~ war question. 
- to solve the problems of the universe, but as a rule 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 5 
It is a noticeable fact that the clergy of America 
have been exceedingly sane in their treatment of the 
Here and there erratic men have tried 
they have remained loyal to their convictions that the 
ministry of peace of the Master is a more worthy oc- 
cupation than a second rate war review from the pul- 
pit. The Outlook has recommended that the clergy 
keep to their tasks. It is patent, however, that the 
press has more signally failed in the matter than the 
pulpit. This nation is committed to a policy of 
neutrality; to that policy the press and the pulpit 
should adhere with precision. No clergyman or editor 
has the training, the facts, or the ability to sift the 
contesting claims of the old world at this great dis- 
tance. And if one stray clergyman or editor should 
chance upon the solution what would it contribute to 
the situation? This is a perilous and calamitous time 
and the press and pulpit should unite in a campaign 
for neutrality and peace. 
If the Woman’s Suffrage act be accepted in the 
fall elections what a sweeping change will be made 
in the character and interests of town and city muni- 
cipalities. The new order of affairs will afford the 
women a free band in carrying to success plans which 
are now but the dreams of women’s clubs. The day 
is coming when the women will take a hand at vot- 
ing and municipal management and the male voters 
must take that future possiblity into account. The 
amendment may be defeated in the fall, but that will 
be but a passing defeat. There will be no Waterloo 
on the Suffrage question. Defeated the women will 
rise again to fight anew. 
‘The Teachers’ Lyceum Course in Beverly would 
have been more successful if the committee had plan- 
ned the hour of the lectures and concerts so that Man- 
chester and Beverly Farms attendants could stay un- 
til the program was completed. Manager Gaylord 
has planned to correct this failing next year and the 
change will be profitable to the management of the 
course and to out-of-town attendants. 
The new three million dollar road for Delaware 
the gift of Gen. T. Coleman Dupont appears to be in 
peril because of its doubtful constitutionality. It 
will be a pity if the little state of Delaware is de- 
prived of such a generous eift because of a techni 
cality of the law. 
The Directors of the Massachusetts General Hos 
pital have issued their annual report and it is a credit- 
able showing for that great institution that is serving 
all New England in a good work. The future, how 
ever, should be the time for progress. The scientific 
corps have been industrious and successful. The tech 
nical progress of the institution has been phenomenal, 
but its equipment has not kept in step. The institution 
needs a new administration building and needs it im- 
peratively. Anyone whose interests in life have lead 
him to the institution is aware of the inadequate build 
ing facilities that are available for the hospital uses. 
A new waiting room will be a great help. Here is an 
opportunity for some philanthropic man or woman to 
erect a memorial to a friend. Money could not be 
put to a better use than the construction of a good 
adminisration building. 
The Railroad Commissioners have issued their de 
cision on the petitions of the Boston & Maine, the New 
Haven and the Boston & Albany railroads for an in- 
crease in the rates of fares to be charged for pas- 
senger service. The petitions were all given a fair 
hearing and the New Haven alone has received a fav" 
orable answer. No one doubts the imperative need 
for increasing the revenues of railroad companies, but 
the wholesale and unjust increases asked by three of 
the roads were not warranted. It was the apparent 
injustices that resulted from the arbitrary methods of 
making the increases that resulted in the claims of 
three of the roads being denied. The arbitrary five- 
cent unit in the computation of fares has nothing to 
commend it except that it affords the railroads an 
opportunity to increase their incomes. 
The annihilation of any of the contestants in the 
European conflict will be a calamity. The world needs 
what Germany, England, France and Russia can con- 
tribute. The great hope of the hour is that peace 
may be agreed upon, that will settle forever the dis" 
putes of the larger order in European politics and pro- 
vide for arbitration methods. 
President Wilson has advocated the purchase of 
Monticello. Why not? This great nation should 
provide for the future. Its historical monuments are 
fast being annihilated. The care of Monticello by the 
government is the only way to assure the salvation 
of that historic spot. The government has reclaimed 
Mount Vernon. Now let Monticello be spared. 
WHO RUNS THE PAPER? church had done. 
In a neighboring county a clergy- 
An editor has but 
two sources of income,—his sub- 
scription list and his space. Yet, in 
fallen off lately for many of the big 
magazines. Now that paper is ac- 
cepting cigarette advertisements. 
man took the editor of the local 
paper to task because the editor ac- 
cepted a certain advertising con- 
tract. The good man forgot that 
for years the editor had given free- 
ly of his space to help the church; 
had printed columns of notices of 
services, meetings, suppers, enter- 
tainments and lectures, all free. In 
donating this space the editor had 
given more than the equivalent of 
eash. He had given publicity, and 
thus had done more to support the 
church and pay the minister’s salary 
than any three members of the 
this case, when he sold his space he 
lost a subscriber. Of course, no one 
need subscribe to a paper unless he 
wishes to do so, but no subscriber 
should want to dictate to the editor 
as to what he should publish. Many 
editors will not accept certain lines 
of advertising. Other editors can- 
not afford, perhaps, to be so inde- 
pendent. Business conditions often 
govern these matters. A rich and 
prosperous Philadelphia weekly of 
national circulation for years de- 
clined the advertisements of cigar- 
ette manufacturers. Business has 
Perhaps the editor needs the money, 
and who shall blame him if he sells 
his space to the American Tobacco 
Company? Collier’s, too, we hear, is 
letting down the bars, just a little. 
That’s all right. Let them down a 
little further, as long as fakers, and 
erafters and swindlers are kept out. 
No one can run a paper to please 
everyone, be that paper big or little. 
It is the editor’s paper and it is his 
living. He is the one who should 
judge what should and what should 
not be published in its columns.-— 
Exchange. 
