Show I 0 l A om OI JM I 1 to an opinion rendered b by bythe the State and the at attitude of tile the secretary of f the tho State I board of health Utah Is now under the one individual who hue I I 0 been exercIsing autocratic powers and evidently Intends to wield them at his own sweet will Of course an opinIon opinion Ion is II only an opinion unless It comes from a court after aCter a trial when It amounts to a 11 decisIon and Is the Jaw until superseded by another judicial f opInion or as It Is de tit i by some members member ot of ott t the bar But Dut public are general generalI i I ly Iy guided by the opinions of the he State M I attorney so we may mar look fur or action In 1 the line hitherto until Some me tem remedy dy Is found rl The one man power assumed by the secretary ot of the State board of health II 11 such a IU ought ou ht not to be by byi i uny one however cautious prudent and d But when vested r In a cranky who decrees without sease and gives tv directions that are the 8 scorn orn and of as s well u as th the general j public suc such despotism beconi not only Insufferable but a menace to the public welfare t I The opInion Is i based UpOn eclo 1 is of o the Revised Statutes of Utah whIch confers conCert upOn the State board at f health authority to tomake make such Iud rul rules and aud not contrary contral to la law so as may lit be j nf eary for fo the of the urns me section MOtion U t the powe of the State acor local heart iPat a later law provides rol fl that rho fhe local boards board ot of health shall have jurisdiction In alt all matters to 10 lh the ot of the health o of those la in aW lIllIn public and ate It schools In the of 15 chip chap n 4 sec t 1 This the lawful powers of at the State board of at health under the old law IU were but coordinate With those thole of the lo local loI I cal boards and miler the later statute the authority ns as to 10 health In the schools Ii III Ii In the l lucal cal alone The Thi r 0 T lIt fl thou of pr jr lM Jal dat 1 h Iii the thy in III any anyWay Way wy n 11 t tl Ihl pI II ot nf health ar not Id t I lit Le c In a s d by bythe b H nil nV the secretary of the board who wh Issues hi his RI as though u ie we wethe won the w whole le thial II a he is II bY bYI I a nUMber nambe ot of In I dl t parts or of the State Slate in nOl 1102 lawS law if 1 secre secretary tary is II to perform and md IU Work In title und perform uh Nuch other othar duties a the nit boar board ay ar Tl rk du dutill U 0 prescribed relate to the ti till which the IS to t perform anti nd h ate are proper fond md HUIt able to hi his 0 lii He Ii I al ails the executive of the board II the He IL a thousand dollars ollars c a 1 year und and lt But expenses all U his hll there I Is nothing In the law gives him or pU auto autoerotic erotic authorIty that ho 10 has haa umed It I not lIot for him to lO Issue Isue an ipso dint dIxit that a particular I ii lc That Is for the whole board to o determine deter minI mine after atter proper It will be found on close eloN scrutiny that even taking the decision of the majorIty of the Supreme court the fallacy allae of which wu was clearly in inthe inthe the minority opinIon and the thu ot of the attorney general lenel there Is nothing that juaU justifies Uw the exercise of arbItral power flOwer whIch the ot of the Stats State board of health arrogates to himself and nd to whIch some JOm ot 01 the th local boarde and health meera bow In humble reverence The local loel boards of health have orIginal jurisdiction over oer m matters pertaining to the health of the schools school and are aN not placed under the dictation 1111 have poser but simply of anyone any one man to report to the State SLAte tho ho hy by condItions ot of th the schools under theIr on forms furnished to thorn them by that board The secretary of the State Stale board has such auch Incompetency and arro genes alJ 88 have raised general IndIgnation his hIli orders tion In the tho State Slate sending here and there with intimations as to what he will do JC IC they are not corn com complied plied with And his no noted led announce announcement nent ment as to the TeAchers convention In his olt city shows that he Is III gross Ignorant of conclusions anti and the he lessons of experience or lie he does not lot knoW the meaning of his own Inn Ian In answer to an Inquiry from Superintendent Cooper as to danger rom the tho attendance ot of teachers at the convention to be held In this he replied In my opinion there would be no anger to he anticipated from the at attendance cadence of teachers at the tate convention theY shall hail have been successfully ed 4 there t ro would b be great grent danger anger rin would not be liAble to arty th disease to others unless sl they should first have c cOntracted It Such a declaration tie as that In the thelast last let sentence of the paragraph Is III more dangerous to the public health than tho he presence of II ft pestilence that Is quarantined That persons who ho have hao been In the company of the tho Infected may rony unwittingly convey the In theIr clothing to others with without out Ut contracting it themselves has been demonstrated to the ot of the faculty culty 1 as welt well a aS the pub c and legislation has the tho In laws that forbid the use user or r Importation or of clothing anti amI other hinge that have been exposed to In It Is frequently that patients are aro visited by persons who ho come and go without ad It La Is believed that tills this Is doIng more ore to spread contagIon than any then other means mean This is III on en by the of the Metal who Is regarded u a embodying In 1 Isle the whole State booN board ot t health that list It a reading of the law does lIot ot disclose as being vested In that body ody itself It If the laws In relation to tha rutt powers of the State beard ot of eTe en Into effect and publio were abated sources of f removed used to sanitation and greater can canIon Ion Uon as AI to professions visits to the at aC meted bled sit all ot arB ara under the le legal al on of C the State heart boArd here be It more likelihood of I limping out disorders than thanT I by T the compulsory rr which mount amount to a monomanIa with the or of i fleer eec who exercises man power |