New Britain herald., 1926-09-29

possible to live there unless they had sanitation of the kind we call mod ern.
 "The only thing that make civili- zation today is the ability of people to live together in health and sani- tation. The only difference between New York and tiny South Ameri- can village is one of sanitation. The Indian moved often because his in- stinct told him if he remained too long in one place the spirits of his ancestors bones would come back and the tribe would die.
 "The difference between a noma- die tribe and a permanent body is one of sanitation.
 Tn Babylon 5000 years ago they had sanitation as modern as they have in New York city today. They even brought river through pipes as does New York today. In Egypt today they have lead pipes that were wiped by plumbers the same as jour neyman plumber wipes them today, which was wiped 5000 before before the birth of Christ.
 Babylon had the first bath tubs the world has ever known. They were of marble and granite and the semi-priceless onyx. Forty-two per cent Of them contained exactly the same mechanical openings as the bathtubs in your own home today.
 'We haven't begun to reach the peak of our development. There is nothing in the world today to equal the old Roman baths. Some of these baths were as big as two and "a half city blocks and they were heated. They had the same water supply and heating systems in ancient Rome that they have in New York today. There is no class of people in the world laboring for the sheer benefit of service to humanity like the med ical profession yet the Romans de- pended upon their baths for health and strength and not upon physi- clans.
 How do you develop men? Under the shower. How does the Y. M. c. A. make athletes? Under the shower What is the first thing the Salvation Army does with human derelicts it drags from the gutter? Puts them under a shower. The shower bath was bigger than Babe Ruth and was what made Babe Ruth.
 Obstruction is the product of dirt. What brought about the Rus sian revolution? The fact that the Russian peasant never had but three baths in his life; when he was born, when he was married and when he died. If he was a bachelor he had only two. The same movement has gone ont from Russia to England under Ramsay Macdonald and even has stained the shores of America red until thinking tmen lie awake nights and wonder what will hap pen. It never would have hap pened if the Russian peasant had had decent living conditions.
 "The difference between the United States and Mexico is one of sanitation, We have American and housing on one side of an imaginary line and on the other side murder and filth and dirt.
 America is the only country with a real government. It's the only country with 100 per cent sanita- ton. The Englishman has never yet discovered, even with his daily bath, that it is possible and advis- able to keep his back and front . warm at the same time.
 "The Englishman is the greatest 1 colonizer in the world. He has a l right to be. Wherever he goes his bathtub follow his guns.
 Tn France bath is a real func- ton. Only few hotels maintained for the tourist trade have baths. To get a bath you must give from 12 to A hours notice and then all the