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Professor Marsh's critical letter to the editor (TIME, Sept. 28) on the inadvisability of using rubber panties as a gas mask was very thorough and correct except for one thing. During a gas attack, he advocates staying indoors and lying on the floor with head in arms. Since all war gases are heavier than air they descend to the lowest level possible, and in this case the lowest level in the room is the floor. It would seem that a better position would be to sit or stand in the room. STEPHEN E. ULRICH 1st Lieut., C.W.S. Chicago...
Possibly the first large section of U.S. citizenry to achieve a gas mask for every adult is Hawaii. This week the Territory is fast achieving an even more exciting goal-a "bunny mask" for each of its 50,000 infants...
Besides learning how to battle fires, the Auxiliary is given a complete training in actual rescue work. Beyond the fundamentals of first-aid he finds out how to use a resuscitator and how to carry unconscious victims through smoke-filled building, supplied only with a smoke mask, and down Pompeii (sealing) ladders...
...indeed will be any civilian exposed to mustard gas while wearing a pair of rubber panties for a gas mask [TIME, Sept. 7]. The average rubber pant is of similar thickness to a surgeon's rubber glove; it is well known that these gloves become dangerous to wear after 15 minutes' exposure to mustard-gas vapor. This particular grade of rubber is not only an inadequate protection but even accentuates mustard-gas burns as well as permanently contaminating the rubber itself. Mustard gas is soluble in rubber and a droplet that would produce only a small blister...
...lime will stop the vapors of all war gases . . . from going through the orifice of the tin can, but it will not stop damage to the skin, eyes, lungs by the mustard-gas vapor that goes through the rubber. The fact that rubberized fabric is used in military gas masks has probably served for the foundation of the A.W.V.S. fallacy. But the gas mask is of an entirely different grade of rubber and is quite thick in comparison to rubber underwear...