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' 4 Nassau limit WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1914 Publl«h«4 Wedneidayi snd Saturday* by T i n N assau rosy rueusiiiK o company , E2-Z4 Sooth drove Street, Freeport. Nassau County. New York., Jamca K Stilee and Rand W. Sutherland, crnars and publishers ' RAi.'D W. SirtHEBLAND, Editor JAMBS B. STILES, Busioeee Manager SUBSCRIPTION TERMS ONE YEAR ............................................. «2.«0 SIX MONTHS ........................................... 11.40 THREE MONTHS ................................. • .70 ONE M ON T H ............................................. M AUVEBTISINO RATES ON APPLICATION \Entered as Second-clsse matter April 8, 1814, at the poet office a t Freeport, New York, under the a c t of March 3,1879\\ All eommamcatioa should be addressed to THE NASSAU POST. Ma in Office....................Freeport, L. L, N. Y. Manhattan Office. S Beekman tiL, (4th Floor.) Branches at Valley Stream, Lynbrook, East Koekawey, Rockville Centre, Long Beach, Ocean Side, Baldwin, Merrick, Bell- more, Wantagh, Seaford, Hempstead and Mln- eola. Telephone . ...................................... 01 Freeport LONG LIVE LITTLE NECK 1 One Herman Veneke, who makes his home at Little Neck, Is leading an agi tation to change the time honored name ot the village because, as he says, when he goes to New York or Brooklyn, the people ask him the price ot clams. ‘‘Then,\ be adds, \there Is a place called Great Neck and strangers at once conclude that the place is great er than ours.\ Some good friend ot Herman's would do him a service were he to )tell Herman that be would be laughed out ot court onjiuch feeble and foolish plda. Little Neck, Long Island, will live in its well deserved fame and dignity long after Herman Venske has been forgotten. Change the name of Little Neck? Why not also change the name of Oy ster Bay, Cape Cod, Blue Point and Rockaway? P.vdlculous! THE NASSAU POST: EGGS BY WEIGHT “I predict,” naya Joseph Hartlgan, New York’s Commissioner of the Bu reau ot W eights and Heasures, “that eggs ultim ately will be sold by weight only. There is a vast difference In the sizes of eggs. A housewife purchases a dozen eggs, but she does not get ttm weight that might attend another doz en. If the weight standard is made to apply to all sales the housewife may get thirteen or fourteen for a dozen. “The same rule is good throughout the list ot food supplies. In this con nection, too, we are operating strictly along the lines ot the new Brooks law, which requires that the net weight of any food commodity or purchasable articles be printed in stencil or on a tag on the container. The container is a deceitful bird. Its weight usually is thrown in with the article itself That sort of thing is going to be abol ished.\ Commissioner Hartlgan said that he plans to hold a series of conferences with farm ers from Long Island. He wants to prevent the middlemen from increasing the number of quarts or pecks in the supplies which they buy from the farmers. Owing to the scarcity of small chan, nt Tampico, Mexico, poke chips t which there were a pletboi •, wei put i o circulation, this rehe\ Ing u stringency The Mexican sil ver uu.lar may be a depreciated coin not worth its face but Mexican poke.' chivs take their place naturally as coinage of realm. No man ever won any great amount of popularity as a receiver of taxes The nature of the official duties makes it impossible. Still, with Joseph F ob ter sitting on the safe as Receiver ol Taxes of the Town of Hempstead, he may get a bouquet or two. At any rate Mr. Foster brings to the office a wide experience which will help a whole lot. FREEPORT, N. Y., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24,1S14 ' The class prophet at the commence ment exercises of Sheffield Scientific School has just m arried a cabaret singer. He made no reference to it in the class prophecy. THE VOTERS PART The section of the election law which fixes the number of voters to comprise an election precinct at 300 should not be opposed by the commit teemen of any party. The object of the section is to make the districts compact and to make exercising the right of suffrage as easy as possible. We know of a cast on Long Island where a number of voters a re compell ed to go a distance of more than two miles to vote, although the polling place of the adjoining precinct is only two, hundred yards away. It is a fact that the average voter is losing interest In repairing to the polls. It is a fact that the managers of political parties find It m ere dlffl cult each year to work up enthusiasm among the electorate. Except a man be a pronounced partisan he cares very little who Is chosen supervisor or assemblyman. Committeemen will serve the inter ests of their respective organiza tions It they make the work of the voter easy. After winning the coveted first prize taking the second, capturing the third and getting the fourth in the horse hose contest at the Southern New Xork Volunteer Firemen’s tournam ent at Babylon, the Freeport departm ent naturally letired. There were no more prizes. While there were no lecoru broken, a number of heart; At the City College Commencement In New York the Crommle prize for proficiency in history went to Herm an H. Grublowsky, the Claillu silver prize Tor proficiency in Latin to Samuel Muldofsky and the trustees prize for the best oration to Harry Ratkowitz All three of these boys are Jew s who realize what many a son of Christian parem s is too indifferent to accept: that 1.’ ) nucation there is opportunity ASTROLOGY AND BUNCO Ever since the days of Belshazzar, the bO-caiiud science of astrology has been one of the best bunco games. The Wide expanse of the heavens dot ted with mysterious moons and stars have been worked for profit by edu cated charlatans and resourceful fa kers through all the centuries. Horoscopes on love, politics, busi ness, agriculture and what not can bv had from a quailer up, guaranteed to satisfy. Particularly has the aslrologist had a strong pull when it came to decid ing what the weather would be. A man in doubt about raising onions had but to consult the oracle and get a line on the weather and be certain ot a bumper crop. Now comes the Department of Agri culture at W ashington and brands all the astrological dope touching weather condiPons as pure superstition with out the least basis of science behind it. Says the Department: The belief still to be found in all countries th a t the planets and the moon do affect the weather, never had any scientific basis whatever; it is only a rem n ant of the many supersV- tions generated and fostered by that other greater superstition, astrology. The Departm ent’s conclusion on thv subject says: “We hae every reason to believe (that neither the planets nor the moon can have any appreciable effect on ths weather, because they furnish so lit tle heat upon which all weather chang es ultim ately depend, and this belief is fully supported by weather re cords.\ So all the signs of the zodiac and all the best efforts of Scorpia, Aquar- ious and Caprlcornus are knocked higher than Gilderoy’s kite. W h at a setback the Department of Agricul ture’s announcement will be to Mme. Tli' bos and the tminent Gustav Mey ers of Hoboken. SPANKING W hat ia probably the first report from a Mothers* Club concerning th ) theory and practice of spanking chil dren is at hand. It purports to rep resent the personal experiences of the thirty-four m o thers in the organiza tion in corrective work upon fifty-aL: children, ranging in ages from 2 to IS years. In twenty-eight out of the thirty- four families, the popular (with m o th ers, not the children) form of punish ment was the application of a ruler, paddle, hand switch or strap to that portion of the offending child offering the broadest surface and largest as surance of certain contact. The mi i- imum of blows was three and the max imum a more or less Indefinite num ber depending largely on the physical strength of the m other and the degree of docile submission of the child, i.i certain cases the number of blows ad ministered represented the age of the child—two whacks for a two-year-old and eighteen for a girl ,it couldn't have been a boy) who had reached the long dress stage of maidenhood. Generally, says the report, a portion or all the clothing was removed from the anatom ical territory upon and against which the corrective m easures were to be employed, and of course the punishment was administered witii that degree of privacy demanded by the occasion. There can be no hard and fast rule governing the spanking of children. Any opinion as to spanking as a mean\ to an end necessarily takes a bias from tile stage in the career from which the opinion is drawn. One cannot fail to recall with nev er-to-be obliterated vividness w h e n h ’s idea of spanking was one of militant disapproval.. This of course refers to the period when the spanker, strain ing the truth to the breaking point, assured the unhappy\ victim that “it hurts me more than it does you.” As to spanking as an institution, it is our belief that time long ago estab lished its value, but on behalf of the youth of the land, more particularly the boys, remembering well our own experiences and deep seated distress, we would have all spanking done by mothers, and preferably by hand. We now offer it as an amendment to the rule. y All Compulsory Vaccination Must Be Resisted and Prohibited Tuls yea, there will be seven State officere: an Associate Justice ot th-\ Court of Appeals, a United States Senator, a Cougrc-.sman, a sta te Sen ator and a Member of the Assembly. In addition to local officers, to bo vot ed for. The voter m ust make at least fifteen crosses on his ballot to vote the entire tick e t As we maintained from the first, the champion baseball team of Nassau County is none other than our own all-round batting, 'fielding and base- running aggregation, the superb team of Freeport. Cap’n Bill Dennis, of Greerpor* Long Island, turns the wheel of the yacht Vanitle over to Cap’n Harry Haff ot Islip, oLng Island. To sail cup races without a Long Island skip per would be like posting a circus an nouncement without a picture of E T. Barnum. THE STREPTOCOCCI By R. L. Kahn, M. S. Few bacteria bring on more suf fering to man than the group which is commonly known as stretococci. To produce on dis ease, as do the typhoid or diph- . .theria bacilli, appears to be only a part of t h e i r program of infec tion. They cause a large number of infectious diseases, depending on different conditions. Tonsilli tis, erysipelas, puerperal fever and the much dreaded blood poison ing are but a few of the diseases for which these erms are respon sible. The term streptococci comes from the Greek, and means twis ted berries. This is based on their characteristic inclination to group themselves in twisted chain like forms. They are universally distributed and are commonly present upon the skin and in our mouths and throats. Human re sistance to disease with which Nature endowed us, keeps us im mune, during health, from the at tacks of these germs. Should, however, our natural resistance, Ndue to disease, overworry, etc., be lov/ered, or should unusually violent streptococci gain entrance into our system, then indeed, is there liklihood of severe suffering. One of the important ways by which virulent organisms may en ter our body tissues or the blood, is by direct contatt with infected material. Milk may often be the source of Infection, in which case, it is mostly always to the unclean handling of this food. It often happens, however, that the strep tococci bririg on inflammation of the udder of the cow. In such cases the milk Is not fit for hu man consumption, as these g e m s are liable to be present In the milk both In large numbers as well ds In a hlghl virulent form. The Board of Aldeimen is perhaps the closest and truest representative uf the 1 eople in our - iiy Government today and has now at its head a man who is generally re m i.iz- d as one ot the most able, conscientious and popular citizens in our city. And notwithstandin- tin- efforts which have been made for years past to reduce or abrogate Ihv power of this closely representative body In our \piiy government, it is still quite potent in many ways to protect the people iron' grave and seriouk .vrongs worked by powerful, selfish and Interested cliques under,the pretence ol great public good. This Board lias U i .- k lore ample power to protect the people from one of the most dangerous evils in our body politic today, viz., the barbarous evil worked by great medical organizations in forcing dangerous compulsory medical operations and diseases on the people and particularly on little school children, under Die pretence ot its absolute necessity for public health t(Tprevent smallpox . pidvmics, but which in fact, now causes more dis ease and death than natural smallpox itself, as 1 have repeatedly proved from the highest statistical authority in the world. I have received (omplalnts from all over the city that working people are being coerced into u-cinaUon against their will under the illegal and /criminal threat of being discharged from their employment if they refuse to subm it to this illegal and uim inal intimidation and coercimmuyid tlrat the great Catholic Clergy of D:i< ciij and tho teachers in charge of Parochial Schools in dlflvienl pan s oi the city are also made to believe by hZ-alth board doctors and nui . that they must subm it to the compulsory vaccination ol th e school children under B vu charge and that the eVil vaccinatidh law, which applies to public s chools oi;l> (and which medical societies originally fore -vl on the people), al.-o f ppiivs equally to parochial and private; schools, and that man} parents, pi'csts $ nd pupils are being thus deceived by this medical lalschood and coercion. J 'Ihc Board of ^blcrm u i has now full power, however, under Sections 43 and H ol the City t in n e r , to come to the relief of the pyople and stop This iham elul and dangerous medical coercion and deceit by immediately passing an ordinance with il , penalty ot a heavy line or imprls<4nment to ibis effect, viz.— • / o X A That no employee of llie city government and no doctor or other person shall attempt to vaccinate any child or adult in ibis city without first carefully explaining lo ihem that such vaccination is not legally compulsory in any s e n s e and will m l be performed on any person unless such person fully and freeiy consents to the sitme or has the full consent of parent or guardian. And all our doctois and other citizens should know ihat any vaccintUion done under any oiin r conditions by any lone, deceit, coercion or in- tii.iKlation, without lull lice will and consent, is condemned by the decisions ol our highest courts and is illegal and criminal under our laws and will leave the illegal va< eiu.nor, or the city itself, liable to a suit lor damages. See also Sections ol the 1 vn.il Code under the headings of Assault, oCnsplracy, nnd Coercion. Aboui two years ago application was made by the Board ot Health to the Board ol Aldermen lor a large appropriation of $15,000 for a general vaccination of the people under the pretence ol fear of an alleged smallpox epidemic because a lew m u s of mild smallpox were found in Utis great city ui five millions population; but the iioatd wisely refused that application and that needless waste ol public money on a process of spreading disease and death deliberately in the population, and then the Board wisely held th a t such operations were net necessary for public health or to prevent small pox epidemics, but were ’cully injurious to public health on the average and in th.,- long run. Nothing more was heard of any further smallpox scares until this year, when it has been attempted to get up another scare and a general Vi-f < inalion laid upon the people and our medical panic-mongers have this time succeeded in getting $7,<Cti, about ball the sum formerly asked for, not from the- Board of Aldeimen, but liom the Board of Estimate, under a mistaken and misinformed zeal for the public good. Now, suelt false smallpox panics and vaccination raids have very liytle result lor public good, particularly in ibis instance, where the raid and ex penditure have been applied cbletly to the children in our Parochial Schools .wliii’Tiave Licit b i t lor years without any compulsory-vaccination and who, as statistical la d - snow, have been as free from smallpox and all oilier diseases, it not much H e ir, than our public school children under constant compulsory vaccination. And the lolly\ of wasting this public money for the barbarous purpose ol deliberately diseasing healthy school children by this dangerous operation et vaccination becomes fully apparent when the ilxperienc e ut n any vast years shows that these school children have been In no appreciable way subject lo or affected with smallpox and that they belong in fact to that c, e class in the population whic h is least subject to small pox, or only about 1-10 as much so as the infant and the adult ages! That such false medical scares and raids, however, result in great’;)refit to the vaec in.iting profession and to the vaccine m anufacturers and drug trade, in alliance with each other in this m atter, can be very easily proved and is even oh- c us on its ia< e, although our big, pompous doctors and powerful medical societies try very hard Lo persuade the trusting public to the contrary ii.;ii thebe medical interests do not profit by these schemes but that they are quite unselfish about them. We can, however, easily prove the contrary and condemn these men o.ut of their own mmitiis and with their own admissions, as follows: In a previous article 1 have said that such raids and panics in exciting and forcing the people to general vaccination simply cause Gold (o How into the coffers ol the doctors like W ater, and I now ask public attenUon to the neat c o n i e s , ion ol n.is very fact liom our Health Commissioner, Dr Gold- w ater himself, in the weekly Bulletin of our Board oi\ Health dated May 9th on Page li5. On this page Dr. Goldwater tells us: \A careful survey was made to determine the need for vaccination in New York c ny. ’ * * * As a result of this survey wholesale vac cination has been tuged. * * * * A number of large business houses and corporations have luid or will have their employees vaccinated. Physicians report and uuprecgdtntvl demand for vaccination on the part of the well-to-do classes wbo have apparently awakened to the need of self protec tion.” From this we can readily see how profitable it is for the doctors and Hie vaccine muk< is to thus excite and force the people to resort to general vaccination to give them alleged protection from an alleged dangerous disease which Huy have'perhaps less reason to fear than any oilier and which crdtnarily kills (ut less people every year titan lightning; and when our big business establishments and our great corporations and also the “well-to-do classes” all show such an “unprecedented demand\ for vaccination at one to tw o dollars or mote per i rm, according lo their standing In the “well-to-do\ classes! I also wish to cab attention lo the brazen way in which some of our big doetbrs in piivate practice try to deceive themselves and the public on this very point. No less eminent doctor of this city titan Dr. Simon Baruch is quo'e-l by out ( ouimissioner Goldwater in the Health Board Bulletin for May Itiilt on Page 15-1, to show the disinterestedness of out doctors in this m a tter and the alb :■< d lolly and error uf the honest and fully informed men who are now opposing Liu se false medical panics and raids and condemning all compulsory vaccination as one oi the greatest public evils of our day. Dr. Goldwater ou the page of the official Bulletin above referred to has the refreshing > implieiiy to quote this astonishing piece of medical humbug from our great Dr. Simon Baruch, as follows: “How absurd is their claim that the motive operating in favor of vaccinating is to increase the fees of vaccinating doctors nv iy be realized by any unprejudiced person who will calculate that the fees from 300 vaccinationi would not equal the fee that one case of smallpox would yield \ Now, Dr. Simon Baruch knew very well when tie first uttered this fu^se nonsense in Hie Evening Hun ot May’5Hi, wherein he tried to discredit our honest work in opposing all compulsory vaccination, that lie, as an eminent private practitioner, would make from 200 private vaccination at least $200 directly, and possibly much more indirectly by services needed later on to look after some very bad t dangerous arms that would be sure to result from these 200 vaccinations with the virus made by the New Yotk Health Board, w hich is known to be one of the most severe in use. And he also well knew that as a private ptactitioner for the \well-to-do\ classes be could not make one cent on a case ot smallpox which, as soon as discovered, he would have to report under penalty r,l heavy fine and which would then be taken entirely out of ids hands lo the isolation hospital! Yet this is the kind of brazen hum bug and “uiiicllL-b\ medical ‘’truth” that our Health Commissioners and our em inent doctors give to Hie people in supporting their dangerous barbarism of widespread conn ulsory disease, which is really so profitable to them but wnich nevertheless now lulls more children titan smallpox and which shocking lac t is now com < ah d in cur vital statistics, all fully controlled and dom inated by our vaccinating doctors in City and State and by our highly and pow- erlully organizi d and capil&lizer medical societies who have originated and persistently maintained against public will this whole system of compulsory vaccination and who are wholly responsible for'it. I H t e w i e r *w I therefoie not only now\ call on our Board of Aldermen directly for relief from this sham< kill and dangerous medical coercion of tho people, as here suggested, but alto suggest to all workmen and to all parents ot pupils in our parochial and other schools and to the Catholic Clergy and to tb# teachers having charge of said schools now suffering from this coercion that they should appeal at once to their local Alderman for action in this mat ter as herein suggested, and thus put an end to this evil medical barbarism and danger in this city in the near future, pending the entire repeal and pro- bitutlon of all compulsory vaccination in every shape and form by the State leElslatuie. 271 Ninth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. June 22, 191-1. CHAS. M. HIGGINS, Treasurer Anti-Vaccination League of America. NOTE. Another article will appear in a few days on some other aspects of this medica. evil of compulsory disease which ur citizens may think worth their attention and w hich they should not miss C. M. 11 —Adv.
