The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1932 Page: 2 of 8
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CARROLLTON CHRONICLE
developments. Aristotle, founder of a school of
thought that swayed the thinking of mankind
for more than 1,000 years, regarded air as one
of nature’s four cardinal elements, the others be-
ing fire, earth and water.
Up until 1757 little was known about air.
Then, Dr. Joseph Black, who was experimenting
with chemicals, made the discovery of a gas he
called “fixed air,” now known as carbon diox-
ide. In 177.1, Joseph I'riestlv Isolated oxygen,
calling It “dephlogistlcated .air,” and thus, for
the first time mankind begun to have some exact
knowledge of atmosphere.
Lavoisier, a leading student of his period, a
few years later discovered carbon dioxide would
extinguish flame. He concluded, therefore, that
an excess amount of carbon dioxide formed by
breathing would contaminate indoor air. His
standing and reputation brought ready accept-
ance for this theory, and it was but a natural
step to the premise that fresh air, without ex-
cessive carbon dioxide am) with an abundance
of oxygen, was necessary for human well be-
ing.
A small number of scientists refused to con-
cur in Lavoisier s theory but most scientists,
engineers and medical men held their tongues
in the belief nothing was to be gained by the
voicing of contrary opinions.
Among the first public reports of these early
theories is that of Dr. It. it. Sayers, surgeon of
the United States public health service, and
chief surgeon of the Department of Commerce’s
bureau of mines, a division that knows as much
if not more about pure and impure air than
any research organization in the world.
In reprint No. 1150 of the public reports, Doc-
tor Sayers states: “It was observed by many
investigators that it was not until the oxygen
content of the respiratory air fell below' 10 per
cent that animals began to breathe with diffi-
culty. Friedlunder and Herter concluded from
the results of their experiments that inhaling
of 20 per cent carbon dioxide for several hours
has no poisonous effect. Not until a mixture
of gas containing 30 per cent or more of carbon
dioxide was introduced did they find an appear-
ance of depression. Leblanc pointed out that
under conditions in which the carbon dioxide
content of the air increases considerably, 1*/
lecture rooms, theaters, etc., the reduction of
oxygen content is small and very seldom falls
below 20 per cent, while the carbon dioxide con-
tent very seldom exceeds 1 per cent.”
The same facts have been established by oth-
er investigators of standing since that time. W.
Meld, an engineer, in 1003 announced definite-
ly the nonexistence of a “breath poison.” He
asserted the carbon dioxide content of a room
Is not a correct measure for the necessity of
ventilation.
The scientific findings definitely established
that it is tiie combination of heat and humidity
that is so depressing and injurious to mental
and physical alertness, and the consequent dam-
age to business and industrial efficiency brought
on by personal discomfort.’ With these facts,
engineers working on conditioning of indoor air
found that it is easy to he comfortable in a
room in which the customary thermometer
shows a temperature of 90 degrees, if the hu-
midity is lowered.
Leading economists, engineers and builders
have hailed air conditioning as the next big In-
dustry of die nation, an industry supplying a
product that will take a place along with the
telephone, automatic refrigeration and the auto
mobile in general acceptance and necessity.
They point out also that air conditioning i« ,
new achievement that replaces practically noth
ing now in use, finds for itself a place in popu
lar demand, and opens the way to inomipo
manufacturing, sales and installation activit-
ies) by Western Newspaper Union.)
1. —With a raging blizzard, or a scorching
sun raising havoc outdoors, the indoor weather
in this room is cozy, comfortable and healthful.
The air conditioner provides perfect air the
year round, regardless of outdoor weather's ec-
centricities.
2. —No longer will the tired business man be
tempted to run out on his office force and flee
from the hot and sultry summer days. This air
conditioner, installed in his office in place of
the familiar radiator is the answer.
3. —Physicians, always alert to welcome any
scientific or engineering achievement that will
aid them in their work of relieving human suf-
fering, hail air conditioning as a decidedly pro-
gressive step. No longer will patients be forced
to undergo the added suffering brought on by
hot and sultry weather, or by the injurious dry
indoor air of the colder seasons. A air condi-
tioner is shown here installed in a hospital
room, so unobtrusive and compact it takes up
little space even in the cramped quarters of the
room.
4. —Turn on the heat, or turn on the cold!
This air conditioning unit does both, and to
complete its responsibility of supplying perfect
indoor weather the year round, it keeps Old
Man Humidity on the run in the hot and sultry
seasons
of (he major demands and quests of mankind-
comfort. In giving perfect indoor weather the
year round, despite changing seasons and er-
ratic activities of temperature and humanity
they open the way for industrial and financial
development of the tropics and the Orient, where
white men swelter in misery under the depress-
ing huinity, and laborers collapse from the ef-
fect of hard, manual activity coupled with
heat and sultriness.
The farmer who spends every daylight hour
in the summer in the sun-baked fields will have
respite, and his wife, accustomed to a hard work-
ing existence among the pots, pans and cooking
range in the kitchen, will blossom out a changed
woman.
Business men who should wear their coats and
keep their ties tied will he able to work as en-
ergetically and ns smartly appearing in the sum-
mer as In winter, and their clerks and stenog-
raphers will have the alertness and desire to
please that helps so much In retaining the pat-
ronage of old customers, and building up good
will with new.
The answer to the brighter existence hold out
by aerologists to followers of almost every ac-
tivity is based on the fact that despite the hot-
test temperatures and most depressing humid*
ly of the working hours a man or woman can
stand them day after day if they are able to
sleep soundly In real comfort and repose, in-
stead of fitfully and uncomfortably.
When air conditioning experts talk about
homes and buildings with closed windows, a
chorus of public thought sings out with these
interjections: “What about carbon dioxide? How
about headaches brought on by closed, stuffy
rooms? How about that depressing feeling that
overcomes us when we don’t get enough fresh
air? You forget what doctors say about fresh
air.”
The answer is on file In the public documents
of the federal government In Washington. Priv-
ately many members of the medical profession
have known for some years that factors other
than a lack of so-called fresh air causes head-
aches and nausea in crowded places. But few
have had the courage to be outspoken In the
face of general belief and upset the belief im-
bedded in the public consciousness for so many
years.
Il Is interesting to know how philosophers and
scientists of centuries ago regarded air and how
their findings stack up with modern scientific
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
NH of the famous remarks attributed
Jwf Wa to that great American humorist,
IIB jyjj| Mark Twain, which is familiar to
most of his fellow-countrymen was
Wfl Wf to the effect that "Everybody talks
■f about the weather hut nobody ever
does anything about it.” However
true that statement may have been
once, it’s passe now. For modern
science and modern engineering
have “done something about it,” ami
now mankind can literally "make
bis own weather"—that is, the kind of weather
be wants to have in his own home or place of
business.
Of course, away back in the early history of
mankind he learned how to make his habita-
tion warm when it was too cold outside for com-
fort. In recent years our movie palaces have
pointed the way to making their interiors com-
fortably cool when it’s too hot outside for com-
fort. But up to now the average householder
couldn’t afford to follow the lead of the movie
Hiouses and install a "cooling system” as well us
a “healing system" in his home.
So it is one of the triumphs of modern sci-
ence and modern engineering that now anyone
who has electricity at his command also lias
a! ids command perfect indoor weather for all
climes and localities. And tiiis is something
more than regulation of heat and cold, for the
new activity of science, described in the two
words "air conditioning.” means the correction
of air to a point most desirable for personal
comfort, with just the right amount of warmth
or coolness, correct moisture content or rela-
tive humidity, removal of dust particles and
forced circulation without draft.
Since it does include all those things, an-
other favorite expression "It’s not the heat; it’s
the humidity” is due to go by the boards. For
it was that very thing, humidity, which started
research engineers on the track that has brought
about the development of air conditioning equip-
ment which embodies the functions of heating,
cooling, drying, moistening, cleansing and circu-
lating of air. And the beauty of it is that the
Mir conditioner, smaller than the average heat
radiator, is so compactly built that It may lie
installed in any room, apartment, office, hospital,
or place of business.
More Ilian Hint the conditioners arc so sim-
ple in operation and require so little supervision
that two small switches on the end of the cab-
inet may be compared to the mythical lever
which (lie cartoonists show the weather man
operating when he wants to supply cold, heat,
sultriness, dryness, rain, wind or calm. As a
mailer of fa'-t the conditioner goes the weather
imiin one heller.
The conditioner can’t guess wrong, it pulls
In the air of a room, corrects it ns It should
be to provide personal comfort regardless of
outdoor weather conditions, then sends It into
the room so quietly occupants are unaware of
the conditioner’s operation. To give to Indoor
Mir that delicate touch of perfection, nlr con-
ditioners should operate ifl where the
windows «re kept dosed >* the correction of
the room alrqospiiere i n’l I'.ssipated into the
outdoors.
This factor brings up an interesting revela-
(ji.u of flic general public's regard for fresh
Mir. Fresh air isn’t what ii's cm-U >d tip to be.
m cording to our foremost scientists. In many
cases i> inny be more harmful than the aver-
age indoor air.
Aii ondilioners provide an answer to one
FATIGUE?
I just postpone it!'
“No, I don’t have ’nerves." You can’t have them, and
hold this sort of position. My head used to throb
around three o’clock, and certain days, of course,
were worse than others.
“Then I learned to rely on Bayer Aspirin.’*
The sure cure for any headache is rest. But some-
times we must postpone it. That’s when Bayer
Aspirin saves the day. Two tablets, and the nagging
pain is gone until you are home. And once you are
comfortable, the pain seldom returns!
Keep Bayer Aspirin handy. Don’t put it away,
or put off taking it. Fighting a headache to finish the
day may be heroic, but it is also a little foolish. So is
sacrificing a night’s sleep because you’ve an annoying
cold, or irritated throat, or grumbling tooth, neuralgia,
neuritis. These tablets always relieve. They don’t
depress the heart, and may be taken freely. That is
medical opinion. It is a fact established by the last
twenty years of medical practice.
The only caution to be observed is when you are
buying aspirin. Bayer is genuine. Tablets with the
Bayer cross are safe.
Designs in Light
The photographic portrait artist re-
quires a background for his pictures
and recently the idea of making a
background by the use of electric
lights has become popular. The rays
from a lamp are projected onto the
plain background through a loosely
arranged piece of foliage and the
effects are often very beautiful.
Decorators have taken up this Idea
and shades are being arranged over
electric lights which throw a pretty
design upon the wall or ceiling in
light and shade.
There will always he “incompati-
bility of temperament” where there
is selfishness.
Young folks marry while old aolks
keep on talking about the rules that
should govern marriage.
Natives First
‘‘Were there good and cheap rooms
in tiie resort where you spent your
holidays?”
“Plenty of them; but the natives
lived in them.”—Exchange.
Geography Simplified
“What do they mean when they
say Washington, D. C.?” asked the
teacher.
‘‘Washington, de capital,” piped
up a little chap.
One who has tended an onion bed
can understand why farmers do not
rush into truck farming.
A girl's face nmy be her misfor-
tune—and still be a beautiful one.
Beards are well enough if kept
under control.
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Martin, W. L. The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1932, newspaper, April 1, 1932; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth728745/m1/2/?q=EARTH: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carrollton Public Library.