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Show ADVOCATES MASKS. Editor I ho Standard: In your Tuesday Tues-day issue Sanitary Inspector Shorten is quoted as advising that gauze masks should be worn as a means of checking check-ing the spread of the influenza. But why advise' Why not issue a positivo order to take effect at. once, if the masks are a good thing? Why not require every person appearing in public to wear a mask? Very few men or women care to make themselves conspicuous by, appearing ap-pearing in public wearing masks, if the custom is not to be generally observed. ob-served. That is all conditional on the masks being a good thing. If they are not a good thing, let us quit talking about them. K the health department has not tho power to make such an order, then let it be given power, why trifle with a situation that means life or death to five people every day? If tho health department gives the order to wear masks in public under penalty of fine, tho order will be obeyed. obey-ed. After the celebration we Indulged in n week ago Monday, the people of Ogden Og-den ought not to gag at anything.' It is claimed that" San Francisco, by the use of masks, cut down tho number num-ber of now cases reported dally from 300 to 500 and Is now ready to reopen re-open her schools, theaters and churches. church-es. In the smallest Nevada towns tho influenza is under control because of tho wearing of masks, passengers not ill being allowed to alight from trains w without them. ? jjrif But here in Ogden even the simple if jj and reasonable requirement that street j 11 car windows be kept open Is no longer jjf observed. The warm air of a crowded f 11 street car is ideal for conveying the glfl germs of Influenza from one passenger i ll to another. jlwl Then if the masks are the proper g thing let us have them and let us see jllff that everyone, wears them. And let us I 111 have them at once, for, if they will be the means of saving one human life, it llU will be well. worth 'all the trouble and llln inconvenience. H (Signed) O. A. KENNEDY, Jiff |