Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1915 — Doing Away With Smoke. [ARTICLE]

Doing Away With Smoke.

Public opinion is setting strongly against the contamination of the air we breathe with coal smoke. A. general use of low-temperature coke would render the atmosphere of our cities as free from pollution as that of New York, where it is obligatory upon all Inhabitants to burn anthracite or some other form of smokeless fueL Through wantonly wasting the valuable constituents of coal by burning it raw in the domestic fireplace we suffer a double penalty. Not only do we pay directly for the fuel that is discharged unconsumed up the chimney, but we pay indirectly a second time In the labor spent In removing it when it comes back to us through the windows In the form of s m tits and dust We pay, too, in deteriorlated health and obscured sunshine. The whole subject affords an interesting Illustration of the solidarity of scientific progress, and demonstrates forcibly the fact that one advance Inevitably brings another In its train. The growth of twentieth century engineering science, which demands oil in ever-growing volumes, is thus tending to promote a sanitary reform which is long overdue.