Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-09-29 | Page 19 | Woman Fights Smoke

WOMAN FIGHTS SMOKE I BF- BF r rr r r Aids ids City Dwellers in Finding Place in Sun I NEA Service Wr Writer ter NEW V YORK Sept 28 28 Laura Laura C. C bauble Cauble might be called Americas America's foremost smoke eater She is not a 3 fire fighter however but ut an avowed enemy of r smoke Sh She l Isa s a sunshine crusader crusader- out to eliminate oHm oHm- nate smoke emoke from from Americas Americas America's cities ClUes Her ler sl slogan gan is Is' Of A A place In th the sun for tor or everyone tf ff I mom From the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to Mexico Industrial industrial Indus- Indus trial rial cities cities' know this energetic silver liver eyed blue motherly looking scientist who appears un unexpectedly un- un expectedly sets up her little smoke- smoke measuring machine and in short order or or- der er tells teUs city councils doctors and a d othera Just bow dirt grit arid poisonous gases go up their noses and down their throats dally daily in the sui k air they breathe SUN CHECKS DISE DISEASE SE She tells tells' h housewives how much longer friend husbands husband's shirts would last ast were the smoke banished More she proves s convincingly how low ni much ch less liable to c colds pneumonia monia consumption and othe other chest ches diseases little l Mary ry Sonny and Maud are in cities where there Is no smoke hazard Miss w wasn't born hating haung smoke It is an acquired aversion a hate hato that grows dally daily because i there here i Is no excuse for smoke she I explained Miss Cauble spent her childhood I out In n Indiana's sunshine riding and playing on h b her br r fathers father's ather s faimon farm faim farmon I on tho banks of the Wabash I I Ilov lov loved oved d the sight of ot smoke then for fort It t meant a picnic campfire a b bonfire nIre of or autumn leaves eaves or a big fire In the kitchen stove which told us supper was ready she sho reminisced But I lived In fn PIttsburg Chicago Newark and other industrial cities clUes when I got older I found whit what thin substance sunshine could be e filtered through smoke that eliminated at d all its glowing violet rays rays added Miss Cauble's anUp antipathy thy to to smoke and her energetic measures toward smoke abatement are the result of ot ofa ofa ota a double experience First wh when n ri rishe she was director ot of house household old arts at the University of ot Pittsburg shortly after graduating from Columbia Co Co- Co- Co lumbia she set her lier pupils to figure cleaning costs In connection with Vit their budgets The costs c ts averaged four times those U s without industrial In smoke Being a scientist a-scientist she realized the high financial cost smoke is to a a. community Second some years ears later she contracted contracted con con- tuberculosis nursing a a. friend It was only by leaving smoky cities and sp spending two years on the plateaus plateaus' of North orth Carolina that I regained my health Since then I have studied the tho and know how hos eminent ent health experts everywhere re condemn sm smoke its abatement she slie ex ox ex Miss Cauble has has' become one of the most most able consultants in the country on business business' management nn n gement and She Sho has married another another an an- other scientist who shares her tremendous tre tre- tre tremendous tremendous Interest in smoke abatement abate abate- ment When you visit them in their charming Gre Greenwich Village home home the time chances are aro that the subject will turn to smoke in a a. very short time For Miss l Cauble's avocation driving driving smoke out of ot America America- has become the greatest interest In R Rochester chester Buffalo Utica Chicago Chica Chica- go Newark St. St Ix Louis uis and tind man many I other other cities aroused by her public public- spirited attacks s on the useless waste o of smoke boast a partial elimination now of ot tho the smoke that used to to eat up the violet rays of ot the Ule SU sun i FIGHTS SMOKE For three years earB Miss liss Cauble hiss has headed the National Conference Boa Bol Board rd d of ot Sanitation n which works with the boards boards of of f he health ln different different differ differ- ent eat towns to eliminate to-eliminate eliminate smoke Food Is safeguarded b by law now so that an any young young- child can be sent to the store with the knowledge that ho will wUl r receive clean clenn food But th thair tho air we breathe has no such tion Miss argued Smoke Sm can b be eliminated and would be bo i it If civic feeling demand- demand cd d. d It ft If women of America want a cause here Is one ready-made ready for them Mot Mothers ers daughters wives and nd bachelor t all could cooperate cooperate cooperate cooper cooper- ate whole heartedly In securing pure per cent sunshine For Forwe Forwe we vo cannot have per cent health until we wc drive out smoke and have pure unadulterated sunshine eu I