Weekly journal-miner., 1918-11-06
VACC|NAT|0NLAW SHOULD NOT bE
 REPEALED
DR. RUPERT BLUE, SUR GEON GENERAL OF U. S. URGES SUCH A COURSE IN THE INTEREST OF HEALTH OF STATE.

PHOENIX. Oct. 30. - Believing that the anti-vaccination petitions re- gently circulated in Arizona would
 have gone begging for want of sigma lures had the signers thereof known the attitude of the medical depart ment of the United States Army to- ward vaccination. State Health Off cer, O. H. Brown, has inaugurated
 campaign to educate the people of
 Arizona to the need of the compul- sory vaccination law purely as a war measure.
 Dr. Brown is confident that in the
 matter of keeping themselves physi-
 cally fit and healthy, and helping to keep down disease in the army, that
 the voters of Arizona are just as
 patriotic as in the matter of subscrib-
 ing for liberty bonds, or any other of the many war interests.
 The fact of the matter is that to vote for the abolition of the present compulsory vaccination law is to re-
 fuse to support the medical staff Of the United States Army and Navy in their efforts to keep the Army and
 Navy up to the highest standard of efficiency. If you do not believe that statement, read the following tele- gram received by Dr. Brown, as state
 health officer, from Surgeon Gem eral Rupert Blue. of the United States Public Health Service.
 Washington, D. C.. March s, 1918 Sup't of Public Health,
 Phoenix. Arizona
 Urgently advice promulgation of order by State Board of Health re- quiring vaccination of school child ren throughout Arizona. Re-vaccina- ton of adults should be urged. This order is essential as a war measure and for industrial efficiency, especial ly in view of constant occurrence of smallpox and large per cent un-vac- cinated population. Other states have responded to recommendation of this character Public Health Ser vice ready to render any assistance to maintain proper health standards at this most critical period"
 (Signed Blue, Surgeon General
 There IS the whole thing in a nut shell. Just as the Army and Navy vaccinate their own men-not only with one, but with two kinds of serum-so they put it up to the peo- Dle 'back home" to see that public health is insured by requiring vac cination of both children and grown ups
 To vote for a repeal Of the present law making vaccination compulsory | is to put narrow minded hobby and 1 personal prejudice above national welfare and patriotism. Everyone of l the thousands of soldiers that Ari- 1 zona has sent into the service, has l been vaccinated. The vaccinations | that they have to undergo are far | more rigorous than that for small | pox, and yet not one case Of compli- | cations afterward has developed. One | who stays at home and votes against | vaccination nlaces himself in the | position of saying Sure I'm pat riotic, wave the flag and buy bonds, but when it comes down to sacrific- ing my personal views for the good | of the cause, there's where I stop | Let the boys go to the front and cat- " on the fight, and submit to the horrors @ of vaccination, but as for patriotism stops there"
 Vaccination - compulsory vaccina- tion-has been the law in Arizona for wears, and while there is no record of fatalities traceable to vaccination in there are those in the State
 who at this critical time would throw down the barriers to the con tagious disease by repeating the pres ent vaccination law, simply to satisfy a personal whim.
 The State Board of Health and the Council of Defense urge all vot- CTS to stand behind the army and navy-our boys in the service on the land and sea--to the end that the present compulsory vaccination laws are left on the statute books of the state. It is a war measure-the army wants it enforced-and for that req son all voters are urged to vote against the initiative petition repeal ng the present compulsory vaccina- ion laws. .SCOTTY- LIFTS THE JID