New Britain herald., 1924-05-03
ANTI-VACCINATION
 DRIVE CONTINUES
We'll Attended Meeting Held in
 Booths Block Last Night

Injecting by force smallpox germs into healthy child is an unspeakable crime" asserted Rev. Charles H, Reimers. secretary of the Anti-Vac- einationist league, at meeting held last night in the Booth block. Oliver I. Davis. leader of the organization, presided. v
 Mir. Davis, in his talk, spent much time in showing the legal rights and privileges of children in regard to the present conflict. He presented six su- preme court decisions to show that no one has a legal right to force a seed of disease into healthy child.
 Rev. MT. Reimers said that it is necessary to stay in the fight until the finish. The Gospel, he said, was preached by only few in the begin ming, but now the knowledge of truth has covered the greater part of the earth. He said that it would be a greater blessing to remove the im- purity and foreign substance from a body then 10 fence them in. What IS needed today, he concluded, is boys and girls pure in mind as we'll as in body.
 Rev. F. l.. Brooks Speaks. > Rev. F. L. Brooks of the Peoples church expressed surprise at the fact that Connecticut is so far behind in the fight. He stated that he was of the opinion that this is perhaps due to the fact that compulsory law is not so drastic here. He said he has learned that for 20 years there was little vaccination in this city,
 He also has found. he stated at the meeting, a statement of the board Of health printed several years ago, showing that New Britain was the healthiest city in Connecticut. This fight against compulsory vaccination, he said. is going on from coast % coast. He appealed to those present to stay in the fight.
 K. J. Kloiber said that there was c time when the doctor was the great est friend to the sick and suffering, but today he wants not only the sick, but the healthy children and prom ises to safeguard their future, while they are still we'll. Before vaccination he goes after our children by force and law, but after vaccination we have to go to him." he said. We are not fighting against vaccination to- day, but against the error of vaccinn- tion," he said.
 He continued by saying that there never has been such a disease as cow pox. Hundreds and thousands of prominent doctors have seen that err TOT; many of them have been brought before courts and even put fin jail in fighting for this cause, declared.
 He said that the the state of Ba- varia, Germany, In 1907, enacted the first compulsory vaccination law, and on April s, 1874, the law was forced on the entire country. Great eonvic- ton came over many of Germany's doctors, Doctor Weis of Nuremberg crying out on his death bed. T wish that Germany would hang me to the highest tree of the Black Forest as a penalty for the cruelty I have com mitted 10 thousands of innocent chill dren."
 '"There is a saying," concluded the speaker. that error will travel around the world while Truth is putting on its boots. And we have ours on. Thank God! And we will not take them of until our children are no longer re- garded as outcasts and deprived of school privileges" He expressed the hope that the anti-vaccinationists would win.
 The next meeting will be held next Friday at 7:45 p. m. on the third floor of the Booth block.