Life, 1915-03-25 · page 11 of 44
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**"Behind the Times"** criticizes Richmond Hill's health department for concealing vaccination deaths. The article specifically mentions a boy (son of John Stillwaggen) who died after vaccination, with the department taking nearly 24 hours to issue a denial. The author argues health departments should publicly acknowledge and investigate vaccination-related deaths rather than cover them up. **"Pedagogics"** presents a cartoon showing crowded subway conditions with the caption about children not being whipped, dragged, or brought up—but now "learning to let them grow up." The satire critiques modern permissive parenting approaches as creating chaotic situations. **"Spring Fancies"** is a poem by J. Roscoe Webster playing with prehistoric and mythological references.
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wEIVFRES: Behind the Times HAT is the matter with the Health Department of Richmond Hill? It seems to be behind the times. Not long ago a boy, the son of John Stillwaggon, was vaccinated by order of this department. Two weeks later the boy's arm became swollen and he died. But it actually took this tardy health department almost twenty-four hours before they came out with a denial that the boy's death was caused by vaccination. Something ought to be done with a health department so remiss as that. In view of the number of deaths (not to mention lingering ailments) caused by vaccination, and in view of the undoubted fact that it is the business of every. health department, backed by the entire medical profession and aided and abetted by the daily press, to conceal the cause of these deaths, surely every health de- partment ought to have its passionate and specific denials made out, even before the deaths occur, in order to be prepared. That is the only safe way. Pedagogics N the old time children were whipped up. Later they were dragged up. Then they were brought up. Now we are learning to let them grow up. Education by assault and battery is becoming unfash- ionable-—Bolton Hall. UNFORTUNATE POSITION IN A SUBWAY CRUSH OF TWO NFIGH- BORS WHO HAVEN'T SPOKEN FOR MONTHS Soret Nbr He: WHERE THE DEUCE 1S THAT KNIFE? Spring Fancies ID he write, the poet primeval, Wii paleolithic pen In icthyosaurian distichs Of men and the world of men? Or did his cacophonous larynx. Archean legend rehearse— Some antediluvian epic In pterodactyllic verse? Did Aurora—I mean borealis— Serve him for a lamp at night? the moths (mammoth and behemoth) singed in that Arctic light? Was some megatherian maiden The star of his hopeless path? Was he bounced by a sire jurassic With true dinosaurian wrath? eee Those old prehistorical lyrics Must have been prehysteric as well Gone their strophe and wild antistrophe, Their tomeatastrophical yell! J. Rowe Webster.