Well Glazed Bank

Officials of the Equitable Trust Co., Manhattan, having learned the health value of special window glasses that permit the passage of ultraviolet sun light (TIME, Oct. 18, Nov. 1), ordered 18 stories of their new bank building now going up at Broad & Wall Streets, Manhattan, glazed throughout with this glass.

Said Vice President Lyman Rhoades last week: "We are told that our installation is the first instance in this country where a skyscraper office building will utilize the scientifically-established health benefit of the sun's vital rays. ... If the exigencies of business rob its men and women of natural physical advantages and if science perfects means of returning the stolen goods, it seems to us to be the duty of business to admit the theft and to make amends by acceping the contributions of science. If we were to view this move solely as an investment, on which we might expect a profitable return, we are confident that vitaglazed windows of our new building would give us that return in a newly invigorated personnel and a lessened absentee list."