Mr. Powell. Yes.
Prof. Weil. That is so very general that I could hardly have any objection to it. There is nothing different in that from what has been done for years.
Mr. Powell. It is only the details of working out the scheme to which you object?
Prof. Weil. Yes.
Mr. Powell. And those objections you have spoken of?
Prof. Weil. Yes; I have tried to cover them.
Mr. Tawney. Mr. Knowles, we will hear you now, as representing the Great Lakes Pure Water Association.
STATEMENT OF MR. MORRIS KNOWLES,
OF PITTSBURGH, PA.,
REPRESENTING THE GREAT LAKES PURE WATER ASSOCIATION.
Mr. Knowles. As I stated this morning, there is another representative of the Great Lakes Pure Water Association, Mr. Theodore M. Leison, who will speak for that organization. He could not be here this afternoon, but will be present to-morrow morning. You may consider that he will be the official representative of and will speak for the association.
While I am on my feet, and speaking entirely personally, I would say that I was very much gratified to hear the remarks of Prof. Phelps that the suggestions in the report should be considered as such and not necessarily as determinative plans, because it seems to me that, above all, the initiative should be left to the communities to work out their own salvation as long as that may result accordingly in a general, well-defined policy; I think it is helpful to us as engineers to realize that as coming from your engineer, Prof. Phelps. It seems to me that this policy is a well-considered one, so that all of us who are interested in sanitation ought to work toward the fruition of such a plan. It is necessary that separate places shall have separate solutions dependent upon topographical conditions.