Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-23

| tests, is not only unfit for any use by
man or animal but Is a tremendous dan
ger and a constant menace TO everybody
and everything in the community with
in range Of contact.
1t IS an accepted fact that the ma
jorty Of cur manufacturers on their own
Initiative are using the great fund Of
/ information already available on waste
utilization, and It IL further encourag-
Ing that they are almost invariably will
ing when their attention IS called to It
to place chemists and engineers 10 work
on the subject instead Of their attorneys
The increasing density Of population
changes our mode Of living considerably.
What was permissible years ago cannot
be permissible today as 4 matter Of pub
lie safety. What can be done in the rural
districts Is out Of the question in the
cities. At the beginning Of the Tween
tieth Century the mayor OF New York
City was the executive head Of more
people than the first President OF the
Republic. The city became the second
largest in size I'm the world within 100
years. Its total annual expenditures
are S1100000G0, against the entire Jap
anese Empires S120OOOOcO (pre-war fig-
uresD, and Hollands and Switzerlnnds
combined $50 100000. The density OF pop
ulation "a certain parts Of Manhattan Is
so great that If it were continued
throughout the city It would give New
York a total Of 200,OO0.OOo Inhabitants.
RESULTS SOUGHT
TO TAKE TIME.
The results We arc seeking cannot be
accomplished at once, but must be the
work Of several years Of sustained effort.
The problem is exceedingly complex.
Manufacturers, biologists, engineers, the
Legislature, the public and the conserys-
ton department must get together to re-
duce the situation to a sane working bash
and function along businessliko lines.
This department IL he logical clearing
house for pollution matters. for develop
Ing cooperation among Industries con
cerned. The department desires to co
operate and aid in this reclamation rather
than TO adopt 4 drastic campaign OF pros
ecution. The benefits are many, for the
saving Of great quantities Of food fish.
millions in by-product utilization and
open waterways with increased public
health ara the results.
+ In the beginning Indiana streams were
the highways Of pioneer life. Early rec
ords state that at least a thousand fat
boats were fioated down the Wabash and
/ White rivers and their tributaries each
! spring. These carried pork, lard, Live
/ stock. wheat, oats and corn. and IIO0sier
exports as early as 1870 had an annual
yaluuon Of 81, 10000. The LcgisltuTes
/ from 1920 to 1898 decla red about forty
streams public highways and these were
worked much the same as roads of today
are worked. Drifts WIRE cleared and no
( ohE ruction to fat boat traffic OH spring
/ high waters permitted. The advent Of
railroads the Improvement and opening
up Of new overland roads caused river
/ traffic to fall into disuse as a means of
/ transportation
Aside from any sentimental reason
! that urges that Indiana streams be re
/ stored as nearly as possible to their for
mer purity and beauty and made replete
/ with fish because of the latter's food
/ value, the time is not distant. 1t is be
| lieved, when transportation problems aug
| mented by density of population viii de-
l maud they be utilized