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VOL. XIII February 19, 1915. No. 8 
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When in my quiet room I sit me down, 
The roar shut out that fills the noisy street 
Where clattering carts and restless hurrying feet 
Of busy crowds, urged by toil’s whip or frown, 
Or bent on pleasure, wander up and down,— 
Then, as I listen, I hear it, clear and sweet: 
The music which the church-tower chimes repeat, 
Telling the passing hour to all the town. 
So ever and anon amid the strife 
That thickens round us as we near life’s noon, 
If we but pause a moment we may hear, 
Above the discords of this mortal life, 
The bells of Heaven ring out their joyous tune 
In soft reverberations, sweet and clear. 
The people of Beverly Farms are united in their 
desire for a new public library. Progress has been 
made by the committe elected to select a site. Now 
everyone awaits the decision of the board of aldermen 
on the appropriation order. The board should pass 
the order. In-as-much as the Mayor had the honor of 
inaugurating the movement it is expected that he will 
not veto any reasonable bill. <A place situated, as Bey- 
erly Farms is, away from the centre of the City of 
Beverly without the advantages of a Y. M. C. A. or 
other social organization with an adequate plant to 
serve the district, a public library becomes a great 
need. The City of Beverly should willingly grant the 
desires of the people of Ward Six. 
The strike of the men who were given employment 
by an emergency appropriation is a sad comment on 
the perversity of human nature and the difficulties in 
the way of relief legislation. Anyway $1.60 is low 
wages for a day’s work in the cold of the winter 
months with dangers incident to tree climbing added. 
But the workers should remember that is the half loaf 
providentially provided and that they should scorn to 
murmur. 
The continuance of the enquiries for summer cot- 
tages and the information that reaches us concerning 
the summer plans of the owners of estates on the North 
Shore makes it evident that a long and busy season is 
coming. It is in the air. 
Wheat turns upward again in its course and the 
bread of the poor the world over is dearer. All because 
man will not find other ways than warfare to settle 
differences. 
Cape Cod Coleman conducts the Common Council. 
The Boston & Maine Railroad officials have evi- 
dently found a way out of their financial dilemma. The 
notes due on March 2 have been a menace to its finan- 
cial integrity since it has been known that there was no 
money to meet the indebtedness. The management has 
appealed to the holders of the notes for an extension 
of time to September 2. This a wise move and will 
serve the interests of all parties concerned. The hold- 
ers of the notes must see that nothing will be gained 
by forcing the railroad into the hands of receivers. By 
September 2, financial affairs all over the country will 
have changed materially and with the changes the | 
railroad must profit. The Boston & Maine is now hav-— 
ing a rocky time of it, but there is a light on the clouds. 
It will not be many years before the stockholders will 
be able to look back upon the present ‘‘hard times’’ 
merely as an experience. 
The Beverly Industrial School connected with the 
United Shoe Machinery Company of Beverly and with 
the school system of the City of Beverly is to have its 
work portrayed in a moving picture scenario at the 
California Exposition. The industrial school movement — 
has only just begun, but its future is promising. In 
this commercial age trained men are needed to take 
up the specialized work of large industries. A mech- 
anic must be trained. This technical school in direct — 
relation to a great industrial plant and with the school © 
system of Beverly seems to be a valuable contribution — 
to the problem of industrial education. 4 
Rev. George Washburn, D. D., LL. D., an authority 
on eastern affairs and a resident of Boston and Man- — 
chester, passed on to his reward this week. Dr. Wash- — 
burn was well known in Manchester, making his sum- — 
mer home here for the last years of his life. His serv- © 
ice to Christian missions at Robert College, Constanti- 
nople, for more than a generation, won for him an en- 
viable place among the heroes of peace. 
The man who has a prognostication concerning the © 
war and its duration cannot now be found. Everyone © 
is settling down to the inevitable conditions. No one 
can now foresee any indications of an end of the fight- 
ing. When we remember that our own Civil War, that 
promised to end in three months, lasted over four years — 
we may well be sceptical of an early settlement of the — 
European difficulties. 
The slight addition that the new library at Beverly — 
Farms will make to Beverly’s tax rate will be less than — 
seventeen cents on the thousand. With every prospect ; 
of a lower tax rate in 1915 there is no economical argu- 
ment that can be brought against the proposition. 
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The Ship Bill still hanes. New England cannot | 
understand what the administration can possibly gain — 
by the persistency which it shows in advocating the . 
bill. It is a harmful experiment and it ought to be — 
killed in the Senate. . 
What does the recall of Bernstorff by Germany 
mean? Is it an indication that his Government feels 
that he has failed to care efficiently for the fatherland’s 
interests here? 
Those who do not have to go down to the sea in 
ships do not realize how catastrophic the Germanic 
blockade could be.if effectively enforced. . 
