The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-06-04
KAISER CANNOT
GET LOVED SAUSAGES
IN BLUE-LAW BERLIN
German Government Finds Widespread
Opposition to Vaccination
Rsiohstas Considers
Problem.

Berlin--Special.-If the emperor de-
sires sausages for his Sunday evening
meal he can buy them the night before,
just like any ommon citizen, or else
go without. The laws regulating sale
and delivery Of goods on Sunday apply
% the ruler in the same degree as to
his meanest subject.
This is the decision OF a Prussian
court in the Isl of q sausage dealer
who appealed from a fine OF S1.25 for
violating the Sunday observance laws.
One Sunday morning. shortly before 10
o'clock. the hour at which all shops
in Berlin must be closed, the emperor's
private cook telephoned from the new
palace at Potsdam an order for sau-
sages for the imperial table. The deal
err loaded the desired wares on his de-
livery wagon and started IL for the rail-
road station. On the way thither the
delivery man was stopped BY a police
mar who inquired why he was violat-
Ing the law. The representation that
the Emperor was waiting for the sau-
sages had no effect on the POLICEMAN.
and the result was the fine for the
merchant
{ On appeal the merchant set forth
that his action came under the saving
clause Of the Sunday ordinances. witch
provides that Sunday orders NAV be
filed where their immediate carrying
out is demanded by the public inter-
est" The order OF the emperor's cook,
he said. was such a case. The court
rejected the appeal, saying:
1T is OF no consequence that the EN-
peror was the customer. The emperor
has no special standing I'm private trade.
1t Is the business " his private cook
to send in his Sunday orders in times
just as. n housewife must do"
A discussion in the Reichstag has
NrTmN ahnWurn fHnt NhAAA L. md -
position In Germany to compulsory
vaccination. On q motion to appoint q
commission, composed equally Of the
friends and opponents OF vaccination,
for the purpose OF studying the whole
question. party lines were completely
obliterated. and the motion failed only
by q tie vote. It was brought forward
In answer to numerous petitions for a
change In the present law, which has
been in force for 40 years.
The Observation-Disclosures claimed that
hundreds Of cases occur where health
Is injured by h practice, and 1t was
pointed out that the official statistics
show that so deaths were thus caused
In Prussia In 1912. They further as
serted that managers OF stations for
obtaining lymph from calves have
themselves admitted the impossibility
OF getting a ure lymph In all cases.
The German law does not provide for
SOhhPhlSOAy NdICltlduOn, DuI Inc police
authorities have everywhere construed
1t as giving them the right to require
vaccination. and when II becomes nee
essary they use compulslon. The rep
~resentative OF the imperial health Of
fee. however. said that there were only
eight or nine cases yearly where com
pulsion was necessary.
A socialist speaker claimed that some
parents have been punished five or six
times for refusing to have their chN-
dren vaccinated, and some Of them were
sent to prison. Hundreds Of thousands
Of people II Germany, he added, have
to act contrary to their conscience in
having their children vaccinated. and
the example Of England. where q con-
science clause was adopted some years
ago, was held UP for imitation by Ger
many. The case OF Italy was also point
ed OF as worthy Of study. It was as
serted that vaccination is nowhere
practiced so extensively as In that
country, n yet nowhere Is smallpox
so frequent. DIR. Kirchner OF the sim-
perial health office answered ali this
by displaying a statistical table show
Ing a steady reduction In smallpox
cases since the present law was passed.