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THE NASSAU POST:
FREEPORT.. N. Y., WEDNESDAY, AUGUSTS, 1914
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NEW PRIMARY LAW IS A CONUNDRUM
Meafure WiU Have First Prac-
ticsl Test in September—Its
Workings Are Mysterious
NANf POINTS ARE NOT UNDERSTOOD
Some Important Matters Explain¬ ed For Voterf GuidancS—Only Enrolled Voters May Participate
The new primary law which will have Its flrat practical test in Sep¬ tember is a condrtm to most of tbe voters of Long Island. Its workings are aa myaterloiu aa the operations of the old time boss, and yet Its pro- Tiaiona are baaed upon political sense.
It will be necessady for the voter thie year to make aome thirty-five, or iwrhapa more marks, In order to vote a atraight ticket. He wfll be obliged to mark tbe aigniflcant X in the little apace bealde the name of every man for whom be wished balloted. Only thoae who are enrolled will be per¬ mitted to take part in the primarieo of their respiactlpe parties.
There are many points in the new
law which are not easily explained.
The Naaaau Post in a general way dis-
, ciuaes a few of them here, in each
Inatance interpreting them.
I. Under the new Direct Primaries Law, all candidates for party positions and candidatea for party nominations muat be designated by petition only, and no peraon, or seta of persons, can uae a party emblem. Party commit¬ tees bave no power to make any des¬ ignations.
II. Under the law a person signing a petition for party nomination for an OfBce cannot sign any other petltlori nominating another person for that of¬ fice. If be Bigns two petitions for the aame ofllce, the one flrst signed pre¬ vails.
Enrollment voters should be warned to ezerciae care and make inqurles be¬ fore signing any petition.
III. Petitions'for party nominations may include both nominations for party positions and nominations for public office.
It is deemed advisable to have a separate petition for the nomination of candidates for party position In or¬ der to carry out the spirit of the Dis¬ trict Urimaries Law, that the party sbould in no way Influence the choice of candidates for the party positions.
IV. One petition should be used for the designation of the local candidates Judicial ofllce, for member of congress, state senator, member of assembly, and three district delegates to the constitutional convention.
V. Another petition should be used for the designation of tho county com¬ mitteemen (who must be chosen by tho enrolled voters in each elctlon ^isiriuj adn who must be residents of the atate committee.
Note.—The county committee rules should be amended so as to make the election district the unit of represen- tation.
VL Under the new law no party fnuds can be expended for primary ptuitoses. Tbe exception in tbe old law which practically permitted the use of party funds for primary pur¬ poses, waa repealed by the new law.
The money necessary to obtain slg- naturs to tbe various petitions, must be raised by a separate nominating committee not connected with the party, appointed by the various can¬ didatea themselvcB.
It Is the popular belief that the chairman of the state committee and the chairman of the county commit- teea thruoghout the state may write letters to these campaign committees endorsing the candidates urged by the oommitteea, but the circularizing of these letters must be done by the cam¬ paign nominating committee. Of cotu-se the aame persons who constl- tuto the local committees may also bo members of tb candidates' campaign committees and thus become active in tbe primary campaign.
VII. Petitions must be signed by tiM enrolled voters resident within the political sub-division or imit of repre¬ sentation for which the nomination or election ia to be made. Such petl- tlima must be signed by at least 3 p«r cent, of the enrolled voters resid- iat within the political sub-division or unit or prpresentatlon as deter, mlued, but such number Bhall not ex- o««d the following:
(a) For governor and all state otB- oerl, Including Untied States senator and delecates.«t-large to the constitu¬ tional conveitnb, 3,000.
(b) For member of congress, state ¦aaator and district delegates to tbe constitutional Monvontlon, 600.
(c) For member ot assembly, 2SS.
VIIL FeiitJiMia for tlio detfsnatlon of candUlates mtut be filed with tbe ofllcerB with whom independent certi- cates ot aomiaation for such office are to be Med.
Tnese peiiiions under the 1914 amendments, must be filed not earlier than August 27, 1914, nor later tban September 8, 1914.
LX. Declinations of nominations must be filed not later than September 14, 1914.
X. Vacancies created by declin¬ ations, muat be fllled not later tban September 15, 1914, by a committee on vadancies consisting of not less tban three, to be named in tbe peti¬ tion.
XI. After the primary elections, no person wbo has been elected or nom¬ inated at the primaries can decline.
XII. The order in which the names are to be printed on tbe primary bal¬ lot is to be determined by the election offices by lot, in the presence of the candidates or their representatives, and tbe committee on vacancies.
The recent bird census completed by the Deraptment of Agricultural is so unusual in its character that it has evoked considerable comment. The figures ahow that 2,025,000,000 native fleld birds, exclusive of sparrows, in¬ habit the United States east of the great plains States. Of these 100,000- OOU are set down as robins, all living east of the IMssisslppl.
The surprise caused by the census Is not because it ia doubted there are so many birds, but because it is main¬ tained they can be niunbered with any degree of exactness. The birds are even classifled as living so many to the sqaure mile. This means close figuring and of course very close observation.
Statisticians, however, never balk at giving estimates, and estimates too that are declared marvellously close and accurate. One man in Boston a few months ago gave out a rat cen¬ sus of three wards for which he pro¬ posed the city pay him. The census carried with it au offer to exterminate the rats, and the census man declared he was willing to wager the wards would never show onelenth the num¬ ber of rats again.
While there has never been a cen¬ sus of tbe smaller pests, as far as known, on several occasions men in the exterminator line have hazarded their reputations on being able to ap¬ proximate the number of cockroaches within a certain limit, estimating them by the quart measure. Potato bugs havo often been figured on in the same way.
Microscoplsts are by on means scof¬ fers at the possibility of even Insect censuses. The swat the fly champions nave figured out to over thirty-three notation places just the number of progeny two parent files may be re¬ sponsible for. This may be deemed carrying the thing a Uttle too far— thirty-three places—but in reply to your criticism the Insect statistician will gravely refer you to Holy Writ to prove the possibility of the hairs of the human head being numbered.
Mf OYSTERS AKE MADE- 16 PRODUCE THE WM
Metbbdt of Japanese Scientist Un¬ ique— IntrodoceS Substance in Shell. Molush Does the Rest
Of the many strange farms to be found In various part of the world, tbe most extraordinary, says tbe Christian Hearld, are tbe pearl oyster faimis of Japan. Here tbe pearl oyster is made to produce the precious gems in a reliable and emthodical manor, while another Interesting feature of the cen- ture iB that tbe oysters containing them are brought to tbe surface by women divers.
It was Dr. Miklmoto, a well know and wealthy Japanese scientist, wbo discovered how the pearl oyster conld be made to work for man and produce the much prized stones at his will. It took years of costly experiment to pro¬ duce this result. The "farm" where these precious stones are produced has a water area of some flfty nautical square miles, varying In depth from five to flfteen fathoms. Small pieces of stone are placed where the larvae of the oysters have been found to be most abundant. Soon small oyster spat are found attached to them. These are then taken up and removed to special beds, weher they lie till their third year.
Now an oystr will not produce a pearl unless it Is irriatcd inside the shell by some foreign substance. It then proceeds at once to make good the defect by covering the irritant spot with beautiful layers of nacre. The oysters are taken out of the wa¬ ler and a surgical operation Is per¬ formed on each one of them, which consists In Introducing a foreign sub¬ stance, and by the end of three to flve years the animal has covered the in¬ serted nucleus with many layers of nacre, or In other words has produced a pearl. Women divers bring up from thirty to fifty of tbese a minute.
$3i000,000 FOR HOVDfG OF ClbPS
Treasury Department Circular Ur §t9 Banks to Act in Good Faith
Secretary of tne treasury McAdoo announced yesterday tbat the |34,000- 000 wblch be had decided to deposit with national banks for crop moving purposes would be available imme- diateyl on compliance by the banks with the conditions of a circular letter.
In this circular Secretary McAdoo says:
"It Is understood that such deposits are made to prevent or mitigate the flnancial. tension so common at this period of the year, Incidejot to the movement of crops, and that the funds received by the banks will be used in good faith for this purpose, and not for speculative or other transactions. Particular considerat'on will be giv¬ en to the willingness of the banks re¬ ceiving such deposits to lend to their country, correspondent banks at rea¬ sonable rates of interest."
indica tis tbo probability of a week of more or lesa cloudiness east of the Rocky Mountatais, with local showers In tbe Middle aQd North Atlant!c sattes, and occasionally during tbe week In the South Atlantic and East Oulf States. In the central West no precipitation of much consequence is now indicated, while in the Southwest, the Northwest, and the far West gen¬ erally fair weather will prevail during the week.
The temperatures will average near or somewhat above normal summer conditions. Tliere are no present In¬ dications of any tropical disturbances.
WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST
For the wek beginlng oMnday. Au¬ guat 3. No reports have been re¬ ceived from Europe and western Asia, probably owing to the disturbed poli¬ tical conditions, but pressure distri¬ bution over North America, the Paci¬ flc Ocean, and extreme eastern Asia
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Failures in Tobacco Crop Result in Extensive Cultivation in West
The culture of suiiflowers Is the newest wrinkle among the farmers of Spencer oCunty, Ireland. Almost S.¬ OOO acres were planted in sunflowers this year. The new crop, which brings between |60 and $85 an acre, is a good subst'tute for tobacco.
The cultivation of the sunflower re¬ sulted from the successive failures of the tobacco crop. The cultivation of sunflowers is the same as that of corn and the seeds are thrashed much like wheat. The plants grow 8 to 10 feet In height, and the harvesters go through the flelds In wagons, cutting off only the pods, which are placed in barns to be thrashed when there is little farm work to be done. Single pods yield as much as a peck of seed.
The vital statistics records of Free- port for the month of July show that there were six deaths and eight births. As In preceding months the stork has had the grim messenger lashed to the mast.
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