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

Certain civilized communes-Paris and London for IN
give meal day the very school children
The intelligent idea is feed the brain
you starve the body.
The child while it hungry. And the com
muny that can afford spend millions for books teachers,
school buildings other kinds of MIND FOOD might we'll at
ford to spend little for the child stomach
Of course there are plenty of idiots to talk about pater
naism of fact what the country needs IS
paenaism of the right kind For the nation should be to the
bulk of the population parent the individual child
However it too much to ask, probably that the United
grand nation of equality generosity and wealth shall do
for the children what done Parswhere rich and
poor alike perfectly satisfactory meal given to them in the
school and impossible for anybody but the parents Of
the child money 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.
now every big city and in all the small cities and
towns and villages more chldren-nine enhs
of them probaby-suer for lack of the fresh ar-THAT
COSTS NOTHING
Schoolrooms rule badly ventilated and what al
ready known about ventilation ignored
An interesting and intelligent letter received from John
Wilbur says:
veest auhOrtes-vz, Professor Woodbridge,
Technology Professor Carpenter Cornell
University and Professor John Wilkes Shepherd Of the Chicago Nor
NAL College and Secretary Ventilation
upward system admitting the
posing tho vated the ceiling the best the
eas'roms trying to accomplish the
these experts the only
results turn all our school
buildings upside down y
Professor
recently regular classroom in Normal College
secondary floor with freshar chamber below It and
ondsy ceiling veted above The fresh
which upward Of hds
thereby child slightly heated and with
ceiling the
nttsd where of the build
through large outlet Aue
professor Shepherd has
applied ohOo classroom we'll heater audtto
o oOurse only the
right
wsItO do IT,
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 the public schools If
not supply breakfast to the starving child surely need not
afct that child with the germs of disease and other dirt
Dry sweeping and busting the public schools must scatter
disease germs,
Every school should be cleaned by the process The
should be of the and down the cellar
be done modern hotels and properly equipped
private houses,
S time for the who manage the United States
-eaze 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 pro
vide for them should be properly fed at least dayn the
morning when their studies begin
They should have plenty of fresh airhe necessity pro
vided free of charge on this planet