The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-20
ENFORCE THE QUARANTINE.

ENFORCE THE QUARANTINE.
Attention is called to the statement
of DR.. Leitch that quarantine law
will be enforced in Pullman, and the
people are urged to cooperate with
the health officer in this movement
Too many homes were made desolate
by the influenza epidemic last year to
pass lightly over the warnings OF dan
ger that are coming to us daily. Chi
cago, with 900 new cases a day and
30 to 100 deaths daily, has the dis
ease worse thar it had it a year ago.
1t is reported in many sections OF
southern Idaho and Lewiston has it in
mild form.
Can we, with the university, with our
schools and our business interests, af-
ford to AXE chances of permitting a
spread of the disease like it spread
last year? There can be no division
of opinion IN that question. 1t must
be answered in the negative by all.
And the way to make that answer eff
Iect1Ve is Dy cooperation.
We believe that DR.. Leitch's plan of
Q~uarantining the homes and those al
f1icted or exposed to contagious dis
ease is preferable to closing the
schools and the churches and he the
aires and other places where people
c~ongregate. The we'll do not need to
be q~uarantined. 1t is the sick who
spread the disease. DR.. Leitch has
made a plain statement and publishes
the law. Let us all cooperate with
him and help to ave Moscow from
another scourage like that of a year
ago.
Moscow escaped lightly in the
scourge of 1888, but many homes
suffered the loss of a loved n and
while we did not have nearly as many
deaths as other communities, We had
too many. One would have been too
many, if it were "our one" and we
must work together to prevent a re-
currence of this terrible epidemic.
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FARMERS SHOW THE WAY.
According to the Bureau of Markets,
Department of Agriculture, the farm
ers of the United States have organ
lied nearly two thousand mutual fire
insurance associations which nave in
force policies totaling six billion dol
lars. Practically all of this business
is done IN a cooperative, ~non-profit
basis and the companies have been
uniformly successful. They pay their
losses promptly and they give their
members a chance to obtain insurance
protection practically at cost, says the
February Sunset.
The farmers were forced to go into
the cooperative fire insurance bust
ness because the commercial fire in
surance companies either declined to
write policies covering country prop
erty or else charged prohibitive rates.
They were doing well and making
good money on their city business.
This attitude of the commercial COM
panies was a good thing for the farm
ers-it compelled them to save money
on their insurance through co-opera-
ton.
Property owners in the cities are
continuing to pay the commercial com
panles a fat profit. Some day they'll
wake, organize. cooperate and put
that profit into their own pockets.
The farmers have shown them how to
do it. !
A southern newspaper in speaking :
of Rhode Islands and New
Jerseys Efforts to set aside the pro- {
amendment and defy the con-
stitution gently reminds those states
"the South tried that in 1860 and
see what happened to u.s." I
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Attorney General Palmer says:
1The cost Of living is under control
That's progress. Now to find out r
whose control it is under.-Detroit t
y
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An English scientist claims to have 9
how to turn anything in t
gold. But the profiteers discovered $
hat a year or two ago.-Nashville :
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