Show 00 NOT LET FEAR GET H THE BETTER Of JUDGMENT I It was a Biblical prophet who said v The EThe thing that tat I greatly feared has Iconic acome c mc up ine me Just now it is necessary essary for people 0 o keep a calm mind From an editorial which ap appeared ap- ap reared elfed recently in the Philadelphia Enquirer the following is taken Panic is th the worst thing that can happen to an indi id individual ual or a com com- Panic is exaggerated fear and fear is the most deadly word in any language The fear of Influenza Is creating a panic an ar unreasoning panic r that will be promoted we suspect suspect suspect sus sus- by the drastic commands of the authorities Let a person become excited excited ex ex- excited cited over th the daily reports of new cases let him brood over them thell let him shake his head iii ill dismay and with with every little ache or pain that may be harmless in itself give himself himself him him- r self over to dismal misgivings and he heis heis her is providing a fertile fer field for attack His mind fears it becomes receptive to it Invites it In a later issue the Enquirer wished wish- wish ed ed it could find space b mr WI r all the commendations commendations commendations com com- that the editorial called forth Not all the medical men have been caught up in the panic by any means A physician of North Logan Square Dr Thomas l 12 Ii Eldridge is convinced that if the editorial could be placed in the hands hand or every afflicted af at- one It would d do more to stop the spread and ravages of the epi epidemic epidemic epi- epi demic than all the treatments and medicine combined Says he Within With in the last ten days I have seen scores of women and many men who were ere from influenza fear and not a symptom of the real disease disease disease dis dis- dis- dis ease and I know many other physicians physicians physicians who have similar experiences Dr John W. W Croskey is president of the West Philadelphia Medical as as- as He with various other physicians has started an scare anti-scare campaign In a newspaper interview ew he Is reported to have said that the public should be educated ted to the fact that the disease is not as deadly as many believe it to be He estimates that tak taking g into account all t the e unreported unreported unreported un- un reported cases the death rate is only about one half of one per cent But here Is the main point that he makes Terror is a big ally of the influenza and If the public state of mind can be steered steered out of the channel of fright a long step will have been taken to conquer the epidemic There is no doubt in the I continues the Enquirer that the mind is the seat of most if not all Ills Let the mind take up a dismal thought of disease in any form and it at once offers a fertile ferUle field for the cultivation cultivation cultivation tion of disease No intelligent person person person per per- son medical man or nonprofessional profession non al will hazard a denial of that fact if If that is true the reverse also must be he true that th the mind that s 's stolidly refuses to lo entertain tho thought of disease se that rejects fear that repels conditions is far better etter prepared pre pre- pared Jared to ward off of disease the disease the influenza influenza influenza enza for instance instance Ulan than the mind hat nat succumbs to forebodings of dis dis- aster There is no need to turn the ways wars of f life topsy y but butte to impress ress up- up jn In the individual citizen the desira- desira of keeping a clean mind and t tIie to live Ii a clean life he should do doin doin in any event ent influenza or no enza mm Let the tho individual l be cautioned caution caution- ed to be sensible to look upon the influenza as an an incident that will be 1 removed far quicker ii if Ii he is sensible than titan will be e the case if he gives himself himself himself him him- self over oyer to abject fear Men and women who stop stol au on an street corners md tad make influenza the chief topic of or are Issuing direct to It to seize upon lipon their thelm And above all repudiate fear Tast ast it out cut of or the mind Refuse to panic stricken The chances re ninety nine in a hundred that tho the I or woman woman who does dues this lItis will be assed by while the f fearful arrul and amid the will be the victims 0 o |