Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-01-26
INTERESTING SIDELIGHTS


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cheeks it is a sign that her mother Is
a weak sister-Galveston News.
Moses Wohl of New York, at 100,
danced the tango with his great
granddaughter That is one way Of
growing old-Birmingham Ledger.
If there had been submarines in
Jonahs day he might never have,
lived to tell his wife that most fam
Gus Of fish stories.-Pittsburg Gazette.
A man somewhere sues his wife Tor
divorce because she shores. Go over
to the spare bedroom and settle the
matter NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. CONNER
cial Tribune.
A picture of ex-Presidents Roose-
welt and Taft side by side in seeming
amity should bring fancy price. The /
photographer who suggested it was
not silly.-Portland Oregonian.
by the board excluding children I
from attendance at school until med |
ical attendance" is resorted to by !
the parent.
There are at least four cogent OBJ |
jections to this bill LIST 1t deprives |
the parent of the right to determine
when his child needs medicine, or II /
defective, the method of treatment 4
to be followed, for medical attend I.
ance" means little else than the drug I
or the knife. There is no appeal
from the judgment of the teacher on
the child Once he has explained
the necessity for medical attend
ance" the child will be under the
ban until that order is complied
with, and this order is to be made
by teacher, unskilled in the arts OF
diagnosis, surgery or medicine.
Let the order be made, and the
parent viii be on his way to the
doctors office for some operation or
treatment which, from the apparent
health of the child he never before
dreamed was necessary, for if he
had observed any lack of health, he
would have been active IN his child's
behalf long before the teachers cX-
animation. This law is made com
pulsory for the purpose of compelling
unwilling parents to seek medical
attendance" for their children, 9TH
erwise. there would be no need of its
most prominent feature. 1t is need.
less to say this will greatly increase
the doctors bill in the homes of all
school children found defective"
TO many persons, awake to the
tendencies of the time, however, this
bill win seem a menace to personal
freedom. What right has the leg s.
lature to delegate to the teacher the
power to say to the parent, "You
must hire the dentist for your child, "
or "the child's eyes are not per
mouth, employ medical attendance, -
or the The child's eyes are not per
feet, get somebody to fit some glasses
on?" If such law can be passed
and enforced against your children,
why may not similar one be passed
imposing a like examination upon all
adults before they shall be allowed
to vote, or perform any other func-
tion of a public nature? Insofar as
this bill is compulsory it is obpjec-
tonable If II is intended merely to
secure information to be submitted to
the parent, doubtless much we'll
grounded opposition would be allayed
but SO long as the right to say what
is best for the children's health is
attempted to be taken from the par
ent, and form of expense imposed
; for medical attendance" which the
parent might not endorse, is substi
tuted. it behooves liberty-loying citi
zens to be vigilant, and to protest
; most vigorously to the members o.
! the legislature from this county
. against such imposition.