Show IT CERTAINLY IS TO LAUGH according to the daily press dorsey A lyon acting head of the bureau of mines until a few days ago has requested a report fram salt lake city on the present smoke abatement work to be used as a guide for other cities A reply should state that the chief ingredient of a it smoke eliminator here is an appropriation to maintain smoke inspectors of course they do nothing worth talking about to control smoke but they get their pay and that is the main thing the bureau of mines might also look into our scheme of getting rid of mosquitos the same method applies last year we did not accomplish much because the appropriation was not large enough the mosquito commission is now planning the expenditure of enough money during 1926 to scare every mosquito in this thi valley to death talk about sand b bagging a aging the p public tile tax payer these commissions and bureaus of ours have bank robbers and holdups hold ups backed off the map |