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Show OEM EXPLAINS 'BIG SALES' CURB j Restrictions Necessary to Minimize Danger of ; Disease, He Says. ' ' i With reference to restrictions placed by the state board of health on sales wherein great crowds of women congregate congre-gate and the necessary curtailment of advertising connected with them. Dr. T. H. Uealty made a brief statement yes-terda yes-terda y. "While this feature was left by this board to the' committee of business men to work out for themselves, I will say that the spirit of the regulations do not take a wide scope," Dr. Beatty said. "Reason "Rea-son applies in this as in other things. The object is to prevent abnormal gatherings gath-erings of persons at popular sales, the idea being to avoid such close contact as to render possible eommunieation of influenza in-fluenza from one person to another. "As an illustration, it might be well to say that there would be absolutely no harm and no infraction of regulations in advertising low price sales of threshing machines. But few men would gather at any given point to buy threshing machines. ma-chines. The same is true of stoves, furniture fur-niture and Innumerable , large articles of which but few are purchased, no matter how low the advertised .prices may be. . "TIiIb rule of reason ip to apply in all cases 'and the judgment of the merchant himself must of necessity be largely depended de-pended upon. It goes without saying that the restrictions were not intended to unreasonably un-reasonably disturb business, the sole object ob-ject being to prevent abnormally large gatherings of people and to minimize danger of spread of the Infection to the lowest possible degree by the exercise of reason and judgment. Against the ordinary ordi-nary sale there can be no Just objection, especially in cases where purchasers arc not huddled together." |