The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-13
been once on each side Of q question.
that should suffice him, for there are
but two sides to question
WAR AGAINST PUBLIC cups.

The Iowa state board OF health con-
tinues It's warning and war against
the public drinking cup and the agita-
ton is bringing about reform that
Will show marked benefit in the de-
Burlington railroad is the first to I'm
stall the Individual drinking cups in
Its trains on the entire system in
states where the public drinking cup
has been abolished by law and also in
states where 1t is still permitted Rail-
ranging to follow the example, COM
plying with the laws enacted by sew
eral legislatures.
DR.. Guilford Sumner. secretary of
the state board. has sent out new
bulletin upon the subject, which gives
additional information upon the evils
of the common drinking cup and
urges its adjustment everywhere. He
says:
ut has been repeatedly demonstrat.
ed that the use of what Is commonly
known as the public drinking cup is
dangerous and is an undoubted source
of communication of infectious dis
eases. In the interest of public health
the common drinking cup should be
abolished
1.-THE use Of the public drinking cup
on trains, in railroad stations, IN pub
lie, parochial or private schools and
In other educational institutions OF
the state of Iowa and all other states
should be abandoned
Let every corporation in charge of
any railroad train, or station; any
school board, board of education,
township board of school directors,
of trustees of any public, parochial or
private school or educational institu-
ton; any person or persons respon-
sible for, or having in charge, public
drinking fountain see to it that the
cGrmon drinking cup is speedily abol-
:shed.
Let the generous, broad intelli-
gence of the people of Iowa assert it
self and come to the help of the Iowa
state board of health, which is trying
to Keep before the people of our great
commonwealth all the advanced ideas
which are destined to keep her inhab.
;tants from sickness and death.
There are comparatively few peo-
pc who will not admit that the germ
diseases are to be found in the mouth
and On the lips of those suffering
from such disease, hence the germs
are constantly communicated to any
drinking cup or vessel tlat the per.
son may use. This being true, no one
can deny that the common drinking
cup in public places, must inevitably
be the constant medium of such dis
eases anu as truly poisoned or in
! fected cup at times as though it con
! tanned arsenic or strycnnine. 1t is
conceded that all disease germs which
are spread in this manner are even
more danger than poisonous drugs
| because neither in sight, taste, mol
| smell is a hint conveyed Of the pres
/ ence of the poison, and because il
gives no immediate indication of the
/ injury 1t has inflicted. The state
board Of health wishes to impress up
on the people of Iowa that these mat
/ tiers are not fads' and this agitation
against the use of the common drink
4 ing cup must continue until the evil
and it's consequences are entirely
! abolished.
Vital statistics show and 1t has
| been proven that at least seven hun
i dred thousand of the million and a
] half deaths occurring annually in the
! United States result from the minute
parasite plants and animals which
gain access to the body. These invis
J ible foes wage a continual warfare
against the human race"