Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-09-25
THE SCHOOL BOARD
VS.. THE CONSTITUTION
A Vaccinated Child in Sub-Normal
and Prone to Vice Says
Correspondent.
RIGHT OF PEOPLE QUESTIONED.
Qualified Legal Information As to Why
School Board Can Take Pre-
cedence Over the Constitution
Or Its Amendments
Wanted.
tCommunicated.1


Dear Editor was greatly interest
ed in an article entitled school Board
and Compulsory Vaccination" in your
paper of September %
Justice Vaughn should be congrat-
ulated on his decision, which was based
on Article X in the amendments TO the
Constitution of the United States
namely the right of the people TO be Sc
cure in their persons. etc, and | would
like some one legally qualified to in
form me how a School Board" acting
under the advice of a Health Board"
can pass an order which is to take pre-
cedence over the Constitution or its
amndments.
VIII you kindly solicit this legal"
information through the medium of
yonr esteemed paper? The st. Louis
Post-Dispatch in commenting on the
decision, says in conclusion: "The de-
cision, without deciding vaccination is
good or bad.ailirms the right of opinion
and thef reedom ofc hoice on the part
Of the individual 1t denies the right
of school boards TO debar children
from the public schools unless they are
vaccinated, regardless of the consci-
ence of their parents. The decision is
good reading for the St Louis Board Of
Education which enforces an arbitrary
vaccination rule against the convic-
tions and protests of many parents"
If the St Louis Post-Dispatch is un-
decided in it's opinion whether vaccina-
tion is good or bad 1T can be intelligent
ly informed. BY noticing the increase
in cancers, which. by the way. was
about % per cent. in New York city for
the past year, and by contrasting the
health of people in isolated districts.
away from health CD control with that
Of those i'm more civilized centers, an
interest into the cause for effects may
be aroused. Then, too. vaccination has
direct effect on the moral nature,
hence the increase itl-vice in well gov
erned localities may be accounted for
We are taught by the health officers
that a sub-normaI child is more prone
to evil pratices than a normal one, and
vacinated child is a sub-normal child
for sub" means under, inferior to. and
to vaccinate one, takes from the nor
NAL" the ability to throw off certain
poisons by means of smallpox. Hence
any person minus this ability is be
low" the normal, or sub-normal, be he
man or child
Why should there bean enforced
health order requiring a perfect nor
NAL child to be made sub-normal in or
der to prevent him from having the
ability to throw out of his system GER
tain poisons? Smallpox, when fully
understood, loses its terrors, and the
things to be dreaded that produce
smallpox. Which is the more sensi-
hle-to keep a child from having a con-
vulsion after it hass wallowed a pois-
onous drug, or TO have prevented the
drug being given to the child?
Let us concern ourselves more about
the causes. study nature a little more
closely, do a little more thinking for
ourselves, and have the courage to be
individuals instead of mere pawns in
the game of health. and we can" re-
duce the present numerous death rate.
In conclusion / must cite an incident
which has come under my observation
| There is a member of the G. A r, to
| whose grandsons the right of an edu-
cation in the public schools Of Mary
land has been denied because he.
knowing of the dangers and the evils
arising from vaccination, has refused
to have them vaccinated. He yolun-
teered to fight for our flag, was an Off
Ger in the service, was severely wound
ed and left for hours on the battlefield,
suffering all the tortures of the thirsty
wounded, and afterwards spent months
of agony in the hospital.
Now he is forced to pay tuition in a
private school for his grandsons, who
are dependent upon his bounty
Is this for what he fought
Is this the land of the free?
Is this the country for the people!
80 freedom weeps, and waiting JUS
eice sleeps"
MRS. THOS. L GLADDEN.,
An ardent seeker after the causes for
the effects.