Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-30

by the 1914 elections for the chamber
of deputies is the slow but decided
progress made by socialism. This is
all the more significant because the
body of the French people is intensely
conservative and clings to existing
things tenaciously. In eight years the
socialist vote has increased by 520.772.
In the elections of 1906, the party re-
ceived S77,999 votes; this figure was
increased to 1,110,561 in 1910, and this
year the socialist candidates polled al
together 1,39S,771 votes. The total
number of votes polled being S,32S,876,
the socialist vote amounts to a little
over 16 per cent.
Panama, May 23.-One of the most
bothersome pieces of work on the
canal has just ben completed. For
over four months work has been in
progress on the dixie known as Cano
Saddle which was built to prevent
Gatun Lake from running into the At
lantic ocean. The dixie is located
about 25 miles north of Gatun and
can only be reached by boats on Gatun
lake. At that point the surfafs of the
lake reached to within a few feet of
low narrow ridge through which the
waters might have worked their way
and thus washed passage into the At
lantic.
To prevent this the dixie, or saddle,
80 feet high and about 1900 feet long,
was constructed. During the course
of the work about 1000 men were en-
ployed, this great number being neces-
sary because of the prevalence of ma
laria. 1t was the breeding place for
hordes of mosquitoes and every man
taken into the place was almost in
stantly affected. 1t is said that every
white man who worked on the job was
brought out of the district on a stretch
err and unconscious. In spite of this,
however, not a death occurred, every
one of the laborers having recovered
their health on being brought back to
The canal zone.
A discussion in the Reichstag has |
lust shown that there is widespread !
opposition in Germany to compulsory |
On a motion to appoint a |
composed equally of |
friends and opponents of vaccination |
or the purpose of studying the whole
question, party lines were completely |
and the motion failed only
W tie vote. 1t was brought forward |
n answer to numerous petitions for a
.hange in the present law, which has
'een in force for forty years.
The Observation-Disclosures claimed
hat hundreds of cases occur where
ealth is injured by the practice, and
was pointed out that the official sta
istics show that thirty-two deaths
7ere thus caused in Prussia in 1912
hey further asserted that thirty-two
eaths were thus caused in Prussia in
912. They further asserted that man.
gers of stations for obtaining lympth
rom calves have themselves admitted
he impossibility of getting a pure
1mpth in all cases. The German law
oes not provide for compulsory vac
ination, but the police authorities
ave everywhere construed il as CIV
lg them the right to require vaccina-
on, and when IL becomes necessary
hey use compulsion. The representa-
YES of the Imperial Health Office,
owever. said that there were only
light or nine cases yearly where COM
ulsfon was necessary.
A socialist speaker claimed that
'me parents have been punished FIVE
: six times for refusing to have their
1ildren vaccinated. and some of them ,
ere sent to prison. Hundreds of ;
lousands OF people in Germany, he ,
ided. have to act contrary to their ,
'nscience in having their children ,
iccinated, and the example of Eng.
M, where conscience clause was
iopted some years ago, was held up | Z
r imitation by Germany The case
Italy was also pointed out as worthy
study; II was asserted that vaccin- 4,
ION is nowhere practiced so ex- III
nsively as in that country, and yet II
where is smallpox so frequent. DIR. II
lrchner of the Imperial Health Office II
swered all this by displaying a sta.
tical table showing a steady reduc-
IN In smallpox cases since the pres
Law was passed.