Show UNNECESSARY NOISE The dispatches tell of the departure for Europe of a woman who has made madea a wonderfully successful crusade in I New York against unnecessary noise She went abroad to rest from the fa fatigue fatigue tigue of her long hard campaign and probably to get where she could escape the pandemonium of New Yorks streets The crusade began with a fight against noises outside the hospitals of the great city No one knows unless he has experienced it the torture to a ap patient p from the bells the auto horns horn the hawkers cries the shrieks of train whistles and gongs of street cars all the da day long Jong and most of the night Such tumult is had bad enough for the strong and well but for the sick and worn It is a deadly agony agon Happily the public saw the good sense of sup suppressing suppressing pressing the unnecessary noises near the h hospitals and the campaign was effectively supported by a whole city From this beginning the crusade spread Churchgoers demanded the cessation of needless and near places of worship In some churches which had been ac accustomed to the old fashion of ringing bells to summon the congregations the bells were stopped The street car carmen carmen men caught the idea and limited their warning gongs to necessary uses Au Automobile Automobile drivers quit putt blowing their horns and tooting sirens unless there was reason for It The whole public b by the reform and It has been so satisfactory In its results that the good achieved is likely to be per permanent permanent manent Salt Lake might profitably adopt the New York womans Idea even If it is quiet here as compared with the great greater er cities Some bells here are rung at unholy hours of the day and night One in particular has a way of going off at 6 in the morning summer and wInter to the distress of every poor sleeper within blocks of the establish establishment establishment ment A few manufacturers whistles nave have thee the same disregard of need for repose and rest and too many auto drivers think It a pleasing diversion to hoot gayly with a horn at any hour between midnight and sun sunrise sunrise rise In these days when men are bur burdened burdened with telephone bells all day long longwIth longwith I wIth the noises of street cars and heavy when nerves are strung up to high tension constantly by the IncreasIng pressure of business and so social social cial life any relief from unnecessary noise Is a gain and Salt Lake ought to try the experiment of reducing the pressure |