disaster, people everywhere rallied to give aid and assistance and their initiative spread like a magnificent chain reaction. ... and wide-spread organiz ation, while government services in the immediate vicinity of the area concentrated fully on organized assistance. In this way an efficient appa ratus was built up directed to

We hate to think of the extent of it if present-day engineering should not have made it possible to spread the news of it abroad, with the result that assistance could be given at once. Assistance

pumping stations should be spread; centralization of water- winning makes water supplies vulnerable;