. has been self-supporting. 
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Theoretically Great Britain can be starved out in 
the present war. The Island Kingdom is not and never 
It is dependent upon the 
food supply of the world to be fed and upon her com- 
merce to provide the money necessary for its purchase. 
If Germany can establish and maintain an effective 
blockade round and about Great Britain it would be a 
fatal blow. For a century, however, Great Britain 
has been preparing for just such an emergency. The 
situation may be reversed. It may be possible to starve 
Germany into submission. But all such speculations 
are distasteful to peace-loving Americans. 
_ One hundred years of peace has been the enviable 
record of Great Britain and the United States. For 
one hundred years there has existed no fortifications or 
armed forces along the long border line between the 
United States and Canada. Disarmament in the new land 
has been an effective agency in maintaining peace. Peace 
at any price has not been America’s motto, but it is 
true that America must and will count the cost of war. 
To fly to arms is a sign of weakness and not of strength. 
Let peace and good will reign! 
The present financial conditions are depressing; 
but the war is an added burden that is hard to bear. It 
is a strong spirit that is able to rise above the news 
that constantly comes from the other shores. The ef- 
fects of that conflict are being felt in America. How 
long, how long will the nations of the earth be forced 
to listen to the noise and tumult of war? 
_ The Filipino will get his liberty when he is capable 
of self-government. It has taken the Anglo-Saxon race 
many a year to learn the art and power of self-govern- 
ment. It is too much to expect the little ‘‘brown broth- 
ers’’ to acquire that skill by a few kindergarten in- 
structions in gevernment. 
Dr. A. A. Berle, formerly of the North Shore and 
now of Cambridge, is an ardent believer in a State 
University for Massachusetts. The scholarship plan 
which President Lowell of Harvard has now committed 
himself to, seems the more effective method of gaining 
the same end. 
The Boston Elevated has won the Museum Medal 
for having the best accident record of any railroad in 
the country. Such a distinction is highly honorable. 
It is another evidence of what wholesome publicity will 
do. The ‘‘Safety First’’ campaign was evidently suc- 
cessful. 
The woman’s suffrage movement goes merrily on. 
With indomitable courage and persistency the leaders 
are continuing the fray. The women will win their fight. 
It is a question only of how long it will take to win. 
Automobile tires and gasoline prices are moving 
down-wards in price despite the famine foretold in 
August. 
February never has been an attractive month. Of 
all the months in the year on the North Shore it is the 
least attractive. But spring is only a few weeks away! 
Salem is most unfortunate in its fire experiences. 
Another large fire caused havoe and dismay. It is 
about time that Salem’s luck turned, 
A condition of depression is sometimes an halluci- 
nation. A lack of business faith and enterprise in one 
line is apt to prevent a growth of confidence in all its 
allied lines. Correspondingly, employment and _ pros- 
perity in any one line is sure to influence all of its re- 
lated lines. Prosperity to the candle-stick maker soon- 
er or later means prosperity to the butcher and baker. 
But, too often a retrenchment is made without real 
business reasons and a false condition of depression is 
created. A sensible retrenchment is a community good, 
but unnecessary retrenchment is a community evil. 
William Jennings Bryan has been the butt of many 
an unkindly thrust because of his grape-juice policies 
and his desires for peace between the United States 
and Mexico. Grape-juice is preferable to blood and a 
policy of peace to a militant spirit that would drive the 
nation to war. The Mexican trouble has not yet blown 
over, but this administration should receive the honor- 
able credit of having been able to maintain peace un- 
der exceedingly trying conditions. 
Statisticians have been computing the cost of the 
war in Europe. How ean they estimate its cost? What 
is the standard? Is it gold and silver? Or is it in tears 
and broken hearts that we have the real measure of the 
cost of the war? Money is no measure. It is possible, 
indeed, to estimate in dollars and cents the actual ex- 
penditures for war purposes, but this item of expense 
is but a small factor in the real cost of warfare. 
The public is too critical and unthinking in their 
attacks upon public officials! 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mr. and Mrs. Maleolm Graeme Haughton are doing 
a great deal of entertaining at their Beacon street, 
Boston, residence this winter. The dinner which they 
gave for eighty last Friday night was a delightful af- 
fair, the table decorations of flowers and moss being 
unusually lovely. Afterwards, they, with their guests 
went to the Assembly at the Copley-Plaza. 
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The date for the wedding of Miss Gertrude L. 
Amory and Constantine Hutchins has been decided up- 
on for Saturday, April 17, and the marriage will be 
solemnized at the Trinity church, Boston. The en- 
gagement was announced early in January. Miss 
Amory is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt Amory 
of 293 Beacon street and Pride’s Crossing. 
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