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Vol. X. November 22, 1912, No. 47. 
TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS. 
Rarely have business enterprises 
and the public in general been dis- 
turbed and interested by the problems 
of transportation as at the present 
time. 
and giant corporations are shuffling 
for positions of advantage. Phil- 
adelphia is anxious concerning the fu- 
ture of that port and is making every 
legitimate effort to prevent its trade 
from passing to New York. Wash- 
ington and New York are interested 
in the movements of the new presi- 
dent of the Pennsylvania road. In 
Massachusetts the disturbances caused 
by the cessation of work by the 
Grand Trunk and the apparent con- 
trol gained by the New Haven road 
introduces another railroad problem. 
In Boston the new Board of Port 
Directors have succeeded in obtain- 
ing a provise from the Hamburg- 
American line to make Boston one of 
its American ports. Negotiations are 
aiso pending for a new steamship line 
to Portugal. The opening of the 
Panama canal in the near future has 
stimulated business interests to plan 
transportation lines from the coast 
cities of the east of North America 
to the cities of the West coast and in 
these new enterprises fortunes are 
Large interests are at stakea 
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sure to be won and lost. The new 
subway to Cambridge has been a 
great economy of time to the public. 
Of interest to the North Shore are 
the grade crossing problems of Lynn 
and Salem. In these two cities great 
changes are being made for the con- 
venience and safety of public trans- 
portation. It is certain that the new 
Boston and Eastern Electric railway 
to Boston will be laid in the near fu- 
ture. It has been brought out in the 
past few days that the B. & M. line 
will be electrified to Beverly within 
two years and that will eventually 
mean the electrification of the entire 
Gloucester Branch. The day is not 
far off when through passengers from 
the West and South will be able to 
reach the North Shore without the in- 
convenience of crossing Boston. An 
electric service to and from Boston 
will clip off at least a fourth, if not a 
third, from the running time of all 
North Shore trains consequently plac- 
ing these cities and towns so much 
nearer Boston. All of the disturban- 
ces occasioned by these changes are 
the movements of prosperity and read- 
justment and eventually must be rea- 
lized in a general advantage to the 
traveling public. Greater strides will 
be made in solving the problems of 
transportation on the North Shore in 
the next ten years than have been 
made in the last twenty-five years. 
‘THANKSGIVING. 
“Let all the people give thanks” 
reads the ancient law and on Thurs- 
day of the coming week the national 
and state Thanksgiving Day should be 
observed fittingly and reverently. The 
day is a great one in the history of 
America and should not be permitted 
to pass out of our community life. 
Its spirit should be perpetuated and 
its inheritances from the past should 
be conserved. Thanksgiving is 4a 
“composite” holiday and is unlike 
Columbus Day, Patriot’s Day, Bun- 
ker Hill Day or Independence Day. 
It does not commemorate any one 
event but has in it the spirit of many 
hours and events of national history. 
‘To Massachusetts it means the perpe- 
tration of the simple ceremonies of 
the early settlers as they reverently 
went up to their rude church to give 
thanks to Almighty God that first 
“Thanksgiving.” This is the colon- 
ial spirit of the day. As a national 
holiday it is a day in which to give 
gratitude to God for a free land on 
American soil. This is the inheritance 
of the War of Independence. As a 
national holiday it expresses the grati- 
tude of the American people for the 
supremacy of the principle of liberty 
tor the black as well as for the white 
and Thanksgiving to the Supreme 
Ruler of Nations for one nation in- 
divisible in the Western Hemisphere. 
Surely the day is a great one and its 
great lessons ought not to be lost in 
a day of recreation, luxury and feast- 
ing. 
Tre TARIFF. 
President-elect Woodrow Wilson 
has, as was to have beer expected, 
announced that he will call an extra 
session of Congress shortly after 
March 4, and not later than April 15. 
to revise the tariff schedule in ac- 
cordance with the Democatic policy. 
Mr. Wilson is taking the legitimate 
course open to him, for his party must 
redeem its pre-election promises. The 
call for an extra session seems to be 
generally satisfactory, for the Dem- 
ocrats wish the fruits of their victory 
crystalized into law as quickly as pos- 
sible, and the business man of both 
parties wish to have what must be 
done carried out as quickly as possible, 
so that business may not be delayed 
in readjusting itself to new conditions. 
Apart from any specific claim now 
made for an extra session, the provis- 
ion make in our government for the 
in-coming Congress is faulty. The new — 
Congress elected in any year ought - 
not to be forced to wait until Decem- 
ber of the following year to convene 
to execute the will of the majority. 
Some changes should be made to avoid 
this delay. President-elect Wilson’s 
course. is wise, at this time, becaues of 
these two reasons,—if the tariff is to 
he revised,—the sooner the better, and 
a delay of more than a year is unfair 
te the public under the usual condi- 
tions. 
Tur Amory WILL. 
The will of Francis Amory is an 
indication of the fine spirit and noble 
character of its writer. That para- 
graph which provides for the care of 
the mothers of the coming generation 
is rich in feeling and fine instincts of 
human character. 
“Tt is my sincere and earnest hope 
G. E. WILLMONTON 
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Counselor at Law 
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