We are delighted to say that the movement for clearing
our skies of smoke is daily gaining in volume and force. Only a few years ago, perhaps we might say a few months ago, the Smoke Abatement Society was ranked in the catalogue of amiable institutions which were crying for the moon. Smoke was always with us. Why not accept it ? Was it not all in the order of things ? Did it not produce beautiful fiery sunsets in London, and had not Dickens written about smoky fog with a kind of morbid affection ? Did not American visitors generally desire to experience a real one before they returned home ? Happily the fogs of this winter have been just a little too much even for Londoners. At last they have begun to ask such relevant and agitating questions as—Need these things be ? Is it not true that by preventing smoke we could do away with opaque fogs with all their dangers, their disgusting smells and their poisonous fumes ?
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