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Show I reassuring to the parents of children in public i schools. The committee Is headed by (ieorjje U. ! Strayer of the Teachers' colleje of Columbia university. This report Indicates that in 429 cities of the United . States tens of thousands are attending whool in firetraps, and that hundreds of thousands are compelled to attend half time or in "makeshift, "make-shift, insanitary hiildinjfs. I'ass'ng the problems f playground room, which In some eases is limited lim-ited to a space of sis by six feet for a pupil and in others none at all, the question of fire hazard seems vital. Of all the buildings in Ihese cities, "only 5 per cent are of the type of construction usually caltfj fireproof ; 2$ per ent of the twq poorest types of school hw!lJinjr,s indujei im the survey are of two or more stories and without fire fv capes; l per cent of these two types have no fire extinguishers and 1cm than to per cent have automatic extinguishers In any part of the huilJ-I huilJ-I tajt; only 1 1 per cent have automatic Tire alarms. AnJ one-half of the prevent Jay schools were built prior to 187. It seems that a real menace exM. Constant fire drills by pupils, automatic sprinkler equipment, equip-ment, hanJ jrjenades in every room, and automatic auto-matic fire alarms would reduce the fire hazard wonderfully even in buildings thjf are not of the latest fireproof construction. : ,v For Safer Schools . ; j'T.IH report just made by the national commit-v commit-v tee for ihamber of Commerce cooperation with the public schools on a survey conducted by ' the- American City bureau, ouht to be far from |