Show I Mr 0 Grouch I IpING I ING A AI small dark object P pING flashed through the tho air nil as ae Mr Grouch entered the office door and landed with some force torce against tho the opposite window pane He lIe glanced with suspicion at the office boy who seemed deeply absorbed in a big bIb ledger and then emitted an emphatic Caught g you at It again have bar IT 17 ho said smoking you young reprobate and thought you'd get rid of at the incriminating Incriminating in incriminating In- In criminating evidence But what rein gets the didn't swallow me Is why you stub or lay It up with the stenographers stenographer's stenographers stenographer's stenographers stenographer's pher's gum gum no no offense ottenSe Smith washed the window ad and D By heck they What do you ou thought it was waa open you OU know about that th Some surprised d ch eh I say my B Bassett he continued to hIs hla partner who had Just jurt arrived salved windows been washed for tor the first time In the history of ot this office attica and there theTa tried to your our young youna- spurt over throw a contraband cigar through the darn dam thing Thought It was wan open opan Shamo to put up a Job like lUte that on unsuspecting unsuspecting un un- suspecting Innocence InnocenC What I want to to know le la 18 wh why they em em Why We cant can't allow carelessness like Uke that around this office Must Mitt be Iome kind of ot a n up frame that I dont don't und un un- d I Theres the Janitor you might ask Mk askI I t mm him said eaid Mr Bassett nodding toward to- to ward the open door i Sure Bore thing HI Hl there Bill called I l. l Mr Jar Grouch want to know why you ou V d th tm s ae windows na What's WhAt that I Smoky e That's a j Joke k Wh Why man they've been smoky for tor the last nr- nr teon t. t n years can and nobody's made a. a holI holIe hol- hol Ie I Ier r. r No nan sah no ash sah said Bald the man 1 You Toa ae Is to mistaken I washed ithem them there windows windom ebery Monday 1 just Jost just as shah as na it com comes around You 1 lj Jus aint noticed It sah soh I l They so eo much on this yaro Main t street you cant can't keep em clean J r j Smoky Smoke cried Mr Grouch as the theman i man left the room and his words started start- start ed 1 ed a Q new train of or thought Surest thing thing you know So thick you can cut It it with a knife anywhere In tho the business busl- busl ness nees district Against the city ordInance ordinance i nance but nobody pays an any attention to that Oh yes It la is too Law w ea Bays s 's they they got to have smoke consumers I 1 hut but where are arc they That's what I 1 want to know Where are they Search me said Mr I 1 I haven't got them No replied Mr Grouch with a ai i withering glare at this levity And Andi i dont don't want them If It you owned a aI 1 I building bigger than a 0 you'd oUd evade the law like tho the rest of or ort I t the rich What do you or the other fellow tellow care caro for tor my comfort Say cone come over aver here Look out this window while a you got a chance tomorrow chance tomorrow it'll be bo black as ever ever count count those chimneys chimneys chim chim- and look at that smoke In an hour theres there's enough coming out of oC the stacks In this block to make Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pitts Pitts- burgh burSh or Butte look sick In compari compari- son You bet bot I 1 been there east eart and ond west and I 1 never saw caw a 0 town on the fact tact of or the globe that could raise so 80 much black smoke Just keeping warm Isn't as ns If Ir this were a manufacturing place with some reason for tho the nuisance nui nui- sance Nope ope if Its ire a Just plain negligence and evasion of or the law Think youre you're mistaken Grouch sold said his hla partner Ordinance doesn't sa say they got to havo have consumers Makes It unlawful for an any owner or occupant of or a building not strictly a 0 private residence residence residence resi resi- dence to allow dense black or gray smoke to be emitted from stacks at attached attached attached at- at to steam boilers Something like that Amounts to the same thing Understand Understand Understand Un Un- they can prosecute every o d day y yin In the week and penalize offenders up f t to Salt Lake Lako ought to get rich at off of ot the smoker smokers but does it Not much That's a a. source of or Income the city government isn't wised up to yet Made thirty or forty prosecutions last year and fined tined one real hardened of offender offender of- of fender tender who told them to go to S Said ld hed he'd do as aa he Jolly well pleased so they nabbed his little one hundred Sure they were good good during during the he sum Bum mer Very Verr little smoke In dog days days days- but the first cold snap Wow Yowl Got the finest Inet climate on the face faco of or the earth with sixty five per cent sunshine sunshine sunshine sun- sun shine the year round but who knows It Cant Can't see nee ee whether the suns sun's shining shin shin- I ln Ing or not In the downtown district I l Well said mId Mr lIr Bassett be likely to get set after them again this i winter You must re remember Grouch we burn a poor quality o of soft sott coal in inthis i this country and It makes the smoke f bad Right Might you are are Bassett Say yesterday yesterday yesterday yes- yes I 1 was up on top the Hotel Utah t Clear and bright or off to the north but J. J you ou couldn't see eee a mile mUe down the tho theal valley vat val alley ley looking south Heard a photograph photographer pher phe- say eay that In nine years cars hos ho's only got grot three good panoramic views of at i 1 this valley vaney and then ho had to do it It ton on Sunday Remember how the smelt smelter f t ter tar smoke used to settle lettle down in clouds i all aU over town 1 Well WeIl I didn't mind that so much Looked prosperous and andi i knew It meant business But Its It's another another another an- an other thing to have office buildings I and hotels hotel polluting the air you breathe Ought to to- have a smoke Inspector in inspector inspector In- In or at least put It up uv to the health board boud But not much The wa way they run things Its It's you or me me or the tho prosecuting attorney haa has got to to object ob ob- ob Suppose I made a 0 row about the smoke from this building See whore Id I'd get walking papers In a a. holy min min- ute Remember when I lived at a downtown downton hotel for tor a week last winter winter win win- ter Used to wake wako up mornings with with my face tace so eo thick with soot I didn't know 1 1 tot h L I I w L er it n lUC me ur or the ne waiter 1 I saw In the glass Bod Bed clothes clothe I and m my own linen and every other darn thing in the room covered Maria Marla had an awful time getting things washed up when I went homo home Couldn't blame the hotels unless th they y did It t to tomake make folks rent rant a private bath Might have been something in that There are plenty of or practical smoke consumers on the market said Mr Bassett Im not so sure lure replied Mr loIi Grouch Theres consumers and stokers but the thc best thing Is a a. smart fireman who knows how to run them If It hos nos on to his hla Job he can stave off ott prosecution for his employer though he knows In his heart the fellow ought to be Jailed Trouble h IB Is you cant can't Jail jaila a u. corporation and so 80 they get fined tined maybe Generally the they play up a astory astory story about bout the tho consumer being broke or the stoker getting out of ot order and promise to fix It Do they Nit Not last ast summer or next winter believe me This year therell there'll be bo another round Of bt prosecutions and more mor-e promises promises promises prom prom- to bo he good and tears if anybody says FayS anything about money or a penalty penal penal- ty for breaking the law And you and me the hol polloi the tho common people who dont don't own office buildings or hotels hotels ho ho- got to walk ten miles mUes out in the country ot at see lee tho the sun or get a a. breath oC of fresh Air Its It's the limit declared Mr Grouch |