FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1914
Puh'lihad Tu«<Mlart and Fridayi by
Tre .NAUSAO rosT re»M«iiiMO cnmrAtii.
M-2< ftoiith Grov« Street. Freeport. Nmmiu
County. New York.
RAND W. fiUTHERLAND. Rditor JAMES E. STILES. Businm Manacer
SUBSCBtPTIO.N TERMS
ONB YEAR I«.»0
SIX MONTH."? |1.«0
*r HI? EE MO \THS I 70
ONK MONTH ijs ought to be an interesting occasion
.-lllage election on March 17.
¦Very appropriately a wonian candi¬ date for metnber of the school board haa been placed In nomination. The Village Improvement Association jtauds sponsor for ber.
Mrs. Abraham A'anNostrand, the nominee, has served as a teacher In the schools and it must |t>e tbat she has sound ideas on subjects with which school boards have to deal.
The campaign In .Sea Cliff this year
vm'
THt NAMAU p^: wnmwpoirr. m. y„ ^widay rtrnnuAi^ v, i>m
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ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION
Aiiplieatton for entry as lecnnd elaa* matter at Ihe Poat Office at Treeport. L. I.. N. Y., pandiiia.
' It should dev«jop a clean, fair test of i
the spirit with which women will fl- j
gure in practical politics. j
To make the contest one to Inspire!
POST
Those Official Papera Why get confused oflQclally about
neas.
A (rlettdaafl nxyaBll were returnlnc from bis "diga" to my rooma In col- lege. Strolling up the sireet arm in arm, engrossed in our conversation, we noticed a party of men approach¬ ing. It was just becoming dark, aftei^ the long tw ilight of an early summer
oiB vote highly, for E* rstflzea that it oas Ukan biM,^a0*1** ortifturl^^ of «tm» oa tAwMalMi to •OM** tht
franchise. He studies the political policies and situations much mor. carefully than does the ordlnar. American. At times of the "gene- elections" besides setting into ope. Lion the ordinary machinery of puv
evening. A casual glance at tbe
group gave us both the, impression ci^X. ^he "platforms" of tbe pan
tbat they were "dons" In evenii»« a^ presented to the public throu
clothes returning after dining out of t'^e medium of caricatures and ca
TO IMPROVE PLANT ATR. V. CET^TRE
'JcwElcctrical Apparatus Nccd-
2cl to Maintain Efficiency and '
increase Capacity for Light
college.
toons printed on huge iHMiers. Juiny
As we turned aside to pass them, of the jokes on the vaudeville stage "bullers" selifed us on either side. We
EXPENDITURE OF $16,000 PROPOSED
enthusiasm a man candidate should be | official new gpapers. Tbey exist in Qomlnated on an oppofiltlon ticket and ; ''eal'lJ' despite signs. The Nasaau if possible the school Issues should be , County Review which' Is really the presented from the rostrum by the '. ^^^^ omclally offtcial paper in the
AC aommunlenllon should be addroased to THE NASSAU FOOT.
Main Office Freeport. L. I.. N. T.
Msnhaltan Oflice. 6 B ekman St., (Sth Floor.)
Brnnchea. al Vat ey Stream. Lynbrook.
Eant p~:k«w.y. Rockville Centre. Long : contestants. Mrs. VanNostrand sure- i town of Hempstead at this very min
Beach, Ocean Side, PaUlwln. Merrick. Bell- ' ¦
ly would approve of such a plan.
Merrick. Bell¬ more, Wantaah, Seaford. Hemp»tead and Min¬ eola. Ti-lephone 61 Pn-eport
1 ute makes oihcial announcement in We have always believed that wo- i "^^^'^ '''''^*^*- *°^ ^^^^' °° ^^^^' ^*^'
ot no subject more worthy of real oratory than this same subjecL He made it the basis of public speeches for more than a quarter of a century.
RICHES IN LAND
According to Dr, Joseph Cacca- vajo who la recognized aa the highest authority on population and atatistica of the Metropolitan District, the percentage of in¬ crease In population In Naaaau County for periods of ten yeara aince 1870, has been 15 per cent, from 1870 to 1880, 20 per cent, from 1£80 to 1890, 24 per cent from to 1900 and 35 per cent from 1900 to 1910.
He predicts a 51 per cent In¬ crease tor the ten yeara ending 1920, and 73 per cent Increase for the ten yeara between 1920 and 1930.
The great growth in Nassau County is on the South Side.
Growth spells opportunity. Free- port la the centre of growth and likewise of opportunity A conser¬ vative investor In property any¬ where from Lynbrook to Massa- pequa, who buys at fair value and Is able to hold that which he buys, may be aure of a aafe and profit¬ able InvcGtmeht.
No better time to buy a home than In the early spring. No com¬ munity will give you a more cord¬ ial welcome than Freeport and its neighboring villages. Come to the South Side. From The Nassau Post, Feb. 20, 1914.
v^'here else.
men should be eligible for member I ;.hlp on school boards. We may now [ course has no official standing
go further and tsay that we would like
to see some village school board con- ! trolled by women. We would like to I see what they would do and how they j would do IL We shall never know I how well fiualifled women are for man- j aging the affairs of public office until j they are voted full responsibility of \ administration.
A few such women as Mrs. Elsie I Spelman of Rockville Centre. In schoo' j or for that matter vilLige affairs would i ^
certainly reorgfinize things for the bet- |
ter. Mrs. Spelman Is one of the really j
active mem hers of the board of edu
cation of her home village.
Mrs. Emma Van Deusen will no doubt make a thoroughly competent and satisfactory clerk to the County Superintendent of the Poor, but we
of believe that Mr. Van Deusen would
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in I have more nearly conformed to the Freeport, says it's official In Railroad popular idea in the matter had he em- ivenue. A newspaper certainly can Ploycd some one other than his own be official in Its own village, if no- '*ife- It is a good principle in politics
Owl, of Rockville Centre, which
found ourselves face to face with both proctors.
The auddeness of It all "nearly took our breath away," and the seniors proctor was unable to suppress a smile as he noted our discomfiture.
The proctors are always very cour¬ teous when accosting "a person whom they think to be an undergraduate.
deal with political matters. An Inter-1 I est in pubilc affairs is bred In tbe j Engineer Major Makes Recommend¬ ations to Trustees -People Must Authorize Proposition
bone. Consequently tbe Englishman is very loath to lose bis vote.
'\^'hen H man learns to value any¬ thing, he naturally begins to guard it. Thia instinct to protect what he be¬ lieves to be his trends toward monop¬ oly, if conditions are such that the idea and its expression work unbain-
Thls one politely raised his cap and j pered. The world has always been asked: "Are you gentlemen members | troubled by this tendency toward ex-
that office holding should not contem¬ plate more than one person in the Of the four boys selected at the j same family. .5tato Interscholastic Speaking Con¬ sent, held in Columbia University, Eu¬ gene Spltzer of the Islip High School ;arried off honors. He spoke on "The ibollshtion of Capital Punishment." eneral Curtis once said that he knew
The directors of the Suffolk County Fair have doubled their amount of the first prizes for the poultry department. Surely "Hen" Reeves had something to do with this.
BAB,3EB SHOP LAW
Justice Green, of Patchogue has written into the law of the land a de¬ cision that a barber may not charge a cudtlonitr either for room rent or storage of u shaving mug. The de«3i- slon being new and therefore legally Important the case may be mentioned.
Edward Chamler, for a time was a regular customer of the tonsorial par¬ lors of John Mascola. Twice a week he would recUno in the tip-back chair, receive the usual generous coating ot lather and with his mouthe snowed in so that conversation on his part was impposiblo, would listen to obsepara- tlons on current events In the town and opinions on a variety of subjects as expressed by Mascola.
For reasons whych were not made a part of the case In court, Chamler one day decided to take his face to an other tonsorialisL It may be that he wanted to listen to a new line of bar¬ ber small talk. At any rate, he did not return to the original shop until several weeks had passed and then it was for the sole purpose of removing hla mug, comb and other toilet ar¬ ticles.
I BAIT FOR BROWN
t ¦
j We submit in all candor and confid
! once the claims of the South Shore ol ' .Vassau County as the natural place to establish the new Federal f..-h cul¬ tural station.
.More kinds of fish and pore kindt of fishermen come together within a radius of ten miles of Freeport than At any point reached by hook, line and sinker.
Piscatorial genius and truthfulnes.s •
I (ind their natural habitat on oui shore, i
.Vational efforts to improve the breed \
ot lish would meet with ready cooper- I
ation from local culturlsts who have !
Aorked faithfully along that line. I
Representative Brown should noi I overlook cogent facts. Give Nassau ; ihe cultural station and we'll make L ' famous for everything from perch tc [ .^orgies and from blues to blacks.
Fishermen please write.
SCHOOLS FOR ALL
The new school for the northeastern iection of Freeport has now reached (.he stage where It will soon begin to lake physical shape. Builders are low in possession of the plans and the iuccessful bidder will be announced .n a sohrt time. The work of con- .ructlon will follow In the early -prlng.
Freeport has always been fortunate in having tbe right spirit behind its .schools. It has always considered .noney appiopiiated for the building md littin..j of school houses as invest- luents certain to bring valuable com- iiiunity resuHs.
It Is a pleasure to note that at the .eceut meeiing of state scliool stiper- .iilendents e.xpressions of warm coni- .iieudaiion followed the report on the ..ork of the Freepoit schools.
There ib no better way of estimating X village than by considering first itfa .choola. A village with schools tbat lie modern in equipment and ad- . .iuccd in l.iclliiies of education is joand to retttci the sentiments of a .orthy people.
fin
Jlmerican Boy
at Oxfond
by HERBERT OI. CLOCK
of this L'uiversity?"
We replied in the afuriiiallve.
I elusion and concentration. Once tbe symbol of the
physical
"Your names and colleges please." force of a country was invested in one
He took a note of our addresses and, after instructing us to call upon him at one o'clock the following afternoon, once more raised his cap and passed i male masses in search of other victims. '
By the installation of a variety of new machinery and e.xtenslve altera¬ tions which il is calculated will cost $16,000, the municipal light plant at Rockville Centre will be made one of the most ellicieut on Long Island ac¬ cording to members of the Board of ^ Trustees. Tliey will sfiomit the ques¬ tion of spending this amount to the ta.xptiyers at the vlliage primary on the evening of .March 4 at .\theneuui Hall. Whether the mouey will bo
i IT W-ANXS TO GROW
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! Rockville Centre wants to grow, h ; .eels itself straining at its boundaricb
, .t desires to be bigger in a terrltoria. . .>enso.
ll may actually have in mind be j .oiuiug a Greater Rockville t'entre.
The territory contemplated in iL jtretchlng process would extend tht ..illago domain into the section norti. ' jf the present corporate limits, bring . .ng within the uew boundaries boti. \ oides of Hempstead a|}d DeiMott avo ! jues weiseriy to Village avenue.
It has long beeu an axiom ol viUagi jO.erumeui that new lerriioiy is a. '¦ .vays desirable if it brings with it a [ percentage of population that wiil bt jqual in asbessment payuients to ih» added charges of government. '
The plan - uuder consideration hai: i .lOt reached the official stage as yet | Jur report calls It an "agitation.' . consideration and agitation are alwayb j
BELL,2a.0AE\i DBINE
However clear the water which ul- juiuiely will be supplied to the BeU- ..ore district, the dibcussion of the .aoject oi the franchise developed a jily controversy.
Two companies claim franchises for applying the districL Strong as is .ellmoie's friendship for the ale ol -id father Adam, manifestly oue com- ...any ought to be able to caier to lis -.eeds. From the briefs which the ompetilive corpor^i'tions ::iavc i*<;en .sked to submit, tbe Town Board .iiould have no trouble in deciding >nich company offers the better In- .ucements. Alter that the only ques- lon w ill t e as to the company's flnan- .ual ability to carry out the contract. We hope the next session on the ubject will, not see any one in hot • aier.
; lecessary preliminaries to public im- Mascola promptly made claim upon provements. Chamler for room rent for said mug The viUago needle points to the et ceteras, which the latter intllgnant- aorth. ly refused to'^ny. The barber In turn !
A HEU-DIYER VISITS ROOSEVET
refused to deliver the Chamler belong¬ ings and Chaniier, appearing in court, demanded a writ of replivln. Armed with {.his paper and escorted by a con- Stable, the barber was brought to terms.
Neither Kent nor Blackatone, wltb all tbelr legal erudition ever undertook to hold tbe scales on a shaving mug. In looking for barbershop precedents. the bench and thf9 bar may now turn In confidence to Chamler vs, Mascola and learn what'a whaL
Drops in Yard at Roosevelt, Re¬ mains Several Days While the citizens of Roosevelt seat¬ ed about a comloriablo stove at Bwano i'uiubo lun, were soliloquizing about .weather conditions on JVlonday, pro-
Vinton R. Terry is enthusiastically .loniinated by the SayviUe Beefsteak ¦Jlub for Trencherman-ln-chlef of Long island. At the last session of the club i'rieior U illiam Yearick obberved .Mr, Terry ate 25 slices of steak. Aa ihe cut 8leak in the Hotel Kensington ,.bree slices are said to equal a pound.
dirange looking bird tioating into bis i>aruyard. The biid appeared to be greatly fatigued and after alighting lell over as If dead. The bird revived
\ssumlng there was no cheating In the , and Mr. Yearlcka with others went interest of Mr. Terry he would seem to , out to take a look at iL The bird was
lecognizffd aa heil-diver. It waa too
WOMEN AT THE POLLS
The women ot Sea Cliff will have their first opportunity of voting at ^e
lave established an 8 pound record. if the SayviUe club is game to get in jehind Us man, we might be induced ;o second a well known feeder of 'A''reck Lead in a contest for aweep- itakes of beefsteaks. We refer of course to Captain "Bill" Orlscoll ot The PequoU ot Rockvill<j Centre.
thed, apparently to take flight from cue barayaid and was allowed to re¬ main. It partook of some food thrown into tbe yard and remained aa an oui- oide guest of Mr. Yearick for several days when It disappeared.
It ia thought that the bird made Us digbt inland because of che Intense cold ud it« inahUIta to obtAlii Xood.
Just before nine o'clock each even¬ ing "The Mershall" —the leader of the oull dops— accom¬ panied by three or four "bullers"walts dp the proctor at his college gate. HERBERT woociO At flve past nine "Old Tom," the big clock In Christ Church'tower, striks one hundred and one times. There is a story about this which I shall tell at a later date. As the deep voice of the old clock vibrates over the city, the loitering undergraduate is w^ned that he must ourry, if he wishes to reach the college before tho great gate closes. It also lbUs him that the witching hour of the undergraduate is at hand, that his enemies are afoot, aud that the "close season" which protect*'>bim from the proctor and bull-dogs is at an end. From nine till midnight he Avho wan¬ ders without a gown must take heed to himself.
Very few proctors have been known to "prog" a man for the offense of ap¬ pearing without cap and gown, if a gown, alone, is either worn or thrown over the aim. A number of students wear the gown around the neck nb mufflers, whenever they think that its mere possession may keep them out of serious trouble.
The proctore rarely "hunt In cou¬ ples." If both proctors are out, "Tht Marshall" usually accompanies the "senior."
Aa the party leaves the college gates, the proctor and the marshall head the procession. Behind them march the bull-dogs, two by two.
Any undergraauate, minus a gown, whom they happen to meet with on their side of the street is "progged." If by good fortune a student chances to be on the other shie of thtf way, the proctor does not condescend to notice him—unlef-s he is speaking with a girl or doing something else which the proctor considers to be wrong.
If such is the case, the proctor or¬ ders the marshall and tells the bull¬ dogs to bring that ninn to blm. If the student runs, the bull dogs attempt to catch him. If he Is too fast for them, they try to "buUer" liiu back to coll. Tbe penalty for runniug Is double the ordinary runlshrnent.
I was "progged" once during^ my four years. Tiua vau> dus lo caxeleM-
man. Gradually the power was wrest¬ ed from him. In these days it Is sup¬ posed to be held by the masses—the
.Now women are en- ^^j^^^ {j.^,,,, uio contingent fund ac-
deavorlng to obtain their shdre in the cumulated from earnings of the plant
governments of the world. ^^. „j. ^ special bond issue is the <iucs-
These demands are meeting with ^jq^ ^1,^1 must be finally deiermlned
different receptions in different coun- j ^y ^^Jg ciiiiens.
tries. The reason,I think, why "Votes -j'ljp village trustees have on hand at for Women" is encountering so much { present an amount that is within a few- more opposition in Engl.ind than in ' (jgHars of enough to meet the proposed been a "tango tea"--if such an affair Ameica is that the Englishmen think ! ^^uay. The specilic amount is given
as 115,000, from which i5,0o0 wiU be expended for a new boiler, already au¬ thorized.
Engineer .Major has informed the VillHfie I'ulhers that the electric plant is taxed al piesent with 20 per cent of its full capacity to meet the riquiie- ments for commeiTial ami stiet light- their j er which odr suffragists have sought! '"«• An imie.ibe ol 11 per cent has by a milder means of argument and
^ Suffrage in England
(Written for The Nassau Post) Last evening "General" Rosalie G. Jones "presided" at what was to have
at that hour may be called-in the n,ore o ftheir right to vole than do wi cause of woman suffrage. This, while | and sonsequently guard it more jeal- perhaps a bit of departure from tbe | ously. One must take into considera- methods ordinarily employed by suf- [ uon the Crlilsh conservatism which fragists to win adherents to their
seems^to be invariably an attribute of all old countries.
In England'the suffragettes have en- are keeping abreast of the times and ueavored to obtain by force that pow-
standaid, would certainly have been indicative of the fact that the leaders
making everything count in
.struggles of "Votes for Women." At
Ihe last moment the tango element j persuasion
idea was abandoned, and a plain in
leresting EUffiage meeting was held i to face a difficult problem in the mat
been noted wiiiuu the past year.
"1 beK lo call your aiiention to tbe
swiuli buaid," said llio engineer at
The suffragettes have been obllf?ed ' the uiociiug of the board, -It is uu-
safe-
instead. A "popular affair" in connec¬ tion with, Ihe enfranchising of women I people
veu a death trap, and should d ut oncu. A bre.;iU do\\U
iiiay bo bold later.
The suffragists have found ready listeners. New countries
more particularly woman suffragists in | xhe suffragettes nave been obliged to iJugland, the home of the suffragettes, i resort to extreme methods in order to
may not be out of order at this time. The English franchise is based on
obtain a hearing. Nevertheless It would seem that the
what may be termed a "property qual- j ^'"'^i^'^ sponsors of the "Vote" have '•
j ter of placing their subject before tho "*-' "-'I'lo^^'
' in the plant at the present liiae wuold
cripple the euUre hervice. Rockvilie
,„,.,,,, ,., „ , . ''^''^ Ctuiie wouid Lo in total aaiiiaebS t.--.
A sketch dealing with suffra.qe, and ^ alway.s more tolerant of new ideas. Uv as ele.aic iiA-u. are Concerned."
Engineer .Major lepoited thai one of the euKincb lequiios overhauling ut once, and in luci the entire apparalu!^ should be iii.specled hy a competent man. Ho of-iiniaied that tho uiachii:
I . J .u ._ , . . I cry needed should include a new Cor-
Ificatlon." A male, who has reached «^-«'- ^^^^PP^^ '^e mark, and to use an 1^ ^^^.^^ ^, ^^^^^ ^^^ „ ^, ^^ ^.,
his majority, owning or renting prop- "'<* ®^P''*'^^*<"^' "'^*^® '="'•''^ ^*i« "ose I ao^m |/,000; a generator to cost
erty—the lessee pays the taxes of a ' *° ^^^^^ ^^^ face." They have destroy- ' jj,u0U, un exciter and generator wiili
certain value, has the right to vote.-'' puhlic and private buildings which icpi.iis lo the switchboard to cosl
By this method a man who controls i ^^'®'"® '"^'^''^ heirlooms of their coun-
property in various parts of the Unit- ! ""y' '^^^^ ^'^'''^ Imperiled lives. By
ed Ivingdom may command a number : ^^*^^^ drastic meiisures they have made ! tuui fiiiOO would bo necessuiy lor 'in
of votes. These are all used, even ¦ ^^^^^^ enemies of those who, w hlle per
haps not in direct sympathy with their
about. 11,000, and an exieusion to thi'
powerhouse lo cost If-TjUO to acconio
, date the il^^v apparatus, lie adcjei:
though the casting necessitates a .i,'reat deal of travel.
An Englishman—I mean by this an Inhabitant of the Briltsh Isles—values
cidentals.
With lhe.=e improvements Engineer
[cause, were not absolutely hostile to M^J'"' '^^^ "'^''"'^' "'"'^ ^'"^ ''''^"^ "*"''
be well eyuipiied to lake care of tlu
electric llKhling of Uockville CentH
(To be continued) for a period of fiom live to ten yeart,
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