Goodwin's weekly : a thinking paper for thinking people. [volume], November 30, 1918, Page 5, Image 5

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GOODWIN'S WEEKLY S WM
Smoke From The Weekly Pipe
PERHAPS the flu is subsiding to a
certain extent, andi late health re
ports indicate that it is, but the num
ber of new cases reported daily and
the death record every twenty-four
, hours combine to make those who are
watching the course of the epidemic
very skeptical.
There is one thing there can be no
question about the situation has been
handled, very badly. In other larger
cities, the disease has been practically
stamped out in short order, and the
way our state and city officials have
temporized is not particularly pleasing
to most people
Right off the reel, the theatres, and
other places of amusement were
tx closed; we believe this is their eighth
if week of darkness. But for weeks
j crowds were allowed to congregate
everywhere else wtihout calling for
anything mor draEtlc than a warning
that poor1 ing a mob were in
danger of acting the disease.
The schools .vhere the children could
be kept under proper surveillance
wore also closed, yet it has been the
experience in other cities that the
disease was less prevalent among pu
pils in schools than in those cities
where they were turned loose.
Recently came a belated order to
regulate office hours, and the opening
and closing of different classes of
stores in order to relieve the shopping
and transportation congestion, but the
new arrangement has not proven sig
nally successful.
There is no more reason for closing
the theatres than for closing the
stores, and in justice to all, either
the theatres should be open
ed and the people attending them be
compelled to wear masks as they are
in some other cities, or else close the
whole town up for a week, and stamp
out the flu as they have in various
other cities by that method.
: It migh work a temporary hardship,
but it would be a great deal better
than to drift through the wintei on
the present plan with little noticeable
decrease in the number of new cases,
and business generally upside down.
We noted with interest in one of
the dailies the other morning that the
situation was well in hand, and in an
other column that 98 new cases had
developed the day before, and a num
ber of deaths had been reported.
Frankly we can see no excuse for
the terrific loss theatre- people, mer
chants and business men generally
have been compelled to take, through
the inofficiertt handling of the flu sit
, i uatlon the first really serious health
4 situation the state has been called
t upon to face.
' The salvation of the country does
', not depend on the way Salt Lake
" ' E handles the flu, but one could easily
' imagine that that is the case. The big
'. cities whore the disease is prevalent
are not closed up. Where they were
it was only for a brief period, and
after sensible plans for its eradication
I were agreed upon business was re
sumed as usual.
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But why should any cow town abide
by the precepts of those in the cities
where their work has told. This town
has been closed now for nearly eight
weeks, and it is outrageous. Make the
closing general for a brief period or
open it up. It is the busiest season of
the year and the losseB being sustained
are enormous. That would be all right
if any good were being accomplished
by the slip shod methods employed,
but none is, and the Avhole thing looks
like rank discrimination! or ineffici
ency. x
In one bank alone, half the force
came down with influenza, and three
fine men died of the disease. Why not
close the banks? If it is so contagi
ous, and it must be, It isn't necessary
for a crowd to gather to endanger
people.
Close it all or open it all, or try the
experiment of compulsory- wearing! of
masks. Do something, and, do it quick
ly, and quit temporizing, for the peo
ple have had enough of that and are
growing very restless under the vari
ous restraints.
Eddie O'Day has discovered a new
poet in IFresno who edits the Mirror
there. He is Poet-editor Mappes who,
after quoting some free verse by Wit
ter Bynner, proceeds to show how real
free verse should be written.
Mapes says that it is "very hard to
write, as our pencil, pitted, with teeth
marks, our rumpled pompadour, and
our tattered cravat attest". The, lines
he says he wrote "in our garage by the
light of an auto lamp," and here they
are:
We met on the windy boulevard.
I opened my mouth, to say "Howdy?"
And the wind blew dessicated Bull
Durham into It.
She laughed. Dammit!
I felt like stabbing her wtih a. pencil.
My love has gravy on his "flu" mask.
Has he been eating chicken Maryland
or just plain mulligan?
Oh, I could bite his cheek
If my teeth were not at the dentist's.
Her eyes are like fried egs,
And when her ardent gaze
Upon my soup stained vest doth con
centrate I feel like a ham sandwich.
Why is the cat much lovelier than the
fence? J3
Come, let's imbibe.
Let us leave the garden, Maud.
The ants have got into my pants
And are laying eggs as big as Big
Berthas.
The night birds are gurgling
Like dishwater going down the sink,
Your breath is bad, so kiss me on
the neck.
You must not eat limburger, sweet
heart. FOLLOWING- the prompt squelching
of the New York reds by the sol
diers and sailors a few nights ago, the
city commission here were prompt to
act in anticipation of any local dis
turbances, and the result is an ordi
nance that will effectively .stop any
demonstrations of an anarchistic na
ture. Other cities all over the country are
doing the same thing, so there is little
likelihood of any Bolshevike getting
a good start.
A fine of $299.00 or imprisonment or
both will be the lot of anyone display
ing a red flag or making any anarchis
tic demonstration, and the ordinance is
effective immediately. It is drastic in
its wording and prohibits the wearing
or carrying of any objectionable em
blem on the streets or at public meet
ings, and a red flag may not be dis
played on any house or building or
from any window.
Prompt action of this nature will do
much to curtail any sinister influences
that may be at work, and prevent an
ticipated attempts to upset any part of
the federal machinery or infringement
upon the laws of the land.
A SHORT time ago when one of
the city teachers received her
pay envelope, it contained a slip stat
ing that a certain amount of money
had been necessarily spent to help to
pass the mining tax amendment to the
state constitution, and that each of the
teachers was supposed to contribute a
proportion. If this was sent to one, it
was sent to all and there should im
mediately be an investigation to And
out how much was spent, who spent it
and what for.
If this does not come under the pen
alties imposed by the Corrupt Practice
Act, we should like to know why not,
and as for compelling the teachers to
make up the money irrespective of
how they stood on the question, that is
nothing less than outrageous, and
there should be an immediate account
ing with the responsibility traced to
the proper source.
It Is one of the rottenest things Ave
have heard of in connection with the
whole rotten business of the passing of
the amendment, and we are going to
endeavor to find out just who is re
sponsible, who sent out the notices,
and by what authority the teachers
are asked to shave their pay checks
to grease the Democratic machine.
CLEVER WORK
'You can get around almost any
man if you will use the right kind of
flattery."
"Umph! Did you ever try that sort
of persuasion on a motorcycle police
man who was about to arrest you for
speeding?"
"Once ,and it got results. When the
fellow overhauled me I said it was a
pity that a man who could handle his
machine as well as he did wasn't win
ning fame and glory as a dispatch
bearer for General Pershing. That
started him off. He told me how he'd
tried to enlist six diffeernt times and
had been rejected for physical disa
bility. He got so indignant and I lis
tened with so much sympathy that we
shook hands at parting and he forgot
all about what is was he stopped me
for." 'Birmingham Age-Herald.
WHEN' DO WE EAT AGAIN'? W
ByT. G. HM
Some people call H. H
Hoover "Herb," and some folks , flB
Address H
W. W. Armstrong ' jH
As "Bill," and so I'm going to say H
Bill, I'm getting damned sick of F H
Chewing up bran and . H
Excelsior, and last year's birds' nestu, ''1
And everything, and kidding myself vJJB
Into the belief H
That it is bread, and so Bill H
Fertheluva God loosen up and H
Let us eat again. H
You know just as I know H
There was an over-production of wheat H
Last year, and that H
This year there will be more, H
So nix for that chatter about H
The starving Bolshevlki, and let H
The waiter serve one small roll, one H
Lump of sugar, and a big H
Enough SM
Piece of butter for a fly to light on Ol
Before a fellow gets to his 1
Dessert. I say: "Capitolo, slip. H
Me a cluster of bread," and he says H
"You would get me in trouble, there H
sit IH
The Food Administration," so I M
Look over, and there you were H
Sitting Bill, so I told M
Him to wrap it up and send it to jH
The office after I got through rl
My meal, and he hasn't done it yet ,
I guess you stopped him, but listen
Bill, do we have to go through H
The holidays this way, and go into f
The new year looking like the old, l
Or are you going to turn things H
Loose by Christmas eve, and let
Everyone ' H
Have two slices of bread, two -H
Lumps of sugar, a hunk H
Of butter all to himself H
And a helluvatime generally?
Come on Bill be a sport and let dHH
Us eat again, and permit me, (
Quoting one of your favorite expres- lH
sions
To say H
"Please give this your usual "prompt H
Attention." M
HAS REASON H
"So you resigned?" H
"Yes, il couldn't stand the way the H
firm treated me." '1
"What did they do?" H
"Took my name oif the pay-sheet." H
Bridgeport Life. H
EVERYTHING GOING DRY M
"What we need is individual drink- iH
ing cups." H
"What's the good of individual drink- H
ing cups with nothing to urink." H
Kansas City Journal. ,H
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THOUGHTFUL , M
"William," snapped the dear lady, H
viciously, "didn't I hear the clock H
striketwo as you came in?" (H
"You did, my dear. It started to H
strike ten, but I stopped it to keep it IH
from waking you up." Exchange. M