Piute Chieftain | 1916-04-13 | Page 3 | Be Wiser, Not Sad

OS RF BE WISER dohk fiut NUT NOT an heres the story of a mossback who was stubborn your help needed in li teaching this community dangers from flies wh which ich spread ID ideas a t once thern them was a man in this town who thought tho the gerta gene idea was all bunk he declared up and down that it was a fad of the doctors and a scheme to bocare people out ot of their wits and malu money playing on their fears he Is wiser than he was nine years ago but the lesson was expensive and sad he lost one of his children with scarlet fever because he thought the disease catching this Is an enlightened community but there are still a lot of people herc hem who pooh pooh all the fuss were making about the fly danger they and in insist s it its s the work of a bunch of stick slick doctors and fool women who ought to be home minding their babies you would be surprised at the number of mossbacks moss backs who think this fly talk is all bunk too A mossback Is all right until he becomes a danger to the health of the neighborhood by his stubborn ignorance in refusing to help wipe out the sources of disease and exterminate disease carriers make it your business to convert the mossbacks moss backs and get them into the army that is to wage war on the whole fly tribe here this summer once they are on our side they will be valuable fighters because of their stubbornness be a mission missionary aryl