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4C • BEACON SHOPPER, December 9 ,2010 Dr. Bob Corona Serving Babylon fo r O ver 20 Years HOUSE CALLS STILL AVAILABLE ALL PETS ANIMAL HOSPITAL & Veterinari House Service Now The Vet Can Serve Your Pet Better1 MEDICAI CARE • VACCINES • HEARTWORM • ROARDING •Dogs* Gats «Birds* * 5 Ö F F Ferrets ■T| I Exotics •Pet Food* Pet BatMog T H IN G S T O D O .«.. 1 F R E E N A I L I FIRST EXAMINATION ■ I • Not Valid on I louse Calls • Oder Valid In I lospilal Only I • Bring This Ad lo r Coupon Offer j • Heartworm Test • Yearly Exams C L I P P I N G Not Valid on House Calls • O ffer Valid In I lospilal Only • Bring This Ad lo r Coupon O ffer Senior Citizen & Multiple Pet Discounts! BOB CORONA, DVM • (631) 376-1133 Caring Affordable Service • C aliFor Appointment 3 é É otl 975 LITTLE EAST NECK RD.( WEST BABYLON ¡a mie North of smise Hwy) HOURS! Mon.-Fri. 9am-6pm Sat. 9am-1pm More Threads in the Babylon/Westminster Web: Did the Great American Smoke Out originate in Babylon at the former Westminster Ken nel Club (WKC)? A 1916 self-help guide to kicking nicotine addiction pub lished by the tenant using Westminster’s old proper ty as a health retreat gives this question credibility. This book with a documented litany of tobacco dangers had the US Surgeon General’s smoking warning beat by al most 50 years. Tobacco Habit Easily Conquered: How to Do It Agreeably and Without Drugs is a 158 page manual written by Max MacLevy when he was living on the former Westminster grounds in Babylon overlooking Southards Pond. The volume contains a plan consisting of 20 simultaneous steps called “Dictums” which when fol lowed religiously the author guaran tees will free the smoker of that “De mon Nicotine.” Note the year is 1916. The book is geared to financially successful men who smoked. A chapter directed to women is added as an afterthought. The author warns the reader to visualize his goal and stay the course -“You punished yourself by straining your will power alone, and in the end Tobacco punished you more by resum ing his sway over you. That is the Alpha and Omega of almost every addict who fights the habit with the obso lete shrapnel of willpower alone, instead of the modern Madoif. MacLevy set up a series of health farms in Baby lon. Previously, he rented Havemeyer Point and what would years hence become Bulk’s Nursery in West Babylon. This health movement belonged to the physical culturist fad sweeping Babylon and the country. Smoke-enders was only one facet of Ma- cLevy’s therapies. Wealthy patients suffering from physical and mental ail ments would pay for the privilege of chopping wood and laboring on his farm. Some of the privileged class resented doing me nial chores, only to be “won over” once cured. Others remained disgruntled and sued him. MacLevy’s fam ily was living in the old WKC shooting house and his guests staying in the former WKC clubhouse when the whole complex burned down in October 1918. Throughout his anti-tobacco book, MacLevy refers to the Westminster property as “The Farm.” Dictum #4 is “to avoid foods and drinks that disagree with you.” MacLevy says: “A visitor at The Farm suffered a serious throat distemper every time he ate nuts, so I stopped him.” Dictum #17 is “to pacify an occasional false crav ing for tobacco, use a harmless substitute.” He suggests chamomile tea, crystallized ginger, raw oysters with pa prika and salty and gum chewing which proved success ful with soldiers during the Great War, but “at The Farm chocolate cigarettes are handed out to those who ask for them- and I frequently have to order a fresh sup ply.” The most amazing portion of the book is the footnoted medical statis tics in the appendix. Keep in mind that the Surgeon General didn’t vil ify smoking until 1964. MacLevy’s beliefs are ahead of his time. He la ments that although “Education is the key to progress. Our nation spends three times more on tobacco than on our school system.” When he calls tobacco a poison, he lists spe cific toxins in nicotine including the deadliest- prussic acid, the historical name for cyanide. With data available at the time, he supports various claims that tobacco caused cancer, insanity, blindness, deafness, heart failure, hardening of the arteries, epilep sy and loss of memory. Some of these hazards are sub stantiated with modern findings, including Mac-Levy’s explosive shell of sane living, plus the specific Dictums ' warn*nSs about secondhand smoke. MacLevy quotes a here outlined.” These Dictums are a regimented blend of mind over matter and health tips such as deep breathing, personal hygiene and enough sleep. The most unusual Dictum is #3 -“Chew every mouthful or bite of solid or dry food 28 times before swallowing.” All the Dictums are described as “Nature’s Way”, and the reader is directed to begin all of them but not cease tobacco (cold turkey) for at least two weeks. Each Dictum explanation reads like an old-fashioned infomercial and ends with the salutation “Selah!”-a Hebrew term used to finish psalms telling the reader to “stop and listen.” (MacLevy whose real name was “Maxmilian Levy” was a founder of Temple Em manuel in Lynbrook.) Westminster Kennel Club built the Babylon com pound but had no ties to MacLevy. Westminster had a sportsmen club and kennels housing 200 dogs here from 1880 until they sold the 64 acres in 1904. About a decade later the; new owner leased the huge WKC clubhouse to vaudevillian, life guard and exercise guru- Max MacLevy- as his latest health farm. According to his 1934 obituary in the NY Times, MacLevy also had a gym at Madison Square Garden where Teddy Roosevelt had been a client MacLevy and his son Monty patented exercise contraptions including rowing machines, sta tionary bikes and that belt shaker shown in cartoons. For more about MacLevy’s controversial career, see, “Pets” Beacon 6/26/08 online. MacLevy’s bio reads like a combo Jack LaLanne, L. Ron Hubbard with a dash of doctor stating: “Many an infant has been killed outright in the cradle by tobacco smoke with which a thought less father filled an unventilated room” to which he adds his own remark: “Thus, Demon Nictotine out-herods Herod in the slaughter of the innocents.” To think those prescient words were penned at the former Westminster Kennel Club right here in Babylon. I can’t get over the phrase “out-herods Herod” especially weeks before Christmas 2010. For Adoption at Babylon Town Shelter (631- 643-9270) Lamar St. W. Babylon: Two tiny, frightened dogs are featured this week. “Blanco” #93652 is an older Chihuahua who in typical breed style takes some time to warm up to everyone while “Madison” #93724 is a timid female Jack Russell found in Amityville. She took a fancy to one volunteer but shies away from me, espe cially when I have that annoying camera. Both are in the Puppy Room. Male: “Davy Bruno”#93520 personable Pit; “Steve” #93710 Town Hall Shepherd; “JJ’ #93725-Dachshund. Female: “Lydia” #93376 precious Pit; small Shepherd #93691 found with male in Deer Park; “Charlotte” lobby calico. • Reminder.. .Reading of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Sat. Dec. 11 at 4 pm to benefit Last Hope Animal Res cue at St. John’s Church, Prospect St. Huntington. • Sad Sign of the Times.. ..Note on doggy clean up bag dispenser at Gardiner Park: “Our^uqcJs^are lQ\y._ please' bring your own bags,” *' ' •* • Pets for Adoption PO L IC E B L O T T E R The Suffolk County Police Department’s Third Pre cinct and other local fire and law enforcement agencies reported the following incidents. For additional police information, see the Beacon’s main section newspaper, which is available at newsstands and by subscription. To subscribe, call 631-587-5612 or go to www.babylon- beacon.com to order on line. ROBBERY Central Islip: A man armed with a pistol accosted another man on Carleton Avenue at 12:05 a.m., Nov., 18 and stole the victim’s money. BURGLARY East Islip: Sometime between the afternoon of Nov., 17 and the evening of Nov., 18, someone broke into a Harrison Avenue, home and stole various items. Brentwood: Police reported that between Nov. *12 and Nov. 19, someone gained entry into a Barleau Street home and stole assorted valuables. islip: At 2:30 p.m. on Noy. 19, pofweYeceived a call that someone had entered a West Pine Street, home and had taken a variety of items. Islip Terrace: A motion detector alerted police to a 4 a.m. break in at a Sunrise Highway business. The thief fled before police arrived. GRAND LARCENY Brentwood: Someone stole a 1997 gray Honda Civic parked on Crooked Hill Road. The theft was re ported at noon on Nov. 18. Bay Shore: On Nov. 18, at 6 a.m., police received a report that someone had stolen landscaping equip ment from a trailer at a 5th Avenue yard. Other items were also taken from the property before the thief or thieves fled. •A 1994 red Honda Civic parked on Prospect Avenue was stolen sometime between 11:30 p.m., Nov., 17 and 6:30 a.m., Nov. 18. Islip: Various merchandise was taken from a Sun rise Highway store sometime between the evening of Nov. 18 and the morning of Nov. 19. Police were called at 8 a.m. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF Brentwood: Someone vandalized a car on Crooked Hill Road Nov. 18, sometime between 5:50 and 9 p.m. The person responsible also left a threatening note on the windshield. Police are investigating. ARRESTS DWI: The following persons have been arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated or impaired: An gel Alfaro, 57 Morris St., Brentwood; Jose Alvarado, 327 Elwood St., Northport; Micah Brown, 89 Claywood Dr., Brentwood; Nelson Sanchez, 167 Van St., Brentwood; Rape: Valdez Ruffin, 27A Dowsing Ave., Bay Shore; Grand Larceny: Nilufer Nazary, 33 Cornell St., Is lip (two counts, plus one count of forgery); Mon ica Tarpey, 1349 Lombardy Blvd., Bay Shore; Burglary: Myles Moore, 85 Apple St., Brentwood; The charges against those arrested are allegations and the cases are still pending in the courts. Individu als charged and whose names appear in this column may submit documentation to us at a later date that the charges have been dismissed or that they have been *found innocent and we willihclude that information in ' this space in a timely manner.
