The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-02-20

AS health. They make virtue of hating what they don't like. They
get longfaced and sour-minded, and the first thing they know they ave a
or stomach. Then they imagine they are martyrs q bodily suffering.
A jolly goodnatured sinner frequently gets along much better than a long
faced, respondent and despairing saint There's a lot in the point Of view.
wrong with it, A sound mind in a sound body is the ideal existence We
all annreciat hat A nan o. woman cannot be chock-full of hate or chock-
full of fear, and be sound either mentally or physically.
1t is a remarkable fact that the world has been always dealing with
symptoms instead of cau@s. A man who is scared half to death is in eon
dHion to invite disease and in the veryp poorest possible condition to resist it.
Matter physicians and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., health officers and thinking people OF
all classes agree that a n epidemic of fear is the best possible seeded for an
epidemic of disease. Nevertheless, here comes the official announcement
that nex spring we are due for another scourge.
Isn't it about time. asks the Express, that a little common ms receive
official recognition? Even before the present condition has very greatly
improved, another scare is thrown INTO ne urror-rndden pubic mn reon
ing into the future for all trrors Oft the imagination, to be added to those
already present in thought is little less than a crime.
Los Angeles and Pasadena, along with many other municipalities, certainly
have been having a bad time with their health" matters. San Francisco
loopedtheloop a couple OF times o IN the question, and then, suddenly, the
second masking ordinance was repealed, by proclamation of the mayor, upon
announced that mask-wearing should be continued. And n cannot help
wondering if Mrs. E. c. Harrington, chairwoman of the Anti-Mask League.
did not hit the whole thing off when she said:
when the Ant-NEask League put thirty-fve women on the streets with
petitions asking for the immediate repeal of the mask ordinance, and people
lined up o the sidewalks waiting for a chance to sign them. the health
authorities began to SCI thai the people not mi dsapproVed OF ur acuohs'
but were getting ready to do something about it. think the city authorities
will hesitate before putting a similar Measure into effect again. They pay
very little attention to writs and other legal action, but they have a whole
some respect for votes"
A strenuous attempt is being made now, at Carson, by interested ones, to
secure legislation which viii confer arbitrary power upon physicians. of
course, every mn who has a smatterng of legal lore, knows that any such
class legislation is unconstitutional But legislatures, everywhere, attempt
many unconstitutional things. The unfortunate thing is that a physician
from Washington is telling the Legislators, in effect, according to u infor-
nation. that he represents the government" in health matters; and the
natural assumption is that he speaks, in son degree, with the authority of
the people of the United States.
The contra fact should be brought out that the Owens bnI-the original
Measure by which arbitrary power "a sought by the American Medical Asso-
citation has reposed in committee rooms of Congress for the past eleven
years. without being reported out. Notwithstanding regular and powerful
attempts made to rsusctate IN amend IL at evarv or nearly every session
of the national legislature. Which shows conclusively that "the government"
is not behind" arbitrary socalled health legislation" Of any kind, O relating
tic any particular disease.
true about the government" And this means that the surgeon general of
the United States army is in n sense the government"