The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-09-03

hours each day in the summer
virtual barrage of water is lad
down over the 900 acres OF lawns
in the city's parks. So frequent
are these drenchings that in sum-
mer the watering hose is not re-
moved night or day from the hy-
drants. Driving through the parks
in late afternoon, you see orderly
piles of hose, as regularly spaced
as the trees of an orchard, each
like a coiled serpent on sentry
duty, guarding its allotted plot.
Use Water LavishIy
Knowing that this is a dry coun-
try and that water is precious, you
ask one of the officials of the water
board about the heavy use of water
in the city and run into surpris-
ing paradox.
1T is very important that we use
water lavishly today" he tells you,
in order that our grandchildren
shall have enough for their vital
needs. Visiting water works ex-
perts think we are crazy when we
make that statement, but it is
literally true.
'"This is an irrigation country.
municipalities, as we'll as indivi-
duals, must follow the laws worked
out under irrigation conditions in
getting their water supplies. Once
you got hold of flow OF wa
| ter, if you don't use it you forfeit
| it to some one who will. We are
looking forward to a city of half
a million or more by 1850. That's
why we want to keep every drop
of Denver's annual water supply
busy and to increase the supply in
all possible ways"
One way in which Denver plans
to increase its water supply con-
| stitutes an engineering romance.
When the Moffat tunnel was dug,
an eight-foot-square pilot tunnel
| was carried through the Con-
tinental Divide beside the large
railway bore. Denver leased this
small tunnel, and plans to bring
through the towering mountain
range hundreds of millions of gal
Ions of water that now flow into
the Pacific ocean.
In education Denver's fame is
great. Educators from the two
hemispheres have beaten a path
to this far-away city at the base
of the Rockies to study its scheme
of teachers salaries, its i,defatiga-
BILE efforts to keep the subject-mat-
ter which it teaches abreast of all
worthwhile developments, and even
its school architecture.
The Denver Plan for teachers
salaries has been adopted by many
municipalities.
A Practical School
Another famous part of the Den
yer educational system that draws
educators from afar is its Opportu-
nifty school. From $3.50 o'clock ir
the morning until 10 at night this
practical school is open alike tc
young people and old. In it elderly
men and women, denied the educa
tion they wished in youth, receive
high school instruction; men dis
placed in one occupation may learr
another; and young men and wom
en- may be trained in practical arts
from barbering to bricklaying, ane
from cooking to etching.
, Most of Colorado's institutions O
higher education are naturally con
centrated in and near Denver. II
|. the city is the University of Denver
, founded, when the community wa!
little more than a village, by Col
orado's territorial governor, Johr
Evans, the same John Evans wh'
. previously had founded Northwest
ern university, Illinois.
Thirty miles to the northwest, a
Boulder, is the University of Colo
RADIO. So attractive are the noun
!, tains that cast their shadows on tn
, campus and beckon for week-en,
! rambles that the University OF Col
: orado is as busy in summer as Il
I winter.
t Fifteen miles west of Denver, a
: Golden, is the Colorado School @
!. Mines. Growing up in the edge Q
a an important mining region, the ir
e stitution is one of the outstandin
t mining schools of the country. 1
it in 1925 was established the frs
t course in geophysics. in America
+ colleges. Graduates of this lates
; course in mining lore fare forth wit
S dynamite and radio sets, electro
e magnets, torsion balances, and otf
S er devices of modern magic to ma
rock strata lying hundreds and thot
S sands of feet beneath the surface c
n the ground.