Show SPANISH INFLUENZA disease Is tins Gus new new- disease which has al already already already al- al ready killed k hundreds and stricken thousands of our soldiers and civilians civilians civilians civil civil- ians a new German war offensive If not If-not not how did it happen that this epidemic appeared eared so suddenly and extensively In such widely s scattered cities and army camps throughout I the c country I Smitten as from a bolt from a a clear sky thousands of Americans have been bElen suddenly prostrated in inmany inmany inmany many widely separated parts parts parts' of the country during the past ten days by bya a disease which Is c called apparently for want of a better name Spanish Influenza Naturally under allI all I the circumstances there Is much speculation regarding the matter I Perhaps because there seems to be bea a rather natural disposition to a ascribe as ass cribs cribe a about out everything that is pern- pern I dious in the world today to Germany Ger Ger- many hive have ventured the guess that the disease may have been In and spread by German agents This however is generally considered as being not only groundless but really absurd for it seems hardly conceivable that lit if Germany undertook an offensive of this s I kind she would choose so such I I a a. mile raun and humane sort of disease A much more plausible explanation would seem deem to be bo the simple fact tact that the tho recent celd soap snap ap caught the I country entirely unprepared for such i severe weather and us ua as a r result sult of or our unheated dwellings a and id other I buildings an and the inadequate cloth cloth- clothIng Ing lag that was being worn vorn lar large e num- num bera of or people In different sections lot lof of the he country contra contracted colds which I developed In la many cases Into pneumonia pneumonia onla and resulted resulted In many unusual unusual un un- usual number always at At this season eason of or tho the year y ar are frequent and they I often r result sua fatally and it may welt well be that thit but r fur for the high tension of or I th these strenuous e war ar r times tia th I decile would not have havo attracted unusual unusual unusual un- un I usual usual attention In any event there deems 1001 seeing to tu be no occasion for tor special alarm ILium or panic abou about the matter for Ithe the disease dUease 11 U Is evidently one ole which I Ul tile A merlon t pity Jt E- E Erf perfectly rf able to to h handle j and JIl moro mare over on effective taken takeD wh wherever rever It U appears check I I I it l iM find destroy Its power U ft tt Is to- to l however at all alt and and and no less important now no now for os each Individual to secure prompt medical attention for tor all eases cases of or so- so called cold or grippe This Is I. lir aary for the conservation conservation- of the h health of th the community us as well welt as the tile welfare of at the individual L |