Show THAT restraining ORDER judge call granted the application of the moving picture people ot of logan for a restraining order against the city board of health to prevent that body from closing up the theatres theartres the atres during I 1 the present influenza epidemic the r report port of the proceedings states that the judge made his findings on the grounds that as long as the board of health permits the schools and otiler business houses to remain open it cannot close the picture shows this it is interred inferred is regarded as class discrimination we have no notion of taking issue with the decision for we make no pretense at understanding the fine points of the law but it seems scents to us that the board of health does discriminate after all II if a person is taken ill with a contagious disease he is forcibly locked up tip it if a nuisance is located in ill the community that jeopardizes the health odthe collini community unity it is abolish ed cd it if the board of 0 health decides that picture shows and dances are arc a menace to public health during the prevalence of an ail epidemic it ft would seem that the board has the right to abolish them the judge says not and so the only way out of 0 the situation would be for tile the municipality to pass an ail ordinance prescribing the number of people who might congregate inside a building at a time during contagious disease epidemics so far as we are we can call see a wide difference between a general mercantile establishment and a picture show dance hall meeting house bouse or school room as a disseminator of disease germs the general mercantile house would scatter maybe one gerni germ to several hundred or even thousands in ill the case of the other institutions |