Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1913-02-06

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schlecht luft'. and any one entering
the room would need no instrument
but his nose to assure him that
Wolpert is unquestionably correct.
The great difficulty with the aver
age man. be he professional or lay,
is that he delays correcting the evil
until the nose is offended. What the
physical effects Of such condition
may be, shall not attempt to state,
but | know that it is the best means
for producing dizziness, an irritable
ity in children and crankiness and
acerbity in teachers. It has all the
elements necessary to reproduce
modern Xanthippe and the forty
made famous by tantalizing the
prophet Elisha Were it not for the
biunders Of builders in not making
buildings tight and for the POSSIBLE
|ity of opening windows which orig-
inally We're intended to admit light
but not air, the conditions Of most
school rooms would be unendur-
able.
I Ny work has brought me in con-
tact with more than 200 different
schools in the state, and q have
found but few schools wherss the
maximum amount of fresh ar is
made available through the system
of ventilation. Even in places
where mechanical ventilation has
been installed the supply Of air is
often inadequate. Windows are
thrown open to get from the out
side directly the oxygen needed, and
the custom has become so common
that it hardly ever excites any COM
lnent. Our thoughtless domestic
habits determine to a great extent
our attitude to school ventilation.
We occasionally open a door or
window to get rid of the foul air
which has accumulated in room
occupied by two or three people,
and without much thought given to
the subject we act as if a similar
process were quite the thing for a
school room occupied by more than
forty little human beings each one
making a fight for existence at tre-
mendous odds. We are all quite
ready to agree that it is only pro-
: per that all school buildings old as
well as new should be we'll ventiI-
, ated, but when it comes to the exc
cution wa hesitate on aclDunt Of
the cost in money. We stop to ask
Does it pay" just as legislators
! did before adulterated foods receiv-
led their proper labels. Does it pay?
Does it pay to produce race
] whose physical weakness is appar-
ent in sallow compilations and I'M
dersized stature? Does it pay to
submit child to all the possible
dangers from disease which poor
" ventilated school room is certain
/, to do? Does it pay to curtail the
/ physical and intellectual develop7
sIlnent of child that survives the
/, ordeal, hut might have come out Of
J. J, school with much greater capacity?
Does It pay when 5000 school chill
& dren in the city Of Boston have
been found o.have positive cases Of
tuberculosis, when New York city
I, reports more than 25.OOO tuberculo-
. sis children in the schools, when on
the basis Of these other investiga-
tons it is estimated by certain au-
thorities thai there are. nearly L.
s 100000 school children in the Unit
] ed States today who will probably
3; die Of tuberculosis before they have
4 reached the age OF eighteen9 Does
]! lit pay to protect your child who is
i yet able to resist the insidious at
i tacks of this enemy Of the human
race? True the school can not de
1 all to overcome the evils resulting
from vitiated air, but from the
! school might emanate the desire for
! better conditions in the home. Well
4 ventilated homes are not common,
but they are not entirely unknown
and it is to be hoped that with the
increase in the number Of properly
ventilated school houses may also
/ come an increase in the number of
ventilated homes.
connausht Expects 10 Return.
L. kontroal EAh. -EDgDAak T. 5000