the
bottom. The force of the blast
tore the top from my car.”
After the explosion had level
ed the well's superstructure,
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AGREEMENT IS NEAR
IN STRIKE TROUBLE
LaGRANGE, Ga. — (#) — Con
ferences seeking settlement of a
work-wage dispute between the
Callaway mills and some striking
workers were arranged today as
the strike situation here and at
Manchester was reported quiet, Na
tional guardsmen were on duty ai
Callaway mills in the twe cities.
Colonel Frank P. Douglas, mem
ber of the National Textile Labot
Relations board in Wiashington, ar
rived in Georgia last night for con
ferances with investigators for the
board ang with ~Cason Callaway,
head of the mills;
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Two “Wet’”’ Measures to
‘ Receive Action in
- Executive Session
~ CALLED BY McGEHEE
Mrs. Sidney Reaves, of
. Athens, Speaks in
* Favor of Repeal
' ATLANTA, Ga.—(#P)—With ar
guments of wet and dry leaders
“before them, members of the sen-
Liit@ temperance committee will
meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock (C.
iS' T.) in executive sessioy to
- vote on two measures designed to
_wipe the bone dry laws off the
statutes. i
~ The closed meeting was called |
by Chairman John MeGehee, who
said it was arranged to give com
mitteemen time- ‘to weigh argu
ments -advanced at yesterday’s
prolonged hearing. y
Bishop' W. N. 'Ainsworth of
Macon, led theé forces favoring the|
present dry laws while the repeal‘
advocates were led by Dr. Edgar‘
C. Lucas, pastor of- the First
Christian church of Augusta.‘i
Other prominent ' Georgians ap-i
' peared. Police Chief T. O. Stur
divant of Atlanta spoke <in favor |
of the liquor bills.
The house already has passed
the bills before the committee.
The proposed legislation would
- permit sale of beer and provide a
i referendum on May 15 on liquor.
Warned by Chairman MecGehee
that any demonstration by either
side would result in clearing the
hall, the hearing was quiet. Bach
side was given an hour and a
half.
Crime Increased
Bishop Aingworth, of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South, de
clared the argument of wets that
prohibition has increased crime
was a fallacy. He said he recently
made a survey of crime reports of
Virginia which show that crimse
has increased since that state
went wet.
Several Georgia cities have
licensed the sale of beer which
the state law prohibits. Bishop
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Senate Finance Group
Hears NRA Extension for
Two Years Advocated
By NATHAN ROBERTSON
Associated Press Staff Wiriter
WASHINGTON. —{#)— Donald
Richberg, outlining the adminis
tration's views, aosksd the senate
finance committee today to ex
tend NRA “substantially in its
present form for two years,” but
with codes limited to “those
trades and industries actually en
gaged in interstate commerce.”
It was Richberg’s first a;ppear-}
ance before a congressional com
mittee as a representative of the
president. |
Among his 17 suggestions was
one to permit “proponents of vol—i
untary codes” . . . to withdraw
their consent from codes so modi
fied (by the president) as to be
unacceptable to them.”
His' proposals, Richberg told the
committee, were prepared by rep
resentatives of the NRA and other
interested government departments
but he added that “when it comes
to details there may be various
divisions of opinions as to exact
ly what provisions and language
would be most desirable.”
“They are intended,” he said, “as
an outline of those recommenda
tions upon which there is 5 gen
eral accord and which may in
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All this poking and prodding is a big pain to Wallace Rosall, 6-year
old Glendale, Calif., lad shown here under X-ray examination, but
what chance has he to skip out and play when he’s guch a fascinating
subject for inguisitive doctors? Wallace always seemed a nermal lad,
but prying medicos found all this wrong with him: His heart is on
the wrong side,” he has only one lung, his intestines are in his chest
and on his hip, and he has no alimentary canal. The case of diaphrag
matic hernia is one of the strangest ever f[ound.
“The Late Christopher Bean’ Is
Student Production Here Tonight
Curtain to Rise on Play in
Lucy Cobb Chapel at
8:30 O’Clock
At 8:80 o'cloek this evening the
curtain will rise on ‘‘The Late
Christopher Bean,” winter pro
duction of the University Theater,
in Seney-Stovall Memorial Theater
on the Lucy <Cobb campus. The
play will be presented again to
morrow evening at the same hour.
A feature of the Thalian-Black
friars show will be an exhibition in
the theater of paintings and sket
ches of local scenes by student and
Athens artists. The exhibition is
being shown in connection with‘
the pljot of “The Late Christopher
IBean,” in which an obscure small
town painter rises to fame through
his depiction of local scenes.
Among local artists who have
been invited to exhibit their works
are included: Misses Jean Flanigan
Annje May Holliday. Mary Frances
Murdock, Garland Smith, Laura
Blackshear, Marie McHatton, May- |
me Ricker, Nina Scudder, Jennie |
Smith and Mrs. Carlisle Cobb. |
Students who will participate in |
'the exhibition include Dorothy’
Kimbrell, Athens; Janet Crawford, |
Athens; Jane Miller, Rome; George
Cobb, Savannah; Lycia Payne, Ath-|
ens; Tom Fleming, Atlanta; Hugh
Montgomery, Rome; George Heid-f
‘ler, Athens; Willifreq Warren, |
Athens; Larry Knox, Thomson;
Jeanette Thompson, Atlanta; and
Mary Bickerstaff, Athens.
The cast of the Sidney Howard
comedy, headed by Katherine High
tower, Cedartown, who plays the
role of Abby, around whom the
acticn of the play revolves, is com
posed almost entirely of veteran
student actors, Sims Bray, jr., At
lanta, who plays the mascuiine leadl
in the person of Dr, Haggett, the ]
simple country doctor who, because
of his association with the Ilate
Christopher Bean, is drawn into all
sorts of humorous dealings with
the bhig city art eritics, will end his
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ALYCE McHENRY IS
“BRICHTER” TODAY
FALL RIVER, Mass, — #) —
Alyce Jane McHenry, 10-year-old
Omaha, Neb., girl, operated upon
Monday at Truesdale hospital to
correct her inverted stomach, “ap
peared hrighter today” and “has
retained food for the past 24 hours.”
A bulletin issued by Dr. George
B. King ang Dr. L. Wi Hill said:
“Temperature 100.2, pulse 110, re
spiration 20. Alyce slept more last
night than during the previous dsy
and appeared to be brighter today.
She has retained food for past 24
hours, zme diet today, Dbeef
broth, and orange Juice)”,
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| AUGUSTA, Ga. —(® — A tor
nado at Lincolnton, in northeast
Georgia. rainstorms elsewhere, hail
j at Columbus, on the Alabama line,
and a downpour at Blakely, in the
‘southwest, dotted the weather map
'of Georgia today.
The Lincolnton storm, which
| struck late yesterday, injuring two
’persons and damaging seven busi
ness houses and a number of resi
dences, came shortly after a hail
ang rainstorms at Columbus, and
high wind arg rain in Atlanta and
other parts.of the state. Blakely
reported 1.83 inches of rain up to
7 a, m. today. |
Since 7 a. m. yesterday, (‘olum-‘
bus got .52 of an inch of rain, toi
boost its total for the past 48 hours
to 3.6% inches. Crops there were‘
not up high enough to be damaged
by the hail and wind of yesterday.
Valdosta reported only slight
rainfall and crops in good shape.
Athens had .26 of an inch of rain,
and said crops in that area were
doing nicely.
Augusta hag .27 of an inch of
rain, Atlanta .56; Macon .24; Save
annah .18; Thomasville .54; Ho-~
gansville .20; LaGrange .30; Bu-|
fala, Aia., just across the state line.l
1.10. l
As far as could be learned this
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Foreien News O THumBNAL
By The Associated Press
ATHENS—The attack of its 80,-
000 massed loyalist tfoops tempor
arily held in check by unflavorable
weather conditions, the govern
ment launched ganother aerial of
fensive against the east Macedoni
an rebels. s
BANGKOK. - Prince Ananda,
vouthful nephew of former King
Prajadhipok, was formally pro
claimed king of Siam, e
HAVANA—A detachment of 300
soldiers occupied Havama Univer
sity as the government of Presi
dent Mendieta adopted Lorceful
WILL GVE PRIZE T 0
WARD WITH HIGHEST
VOTING PERCENTAGE
!Citizen Committee Meets
I Today to Map Plans
I For Election ;
;TO¥ ORGA :
'Present Day Athenians
‘ Will Emulate Residents
. Of 1892, Is Believed
‘ A concerted campaign, which
will bring into action every eiti
zen of Athens who -is interested
in a pure water supply, economi-~
cally operated, was launched to
day for the purpose. of putting
over the $75,000 waterworks bond
election Friday, March 15.
A meeting of the bond election
committee of the 'chamber of
commerce, of which Lee Morris is
chairman, was held this morning
at which time it was decided *to
ask the councilmen of each ward
in the city to call meetings of
citizens, probably beginning to
morrow night, when organizations
to get out the vote _on election
day will be perfected. * ;
The- bond 'election committee is
comprised of Chairman Morris, G.
A. Booth, B. S. Dobbs, Abit Nix,
Tate Wright and Joel' A. Wier.
,In addition to the ward meetings,
i a city-wide meeting, sponsored
Iby the P.-9'. «A # groups, will be
held at the high school auditerium
tnext Wednesday night, whenall
details of the bond election will
be explained. Leges i
It was decided«today to give a
prize to the ward that polls the
' largést ‘percentage of its ‘register
ed voters' in the election. There
are about 1,600 voters eligible,
Under the law-two-thirds of the
qualified voters _must vote in &
bond election and a majority of
those voting must approve the
bond issuance in order to make it
legal. . ‘
New Plant Needed , +
The bhond election was called in
January by the mayor and coun
cil, for the purpose of building a
new waterworks plant on the ele
vation near the present plant
which was built more than forty
years ago. Waterworks engi
neers have surveyed the present
plant and have pronounced it an
tiquated, pointing out that most
of the improvements in water
works machinery have been made
in recent years. In addition te
the waterworks here being out-of
date and expensive to operate,
health authorities and chemists
declare ' the purification process
has deteriorated and within a
short while the city's water sap
ply will be unfit for drinking
purposes. Y
In discussing the bond election
before civie organizations, Mayeg ;
‘A. G. Dudley has declared that if
Ya new plant is built the city will
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Talmadge Opposes .
.
Any Tax Exemption
ATLANTA —— #®) — Governor
Talmadge late today declared that
he did not favor any exemption of
taxation in Georgia.
Instead he said a limitation of ad
valorem tax to 10 mills for all pur
poses, state, county, municipal and
local, was what Georgia needed. "
The governor was aroused by
statements alleged to represent his
position as favoring complete ex
emption of ad valorem taxes,
“Any exemption is unsound,” the
governor said. ‘“What we neeq is
lighter taxes and we do not want
to confuse the entire tax situation.
measures in an attempt to sups
press the moVement against its ™
authority which grew grom an
island-wide school strike. o
R —— .
- LONDON—The British govern~
ment announced plans to spend °
approximately $462,000 on a cam
paign to prepare the civilian pop
ulation for the possibility of an qll"
attack, : .
HAICHOW, China. — Amenican =
medical missionaries unlertool
fight to eradicate a .“‘Wfi
scourge of oriental black fever
which has sent uncounted thouss
ands to their graves, .