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Show WATER FOUNTAINS NEEDED Every business man faces problems, which seeming-trivial, seeming-trivial, are delicate ones and hard to handle. This week a local druggist was telling us about the popularity of the water tap at his soda fountain. Saturday evening, being one of much heat, this druggist and his clerks were called upon to answer calls for water a hundred and fifty times, if once. There is nothing alarming about that, the druggist felt, even though the calls "were generally gen-erally made by little tots who make it a habit to ask for a glass of water four or five times in the course of an afternoon or evening. This business man said that he wanted to be accomodating. However, the rub comes in the fact that, due to the new state sanitation laws, paper cups must be provided. Exclusive of the service and time of paid clerks, the cost of these drinks of water was probably a dollar or so in actual money, as these paper cups cost about a half -cent each. ' j To flatly refuse to give children a drink of water might actually work a hardship upon many, and would not be understood by the parents, although fifty per cent of the requests are unnecessary ones. The embairasing situation of this druggist serves to call our attention to the need of a drinking fountain or two, located at convenient spots along the main street. They are ornamental, inexpensive, and in such weather as we have been having, are almost on absolute necessity. |