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Las Vegas Morning Sun-'Higust 31, 1951 WHERE t f l l l t STAND By HANK GREENSPUN The inspiration .for today’s col- § umn was furnished by Art Force, public relations expert of the ? Hotel Last Frontier, While sit­ting with Art last evening pon- I dering over potential material for a column, I asked Mr. Force if he ever tried water as a quencher for his perpetual thirst and right , there and?,then,-the -column for today was born. Water is the ? The whole city of San Diego! ! banded together .in their effort! to save water, and the resultant I j saving was so great.that the city; j averted a'critical water crisis.: ; As district chairman of the Boy | . Scouts of Las Vegas, I can almost ; pledge that these civic minded, j •helpful youngsters will be more i than happy to perform this same ; chore in Las Vegas, if a brick ?plant -in town will furnish the j .warped and crooked bricks from their kiln. Whether the plumbers ? will furnish free gaskets and in­stallation information, ,is beyond ^ my authority to promise, but I I feel certain that some Civic-mind­ed plumber will7come to the res­cue if tpe situation here warrants if., This newspaper will be. glad to print any diagrams of expla­nation. subject, m Did you know that a brick 'in S the water storage tank of a toilet would save blank gallons of wa­iter usage a day? Multiply that. I by 8,000 homes in Las Vegas and . the saving in water is staggering. li Did you also know that if the faucet and other plumbing gad- •; get which leaks around the aver­age home were fixed, there would be another, saying of millions of gallons of water a day. I I didn’t know these very pertin-' ent facts until, recently, when fig San Diegan told me of the ex­periences San Diego had with a critical water shortage in their city. The situation was so acute that the plumbing concerns vol­unteered to furnish gaskets and information on installation free to any householder who promised to fix the leaks around the house. San Diego newspapers printed diagrams of the different, types of leaks and how to correct them, while the material was furnished i Of course, we in Las Vegas, are I, past the; critical stage. What ; appeared to ? be a most serious | problem , a few weeks ago ..has Snow eased. The arrival of Sen-lator McCarran, Jess Larson and I Johnny Mueller in our midst I should assure Las Vegas of a I plentiful supply of water. This I PS the reason for their visit. It is inconceivable that men of j I such great political prestige and J high standing in governmental i I circles can possibly fail on so I small a contract as the delivery ! Jpf water in a city of less than |p5,Q00 people. II However, it might not be a |jbad idea if the Boy Scouts started | the immediate delivery of bricks j | to every home. Just in case there ! I is a slip-up, somewhere along the | line, a brick in the hands of every I Las Vegan might spur M, L and j M on to greater efforts. free of charge by the plumbers. Boy Scouts were employed at no cost to deliver warped and crooked bricks from a local brick j plant, which furnished. them at ; no charge, so that the household-1 er could place the brick in the | toilet water storage tank. The I theory of displacement teaches j us that a brick in the tank dis- j places blank gallons of water with every flushing. I’m not too certain of the figures, as science ! and mathematics never were my . strong subjects, but it stands to reason, even to a. layman, that, it I takes Jess water to fill a tank full of bricks than it does an (empty tank. One brick in the ! tank will not impair the utility : of the flushing procedure.