The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-04-25
IMPURE AIR
IN SCHOOLS

Chicago. April 25.-Low vitality
among C,hicaso's school children caus-
ed by poor ventilation mas tIrned at
Ientiol to the innovation in the
schools of Germany where ozone, ar
tificialiv produced. is used to vitaliZe
and sterilize the air. Superintendent
Ella Fiagg Young and DIR. w. A. Ev
ans. commissioner of health of Chi
cago have denounced tile school room
air as uncomfortable. Experiments are
now being conducted which may re-
suit i'm the adoption of ozonizers as is
done abroad, the Vohr method having
now proved to be a great advance ov-
ar those i'm use in Germany. France,
and other countries. The system of
ventilation used in the Chicago
schools, the down draft type, was
exploded years ago by scientific in
qulries." declared Mrs. Young. And
years ago ] knew that the clildren
were not getting good air and | sug
gested a change. One needs only to
go into the class rooms from the out
CT air and to take a breath--and ones
nose will tell that the air is impure
and dead. Ventilation that merely
stirs TIE air about without changing
is the kind we get in all the schools.
The engineer tests the air with an in
strunent which proves its circulation
and pronounces the room properly
ventilated. But he does not test its
chemical properties and learn the sto-
ry the olfactory nerves tell. Now is
the time for a change-and we will
bring it about. il possible" The great
-.
school rooms as r result of the city's
growth has Increased the organic mat
ter given off by lungs and pores, into
the air, to point where the task of
oxidizi-g il is greater than ordinary
oxygen can handle. Ozone is oxygen
vita an enormous energy, and school
room" air requires ozone to effectively
clean and invigorate it. Similar con-
ditions prevail in schools throughout
the country and this explains a di
minished Zest for study about which
there is complaint. Ozone, which by
the vohr method il generated by a
Fan charged with electricity. is pro
duced from the oxygen, and its effect
is that of a deodorizer, disinfectant
and vitaliber.
Steam plows by the trainloads and
gasoline tractor plows by the train
loads have passed through Chicago to
Join in the conquest of the prairies of
Alberta, each shipment being blazon
ed with banners telling the destina
ticn. These big traction plows are
capable of turning the virgin sod on
1000 acres each during the season,
and are in sIch demand that they
mean the addition of 10000 acres to
the empire of wheat in western Cana
da- Canadian Pacific railway reports
from Calgary indicates that the influx
OF new settlers. even in the districts
where new settlers by hundreds art
no unusual phenomenon, this year
will astonish even optimistic immi
grafton officials. The early spring
watch has been general I'm the United
States has prevailed throughout Al
inertia and farmers have been rush
ing the sowing of spring wheat. Warm
rains have fallen at this oppOrtune
time Tnis has given settlers and
land seekers uncommon enthusiasm
So many have arrived at the newer
towns that the hotels have been IN
| able to accommodate them At Bao-
sano. on the Canadian Pacific, the
Dominion Government has erected
| tents. Travel out of Stratnore b.
land seekers has become so heavy
that " was found necessary to buy a
large motor bus capable of carrying
25 passengers. Farming operations
have been carried on without inter
mission for several weeks. even the
blizzard which tied up trains i'm Colo
RADIO having failed to make any dis
turbance as far north as the Domin-
ion line.
The high cost of dying win be I'M
Investigated in Chicago. the City club
having named a committee Co probe
inte the matter and particularly into
the merits OF tine threecnfmered
i .nndertakers warf which involves
the merits or rhe FACTORY to con-
sa1merr plan versus the hig retail pro
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