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FROM ANTI
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INDIA-EGYPT
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There Were 'Pure Water' Rules 4,000 Years Ago
Men can live without clothes, without shelter and for some time without food. Without water, however, he soon perishes. It is not surprising therefore that from the earliest period of man in geological history, evidences of human habitation have been closely associated with rivers, springs, wells or other primitive sources of water.
Throughout history, it has been said, "after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species."
for
As time prent on the search Who were these great "hewers | acceptance and mado Its fruition Bacon of England; " Johann
water to: survival was of wood and drawers of water" increasingly possible.
Rudolph Glauber of Germany; gradually paralleled by an to whom Joshua gave immortal
"It is good to keep water in | Lue Antonio"Porzio of Italy (for· equally persistent quest for prestige?
copper vessels, to expose it to his multiple sand Alters); to "pare water. For thousands of. WATER "ADVERTISED
sunlight, and Alter through unknown
for engineers
the years, people increasingly de- By the early aineteenth charcoal is
not out filter-cisterns at Venice: and dictum
to manded க more satisfactory century in England, pure water of an engineer's report in 1954, unsung engineers for the first water for drinking and other already had caught the popular but presumably from a collee known designs for an industrial
imagination
sufficiently to tion of medical lore in Sanskrit water purification plant for itstify the following lines on of a prehable date of 1,000 BC. paper mill in Auvergne, France. the water carts from which
From another Sanskrit source
for pure water in of the sam
eighteenth perlod more com the eig prehensive
century, as Baker and remarkably aptly puts it, "was keen but the modern water purification sug quarry was small"
following
purposes.
Through the centuries, to be sure, definitions of purity varied, as users became more sophis- ticated in understanding and in demands.
Criteria of purity became more complex, more quantita- tive and more rigid as the scientifle principles of water- borne diseases were elaborated, as aesthetic requirements be- came more refined and as in- dustrial processes matured into major significance.
CHANGES SLOW
These changes were slow, at least in the first few thousands of years of the search for pure water.
in
In the last century and many countries, but unfortun- ately not in all, the search has been
over- intensified with whelmingly
fruitful results
attainment
within economic
Today, the consumer in these
Bertin, Apr. 6.
New Delhi, Apr. 6. ΑΠ India-Egypt friendship countries need not use a dirty The East. German Ministry of Interior announced today that pact aimed at cementing friendly water, or one biologically un- or chemically, objection- and cultural safe, one-time anti-Bolshevik Pro- diplomatic, trade
able, or even unsatisfactory to between fessor Vladimir Vassilaki has relations
the two the taste or to the smell. asked for political asylum in countries was signed in Cairo
which To trace the practice East Germany in order to pre- today, it WHE officially an- made these accomplishments Dare for repatriation to the nomeed here.
possible, through almost 4,000 USSR.
would require many The sever-article pact, which years, Vassilaki has been President
volumes. It is possible, however, of Anti-will take effect after it is rat- to cull from the history of these of 23
the "League Bolshevik Organisations of the fled,
yeary important eras and to list Peoples of the Soviet Union" mutual problems in a peace at least a few of the relatively has headed a group of ful brotherly fashion through unknown individuals to whom and Ukrainian emigres, France- diplomatic channels."--France society owes a debt impossible of Pressc.
Presse.
repayment.
afterwards as the Ordinary Yearly Meeting, to be held at 11.30 a.m. on that day, shall have concluded, when the subjoined resolations will be submitted" Resolutions:--
Ordinary
(1) That the Issued Capital of the Society be increased from £1,850,000 TO £1,500,000 by the creation of Afteen thousand new shares of £10 each.
(2) That-
to
(a) It is desirable capitalize a sum of One hundred and fifty thou- sand pounds being part of the undivided profits of the Society standing to the credit of the Exchange and Investment Fluctua- tion Account and accord. ingly that ruch sum be capitalized and applied in payment in full for fifteen thousand new shares of the Society of Ten Pounds each at par and that such shares credited as fully paid up bé distributed amongst the Shareholders who un the twenty-sixth day of May 1955 were registered Shareholders of the Society in the proportion of 'one new share for every pine then held by
Shareholders such respectively
the shares
and
OF
that distri.
buted shall be treated for 1s an in-
to
all purposes crease of the issued Capital of the Society held by each Shareholder and not as income, and that such shares shall. rank for dividend as from the first day of January 1955 und shall in all other respects rank pari passu with the existing shares of the Society and that no fractional certif- cates shall be issued but that shares representing fractions shall be allotted 4 Trustee to be nominated by the Direc- tors upon trust for sale on such conditions as they consider expedient,' and the net proceeds of anle shall be distributed proportionately amongst those members who would. otherwise be entitled to such fractions and in satisfaction thereof.
(b) The Board of Direc tors be hereby authorized to allot and issue new Shares for distribution in -the manner-and-propor tions aforesaid.
By Order of the Board, L.B. STONE General Maunger.
Hongkong, 6th Apr., 1955.
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
THOSE ARE
THE TWO / I'M POSITIVE!
FERDINAND
NANCY
NANCY --- I GOT A JOB ·
AT THE APIARY
| A DOZEN EYE- (WITNESSES SAY: YOU STOLE THE PAINTINGS!
WHAT'S AN APIARY 3.
JOHNNY HAZARD
WHAT'S THE MEANING OF {THIS? GUS...WHAT ARE
YOU DOING HERE?
SEEMS I CAME
- JUST IN TIME;- "TWITCH! THAT! “GUY SITTIN' NEXT
· TO YOU ́m HE.
•AIN'T ONE OF US WHE'S A BPY!
WE'RE NOT SAYIN A WORD, CHIEF
THAT'S A
PLACE WHERE THEY
RAISE
BEES
of
THEY WANT TO. TALK TO YOU ALONE. MR.KERN. IMAGINE THEY WANT TO MAKE A DEAL.
What Is World Health Day?
On April 7. 1948, Zhe Constitution of the World Health Organisation officially came into fores. The anniversary of this historic date is now ob served each year as World. Health Day
The theme chosen for 1953, World Health Day "Clean Water means Better Health serves both to emphasise the World Health Organisailon's con cern to strengthen en- vironmental sanitation pro-
grammes, and to underline a problem which is causing serious anxiety to health authorities in countries at all stages of health deve- lopment,
water was sold in Monkwear- mouths
"It's limpid and clear
all mud, This water I sell for
public good;
seconds. In the 10
terris:
Eestions appopte water should filtration and passed in France, Although four centuries of
be purified by being boiled over the bulk of practice had been
heated chustry use.
sun, or by dipping a
a fire, or being heated In the on small scale house
into it, or it may be pari From the late eighteenth
iron into it, or
fed by Altration
through sand century on, however,
the work
and coarse gravel and then of Amy, Smith, Cuchet, Mont- allowed to cool."
ford, Ducommun, Mallet, Fon- Puech rd
pro
hal deserve permanent corting
SANITARY AWAKENINGS
From ancient times to about vielle, the seventeenth century cesses for improving the quality of water appear in the literature of Egyptian customs, of Biblical lore
of Greek and Roman Practice,
of devices in Arabia and Persia; ali showing remark- able empirical foreningers the scientifically. elaborated techniques of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.
ENGINEERS AND BOILERS
Great engineers and great philosophers contributed to thesa dicta and arts during thousands of years, most of them unknown and many unsung
As records Di became clearer, the names Vitruvius,
Pin England, Scotland and the United States the nineteenth and twentieth centuries marked the great sanitary awakenings in both the understanding of the broad relationships of pollution of water to
to disease and the large-scale development of efficient and economical pro- cesses of water purification”
In this progress, Scotland
deserve primary
and
ours for the early pioneer work in Altration "and chlorination.
The American workers in the Hero of Alexandria, twentieth century extended ap- Pliny, Hippocrates, Frontinus, plication widely Avicenna, appear as the re- large-scale equipment in the dely and perfected the porters, and even builders of field of so-called rapid filtration
works for transport and puri- and chlorination. fication of waters.
from
Its excellent virtues no mortal
can tell,
from
So sweet is the water
Union Well." Poor poetry it is true, it challenges us to ind brought this desire into
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
I'LL SEE THEM
- IN YOUR
PRESENCE!
HOW ARE YOU MAKING OUT ON THE JOB?
FINE
-ERNIE BUSHMILLER.
NOW PARADISE SEIZES HER OPPORTUNITY....... AND THE GILARD'G' GUN!"
1.1
MAYBE WE CAN HELP YOU FIND THEM PITCHERS MP.KERN. IF WE DO. QURTIME IS WORTH ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
YOU--YOU
| BRAZEN--!
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
IVE ALREADY
GOTTEN A
RAISE
By Frank Robbins
EVERYBODY, FREEZE ! ·
IF ANYBODY DOESN'T UNDERSTAND MY LINGO... THIS GUN WILL' EZ
TRANSLATE/
To list the names of all the M. H. Baker, in his remark-important contributors to these
would be abic treatise, "The Quest for advancements
im- Pure Water," attributes to the possible, but it is perhaps not few but seventeenth century significant too invidious to select a who experimental efforts in water whose activities bulled large in by Sir Francis our retrospective assay of pro- ublic purification
ducing pure water,
TALK
ABOUT - MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
Be healthy
wealthy and wise D
Libby's
BUY
FROZEN FOODS
DAIRY BOX
MILK
CHOCOLATE
this situation
for a
San Miguel
In England and Scotland, me doubtedly the
mention
for pecull deserve
distinc
tive ingenuity and imagination elber in experiment or
in large
scale application of water puri-
fication
principles
and devices;
Peacock for his extra-
for the
eiver patent
James Simpson
in 1791
great
slow sand filters for London 1829; Thomas Telford for his early but unsuccessful Alters for Glasgow in 1807; Robert Thom for his filters in Scotland in the 1820's; Angus Smith for his concepts of Altration in the
Chadwick,
C's, Edwin
the
Percy
the
lay sanitary reformer mid-nineteenth cenfuity, F. Frankland, one of the
first to point out the great signif ficance of filters in removing
bacteria (1888); Azad Sir
der Houston, the great scientist- post investigator of water problems and director of "the laboratories for the control of the water supplies of London,
RAPID FILTER
The contributions of America to the development of puro. water
conceded
are generally
to be in the development of the rapid filter from 1880 to 1900, sand in the improvement in slow filters (primarily in Massachai- setts) and
great advances in chlorination since the begin
the twentieth century these efforts, again with
To
of
apologies to those whose names may be omitted solely for want of space, the following woubtedly gave significant and lasting sup port by experiment, by applica tion and by promotion of wide- spread adoption: James
of william Kirkwood,
Ripley Nichols, Allen Hazen, Hiram Mills, George W. Fuller, Thomas M. Drown, George C. Whipple, Frederick P. Stearns, George A Johnson, Robert Spurr Weston, and Joseph W. Elims:
WATER SAFETY One of the lasting contribu- tions to water safety was the development of cheap but effective equipment applying accurately small and large quantities of chlorine to water. Without such equipment control procedures would have been de- layed for many years ago
Undoubtedly the inventions of Major C. R. Darnall in 1910, of George Ornstein in 1912 and of Wallace in subsequent years promoted water chlorination to an unprecedented
degree
The work of Race, Houston and Bunau-Varilla pressed for ward similar but less universal use of chlorine in England, France and Canada.
If the Wester
Prominently water quality
Mothe appear mure summary of attainments
the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries,
these
Breas Katwer
only becauISE:
favoured
greatest appl
tion of water purification duri
these periods. In other ar
the globe, significant contributions
to science and mat of water pur fication have been made, but their effective translation into works have been in many instances materially retarded,
Breat