Show inconsistent A lengthy first page argument in yesterdays issue of the journal under the caption clamping the lid on oil tight in which the writer ridicules the notion that closing up schools meetings picture shows pool halls and other places where crowds con as a preventive for the spread of influenza is al about out the silliest kind 0 of I 1 twaddle that we have read tor for a long time we fra frankly tildy declare the argument is not worth the paper it is written on and as art an evidence we refer to a little paragraph in fit the lower right hand corner of the same page on which the lengthy argument appears in which announcement Is made that the garland schools have been closed on account of the influenza epidemic we might just add that the same action has been taken at mantua for the same reason we dont know who the author of the article Is but it bears all the ear marks of having been written by some I 1 t 5 j i one who Is afraid raid he will lose a few dolla dollars rs of 0 the lid la is clamped on tight |