New Britain herald., 1924-05-15
SANITATION INDEX
 ID CIVILIZATION
Co., Archer Says It Is Americas
 Greatest Good

The uper-fundamental of every. thing in Americas greatest good IS ltH sanitation" said Colonel w. G. Arch rr. of Evansville, Ind, in a stirring address to the New Britain Rotary club at noon today at the BurStt hotel.
 Colonel Archer was in the city for the Master Plumbers convention and stayed over at the request of A. A. Mills to speak to the Rotary club. He told his hearers that the world has not progressed in the matter of plumbing, but that the history Of tho world shows that successful civliza- ton are based on sanitation and civi- lizations will stand or fall solely upon their sanitation.
 America in the heyday of it's glory and it's rush of business, can do no wiser thing than study the ages that have preceded it." he said. We ar. not living in the greatest and age the world has ever seen, that is simply a sop to the egotism of the present gen. cration."
 He explained how the ancient Babylonian made copper pipe and wiped a joint the same as the modern plumber does, making copper on one hand as hard as seeel and on the othcr as soft as lead and stated that the best Mctallurgist in the world today 'fould say it couldn't be done. He told about a block of stone 52 feet long and eight feet square in Babylon and said that the greatest transportation engineers in America cant tell how it was handled or how it could be hand ;nd today
 He said the population of ancient Babylon would absorb the entire population of New York and that Bel shazzer entertained 1000 of his nobles at feast in one room of the palace. How did they live fin that city7" h. asked. A City cannot sur Nive unless it has the facilities for caring for its people in sanitary manner. The only thing that makes the Rurrtt hotel as it stands thing IS that which makes the people in 1t healthy and happy, Babylon had practically the same sanitary facilities that Now York has today. We wipe
  man plumber did 2.00n years before Christ brought his civilization to tho world.
 Babylon had water mains. sewers, bathing places. The most beautiful bath tubs the world has ever scen were taken out of the ruins Of Baby lon. There is nothing today in the world that can compare with tho an- eient Roman baths.
 Bathing Bulwark of Civ ilization
 Rome built up a nation that con- quefeh the world solely upon her sys-. tenn Of sanitation and baths and for fully 600 years or her history she had absolutely no physicians, Inc said. There never has been civilization that failed as long as it was composed of people who hathed.
 It was when Rome threw open her gates 10 the world and people Hooked in from all over Europe and Africa faster than she could assimilate thom that conditions of sanitation arose that brought about her downfall.
 "tf you love America govern your ports as you would your lives" he said "The old time immigrant was the salt of the earth but the aftermath of the war is another story.
 Speaking of conditions in Russia, the destruction of property rights and the disruption of family tics he said was brought about by the fact that the RuSfan peasant only had three baths in his lifetime, when he was born. when he got married and when 1 he died. And by tho same mental ! arithmetic the old bachelor had only two" he said
 If Russia had had the proper sani- tation and the people had hcen given 1 something to live for the government , never would have been wiped out. ! The only differencefgcographicalIy be- ! tween Texas and MeNica is a thin line . Of ink on map. Vet on one side are . churches and schools and prosperity, . on the other side is ruin and desola ton. On the Texas side are found the . right kind of homes. sanitation and . American decency. On the other side . there isn't 3 trace"
 The problem of Europe today dc bends upon it's sanitation, he explain cd. adding that America is the greatest nation because it is the most highly sanitized. He said to get a bath in France is social function. In a hotel i you have to give 10 or 12 hours mo- tiee and then all the help wants to watch you take it."
 First Bath Tub Curiosity
 He spoke about Americas early history, stating that even the White House at Washington did not have a bath tub until 1851. Think of all those early president not having a bath tub" he said. "no wonder poll tics is dirty game" He said the first bath tub ever made in America was made less than 100 years ago, fin 1sf2 in Ohio and was d mahogany box which was lined with metal and was a great curiosity. Doctors con- demned 1t ss being unhealthful, the city of Philadelphia passed law pro- hibiting people from taking baths in the summer and the city Of Boston passed a law making 1t necessary to have physicians certificates before a bath could be taken.
 The Fundamentals of sanitation mean as much to America as they did to Russia" he said. He said the places In America where patrolmen travel in groups" hand in hsndNor their own protection. places where rscs riots occur. where crimes or irinsts. etc, always occur in that part os the community uhich has little or TO sanitation. IA What we need Is more plumbers and fewer policemen" he said. He