Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1926 — Page 8

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TESTS WATER IN TOURIST CAMPS Indianapolis, Ind., July 26. -(Tutted Presat Extreme ■care Is being taken by the state board of health to guard again?! tne danger of contamination from drinking water drawn from well? In tourist camps. Investigation by the depart meet hi'irevealed that the water supply in nearly half of the tourist camps In the state is of doubtful purity. A check is being made of the water supp y In other camps a rapidly ns possible and wherever the water is tonsidered good, a certificate Is posted In a conspicuous place to inform the tourist of the fact. 1,. S. Finch, member of the staff of the state health department, said another danger confronting the tovtlst Is th.- danger of drinking water from ccn'amlnated springs. There Is a general belief that spring water is pure. Finch said, but as a matter of fact the opposite is generally true. Danger of disease from impure water Is not confined alone to the tourist travel ng in the country, according to Fin< h. There are everal towns In the state where .namquate me'hods of pur'fy lug the water supply are used and the danger of otitracting typhoid Is p-es-ent, according to Fitrh. It is safer for the tourist to quench his thirst with a bottle of soda water than to drink from the average well in a ioiiti~t tamp, he said. Bottled beverages tested in the laboratory :f the health department show a high degree of purity.

Water-Barrow Men Os Peking Go On Strike; City Lays Water Mains By Randall Gould (U. P. Staff Correspondent) Peking. —(l'nited Prnss.) —For centuries past lhe narrow hut’ungs ot Peking have rung to the grinding screech of the ungreaseJ barrow which, for a sunt equivalent to an American cent and a half per three I buckets, brought cool well water to lhe Chinese householder. But today the lanes are silent, and thirsty would-be customers stand in i their scarlet doorways and jingle coppers in their paints without result. The water-barrow men are on strike. For months there has been a halfconcealed warfare between the harrow men and the layers of waterpipe through Peking strets. It has found expression in occasional quarrels and tights, but there has been no concerted action. Now, following a definite attempt by the Water Carriers | Guild to prevent a merchant from I laying the hated waterpipes to his shop, open combat has resulted; three) water carriers are in jail; several waterworks employes are in a hospital aud the strike is on. Simultaneous with declaration of the general water-carriers' strike, the] guild laid a series of complaints be-1 tore the police and the Municipal Conncil. I; declared thut the I iur< ♦ < ,n, *«.■ HI al l—aud all water should be taken from wells and brought by barrow. Company water was not good water, it was argued. Also, it was pointed out the company may some day stop supplying water due to the coal Shortage caused by civil war around Peking. All inuications point to failure for the barrow-men. The authorities have ordered a medical examination of the company’s water, but they have likewise voiced high indignation at the presumptuous barrow-men's action in daring to strike, aud police have been ordered to compel the water borrows to make their rounds as ot yore to serve such old-fashioned folk as prefer not to patronize the company's new pipelines.

Fossil Remains Os Giant Kangaroos Are Found In By A. W. King. (U. P. Staff Correspondent) Sydney.—(United Press.) —Fossil remains of giant kangaroos, which on "being set up are computed to have been twelve feet in height, have been discovered in limestone caves in the southwestern part of Victoria. A still more interesting discovery In the same caves was of a flint implement shaped rudely by hands that were stilled many thousands of years ago. Th e dint has ben examined by competent Melbourne archaeologists and other scientists, who believe that it is at least 15,000 years old. They are almost certain that th e giant kangaroos and the wielder of the flint implement were contemporary. The flint fits fairly well the descrip lion of the Chelleau type of instru

ment, the oldest known implements that are certainly the work of man It Is held not to be the work of even the oldest of Australia's present race of aborigines. The discovery of the prehistoric skull at Cohunu a few months ago, this latest discovery, and other facts bleaned by geologists and philologists, all point, to the minds of scientists, to one general conclusion- that Aus tralla shares In the childhood of man. A wave of enthusiasm Is beginning to sweep over students to investigate whether this country, and not Asia, as Is generally accepted, Is the cradle of man. ——o- — C’ities Urged To Show Courtesy To Tourists Indianapolis, Ind., July 29. — (Unit-, ed Press)—"Company Manners" have been pretty thoroughly discredited in some circles, but they make an excellent exterior for American communities at this period when the touring season is at its height and each city and town has more than the normal number of strangers within Its gates. This point is made by M. E. Noblet, secretary of the Hoosier State Auto Association, affiliated with the American Automobile Association, in discussing the advantages of courtesy to tourists. “This is the season", he explains, "When a great many communities on America's maih highways become fa-

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t tnotts or Infamous In parts of the country where their names never before 11 were heard Tourist ; passing through ■'any town or city are quick to size it up on the basis of Its hospitality- ■ more so almost than on any other , basis. 1 “Realizing this, -onte Cities off!- , dally have gone so fur as to take off , all traffb regulation as It applies to the tourist All intelligently run police depaitments have adopted an attitude ,'of tolerance toward Infraction of minor regulations which, 1 believe, Is the ideal position to take. "From the reports of A.«A. A. clubs in other communities, however, It cannot he said that motorists in American titles have followed the example set liy their police departments. A police- , man will kindly set an erring tourist I right when, through (Ignorance, lie i makes a slight slip. In the same situation. the motorist Is ju t as likely to. get a snarl from a fellow driver. "Our contact with tourists who call at club headquarters indicates c early that this community Is rated ns a hospitable one. "It is a reputation wo should strive to widen." Large Snake, Which Escaped From Carnival, Found Under Door Steps Kendallville. July 29. —A large Mexican black snake which escaped from 1 a carnival company which exhib'ol. here last week, when the show was be-

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• lnz unloaded, was found yesterday , beneath the steps at the side of the] Isaac Deter home. Members of th« carnival company stated that the snake hud escaped, but many persons were inclined to doubt the story. However, several persona reported that they had seen the snake crossing the. street toward the Deter home. Mis Deter had lived in a state of bar sin e then and, yesterday morning, she found the snake's skin whhh had I shed during the night, on the lawn of her hom< When her husband arrived . home al noon, she told him about I her find and he started a search for

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I the snake. When he/removed **% I door Steps he found the snake, coiled | 01l the ground with Its head extended about a foot He called a neighbor. { wh> shot it with a shot-gun. The snake was 6 feet 1 inch in length and about two Inches in diameter O•New York Unamerican Declares Clergyman i Uwdon (United Pressl.-New York | is not a typical American city Rev. - John McNeill, pastor of the I nited Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia —- — • • •• I

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