Sept. 23.
Dvrine the past week considerable space tas been taken up with correspondence on certain well-worn questions of public nuisance. It must be confessed that such correspondence too often leads to no practical result, or the complaints aired might be lees familiar than they are. One writer, for example, allows his objection to smoking per ae, to blind him to the particular issue under discussion, that of smoking in tram-cars, and may appear to some to have done cause more harm than good by his enthusiasm. Another writer. intent upon stopping the mouths of the motor-horns, objects to any dissipation of energy in the direction of motor headlights. In the end the correspondence exhaus s itself or has to be put a stop to when it appears likely to exhaust the general reader. Yet no one will deny the original justice of each complaint. The most ba: dened smoker will agree that it not unreasonable 10 forbid smoking ina bl as conveyance, in may be asked bow many Imokers would not cheerfully stop smoking in a tramcar when asked to do so? The difficulty is that non-smokers and particularly ladies feel a certain diffidence in asking a smoker to put out his cigar or cigarette. Again, ie is obvious shat loud motor-horns and acetylene headlights are twin-outcome of 2 common desire, the desire to travel fast; and it would be unreasonable to expect motorists to deny themselves the exercise of the peculiar attraction of motoring, so long as they do not abuse their power. The moral of the whole discussion lies in the last words.
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