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              THE NAMAU POtT:. .FREEPORT, N. Y., WEDNE»DAY, APRH. 8   1914
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If tbe electors have voted a major¬ ity for a constitutional convention Nassau Cotinty ought to be repre¬ sented In the council of revlsfon- Ista by a person of great mental agility and resourcefulness. If Theodore Roosevelt would take a place as a delegate, he ought to be chosen. Once a delegate he ought to be called to preside over the convention.
Mr. Roosevelt would lose nothing • In dignity by sitting In a constitu¬ tional convention. At any rate, we place him in nom¬ ination.
The trout reason on Long Island open^ with aome fine catches of fish and broncbltls.
Baby carriages, according to para- grapi) 642 o£ the new tariff law, must he Uae&,M 4b« beat ot customs. The govenunant atlU admits babies free.
Insurance under tbe Workman's CompeBeatlon Act is being written on Long laland. Compensation going and coming.
With athletle trainers and trained nurses in our public schools the chil¬ dren ought at least to know their phy¬ sical lefsons.
In the standard barrel legislation now befoF« Congrese we see no men¬ tion of a candidate's barrel, t^ongress probabVy dlacoverea long ago that they run different sizes.
There seems to be a hitch in the consolidation ot the giun Iniere- te of the country, a contract undertak-'ii by a syndicate with which Long i.<^land capitaUata are identified. Perhaps tbey have bitten off more than they can cfayew.
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Ooing on the jailors theory or su perstition that there is luck in nuni hers, one of the new yachts to defend | paign the American Cup In the international race has been nam^ Resolute and an¬ other Defiance, which names are of clclrt letters as-was that ci ti3 f>e- fender, who showed her heels so suc¬ cessfully to the foreign visitor on the occasion of the last contest
Iw cigLt 'letters to th' rmui • rai; •• ;u«k, how d'd it happen that .'^ir Thomas Llpton's Shamrock did not win? Shamrock iiTas fixedly an eight letter name as the other, albe't its ^ornd rt-ea  t.o'  suggest speed- if  tl-.e
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May not the eight letter name Hank Haff have had something to do with ou.- other victory? Wouldn't a Freeport skipper be a winner .f he were at the wheel in the next race?
Frankly luck eight Is probably noth¬ ing more than a pleasing thing to con¬ template in tho matter of yacht names. The real luck lies in the two eights forming three words which mean' success afloat and ashore, in contests at the Olympian games as well as in the general international race for supremacy.
The three words of two eights are AMERICAN GET THERE!
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Speaking with the authority (ft one trained to the mlcroacope in the vtudy of Itfing species, Dr. Oscar Riddle of, the Carnegie Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor asserts that male*; are [ active and highly specialised and fe¬ males Inactive and generalled.
Of course, no one with only the primer of biology stowed away In his gray matter cells would undertake to argue with Dr. Riddle. S»lll, fac».s are facts.
Right here in Nassau County, which is near enough to Cold Spring Harbor to be nelghlwrly there are nmles who are about as active as tho mummified remains of our good and andent friend, the third Ramesls. and as high¬ ly specialized as some of the cigars introduced at the recent village cani-
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With respect toDr. Riddle's" state;;^ ment that females are inacUve and generalized It way be true of samples selected from the jtoath shore hut it doesn't go hereabouts.
The female of the aQeHies in this envldon is animation peiVidnified. She plays a twenty-fold party and the piano besides.
laboratory investigations and bio¬ logical research may prove a lot of things about polywogs and alch, but when it comes to the petticoated high¬ er orders, we see what we see.
At every table at dinner In ha»! is a student known as the "Senior." This -seniority is deter¬ mined by the length of the time that a man's name has l)een on the "hooks—he wh o s e name was flr.'.t in as an apidii-ant for admission to tbe college is ronsider- ed  to  be   the  head
Spede mania is responsible for nine out of every ten automobile acci.lents. The traffic police of Freeport and all other villages in Nassau County can perform no greater public service than by arresting .every driver wno snaps fingers of defiance at speed ret trie* tlons. Oije miie-a-uilnute lunatic at the wheel of a raachlne becomas a menace to all sane drivers of motor cars. The campaign against thf Ir- represibies should begin now and there should be no let up.
of Ihe table. If the senior man chances to be absent the next in rank takes his place. When there is a dispute among the asp .ants to this honor, the "manclpal"- the col¬ lege servant in charge of tie hall — settles It; he know.-i the st .nd iig of everyone.
The "Senior" at a table has Ihe power to "sonce" a man. For certain offenses; such as coming into the hall a quarter of an hour late, throwing bread, making improper remarks, and not drinking from the tankards in the approved style; a man may be ".m-oiic- ed''—fined so much beer -by the "Sen¬ ior" of the table. The amount ciffers with the clftiracter of the offense
When a table withes to ".uonee" a member they appeal to their '.Senior;" If he approves the student Is "seonc-1 the  temptation
"Send for the 'Manclpal.' " ^ man who Jias l)een "sconceo" by tw "Senior," and who has appealed in vain to the "Manclpal" has one last CQfiit of resort open to hlni. If he can diftjn the "sconce" without taking his ill^s from the tankard, the fellow who had him "sconced.'' Instead of himself, has to pay for the liquid. As an o^ fender is often "sconced" as much as six pints, he has not a great chance of getting oS.
The student who is "scounced" takes the first drink from the tankard. He may'order any drink—within reason— that he desires. When the lid Is once down, one may not raise it again. What is left in the "sconcea" goes to the scouts.
It is possible to "sconce" a "Ben- ioi." iirovided everyone at the table is .Tgreed. The "Senior" at our table was the most lawless member oi our little f^ompany. He rejoici d in a friend, who is the matter of creating dlitorders, ran him a close second. The "Senior" refused to "sconce" his friend, and the friend refused to join us In a unanimous \ote to "s.:once" the "Senior:" as a result things were run with a high hand.
As men are ranked accordinc to seniority, so are tables. ~A table is placed aecordiiiK to the standing ot Its "Senior."
When the freshmen lirst "com^^ into the hall, they are. of course. ii;norant as to many of its custom^-. If they break any of the unwritten laws, the senior table,which observes t le nreech of etiquette, may "sconce" tliein in¬ dividually or collectively. It is no uncommon sight to see a freshman, after grasping ti "sconce" witn both bands and drinkiiiK from it • s though it were a how. pass it straight across the table.
Everyone at dinner is charged one penny two cents—for bread. This is cut into huge square pieces. Some of these—^blts of crust especially—are nearly as hard as tbe proverbial rock It is small wonder that ocrasionall.\ an undergraduate is unable to lesist to  hurl   one  of  these
ed." The convicted man i:-i allowed, however, to appeal his case to the dpns at the"High Table;" ihis must be done in writing and in Latin. Only once did I know an undergraduate to do this, and in that case thf decision was not reversed. Instead, the dons were very much bored- thf; Latin I believe was exceptionally brid.
Most men when they are "sconeed" If they have any excuse at all, appeal to the "mancipal." If they can suc¬ ceed in getting him fo side rtitli them, they are saved; for the "ruani-ipal" orders the scout not to bring the "sconce." Our table had many excit¬ ing tilts with the "Mancipal;" when¬ ever anything went wrong or conver¬ sation   flagged,   the   cry   was   raised
pieces al the head of some imsusp».ct- Ing friend at a neighboring table. Among the students there are even rules; governing bjetid throwing.
A man at a senior table iiriy throw, without being "sconced," at anyone al a tabh' of inferior standing. This fire the lower table may return. \\, must not. however, be the aggressor: If it is, the senior table eijdeavors to discover the Individual cufprit o c-ul prits, failing in this, the whole l;„wer table is "sconced."
When a single student is "sitoiu-ed" by his seniors, the unfortunate's name Is called out, and his health is drunk by each man in turn as he raises the tankard to his lips.
(To be Continued)
cold, and that tbe wt^iatle of a 8t>>el | - bullet is apt to produce "cold feet." A Member of the "Cuban Tea Party" I Easi Rockaway, April .i, iftu
Chiaf Aug. Kalb Retires August Kalb. Chief of the Rockville j Centre Fire Departirent. ijoes ou' of i office, after having ^erved is the exec» i utlve head for a yer.r. .Mr. Kalb sue- , ceeded the late Chief Joseph R. Roesch i a year ago last March and the follow- - ing April was elected chief wlthoui op¬ position. He declines a r-»noniin.''tion j this v».ai. I
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When the Rev. W. W. Webbe rang the bell of Emanuel Church at Great River as a fire alarm, he employed it for a lay service quite in keeping with its religious function. Through bis presence of mind and the ca.-'-ylng quality of the bell much valuable property was saved from destruction.
Congressman Brovin announces that he ia anxious to serve another terra. His frShkness is to be commended. If there are other candidates ^or the Democratic nomination they too should announce taemselves. '^here is nothing to be said In favor ot the still hunt for office these days.
More than a dozon canvases of scenes along the Long Island shore were on view during the recent art exhibitions in New York. Nature of¬ fers a wide variety of marines for the artist wlu)se brush seeks the colorings of the restless sea or the peace of the sheltered bays. Long Island grovs in popularity as a place where one may set up blB easel and receive lucplra- tion.
The rules and regulations foriiiulat- ed for the village police are eminently calculated to guide tbe men to efl3- clent performance of duty. The Im- portaBt thing now is to enforce tbe reguIatkmB. Men who wear the unl- forma of peace oflicerB should accept depattmeat discipline with the spirit ot a soldier. It should be exacted with tbe apirit of a commander. Tbe new force can make itself popular by doing ita full duty.
Three Vlanneae hare Just arrived In tbla country to go into what tbey call artlBtic farming. Tbey were on Long iBlaad jreaterday. The spokcBman of tbe trio Bays ,tbat tbe simpleat vegeta¬ bles oould^be made to please the eye by tbe sddltloa of artistic eBt,cts. For Instance asparagus should hava the tips tied wltb sreen ribbons, v.elery with taint Freneh gray colors, beet root 'With deep cardnal, strawberrieB -with p«l« pink and cabbages with shamtoek «r««m.
There ought aOso to be some form of artlstlQ trsatment tor tbe common ¦mrdw TBrtsty of lonatlca.
MILK  AND  MORALS
Milking a cow without the owner's consent has be<'n legally declaied a petit larceny an dpunishahle under the statute lor such cases made and jwo- vided.
Of course. It couldn't be anyiiiing else. Shaking milk from'« cow'i ud¬ der in a way of speaking is lik^—tap¬ ping a till or even larceny from the perspn. Certainly it is as criminal as stealing milk from a bottlo, or a cheese. or butter made from milk. In low- down ineaness It Is about the llmK.
By stretching a point, it might fall under the statute of fraud. Milk being by broad classification goods, tha tak- i Ing of cow's milk direct fl'oni the cow may he considered obtaining goods under false pretenses. A cow in her innocence may be presumed to know no difference between an honest man and the other, so long a-i she is ap¬ proached from the proper side and the tin pail and the three-legged stool, evidences of orderly procedure,,are not wanting.
Once in position, the left knee of the milker against the rlgth hind leg of the cow she gives down and 'he false pretense is established.
What a pity It Is that cows are un¬ able to distinguish between the honest and the criminal hand, so that they might resent all thievish attempts to take their honest product.
If cows only knew tfiey would turn a pair of cloven hoofs against all lar¬ cenous persons and kick them Into kingdom come, or at least the length of the barnyard.
A man who would steal milk from a cow would probably not hesltalf to take candy from a baby.
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George W. Loft, who Is spokm of by his facetious opponents as the em¬ inent caramel congressman from the district where the constitution is nothing between friends, according to tbe New York Herald is likely to suc¬ ceed the late Timothy Drydollar Sulli¬ van as king of the Bowery.
This added to bis local title as one of tbe princes of Baldwin will give Mr. oft honors aplenty.
The Bowery Is a picturesque consti¬ tuency, perhaps more familiar with two-spots and aces than It is with kings. It will be Interesting to note this variagated political suedivislon ^ will tkke to George Rex.
New York man named Hyman Jan¬ et, with a bank acount of $800 faint¬ ed dead away in a court of domestic i relations when ordered to pay iffi a {Wieek toward the support of his wife I and seven children. He had a choice of paying or going to jail. An anibu- i lance surgeon had to treat him before ihe could sign a check tor (he f'rst payment. „ Here is a real instance , where the blow almost killed father.
Andrew Jackson, a ten-year-old ne- ' gro boy, fell into a brook to the east I of Freegos*. -He had been playing on I a bridge, lost his balance and slipped into the water. Scrambling out, soaked to the skin he exclaimed: "Dis is where Andrew Jackson became a Baptist, wid his clothes on."
While Kermit Roosevelt is follow¬ ing In his distinguished m:i!e parent's footsteps in South Americ4», Th'epara- tlon is being made in Spain for his forthcoming marriage to Miss Willard, daughter of the American Ambassa¬ dor. They have sent to Oyster Bay for the younij' man's pedigree and Charles Weeks, the Town Clerk com¬ plying, has made a certificate In which he says that Kermit was tjorn on Oc¬ tober 10, 1889, the son of Edith Ker¬ mit Carow and Theodore Roosevelt. His father was a Rcmgh Rider in the Spanish-American War as weil as In the Republico-ProgresiJlve campaign of 1912. In both confiicts he fought in notable battles, San Jusn Hill and Chicago for instance.
LETTERS TO THE  EDiTOR
The astonishing admission made by Augustus M. Price that he forged the name of a woman client as a means of cheating her out ot a share of her husband's estate, relieves him of what would have been a futile effort at de¬ fense In court. Three years ago Mr. Price was a candidate for Surrogate of Suffolk County, honored and re¬ spected. What a world of wisdom there is in the old adage "Honesty is the best policy."
Preserving  Freeport's Beauty To Editor The Nassau Post:
It is reported that a stirp of land on the south side of the railroad between Ocean and Long Beach avenues has*: been sold, ostensibly to be used for a switch and for storing lumber. If this be .so, it is a sad fact that our village and our citizens have so lltUe pride in its affairs.
Preeport had an opportunity (and now has) to h'ave the prettiest gpi-eral entrance from the west, which is most important, of any village on Long Island. There is no earthly reason why all switches and lumber sards should not be east of the depot. (Jn the north of the railroad fortunately, the property belongs to the city of New York and the iirobabilities are^ that It will not be prostituted to lom-" merciplism to the detriment of the beauty of he village. But, to ' the south the narrow strip that was left in the hands of Ihe original o-wners, after the city of New Vork took the 79 inch pipe line, should be in the hands of the people as a park.
We already see unsightly buildings being erected on these strips. To start with, we have the Plaza Tht aire, so near to the railroad crossing that it is imiiosslble to see the east bound ' trains when approaching the crossing I from the south. That plot, however, should belong to the villaue and should contain siirubs and lawn. The new- strip that has been just reported t^old. should be laid out in flowi r beds and lawns to Long Beach avenue. »n<i thus Fieeport would have something to be proud of.
It is not too late; this sti'.l may be done. The power lies with the pf ople. But the selfish Interest of the o-.vners will retard it by their exorbitant de¬ mands lor their plots, and even though they were not, the general indiffer¬ ence of the averagS citiaen to the fu¬ ture welfare of his comiiiuniiy is so great, that he probably would do noth¬ ing, and in future years when w be¬ come a city, some enterprising politi¬ cian win start a condemnation pro¬ ceeding costing the corporation thou¬ sands of dollars.
1 do not expect that this protest will make any difference, except to hear a chorus of indifferent citizens say, "That's so." We have mnnj: men in Freeport who have made their fortunes through the growth of this community, who it they had any i ivic pride or patriotism could, without feel¬
ing it. arrange to turn over to the vil¬ lage those plots with very little incon¬ venience. But will they? The plots could all be purchased for less than $10,000, and in li\i' years probahlv not for $100.00(1. Vours  truly
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Freeporl. April 4. I'JM.
Chance for a Budding Roosevelt Editor The Nassau Post.:
The following clipping from the S. .S. O. of April :!rd is worthy of al least passing notice:
We   would   prefer   to  get   ahmg without war in     .Mexico,    hut    if American citizens,    rightfully    in that   country   are   to   he   tortured and murdered, we would piefer to have  an army  there'    to    protect, them  -though not to luoteit tueir landed   [iroperty,   the   iiold;n«    of which has stirred up so much re¬ sentment  against  foreij^ners. By all means persuade the (livern- ment to send an army to .'Vle.vico.    Let us   eat   up   that   little     "Cuban     Tea Party" of 1898.    Put a budding Uoose¬ velt In charge of a regiment. ^. Before leading the army of invasion into  the  wilds of the  Aztecs, le<  ou^^ "Editorial Hero" ponder ove!'..tHe fac that   the   nights   in   Mexico  ar<» ^U'e
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