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Show THE SPECTA TOR M THERE are a great many people in Salt Lake who believe that the influenza epidemic has been largely augmented by fright. They have been scared into the disease by the more than extraordinary precautions taken to prevent its spread. In the olden times when cholera raged, when yellow fever ravaged the land, there were hundreds of victims of the scourge who were stricken through fear. Now why not be sane about the Spanish Influenza? The same kind of germs existed when your fathers and mothers were kids as exist now. They survived the wigglers. People used to spit on the street a great deal mUre than now; they crowded small rooms in the past more than now; dust was blown from street and highway in the past more than now; the same old bacilli ba-cilli floated in the air in the past as they do now. Still people lived. They lived through epidemics of various plaguea your fathers, your mothers and mine. Really you survived yourself your-self and that, too, with the old-fashioned treatment of hot mustard foot-bathes, foot-bathes, bonsel tea, a drastic physic and you were all right. But now, with serums and nostrums, panaceas for all ills at so much per bottle, the plagues and epidemics continue and they are more severe than ever, due, in many instances, to fright. Why not, therefore, there-fore, be sane and use common sense? And this is applicable to physicians as it is to laymen. THE copyright upon patriotism which the Democrats of Salt Lake county claim Is reacting upon the claimants and on election day the party leaders will discover that their fool claim has caused the defeat of the party. Because a man or woman dif-, dif-, fers and dissents from the views laid down by the administration, it does not mean disloyalty to the government. govern-ment. This war is neither a Democratic Demo-cratic nor a Republican war. It is a war in which every red-blooded American Amer-ican believes is a righteous war. And the boys who are in the trenches at the battle front who are driving the Huns back and bringing the war nearer a victorious end are not Democrats, Dem-ocrats, not Republicans, but Americans. Ameri-cans. When they enlisted, when they were drafted, they were not questioned question-ed as to their political convictions. They are not so questioned now, save by a few pinheaded politicians who seek to make capital for their party by claiming themselves to be the only real old John Jacob Townsend patriots. pa-triots. Mothers and fathers of the lads who are in khaki resent the charge that they are disloyal because they differ from the administration and they will demonstrate their loyalty loy-alty on election day by standing by the real war party in America the Republican party. IF there ever comes a time when big round simoleons in the shape of silver dollars begin rolling my way, so much so that I can spare enough to invest in something beside rent and W i ill .ww ' vMWMtfMIr'-' !'" '"- food, I intend to purchase an auto jl and one of those auto go-devils. The ifl two must be noise producers, hum- ll mers, in fact. So that when they are H being cranked up in the morning the ' M noise generated is sufficient to arouse t H the dead, toot louder than Gabriel can. H In addition they must have horns of H the siren order, noise producing horns whence toot, toot, toot can bo heard H for miles. When I have purchased H these instruments of torture I will hie H myself to the home of the man who H owns a tin lizzie who now stops in H front of the apartment where I live H every morning at 6:30 o'clock and H totos his horn which notifies his part- H ner living in the same apartment M house with me that he is on the job M and that he still has the car. I say M I will hie myself to his home about 1 o'clock a. m. and will turn the gasoline H machines loose with mufflers wide open and horn a-honking so that hell jH will be raised. He may then know M that people who have to sleep in the M daytime enjoy the noise he makes M just as much as he and his family do H when awakened at that time in the H morning. IH MAYS and Welling are home from 11 their junket to Europe, which they IH made on a government transport. H They were armed with letters from iH the government creating them special jH envoys to visit the battle front. They H declare that they went upon their own H initiative and paying their own ex- H penses, and in the next paragraph in H their printed statements say they jH were government envoys. However, H they are back from the front and H while the people anxiously await the H details which they bring back to the H president, which have not yet been H given him in fact, the two congress- men have not yet been called, the H TJtahns are busy at home doctoring H and repairing their political fences, H which are so badly wrecked that they H cannot bo repaired. You cannot fool H the people. Men who in trusted places H desert their posts at times when they H are most needed usually find them- H selves relegated when they make an H appeal for support. This will be the H case next month with Mays and Well- H ing. They have been tried and found H wanting. Tho people will retire them. H THE sectional administrator of the H railroads in this part of the couh- H try is figuring on a raise in freight H rates on canned products which will H mean an irreparable injury to the in- H dustry. Under the plan which he H proposes the carload rate will be ad- H vanced $50 per car. If this becomes H effective It will mean that all the work H and money invested in the northwest, H where tho proposed rate is to be made H effective, will have been lost and that M California, which has a low water M freight rate, will invade the field and M take the business builded up by Utah M canners. Protests made by the Indus- M try and by the Traffic Bureau of Utah M have induced the railroad administra- M tor to agree to give Utah a hearing, M and this will be at an early date. What M the result will be is problematical. M |
