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No. 36 
VOL. X Sept. 6, 1912 
The Panama Canal Bill 
The Taft memoranda on the canal 
bill was strong. The bill had 
aroused the protests of Great Brit- 
+ ain beeause in it provisions were made 
by the United States to subsidize the 
American merchant vessels by the 
granting of free passage to them 
through the canal. The English 
government in protest claimed that 
such a course was in violation of the 
treaty made with the United States, 
in which the equality of national 
rights to the canal had been agreed 
to. But Congress passed the bill and 
in his memoranda President Taft 
very justly and keenly presented 
the position of the United States on 
the question. Clearly the British 
government must agree to the Unit- 
ed States government’s right to leg- 
islate as it has. All foreign powers 
have the right now to subsidize their 
own merchant vessels using the 
canal to the extent of the charge 
made by the United States. If a 
foreign power should do this it 
would off-set any advantage in com- 
petition for the world’s trade which 
the United States marine will enjoy. 
In the face of this possibility any 
other course of action than was tak- 
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en would have been stupid on the 
part of the United States. If the 
present bill had not passed and what 
Great Britain desired had passed it 
would have been possible for Great 
Britain to have subsidize the ships 
using Panama Canal to the amount 
of the charges made by the United 
States. In this event the United 
States would have discriminated 
against itself. The position Great 
Britain wishes the United States to 
take is untenable theoretically and 
practically. Mr. Taft’s state papers 
are models of fairness, precision in 
language and honesty and _ pene- 
trating in reasoning. The Panama 
Bill memoranda is no exception. The 
passage of this great bill has been of 
great service to American commerce. 
Ethics and The Eyes 
The new state board of optometry 
is at work and has already rendered 
great service. The ethical advice it 
gives to optometrists, the  confi- 
dence your patient shows by con- 
sulting you should under no circum- 
stances be abused. No exaggera- 
tion of a patient’s visual imperfec- 
tions should ever be made to influ- 
ence a sale. The welfare of a pa- 
tient’s eyes should be paramount, 
and if glasses are not necessary he 
should be frankly told so. Cases 
that in any way indicate the need of 
medical treatment should be referred 
to a physician at once. It is un- 
ethical, unprofessional, and unlaw- 
ful to recommend medicine in any 
form. These are positions of high 
honor to be taken by a state board 
and are worthy of the inherited dig- 
nity of our commonwealth. 
The Typhoid Germ 
The problem of suppressing the 
typhoid germ is rapidly being 
solved. The two principles under- 
lying the campaign as set forth in 
Dr. Laughlin’s already famous Suf- 
folk District Medical Society thesis, 
are, the ‘‘safe disposal of human 
wastes and the disinfection of the 
hands of those who have the han- 
dling of the food of others.’’ These 
two attacks upon the enemy do not 
displace the old safe guards against 
impure water and milk but force 
the battle still farther into the ene- 
mies territory. The public owes an 
unpayable debt to the devoted men 
of science who are giving their 
brains, time and often their lives 
that others may live. Publie service 
has many lives of activity. 
The New Voter 
Two million young men will vote 
this year for the first time. It will be 
a friendly help that is given them 
if an older man will explain the 
present political status in national 
affairs. The state that now exists 
is not a contest of men but of prin- 
ciples, the question is government 
by a constitution as advocated by 
Mr. Taft or a rule of persons as ad- 
vocated by Mr. Roosevelt. The 
American Republic has been wisely 
governed by the constitution for 
over one hundred years and there 
is no real reason for a change. The 
new voter will be wise in following 
nk dignified sane leadership of Mr. 
Taft. 
Pennsylvania Breeze Reaches North 
Shore. . 
‘“North Shore Breeze, North Shore, 
Mass.,’’ is the address attached to 
a new exchange to reach our desk 
this week. We were interested first 
of all to know that the North Shore 
Breeze is well enough known out- 
side the North Shore to have mail 
matter addressed as above reach our 
office in Manchester without delay. 
Secondly, that there is another 
Breeze, than the North Shore 
Breeze. Our new namesake and 
friend is published at North East, 
Pa., and is called the ‘‘North East 
Breeze.’’ It is a newsy little sheet 
of eight pages and like the North 
Shore Breeze is published on Fri- 
days. It is in its 20th year. L. B. 
Yale is its editor and publisher. 
Work is being rushed on an ex- 
tensive addition to the Ananias 
Club building. The capacity will 
be doubled, and the recruits from 
the present campaign will be more 
than enough to fill the additional 
room, judging from the activities of 
the past few days. If anybody 
prominent in politics has not been 
called a liar within the past month, 
he will please stand up and be 
counted.—North East (Pa.) Breeze. 
Which goes to show that the 
Breeze in that section of the country 
blows much in the same direction 
as the North Shore Breeze. 
It will be to the interests of the 
central part of Beverly, Manchester 
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