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VOL ex No. 6 
bebritary 501915: 
Beverly Farms’ new library project is progressing 
and it is not unlikely that the Board of Aldermen of 
the City of Beverly will make the appropriation §re- 
quested. For years the people of Beverly Farms have 
been denied suitable library facilities. The cramped, 
unsuitable rooms in which the library has been quarter- 
ed has long been unsatisfactory. This is the more ap- 
parent when the library facilities of Rockport, Mag- 
nolia and Manchester are considered. The movement 
for a new library in Beverly Farms was delayed for a 
long while because of the inadequate library building 
in Beverly. The centre of the City has now been pro- 
vided with a new library and the sixth ward ean 
legitimately expect to have their request granted. The 
Mayor, Hon. Herman A. MacDonald, in his Inaugural 
address recommended an appropriation of thirty thou- 
sand dollars for a library building in Beverly Farms. 
At the hearing the appropriation was favored by a 
representative group of citizens. The residents of that 
district favor the project. The new building ought to 
be forth-coming and if built it will prove to be an asset 
to the city. The library should be built. 
The State Committee on roads and bridges has had 
the usual grist of new bills to consider relating auto- 
mobile traffic within the state. Some of the new bills 
are unreasonable, if not absurd. If the committee can 
frame a just bill regulating headlights on motor 
vehicles it will have rendered excellent service to the 
citizens and motorists of the state. Everyone recog- 
nizes the dangers of high-power headlights, but there 
are dangers that result from automobiles carrying no 
headlights. The removal of headlights is unthinkable. 
A dimmer does not adequately meet the needs of auto- 
mobile traffic, but it may be possible to limit the candle- 
power of headlights. 
The apprehension this week of a 
probably be found guilty of breaking 
mer residences along the North 
to a series of breaks that have puzzled the police. But 
all things considered Manchester has been exceptionally 
free from the depredations of cottage thieves. 
man who will 
and entering sum- 
Shore will put an end 
Taft paid for the sins of others, but ¢ 
an he bring 
the party back to power? 
The Ground Hog says ‘‘What Cheer !’’ 
and dis- 
appears. 
Things are looking up for the G. O. iB 
Mental disease is a menace in Massachusetts, ac- 
cording to a statement issued by the Massachusetts 
Society for Mental Hygiene. During the fiscal year 
ending November 30, 1913, there were admitted to the 
various state hospitals 5,607 patients. During the same 
period there were under care in the various hospitals 
889 epileptics, 1,444 inebriates, 18,971 insane, (inelud- 
ing those in private hospitals), making a grand total 
for feeble-minded, epileptic, inebriate and insane 
under care during the year, of 24,005. The hospitals 
spent during the year $4,284,919.71, which sum was 
more than one quarter of the state’s total expense for 
the year. These figures, impressive in size though they 
are, obviously do not represent the whole number of 
persons affected, since with few exceptions each patient 
represents a family; nor the total cost, since to the 
above must be added the cost of rearing and educating 
those who become incapacitated through mental disease, 
the loss in earning capacity, ete. 
A Pro-German mass meeting was held in Symphony 
Mall, Boston, last Sunday evening and passionate, class- 
spirited, partisan addresses were made. While the meet- 
ing was within the legal rights of the attendants and 
the participants of the meeting it was nevertheless a 
virtual violation of the request made by the President 
of the United States to maintain strict neutrality. This 
criticism is made not because of the avowed German 
sympathies of the participants, but because of the 
character of the performance. Such a meeting held by 
sympathizers of Britain, Russia, France or Qreece 
would be just as objectionable. In a neutral country 
it must be true that there are thousands of sym- 
pathizers on all sides of the conflict, but all belligerent 
mass meetings are to be condemned as un-American and 
a violation of the neutrality claims of our government. 
Progress in the history of the world is made in 
mysterious ways. During the heat of the conflict tas 
impossible to make true deductions or reasonings, but 
when it is over some good must ensue. In America it 
took a civil war to establish this United nation and to 
abolish the slave trade in its jurisdiction. Despite the 
bloodshed and horrors of war in Europe there must be 
some good to come from the sacrificed lives. But what 
is that good? 
It would be easier for the people to bear the in- 
creased cost of flour if it were due entirely to the 
Kuropean war and the conditions resulting therefrom; 
but unfortunately speculation and not searcity is the 
great cause of the phenomenal and unnecessary rise in 
the price of flour. 
The Boston & Maine 
trustees ‘are working on a 
hard problem, but they will win. The rehabilitation of 
New England railroads is an unavoidable necessity. 
Patience and economy and incorporation thrift will 
save the day. 
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The politicians have taken recourse to the movies 
as a means of promoting their propaganda. The eye is 
still a wonderful and potent influence over mind and 
matter, 
The public has not been 
Square deal and the pre 
degree due to the intole 
giving the railroads a 
sent difficulties are in a small 
rance of public opinion. 
President Wilson’s 
i prophecy of the coming good 
days is encouraging 
because apparently true, 
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