El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-18


L u if there are enough OF them.
Don't stag q car in a closed garage
and stay n the place long with il or
, there is danger 0, suTfocation. The
bureau OF mines OF the department Of
the interior thinks so much Of thu
: danger that it has issued warning
4 series Of tests were conducted in
I a garage, N which one of the chem
lists was considerably affected by the
poisonous gases. The tests led to the
| following conclusions:
An automobile engine should not be
operated IN small garage unless
doors and windows are wide open
In the tests conducted. the air in
me garage was rendered decidedly
dangerous after the automobile engine
had been running Is minutes
The gas made by automobile NJ
glnes is known as carbon monoxide."
says director Van H Manning. of the
bureau. in his bulletin 1t is a color
less odorless. and tastsless gas. II IS
} extremely poisonous because il com
! bines with the red coloring litter OF
1 the blood more readily than oxygen
( does and blood that Is saturated with
| II cannot take up oxygen. The dan
| serous symptom or tS-s carbon
| Inonoxide poisoning cOlaes almost
without warning and col 'apse in
| garage generally proves fatal, unless
| outside aid arrives very soon. because
I inc running engine continues to gen
! crate carbon nnOnoxide and continues
| 10 make the air more poisonous
| IN the tests. the chemists found
dangeTous amounts OF carbon monoxide
| IN the farthermost part OF the garage
after 20 to 20 minutes running Of the
engine, Wnlie near the engine the air
/ was extremely unsafe when the engine
had run about Is minutes The OBJ
server Did not remain in the dangerous
| atmosphere except when taking sam
pies OF the gas and was not exposed
TO the poisonous air longer than three
| minutes on the whole
SnartlnS and watering OF the eyes.
uue 10 the presence OF other uoXious
/ pr Oducts of combustion. were the first
{ effects After collecting the samples.
the observer contracted 4 headache and
: about an hour later became dizzy.
nauseated and very ill., This lasted
/ for ten hours. The next day he had
completely recovered.
What nation is the most Wa ike
asks one OF the printers Answering
his own question he says II is vac
elnaion, because Il is always in arms
Women may dispute this
The other day one u our friends
brought in story a0oUT a meeting
that MS fellow employee are going to
hold soon His manuscript failed TO
specify where the affair was going 10
be held. If some hardworking re-
porter had been guilty OF such an
omission. the same friend would have
got busy on the telephone before the
ink was dry. and roasted the press in
general Such IS the newspaper game. !
God bless il
The Herald was PUT 20 = new and |
unique use this week A woman 4
wanted to locate a family in FL PasO /.
and she couldn't find The people either :
IN the directory or the telephone book ;
she came TO TIE Herald and asked III /
We had such a family taking the ,
paper We looked up the list and +
found that We had and she found her :
friends They live or Arizona street. /
y
The New York Tribune prints little
article that VIII be of interest 10 mill /,
tary men on the border. particularly II /
they should get into, action. for the /
circumstance would then he duDI (
Gated.
According 10 this story. srav hair IS Z
not unusual but IS now common /
throughout tile British arm even
among men 20 years Of age. II IS not,
the paper says, because Tommy is ,
afraid He is just subconsciously .
worried - about lis sweetheart or
mother OF babN or business The nerve 3
SCATTERING shocks of she'll fire DO their
he u very cheerful He may be in
safety miles back from the firing line,
Yet his comrades speak daily OF his
whitening hair
Officers whiten more quickly than
their men, and even nurses are not
immune.
Cray hair is not confined to Young
British soldiers. but Is common to all +
the warning natiOn@'ities II IS how
ever. far more pronounced along the
eastern front. where territories are So D
vast that wounded men lie for days
before they are taken To the hospital
By the time they arrive there. men
who would have been ciassed as 30
give their age as q
Scientists are now wondering what I
viii be the effect on future genera
tions Of this premature aging of mil
lions Of men.
=
Not alone viii the Catholics Of El
Faso miss father Patrick r. DUNCAN.
when the ed Michigan infantry re-
turns home today, hgt he has endeared
himself TO III Pasosus Of all religious
denominations and lr WIl leave rs
many friends 'saf-rrF q man