The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-10
DEATH, DISEASE
LURK IN STATE
RIVERS. LAKES
HOOSier Swimmers, Anglers
MenaCed by Germs,
Survey Shows.
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snakes. carp. dog-fsh. crawdads and
murky backwater with the slime OF
city wastes and industrial ofal over
all
u viii tell YOU Of one industry.
that without coercion from state
conservation or state health board
officials. is attempting TO save a
stream while near-sighted solons OF
the city IN which the industry is
located refuse 10 clean up for
hralths sake or the sake Of other
cities further below stream.
II VIII show YOU how prohibitions
end has brought 70 Indiana again
the worst enemy Of streams, swim
mers. and game hsh-the distillers
and brewers.
T. viii tell Of the Greek That
Never Seems TO Flow and Of the
sIeepleSs nights Of citizens who live
along b. and its redolent Odors.
In photograph. bacteria counts.
On Just straight HoOsier talk from
honey folk YOU may know. 1t VIII
tell how cities as we'll as industries
ignore the one playground Of the
OutdOOrs-rivcrs and lakes.
Tourists spot Infected
Doctors Will tell YOU how water in
itself. unclean water. is one OF the
greatest spreaders of disease.
And vet the series viii show one
city pouring a creek-full of sewage
over its water intake and practically
upon IT'S municipal beach.
The water IS so obnoxious that
only a heavy solution of chlorine
and the use of carbons can hope to
erase the taste of industrial and
other wastes.
During the course of the series, a
spot for tourists from the four
corners Of the nation viii be shown
as polluted by bacteria and the
dangers to swimmers.
II VIII tell Of one man VINO lives
near a prominent resort who says.
when I swim I do it in the bath
tub or the Y. NJ. c. A. pool
Degraded by MOderntiy
r. will bear this mans statement
out with check of a bacteria
count on the beach near where he
lives. The Times check being dupli-
Gated by the state board Of health's
laboratory.
The series viii take you to streams
famous in song as we'll as story
and show their degradation by mo-
dernitv.
II Will show YOU 'teen-age campers
washing their kits IN water that no
one would drink
II Will give you statements from
prominent engineers revealing for
the first time the conditions of the
stream at your own back-dOOr.
Z viii show how even those max
Ing tests Of stream water for state
laboratories are CompellcS to exer-
else the greatest Of care to prevent
illness from disease that may be
lurking IN those waters.
Selfish Politicians Blamed
On the other hand. The Times
NIL show one city that changed its
ways.
II Will show a sewage disposal
plant in the process of construc-
ton and show how its erection Will
end forever the pouring of tons up
on tons Of waste into one of Indi-
ana's beauty lakes.
II Will be shown how the fact that
disposal plants do not require many
men to operate has resulted in their
being met with disfavor of poll
ticianS who seek to build up their
fences with patronage through street
work that requires the services of
ut-Of-wOrk voters.
And the series hopes to show the
need for cleaner. safer streams
where pOSterity and poSterity's chill
dren may fish without a carp's nib
bic and swim far from the ken of
bacteria and their mate-diseaSe.
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