Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-06-03
KAISER CANNOT
GET LOVED SAuSACES
IN BLUE-LAW BERLIN
German Government Finds Widespread
Opposition to Vaccination
Reichstas Considers
Problem.

Berlin, May If the emperor de-
Eires sausageS for his Sunday evening
meal. he can buy them the night before,
just like any common citizen. or else
&c without. The laws regulating sale
and delivery of goods on Sunday apply
to the ruler in the same degree as to
his meaneSt subject.
This is the decision of a Prussian
court in the case OF a sausage dealer
who appealed from a fine of .S1.25 for
violating the Sunday-observance laws.
enc Sunday morning. shortly before 10
O'Clock. the hour at which all shops
In Berlin must be closed. the emperor's
private cook t~elephoned from the new
palace at Potsdam an order for sau-
sageS for the imperial table. The deal
er loaded the desired wares on his de-
livery wagon and started 1t for the rail-
road station. On the way thither the
delivery man was stopped by Il police
man. who inquired why he was ola
ing the law. The representation that
The emperor was waiting for the saul
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, which
provides that Sunday orders may be
filled where their immediate CARRYING
out is demanded by the public inter
est" The order of the emperor's cook.
he aid 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 in private trade.
1t is the business of his private cook
to send in his Sunday orders in slime,
just as any housewife must do"
A discussion in the Reichstag has
just shown that there is widespread OPP
position in Germany to compulsory
vaccination! On a motion to appoint a
commission. composed equally of the
friends and opponents of vaccination,
for the purpose of studying the whole
question. party lines We're completely
obliterated. n the motion failed only
by a tie vote. 1t 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 the practice, and 1t was
pointed out that the official statistics
show that 80 deaths were thus caused
in Prussia in 1912. They further as
serted that of stations for
obtaining lymph from calves have
themselves admitted the impossibility
of getting a pure lymph in all cases.
The German law does not provide for
compulsory vaccination. but the police
authorities have everywhere construed
it as giving them the right to require
vaccination. and when it becomes nee
essary they use compulsion. The rep
resentative of the imperial health Of
nee. however, said that there were only
eight or nine cases yearly where com
pulSlon was necessary.
"A socialist speaker claimed that some
parents have Deer punished five or six
times for refusing to have their chill
dren v~accinated. and some,of them were
sent to prison. Hundreds of thousands
of people in Germany. he added, have
to act contrary to their conscience in
having their children v%accinated. and
the example of England. where a con
clence clause was adopted some wears
ago. was held up for imitation by Ger
many. The case of italy was also point
ed out as worthy of study; it was as
serted that vaccination is nowhere
practiced SO extensively as in that
country. and yet nowhere is smallpox
so frequent. DR.. KFchner of the i'm
perial health office answered all this
by displaying a statistical table show
ing a steady reduction in smallpox
cases since the present law was passed.