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THE NASSAU POST: FREEPORT.. N. Y , SATURDAY, JULY 4. 1914 QI^NaaaauPoflt - • ^ SATURDAY, JULY 4, 19T4 Publbbed WednwUyi sed Setordeps by r e s N assau porr pueusense oo » paj * t . M-14 South Grore Prsoport. N m b m ' County, Now York. Jemse E. S tile end Bond W. ■otherleod, both reldlny In the W U w of rreepoit, town of H e e p e ted. eeonty of N e - sau, stat# of N»w York, ownsrs and publish^rs^ BAND W. SUTHERLAND, Editor JAMES B. STILES, B e i n s e Mnnnyer SUBSCRIPTION TERMS ONE TEAR .......................................... SIX MONTHS $ 2.10 1.40 S IX MON 1 US ....................................................... a -’ » THREE MONTHS............................................70 ONE MONTH ........................................ ••• •»» ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION Entered •» Seoond-olmss matter April $, 1814. at the p e t office at Freeport, New York, un d e the aet of March S. 1871. All communication should be addressed NASSAU POST. Main Office ..................... Freeport. L. I.. N. Y. Branches at V a lle Stream, Lynbrook, East Bockaway, Rockville Centre, Long Beach. Ocean Side, Baldwin, Merrick, Bell more, Wan- tagh, Seaford, Hempstead and Mineola. Taliepbona 61 Freeport S A F E T Y IN T H E W A T E R Paul Sutherland, the well known col lege swimmer, on a recent visit to Freeport gave to the Post these hints on swimming, which are well worth posting wherever there’s a bathing house \Seldom If ever, does trouble come to a swimmer who keeps his head. The human body will iloat on the wa ter almost as certainly as a piece of wood. So long as *■ s w i mmer keeps it, mind hat ' t-e l to stay on top If he exercises the regural func tions of breathing, there need be no fear. Calmness in the water sentiai a.- <• ■:' i lion A i-vi «n ashore does not begin swinging his arm s or .la-cing or rolling and tunili- ling li He- • i i - in trouble. Why should he go those things in the w a ter? \ C r v ps can be kicked out. Every >,uvd swimmer knows this. Unruly stomachs may be- warmed into docil ity with the hand. Of course a person In uouble should get out of the water as soon a~ possible, but always wilh- out t h r e s h i n g around, and la w ays with care that he breathes regularly and doesn’t swallow water. Keep the mouth closed.” To these excellent suggestions -s appended the advice of Dr. VVeizmil- ler of the West Hide Y. M. C. A. ol New York, \W h e n seized with cramp, swim without using the crarnpy limb, and, while swimming, alternately draw up afld s t r e t c h out the limb as t a r as pos sible, thus helping nature to over come the condition. If the cramp be comes worse, turn over and iloat and exercise the cramped leg or arm as much ns possible unlit the pain pass es. The World, commenting on this. says: \Scarcely a long-distance swimming race is held that some competitors are not attacked with cramp. These experienced swimmers do not even stop, but go on at lessened speed while ‘kicking out’ the local trouble. Yet every year swimmers quite capa ble of this easy trick-become confused by t h e pain of a cramp, swallow a l i t tle water, rem e m b e r what they have heard, that ‘cramps and sudden death are synonymous*—and go down, liter ally frightened to death. \If Dr. Welzmiller’s directions could become part of the mental habit and instinct of every swimmer, they would enable many a promising young man seized with cramp to keep cool: and that is cothmo- lj r.li t h a t is necessary to save bis life.\ FR A N K L. PO L K Uorp >j. >' -in el r t a n k L. Polk of New ^ ork in menial balance, in poise and \ersonality in fundamentals and sitr •firv>l«' >n breadth and depth, m e a s u r e s well to the standard of w h a t a wise governor should be. A-| prim a ry which wmiild place his name tD the head of the Democratic State ticket would give character to thc- campaign. George Conwoy and his wife who m e t more than half a century ago while they were attending dramatic bviiodi and who have been on the s tage since 1865, celebrated the fiftieth an niversary of their marriage at I3av- side the other day. Reno papeio please i^opy. The Housewives League of Flushing h a s failed in its effort to conduct a grocery store on a co-operative basis Thy women would shop about. P O E T R Y - T h e Music of Language A Department Devoted To Verse and its Fundamental Principles Conducted by C J. GREENLEAF ATTENTION -THE COLORS! T H E A M E R ICA N FLAG W h e n Freedom, from her mountain height. Unfurled her standard to the air. She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there! She mingled with Its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric, of the skies, And striped Its pure, celestial white WUh streakings of the morning light, Then, from his mansion lit the sun, She called her eagle-bearer down. And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land! • s -tr Majestic monarch of the cloud! Who n e a r ’st aft they regal form. To hear the tempest trumpings laud, And see the lightning lances driven W h e n strive t h e warriofs of t h e storm. And rolls the thunder drum of heaven,— Childe of the Sun! to thee ‘tis given , To guard the banner of the free, To hover in the sulphur smoke. To ward away the battle stroke, And bid its blendings shine afar. Like rainbows on the cloud of war, The harpingers of victory! Flag of the brav e ! thy folds shall fly, The sign of hope and triumph brlkht. When speaks the signal t r u m p e t tone. And tin- long line comes gleaming on, Kve yet the life-blood, warm and wet, H a s dimmed the glistening bayonet, Kach soldier’s eye shall brightly turn To where thy sky horn glories burn. And, as his springing steps advance, Catch war and vengeance from the glance. And when the cannon inouthings loud Heave in wild wreaths the battle shroud, And gory sabers rise and fall Like shoots of flame on midnights pall, Then shall thy meteor glances glow, And cowerings foes shall shrink beneath . Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. H a g of the seas! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o’er the brave! When death careening on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside’s reeling rack, Each dying w a n d e r e r of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile tao see thy splendors lly Int t r i u m p h o’er his closing eye. Flag of the free heat’s hope and home, By angel hands to valor given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome. And all Ihy hues were horn ih heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Whore .\breathes the foe but faTN-befoie us. With Freedom ’s soil beneath our feet, And. Freedom’s banner stream i n g o’er us? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. ~\ B A T T L E HYMN O T H E REPUBLIC. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is t r a m p l i n g out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are sto r e d ; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword His truth is marching on. I h a \ e seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps: They have builded him an altar In the evening dews and damps; l r a n rrad his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps His day is marching on. I h a t e read a Urey gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel: \As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall d e a l : Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is m a r c h i n g on.\ He has sounded forth the trum p e t that shall never call r e t r e a t : lie is sifting out the hearts of men before his-judgment seat; O, be swift, my soul, to answ e r him! be jubilant my feet! Our God is marching on. In thp beauty of the lillies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me. As he died to make then holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. JULIA WARD HOWE. • These stanzas of patriotic verse, exceedingly appropriate of Indepen dence Day were composed and furnished to the press by Eugene Titus, o’ Inglenook, Hempstead. OUR FLAG < Fling to t h e breeze t h e flag of purity, Our standard, The Red, White, a n d Blue. The soul of our nation, t h e hope of creation, The flag of the brave and true. ' I 'tv - r t , . It tells of progress, and victories won, As it leads the world in its course: It speaks its message of equality, A missive of love and not force. ' I • , 11 Our love ever turns to this flag of ours, That we love with veneration, For the lessons taught, and the battle fought, Its thle anchor of our nation. And we point with pride to the Stars and Stripes, To the flag that knows no defeat. And we’ll see it there, with its halyards taunt W h e n we all make our last retreaL THAN GREATER J Medical Falsehoods Denying Deaths from Vaccination and Lockjaw A n sw ered and Crushed There are two great facts that have already been proved in our previous articles m a t may be re s t a t e d h e r e : - F i r i t : That general vaccination is more dangerous to public health and hum a n life t h a n natural smallpox, par t lcularly in children Second: That these facts are admitted and disclosed in English statistics,but are denied and concealed in our own statistics. These two unerring shots have gone right home to t h e vital centre o f this great modern medical barbarism of compulsory disease and death and have undoubtedly given all compulsory vaccination in this State Its death wound from which it will never ultimately recover in this State or t h r o u g h o u t this Nation wherever this medical evil still exists, as soon as these two g r e a t and shocking facts sink fully into t h e public mind. It wa-> na'Uial, therefore, t h a t the medical doctors and the medical editors, who have been practising and defending this barbarism, and profiting from it directly or indirectly for years past, should squirm in more or less a g o n y under this d e a t h wound to their favorite and profitable barbarism of compulsory vaccination forced on the whole people In one way or another a ’ every excuse or opportunity of alleged smallpox menace or panic; and eev- eral of them evidently t h o u g h t t h a t they could meet t h e s e solid facts with false and foul personal epithets and false and absurd denials and evasions, mo*: of which I have already answered and disposed of. And I note that of late, therefore, all these former champions of t h i s medical barbarism among our medical doctors and ifledical editors have he*n very silent except one recent would-be champion, who in an evening paper of New York City of May 2:1 a t t e mpted to attack me and my facts as to deaths from vaccination in this State through lockjaw in vaccination wounds and in s o doing has himtvll given us a very characteristic exhibition of the way it: which vaccinating doctors attem p t to deny and conceal the real truth on this subject from the public. And I now regard this particular subject as so i m portant for public enlightenment and the moment so opportune for the crushing of a most dangerous and dastardly medical falsehood that I now digress in my intended choice of subjects for my closing or final articles and confine myself here io this particular deaths from lockjaw or t e t a n u s in vaccination wounds, which is one of t h e most frequent causes of deaths from vaccination in this State, and will illustrate fufty t h e frequent fatality of vaccination and the crafty, absurd and shameful m a n n e r in which our vaccinators in charge of our death certifh r t e s and our vital statistics try to excuse, conceal and deny these deaths ana t h e full r e s p o n sibility of vaccination for t h e same. If wee now turn to the report of the R e g i s t r a r General of England for jcju (the last in print) we will find an honest, simple and straightforward Ifccord of deaths from vaccination, both directly and indirectly, very different flom the shanic ntl, c rafty and apologetic way shown in our annual reports, which first practically adm i t a fact and then try to deny and conceal it by t ijj .e i(,g|C. and false conclusions. However, we will find no d e a t h s , r e p o rted from l o e r j a w in vaccination wounds hi this English report on account of the <1 jfit ri nee of local condition above noted, hut \so will find several vaccinatum (deaths r e p o r t e d from other common wound infections, such as septicemia, <?rysipelas. etc., whirl, also exist here in addition lo our peculiar and very com mon and fatal infection of lockjaw. Thus in the English report for 1911 th i s most signilii a n t comparative data is given as to deaths from smallpox an 1 vaccination for t h a t y e a r ; — Total deal ns f r o m smallpox for all a g e s ............................................................................. ......................................................................................................................................................... 21. Deaths Horn smallpox under five years ............................................................................. ............................................................. ................................................. ............................................. < Total deaths from vaccination, all ages ......................................................................... .. .......................................... .. ......... ............... ................... ...................................................... 14 Specific Disease or Causes of Death in Said Fourteen Fatal Vaccinations: — From ‘‘Vaccina’ or “Cowpox” directly .................. .. . ........................................................ ........... .................................................................?’.............................................................................. 6 From vaccination ivaulting in fatal septicem i a d * . . ........ .. ............................................................................................................................ ........................................................... . . . 5 F r o m vaccination resulting in fatal evysipelas ........................................................................................... ......................................... ............................................................................... * Total ........................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................ 14 Here we will see from the latest published annual record of the highest statistical authority in the world that for the year 1911. in England and Wales, in a population of about thirty-six millions the total deaths from vavc mat ion were fourteen, or mori Ilian half the total deaths from smallpox, ’ivhich were twenty-three! On the other hand, the deaths from smallpox in li m e children wen- only six, and exactly equal to the deaths caused direct!,/ by “vaccinia,” or cowpox pure and simple, in children of the same age, w h c p a s the additional oeatlis from wound infections in the vaccination sores, viz , from septicemia and erysipelas, added eight more fatalitis, thus making the d«-atho from van inaiimi in little children over twice as many as the deaths from smallpox 1 To show that deaths from vaccination in this year of 1911 in England, as compared to c- nths from smallpox, are nothing unusual, and that sm U deaths occur more oi less constantly every year, and that t h e total yearly d e a t h s from \ ic cinatioii frequently exceed total yearly deaths from siiiallpo particularly in children, I can give this further impressive data from the re p o r t s of he Registrar General for several years prvious io 1911, as follows T o t a l Total D e a t h s from ' Deaths from Year. Smallpox. Vaccination. • 1906 21 29 1907 * • 10 12 1908 i 1? U Total deaths from sm l k p o x for six years, 1905 to 1910 ....................................................................................................................................................... .............................................. 199 Total deaths from accination for six years, 1905 to 1910 ................................................................................................................................................... ................................................... 99 Deaths from smallpox in said period under five years old ................................................................................................................................... ......................................................... 2f Deaths from vaccination in said period under five years old .................................................................................................................. ..................................... ................................... 98 This a.vful record of fatal vaccinations thus speaks very clearly for d self and forms an ab.-olute indictment ot the whole barbarous ami murderous system of c ompulsory vaccination, particularly for little children, and needs no further comment here. Briefly stated, therefore, Commissioner Po r t e r ’s whole argum e n t in ' h e State report tor 1912 is ib i s ; - That while, in Commissioner P o r t e r ’s own words, “three or tour of t h e s e t e t a n u s deaths (114 in number) were reported as sequent to vaccination,\ j e t they were not really consequent to vaccination! Please not Commissioner P o r t e r ’s meagre or minimum term \sequent which is m > beggarly bald and naked of the real truth, by which lie tries to fool himself and the public that t h e s e deaths w e r e not also consequent to vaccination! And docs lie and his defender try to show that these four terrible deaths from lockjaw, or tetanus, in the suppurating vaccination sore were \ s e q u e n t ' to vaccination but were not consequent to it V Simply by the medical and logical\ humbug, as expressed in Commissioner P o r t e r ’s own words here quoted, I hat none of these cases of lockjaw \were found to have developed less than three weeks after t h e vaccination, and in all cases the identical vaccine virus uted was at the same time used on other subjects. Not everyOonq •which follows vaccination is due to it, and it is not probable th a t these were c\ue to it.\ Now, 1 s ay that such evasion of the obvious truth and deception of ilie public mind, as I,err shown in our Stale report and defended and indorse I Ly this and m h e r doctors, shows t h a t men incompetent by professional i n t e r e s t in vaccinal ion to h a w any charge or control of our vital statistics Invoh jug deaths from vaccination or other medical operations should be entirely displaced by a v.liohy different class of men, who should he put at the head of our health departm e n t s and in charge of our vital statistics, and 1 will have somethin-; very io n , and significant to Bay on that point in a future public aricle. - W h a t a shocking insult this is to men of ordinary honesty and i n telligence can he realized when- we say that if the tetanus germ generally ex Is:-, od in the virus itself at the time of vaccination we would simply have thous.i r d s and tens of thousands of deaths from vue< inution and lockjaw where now we have dozens and hundreds! And I have here to ask these medical defenders if dozens or hundreds of deaths Irma this rause every year, two or three times tin; annual dealn* Jfrom smallpox, particularly in little school children (which can easily be proved), are not suflh h-nt to rail a hall on this barbarism of i-ompulsory vaccina- lion in our public schools and i n s titutions and the persistent and shocking den ini and concealment of iis fatal effect# in our vital statistic# and yearly rr ports! It is therefore evident tlftit t h e attem p t to excuse t h e operations of vaccination from all responsibility because the infection was not in Hie virus at the moment of vaccination is simply a dastardly evasion and falsification of m e d i c a l t r u t h and responsibility which should have the stronger' eondwunalioii of every man of any common honesty and common sense. It is. of course, well known that the lockjaw infection has been freq.m-ntly found In \irir mid is introduced in the operation of vaceination, m.l Ibis was moi e common years ago than it is today because I his danger was I > unri to he so real thni - pevliil efforts are now made In the ma n u f a d ure of i he virus to guard against this infection, and the United States government inrpeetion now requires ilmi eom-iant, c areful testr hr made of all virus to prevrni this infection am o n g many other kinds, t h e r e b y showing the reality of this dongei But all there prec a u ti o n s with the virus itself cannot prevent till $ same infection coming into the vaccination wound afterw a r d Irom many ol'f < i sourer*, particularly when lo< kjaw is so w idely distributed in tin- sin - roundings of the hum a n being ami his habitat in this country, and particulaily in our Stun of New York and chicIIy on Long Island, where t h i s d a n g n o m wound infection is widely distributed and almost universal as before stated, ajnd tim - , xh-ts as a constant menace to liiih- vaccinated children who play in the diit or to vaccinated workmen who work in the dirt. And so serious is I Ids danger Irom lockjaw that it is, as a m a t t e r of actual fact, ten to one fitiii- died times more dangerous than smallpox, so that it is absolutely dem o n s t r a b l e that a vaccinated school child or workman in this State of New York and this province of Long Island is ten times more likely to be killed by lo kjaw if vaccinated than to die fiom smallpox if left unvaccinated! The,, foie, a s a m a t t e r ol actual fact, vaccination in the State ot New York and on L'ong Island is mure dangerous than smallpox, and more children and adults pie now being killed regularly every year from lockjaw and other infections in vaccination wounds than from smallpox no mail.-, what ex Commissioner Po r t e r or his defender may say. And our death certificates and other vital records, now concealed, will clearly show this shocking fact us soon as Un people force a proper inspection and publication of the same, which result X i n t e n d publicly to accomplish before I get through with this most important and expensive duty which we have t a k e n on ourselves for the public good in exposing Hi sc- dangerous medical falsehoods, these gross statistical conceal ments and these numerous vaccination injuries and fatalities to the fullest extent of the actual truth. CHAS. M. T r e a s u r e r Anti-Vaccination league of America. No. 271 Ninth Street-, Brooklyn, N. T., June 29, 1914. Main office of Hie l e a g u e : No. 1420 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, i’a. John Pitcairn, President. « Porter F. Cope, Secretary. FOSTCRIPT. Just as this article was being prepared for the press n not h e r champion has appeared, who, in an elaborate article in a New Y oit S unday paper ol June 21, attem p t s to take up the defence ol the lollies and !;• D'litits of vaccination with the aid of some doctored diagrams and the usual fstale and disrupted medical arguments, most of which 1 have already disposed of in former articles, and some of which I fully answer here. Some time during the sum m e r vacation, as a m a t t e r of relaxation a x ! to contribute to public amusement, t may take up some of t h e most absurd Statements of this doctor, who seems to have made himself an easy mark for c o n e d i v e criticism in his history, his logic and his s tatistics on vaccination, 'Which I will adm i n i s t e r in due time and show him that he does nof s e e m to be familiar with im p o r t a n t data on record In his own department, which mak i some of his statem e n t s simpl> ridiculous, to say nothing of the record of the real results of vaccination throughout the world on publi* health and human life. In my next article, which probably will end my .work for the sum m e r vacation, ! intend to make it i n teresting for the general public and for H i - selfish medical organizations, with their big memberships, their immense funds and tln-ir full control of our health departm e n t s and our vital statisti< And I propose to show how our own big organizations of business m e n and w o r k i n g people in this great city, the flower and force of our citizenship, have the full pov.er In theis own hands to drive these medical organizations out of the sole com re I of our departm e n t s of public- htalth and vital statlsiii-t whore they have been very faithful to their own In teres, s but vry unfaithful to the lute rests of the whole people in fastening and forcing upon us the dangerous and fatal barbarism of compulsory medical disease and even m a k i n g it a condition for the education of the c hild of the poor man In our pub lic schools and then denying and concealing the fatal effect of this great medical evil in our vital statistics. I will also show how we can place at lb- heads of these departm e n t s able business and working men, not doctors having professional interest in medical operations and con v v l m e n t of niedica. where doctors do not dominate the departm e n t s of health and vital statistics, but which are dominated by able laymen with doctors subordinate to them. This closing article will appear just before or after our Independence Day and may prove to be a Declaration of Medical Independence for the People and a crushing of Medical Monarchy and Dogmatism—which is now a s much needed as was the great work done at Independence Hall on July Hn, 1776 (which, hy t h e way, is only a stone's throw from the head office of our League in Pphiiadelphia). C. M H.
