New Britain herald., 1928-10-12
BY JULIA BLANSHARD

anu BY JULIA BLANSHARD New York. Oct. 12 (NEA)- Laura C. Cauble might be called Americas foremost smoke-eater.
 She is not a fire-fghter. however. but an avowed enemy of smoke. She is a sunshine crusader. out to elini- nate smok from Americas cities. Her slogan is "A place in the sun for everyone"
 From the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to Mexico indus trial cities know this energetic. sil- yer haired, blue-eyed motherly looking scientist who appears unex- pectedly. sets up her little smoke measuring machine and in short order tells city councils. doctors and others just how much dirt. grit and poisonous gases go up their noses and down their threats daily, in the smoky air they breathe.
 Sun Cheeks Disease
 She tells housewives how much lcnger friend husbands shirts would last were the amoke banish- cd. More important. she proves convincingly how much less liable to colds. pneumonia. consumption and other chest diseases little Mary. l Sonny and Maud are in cities where there is no smoke hazard from un- checked factories.
 l Miss Cauble wasn't born hating smoke. It is an acquired aversion, "a hate that grows daily because there is no excuse for smoke" she explained. Proper fueling can elim- mate it."
 1 Miss Cauble spent her childhood out in Indiana's sunshine. riding and playing on her fathers farm on the banks of the Wabash. T loved the sight of smoke then for it meant a picnic camp fire. bonfire of au-- tumn leaves or big fire in the kitchen stove which told us supper was ready" she reminisced.
 But I lived in Pittsburgh, Chi cago, Newark and other industrial cities when I got older. I found what thin substance sunshine could be filtered through smoke that eliminated all its glowing vio- let rays" she added.
 Miss Cauble's antipathy to smoke and her energetic measures toward smoke abatement are the result of a double exprience. First. when she was director of household arts at the University of Pittsburgh, short ly after graduating from Columbia she set her pupils to figure cleaning costs in connection with their budgets. The costs averaged four times those in cities without indus trial smoke. Being a scientist, she realized the high financial cost smoke is to a community.
 Second, some years later she con tracted tuberculosis nursing g friend. Tt was only by leaving smoky cities and spending two years on the plateaus of North Carolina that I regained my health. Since then have studied the problem and know how eminent health experts everywhere condemn smoke and ad. vocate it's abatement" she ex. plained.
 Miss Cauble has become one o1 the most able consultants in tht country on business management and research. She has married an other scientist who shares her tre' mendous interest in smoke abate ment. When you visit them in theil charming Greenwich Village home the chances are that the subject vii turn to smoke in a very short time For Miss Cauble's avocation--driN ing smoke out of America-has be come the greatest interest in he life.
 Rochester. Buffalo. Utica. Chi caEo. Newark. St. Louis and man! other cities, aroused by her public spirited attacks on the useless waste of smoke, boast partial elimina ton now of the smoke that used |, cat up the violet rays of the sun.
 Organization Flights smoke
 For three years Miss Cauble ha headed the National Conference Board on Sanitation which work with the boards of health in differ cnt towns to eliminate smoke.
 Food is safeguarded by la, now 30 that any young child cal be sent to the store with tn knowledge that he will receiv | clean food. But the air we breath i, has no such protection" Mis Cauble argued.
 Smoke can be eliminated am would be if civic feeling demande
 :t There are two reasons fo smoke, waste of fuel caused by ig r norance in firing and the wron ? choice of fuel. If women of Amer 7 ica want. cause. here is on
 ready made for them. Mother'