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4 m e N assau posts pser^oitT ■i . SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1914 rmbHebed WednewUye end Saturday# by rmw FAseeu roar rueusH tw e ce*ye«fT, ■I-S 4 South G toys S t r e e t Freeport, Naeeea Cewnty. Mew York., Jantes E Stile# end Rend W . Sutherland, owner# end p u b l ish e r # ________ SAND W. SUTHERLAND. Editor JAM E S fc STILES, Buelnaee Manager SUBSCRIPTION TERMS O N E T E A S .................................................. W *« SIX MONTHS ............................................... $1 «• TH E B E MONTHS ..................................... I ™ ON E MONTH ................................................. M ADVERT IS 1N0 RATES ON APPLICATION “Entered a# Beeond-cleee m a tU r April 3. iei4» a t the poet offlee a t Freeport. New York, under th e act of March 3, 1*79.'\ All tommunlcatlo# ebeuM he add reared to T H E NASSAU POST. M ala O S e e ..................... Freeport, L. L, N. T. M a n h a ilaa Ofllea. * Seekman S t . (Ith Floor.) Eranehee at Valley Stream . Lye brook, Eaet Reekeway, Rock »l lie Centre, Lon* Seaeh. Oeean Side Baldwin, Merrick, Fell- more, W aataeh. Sealerd. Heenpetaad and Mla- eela. T rlepheae ........................................... SI Freeport BROWN’S HIGH JUMP Congreeuman Lathrop Brown ha? succeeded In gutting a steel trap grip on the Inland w a tcrw a js project for Long Island. He has it firmly by the tall, so to speak, and It will not escape him. Former Congressmen, Messis. Cocks and Littleton, may or may not have labored for this project, but neither of them had the success of Mr. Brown, to say nothing of his acu men. This Important waterways scheme will now be taken up anew by the Ar my Engineer who turned It down, for his superior officers have directed him ■o to do. Until the Congressman took It up, It waa as dead as Julius Caesar for all practical purposes. Now, thanks to his untiring Industry, every village, eery hamlet has become In terested, everybody on Long Island is discussing It, everybody sees what a tremendous help it would prove to ev erybody on Long Island; every body now wants 1L The Long Islanders had a very clos* shave. The project had been lying dorm ant under their very noses for years and the government was on the point of burying it In Its archives when the Congressman gave a run ning high jump and Just grabbed it a.i It was taking flight. We shall hear a lot more about this boon to Long Islanders. We shall not forget that we owe it to our present Congressman, whatever else may slip out of mind. P O E T R Y —The Music of Language A Department Devoted To Verse and its Fundamental Principles Conducted by C. J. GREENLEAF * GOLF AND GUZZLING All advocates of the game of golf Urge in Its behalf the essential tonic benefits which come from exercise In the open. Some go as far as to say th a t regular playing of the game will put spirit Into an otherwise sluggish person and \make a new man\ of him Accepting that these benefits come to those who swing from the tee and follow the erratic ball from link to link, still there are those who Insl .i upon repairing to the clubhouse- and winding up the day In analysis of plays over the so-called highball or other intoxicants. Dr. Lverett Herrick who held a |7.- 500 mortgage on the property of the Maidstone Golf Club out at Easthamp- ton, dying, provided that the moregagt should be cancelled provided no Intox icating beverages ever were sold at the clubhouse. 8uould liquor be dis pensed there the .'ace value of the mortgage must be paid to the direc tors of the neighboring public library. The directors of the golf club could do no better work for the cause of golfing than to accept the spirit as well as the letter of the generous doc tor's conditional bequeet and make the Maidstone Club temperance. \W h ile men may differ as to the use of liquor under other conditions, thero la no need of It either as a prelimin ary to, during, or at the conclusion of a game. In an hour's play over the links there la enough etlmulatlon in the oxygen distilled by nature and eered without price. COINS AND T H R IFT rhe American Society for Thrift, tlch haa a number of Long Island imbera to d well wishers, le urging ) Director of the M int to favor th* Inage of the three-cent piece, claim- [ that for three cents on may now r for a car ride In some places, an 1 • sandwiches, cups of coffee. Ice The two little poems presented this week are of quite a different nature And yet each is a gem in ilk own way. Andrew Lang's \Scythe Song\ Is a beautiful bit of verre, delicate, elusive, almost spiritual In Iti nature, and yet treating of the common things of country life, the mowers and their scythes, the grass and the flowers. It is all so tender and gentle, the swinging of the scythes, their whisper to the grass, and there is no hint of pity In \Hush and heed not, and fall aileip.\ It Is simply carrying out the general plan of it all. In the last four lines comes the quick, certain summing up of the poem, the lesson, the application. And this, I bold, m ust be one of the factors of every poem. It may be well argued that It la not a poem without thia com- pression and application. •Hush and heed not. for all things pass.\ Could we remember and apply that, how much It would save us. \It is not a great poem and never will be so rated,” said one of the i brilliant young editors of New York. And I replied that I was glad It was ! n o t great- Tliat 11 waB j uet what it was, nothing more, nothing leas. It will ! probably live after borne of the \great ones\ are forgotten. One Is Impressed with the Idea that Miss P r a tt must have carried much of the child on into her womanhood to have been able to have w ritten such a pretty, child-likc thing as r. \Mortifying Mistake.\ If there Is no great lesson taught It will at least cuube a smile, and sometimes that 1» better than a les son. For we ever have more lessons than smiles. SCYTHE SONG. Mowers, weary, and brown, and blithe, W hat Is the word methlnke ye know. Endless over-word that the Scythe Sings to the blades of the grass below? Scythes that swing in the grass and clover. Something, still, they say as they pass; W hat Is the word that, over and over, ^ Sings ihe Scythe to the flowers and grass? Hush, ah hush, the Scythes are saying Hush, end heed not, and fall asleep; Hush, they say to the grasses swaying. Hush, they sing to the clover deep! Hush—’tic the lullaby Time le singing— Hush, ah hush! and the Scythes are swinging Over the clover, over the grass! ANDREW LANG. A MORTIFYING MISTAKE. I studied my tables over and over, and backward and forward, too; But 1 couldn’t remember six times nine, and I didn’t know what to do, TUI sister told me to play with my doll and not to bother my head, \If you c&ll her ‘Fifty-Four’ for a while, you’ll learn It by heart,” she said. So I took my lavorito Mary Ann (though I thought ’twas a dreadful shame To give such a perfectly lovely child such a perfectly horrid nam e), And I called her my dear little \Fifty-Four a hundred times till I knew The answer of six lim es nine as well as the answer of two times two. Next d’.y Elizabeth Wlgglesworth, who always acts so proud, Said \Six times .nine is fifty-two,” and I nearly laughed aloud! But I wishe d I hadn’t when teacher said “Now, Dorothy, tell If you can,” For I thought of my doll and—sakes alive! I answered, “Mary Ann.\ ANNA M. PRATT. ■fevSK; • V 1 d I -l '-.--g; 8 ADVICE TO OUR CITIZENS WARNING TO OUR BOARDS OF HEALTH BOARD OF EDUCATION This Open and I’ub.’lc LeUer to the parent of a pupil In our Public Schools, with regaid to certain acts of Illegal Vaccination now being prac ticed In our Public Schools end In some of our Parochial and Private Schools, will sp«ak clearly for Itself on this important question and will answer th* Inquiries of several of my correspondents similarly wronged by such oppressive, usurping and illegal »cls of our health and school officiate In tjys City and State. Mr. JOHN J. CANNON, S06 E. lC2d Street. New York City. Dear Sir: ,i .i * ■4 •I cream, and of course many Yankee no tions. The thrift, as the Soclo’y sees it, Is to encourage the buying of thing, sold for three cents Instead of for five cents, thereby saving two cents on each occasion. It may be that there is need of the coinage and circulation of the three- cent piece and possibly there might be a call for the shlnplaster of our daddies too, but we imagine the little coin would be useful only In places where there is a fixed three cent prlc.- for various articles. On Long Island It would not add to the community thrift, for the three-cent Idea of val ues does not obtain here. To encour age thrift among boys and girls there Is no better way than to refrain from giving them five and ten cent pieces for spending money where pennies would answer just as welL ONE POCKBTBOOK IN THE HOME In a decision by Surrogate Ketcham of Brooklyn, whose knowledge of the laws of probate springs from a mind long recognized for Its clarity, agree m ent between husband and wife ex pressed in the homely saying \What Is mine Is yours, and w h a t is yours Is mine\ does not hold. When James L. Brown, a cotton m erchant and member of the Union League Club, died he left no will. His widow as adm inistratrix of her hus band’s estate applied for letters of administration, and filed an account ing, omitting, however, to Include In the property the contents of a safe- deposit box which had been Jointly hired by Brown and his wife and In which were deposited securities val ued at <150,000. The widow said she regarded the securities as all hers. To sustain her claim, Mrs. Brown called as a witness before the Surrogate her houeemald. The maid said she heard Mr. Brown use the words \W hat Is yours is mine and w h a t 1s mine Is youre” many times; the maid also tes tified that she heard Mr. Brown say th a t there was \but one pocketbook in the family.” It was conceded that jthe securities all belonged to Mr. Brown at the time of his death. In rejecting Mrs. Brown's claims and directing her to account for the $150,000 worth of securities, the Sur rogate said: “The declaration of the husband that ‘what Is yours Is mine, and what Is mine is yours’ is too much like the amiable nullity which the husband ad dresses to the bride at the altar, ‘with all my goods I thoe endow.' The one im parts to tha ceremony an idle charm which the other carries into the trials of life. But neither has enough of pre cision or active Intention to alter rights of property.’ Family agreement regarding prop erty are being entered Into every day little heed being paid to the fact that what may be well understood when all the parties to verbal understanding are alive and able to speak, becomje a m a tter of legal doubt when one of them dies. \W h at Is yours is mine and what is mine is yours,\ if expressed in legal form, signed and witnessed, will hold In the law. Merchant Brown's mis take was in not hiring a lawyer to bob to i t that his desire to provide for his wife was stated in a way to receive the endorsement of a Judge of probate. STANDING BY ITS GUNS H a ring entered the campaign as an opponent both of the principle and the practice of vaccination, the Anti-Veo- clnatlon League of America loads Its guns to d trains them against the bat tlem ents with repeated Ores. The sup ply of argumentative ammunition seems never to run low. While men in the professional world are engagd In this fight, the layman, whatever Ms opinions, cannot fail to approve of the earaestnes with wMch Charles M. Higgins keeps to this task of presenting the League’s propagan da. He Is a fighter who baa no iso for bird sh o t I regret very much that your recent letter was mislaid in a mass of other correspondence nov requiring immediate answer, but I will now fiiTy and carefully answer your inquiries. You do not state whether toe crenooi wnicn discharged your daughter for refusing to be vaccinated was a public school or a parochial or private school. This makes a big difference In answering your questions for the reason that the state vaccination law applies to public schools only. But I as sume that the school you refer to was a Public School. If any Health Board doctor or other person threatened to come to your house and compel you to have your child vaccinated against your will, as you state, he committed the crime of Intimidation and coercion, and you can have him prosecuted under certain sections of the Penal Code by complaint to the nearest magistrate, particularly If he has actually attem p ted to carry this threat into effect. There Is no law In this state compelling any person Lo be vaccinated against his will and consent, and to attem p t or to effect such forcible vaccination is a crime. There is another very im portant point in your case that I want to cull to )our careful attention, and that Is your statem ent that your child was .vaccinated six years ago; so that what the Health Board doctors now want you to do Is to have your child re-vaccinated under their present theory that vaccination is useless as a protection unless repeated every four years. TMs, however, is mere guess work on the part of these doctors, the fact being that the period of protection by vacclnatioa is very vague and indeterminate and by some of the best euthtirlties is placed at a very short period not ex ceeding three or six months or a year. W hatever the correct theory of the period of protection by vaccination may be, however, I now advise you that this point Is entirely Irrelevant In your case, and that the demand of any health official or school official in thl.i town to have your child ic-vacclnated at their dictation and upon their threat to otherwise exclude her from her undoubted right to attend public school is illegal; and furthermore, that such school official or health official is thereby committing a crime under tho Penal Code and that you should make a complaint against him immediately before the nearest m agistrate, as before stated. The school vaccination law In this state requires only one vaccination to admit a child to public rcbool; and the Attorney General of this state has given his legal opinion that cne vaccination (and this whether successful or n ot) satisfies the vaccination law of the .state relating to public schools. Moreover, a court and jury in this state In the City of Rochester have decided, ns a m allei of Inw and fact, that a cMld once vaccinated (whether suo- cessfully or not) is actually and legally vaccinated and Is legally eligible to e n ter a public school under the laws of this state. 1 therefore further advise you that, in my judgment, there is ground not only for a criminal prosecution, but also for a suit for damagei against either our school or health offK d a i s who wish to deprive you of your legal right to have your duly vaccinated child educated In the public schools because you will not submit to their Illegal and criminal dictation of requiring your child to be re-vaccinated at certain arbitrary periods of years which thqy have In their own minds plck-d out as necessary, but for which there Is no justification or authority In law whatever. They have, indeed,, as much right under the present law to require re-vaccinatlon ot our school children every four years as they would have to require It every year or'-dx months or at morning, noon and night—that 1s, no right whatever to require any of these arbitrary and dangerous acts. Now all this vaccination fanaticism of which our little school child'fin are made the suffering victims Is done under the old medical superstition— ■which, by the way, is very profitable to the vaccinating profession— that fr equent and general vaccination is necessary to protect our children from the great alleged danger of Infection and death from smallpox; whereas. It Is easily proved from Ihe vital statistics of this State, which are open to d public every year, that there Is regularly more danger of being struck by lightning than of being killed by smallpox, and that this slight danger from smallpox is least of all in children of school age who are most naturally Iran.nne to smallpox and all oilier causes of death In general, and which actually- show only 5 per cent, of the total deaths from all causes although they constitute 25 per cent, of the whole population! On the other band, It can be readily proved from death certificates uud other data not published, but now concealed by our Health Departments la this City and State (all dominated and controlled by vaccinating doctors) th a t there are actually more deaths caused every year In this City and Stats from Lockjaw and Septicemic In Vaccination Wounds than from natural smallpox and particularly In children— even two or three times more In some years! And I now again challenge our Health Departments In tMs City and S tate to deny or disprove this solemn, shocking and fearless statem ent of medical and statistical truth If they can or dare. And if they shall dare it 1 then challenge them to allow a free and open. Inspection of our death c e r tificates and vital records by a tborougMy representative, able and distlntrest'id Committee of Citizens to establish the truth or error of my statement In a public manner. , l am, of course, not surprised that our Health Officials should act In the lawless manner here complained of with regard to vaccination or re-vaccl» atlon, as they have teen doing such acts for years past and are now doing them all over the Slate, although repeatedly rebuked and restrained by the high est courts in this state and in tMs City of Brooklyn In particular for acts of illegal vaccination. But I am surprised that the men of various types of In tclligence and characted who form our Board of Education, supposed to be selected from representative citizens of all classes In this community, shoula lend themselves so readily end so supinely to this shameful violation of law a n(l abuse of ofticial power with, regard to the illegal and dangerous scheme of periodic re-vaccinatlon in our Public Schools, wMch is more dangerous to the health and life of our school children than smallpox. And If these Intellifef nt men would only take the trouble to Independently study this great subject of vaccination down to Its basic facts and up to present date and cease their blind acceptance of the fallacies of so-called MKh authorities they would not be so easily fooled by these musty old medical ifalsehoods commonly t eeepted as to the necessity, fflciency and safety of vaccmation for public health. I therefore wish to again appeal to the words of our greatest Mayor a fld Civic Martyr, who appointed most of the men now in the Board of Educar tion—namely, our great Mayor Gaynor—who has been perhaps the greatest otxpon-mt ot the rights ot the citizen under our laws and the greatest eaemy ot the abuse of official power that we have ever had in our political history, and I now ask our Board ot Education to give special attention to some ef his last words covering this very point, to be found on Page 88 of his \L e tter8 an(l Speeches,” and these words the Board of Education and the Board of Health may now consider as applying directly to themselves In this case:— , *‘We must see to It that those whom we elect to office do not go outside of the lavs or set themselves up anove the laws and do as they pk-ase. It always has been the case throughout the world tin t the officials who did this did It on the plea that the laws were not - good enough—that they could do better than the laws prescribed. Beware of all such officials. We do not want officials who have any lust of power. We want officials who Eire careful to exercise no power except that given to them by the people by their laws. There Is no no more dangerous man in a free country, In a democracy, than an official who think's he Is better than the laws.” ^ In conclusion, 1 wish to say that I have liad so many complaints such as youre of this Illegal re-vaccinatlon in our Public Schools and this Illegal Intimidation and coercion to vaccination against free will and consent by H ealth Board doctors and i u ries and by School Officials that I have concluded make this reply and advice to you an open and public letter, addressed not only to you In person, t u t to all citizens, and to our Health to d School Of ficials in particular, with the hope that such dangerous and illegal acts will be supprecsed at once and If not so suppressed that our cltisens will ask tor the dismissal of tho officials guilty of these oppressive, usurping and Illegal a eta. n ' 271 Ninth fft., Brooklyn, N. Y., Jane II. 1914. CHAS. M. HIGGINS, Treasurer AnU-Vacclnathw League of Ameriea. i- V ia# NOTE.—The necessity of answering a large correspondence that had accumulated from previous press articles, and other unavoidable elreniB- stances, has delayed the continuance of these articles and haa also now suggested a change In the order of future subjects which will continue In a few days. • • „ The whole purpose of these articles is to enlighten the public mind as to the facte about vaccination, to refute old and dangerous medical false hoods and false statistics, and to leave all voluntary vaccination perfectly free for every one who desires It or believes it to be good or necessary for health, public or private, but to restrain and proMbit all compulsory vaccination in every shape and foim as violative of most sacred and fundamental human rights and most dangerous to public health and human life and profitable only to vaccinating doctors and vaccine manufacturers. C. M. H_
