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around in filinzy summer underwear in order to be in i asm on, we fret our feet wet, take cold, and we either have the grippe or influenza—purely an unnatural condition which we have broughton ourselves.And as the Rockefeller Institute looks upon the germ as so minute that it is hardly recognizable, of what real use is it for thegovernment to spend one million dollars in serums, just to experiment on our soldiers—with the further appropriation of ten million dollars to prosecute the war on the little devil of a germthat cannot be captured easily with a fish net.We mav be callous, but it seems that these annual attacksWhave a strange unhealthy, mysterious phase, and we hope to God, some day, some one will find out the real cause of all thesenasty tli.in.gs which, are trust upon, us practically without warning.However, there are many of us, more scared than hurt.They fear to even speak to anyone over the long distance telephone for fear of catching the warv little germ, and this fear has practically got to be a craze—business is at a standstill, and we are all becoming bug-house over the situation.It is to be hoped that the people will gradually get hack to a state of rationality, and go about their work as if nothing was happening. If the Spanish Influenza is a germ, we might as well go on in the even tenor of our way, for that germ is ont any respecter of persons, and will attack us, just the same as it w miv one else if we do not behave ourselves.And that is the whole trouble—we have become obsessed w the idea that the disease is sure to get us if we don't watch out Editorial, Franklin County (Idaho) Citizen, Oct. 24, 1918.
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Davenport Fountain Head News
Davenport, Iowa, US
Sun, Nov 02, 1919
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