Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-27
SAUSAGE FOR KAISER
NOT ABOVE THE LAW
Dealer Who Delivered Delayed Sum
day Order Compelled to
Pay Fine. /
Protests Against Forceaole Vaccine
ton Finds Strong Support in
the Reichstag.


sires sausages for his Sunday evening
meal he can buy them the night before.
Just like any common citizen. or else
go without. The laws regulating sale
and delivery OF goods 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 ar-
pealed from a fine OF s1.25 for violating
the Sunday observance laws. One Sun
day 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 sausages for the
imperial table. The dealer loaded the
desired wares on his delivery wagon
and started it for the railroad station.
On the way thither the deliveryman WAS
stopped by a policeman. who inquired
why he was violating the law. The rep
resentation that the emperor was wait
ing for the sausages 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 demand
ed by the public interest" The order
of the emperor's cook. he Said. was such
case. The court rejected the appeal.
saying:
1T is OF no consequence that the
emperor was the customer. The emperor
has no special standing in private trade
It is the business of his private cook
to send in his Sunday orders in time
just as any housewife must do
Vaccination Is Opposed.
A discussion in the reichstag has
just shown that there is a widespread
opposition in Germany to compulsory
vaccination. On a motion to appoint
commission composed equally of friends
and opponents of vaccination. for the
purpose Of studying the whole question.
party lines were completely obliterated.
and the motion failed only by a tie
vote. 1t was brought forward in
answer to numerous petitions for
change in the present law. which has
been in force for forty years.
The nti-vaccinationists claimed that
hundreds of cases occur where health
is injured by the practice. and IL was
show that thirty-two deaths were thus
caused in Prussia In 1912. They fur
Their asserted that managers Of sta
tons for obtaining lymph from calves
have themselves admitted the impos-
sibility of getting a pure lymph in all
cases. The German law does not pro-
vide for compulsory vaccination, but
the police authorities have everywhere
construed II as giving them the righl
to require vaccination. and when 1t be-
comes necessary they use compulsion.
The representative Of the imperial
health ONCE. however. said that there
were only eight or nine cases yearly
where compulsion was necessary.
Parents Go to Prison.
A socialist speaker claimed that :
parents have been punished five
times for refusing to have their chi. "a
vaccinated, 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 vaccinated. and the ex-
ample Of England. where a conscience
clause was adopted some years ago. was
held up for imitation by Germany.
The case of Italy was also pointed out
as worthy Of study. 1t was asserted that
vaccination is nowhere practiced SO ex-
tensively as in that country, and yet no
where is smallpox SO frequent. Or.
Kirchner of the imperial health office
teal table showing a steady reduction In
smallpox cases since the present law was
passed.
Erecting Unique Memorial.
uniuue memorial to great Germans
il gradually being built at Kaltenbach
near Engelskirchen. an hours ride from
Cologne THE Grove Of Heroes is tho
name of the place. and it is hoped that 1t
will eventually prove mecca for pa
triotic Germans. and perhaps a place OF
yearly patriotic gatherings. at which
noted men shall speak and the memory OF
the illustrious dead shall be commemo-
rated.
A young farmer named Karl Bosenius
set aside a large grove on his farm. ana
began setting up monoliths to the mem
DRY of the great To date there are stones
for Bismarck, Goethe. Luther, Ineooor
Beethoven. Queen Louise and Frederick
the Great.