Show UTArJNS AT ANN ARBOR Their Jolly Christmas Vaccination Made Compulsory Editor Tribune This year Utah Is represented rep-resented In Ann Arbor by thirty or more oC Its people which forms quite n colony being tlistri Uti ted among several dcpiirt mente Including tho literary law medical medi-cal nod dental the law department as I usual receiving the major part of tho students from Utah A number of tho gentlemen aro married and have their families with them As wo are too far from home to return for tho holiday vacation wo celebrated the occasion hero among ourselves with an oldfashlonetl ant Impromptu picnic luncheon Tho young people took their picnic baskets bas-kets and assembled at the rooms of fel lowstudents Mr and Mrs Chrltflcnaon who hal from Gunnlson they being aa slstcd In receiving and entertaining by their hostess Mr and Mrs Crookston of tho west side who placed their commodious com-modious and comfortable homo at the disposal of the Utah people for the Christmas Christ-mas party After tho picnic came music recitations biump speeches Hinging etc umml l a Jolly good time generally Among the guests who participated In tho festivities were to bo noted the following fol-lowing Mr and r Chrlstenson from unnlson Mr and Mrs Larson Inn t Mr and Mrs Irvine Logan Mr and Mrs Thomas Provo Dr and Mrs Kes Icr Salt Lake Mrs Schncdcr Sai 11m r and two sons Salt Luke and MCHH Phillip S Haycock Strlngfellow Jnleberg and Ogden Reoyard Salt Lake and Frank llpnson Utah Is usually well represented at tho University of Michigan moro students coming from Utah than from any of her surrounding g States At present the Utah I Bludcnts are all In Rood health and thus far havo no forebodings as to imallpox One of the students not from Utah be came aflllcted with the dread disease and all tho students especially those going home for the holidays were vaccinated As soon as the disease developed BO that It could be correctly diagnosed tho faculty of the medical department announce an-nounce that all students of the department depart-ment must ho vaccinated at once Tho other departments soon followed amid for thc next two or three daYs out of college hours and during tho evenings all tho doctors In town wero busily employed with tho vaccinating 1 some of the olllces students were lined up awaiting 0lCC8 their turn thirty or more in line with a L biLl fdozen assistants preparing the arm disinfecting Instruments ctc Theme The-me lcal fraternity here at the university considers that vaccination Is tho proper procedure In case of smallpox Invasions I and go further by raying that every person per-son should bo vaccinated even when no immediate epidemic Is prevalent They consider that vaccination Is the only pro v on live remedy known an < l should ho mailo compulsory and that communlllca whljb dl 11 not compel 1 vaccination wore In < a condition of reversion and degeneration degenera-tion These terms wero Intended to bo understood as very mild utterances I which in no wlso equaled tho gravity and seriousness of the olTtfnso against serousness modern sanitary regulations sanll rCbtatons With cordial holiday greetings from tho Utah students to tho friends at home I I have tho pleasure to be respectfully yours DR B L KESLER Ann Arbor Mich Dee 27th I |