The Penn's Grove record., 1915-11-26
Examine Wells, Rats And Mice
Not The Best Drink
Education Not InquisitiOn Desirable

ago by the wisest of men. 1t takes the
year of lords, higher power to-day to
arouse many to think and act.
The ministers of the gospel tell men
''The wages of sin is death" Sin is the
transgression of the moral law and leads
to the death of the God-spirit, God-life
and God love in man. He desires you to
awaken your mind and receive the warn
ing.
The local and State Boards of Health
have experts who study the physical laws
of God and the evil spirits which pervade
the universe and lead to physical death.
When you receive a notice from them
open your mind, think and act. But an
inquiring mind wants to learn the nature
of the spirits, whether good or evil, the
reasons why and motives for, whether
altruistic and benevolent, or mercenary.
When a State Board examines water
from a small bottle full and analytic chem
lists require a gallon is there not reason
for doubt? When an inspector declares
your water polluted and you must pull
out your pump, intelligent people in this
age and day want to know, polluted with
what? When told it is one or two parts
or animal or vegetable matter in a nun
bred million and from ten to a hundred
parts of common table salt in a million,
which is needful for healthy living, intel
ligent minds feel no alarm.
When told the water contains from one
to a hundred bacilli coli in ten million
parts, why should there not be intelligent
information and education given before a
lot of foreign spies are sent to order
pumps pulled out and persons deprived
of water needful of life, when it has not
proved harmful.
A. NJ. Greer, sanitary inspector for the
DUPONT Company, declared that bacilli
coli created typhoid fever.
DR.. Melchirikoff, famous head of the
Pasteur Institute, Paris, one of the great
est experts on the germ theory, will not
sit down to eat without thoroughly steri-
lizing his hand. His water must be boil
ed and all food cooked. He will not eat
an apple, peach nor banana raw for fear
of microbes. This shows how a man may
become so obsessed in his mind on the
germ theory as to imagine things which
never happened, like the typhoid epidemic
in Penns Grove the past summer.
According to the teachings of bacter-
ology in the State Scientific School of
New Jersey, Rutgers Conege, bacilli coli
is a harmless, vegetable organism. Al
vim Davidson, Professor of biology in
Lafayette College in his Health Lessons,
Book 2, taught in Penns Grove school,
grader. does not class bacillia Coli as a
maglinant becteria. 1t is classed as a
useful bacteria which changes dead mat
ter into food for grass, wheat and corn.
According to scientific theories all the
fishermen along the Delaware river
who have always frank river water should
nave been dead years ago. instead of
hale and hearty and dying in old age.
Accordin gto Mr.. Greer's theory all the
persons who have been drinking water
where from Ito 100 b. coli were found in
their wells should have died of typhoid fe-
yer and inocculated all the other inhab-
itants.
At one residence where 100 b. coli were
found the mother is Sc, the sons are the
ruggest in Pennsgrove and there has
been no sickness in the family for 20
Eve years. But we do not say there may
not be in the future.
But where bacilli coli goes typhoid ma
lignant microbes MAY go. Some have
heard of the man who burned his barn
to get rid of rats. The State Board of
Health would have us burn the barn be-
cause innocent mice have been. found and
a rattle snake MAY go where mice and
rats go.
Alongside of a well condemned was a
cistern cemented. When the health in
spector was asked how 10 b. coli got in
there the same as in a well he said they
may nave been washed from the dirt on
the roof and from bird dung. No warn
ing was given to not drink the cistern
water. The well was washed down,
cleaned out, pumped out. and analysed,
with the result that the water was declar-
ed wholesome.
Another well was examined and found
to have mice in it. In another was a
dead rat. The bricks were scrubbed, wat.
er pumped out, bottom dug out and wat
er pumped out again.
Every well declared condemned should
be examined, cleaned out, pumped out
and the surroundings be made neat and
clean.
Centuries ago when wild gourds were
put in the pottage the poisoned food was
not thrown away. The prophet Elisha
told the servants to put meal in the pot
e Kings 4 400 and the people did eat.
The scientists and Board of Health in
spectors do not tell how to clean the
wells and how to get rid of the bacteria.
Pull out your pumps, fill in your wells
and buy water of the Water Company Is
the advice. 1t may be benevolent advice.
If after cleaning out a well there re-
mains suspicion a peck of stone lime
thrown down into the water will kill ev-
cry bacteria In the water, both benevol-
ent and malignant, and will not injury
the wholesomeness of the waters.
A year ago there was a serious case
of typhoid fever near Penns Grove. The
physician warned against drinking the
well water. The family continued to
drink it and no other of the family be-
came i'll. Some years ago a woman died
in Pedricktown. The well water was sent
to the State Board of Health and the re-
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