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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 31, 1920
IS EASILY
Mill ITIQl'S
TARGET SUPREdflflCY
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
BEVERLOO, Belgium, July 30. The
United States today won three out of
jeven of the Olympic target events
eontested, tied for first in another, and
obtained one second and one third.
Thus the Americans failed to obtain
A. place in only one event and easily
maintained the world's marksmanship
title.
Commander Carl T. Osburn of the
United States navy today won the
Olympic individual target shooting
competition with army rifles at a dis
tance of 300 meters in standing posi
tion. His score was 56 out of a pos
sible 60.
Madsen, a Dane, was second, with a
score of S3.
Lawrence A. Nueslein of Washing
ton, D. C.; Learson,a Danish com
petitor; Jannsen, a Belgian, and Tlechi,
an Italian, were tied for third place
with scores of 54.
This result gives the United States
two firsts in the first three events in
the target shooting competition for
which results have been announced, the
American sharpshooters being first in
the team match at 300 meters, lying
. down, with a score of 2S9 out of a
possible 300.
America did not win a place in the
300 meters individual competition In
the lying -down position. Four com
petitors in this event who had perfect
scores of CO must shoot off the tie.
They are Johnson and Paroche of
France, Kuehen of Switzerland and
Oelson of Norway.
link iTile WITH
Keeping the Water Pure
ATTEMPTED
BURGLARY
A big Chandler touring car proved
effective bait in a trap the police set
Tor three men who attempted to bur
glarize the Saint Luke home on the
Tempe road early yesterday morning.
Upon receiving a hurried summons
from the hospital about 12:30 o'clock
yesterday morning, officers from the
sheriff's office and the police depart
ment arrived a-t the place Just as three
men went scurrying from the building
into the protective darkness of sur
rounding shrubbery. After failing to
locate the intruders the officers took
possession of a Chandler touring car
which had been left at the side of the
road. As the car bears California li
cense plates the theory is it may have
been stolen.
Charles Lockhart sauntered into po
lice headquarters yesterday afternoon
and casually inquired if the police had
found a Chandler motor car near Saint
Luke's home on the Tempe road. "When
told the car had been found Lockahrt
aked that it be turned over to him,
claiming that he was the owner. "When
Lockhart failed to give a satisfactory
account of himself he was placed un
der arrest and booked for investigation.
About an hour after his arrest Lock
hart was being photographed by Offi
cer Blea in the City Hall plaza when
a young man hailed the prisoner and
Inquired about the Chandler car. Be
fore Lockhart could signa) the man
away he had come over aid entered
Into conversation. When Officer Blea
placed the man under arrest he pave
the name of Theodore Balanger. Both
men are being held for investigation in
connection with the hospital robbery
and the ownership of the motor car.
JUST ClfflTMIE
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ,
WASHINGTON, July 30. With the
typhoid season at its height, the Unit
ed States Public Health Service has
thrown consternation into the ranks
of the sanitarians of the nation by is
suing a statement which said that the
lives of all those 30,000,000 people whc
live in our cities were endangered be
cause of the difficulties in getting the
chemicals which make the water sup
ply of the municipalities pure and
wholesome.
The era of greater healthfulness that
has come to the nation in the last two
decades is largely due to the near elim
ination of water-borne diseases. With
out these chemicals water would con
tinue to carry its microscopic messen
gers of death. Therefore the emer
gency and the haste.
All of this has had the effect of
directing attention to the miracles
which this generation has performed
in the elimination of the dangers that
lurk in drinking water. Of the million
who drink from the hydrants of the
cities, very few apreciate the fact that
every cup of water drunk every day
in every city has been specially treat
ed to make it safe and wnolesome. The
story of the method of this treatment
is a romance of science.
A hundred years-ago little was don
toward purifying the water furnished
kfor drinking purposes to those who
lived in the cities of the world. A hun
dred years ago plague stalked over the
face of the earth, and in spots' where
populations were concentrated, it ran
through the masses and took an un
thinkable toll.
Light Is Bad for Germs.
In those days the one tendency
toward the purification of drinking
water came about almost by accident.
When water is stored in a reservoir,
the suspended particles in it sink to
the bottom and carry down a large
percentage of the germs that infest
the water. Water standing in the sun
light tends to purify itself because in
light the conditions for propagating
germ life are not favorable.
It was in 1829. however, that the
first scientific step toward water puri
fication was taken. At that time James
Simpson, of London, took the initiative
which led to filtering the drinking sup
ply of the English metropolis. The
principle upon which he worked dom
inated efforts toward water purifica
tion for 75 years, and is still an im
portant item in that work. Simpson
demonstrated the advisability of fil
tering water through sand. This prin
ciple, much more highly developed, is
still largely in use.
Many of the reservoirs which hold
the water supplies of towns and cities
throughout the United States have a
carefully arranged sieve of sand in
their bottoms. Building one of these
sieves is a good deal like construct
ing a paved street. First there is a
layer of broken rocks, then another of
smaller size, and a still smaller one,
until finally there is a thick layer ot
sand on top.
When water "is first put into a res
ervoir with a bottom of this sort, the
sieve is not very effective. Even in
clear water, however, there is certain
material which this sand removes. The
strained out impurities of the water
make a sort of scum, which is called
schmutzdecke by the scientists, the
terra meaning dirt cover, from the
German.
This dirt cover makes the sand ef
fective. When the conditions are just
right such a sieve will remove 99 per
cent of the germs from any water, ana
make it comparatively safe for drink
ing purposes. Until near the close of
the past century the development or
sanitary water supplies was based on
this principle.
Twenty-five years ago an American
took hold of this principle and devel
oped what is known as the rapid sand
filtration, or American method. The
old scheme required too much space
for the spreading out of the sana
sieves. The American metliod substi
tuted a tank for the reservoir meth
od, and provided for the cleaning of
the sand sieve. Within the tanks which
one sees on the high ground back of
any American city is one of these
rapid sand sieves. Into this tank a
chemical has been introduced to take
the place of the schmutzdecke. This
chemical is nothing more than alum.
In all water there is a certain amount
of lime, and when alum comes into
contact with it a precipitate is formed
which converts the sand into an ef
fective germ strainer.
Current Works Both Ways.
Only a given amount of water, howt
ever, can be run through this strainer
until the sand becomes so full of im
purities that it ceases to function ef
fectively. Here, however, the American
method meets the emergency. By a
clever appliance the current of water
is reversed and is sent forcefully up
through the sand from the bottom.
It removes all the impurities and the
alum-like precipitate, and flushes them
from the tank. Thus the strainer is
made as good as new, and the water
is started through it again for effec
tive purification.
There is now a famine in the supply
of alum for use in the tanks through
which the water supplies for munici
palities are strained. This alum comes
from a clay known as bauxite, the
chief source of supply of which is in
the vicinity of Little Rock, Arkansas.
One of the chief alum factories in the
United States is located near Philadel
phia. This factory requires four car
loads of clay a day. Of late, however,
it has been receiving but eierht car
loads a month. Similar conditions ex
ist elsewhere. Cities are finding it im
possible to get their alum, and the
menace of pestilence is increasing
daily.
There is, however, a later develop
ment in the work of water purification
also of American origin, which is com
ing into general use, and which is
almost miraculous. At the little town
of Dunwoodie, in New York, the two
great aqueducts that carry the water
for the metropolis from Croton reser
voir come very near together. This
water supply has not been filtered
and until it reaches Dunwoodie it has
not been treated to make it safe for
the millions who are to drink it.
At Dunwoodie a little house is built
between the two aqueducts. This house
is a repository of certain tanks of vita
liquid. From these tanks comes forth
drop by drop the particles of this most,
powerful disinfectant. It is diluted by
water, and a little stream of it goes.
each way into the great aqueducts.
These little streams purify the stupen
dous amount of water that New York
uses, and makes it one of the safest
cities from typhoid in all world.
What the Germans Used.
The vital liquid referred to is chlo
rine. It is the same material, made ot
salt, which the Germans unleashed
upon English and Canadian troops on
that memorable day in 1915 when the
beginning of the greatest horror of
the war was perpetrated. The mate
rials in the tanks at Dunwoo&ie, how
ever, are immeasurably more deadly
than chlorine gas. They are, in fact,
chlorine gas compressed until it has
become a liquid. As a liquid, infini
tesimal quantities of it in the water
mean death to all germs which carry
contagion.
These small quantities, however, are
not sufficient to produce any effect
upon a human being who drinks the
water. Chlorine might be added until
its presence could be determined by
taste, and still it would not be detri
mental to the person drinking it. As
a disinfectant, however, It is without
.an equal, and with the development
of the present method of introducing
it into water supplies, it is the most
effective, most economical and most
reliable method of safeguarding our
water supply.
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VISUALLY EVIDENT
(Boston Transcript)
She (at swell function) I barely got
here. '
He (observantly) So I see.
APPHL IS FILED .
i IE BARON CSS
An appeal to the supheme court of
the decision In. the case of Edith V.
Le Baron against her former husband,
Edwin M. Le Baron, .'or the custody
of their three children, as filed yes
terday In the superior-court by Mr.
Le Baron. A supersedeas bond of $24,
000 ''-also was filed at the same time
for a stay of execution in the case.
Mrs. Le Baron, after a trial lasting
16 days, was awarded the custody of
the children, $100 a month for their
support and a share of the $5000 prop
erty. On July 11, Judge Ingraham of
the superior court of Yuma county.
who sat at the Le Baron trial here,
rendered his decision In the case in
accordance with the answers of the
jury to some 60 interrogatories.
A motion for a new trial was over
ruled then, the supersedeas bond for
appeal was fixed and the defendant
was given 20 days in which to raise
the bond and file the appeal. The bond
was signed by W. J. Le Baron, Wil
liam Skousen and L. W. Guthrie.
Le Baron secured a divorce from his
wife in August, 1918. and was award
ed the custody of the children. Mrs.
Le Baron in her suit for the custody
of the children charged that the di
virce of Le Baron was secured through
an allesed "frame-up."
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Shoes, Canteens, which you see advertised to ship to you, by these
Jayhawkers, can all be seen and bought at Ford's Stores, cheaper
than they advertise them to sell. "
DON'T BE A FOOL
I call them Blood Suckers Trade at Home.
I also carry a full line of heavy and light new tents, at low prices.
I am agent for Heath-Millyer Paints. I carry a full stock The
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THEM STOP G1BU1IG
After Mose Walker, Edar Carter,
O. Mitchell and J. A. Kohler, negroes,
and E. Whitmore had each pleaded
guilty to gambling at 425 East Mon
roe street and paid fines of $25 each,
there did not seem much chance for
Nellie Morris, negro woman, to suc
cessfully defend herself on the charge
of permitting gambling on her prem
ises, as she admitted being lessee of
the place.
"Lissen heah, you' honer, Jedge," she
began after a mass of evidence haa
been introduced against her, "ah ain't
guilty and dis is why ah ain't.-. Foah
two weeks ah done been down sick
Sho nuff. Ah was sick in bed when
those men stahts shootin' craps in mah
Tiouse.
"How do you know they were shoot
ing craps?" Interrupted City Attorney
Nelson.
i.DDer once in awnile ah heahs a
soun lak "seben come 'leben.' Ah done
knows dey Is shootin craps but how
ah gwine hep mahsef? Bimeby Mat
thews comes in. He rooms at mah
house. Ah. tole Matthews to go in the
front room and stop dat game. He went
m but he nevah stop no game. He Jes
livened it up. Purty soon then the doc
tor he come see how is I. So ah says
to the doctor to go an stop dat game
when the doctor heahs dat seben an
leben he fergets all bout how is I an'
he makes a bee line foah dat game
an alt nevah do see him no moan. Ah
was Jos' gettjn feeble lak outen bed
to go stop dat gaxne mahsef when the
polios come.
Bat Nellie's past record was against
her. as was the evidence of the police
men who raided the game. Judge
Kirkland found the defendant guilty
as charged and assessed a fine of $50.
SHOES COST $25 IN HAVANA
Ir. A. M. Caballero, a Cuban from
Havana, -visiting in Montreal, bemoans
the fact til at soon he wtn be paying $25
a bushel for potatoes, $25 for a pair of
shoes and $125 for a suit of clothes
equal to Montreal's $50 suits.
"Th people of Cuba think of Ittle
else "but growing sugar and tobacco,"
said Dr. Ca bail pro. "That is one of
the reasons why the cost of living is so
high there. The sugar money comes
easily and goes easy. The farmer buys
his wife the best of Paris gowns, dia
monds, etc, buys a $10,000 car for the
family and a $100,000 residence la town
and thinks It tie of t.
"Many a farmer is today making
$100,000 a. year and mostly out of sugar.
The reason why they all grow sugar is
because the banks lend the money on
the crop without any trouble. Ten
times more money is coming into the
country than there was three or four
years ago.
Cuba," continued Dr. Caballero,
"wants direct trade relations with
Canada. Cubans like Canadian proods
and the Canadian Merchant Marine is
doing a lot of good in spreading Cana
dian products through the country, but
more Canadian salesmen should be
sent there. Cubans want to deal direct
rather than work through United
States commission houses. Asbestos,
cement, building- plaster, nails, loco
motives, paper and all kinds of hard
ware have a field in Cuba.
"Tn the first four months of 1920
1 897.207 tons of sivr were exported,
comtu with 1,302,852 for 1919."
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