Show LOCAL ITEMS irs OF THE WEEK mrs harvey ot of salt lake city Iso Is visiting her paren parents td mr ani an mrs 0 parson in this city this week mr and mrs harry M frank ed to salt lake city wednesday afternoon to 0 o visit friends and relatives P W knudson attended the auto show at salt lake city wednesday I 1 bishop george W watkins of 0 salt lake city was a business hUEi visitor t to E eagens agene C wixom spent tuesday and Wednes wednesday dy at salt lake city on business matters and attending the state auto show V V phillips clifton pierce J E ryan and 3 chester anu knudson son were business visitors to salt lake lakel city during the week mrs ira A huggins underwent an operation at ogden yesterday morning for tumor she Is at the home ot of mr huggins brother J 0 huggins and passed through the ordeal suc cess tully rully mr air and mrs huggins hoggins are removing from this city to ogden to make their home mr and mrs F W compton and family ot of salt lake city visited with mr and mrs H C in thia city yesterday the fourth ward M 1 I A present to you neighbors next tuesday night at 8 p m A comedy drama loc and admission 27 doyle lund the 10 year old son of 0 mr and mrs leo lund ot of this city was taken to the dee hospital at ogden wednesday where he underwent an operation tor for appendicitis the operation was performed by his uncle dr henry and the lad Is getting along favorably george H galbralth galbraith and daughters myra and mrs geo H galbralth galbraith jr motored to salt lake city yesterday to attend the auto show charles whitworth and george tiller were salt lake visitors wednesday I 1 A son was born to mrs roy rol larsen wednesday mother and babe reported to be getting along favorably trIDE EPIDEMIC T IRIC INFLUENZA newspapers throughout the united states slates have carried announcements ot of the discovery at the rockefeller institute of 0 an organism called bacterium which it was stated had been shown to be the causative agent ot of epidemic influenza the announcement received first page attention la in newspapers and the omniscient arthur brisbane burst forth in the hearst papers with a full column sunday editorial lauding flauding the achievement and calling attention to the significance of the tact fact that this most recent and pos bibly greatest of 0 medical discoveries had been by radio the most marvelous marve loua ot of recent inventions the journal telegraphed to dr simon flexner fleiner director ot of the rockefeller institute asking tor for the facts dr flexner replied the article prepared tor for the new york state state department ot of health consisted 0 ta fa routine summary ot of papers by and gates on influenza published in the journal of experimental medicine over the past three years and it was headlined by the state publicity department without my knowledge after the tele gram was sent seat the journal received the regular health news service issued by shenew the new york state department ot of health it was dated feb arary 1 and released tor for newspapers to tor r saturday february 3 the headline read cause cause ot of influenza discovered at rockefeller institute says dr flexner it then continued in a radio health aca alth talk broadcast from enec tady last night hight under the auspices ot of the new york state stale department ot of health dr simon N flexner Fles ncr director ot of the rockefeller institute tor for medical research announced the discovery ot or the cause of 0 influenza as 03 the result of researches conducted by members ot of the staff at the dr Flex ners statement as prepared at the request of dr hermann M biggs state commissioner ot of health follows the statement referred to ta Is simply a recapitulation of 0 the articles ot of drs and gates which as he says were published in the journal of 0 experimental medicine and abstracted in the journal the organism concerned has been isolated from the noses and throats of patients with influenza flu enza during the last three years it has been successfully cultivated on artificial mediums and when injected into rabbits it has been found to produce influenza like symptoms symptom when injected into the trachea it also produces changes in the lung tissues which the observers believe make the lung more susceptible to attack by the bacteria chiefly streptococci and hueu pueu mo cocci which regularly inhabit the throats and respiratory tracts of human beings the work has not apparently parent ly been confirmed by other observers and the organism cannot be said bald to have been conclusively shown to be the cause of the condition known as epidemic influenza this Is particularly the case since other organisms have in the belief of their discoverers produced similar pathologic conditions in the present in instance stanel the newspapers are not primarily to blame tor for having sensationalized the announcement which they received from the radio all too frequent however are statements concerning discoveries in the treatment of such conditions ns is cancer tuberculosis epilepsy and other menacing diseases which leal lead thousands ot of sufferers to false hope to the unwarranted spending of 0 money and to the ultimate discredit of real advantages in medical science the need of authoritative sources of information for the public on new medical discoveries was never so great as at the present time |