Show I I II I Proper Fire Protection BY ARTIE TI T n a was the Cleveland Cle holocaust there is a n lesson to be he learned from front it it an and similar tr dic It j i ia a It lesson of proper fire protection and ancI construction of public c building To a rouse the people to nn an understanding of or their ri rights an and to lo impress S upon public officials n a sense of their l' l duties over ever overtakes er takes take sonio desperate measure That loss Joss of innocent lives hives should be lc the means is is sad indeed but all nil partial loss is ig universal uni good Had hind the Collinwood school choo b been cn properly prop erly constructed it IL is is doubtful i ii it the loss Joss of life Yuu would d have o been IJen so 80 great when the thc fire demon with his greedy d tongue licked up that flimsy structure snuffed out the tho lives cs of oC nearly two huni hundred hun i I tired dred and Uld c cast sl gloom over o more mOTO than a I hundred homes home Wo We are arc informed that the th doors to the tho school building opened orK inwardly elly and tha that tho firo fire escapes could conIc not be reached us lS they were absolutely inaccessible It is ts a crime an unholy ly crime to erect creet nn any public building with doors leers that open inwardly When fire comes anti and panic follows follow how can cnn maddened hundreds s think quickly enough h to open a II door doo r toward them 1 Jf U doors were made t to o open upen out outwardly the r very impact of If Ifa a n wild throng would force orce an exit With tb the doors opening inwardly the exit exits s net act ns as 8 a bar to egress Wednesdays Wednesday's da s press reports verify this statement After the is fire in in n Chicago Chicag o some four years a ago o. o a great cr cry wen went t lip up all over th the tho United States State for Cor better bette tr r protection for tho those e in iu public places Theaters and auditoriums nil all over the land were remodeled and ann a n great groat reat amount of good was wag accomplished Little or no rio attention was paid to school bl however er And here is the great crime crimo If Jf adults will trample upon ele each other and become demons clemons when p panic panic- nic- nic stricken how bow much munch worse will be th the tho catastrophe when school children arc Ire endangered I Architects who plan school buildings 3 rarely have lIa heeded the principle of outward outward out out- ward rard opening doors It has always been thought that children are in school so o few bours rs Iol each cacti da day that the tho risk from lire tire i is minimized minimize But But is it iH Should SI we vc not deman-d deman that children bo be safeguarded in er c every pO possible manner while thc they are arC in school 1 It is ia not ri right ht that mothers and anti fathers may send their children to school chool secure in the belief that they will nill be returned to to- them safo-lv safo Salt SaIl Lake is sin singularly bl blessed in that its schools arc are pro provider de 1 with nith excellent ex cx- celent tire fire lir escapes sea pes and in that its school schoolchildren schoolchildren schoolchildren children are rec regularly thrilled drilled to firo fire marches The Thc fire escapes arc of th the spIral kind These aro re constructed so that a child may mav walk alk into the tho I escape and L b bt gently lowered to tho the ground where ready roady ogress egress is found Ever Every door in every or schoolhouse in Salt Snit Lake nit Pity fity opens outwardly outwardly But still tbt there rc i is some pome risk In a recent firo tire scare at the tho Union school the building was emptied emptied emp emp- tied in in exact exactly seconds or er less ess than two t minutes minute In another column of this paper will be ho found a statement from Crom D D. 1 II IL bristen en city superintendent superintendent of schools bearing upon tho the question Careful perusal of this statement state state- ment will set at rest rost many fears now I entertained by fathers and mothers Fireproof buildings I maintain arc re rethe the only real roal safe safeguards against su such h frightful tra tragedies edies as that at Cleve Cleve- lan land Were taxpayers to a agree rec to spend a few extra ectra dollars er e every school could be bo so con constructed that firo fire could never gain aiu nn any headway Certainly such buildings s would woul cost a litHo more hut but would not the extra cost be more than on offset onet et by the preventive o measures added 7 1 To those thoc sorrowing parents who sit j in darkness with their dead loved ond ones I extend m my heartfelt sympathy and I 1 sorrow with them Such tragedies conic come to few but when they come th they teach a great treat lesson May Mav ap the millions of fathers and mothers throughout tho the laud lanti take heed herd from tho the sad experiences of those Vin sorrowing parents rise riso in their might and demand the time exact and complete fulfillment nt of duties bv by public officials who have in their keep keep- ing zag the tho lives li of school chool children Parents demand a discontinuance of the tIme overcrowding practice No Xo school chool schoolroom room should have bave more than fort forty fort pu pupils pu- pu pils pus in it at au any tim time Build BuH only fireproof structures If these b be t too expensive construct school buildings s of but one story School hoards hoard have havo plenty plent of land Jand and money should not be counted when human lives aro arc at nt stake Insist that every onn school building haMas has haM hasas hasas as man many exits in it it as a tb theater ater Every Ev 1 Ev- Ev cry ery should have hayo at ut least ca t tei ei eight ht places o of safe e egress ress 1 I See Sec ee to it that every school building of moro more than one story in height has a proper number of tire fire escapes upon its walls ralls There should be at least two escapes escape on each of tho the four si sides es of every e building And demand that only I tho the simplest simple and aDd most modern escapes bo ho employed Demand also alo that part of if- if the tho curriculum curriculum curriculum cur cur- of each grade crade from tho the primary to tho the last year car in hi high h school have as asono asono ono one of ot its ih component party parts fire drill drills II These demands aro arc not unreasonable and if they Vere were great loss los of life attended b by untold miser misery JUi might bc lc avoided bv hr them thorn |