'Flu Epidemic In Tahiti

THERE is another severe epidemic of influenza here at present. It seems to have been introduced by a ship.

Smallpox slays its hundreds, typhus its thousands, cholera and bubonic their tens of thousands. Influenza, which slays in millions, is the only one of this grim list that is not quarantined. Inasmuch as the deep-sea sailor and the honky tonk are the chief agencies which carry and spread influenza, this disease will never be quarantined.

The sailor must be amused. In the Pacific area, a captain is no longer master of his ship; he is merely a gadget for calculating the course of the vessel.

Booze is the cornerstone of Democracy— as we in the United States discovered during the period of Prohibition.

Consequently, an endless chain of in fluenza epidemics will continue to regu larly sweep around the world.