Stop This Spitting:
It Can Be Done To the Editor of the ~"Norta-Cumwa Dany News"
Sm—I know of one public resort much frequented by coolies where, by the display of a large poster and expostulation with offenders, spitting l'on the floor was practically abolished. Again, in our homes, our servants Soon learn to refrain, and in our foreign-run offices, clerks and coolies alike soon learn that it's "not done."
"The serious ce-operation of our Health "Department and Education Departments' would do the trick.
it.I suggest the Chief of Police both in the Concession and the Settlement be approached. If all their P.c.s were instructed to refrain from the habit and to request pedestrians to do the same, the; pavements would soon present a better appearance. Proper Teceptacles would probably be advisable here and there-
Incidentally, do they hose down streets and pavements in the city ¢uring the night? The Bund does not always look like it in the morning.
Can any old resident tell us if any effort has been made in the past to eliminate this dangerous spitting habit? A lesson might be learnt from the failure. But it can be done. Give us more publicity, Sir, play up.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.