WHAT TAFT SAID IN 1910
Niagara Again in Danger Shall Power Companies be Permitted to Injure America's Great Scenic Wonder? UNDER THE WATERWAYS TREATY with Canada, not more than 30 per cent, of ordinary low water flow...
...HA BOARD OF HEALTH today must do more than police garbage heaps and prevent a dozen Italian or Russian laborers and a wife or two from living in a roam originally built for twelve, important as those matters are...
...are wise, so live that preventable disease will long delay taking toll from you and yours...
...this means, join the eampaigK for better public health provisions...
...They are trying to do this under the pretext that it is for "drainage canals...
...If yov...
...Are you in favor of turning Niagara over to a few power companies, or conserving it for the people's enjoyment...
...UNDER THE WATERWAYS TREATY with Canada, not more than 30 per cent, of ordinary low water flow may be diverted from Niagara Falls for power purposes...
...The subject calls for much more close and careful legislation than has hitherto been put upon the statute books of any country.—James Acton in the Canadian Home Journal...
...HTHE GENERAL IDEALS of these who keep cows and sell their milk are so far below that which is called for by ordinary cleanliness as to make the task of securing pure milk seemingly almost hopeless...
...A Board ef Health must have initiative to lead the community in its line of work instead of being a sort of municipal wheelbarrow which never goes unless somebody Dushes it.—The Boston Common...
...A Joint Resolution is now before Congress to continue the provisions of the Burton Bill during the life of the treaty...
...The Burton Bill, passed in 1906, protected the public from such schemes, but it expires June 29, and wealthy and influential interests who wish to exploit Niagara are opposing its extension...
...But there is no limit to the amount of water that may be diverted from the Falls "for sanitary and domestic purposes...
...Write your answer to your representatives...
...Now the power companies want to deplete still further the volume of water going over America's great scenic wonder...
...If THE WISE MAN governs his life by rules—by probabilities, not exceptions...
...Bulletin, N. C. Board of Health...
Vol. 3 • May 1911 • No. 21
