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WITH unusually serious expression, comedian Jimmy Ed- wards practises Elgar's Seven Suite on the bass trombone, while wearing the blue and red uniform of the Barnes, Surrey, Brass Band, Jim, who was born in Barnes, is president of the Band which is entered for the National

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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