| Show r Y Frank Francis America tremendously rich re- re remains re remains mains physically fit tit The two are arnot not supposed to go together A people so highly prosperous as asto asto asto to develop ease case always In iq the past has become dissipated and nd has lost In stamina Perhaps America has bas not had time lime to degenerate Yesterday an American girl IS 19 1 tears ears old swam swain nr m the thu English chan chan- channel chan chan- channel nd nel which Is 21 miles across itt In 14 hours and 34 minutes beating by nearly two hours tho the previous record and placing as one ot of the six persons to accomplish the great gleat feat teat The Tho channel swim was first sic sic- nc In 1875 by Captain Webb ebb who made himself famous by tho the achievement but he ho re- re reQuired required re required eight hours moro more mor than did Miss Ederle hae There Thea-c have been over 1000 seri seal serious sealOus seri serious ous efforts made to swim across with only six successes When In lila his airplane In 1907 crossed the channel the flight was considered marvelous Only seventeen years since then though it seems aa ns though we WI al- al always al always w ways ys have hase had the tho flying machine How low soon the strangely new be- be becomes be becomes comes the commonplace Now even even the the the natives of ot the depths tho ot-tho ot of- of the tho jungles of ot the Ama Ama- Amazon Amazon Amazon zon and the Inhabitants of Tim Tim- Tim In Africa have seen the airplane Ever Every day passengers cross the English channel in air machines and on one one day day recently per per- persons perSons per persons sons in 25 airplanes were con con- conveyed eed from England to France Franco to spend the day on the Iho th continent Yes America i 1 ll physically fit Nearly all the athletic champion champion- championships championships ships are arc held In America But Dut let us not get too self soil important over that fact for It if you trace the winners you will find that a mighty contribution has ha been een made by foreign blood The The strength n p- p o of America Jio J it the mingling of o the racer J lea Wr n- n lea Ica today toda today Is the tho greatest mixture the world orld has ha ever teen soon Thirty years yara more and It will willbe be difficult to guess s the blood strain ot of o the people in our large cities Part of the population by the tho In inthe inthe way came from Timbuctoo the days when the tho slave ships brought Into our southern ports their human chattel Lately It has been discovered that yellow fever fe did not originate originate nate nato in Central America Brazil or Cuba but was brought over In the early slave e ships As though hough to crime clime so curse a nation for a atrocious the Great Ruler Huler Benta senta sent a scourge which tor for over one anI onehundred onehundred hundred years exacted a toll loll in inhuman Inhuman human lives lI until Gorgas made his hilt discovery that the tho mosquitO acted as an Intermediate host for forthe forthe the germ germ and transmitted It toman toman to toman man S Many fany towns in Central and South America have hav neither wells pipe water This statement Is t taisi from a pamphlet issued by bythe the Rockefeller Foundation o In such communities the house house- householders householders householders holders purchase water from store it at street t vendors venders and their homes receptacles la-receptacles of at vari- vari various van vari various ous pus kinds In In tho absence of control measures i y the tho pamphlet breeds the tho yellow fever mosquito In these vessels Turning tram from tills tl s statement we wen n note te In the dally daily papers paper of o Ameri Amen American American weI I can where the water has ha to tobe tobe tob be medicated 1 to guard against typhoid and chemically treated to prevent a foul toni taste Every Ivery who reads rends this should 1 be b Intensely proud ot of the faCt that U th water supply of Og- Og Ogden Ogden Og den Is la uncontaminated unpolluted and refreshingly pure I From rom the depths of at o gravel beds the water gushes up as artesian wells and flows flow to the home horn as apure burst pure as a the spring that from the th earth when Moses Mosca struck the stone Not until you discover the struggles gleB other communities have havo made to c ret get t water fit tit to drink do yOU yOUr r realize how greatly Ogden in is I fa favored ra- ra favored ored with Its pure water sup supply sup sup- supply up- up ply How low How would you like 1110 to drink from a cistern with a a scum of Are green n or a a receptacle that ml might ht contain the tho th germs ot of typhoid hold 1 How would you like lik to live Il not only the th drinking wa wn water tel ter was bad but lut the sting of at o a 0 mosquito would give gho elv you you- youma ma- ma malaria malana ma malaria laria lana The Th Rockefeller Foundation complains that experience proves that large larga groups of at people In the malaria districts will notalee not take alee quinine long h to get rid ot of the germ gurm of thi disease ase Living where you 01 must dope l 7 air Jur It if ir wl with h quinine each day be a a distressing experience or tho ho people of ot Ogden who ho have t 1 chills chill lIs and fever t A It visitor from California was 1 this region Continued on Page T o 1 no o News and Views Continued rr ll from Page Pare One Often Orten wo we forget to enumerate our blessing because wo we 0 are not conscious of all our advantages though full aware of all our short short comings S C CA A white light ll ht Is at Death Curve The driver of an auto suggests that the light Is I misleading and might Invite those not familiar familial with the th curve to drive over oyer the embankment A red light the th acc accepted sign of danger dancer should be placed to warn the tho th oncoming driver of ot a Speeding car nO |
