The Penn's Grove record., 1915-11-05
HAVE YOU MICROBEPHOBIA?
Citizens Prefer to Die In Old Age
Than To Be Scared To Death
WELL WATER MUST Be CONSERVED
Drink water good. drink water bad
Both from we'll ana rain.
Most live here to good old aye
without microbes OIL The brain.

osophical, and socialistic writer in the
Evening Bulletin, last Saturday had
an article in last Saturdays issue on
the Omnipotent Microbes. He says:
I'VE have not found out much more
about life than they knew in the days
of Paracelsuis and Albertus Magnus.
In those days the mysteries of exis-
tence were attributed to the influence
of the stars to ~witchcraft and to dew
lis. Instead of charms, incantations,
elves and ghosts we talk glibly of
germs, chemical reactions, pancreatic
juice and corpuscles."
One of the most fascinating flights
of scientific fancy is a book on Mi
crobes and the Men," by a physician
of international reputation who plays
up the Microbe and charges it to fits
and fevers, and lays upon it the bur-
dens of producing every sort of mental
diseases from poetry to running o
Office.
Among other brain itches created
by the microbe is this: 1.-THE colon
bacilli have an ugly disposition and
exercise a depressing effect upon the
mind. Nietzche, for example, as a
June bug stung by a scorpion circles
about in a way most interesting for
observers, so Nietzche stung by the
colon bacillus engages the deep inter-
est of many spectators with out
spread logic"
While wishing to give due regard to
our scientific state Board of Health
and their duty to look after the health
welfare of the people, we ask, is not
the ignorance, credulity and fear of
the people of Penns Grove being I'M
duly played upon in the condemnation
of we'll water? which has proved to
be wholesome when examined by 9TH
err chemists. Further, and the best
test is in the good health and long
lives of those who have used it.
While the fear of women may be
aroused by being told there are small
animals, bacteria, or microbes in her
well, so that she will not drink wei
water, yet she is a most skilled cook
and has studied all her life how to Gre
ate benevolent bacteria in the yeast
SO she can make the finest bread.
The State Board of Health and du-
Points sanitary engineer are obsessed
with the theory that all new
to Penns Grove are filled with mal1g-
nant bacteria and that the old resi-
dents must be also. They are mysti-
fed how the people lived so long in
their alleged ~unsanitary condition,
with nitrites, salt and bacilla coli in
their water, and no bacilla typhus
found. In fact, typhoid fever has
beer an isolated and rare disease in
this locality and has not been traced
to polluted water. A death from 1T
has not been for many years.
Rufus P. Williams in his Elements
OF Chemistry, formerly taught in
: Penns Grove school and State Nor
NAL School, says: Ammonium nj
trites is a small constituent Of the air
and is washed by rain into the earth.
Most animal as well as vegetable mat
ter in it's decay gives rise to h for
nation of this compound of nitrogen
and hydrogen. 1t has been extracted
from the mud of rivers such as the
Thames." ssGHsza
If from the river Thames, why not
from the river Delaware? Go to to
the shore and see the animal and veg
etable mater on the beach at low tides.
Go see a cellar and well dug and you
will see the same kind of shore sand
and gravel which was river shore
countless centuries ago with the AMI
NAL land vegetable matter settling
through t. Need any m be scared
at the few nitrites found in well wat
er when we know hat fishermen ro-
bust with old age have drank the river
water from which these animal and
vegetable matters settle along h
shore? :.
Likewise, the brackish water flowed
over these shore sands and gravels
and where pools were left to evapor-
ate more salt settled than in other
places. The bed of sand and gravel
saturated with nitrites and salt which
is from eight to twenty feet deep be
low the upper and lower strata OF
claws, which are impervious to wat
err. make the best filter bed for the
groun water, not surface water, on
which Penns Groves old citizens have
lived to old age by drinking.
The open privies along the shore
where summer sojourners from Will
mington and Philadelphia have enjoy
ed their summer outing as a health re-
sort for thirty years, aroused the mi
crobes typhus in the State Board of
Health and started the Presidents
hammer. Why were the residents
along the river shore SO healthy if fill
led with typhoid bacillus? Only two
mild cases in thirty years have need
ed a physician. Most of these priv
les are opened to the sunshine. DR..
Harrington in his manual of Hygiene
SAYS that sunshine will kill typhus
bacteria to a depth of four and a half
feet in the ground. The sandy soil
will absorb and retain heat to a great
err depth and longer than clay soils.
Malignant microbes are easily
killed than benevolent microbes. Ty-
phoid microbes have not gone through