The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-17
Vaccination Strife
 Stirs Up All Dean
Less Than One-haIf the Children of the City Are Allowed
 to Go to School
PAREETS RESENT THE LAW
They WFn Not Yield to Compulsors Treatment and Appeal to
 Governor Dix.

Ofean, N. r., Jan. I7-Mpre than one hale of the public school pupils of this city of l6soo0 people are being kept out of school by parents who are opposed to-vaccination, compulsory or optional, and who proclaim their determination not to yield to the mandate of the Education board or to have ''this death dealing poison from sick cow",- as they pleasantly term 1t, injected into . the veins of their children"
 There are 5.s00 pupils enrolled in the Clean public schools and less than 1,- 200 have been in attendaace since Jan ,csslSed the board to close the schools to the unvaccinated pupils just before the holidays had begun to die out negro suffering from smallpox who was hustled from Rochester to Olean 70 ag to take the curse off Rochester. The negro, Edward Gayton. was the ir Evhise house there had been no small pox. Ha had not been in Oleall since the first smallpox scare last Au-
 The coming of Clayton caused the excitement to break out afresh- The type of smallpox prevalent here was mild and at no time was any one of the forty-six patients in danger of death. But that in no way a1leviated the dread of the disease Still the antis appear to think that the rem. 
 Mass meetings were he'd by both the antis and the pro-vaccinationists in the Clean opera house and else to the roof, the pros had plenty of seats vacant. Orators imported from Syracuse. Ohio. Erie, Pa, and divers other places, dilated upon the virtues or the horrors Of vaccination, accord ing to their various beliefs People talked nothing but vaccination. and streets. in the hotels. theatres, churches, saloons and trolley cars vac ctnatfon rules the hour with prac- tically no other topic to dispute its
 The antis opened independent schools. Half a dozen persons. not technically qualified to teach, volun- teered to give instruction. Fuel was laration Of City Attorney M. B. Jew ell to a. suffocatingy crowded opera toty but optional. and that the board of Education should resign and per init a new board, which would ignore the law, to be elected in its stead. JewelFs remarks came the public dec 1aration of Henry Donne'ly, whom MT. Jewell had displaced only two days earlier Tn the office of city at torney. that the law was not optional but mandatory.
 Probably the newspapers suffered the most. 4nG A4GICnalT5- E<4CnanRG wrote a note to the two daily papers, asking them to refrain from mention ing smallpox or vaccination Scarce 5y had this note been sent before the warlike antis were at the throats of the Merchants Exchange members, threatening to boycott them if they attempted to smuzzle the press. and declaring that they would start an anti-vaccination daily paper to help fhefr cause Thereupon the neWsDa- per proprietors. who know something about the financing of country dailies, chuckIed.
 The. war goes on with unabaFed fury. Attorney General Carmodys sngg. president of the local board of Education. decided that the law is mandatory. But the antis stubborn 1y refuse to accept bts opinion as binding and demand the resignation Of the board In order to clarify the situation the editor of the Clean Times has sent this telegram to Gov. Dix:
 able. Less than one-haIf the 2.S00 pupils enrolled in our public schools are in attendance. Compulsory vac rfnatlon is being enforced by the local ssnard of Education as result of small s,x scare In city, now greatly on the to resign that new board which will not enforce com mpulsory law may be elected Present board holds that law Is Statewide and must be enforc- cd l Attorney General in opinion given board holds law mandatory. If new board succeeds present school board must 1t enforce Aw2 State board is doing practically nothing to help the situation, which demands prompt ac-
 Gov. Dix thus far has made no an- swer.