Show I The Shade of an Old Evil I WITH dropping temperatures suggesting that vy summer is not perpetual official attention should again be e directed to the heating plants of the city For the most part these plants are arc idl idle now and no doubt doubr they are in the same condition they were before the city renewed its lb campaign against gain t the smoke nuisance last spring Vat Watchful citizens in all parts of the city arc are putting in winter supplies of coal in in antici anticipation pation of the theT winter season Preparations for winter wilter should igo go f further and include every possible possible possible pos pos- sible means of reducing the smoke nuisance Plants which offended last winter and spring pr ng should be constant gaze of the proper officials at this time S Determined eff efforts ought to be made to remedy the conditions which aggravated the smoke problem last season When winter is here and aid h heating plants must be in constant operation it is not easy to make changes in equipment and this adds to the difficulties encountered encountered encountered en- en en en- countered in the smoke evil One of the delays to a successful solution of the problem has been a disposition to consider it only when it bothered residents and tourists The seasonal periods wh when n there were few fir fires s sand and little smoke have not been used used to the best advantage These periods should be devoted to concentrated efforts to rid the city of a common common nuisance which annually keeps hundreds of tourists away and drives many of our own residents residents residents resi resi- dents to the wintering places on the Pacific coast The best time for preventive effort is when the fires are out and now is a good time to start |