Nassau Post 19140306; Title

              THE NASSAU  POST: FREEPCMRT, H.   V,    FRIDAY,    MARCH   •,   1914
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TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1914
HOW IS YOUK POLIOrf
From a neighboring vlliage comes the story of the burning of the home of one of its citizens. This man, thought hla property was Insured for
TO  THE  PUBLIC  GENERALLY —My specialty is tbe giving of advice,
to  which  1 am  more  inclined seeing the scarcity of true wisdom these days,
and more particularly the absence of accurate information of public affairs
 6,000,   but   when  he   presented    his | among the masses, due in part to their relentless pursuit of filthy lucre regard-
Z2^24's^th*Gro7«"si'l^u''F'ri^i>o'rt."'^N^u j claims to the agent he found that part j less oMhe future of our beloved Republic, In part to the ill considered policy
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Applieation for pntry Bi second cl«»» matter •t tiie I'odt OHice at Frt-eport, L. I., N. Y., pcnd.nK.
{of the Insurance was not In force.   It I had been cancelled.
We refer to  this  Incident only be-
I cause It calls attention once more to
the    Indifference    or    negligence    of
: ."louseholdeis   with   respect   to   essen-
j ilally vital economic duties.
How many men In Freeport know al this minute the exact coadilion of i I heir policies of Insurance? How [ many men know that they are protect- : ed in case of fire and to what extent? Every little while we read of a man who for  some  unapcountable  reason.
OH, YOU WEATHER
Snow, hall, slush anil a gale, all In one day—Sunday.
More snow, (blizzard lil<e) more •lush, and a freeze-up on Monday.
Railroads and trolleys tied up.
Commuters and other travelers aaying harsh things under their breath.     —
Dealers in boots and rubbers blessing the weather man.
School children delighted for a day off.
Coal dealers' pocket books swell..
Tho weather man completely knocked out in the second round.
Street Commissioners busier than all income tax collectors to¬ gether.
Moderating conditions Wednes¬ day and Thursday with spring birds on the way.
P. S.—Snow again   Friday.
All   rommunlcation   ihould   be  addreased   to THE   NASSAU   I'OST.
Main Office      Freeport,  L. I.. N. Y.
Manhalton Omce. 6 B<ekman St.,   (5th Floor.)
Branches     at     Valey     Stream,      Lynbrook.    ,,,., ., , i_,.
East      B<K:kaw»y.      Rockville     Centre.      Long i failed   tO   pay   the   premium   On   his   In- Rjtnrh     Orenn    Side.    BuUlwin,    Merrick.    Bell' | *. %_ ...^ /«
STreV'Wan^gh. seaford.  Hemp.tead and  M.n- j SUraUCe   pollcy   w1ien   it   WaS   due,   Or
^'^.^phone    61  Freeport I «^ho. having bought a plece of proper-
 i ly and gone carefully over the deeds
and mortgage to see that everjUhlng was Quite as it should be, "forgot" to arrange for the tran.sfer of the insur¬ ance or to have a new policy written.
The fire hazard is always with us. We cannot guaranlee ourselves against lots by any other means than Insurance In a stable company.
The premium cost of fire protection ought lo be made a part of the regular payments of home maintenance, the .same na the grocery or butcher bill. It should never be postponed, laid over for another day or delayed in any way.
Insurance policies and other Im¬ portant papers may well be kept In a place of absolute safety and security- no better place than a box in a safe deposit vault—and these papers should be examined with care from time to lime.
The dales when premiums are to be paid should be m^trked In the calendar and paid promptly. Delays are dan- Kerous—always.
In many homes there l.s no b^Jtor, .safer way than to permit the careful housewife to look afler the Insurance. Provide a good' housewife with the money and she will see that the pre¬ mium on the polity is paid, that the policy is renewed at the proper time and that the hone is generally eafe- .¦iuarded. A good wife always look,s after the home
of the metropolitan drllles published hard by of giving them half truths and pillorying too few offenders against our morals. 1 am prepared therefore to advise freely and without charge, being not so lofty In my prettensions as "o ignore the humblest cases, be they stone bruises, warts upon the body politic (which Is my long suit), snake bites, moral obliquities of every sort, even persons in travail. Il may be considered that the merit of my advice lieth rather in its frankness than its wisdom, to which opinion I bow in all lumllity. BERRY  BELL PEPPER, Esq., F.S.A.
OYSTER BAY—Let not your heart le troubled, Theodore has been guilty jf  no  impropriety  In  charging three thousand simoleons for his lecture be-1 fore a learned Argentine society. The I ecture  engagement,  date,  price  and j ill  were agreed upon before he left i Oyster Bay and were satisfactory to : all  concerned.      Tbe»lllmannered   re- ' port   reflectin.g  upon   this  good   taste i carried its own refutation.    "A Chlca- ; ero gentleman who is interested In art ; matters," as the newspapers describe ; !iim, brought back the report to this j country and the dallies swallowed  It | at one "gulp.'   If they ha'd investigated \ they would perhaps have found him a :lealer In hides from the Chicago slock yards whose proprietors still remem¬ ber a cerlain Investigation during the loos'evelt administration.    But art In Jhicagol    Gawd forbid the thought.
Mrs.   Edna  Buckmau     Kertrns.    of
Rockville  Cenlre,  Is  one  of  the  real
workers In the interest of "votes for
women"  in  Mauhaltan  and  on  Lopg
Island,   beside   being   somewhat  of  a
humorist.    During   a   recent   visit   to
Freeport she settled an argument by
saying:    "If a dinner at which men
alone participate Is a stag, why Is It
not  fair   to  assert   that  a  nation  in
whose affairs men parXlcipate alone is
 well——stagnation."   And there
, ,    , HE ADMITS IT
you are.    Who  would  or  could  deny
, .. "Allow me to say, no citizen Iiv
such an assertion.
Ing In Hempstead today has done more the village good than the un- 1,0N3 13L.\ND SHIPPING derslgned"
The opening of the  Panama Canal i —Floyd   Weekes,  President.
will give a new impetus to coastwise He admits it. Now and then men shipping, and in anticipation of the do admit their superlative competence, operation of the Canal Act which goes In the case of Floyd Weekes, how- into effect on July 1, the Long island j ever, it would have I een Infinitely bet- Railroad Company has petflloned the j ter had some other citizen of Hemp- Interstate Commerce Commission to ' stead placed the laurel on his brow, allow it to retain stock ownership in      Not that Mr. Weekes does not"3e
the Montauk Steamship Company.
Under the new conditions of trade which will follow the Flag through the Isthmian waterway Long Island ought to find opportunity for com¬ merce which is lo a large extent now denied ll.
There is no good reason why Long laland should  not  have a number of
serve well for what he has done both as citizen and oflicial. He Is able and efficient and we wi.sh w.e could add that he Is modest, but he has made that Impossible.
The extract from his open letter the Republican of his village, which we quote, is unconvincing. It fails both as an cndoisement and an encomium.
TEACHER—It seems to be the case generally In couniry villages that young women horn, bred and educat¬ ed therein are overlooked by the local Boards of Education whn teacherp are wanted. Barnum said that the American public loved to tie hum¬ bugged. If he had lived on our south .shore, he would doubtless have added, "and our School Boards like lo be bam¬ boozled, otherwise they would not ex¬ periment with so many teachers from other parts of the Slate." It cannot be that all the young women educated on this lijland are Incompeient to teach young Ideas how to shoot from the very seats which they occupied I themselves In the process of gelling lheir diplomas. Trustees who won't appoint teachers whose fathers skin¬ ned them In a horse trade are not exactly Ideal. Get your male friends, of whom you must have many, to ex¬ ercise greater discretion iu voting for S.   T.   E.—The   English   authorities   trustees
lie undoubtedly morally right as they I 	
(i-e legally right in dealing sharply j, DISAPPOINTED SUBSCRIBER— vith the fair creatures who pose as | yes, tho Owl of Rockville Centre, .uffragettes. When women make nui- | which so proudly announced a few ^ancos of themselves like the mascu- j weeks ago that it was tbe first news- line loafers who have recently been ! paper on Long Island to print a senii- ! invading New York churches they j weekly edition, is now able to an- j merit neither sympathy nor mercy. ! nounce that it is the first new.spapcr | The English, however, have been giv-| on Long Island to abandon its semi-! ing them both but now are drawing j weekly dliion. Hoots! tools! The the lines more taully. I can shed no | pace was too rapid, mon, and the gay tears ever the ladles, notwithstanding ' old bird will henceforth visit its read- my well-known love for the sex. If i ers once a week—wiser than ever. I yu-a really want sympathy for them, ' understand that Brother Haff is also you have applied to the wrong shoD. j tired of the pace and Is preparing to" Perhaps my friend, Uncle George Wal- j drop out of il:e semi-weekly race with lace, cmld he persuaded to we.^p co-j his East Rockaway Times. All this piou.i.iy over them. Ills bell pulNis j means that there Is considerably less only six miles away, the only brick money in two certain newspaper oflQc- buildtng In Rockville Centre that has j es to the westward to "buck" a certain attained its in.ijority, up one flight, j newcomer % Freeport. Perish the lirst door to the ri.fi;ht. Don't bother j thought that their publishers fell into Archie, his tear ducts like mine are 'a trap that wa.s baited by the Freeport dry. one.
At present the oause of suffrage is much farther advanced in America than in England. The majority of the persons, who have troubled to think about it, ^npear to be in sympathy with the movement. Those opposed are, with lew exceptions, without bit¬ terness. Ilii.s happy condition of af¬ fairs make possible even a suffrage tango tea, which across the waters would in all probability partake some¬ what of the nature of a "Donnybrook Fair."
Not whether a woman should or should not have a vote is a matter. svhich Is worthy of the most serious thought and consideration of every man and woman. It cannot pe ig¬ nored.
You may say that "force," personi¬ fied, has alway.s ruled the world and always wiil, and that as a woman i.s^ by nature lacking In the physical qualificatione that tend to make "force," she should not be given the .franchise. You may think that the votes of the women would clean up politics and condition^ in general. In any case it Js a <?i)od id^a to think .something and to put that thought into action.
If women are given the vote, the po¬ litical life of the country and of the world will undergo a vast change. New conditions will arise, new ideas rule the nations. We are goevrned by the laws formulated by the acts of our ancestors; posterity must abide by our decisions. "Votes for Women." (conclusion.)
gates.
Tbe gate, wMe^ l« the .usual means of entraace to and egress from tbe college, is a large iron and oak affair capable of realsting anything but nr- tlllery. It stands open all day, and ia not closed Ull "Old Tom" has struck "101" at five past nine each evening.
After the college has closed for the night, an undergraduate "living in" cannot leave the college save by spe cial permission of one of the dons.
ITS BACK TO THE FARM FOR THIS VANDERVEER
Rockville Centre Man, Born to the
Plow, Will NOW FoUow it to '' New Jersey
,  George Vandeveer of Merrick Kbad,
Rockville Centre-4»-embued with the
back to the farm" spirit.   Although
It has not  manifested  itself In years
If a man returns after "Olid Tom"   mtely he heard tbe call and is prepar-
has struck, he must knock—or rather kick—at the gate ror entrance. The porter, unlocking with a huge key the little door in the great gate, admits him.
Jin
Jlmepicaii JBoy
^at Oxford
bv .
HERBKRT   UJ.  CLOCK
Suffrage in England
I bridge   boat    race    the    suffragettes (continued-from last Lssue.)        ' | threatened to row out on the course
One   person  who  had   a  bundle   of ' and  hold it up.    This did not "eome
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papers  under her arm  was  certainly j off." howevtr.
a  sketch.      Rarely does  the    reality |     The police  were  also notified  that
come up lo expectations.    I had often ' the college barges at Oxford were to
pictured   suffragettes,   before   it   was I be burned by the suffragettes.    These
perniitled me to see oue—this spcci- j were wedl gu.irded and that threat was
men   Jiiled   the   bill.      A  poko:! onnet   not carried out.
shaded a hatchet face.    The skirt of a rough tweed sporting suit failed to
Shortly afterwards  the    work-shop and  store-houte of one  of  the  boat
make  connections  with  the'    top    of j builders at Oxford was destroyed by
busy    seaports.       Manufacturers    of   It niay be the truth.    If it Is there,was
no need of announcing It. We hope that Mr. Weekes will take occasion lo say that it was a slip of the pen. He certainly will feel heller If he does.
American product for export, If as¬ sured of proper facilities for prompt shipment of their goods, would find Long Island possessed attractive ad¬ vantages.
If the retention of Its shares In the Montauk  Steamship  Company  means MR. LAMB'S CANDIDACY
for the Long Island Railroad Company Roland M. Lamb's candidacy for the enlarged traffic and means to It a! office of president t>f Freeport is position whereby It may assist in the ' based on a desire by him to do some- general deevlopnient of trade In Us 1 th'ng along specific and- platforni territory, there ought to be no objec-   "°P8 for the betterment of the vlliage
tion to granting the application.
In the meantime Representative Brown should keep the needs of our waterways before Congress and press (or appropriations which will make it possible for us to engage in compe¬ titive shipping when the call of trade comes.
heavy hob-nailed shoes. A gaunt hand clutched dn ugly looking cane. I have since wondered If any unfortun¬ ate man ru nafoul of "it" that evening —If he did there was "War in Den¬ mark."
Of course a number of students are in sympahty with the suffragettes, but they are greatly in them inoflty.
The Intsiutcor of boxing at the Uni- • erslty describe to me an exciting suf-
llre. It is said that the sult'ragettos did this. At any rate sufi'ragetlo lit¬ erature was found scattered around the premises. The loss of lime and the destruction of seasoned materials occasioned by this act of vandalism spelled—It Is said—flnancial ruin for the boat builder.
Perhaps the greatest outrage which was laid at the door of the suffragette was the destruction  l^y combustibles
There is a phase of Oxford life, which simple as il may seem to an ob¬ server, holds, for those who have been at the Uni¬ versity, some of their fairest mem¬ ories. It is thai which  is    grouped
around  the  "gate,"   the  "porter'
the "porter's lodge."
Most colleges have but one "porter"
and one "ga4.e."    Christ Church, which
lUg today to depart for l-'reehold, N. J., where he has purchased 150 acrei of land.
Vauderyeer was born on a farm at ^^'oodhav^^^|^J,.^_^whero  his  grand- dires were ainouK the original settlers. An  undergraduato. If he Is late, is ; iJuring the sunny days ot bis boyhood fined in accordance with the degree oi ^ ^^  followed  a  plow  aud   hoed    com
. ,     .     ,. _. , , ! .\'ith his brothers and sistfrs.    When
his   tardiness.    This   is   two   pence—
. ae came Into man's estaie he em- lour cents-betwene the hour^ of nine ^^^^^^ j^ ^^e more modern occupatlrti and ten; four pence from ten to elev- jf eelling •gasoline buggeys," and en, and six pence from eleven to ; then branched into the tield of realty twelve.    After midnight it is a serious   'fom an ?uio-crowded highway.
matter. It may mean a "quid"—five dollars—or even expulsion, acordiug 10 the circumstances.
The last train, as far aa undergrad¬ uate Oxford is concerned, arrives from London at about 11.35. Sometimes this is late, and there is a great scurry al the station for cabs and taxis.
But commercialism and Vanderveer did not agree, no he closed out his leal estate interests here .and began lo look for a good, old fashioned larui. He found ii witUoiii ililficuity, although il Is far from his present aome.
In his latest  rarmlng venture Van¬ derveer will laakf a specialty of stock raising, but will stick lo the tilling of Many colleges have ways—such ae 1 ihe soil.    He expects  to remain  per- climbing over the .sharded wails from j''^»i'i*'»">' '" ^^^ Jersey
the lops of hansoms—by  which il is	
possible lo enter the college without using the gate. These aro essayed only as a last resort. If caught, ex¬ pulsion follows.
When a man lives in "dlgB," he may enter college at any time up lo twelve. His  fine  iu  the  same as  the student
who lives in (olle;
He Is, moreover.
THAT PEEK-A-BOO OUTING
Ex-Comptroller Lyon's Sleighing Party Was a Huge Success
Altliou.nli a week ha.s pat'sed since tt
.lappeaed, John Lyon's ouiiiig for the
i I'eek-a-Boo  Club  of  Rockville  Cenlre
lemaius oue of the worlhy-of-meation
fined when he leaves the college—he mtideniH of the receat snows. The mu.st be out by twelve—and also upon ; dx-Compiroller look out .i.ils old fash- his arrival In digs. i loned sleigh lasl Friday and drove hla
I prize farm team,    li wai tiie first time The fines are known as the "gate- \ ,„^,   ^^i^aunuiion   has   seen   the   light bills."    Each   landlord   who   has   stu-I tor a long lime.    The trip Included a dents lodging iu lisi liouse must send ' stop at Krug's Hotel, Mineola, wh^re the   report   around   to   college   every '¦ 'efreshments wet and dry were served. .    . '     The guests Included all of the regu¬
lars who sit nightly In the darkened Thus, besides furnishing a source of   mfice of Robert 11. Taylor In Village revenue for tho college, the "gate-bill" : avenue.   Among   them   was   Tredwell enables the dones to form an idea of! Carpenter,    Ernest    Kessler,    James.
, • .    .. , 'Charles and Kiisha  -Mct.'arten, Henry
'.  hours   wnich   the    sdidenli}    are ^ ,,,  ,. »,,•,,,
Wallers,   Alexander   Davi.son,   Alexan-
^*^'''""^- >der .McCartliy and R. 11. Taylor.
and
Business  Men to  Hold  Banquet       ' Members   of   the   Rockville   Centre ^ Poetical Dream
Business Men's Protective Association J Apropos of the feminine loiks wear- are awaiting with considerable Inter- i '°^ colored wig.s to match their gowns, est the annual banquet which Is to be " '''^^ newspaper recently printed the given  next  Thursday  evening at tho   'o^'owlng appropriate linos:
¦•Uarilng 1 am on the blink. Purple tbreuds among the pink Shine upon my scarlet b«;an.
Rockville Cenlre Grill. The village Is a college and not a place of worship trustees and tho heads of business as the uninitiated naturally suppo.se.ls men's associations of adjacent villages the largest college in Oxford. IvJn.g will be invited guests. An elaborate Edward the Seventh attended Christ menu has been prepared. Speakers Church when "up at the 'Varsity." interested in civic improvement and ' ^'" "**-* »»:»" ""•' ^^orn over the eye. This college In Oxford parlance Is better business condltlonH will speak ' "-'"^ '^^''' '^'"" '•"'»''•' '« coming back known as "The House."    It has three ; at the banquet. « ^"1' vengeance.
(Jrange and ultramarine." It is announced that wbm< ii's hats
frage parade that he witnessed in and fluids of the mail in pillar boxes. Hyde Park, London, during one of the { W'hat trouble—perhaps misery—this vacations. It appears that the crowds i must have caused, is easily under- had   been   hostile,  and   that    several I stood.
limes charges had been made in an endeavor to wrest tbe banners frorn ihe suffragettes.    Suddenly my narat-
The last Derby—the gretitest horse race and sporting event of the year-^ was extraordinary In many ways. Not
A New York City mrn named Ed¬ ward Hatch, Jr., chairman of the Mer¬ chants' Association conl^nlttee on pol¬ lution and sewerage bas figured that tbe batch of flies for tbe metropolis next Bummpr will total twenty-seven Beptllllon, and that they will occupy 900,000 cubic feet of space. A lot of •(>ace (or fliea.
He has a clean bus'.nesslike platform upon which he asks tho support of the electors.
Lamb is a man of affairs. Ills abil¬ ity Is unquestioned. His executive Qualifications have been proven.
We believe that he would make an entirely competent official, whose ef¬ forts would all tbe time be given in disinterested service of the people.
The Nassau County Emerald Society which Includes in its membership many prominent citizens of the town and county, will hold Its annual ban¬ quet at the Garden City Hotel on Tues¬ day, March 17. Governor 'ilynn has been invited to attend. Charles T. McCarty Is chairman o( the dinner committee.
or perceived a large, broad shouldered \ only was the favorite disqualified af- youth, wearing a red school cap and t®*" finishing first, not only did an bearing a siandard, marching the pro- j "out-slder"—a 200 to 1 shot—win the cession. -Only the back and head of ¦ stakes, but a suftragetie was killed in the boy v.as visible. These appeared j ^^ attempt to slop the race. The wo-' familiar. While my friend was en- man sprang in front of the horses, and deavoriug to place the fellow, a rush ; was dashed against the King's horse was made and several men attempted I with such violence that the jockety
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to  seize  the  banner.     The next  in¬ stant two of the assailants were lying oa the ground. "That kid's got a punch," said the
was thrown and seriously injured. The suffragette died in the hospital.
These are but a few of the insances of lawlessness which have marked the
pugilist to the man next to him. Just I propaganda of woman suffrage In En- then he caught a glimpse of the boy's I gland. Many perpetrators have paid face—It was that of a youth whom he i heavily for their "crimes." Others had seconded in the Prep. School Box-1 l^ave chosen to escape the fuU penalty ing Championships held at Aldershot   ot  Jaw  by means  of    the    ';huDger
several months previous.
I have told these stories to illustrate the vitality of woman suffrage In Eng¬ land.
Many Business Men Do This
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strike." This, thouj-h appearing to be very heroic on the surface, is, when anallzed, found to bi somewhat on the order of tho "small  boy daring tbe
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