Show A PLEA FOR CLEANLINESS Editor Tribune I would like to ask what right onehalf the people of Salt Lake have to cover the sidewalks with lllth for the other half to walk through and be nauseated bOna b-Ona cannot walk a half dozen stepson steps-on Second SouCh between Main and West Temple and Main and State without being obliged to step In it One lady a few days ago slipped by stepping In the slimy mass and fell hurting her badly The deadly banana Is not so bad Bacteriologists tell us there are more microbes In the mouth than In any other part of the body Physicians when they have a case of consumption order the expectoration of the l patient to bo burled saying that if It Is left on the surface It dries up and blows away carrying the germs of the disease Today every man with consumption spits upon the sidewalk and It dries up blows away carrying the germs of the disease Every man with incipient smallpox goes up and down tho street spitting ao ho goes for others to contract the loathsome disease Every little while a wall goes up about tho great death rate in Salt Lake especially among children It cannot be otherivlso with our sidewalks in the condition they arc And It is not walks alone there are stairways leading to ofllcos and galleries gal-leries that arc ntlckey with the lllth of dust and expectoration combined which must have taken weeks to accumulate Occasionally a man to show his right to be dirty as a free American citizen walks up to one of the Red Cross signs of the city ordinance and spits upon It or tears it down thereby showing his own low nature It is no wonder the French call us the Great American Spitters With water running at every curb Salt Lake has the opportunity of being the cleanest city in the Untied States instead It fs the dirtiest I suppose there is no law against a mans being as dirty as his nature demands but there Is a law against his forcing his dirt upon other people It seems to us thatjdecent people have some rights that others should be bound to respect |