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Show I THE CITIZEN I OBSffiVATION PLANE ladky iiuuNuiiuuuiiiiiuuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiuiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuuuiiuiuiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiil Help! Commissioners Lost In Smoke The city commissioners are again wandering around in the smoke. As the smoke grows denser so do they. For several months they have been telling us that they were about to frame an ideal ordinance to keep Salt Lake from choking itself to death this wihter. Meantime the smoke has sneaked up on us under cover of a fog of words emanating from the city hall. The sum and substance of the ordinance appears to be that if we treat soft coal kindly it will not smoke. The head of the family who tends the furnace must speak softly and handle the coal with care. If you put a lump too much to one side or the other you are apt to overgloom the city for a whole day so that the tourists cannot find it in a pall of smoke. When Mr. Monnett, the $10,000 expert, was with us he was asked whether the smoke that was here would remain here, and he answered, Yes. And when he was asked whether we could reduce the amount of smoke, he said that by proper study, application and care we might reduce it in some measure. He held out no promise of an adequate remedy in the immediate future. But the commissioners framed an ordinance based upon the experts recommendations, and in it they provide for a chief smoke consumer or something of that sort and give a lot of good advise concerning the proper way to creep up on a lump of soft coal ar.d burn it alive. If your coal smokes pay the smoke inspector $5 and he wlll tell you that soft coal always smokes when it is angry. If you insist on w'ays of getting rid of the smoke he may tell you to install a coking plant or try being cold. ing dens of iniquity. The only thing they forget is to estimate what percentage of the smoke comes from cigarettes, cigars, pipes and cabbages, lerhaps if they would include an provision iu the ordinance it anti-cigaret- te would help some. The commissioners spent the summer and the early fall chatting cheerily about the smoke and enjoying luncheons at the Commercial club while experts assured us that there was quite a quantity of smoke in Salt Lake, especially in the smokier months. Now that the smokier months have come, the saddest of the year, the commissioners are still groping around in the fog waiting for a relief expedi- Come and spend some of that easy money for some real Good Clothes. Its wonderful how appearances count in this world. tion to save them. Of course, every furnace man is expected to do his duty. Or if not he, then his wife. The best way not to add to the smoke pall is not to let your coal smoke. It is really an excellent precaution. If your coal smokes it will add to the smoke pall. But if the soft coal should insist on smoking, make it go out in the alley. You might also sift a little powdered Chinese punk on the surface of the coal. It will not suppress the smoke, but it will make 156-15- 8 SOUTH MAIN STREET HOME OF CHESTERFIELD CLOTHES it smell sweet. Another way is to keep the home fires burning brightly night and day. If you cover up the blaze when you go to bed your furnace wTill smoke. And if you dont cover it up and turn off the drafts, your fire will go out about 1:30 a. m. This can be easily remedied by standing guard over the furnace all night. If you dont want to do it, ask your wife to do it. And then await the results. If you have an old furnace and are unable to reason with it, take it out into the back yard and beat it to death with a club. It is quite apparent that no proper provision is made to exorcise the smoke demon. The ordinance, the enforcement of which will cost us thousands of dollars a year, is a dubious experiment. Even the authors of it have little confidence in its effectiveness. They are the same men who wanted to spend $3,000,000 on a worthless waterworks notion last spring. They did not know what they were about then and they know less about smoke than they do about water. . The expert tells us just what percentage of smoke in our smoke pall comes from the business district, how much from locomotive engines, factories, houses and other smoke-produ- c logs WE PRINT THE CITIZEN Century printing Company W. G. ROMNEY J. Q. RYAN COLOR PRINTERS 7tfene Quality and Price are Dependable' ON BROADWAY BETWEEN MAIN 6 STATE the and its s Ha Price Breaking Campaign The Paris now as in the Time has come to call a halt. The public must lie reckoned with. Merchandise must he moved and lower prices must become effective. The Paris, ever in the vanguard to conscientiously serve its customers: merchandising Thursday will inaugurate this detinite, campaign. One of the chief motives back of this campaign Is to ower stock, but primarily the reason prompting this drastic movement is to maintain The Paris Stores leadership now, as in the past, in pioneering the way to lower prices. With tin many demands of the winter now imposing their cal', and the holiday season just ahead, the import of such reductions arc almost incalculable. Service hns been augmented in every department to assure you expediency in each transaction you make in g Tlie Paris Great Campaign. far-reachin- now. and tion. work Phom Opei g, J. R. SI Price-lireakin- Phone Wasatch 1801 Century Building 231 Edison Street Details Of Sale In Our Daily Newspaper Ads. 14 Ex l:i,il'U.'HW |