The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-31
THE VENTILATION RACKET
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Way out in the wild and woody the nick towns are still struggling with the high pressure sales men employed by makers of ventilation equip ment. In New York city the public school authori- ties continued to have truck with these mer- chants up to about three years ago, when the game called account of enlightenment | and some several thousand dollars worth of ven- tation installations in the public schools was junked.
 reader writes that at a recent meeting of the trustees of the country schools in his county in Idaho some one spoke earnestly about a cer- tain kind of ventilation equipment and urged it's installation in the schools The reader asked the speaker if she had ever heard of Dr Brady and she s'Elelched the reader by replying that Dr Brady is not taken seriously by physicians in Some of the medical brethren will be delighted with this. Trouble is some of them take me much too seriously.
 The representative of the ventilation equip ment people was well coached for her job. She backed her recommendation up with a statement of evidence to support her contention. The Idaho reader kindly sends along the statement, and if IS so good I wish we could print it in full but We must be content to quote the gist of it. It pur- ports 10 be matter quoted from various textbooks on heating and ventilation though in spots the quotation marks are missing, so that one sus Pects P the ventilation merchants working a rev Hhe itallan ideas of their own off on the sucker. Anyway the high point of the evidence seems to be this quaint assertion:
 ,, impurities exist in the air in proportion to tne amount of carbon dioXde present in an atmosphere vitiated by respiration" This was theory of great grandfathers NO health authority to-day imagines the propor-
 
 or other room has any particular bearing on inc loulness or freshness of the air. Only coached saleshan TOT some such superffuouos and extra gant gadget would have the cheek to inonosa on even the school board that way to-day
 In New York city the politicians have at last been constrained 10 acknowledge the common sense of natural ventiaton-that is opening wlhdoWs enough to ventiate every room-and tin ne is why the very costly ventilation installa- 'iohs were Junked there three years ago. 1 suppose the drumrners for inc deu,doos ho l eaken to the sticks lately and consequently the
 % school boards are threshing the old oues .r .,oi all over aealn-much to the amusement of tne concelted asses who generally run comntuu Tn 1UnooI boards and the exepense O. the neonie Where they have to squander the scboo, 'Upis. f. on these funny tricks, the teachers ana . tuhus employed in the schools have to accent minjnn,ro pay pay TOT their services but the teachers ianitors 1 nu otners Who stand back while the yentijatinn racketeers grab the easy money rnav a.ioh .o,, M oolisoatlon as there is in the thought that st much cnrhon da. protected against the pers of too is nerii ooiic acid gas in the air-if thai ev QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS No Head For Figures
 Whenevcr T My hnyy ! can not be sure of myself? l.:ariabiy feel must check 1t once " nr inares somc," o Dc (. sure have not made an crror U" at fault (W. E. B. ''"'f oi concentration is ,h1,, A1hswer-same here. only more so. in,,,u, last time and iope sax e or errors the first tme ono worry? ' u iater If not why
 The old Sore Opened Again
 Only three in our office agreew itll you The othcrs insist drafts cause colds. Some Of the girls would ike you to give some proofs to substan. tiate your theories. Is pneumonia caused by germ or Is it the result of cold? Why do they wrap football players up warmly in blankets after a game? Will a draft cause . stiR neck? If not, what does? (H. H. S.)
 Answer--Pneumonia is germ disease and accordingly it is successfully treated with a germ serum. in many cases. Before can get any where with the argument let the girls define what they mean by a "cold." The old fogy doc- tors who still humble about that wisely decline to define "cold" Maybe the girls will rush in where doctors fear to tread. Too sudden cooling after violent exerton is likely to cause stiffness or lameness. Certainly that lameness is in no particular identical with such diseases as pneus monia, bronchitis. coryza or what have you.