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Show BAD PUBLICITY St. George has come in for an undue annount of unfavorable unfavor-able publicity in the Deseret News the past week. First it was the report of the road .being washed out during the recent storms, which was grossly exaggerated, and the fore part of this week came the report of the water situation sit-uation here, in which Dr. C. O. Pickel of the state board of health pronounces the water wa-ter supply unfit for use. The latter charge is well founded, according to tests of samples of city water sent in for analysis. These showed 80 per cent pollution. Blame should not be attached to Dr. Pickel for giving the report re-port to the News or to the News for printing it. The entire en-tire blame should be placed directly upon the St. George city council, certain members of "which, in spite of warnings warn-ings by Dr. Pickel and urging urg-ing by the local doctors, refused re-fused consistently to install a chlorinating system. The Deseret News article has done untold damage to the town, and anything said now cannot undo it, but it also did some good. The publicity, pub-licity, however, came at a most inopportune time, with the Legion and Municipal conventions coming here within the next two months. A chlorination system, although al-though only a makeshift affair, af-fair, but which meets with the approval of the board of health has been installed temporarily, and the water is now safe. But this will not undo the damage to the town that has been done by the article in the Deseret News. The "mud puddle" as Pickel terms the local settling set-tling pond, will probably be cemented soon and this will do away with much of the contamination cause hereto-' fore existing. ! |
