By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
NE of the famous remarks attributed
to that great American humorist,
Mark Twain, which is familiar to
most of his fellow-countrymen was
to the effect that “Everybody talks
about the weather but 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,” and
- now mankind ean literally “make
his own weather"—that is, the kind of weather
he 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. ut up to now the average householder
couldn't afford to follow the lead of the movie
houses and install a “cooling system” as well as
a “heating 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 has
at his command perfect Indoor weather for all
climes and localities, And this is something
more than regulation of heat and cold, for the
new activity of science, described in the two
words “alr 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 eirculation 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
air conditioner, smaller than the average heat
radiator, is so compactly built that it may be
installed in any room, apartment, office, hospital,
or place of business,
More than that the conditioners are 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 the cartoonists show the weather man
operating when he wants to supply cold, heat,
sultriness, dryness, rain, wind or calm, As a
matter of fact the conditioner goes the weather
man one better,
The conditioner can't guess wrong, It pulls
in the air of a room, corrects it as 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
alr -that delicate touch of perfection, alr con.
‘ditloners should operate In rooms where the
windows are kept closed wo the correction of
the room atmosphere isn't dissipated into the
outdoors.
This factor brings up an interesting revela-
tion of the general public's regard for fresh
alr. Fresh alr isn’t what it's cracked up to be,
according to our foremost scientists, In many
eases it may be more harmful than the aver
age indoor air,
Alr conditioners provide an answer to one
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 alr condi
tioner ls 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 Olid
Man Humidity on the run in the hot and sultry
seasons
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of the 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 humity, 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 thelr coats and
keep their ties tied will be able to work as en
ergetically and as smartly appearing In the sum.
mer as in winter, and thelr 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 wp good
will with new,
The answer to the brighter existence held 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.
fy 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 alr 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 bellef Im
bedded In the public consclousness for so many
years,
It is Interesting to know how philosophers and
scientists of centuries ago regarded alr and how
their findings stack up with modern scientific
developments, Aristotle, founder «
thought that swayed the thinking of mankind
for more than 1.000 years, regarded alr as one
of nature's four cardinal elements, the others be
ing fire, earth and water,
Up until 1757 little was kne about
Then, Dr. Joseph ck, who was experimenting
with chemicals, mad liscovery of a ga
called “Axed alr,” now known
Ide In 1775, J
calling It “deg
the first time mn
knowledge of aime
few years later
gn excess amount of carbon dioxide formed by
standing and reputation brought ready accept.
ance for this theory, and it was but a natura
step to the premise that fre h air, without ex-
cessive carbon dioxide and with
ing.
cur in Lavolisier's theory but most scientists
voicing of contrary opinions,
if not more about pure and Impure air than
any research organization In the world
In reprint No. 1150 of the public reports, Doc.
cent that animals began to breathe with diffi
culty. Friedlander 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 alr increases considerably, In
lecture rooms, theaters, ete, 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.
Mehl, an engineer, in 1008 announced definite
ly the nonexistence of a “breath poisep.” 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 the combination of heat and humidity
that is #0 depressing and injurious to mental
and physical alertness, and the consequent dam.
age to business and industrial efMiciency brought
on by personal discomfort. With these facts,
engineers working on conditioning of indoor alr
found that It Is easy to be comfortable In a
room In which the customary thermometer
shows a temperature of 00 degrees, if the hu
midity is lowered.
Leading economists, engineers and builders
have hailed alr conditioning as the next big In
dustry of the 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 alr conditioning is a
new achievement that replaces practically noth.
ing now in use, finds for itself a place In popy
lar demand, and opens the way to Increased
manufacturing, sales and installation activity,
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