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One big happy voice
May 07, 2009
I'm reading The Great Influenza, about the horrendous 1918 version of the current flu virus. This struck me:
Outside Des Moines, Iowa, at Camp Dodge, also, influenza was killing hundreds of young soldiers. Within the city a group called the Greater Des Moines Committee, businessmen and professionals who had taken charge during the emergency, included the city attorney who warned publishers -- and his warning carried the sting of potential prosecution -- "I would recommend that if anything be printed in regard to the disease it be confined to simple preventative measures -- something constructive rather than destructive."
So people are dying like flies. Be constructive!
The Greater Des Moines Committee's Partnership's creepy "One Voice" tradition apparently has deep roots. "One Voice" is a strange goal for an organization so committed to diversity.
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