14.

The Olympic high diving champion at Paris about the year 1923, Miss
Carolyn Smith, took her first swimming and diving lessons in the Old Cairo pool,
and without much subsequent training she went to Paris to win the high diving
championship. Such accomplishments and results help«the public to place a’ proper
value on public swimming pools,

Any civic organization or municipal department which desires to do
something of real value to the community, has opportunities now which the pioneers
in swimming pool design and construction did not have. It is easier no to
design, finance and promote a swimming pool than it was only a few years ago.
Guide posts, standards, advice, precedent, etc., all are now available. Com-
petent experienced engineers are now available so thet experimenting and guess
work need no longer cause communities to hesitate to provide the essential
benefits and advantages of public swimming pools,