Show I I I I In I I 0 I I I I A FOUL NUISANCE I 6 4 4 4 4 4 4 f 4 I t k I I 4 4 6 It would be bea a pleasant thing if a a. newspaper could be lerun run indefinitely tely without the necessity ev ever r of printing or calling attention to disagreeable things Perhaps the daily press may attain to that blissful state during the millennium but the beginning beginning begin begin- ning of that period as we understand is not to occur occur occur oc oc- oc- oc cur in the very near future future so so there we are On the present occasion we deem it proper to denounce the unsanitary objectionable vile and dis disgusting usting habit indulged in by many male bipeds of expectorating on the floors of our st street cars In some other cities and notably in Washington D. D DO C. C the the indecent indecent practice has disappeared owing to the enforcement nt of a very drastic ordinance which provides provides provides pro pro- vides for the arrest and punishment of offenders against it What has b been en done there successfully can and at once should be done here This is a matter which concerns every man in Salt Lake City who has lady relatives or friends Certainly their delicacy their stomachs and their skirts are entitled to protection against a foul and nauseating nuisance which easily could be abated by resort to proper means means' and methods A complete reform of the expectorating habit habit- is demanded not on only y in the cause of common decency decency decency de de- de- de but as well on sanitary grounds It is a commonplace of medical science that tuberculosis is spread by bJ the germs of that disease from the tile sputum of persons suffering from it who expectorate in the streets If there ther is danger dang r of f inhaling and becoming becoming- infected by toxic germs in the tile open what must be le the added menace to health when they are allowed to sprout and flourish in the atmosphere of a close car The public good requires that an end be put to this vile spitting practice It can be stopped and it must be |