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

Certain civilized communites-Par and London for in
stancegve meal day to the poor school children
The intelligent that it is useless to feed the brain
you the body
The child can not learn while hungry And the
munity that can afford spend millions for books teachers
buildings and other kinds of MIND FOOD might well at
ford to spend little for the childs stomach
course plenty of idiots to talk about pater
nam AS of fact what the country needs is more
paternam of the right kind For the nation should be to the
bulk the population the parent to the individual child
However it is too much to ask, probably that the United
States grand nation equality generosity and wealth. shall do
for the school children what done in Paswhee rich and
poor alike have perfectly satisfactory meal given to them in the
school, where is impossible for anybody but the parents of
the child money been paid for that
food.
In the United States least might do ONE thing.
WE MIGHT TAKE THE TROUBLE TO GIVE THE Chill
DREN IN THE SCHOOLS PLENTY OF FRESH AIR
every big city and in all the small cities and
towns and villages than half of the chlden-nn tenhs
of probaby-suffer for lack of the fresh ar-THAT
COSTS NOTHING
schoorooms as rule badly ventilated and what al
ready known about ventilation is ignored.
An interesting intelligent letter received from John A.
Wilbur says;
the Boston Technology;
Professor John Wilkes Shepherd the Chicago Nor
the Chicago Ventilation
admitting the fresh air at the floor and dis
posing itd the ceiling the
ideal cassroms trying to accomplish the
opposite.
with our present equipment according only
obtain turn all our sehoo'
buildings upside down.
correct Professor
Normal College,
secondary with freahar chamber below it and
ondy ceiling with chamber for vssd air above The fresh air
below through throoinch galvanized iron
the bottom Of each hd
tho child slightly heated
number holes tho secondary ceiling the Va air ad
~ into the chamber from where It is drawn out OF the build
through large outlet hue.
the principle only the
that this the right
to do it,
Mr. Wilbur very truly that engineers ana others
neced public appear have been standing
their heads while they thinking out the problem
not too late and it would not be expensive has been
shown to ventilation public schools what ought
to be-
One other thing in regard to the public schools If
supply breakfast to the starving child surely need
afc that child with the germs disease and other dirt
Dry sweeping and busting the public schools must scatter
disease germs
Every should be cleaned by the process
dust should be drawn of the and down to the cellar
be burned hotels and properly equipped
private houses.
1t is time for the who manage the United States
realize that only real wealth is THE LIVING HUMAN
BEING.
The child dead infancy waste money thrown away
Children should be protected those whose parents pro
vide for them should be properly fed at least dayn the
morning when their studies begin
They should have plenty fresh airhe necessity
Tded free of charge this planet