Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 225, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1919 — Noise Stops Sleep [ARTICLE]

Noise Stops Sleep

Airplane Factories Are Not Good Neighbors. France Warns U. 8.: Don’t Build Plants Near Human Habitation. Paris.—With the certainty that aviation Is quickly to become one of the big Industries throughout the entire world, Paris has a little warning for all of her sister cities of America and ever* other country rThe warning is this: Enact lmme-_ 4iately."eHher state.municipntornhtional. legislation prohibiting the erection of airplane factofles anywhere within hearing distance of where human beings have to live and sleep. Otherwise, said human beings won’t be able to sleep and will be driven In no time at all either into their graves or some far-awjiy sanitarium. Everyone knows how much rumpus an airplane makes when it is flying thousands of feet overhead. Well, every airplane motor before it is mounted has to be tested, and to be tested it is attached to a huge bench or platform and run continuously at top speed, with hundreds of horsepower back of it, for at least twentyfour hours and that living within hearable distance can possibly sleep. At Suresnes, where motors are tested for forty-eight hours, it Has been necessary to close an adjacent school.

At Puteaux the inhabitants declare they have not slept for months. At Courbevole the city council has resigned as a means of protest. At Clichy the city has bought a large tract of land for the erection of a municipal hospital. “ Airplane factories during the war Installed themselves in the vicinity and the medical authorities now refuse to let the city build its hospital In such a death-insuring locality. - t The department of the Seine ha* been forced in the Interest of public health to take measures to stop the airplane factories and get them moved