Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-02
We Might at Least Give School
Children Fresh Air
Even Though We Can't Make Up Our Minds to Feed Them

Certain civilized communities Paris and London for in
stance-give day the very school children
The intelligent idea that is useless to feed the brain
you starve the body
The child learn while it is hungry And the com
munity that can afford spend millions for books teachers
school buildings and other kinds of MIND FOOD might we'll a
ford to spend a little for the child stomach.
Of plenty of idiots to talk about pater
naism of fact what the country needs is
paernasm right kind For the nation should be to the
bulk of the population parent to the individual child
However it too ask, probably, that the United
grand nation equality generosity and wealth shall do
the school children what done in Pariswhee rich and
poor perfectly satisfactory meal given them the
school, and where impossible for anybody but the parents of
child know whether has been paid for that
food
In the United States at least might do ONE thing.
WE MIGHT TAKE THE TROUBLE TO GIVE THE Chill
DREN IN THE SCHOOLS PLENTY OF FRESH AIR
AS every big city, and in all the small cities and
towns and villages half of the enths
of them probaby-sufer for lack of the fresh aTHAT
COSTS NOTHING
Schoolrooms rule badly ventilated and what al
ready known about ventilation is ignored.
An interesting intelligent letter received from John A.
Wilbur says:
According Professor Woodbridge,
Of of
Professor John Wilkes Shepherd of the Chicago Nor
the Chicago Ventilation Commssionhe
system admitting the fresh at the floor and dis
of tho ceiling the
IDEAL and yet e0ms wo are trying to accomplish the
present equipment according the only
hope obtain results to turn all our school
buildings upside down.
Professor
Shepherd recently taken regular classroom Normal College
built secondary floor with treshsir chamber below il and
chamber isted above The fresh
which upward
thereby tho child in fresh slightly heated and with
Of the
nted the build
through large outlet Hue
Shepherd upward
be applied school classroom we'll heater udito-
It requires the
this
o t."
Mr. Wilbur says very truly that engineers and others
nected with the public schools appear have been standing
their heads while they thinking out the problem
1t late and would not be expensive has been
make ventilation of the public schools what ought
to be.
One other thing in regard to the public schools
supply breakfast to the starving child surely need
act that child with the germs of disease and other dirt
Dry sweeping and busting in the public schools scatter
disease germs.
Every school should be cleaned by the process The
dust should be drawn of the and down the cellar
be burned done modern hotels properly equipped
private houses.
is time for who manage the United States to
realize that the only real wealth is THE LIVING HUMAN
BEING
The child dead its infancy waste money thrown away
Children should be protected those whose parents
vide for them should be properly fed at least dayin the
morning when their studies begin.
They should have plenty fresh ahe necessity pro
vided free of charge on this planet