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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 10 Oct 1924, p. 24

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\VIL:\IETTE LIFE, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1924 ...:::: U.S. FAR AHEAD Warn Motorists Against Monoxide Gas Poisoning ··Beware of closed gara,l!t:S with the drawing on of cold weath er," warns a l, ull etin i ued by the acc1<lcnt pn: ,·c ntion department of the Chicago ~~ owr club. "~Iany motorists belie'~ .that t he odor of burning gas and otl 1s carbon monoxide. The truth is that carbon monoxide, a product of incomplete combustion , is absolutely tasteless. without color. and almo t odorless_. It obtains its lethal effects from the tact that it roh s th e air of oxyge n, the ,·ita! gas essential to life. . "Herman K. Bundcsen. commissioner of health of Chicago, su~gests that the fir 't thing to . he do!1e 1 .n th.e case of carbon monox1de p ISOlllng IS to call a physician. and in t~e mea.ntime remo\'e the victim to tresh a1r; keep the patient at re st. lying down to aYoid st rain on the heart: pnform IN TELEPHONES America Hu 63 Percent of World's Phones The Cnited States ha . 63 per cent of all the telephones in the world. In proportion to population this country ha s ten tim e as many telephones as the world at large. Th e a\'er~ge American uses the telephone nme times a much as ·the a verage Englishman, and ten time~ as much as the average Frenchman. There are mo~e telephone s in :\ ew York. City th.an 111 the whole oi Great Bnta111 and !\orthern Ireland; more in the city of Chicago than in all of France. In rural telephone development. America stands head and shoulders above the rest of the world. Unc:ballenaed Leader The. c and other striking iacts. ii Justrath·e of thi s country's unchallenged leadership in the telephone field, are brought out in a .re~ent compilation of telephone stat1st1cs of all countries. This study shows that on January 1, 1923, there were 22,904.415 telephoucs in use throughout the world of which 14,347,395 wt re in the t..:nited States. Thus the American people, who form but one-sixteenth of the earth\ population. have at their en·ice nearlv two-thirds of all the telephone. in ·existence. Europe. with four tillle. as many people as this country, has only about two-fifths as many telephones. On th ~ date to which these figures relate, there were 5.863,684 telephones in Europe, or hut little more than one-quarter of the world '~ total. All other countries, in cluding the entire \Vestern Hemisphere outside of the United States, and Asia, Africa and Oceania as well, had only one-ninth of the total telephones in operation. Of the 1,100,161 telephones added to the wire sy terns of the world during 1922, 620.670 represented the net growth of the telephone facilities in the United States. United State· Eaaily F irat In number of telephones per 100 of population, America's leadership was even more pronounced. There were, on January · 1, 1923, 13.1 telephones for every 100 people in the United States. as compared with 3.5 telephones for every 100 people in Germany, 2.3 in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1.3 in France and 0.3 in Italy. Although Japan had the best developed telephone system of any Asiatic country, she could hoast but 0.9 telephones per 100 inhabitants, even prior to the earthquake of September. 1923. It is significant that these foreign countries have all entrusted t he development of their telephone systems to government ownership, whereas in the United States the telephone business has been energetically developed by private initiative. Telephone systems operated by private enterprise now include 71 per cent of the world's total telephones; only 29 per cent being under govttnment ow n ership. Canada , with 10.4 telephones per 100 people, a nd Den mark with 8.3 approach nearest to this country in number of telep hones per 100 in habitants. Leada in RUJ'a) Phon·· In absolute numbers New York City, with 1,072,632 telephones on January l, 1923, was easily first among all the citie of the world. In fact. the American metropolis alone had more telep hones than the whole of any foreign country except Germany. New York's telephone development of 18.2 telephones per 100 peop le far exceeded that of Berlin 9.3; Paris, 6.3; or London, 5.1. At the same date, Omaha had 28 telephones fo r every 100 inhabitants; San Francisco. 25.2: Minneapolis, 24.2; Denver, 23, and Washington, 22.8. The only important foreign city with a comparable te lephone development was Stockholm with 25.4 telephones per 100 people. In most fo reign countries te lephone facilities are even more restrict ed in the smaller communities than in the large cit ies. F ar mers' t elephones a re a lmost unknown in Europe. Telephone development has, in many countries, been concentrated principally in t he capital cities and large commercial centers. More than onet hird of aH the British telephones, for example, are in London; over onethird of all the French telephones are in Paris. Americans appreciate their unique telepho nes faci lit ies and use the tele-· phone fa r more t han do other nations. Du ring 1922 there were 174 telephone conversat ions per person in the United States, as against 35 in Germany, 17 in France and 18 in Great Britain and Nort hern Ir~la nd. artificial respiration in thi::. fashion: Patient lies with face down, arms in front . The opera~or -tradd le,; the patient about the h1ps and applies firm pre s,.ure o,·e r ~he back of the ribs, quickty w1thdraw111g hi hand~. This maneu,·c r expels the air in thl· lungs of the \'ictim and the udden withdrawing of the pressure ~auses a sharp inhalation ?f fresh a1r. It is ad' isable at that time too, to ha\'C someone simultaneously pull t_ he tongue back and forth .in r.hyt~m With the expiration and !nsp1rat10~. As soon as it can be obtamed, a mtxtur.e of oxygen and five pe~c~nt carbon dioxide should be admm1stered for at lea st twenty minutes or. more and the circ ulation must be a1ded over the period of low vitality by external applications of heat." ~ tretch ed · ~----···----------------------------------------····~I · I Our Meals Give Satisfaction =-=== \OL. = Read the Want -Ada The fact that we have many customers who eat with us every day proves that our meal give atisfaction. We can satisfy the most particular taste. For Your Drug Store Needa Call Best coffee in town. Snider-Cazel Drug Co. Phones Wilmette WILMETTE CAFE 1111 W'dmette AYe., oppoaite Villqe Hall L···················································~ 400-401 Wilmette and Central Aves. Maywood Air Mail Field Lighted by This Company No. 19 in a eenee of st·temenhJ about the Company' !ll bwJi ne·· of the most complete ONE for guidance of mail service night pilots is now in use at the Maywood air mail field. mst~ations Public Service Company engineers co-operated with government engineers in designing and installing the illumination of this field, the most spectacular feature of which is the 36 inch flood light mounted on ,me llt the main hangars. This beacon light t:hrm.vs a beam of 6,000,000 candle power into the night sky and provides a path of light visible to aviators for l 75 miles. Approaching pnota are guided to Maywood field by thts tremendous!}' htgh power bea· con. They are further directed to safe landings by ground lights and red mushroom markers indicating the cinder runways. There is also an illuminated weather vane to give them wind direction This Company provides the electricity for all of this illumination and also for the 400,000 candle power guide li~ht installed at Harvey. Public Service Company ts glad to be able to assist the United States Government in lessening the hazards of the air and to lend its aid in making the facilities of the trans· '\lfltinental air mail st'!rvice more efficient. PUBLIC SERVICE COMPA.Nv OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ~- 6,000 equare mil..-202 dti· tUUI tou1u-u1itla Gcu or Electricib JNO. S. REESMAN, Diatrict Maaa·er til Churcla Street Phoae Univerait1 3101 EVANSTON Phone Wilmette Zl5l Geor·e Bauer, Former Reaiclent, Pauea Away Funeral services for George Bauer, 24 years old, who died in Arizona, were held T uesday m orning at St. Joseph's church. Mr. Bauer was well known in Wi lmette and was active in a number of organizations before he want to Arizona because of failing health. He was connectf!d with the First National Bank in Wilmette for three years. John Bauer, a brother and a for mer Wilmette resident, came from New York for the services. The ·nnnunceme nt the Public; S er v1ce ComJMIIY of Northern lllinoia haa been ··arded the Ch.rl .. A . CoBin Meal fo r 1923, ia e tribute to t he terri t ory 1n which this Comp#Uiy oper ate· · · w ell aa t o t h e · ertriee it rend..... · - -----------·· tl··' l'h·· ··· rrl .:tD .. '"' " ~' noad,. ,., Comp.ny in com petitioo 'With the e /ee trio lil,ht and power co m pan i ea of the U n i ted State·" for diatinlviahed contribution to the development o f electric li~ .nd po·er for the: eoti~enience of the pub· lie and the be11elit ..t th . induetry" ------ -· -- --

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