Show DESPERATE SITUATION J the school officials report that unless more stringent regard is paid to the quarantine regulations there is a possibility odthe of the necessity arising to close the schools everything is being done in the schools to hold tile the I 1 measles epidemic in check and complaint I 1 is made that other public places are undoing the good work the schools are endeavoring to do for instance at the close of every day school the rooms roams are thoroughly ventilated and fumigated while the students are watched over with ext extreme reme care and whenever a pupil shows the slightest sign of indisposition it is sent home and required to remain there until it either gets well or measles developed dev elopes nothing like this is done in the churches and motion picture houses but the children are permitted to congregate there whether they are well or ill while no effort it if reports be true are made to thoroughly ventilate and fumigate tf the ie places after the dismissal of an audience the school air officials feel that they are doing everything within their power to prevent the spread ol of measles but they find their institution in much the same position as the man mail who constantly sprayed his orchard to kill the fungus and his neighbors all around him bilm did not so his efforts efforts practically wasted the situation is getting despe desperate and in view ot of the fact that tile the F present regulations are re the best that have yet been devised and they have boon been formulated by experts the most earnest cooperation on the part of everybody must inest be secured or else the system will prove a failure the suggestion that churches and theatres theartres the atres bo required to adopt the same regulations as tho the schools is not without merit and ought to be given careful consideration and a thorough trial |