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THE NASSAU POST; FREEPORT, N. V., FRIDAY, FESRUARY 6, 1914 3 ^ Nassau ^oat FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1914 Published Tuesdays and Fridays by THE NASSAU POST PUBLISHING COMPANY. 22-24 South Grove Street, Freeport,.N a ssau County, New York. RAND W. SUTHERLAND, Editor JAMES E. STILES, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION TERMS ONE YEAR ..................................... 1250 SIX MONTHS . ................................ t 1-40 THREE MONTHS ........................ I 70 ONE MONTH ...................................... 25 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLI CATION. Application for entry as second class m atter at the Post Office at Freeport, L. L, N. Y„ pending. All communication should be ad dressed to THE NASSAU POST. Main Office ___ Freeport, L. L, N. Y. Manhattan Office ---- 6 Boekman St. (Fifth Floor.) Branches at Valley Stream, Lyn- orook, East Rockaway, Rockville Cen tic, Long Beach, Oceanside, Baldwin, Merrick, Bellmore, Wantagh, Seaford, >lv;np-Vtead and Mineola. Telephone . . ....................... 61 Freeport THE NASSAU POST. The Nassau Post begins publlcattoa-j-a1- m tle avail, today with no vain glorious boast ol what it will undertake to do. As to what its policy will be there is no easier way of finding out than by reading It. We hope to keep It clean and progressive. We shall tell the truth always. Beyond that, we are free to make our program as we go along. Except one thing. The Nassau Post will absolutely in dependent. This may as well be an nouncod at the start. We cannot bring ourselves to believe that the opinions of a fettered partisan advocate carry- much weight. We want to be in a position where we may consider men and measures on their merits. When occasion seems tu demand that we shy a brick against a party battlement we want to feel perfectly VJfree - to swing with vigor. The people of Nassau County seem to be competent to handle politlca. situations as they arise. They bO:is. mbn into office with the same enthusi astlc spirit that they kick them out We would rather serve this competent general electorate than a section thereof. While the Nassau Post will circu late generally throughout Nassau County and, indeed,else where on Long Island, Its special field will be the South Side, embracing first Freeport and extending east and west from Massapequa to the city line. Assurances of support have come tc us from many quaiters, for which wt take occasion now to extpnd out thanks of appreciation. There is no powei on earth that can make people buy the Nassau Post un less they want it. It will be our ob ject to make them want It. Success does not come for the ask ing. We shall wrork for it and hope to deserve it. The well known Elks family ol Freeport has 700 members, including 699 Jolly god fellows and one exalteu jolly good fellow. There's Joy even In being the brother of a brother ol a Brother Elk. HONK-HONKi In recommending that the Super visors purchase automobiles for the Sheriff and the District Attorney the Grand Jury, while gratuitously ac cepting for Itself an advisory function not strictly essential to the m ainten ance of its official status or standard, very adroitly omitted to nominate the make, style and price. Does the Grand Jury favor touring cars or runabouts, and so wbat colut and speed? The ever increasing requirements of the two Important offices foi which modern perambulatory provi sion is sought to be made very likely has reached the machine stage. If so, by all means let them have cars. Three honks and a tiger and nevei mind the expense! YOURS FOR HEALTH. We would like to see the sale of rubbers, overshoes and goloshes Jump fifty per cent, in every shoe •tore In Nassau County—women's sizes in particular. The old adage about keeping the bead cool and the feet warm is ac cepted by women and girls generally with respect to the first half thereof They keep their heads cool; they do not keep their feet warm. Wet or dry, cold or warm, you will not see one woman in ten shod with due re gard to health. Rubbers are cheap—sickness is costly. One call at the shoe store may prevent a dozen calls of the doctor. A FREEPORT AUDITORIUM A plan by which Freeport may se cure an auditorium In every way ar chitecturally worthy of the village and under conditions not open to serious objections, is presented in another column of this newspaper. _ Originally a suggestion of the Nas sau Post, the plan already has the unqualified approval and support of a number of public-spirited citizens. It should at least Interest everyone. Briefly stated, it is contemplating to incorporate The Freeport Association as a quasl-offlci.il body with a mem bership of 200 >o become responsible for the financing of the building Membership in the association is to be upon the baais of a $30 subscrip lion to a building fund, which would give the association 16.000, a sum suf ficient to enlist the cooperation of a builder. William G. Miller, whose civic ac tivlties are always directed by energy and enterprise, comes forward will an offer to undertake the physical contract of building on term s of pay ment made possible by the association plan. Thus, the project at the start as iumes concrete form. There are de ;ails which will require shaping tc nake it effective, but they are in nc iense stumbling blocks. The important thing is that the ipirlt of accomplishment is in and o; he movement, without which all ef forts looking to clfic betterm ent are THE SCHOOL PROBLEM. It is undoubtedly a fact, as Super visor Hiram R. Smith says, that the maintenance of the high school cours es in districts of the county where the facilities are restricted and the iemand limited, adds to the burden of taxation. But what are we going to do about it? It la possible of course to reduce the number of high schools by cutting out the feebler ones and centralizing for greater efficiency but if that course were to be followed what com munities would be called on to make sacrifices In this interest of the com mon good? Would It be left to offi cial decision, or would the people .hernselves decide? There are nineteen high schools in Nassau County and nineteen differ- jnt rates of school taxation, ranging from 12 cents in one district to $2 in mother. While the tax problem is predicated on the school situation it is neverthe- ess a problem by itself. Schools and -.axes may not always be wisely con- ildered together. If a community oeeds a school a way must be found .0 provide it. That Is education. The .barges come along in their order. That is finance. ^ Nassau’s phenomlnal growth is due n no small part to the excellence of its schools, and the fact that each ieparate section has ungrudgingly ac cepted for itself the duty of providing che best that it could afford in build ings and pay for teachers. it may be, and probably is, time for a thoroughly competent inquiry into the entire school question, but pending such inquiry we venture to suggest that any one who undertakes ,o reduce the number of schools with out the full approval of the people will find himself closely adjacent to a veryc onslderable nest of hornets. FROM LONG ISLAND. We have long been aware that some of the choicest Philadelphia ducks come from the duck farms of Long Island. We have noted that large quantities of the finest New Jersey asparagus in the m arket are grown at Oyster Bay. Freeport has for a long time grown oysters which have been marked as Cape Cod. Now the ntelligence comes to us that Boston, driving always to m aintain its high repute for beans, hao found in our lome raised product a-rich and mealy article suited to its taste. Thus does Long Island maintain its supremacy in competitive fields. Food supplies from Long Island are always standard. They fill a long felt want and satisfy a i-ariety of tastes. A WORD TO MR. WEED. Assemblyman Weed has a good pair qf eyes and a clear head. He can do ao more effective work in the Legis lature than by watching with persist ent care for the \'nigger in the wood- pile” in cemetery legislation. Rogues and tricksters are trying to scheme through some measure to ex ploit Nassau County in a purely com mercial way under the guise of pro viding a burial place for the dead. By writing the appropriate epitaph ‘killed” on such legislation, the As semblyman will entitle himself to a monument of praise. With many of our leading citizens interested in highways and a consid erable number of District Attorneys paying attention to certain highway men the good roads movement may be said to be successful ORNATE CIVIC ADORNMENTS. The new boulevard lights which ex tend along Village avenue from the ial road to Merlrck Road and west to Centre avenue in Rockville Centre aio dignified and ornate monuments to an enterprise which is something more than utilitarian. These lights didn’t gre.v. They cost money. For mere purposes of illumination less ar- tistlcs standards would have answer ed. But that was not the thought The desire was to light this Important '.horoughfare not only well but with a egree of beauty. ii. is a healthy sign when a town lecldes to break away from the im- neaslven otlon that things are good mough. It is a healthy sign when nerchants unite and open their purs *s for Improvements which give char acter to a town. Supervisor Hiram R. Smith. Village 'resident Devlllo N. Bulson and all tie others should 'eel proud that they uddled and warmed Into life the idea hat has resulted In Rockville Centre’s 'ieat light way. MEN AND PLATFORMS. Every man who desires to be a ■andidate for public office In Freeport it the Spring election ought to formu ate his platform well in advance and nake it known to the electors. Effective public service is never the -esult of chance or haphazard effort Without a policy looking to a definite jbjecilve no man may do more than drift. Freeport’s problems of administra tion, of taxation, of schools and ol improvements call for men of strength and sound convictions. The next election should not be merely a negative contest between candidates. It should be a contest between vigorous advocates of con structive policies. Bn American Boy at Oxford Bv HERBERT Ol. CLOCK ies”—as townsfolk are called -oftlm es complain of the power of the Univer sity. Little do they realize that they j are bearing the chains forged for them by the excesses of their forebears of j Medieval Times. The “Town and | Gown” riots that one reads of in I novels have long since been stopped. But even yet a “Townie” never misses a chance to help the police when there | is trouble with undergraduates. con Long TROLLEY EXTENSION. The closer the transit links necting villages and towns on island with one another, the more ho mogeous becomes the communities The constlution may or may n o t_fol low the flag, but trade certainly does follow the trolley. The proposed extension of the Grove street line through Railroad ivenue past the Long Island Railroad lepot to Main street is a step forward {till the extension should not ball Lherc. Plans for pushing on to Am ityvlllo should be carried Into effect is soon as possible. Long Island development has halted m many places because of inadequate means of transit between localities. This condition is being corrected. In uhe working out of the general prob lem of inter-town communication moner or later a scheme will bo per fected which will solve forever the question of “getting there.\ For Free port at least, The Nassau Post recog sizes that the intelligent minds o) Thomas P. C. Forbes, Jr., and Roland M. Lamb are directed toward such an iccomplishment. NEIGHBOR ROOSEVELT. Although he boars no commission from the Congress of United States, and, for that m atter, needs none, The odore Roosevelt la nevertheless serv ing as an honorary and unofficial am bassador to the -people of South America. No man has finer equipment for the job. He is making a hit on both side? of the Andes and has been a source of enligutenment In every country ht has visited from the Orinoco to the far away lands of the Pategonlans. ~ FARMING WITH THE HEAD. The foundation of the first building of what will be a thoroughly equipped school of agriculture on Long Island will soon be laid at Farmingdale. The actual work of the school will begin quickly thereafter. There are still people who are un willing to believe that anything new may be learned about corn or cab bage, peas or parsley, spinnach oi squash. They profess to look upon the aplicatlon of scientific methods ol farming as either senseless or imprac deal and not to be compared with th( methods gained by every day expert ence. But facts are all agali^t such con clusions. The chemist and botonist bear a relation to modern farming analogous to the electrician’s relation to modem transit. Science goes ahead of the plow nowadays. Long Island is happily favored in having this modem agricultural es tablishm ent No territory has been more fruitful than Long Island. It has reaped its goodly harvests for, centuries. Still there is abundant o r / portunlty and great need for impro'*- ment. Long Island should be a f/r- den spot in its essential sense. yThe new agricultural school will provide- the knowledge of how to make If blos som. In writing a se ries of a r t i c l e s with the life at Ox ford University us a theme, it is al most imperative to prefix a descrip tion of present conditions with a sketch of Oxford itself and its won derful past. To uu- the Oxford of today . and to e the storm S 'lvIiiichl' shall KB HERBERT W CLOCk. derstaml appreciate endeavor to tell, the reader must know something of the manner In which the University and the city are bound together, and how the almost forgotten deeds oi the Middle Ages have their echo in the life of tin breathing throbbing Oxford of the present day. This first sketch is a brief review of facts which it is no jessary to know. Oxford, a city ol fifty thousand In habitants, is situated on the banks oi the Thames, fifty-two miles from Lon don, England. Eat Rest tradition pic tures i: us a collection of rude wooden dwellings group'd round the shine ol 3t. Fndeswyde un the left bank ol the river in 725. In M9 Alfred the Great was born it Wantage thirteen miles from Ox ford. To tills illustrious ruler tradi tion a crlbcs the founldng of what be came the germ of the University. The earliest historic mention of Ox ford is in 912, ‘When the great King Edwai d tnok,” as the English Chroni cle says, \Lundenbyrg and Oxnford and all the lands were obedient there to.” Edward the Confessor was born at Isllp five miles from Oxford, about 1004. During the Norman Conquest Ox ford was the scene of much fighting, and a strung castle, a tower of which is still standing, was built by-William. Later Richard the Lion Hearted was born at Oxford, then the capital of Eng'and During the reign of Henry II. Learm-d Englishmen had resorted to Parts up to this time, but while Henry was quarreling with Becket, these were ordered to return to Eng land. Th'-re were a number of teach ers in Oxford then, each with his cli entele of students. They banded .hemrc-lvi- together and hired Ilduses ind Inns, thus forming little commun ities. Shortly afterward the University be- ,ran to b<- organized. Almost simulta- leous with the signing of its charter ,n 1215, the Chancellor, as head of he Unlv» i ity Is mentioned. There b id always been bad blood‘ between t e townsmen and the stu- le'nts. Th confines of the city were small, and much friction existed be- ,wen the two classes. Street fights ,n which i. uch blood was spilt weie t common occurence. John, during ds reign ’ ivored the townspeople in these quarrels. In 1354 the citizens made a fierce attack on he students, rustics from the surrounding country side aiding .he town- en. The students were Inally ov borne and many of them naurdeied The city was placed un- ler interdi t. Edward III finally de cided in favor of the students, and la/e chatt-.r of privileges that made tu- townsn en helpless and the Unl- /ersity supreme. To this e. ' the students at Oxford ire knswei 10 lhe University and not to mu' ipil authority. Under graduates a v tried in the Vice-Chan cellor’s Court, f a student is arrest ed by the r ice he must be surrend ered to the University at its command, and may or may not be returned to TARIFF AND TENNIS BALLS. li tin- gradual re-adjustment ot prices under the new tariff act the first cut officially noticed was In the price of tennis balls. Robert D. VVrenn, president of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association, as sures us that tire grade of tennis balls called official will he reduced to per dozen, due to trie reduction ot trade rubber. While it may not be urged that the high cost of living is given a stagger ing swat by the change in the price of tennis balls, it is of real interest 0 note that the cut has started Even 1 small economy in tennis helps some. The regular price of official balls is •5 a dozen. The new price will effect a saving of a dollar. if anyone will take lire trouble to nultlply the number of tennis courts ,n Long Island by a number of ofli- ial tennis balls used in the course ol t year and divide tiro grand total by he grand saving on Un- dozen basis, to will get at something definite and ■ipecific. Further,by apportioning the gross savings for all the courts of „ong Island the saving for a single •ourt may be reached. The town of Hempstead may noi be strong for tin oew tariff but it is strong for tennis Vt the cut rates-mny we not see t'o/ty love changed to tnirty-five? TIME FOR PLANNING. it is unfortunate, to say the least, that in the development of villages ef- icctive plans for civic beautifying are neglected until mere or less haphaz ard formations of centres have made reform well nigh impracticable. Freeport has suffered In this re spect with other Nassau villages, it either did not contemplate its future needs at a time when opportunity was ripe for orderly planning, or it omit ted them altogether. W hat Freeport may do now to cor rect the amission ol the long ago, de pends less upon the people than upon the spirit and character of the move ment to which they may be asked to give their authority and approval. A proposition to purchase a site for a civc building is under considera tion for submission to the voters. Such a proposition should be lightly :onsidered. The kind of a place that Freeport is ultimately to be is of im portance to every citizen. Civic plan ning should be made broad enough to engage the inteiest and insure the support of the ablest of our disinter ested citizens. W hat we do now is likely to be done for all time. W h at we do now should be done w ith the wisdom and impulse of lofty patriotism. LIBRARY FUND BANQUE1. Under the auspices of the Library Fund of Lynbrook a grand banquet will be given at the- Five Corners Ho tel, Merrick Road and Atlantic avenue on the vening of Lincoln’s Birthday, February 12. An elaborate entertain ment will be made a part of the even ing’s varied program. A male quartet will sing, Miss Lila Lake, a well know n soprano, will render several se lections. Mrs. Emma Reither will ap pear in several songs accompanied by William Thompson, on the cbc-llu, and Gladys McGovern and William Just think of it: Samuel T. Ray nor, “Freeport's Sammy Raynor,” cashier of the First National Bank, mineral water expert, baseball enthu siast, clubman and a lot of other things—an author Yes, 'Us but too true. In a recent issue of the “Farm and Real Estate Journal” he appears as the writer of an able article which swats the ‘Cost of living problem\ smack in the solar plexus. And under a non-de-plume, too. Literature, it le understood, has known “Sammy\ by ;he euphonious appellation of Samuel T. Ranier lor a long, long time. Well then, hats off and “Tom\ Lawson, bet ter look to your laurels! Christie Mathewaon and Rucker, well known big league pitchers, ad vise young men who have Insplra tlons to become famous in baseball to practice throwing at a mark. Un doubtedly a lot of boys are following this advice. In Rockville Centre they have achieved remarkable success. Twenty-six panes of glass anu nine globes broken In three days This Is the fiftieth anniversary the Miner theatres in Now York City There are four >! them and consider ing tin* ret; arkable vlvclssltude of tie theatrical profession there is wonder that there are any Well, Charles Slgmond started a theatre In Freopor live years ago. ihd now there ar three But Freeport's growing i kin Nearly every annual dinner is lol lowed by a mornlni’ headache Wc print this by request. Tempus certainly do fugit. The South Side Messenger appeared on Wednesday with Its full quota of news from Freeport, Bellmore and other places under the date of February 28th. Semi-weekly newspapers of the district have been In keen compel! lion to beat one another for the last With the federal.- in tin* Held fo two weeks, tint The Messenger puts j competent players w<> venture to them all In the shade. Brother Dear i -at tu I he managers of the- Soul sail, you all are I eating tin* “T i m e s , , side base hall teams to sign up It even to lhe \I'oit.” i players without delay. We note that the Business Men1' Association of 1 leuipstead has “taker up the subject of bad sidewalks.1 Business men’s associations died bodies should ti'ke up that ject In every town Why guod road' and bad sidewalks? Y, With an annual statement sliowln assets In excess oi liabilities ol 416.(12, The 1 \reep'ii t Club may la- sal to be on Easy struct ,iu Sunny Side We congratulate tne club on the euer gy ol its offif • rs anu lhe breadth its warm hospitality. \Cas: id;' uf (Jin ns locked And a lew years ago he was “boss,” How time does alter and conditions' up* tl KING ARTHUR TABLEAUX WATER FOR BELLMORE Novel Entertainment at Rockville Local Corporation to Supply Res Centre by Library Auxiliary A tableaux based upon the legend of King Arthur will be given this evening and tomorrow evening in tin Clinton School auditorium by the l.i brary Auxiliary. The series of pic tures and details of the performance have been arranged by Jay Chambers, of Lynbrook, whose production of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamm is still -remembered as a most pleasing ox- tyavaganza Mrs. Chambers will read the story of King Arthur, while pic lures are being shown. The version of the story which will be read is partly the work of Winona Martin, the local librarian. Mrs. John Cornell will play appropriate music during the performance. The pictures were taken from How-' ard Pyle’s book on King- Arthur. A local quartet composed of Mrs. W. S Covert, Mrs. Charles Skilton, Loren Rockwell and Andrew Edwards, J r . accompanied by Miss Hazel Wright at the piano, will furnish music. PLAN MECHANICS CELEBRATION Elaborate plans are being formulae ; ed by the committee of the Jr. O. L A. M., of Freeport, for the entertain ment of delegates to the New Y'ork .State convention which meets in thb village on next Labor Day. It is plan ned to give a reception and to hold n { parade. The field day of the fire de partmvnt occurs on the same day, and It is probable that the Mechanics wil dents With Commodity BoUrnon v hicli for a year lias Ion: its sister vlllagi-H of the South in the number aud volumn of Its pu‘ lie Impmveini-nlH is ii I kiu I to luunc a project to supply water for house: hold purposes within its boundaries This newest civic enterprise wli louhtless be well under way befor spring, and II Is argued in Ilk favo hat aside from ns commercial ad vantages the now public improve ment will in no way affect the taxes During the pti#t year Bellmore ha Rood as one of the distinctively pro gross I vc- Villages of southern Nassa1 County. A gas lighting district treated early In the season, tw hurches were ereded and a publi hall built at a cost of 11000. In tlU j -pace of time various stores and end ve realty developments ha j sprung up. The new water company will lisUiictlvdy local Its plant will end only through u.e village. I company which advances the projec ! s fnade iijj of local men who Includ - lotm J Bedell, Veter Johnson, Wll Jam E. How ne, Charles W. Smith Lorenzo Heine, James A. Sttiee, an .•x-Judge Elvin N Edwards, of Fre: i port, who appears us counsel HOLY NAME CARD PARTY. The Holy Name oclety of St Mary’s Roman '< .• iholic Church, Val ey Stream, g a v e a card party an Thompson will render popular instru combine with the firemen in a dua lanca at the H p ... way 1 heatre, Lyn menial music. O. I. Hancock as celebration. The committee arrang brook, on Wednesday evening. Pr County Ing the celebration consists of James ^ressive euchre, pinochle and ”1 W. Cheshire. J. Hurley Ellison, Ste -'ere played There was an attend pben Hunt. Howard Pearsall and Gil- w of over sixty Handsome eon Raynor. I wer* awarded. toastm aster will call upon Judge James P. Niemann, Felix Reif- schneider and ex-Assembly man Jere miah Wood.
