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i Nassau Pnst WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1914. Published Wednesdays end Saturdays by TM S N A S S A U ru S T K U S U S H 1 N 0 C U M P A N t, 22-24 Sou in Grove Street, Freeport. Nassau County, New York, James E. S t t a , residing in the village o f Freeport, town o f Hemp- nty o f Nassi owner and publisher. JAM E S E. STILES. Managing Editor SUBSCRIPTION TERMS ONE YEAR ............................................. SIX M O M US ........................................ TH R E E MONTHS ................................ ONE m o n t h ........................................ f t AUVEHITSINU RATES UN APPLICATION E n u red m Second-class m ailer April 8 .1V14, si Ui« poet office al t reeport, New York, an- der the act o t March *, 187V. Ah communication should be addressed to l tlC . N A S S A U F U t i 'l . Main Otbce........................Freeport, L. L, N. Y. b i a l i e n v s a t V a lley t i t l e s in, L y u u r o o k , him l I t o e k a a e y , K o c k v iiiv t e n ti e . L o n g b e a c n , v c e e n s i d e , b k i d w i u , M e i n e k , b e n m o i e . W a n - la g n . s e a l o r d , tiv n ip H iead a n d M m e o ia. te i e p n u n e .......................................................#1 F r e e p o r t NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Any erroneous renectlon upon the dhalautei, etanuing or reputation ot any pei eon, firm or corporation which may appear in the colum n s o( The Nassau runt, will be gladly corrected upon request at the mam oftice, Mil- er duiiumg, dZ-dt South Grove street, r i e c p u i t , L, I., N. Y. OUR TRADE IN SOUTH AMERICA In the past the attention of A m e r ica has been too m u c h centered In Europe, her ditferent clues and coun tries. This applies to business, so cial, and society prestige, trade rela tions and financial transaction. N o t but w h a t all these relations w e re ad vantageous and alm o st necessary to A m erica but dependence upon an other is alw ay fraught w ith an ele m e n t of danger to the dependent. The world wide effects of the great w a r is bringing this lesson home to us a t the present time. Old ties m u s t be quickly sundered. New adjustm e n ts m u s t be m ade as quickly. O ther out lets for our surplus crops and produc tions mifet be sought. As a rule we are apt to overlook th a t which lies at our door and hasten afar off for the needful things be they w h a t they m ay. It is a well known fact th a t our trade and social re la tions w ith South A m e rica countries have been strangely overlooked. The trade of these g reat and grow ing te r ritories has been alm o s t monopolized by our E u ropean com p e titors. They took every advantage of the faorable conditions. They sen t sales m en who spoke the language of the countries w h o se trade was sought. They made goods adapted to the needs and requirem e n ts of such custom ers. As a result they practically controlled the trade. As a nation we have been rem iss in cultivating this field and, now th a t the opportunity is a t hand, we find we are laboring under disad vantages brought about by our own acts. T h a t all this m u st be rem e d ied in the shortest possible tim e consistent with good work, is very apparent. Our bankers and great financiers are alive to the opportunity and conscious or the advantages to be secured. Such men as J. J. Hill, have advocated the cultivation of South A m e rican com m e rce for years and pointed out the proper m e thods to secure it. The great city banks are taking steps in the proper direction. They will soon establish branches in the Southern R epublics and do their ut m o st to break down b a rriers erected by G e rm a n and English traders. The N a tional D e p a rtm e n t of Com m erce is THE NAMAU POST; rmcEPOBT, N.V. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 18, 1914, ADVICE FOR SCHOOLS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE Slop Forced Vaccination and Save Child Life ---------------------------- - ’ Facts for School Officers and Parents of School Cluldren Showing That the Present * Vaccination Law Applies to Public Schools Only and Can Be Legally Suspended in Any Public School District by Local School Officers ■■ > ■ i, cities and tow n s all over this S tate the g r e a test opposition is now being m ade by parents of school chljdren to-the enforcem e n t of th a t dangerous and barbarous law requiring the infection of healthy children w ith a vile blood disease as a condition of attending the public schools. This evil law was originated solely by m e d ical societies in this State and was passed orglnally w ithout any general public hearing or approval, and Us evil burden has been kept for years on our tree schools, notw ith s tan d ing all ellorts m a d e to rem o v e or am e n d it by citizens and our educational officials, m a inly through the Influence of these sam e m e d ical societies, which are said to have the g r e a test lobbying pow e r of any in terest in the State. Thct>e m edical societies are organized all over this S tate w ith tens of thou sands of m e m b e rs and are now such a pow e rful and dangerous force in the body politic as to control our m e d ic al legislation, our health departm e n ts , our vital statistics, and a large p a r t of our P r e s s , and are now in ten t on forc ing com p u lsory m e d ic ine upon the people In various form s, w h ich Is one of the m o st dangerous despotism s or usurpations th a t could be Inflicted upon a free people and m uch m o re dangerous than the old prohibited barbarism of com p u lsory religion ever was. How far the p r e s e n t effort to enforce this evil law on all o u r school choldrvn through the S tate inay be for the benefit of the vaccinators and the vaccine m a k e rs rath e r than for the vaccinated children X will now let the words of a iorm e r Com m issioner of Education (the beloved, Just and em inent Andrew S. D iaper) tell us. In his A n n u al R e p o rt for 1909 a t page 11 th e late Com m issioner D raper states: \In m a n y cases physicians becom e in terested in the stric t e n force »ment of the law because of the fees resulting therefrom . * * * In the m o re populous d istricts the m e d ic al fees resutling from vac cination are an im p o rtant item . It is not claim ed th a t physicians as a rule ore governed in this m a tter by a m e rcenary m o tive. * * * Ilow e e r. this m e rcenary m o tive has been the controlling facto r in a suliiclent num b e r of cases which have come to the atten tio n of the departm e n t to ju s tify the above assertions.” To f u r th e r illu s trate this point, I have ju s t received a letter from a m o th er of school children in a town up the S tate, w h e re the doctors are trying to strictly enforce this evil doctor-m ade law, and in which she significantly points out th a t th e health board doctor of the town is also on the school board and is the doctor who will aslo get the fees paid by the school or town for the vaccination of the school children! T h is wom en is only one of m a n y parents who send touching le tte r from all over th e S tate, giving in stances of death and d isaster from vaccination, and asking for help to save their children from the horrible barbarism w h ic h would inflict upon th e ir a ted shall be adm itted or received into any of the public schools of the S tate, and the tru s tees or o th e r officers having the charge, m a n agem e n t or control of the schools shall cause th is provision of law to he enforced. They may adopt a resolution excluding such children and persons not vaccinated from such school until vaccinated and w h en iuch resolution has been adopted they shall give a t least ten days’ notice th e reo f by posting copies of the sam e in a t least two public and conspicuous places within, the lim its of the school govern m e n t.\' H. There is no pow e r given in this law or in any o th e r law in the State to com pel any person, w h e ther in public o r private school or anyw h e re else, to be vaccinated against his free will and consent. To compel or attem p t such vaccination by intim idation or force, by any doctor or health officer or other persons, is Illegal and crim inal under the Penal Code and derisions of our courts. HI. One vaccination, w h e ther “successful” or not, is sufficient to sat isfy th e lawr and to authorize adm ission to school. See opinion of A ttorney G e n eral John Cun ieen in 1904. This point was also decided by a court and jury a t R o c h e s ter in 191-'. The tw o practices, therefore, of requiring re peated vaccination until it \tak e s ” and of re-vaccination repeated a f te r a certain num b e r of years, as now practiced in the schools, are illegal and un tenable and must be abandoned One vaccination only is enough under the law. j \ . T h is vaccination la . l>> its own distinct term s , is enforceable only by the board o r education, ihe local school board or tru s tees In any town or district, and by no other officers. No power, therefore, is given in this law to the C o m m 'ssioner of Education or the Com m issioner of H e a lth to enforce this law or overrule the action of the local school officers thereon. V. T h e law is discretionary w ith 1 lie local officers and the discretion lies in the second\ paragraph, viz.: \They (th e trustees, etc.) may adopt a resolution excluding such children,” etc. It will therefore be obvious th a t the law is not in force at all except when the local school officers choose to pass the enforcing resolution and put up the ten day’s notice, etc., which they “m a y ” do when they think it necessary and proper but not otherw ise, and no one can force them to do this ag a in s t their discretion as the law itself places its enforcem e n t in th e ir hands only. VI. It is evident th a t the first clause only appears m a n d a tory, but this is modified by the1 second clause and please note this fact, the history of this law shows that this first clause is an unauthorized interpolation in the law, m ade by a codifying c o m m ittee in 1893, which had no pow e r to a lte r the law, but who unlaw fully or inadvertently Introduced the present first clause in place of the original as found in the law first passed in 1860. which w a s clearly healthy oodles a dangerous festering disease which, as I have already clearly ! di cretionary. as is the present second clause, which lias been left alm o st proved, now kills m o re children than sm allpox and is actually m o re dangerous to them on the average than n a tu r a l sm allpox—and all this as an alleged mode of producing public health and as a condition for the exercise of that m o st fundam e n tal public rig h t of the child, education. Now we have received so m a n y le tte r s of this kind asking for help in the present crisis, not only from p a ren ts of school children but also from teachers and principals and tru s tees of public schools, all over the State, asking for advice as to th e ir legal rights and pow e rs In this m a tte r and as to the dis cretionary pow e rs of the local or d istrict school officers In enforcing or sus pending the p resen t vaccination law, th a t we have found it im p o ssible to answ e r all of these letters fully by m a ll and hence now take the b e tter way of answ e ring these Inquiries through the public press, before the re-opening of the schools, so th a t not only our num e rous correspondents but th e general public can get the benefit of the facts and advice now given, w h ich we will nere state in a series of distinct propositions: — I. T h e present school vaccination law applies to public schools only, not to private or parochial schools, and it only authorizes the local tru s tees or boards to exclude children from the schools who are not vaccinated. The lollowing Is a copy of the two first paragraphs of the law, which form its m o st e ssential p a r t s : — (Law of 1893, now in force). “No child or person not vaccin- unallered. This history will, therefore, affect the interpretation of the law in the eyes ol a court, and will m ake a second clause govern In m a k ing the law discretionary, as it obviously is w h e n taken as a whole. VII. I am aw a re that, the C o m m issioner of Education, under an opinion of an A ttorney G e n eral, regards the law as m a n d a tory, but I think this opinion is not legally correct, for the reasons given, which w e re not. known or con sidered when thai opinion w a s rendered. In any case, such opinion is ' not infallible or conclusive, and only the decision of a court can determ ine tills question. And as this law is enforcable only by the local school officers, they cannot be overruled in this m a tter by other officers or departm e n ts , and 1 therefore advise all local school officers to hold firm ly to the view that the law is discretionary in essence, both verbally and historically, and that they m a y enforce or suspend it at th e ir best judgm e n t of local conditions or necessities until a court shall decide this question one way or the other. A VIII. As this law is enforcable only by the local school officers, and on their judgin' ::t or discretion, not by the Com m issioner of Education or the Comrri ■ ion i of H e a lth, it is obvious that such local officers cannot be legally pi n a h z e d In any way, nor can th e S tate funds be legally w ithheld from their local schools as a punishm e n t for not enforcing this law, when the law itself places the power and discretion for enforcing it in these local officers them selves. t h e C o s t o f w a r N e w spapers and thoughtless people talk lightly of som e com p a ratively sm all E u ropean nation pulllnb a m il lion men in the field, arm e d and equip ped, ready for service and battle. Such people have scarcely an Idea of the vast num b e r contained in one million of units, and certainly no idea of w h a t it m e a n s to arm and equip such a force. A soldier is one of the m o s t expen sive things t h a t p. nation can invest in. A soldier m u s t have close to three pounds of nutritions food per day. This is fully necessary as the coal in the tender for the locom otive for eith er man nor m a c h ine can w o rk w ith out fuel. M ost of them are m e n of high effi ciency, of good earning capacity. By a Jugglery th a t seem s alm o s t ^atan lc, \ON TO RICHMOND\ T h is was the slogan in 1864. N a tions ever seem hypnotised by the the builders of a country in tim e of ti,at jf they can gain possession peace are tu rn e d into Its burneds in tim e of war. To a very superficial calculation will show th a t one m illion arm e d men m u s t soon be m e t by a w a r expense of one m illion dollars. N o t even the richest country can endure this long. Then quickly follow depreciating con- vency, inflated prices and a huge w a r debt to hand down to future gen e r a tions. And nearly every so called civ ilized country In the world today is paying this enorm o u s and wholly use less Indebtedness. of the enem y 's Capitol, victory is as sured. T h a t cry cost the Dnion array a vast num b e r of men Not until G rant defeated the arm ies who w ere defending Richm o nd and on fields distant from the Capitol city til self, did Richm o n d becom e an easy prey to the Vnion forces. It is the fighting men that count and not the m e re Capitol w h e re such a country tran s a c ts its official busi ness. If he can dispose of the last French Army, the K a is e r ran m a rch in trium p h to the gates of P a ris and WAR AND OUR PRESIDENT The E u ropean w a r has certainly aid ed the P r e s ident in Ids fight for re duction of the tariff. It hasnearly wipe d it outof existence. And still the President is not happy over this condition. His<|Hinted object was to lessen the cost of living. And yet it lias gone up by leaps. But the Chief R u ler is not lu blame for this. There- are powers that are superior to him or even his Secretary of State. So w ith lessened revenue from custom s, the President appeals j to Congress to place a tax on certain com m o d ities suflicient to bring in an annual revenue of $100,000,000. lu w a r tim e s how easily wc talk of leive 11 u m fieri: IX. It, therefore follows th a t the threat m ade in circulars Issued by the present ^orngilssloner of Education and the Com m issioner of Health to the local schools officers to penalize these local om c e rs, or th e ir schools, for not enforcing this law i; an untenable and illegal threat which they may properly and safely disregard. X. The local school officers have good ground and an actual precedent furnished by the form e r Com m issioner of Education him s e lf for suspending this law, as was actually done in the tow n of Clean, N. Y., in 1912, w h e re 2,000 children left the schools and refused to be vaccinated. The school offi cers finally decided to suspend the law— F ir s t, because a m a jority of parents and school children refused to subm it to vaccination as being a violation of their r ig h ts and a m e n a c e to health, and because the virus then in use was Infected and dangerous to health and life and caused m any injuries; Second, because, as a m a tter of fact and law, th e r e was a conflict betw een two law s, viz., the law of com pulsory education and the law of com p u lsory vaccination, and both could not be strictly enforced. T h e Com m issioner of Education, the late Dr. Andrew S. Draper, then decided th a t the school officers w ere justified in thus suspending vaccination and approved this action, in t h e s e 1 w ords, in an official o r d e r or letter issued January 34, 1912, to the Board of Education at 01ea,n: — \T h e re is an inconsistency betw e e n the provisions of the health law and those of the education law. * * Both of these statutes cannot be strictly enforced. *- * The education authorities are charged with the duty of keeping the children in th e schools rather th a n of keeping them out. * * * Therefore. * * * 1 am of the opinion that som e discretion was intended to be reposed both in the board of education and in the board of health by the educa tion and health laws, and that, pending the consideration of the con fiict betw een these laws which it its proposed to ask of the Legis latu re jo u r board will be justified in rescinding its action excluding unvaccinated children from the schools.\ H e re is clearly a disiim t recognition by the head of the D e p artm e n t of E d u c a tion of discretion in the local officers in the enforcem e n t of the vaccina tion law anc. a good ground also officially slated by th e CoiumlsBioner for suspending ibis law by such local officials until the L e g is lature can correct the serious conflict in the iv.o laws \s I understand th e Education Law, an order or decision ol i be rouim iM imier i- binding, or final on the Depart merit, and I his I think eMupu the present Com m issioner from overruling, his predeev-: or on tin poim , and hem e lie i annol penalize local school offi cers from now acting on ibis piecedent even though the law did not give full power in vnfolring ol suspeudili va< i inal ion In the local officers them selves, as I h a v e already shown XI: it is, I hel e fore. ev id ent l ha I l lie local school officers in each low n or disti o t have the eiilon eim ni ol ibis vaccination law entirely in their own hands, and < an suspend ot n-ipiiie vaccination according to necessities or conditions as they exist and in obedience to public opinion or needs in any d istrict, and tliej cannot be overruled by anv other officers in this duty. XII. In case the local officers in any disirict are so dom inated by modi cal influence as not to perm it any suspension of vaccinaiAm, 1 would then advise parents to send their children to private or parochial schools, to which this vaccination law does not apply, until the day arrives when this evil law- will he entirely repealed. A. great effort has been made recently by vaccinators to force vaccina tion also on these private and parochial schools and to try to show that the law applies or can be stretched to apply to them , or that the health board doctors have power to force vacc ination on these schools, and Attorney G e n eral (\nrmody lias just given a vague opinion on this su b ject: but this is all a fallacious and illegal contention, as shown by the latest decision of the highest court in the S tate, the Court of Appeals, in the ease of the People \ Eket old dated June L\ P ill, u lu te this pest ive statem e n t Is matte which completely disposes ol ibis latest medic al -iiiul legal fallacy : \Tno vaccination slainlc- which w e >liavc been considering applies only to the public- schools.\ It, addition to tills I want to repeat em p h a tically that no doctor or health office-! in this Stale- has any legal power whate ver to com pel any one to sub mil to vaceliuition against will ami consent, ot by force of intim idation, or by th r e a t of forced quarantine or discharge fiom em p loym e n t; and this is settled by decisions of our highest S tate C o u rts in Sm ith v. Emery in 1891. and o th e r cases. See also Penal Code, section ffiiO and liSO. M U. in general. I would, therefore, ad vise local school officers that they should suspe nd vaccination in every school district w h e re public opinion is decidedly opposed to it or where it is m o re dangerous to health or life than sm allpox itself, which is tin- fact in m any instances; for exam p le, when th e r e are o th e r infections or epidem ic diseases prevailing or w h en there Is som e dangerous inlection in the virus such as the epidemic of Itxit and mouth dis ease in 130V and 1908; or in the case ol localities w h e re wound infections prevail which are specially dangerous to vaccination sores. The latter con dition is pat ticularly the case in New York S tale and on Long Island, w h e re one of tin- i' ost common and fatal wound infections, know n as lockjaw or “tetanus,\ exists generally and from vvlih li many m ore deaths are caused every y< at than from sm allpox, so that to be vaccinated in these lockjaw d istricts is simply to run ten or one hundred lim es m o re risk of deal It from vaccination and lockjaw than from sm allpox alone if left entirely unvaccinated. XIV. l will lianlly point out to both school officers and parbnts of school children a lundam e n tal, vital and legal reason of the g r e a te s t force for su s pending the vaccination law in any school, at any tim e, which is this:-*-It is sim ply a crim e at common law to deliberately inflict a dangerous or fatal disease on I be body ol any pm son. particularly on a child, and vaccination is such a cl t e ase which actually ami dem o n strably now kills m ore children than sm allpox, and therefore, its enforcem e n t in our schools at any tim e or place is essentially illegal, notw ithstanding the existing law cm the subject. Tills law wits passed by the leglsfottiro tmcb-i a medical deception and Is now m a intained on the people by a gross~Twedleal deception that this operation is entirety beneficial and perfectly safe and harm less, never causing injury or death, w h e reas, it in fact, now, by governm e n t record, kills more children than sm allpox, as shown by the reports of the highest statistical authority in .the world, the R e g istrar General of England This positive fact, therefore, entirely tillers the aspect of this n.i-dicul <>i c ltd ion belore t lie public, I ms courts, and the law, so I hat there is sufficient solid ground in Ibis legal, hygienic ant! .-laiislii a l lac t alone to justify any loc al school board to at once suspc i.d vacc ination in any c bool dlstilei wln-te tills lac t becomes ap parent to titc-ii official minds X \ I ihe re line finally neivi-c all c itize ns, vote r: and taxpayers, ami till parents ol re-hool children. Io resist firmly and constantly the enforcem e n t everyw h e re of this evil law lot the- com p u lsory infliction of a dangerous, dc and salesm e n all the assistance of this work and prom ises our m a n u factures and salesm e n all to assistance of this pow erful departm e n t. AUTOMATIC FIRE ALARM H e m p stead has an electric arran g e m e n t so th a t the syren used for a fire alarm will give the num b e r of the district by autom a tically giving the proper num b e r of beasts. A good idea. L e t m a c h inery do all th a t it can, es pecially w h e re haste and accuracy are needed. A m a c h ine has been defined as som e thing too stupid to m a k e a m is take. And the perfect m a c h ine is cer tainly n-ore accurate than the average hum a n mind. A H o ltsville dog, Gyp, has the am bition to succeed the lam e n ted Roxle as m a scot dog of the Long Island R ail road. He is a good natu red little Boston bull pup, said to be very intelli gent. He will have to be some dog and m ighty w inning in bis ways to travel free, get petted by everybody and have a bank acco u n t It poorly fed, his present efficiency is not only greatly im p a ired, but it depresses him m e n tally so he is still fu r th e r unfitted for his trying duties. N apoleon truly said th a t an arm y , like a snake, travels on its belly. Then he m u s t have a uniform m a d e of good m a terial, and sufficient to serve him in all clim a tes and condi tions. And he certainly m u s t have a costly and efficient weapon, m o d ern and as good in every way as the ones in the hands of the enem y , he is ex pected to m eet. H e m u st also be paid a living wage, for uo arm y will give efficient service w ithout receiving some equivalent in the m o n ey th a t will buy the necessi ties of life for the fam ily he usually leaves behind. T h is is not counting in the a s t ex pense of transportation, of artillery, of a vast num b e r of valuable horses and hundreds of other things th a t nev er en ter into the civilians calculations. t \ e m u s t still add to th is huge devil column th e loss of these m e n ’s ser vices to th e country in tim e of w ar. FREEPORT’S PROSPERITY C itiens of this village are certain ly fortunate. A quiet pretty village, filled w ith com fortable hom es, good banks, and business houses, m e rchants with stocks am p le to supply every need. Everyone is going th e ir peace ful w a y ; business, pleasure, conven tions, fishing, picnics, banquets and the movies. No w a r—only rum o rs of war. The insane struggle across the w a ter caus es only the faintest ripple here. And fortunate too are we in our distance from th a t hungry m o n s ter th a t lies about th ir ty m iles tow a rd the setting sun. T h e big City has bor rowed about to her capacity and is now obliged to ptfr 6 per cent, for a little loan of <100,000,000. W e are Just far enough aw ay so her hungry jaw s have neyer closed on us and given us the glory of belonging to the “G reater Belonging” Is used advis edly. So w ith all these advantages let us try and keep it the banner town of Long Island and strive continually to m a k e i t even b e tter w o rth living in. dem a n d the keys. A n n ies eount in war. not cities. NO HARNESS MARCH A lew days ago a m an wan led the services of a harness m aker. No one to whom he applied could ln-l|> him to locate the tradesm a n . lie tram p e d over every business st reet and did not succeed in locating any sm-li shop If th e re is none here, it seem s like a good location. If t h e re is one we advise him to advertise in The N a s sau Post. THE MARKET BASKET New York housew ives are rejoicing in the fact th a t they can now fill th e ir m a rk e t baskets a t reasonable prices. Eight pouns of potatoes for 10 cents; green corn, 12 cents per dozen; lim a beans, 5 cents a q u a r t; tom a toes, 5 cents for two qu a rts; carrots, fi cents a bunch and so on in like proportion. T h is certainly sounds good, a n d such prices will be a boon to poor people in the city and aid them to live com fortably on a sm a ller supply of m e a t. Seteno J Miller Returns Home Si rcno .1 Miller, who litis been spending Ids sum m e r vtn-nl ion with Ids parent Mi and Mrs. I' A Miller i of Sm ith si i e e t. Freeport, has been called back i<> New Bedford. Massu i-liuselts, to supet indent the inslalia tion of some $ 1 u.oOtl worth of nev mu ■ e ldnery in the buildings ol ifie New ' Bedford T e x tile College ! Mr. M iller has held a very respon sible position in the m e c h a n ical de- partm e n t of th is institution since 1911. J lie is a graduate of the Freeport I High School and of Cornell Vniver- ' sRy. At the la tte r institution he gain ed considerable notoriety because of his efficiency and unusual ability. Former Pastor Visits E. W. Ault The Rev. and Mrs. M. H. Fish burn of Fraser, Pa., spent the early part of last week in Freeport with th e ir nep- i hew, E. W. Ault, m a n a g e r of Ghub- I bucks, Freeport store. They had been I a ttending th e Bible Conference at i S toney Brook and m o tored over to Freeport. T h e Rev. Flahburn was pas tor of a church In Rockville Centre some 20 years ago. ease in out public schools, or o tln r places, as essentially a legal if not i crim inal violation ol vital and luiidatm-nial rights of eilizens and their c h ildren and to dem and a suspension ol its < u m pnlsoi y enrol c e m e n t in every school district in Hie Shtli and to firm].', in o t rm I lie right ol free education for their health childn n in out public i nooks, undet tin- com p u lsory education law, vs h ettu i vat c inated or not; and in addil ion to tills, t hey ’ should urge at once upon theit local legislators the early repeal and penal prohibition of all com p ulsory v a< < Inal ion in every shape and form CHARLES \t HIGGINS, T r e a s u i e r Anti Vaccinal ion L e a g u e ol Anterii-a 271 N i n t h Sit e e l, Brooklyn, N ) , S e p t e m b e r II, 1914. Main Office of The League; 112b t best nut Street, Philadelphia. Pa John Pitcairn, P to id e n t. P o r ter F. Cope. S e c retary. NOTE t pet sunn- you have read Hie previous press articli en titled \Shocking Falsehoods Supporting V a c c ination.'’ which was published in tho Brooklyn Eagle and Brooklyn Times of Septeiubet It h, in the Globe and E v e n ing Post of Septem b e r atli, and in the Herald and T ribune of Septem b e r 7th. If not, you should look up and lead th a t article a t once, as this articto is s u p p lem e n tal to it. The previous article exposes and refutes some shock ing falsehoods on which out State departm e n ts of In-alt It and education now erroneously try to force a dangerous crusade of com p u lsory disease on all school child!en in the Shite which would he in fact an artificial epidem ic deliberately inflicted upon them and m o te dangerous to th e ir health and life than an epidemic of natural smallpox would he, whii-h is a disease to w h ic h school children are least susceptible, and naturally most im m u n e of any age- class in tin- population. In a few days a third article will ap p e a r giving som e letters from p a r e n ts qf school children in different parts of I lie Stale, protesting against' this evil vaccination law and dem anding its suspension and repeal, and g l v I uk recent Instances of d isaster and death caused by this evil doctor-m ade law, to force whit h upon any person, child or adult In this S tate is a m e d ical crim e. C. M. H. Advertisement. j I
