The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-19
Be A DEAD GAME SPORT"
And If You Find You're Headed the Wrong Way Right
About Face Without Caring What Anybody
Thinks The Smoke Nuisance.

ranged the other evening at the meet
ing of Council, for firemen's bedrooms.
The firemen need more space for
sleeping apartments.
And, according to all that was said,
should have it.
It's a thousand pities, however, that
so effective an architectural interior
as is the council-chamber should be
partitioned off for this purpose, for
the room is really handsome audi
ence room of it's class.
But the chief interest from the spec
tators point of view was the mise en-
scene, so to speak, and the participa-
ton of the principals in the municipal
drama.
Many persons who read about coun-
cilmen and their procedure in the pa
pers form weird ideas of their doings
aid have a notion of incantations
over burning pots, subterranean pass
ages and mysterious high signs.
What you really see is semi-circle
of ordinary citizens trying to straight
en- out to the best of their ability the
| tortuous windings of the municipal
household.
So far as the writer could make
out" the councilmen seem we'll mean
ing and DESTROYS of looking into what
! ever subject is brought up with as
much thoEoughness as possible with
| the time and material available.
! The truth is that more people should
attend the meetings of the City Coun-
| Gil.
They could then find out what was
| things that are learned imperfectly
could be understood in their entirety.
Very few persons have any knowl-
edge of the fact that the city is trying
| to devise some means to minimize the
smoke nuisance, in instance.
! This is a disagreeable phase of ur-
ban life that is being given considera-
ton both in this country and abroad.
London, the smokiest city in the
dimmed atmosphere.
In our neighboring capital agitation
is unceasing for a reduction of this
nuisance to the lowest point possible.
And it is universally conceded that
it is as much in careful stocking, as in
smoke consumers, that the abatement
lies.
The city has made determined eff
fort to reduce the volume of smoke
issuing from it's own stacks and those
of other buildings, the fire chief say
ing that some of the worst offenders
stated that if they could be assured
that the contrivances which they
would be at a heavy expense to attach
would result in the end desired, they
would have them attached at once.
1t is a fact, however, stated the fire
chief, that less smoke would issue
from chimneys if better grade OF
coal were used.
The smoke nuisance is a very real
one in this city and that the city gov
eminent was giving it some attention
was interesting information not hither
to possessed.
To revert to the school board ques
ton
Richmond can congratulate herself
upon being in the van of progress
since, as referred to here at length
within the past two weeks, women are
being recognized officially all over
the country in the administration OF
school affairs.
Richmond, also, is one of two cities
in Indiana which now includes a wo
man on her school board, Indianapo
lis being the other.
In the campaign for this inclusion g
lot of things have been found out, q
lot of people have become acquainted
, and a better understanding now eX
lists between varying lotteries of the
town as to their respective activities
and desires for the towns welfare.