6 NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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VOL. XIII 
Hebriiaryni2, on 5 
There is an Undeniable Interest in the new library 
project at Beverly Farms. <A public meeting was held 
in the school house hall that was well attended and a 
committee was appointed to select a site for the new 
building. Beverly Farms should have its new library 
building; the wonder is that it has been willing to wait 
so long for this great public need. Money is spent 
freely for many purposes in every municipality, but no 
expenditure can be more wisely made than these made 
for schools and public libraries. Beverly Farms has a 
new and suitable school building and the time seems to 
have arrived there for the new library building. A 
quiet spot somewhere within five or ten mintues walk 
of Central Square will doubtless be selected. 
A Boston Newspaper is authority for the statement 
that a proposition has been made by Mr. William H. 
Moore that in the event of the railroad changing the 
name of the station at Pride’s Crossing he will build 
there a new granite station. There appears to be no 
foundation for this report and the Breeze can state, up- 
on good authority, that Mr. Moore has never offered to 
build a railroad station at Pride’s Crossing and that 
under no circumstances would he consent to have his 
name used for that purpose. 
United States Indian Commissioner Arthur P. 
Wedge, who spoke in Manchester Monday night, as- 
serts that it is a mistaken idea to suppose that the 
Indians are rapidly passing away. There was a time 
when tuberculosis, whiskey and ignorance were wiping 
these people out by the thousands, but the tide has been 
stemmed and they are now rapidly increasing, and thus 
another popular fiction is wiped out. 
The Illustrated Lecture on the Early History of 
of Beverly, Salem and Manchester to be given in Bev- 
erly Farms the coming week ought to be of interest to 
everyone. Too little thought is given to our inheri- 
tances from the past. Others have labored and we have 
entered into their labors. 
The Beverly Man who was mistaken for a spy while 
on his recent Maine trip will have something of interest 
to tell his grandchildren when he sits by the fire in good 
old age. 
It’s a long, long way to California! Better come to 
the North Shore and see what nature can do in the good 
coming summer days. 
No. 7 
Colonel W. D. Sohier, chairman of the Highway 
Commission, has in mind an ingenius new marking for ~ 
roads, All north and south roads could be mark- — 
ed with blue bands, east and west roads could be mark- 
ed with red bands, alternate roads could be marked — 
with yellow bands and diverging roads could bear 
double bands. The proposed plan should be tried out. 
Every automobilist has long realized how poor the road — 
signs in Massachusuetts are. Any reasonable plan tom 
simplify road directions and to make route finding more _ 
simple will be welcomed by all the users of the road- — 
ways. 
Governor Walsh has appointed Medical Inspector — 
McGrath to his old position. To have withheld the ap- _ 
pointment until he was cleared of the charges preferred _ 
against him was altogether sensible. The prompt and 
effective work of District Attorney Pelletier is what 
saved McGrath from the ruinous twangs of Martin Lom- — 
asney and his crowd. g 
The suggestion made by War Secretary Garrison — 
that there should be a provision made by congress for 4 
one-year term of military service, should become a fixed 
policy of the government. Such a plan would make it _ 
possible for a larger number of men to acquire a mil- — 
itary training than could do so now under the four-year _ 
term plan. 
The State Legislature will doubtless make an ap- _ 
propriation to cover the cost of laying out Ocean Av-9 
enue at Revere as a full width boulevard. Such im- — 
provements cost money, but the dangers to life and limb — 
have been so great on the main Revere Beach Boulevard _ 
that this new road will be worth all that it costs. 
The high school pupils of a near-by town are hav-. F 
ing a contest over the question, who shall be class _ 
photographer? Why not solve the problem in the _ 
shortest possible way by abolishing the custom. If the _ 
truth were known, many a parent would welcome the _ 
release from the added expense caused by the custom. 
Sunday has been set apart as a Peace Sunday. It _ 
is well, perhaps, to have the ideal of peace kept con- — 
stantly before the minds of the people, but the danger — 
is that unwise clergymen will make it an occasion to _ 
air their biased views of the conflict. a 
The So-Called ‘‘Red-Flag’’ law should be taken . 
from the statute books of Massachusetts. Harvard does — 
well to register its protest. If the law be removed then { 
Harvard’s crimson colors may be unfurled to the 
breezes. 
Will the Jitney Invade the North Shore? A ‘‘jit- 
ney’’ is a nickname for a five-cent piece, and this has in 
turn been applied to an automobile ’bus that makes its — 
run for a ‘‘jitney’’, 
Despite the Agitation concerning hard times em- ’ 
ployers of labor have found it hard work to find men 
willing to shovel the snow that fell in the recent storm. — 
Palm Beach is now having its day, but wait a few 
months and Singing and West Beaches will take the — 
Palm. 
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The sleighing has been good,—but not enough of it. 
