The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-07-04
The Truth

Tho author Of this article O., the
author OF mo article telling OF the
true conditions Of the bottled water
which s being sold To Tulsa citizens
winch appeared in the Wednesday
afternoon edition Of the Tulsa
World
In the morning Page organ there
appeared an article dealing with the
bottled water question which can
only he classed with the general
fago-aud hircliuE program of libel.
oaNil blackmau ana SANDER.
Tho soutcucr stating this OF
course was and is untrue and was
known 4" hr untrue a. 'hc time"
which appeared IN the PAGE organ
Ihis morning IN a dc And the hu-
thor of this article viii say AS much
20 the author Of Tho Page article.
}. u Gilbert. superintendent or
city health department. handed
copy ~ m" report Of W. Il Holway,
city chemist ln which the latter had
analysed an bottled water In the
city, 20, the author of this article,
and said in substance as follows 81
am going to order "Ght of the com
paulvs 20 suspend business because
The sale 0f their water rs dangerous
10 the pGhuc health. Their business
Will Dec closed uUul their water
comes up tu the requirements OF tho
United S'utrH health department
The Sand Springs water company
viii be ordered 90 close down until
lR bottles are shown to have been
thoroughly cleaned ! am going TO
10 this this afternoon %
This is iruy statement and OIL
bert viii subS'aurate A. II was
made 10 tho author about ] 81
"Wednesday afternoon. Nothing was
said az tho time in regards 20 with
holding names Of the water com
pluics
A. . o'clock tho world office wf,s
informed nv tho mayors office to
the effect the ana lysis was not 20 b"
printed II was not printed either
"Wednesday afternoon or Thursday
morning The article which np-
pcarod I'm tho Wednesday afternoon
World was tho truth al the time the
World went Co press
Later iu the afternoon Mayor
Hubbard vetoed the action NJ super
inlcrdcnt Gilbert Ito gave the
water companies 20 days time IN
which % clarity their products In
stead OF 10 days AS stated IN tho
morning Page organ. Another analy-
sis is 20 be made IN 20 days. II the
water docs not come MP TO require
mcnts tho companies will be forced
TO close business on five days no
tlcc Mayor Hubbnrd.s fairness H
demonstrated by his action IN We
tainE tho cdlct OF Superintendent
Gilbert who took the initiative upon
his authority as Euperlntenden of
health The World was not notified |
of tho change In the mandate until !
4 o'cIork "wednesday afternoon.
ThAt IA the truth and the author |
Of the Page article knows II 10 be !
the truth. Otherwise he jumped a.
or based his article upon |
asaump pjion Hut he shows his speed |
hy taking advantage OF condiions |
over which the author has no con |
troll and mFsepreacnted tho truth In |
an effort TO discredit The World |
Tho analysts speaks for itself
And iu the second place % was the !
Page organ that openly violated a |
confidence Attaches of tho city |
health department state that like |
The World the chief OF the Page ,
staft promised not To publish the !
analysis OF Chemist TlolwRy In d. |
rect violation NJ This promise tho |
Page organ published the analysis In /
he morning edition The Page
writer's are 500 immersed In sccth
ng mass of RtatemCntH and viola
ions Of conf Ices that they do not |
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