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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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All hail to the G. A. R.! 
We shall never again beholda better 
assemblage of war-scarred heroes. 
The Beverly aldermen turned aside 
the petition for better streets at Bev- 
erly Farms and Pride’s Crossing, but 
voted $10,000 for six streets at the 
United Shoe Machinery plant. The 
Garden City is to be pitied! ‘Old 
friends are forsaken for the new.” 
On another page of this issue we 
give a list of the heaviest taxpayers in 
Manchester, a list which, in its show- 
ing, is a credit to the town “ By-the- 
Sea’”’ and to the whole North Shore. 
It shows that the North Shore is 
attracting not only swmmer residents, 
but wzzter residents as well, and that 
it willbe only a matter of a few years 
when Boston business men will for- 
sake their town houses and live ’mid 
these picturesque surroundings the 
year round. 
Education and the Negro. 
The address by Booker T. Wash- 
ington gave some food for thought to 
those who have been contending that 
the negro ought not to be educated, 
and that education unfits him for the 
work which he is called upon to do. 
Mr. Washington told in a plain, 
truthful way the facts of the case as 
they are. He did not argue that 
there was no crime, shiftlessness or 
immorality among the negroes. He 
frankly admits it. There is more or 
less crime among every race. But 
the fact remains that of the 6000 men 
who left Tuskegee not one has been 
found within prison walls for the com- 
mission of any crime. Mr. Washing- 
ton makes this statement after a 
careful investigation of the facts, and 
his statement has not been refuted as 
et: 
He also shows that the percentage 
of ignorant persons among the negroes 
is much smaller than among many 
races that occupy prominent positions 
in the world. 
His statements throughout are an 
added argument to the fact that 
education uplifts every race,.no mat- 
ter whether it is the white or the 
black. The educated workman, no 
matter what the nature of his work, 
can demand better wages than his 
more ignorant fellow, and he is conse- 
quently enabled thereby to better his 
position in life in every way. 
Education makes every man better 
in every way, intellectually, morally 
and spiritually. Give the negro his 
chance and he will work out his own 
salvation. We have been working 
out ours for generation upon genera- 
tion and we are not perfect yet ; the 
negro has been working out his salva- 
tion for only about 50 years. Give 
him time and he will succeed. 
The Grand Army. 
The national encampment of the 
Grand Army is over. The great 
parade, with over 20,000 men in line, 
and which took more than four hours 
to pass a given point, was an inspiring 
sight, and, withal, a sight full of 
pathos. 
When we stop to think that that 
immense line of veterans which passed 
before the cheering thousands who 
had assembled from all over the land 
to do them honor, was only a fraction, 
and a very small fraction, of the 
immense host which went out to 
preserve the Union, it does, indeed, 
cause us to reflect upon the past.’ 
Never again will there be such a 
parade of the old Grand Army, the 
grandest army that the world has 
ever seen. With each fleeting year 
the ranks are growing thinner and 
the steps of the survivors weaker. 
Ten years from now there will be left 
a mere remnant, a handful of those 
who received the plaudits of the 
cheering thousands last Tuesday. 
It is well to honor them with cheers 
and applause. It is better to honor 
them by making, whenever and 
wherever possible, their declining 
years bright and free from all cares 
and burdens. It is best to perpetuate 
their memory by honoring and up- 
holding those principles of liberty and 
justice for which they were ready to 
sacrifice their lives. 
The Grand Army of the Republic 
has taught us the nobility of patriot- 
ism and of sacrifice. Let us show 
our appreciation by fulfilling our civic 
duties with honor, and by upholding 
those principles of liberty for which 
so many gallant men gave their lives. 
Time to Act. 
Last week we took occasion in 
these columns to refer to the agitation 
at Beverly Farms and Pride’s Cross- 
ing forbetter streets, and to call the at- 
tention of the people in that section to 
the immediate improvement of certain 
streets. Tuesday night a petition, 
signed by about 50 of the real estate 
owners and taxpayers in Ward 6, 
bearing on this very matter, was 
placed before the Board of Aldermen, 
and the petition was put into the 
hands of the committee on streets, 
with the probable result that it will 
‘fall by the wayside.” 
Strange it is, indeed, that the City 
Fathers should pay no attention to 
the call for improvements—and im- 
provements that are really needed — 
at the Farms. 
Yet, not so strange after all. How 
can the Farms expect to fare well in 
the hands of men who prefer rather 
to see the money taken from the 
Farms in taxes go toward making 
improvements elsewhere than in the 
place it should go! 
The truth is, the city of Beverly 
can’t afford to spend a few hundred 
dollars on improvements at Beverly 
Farms, whence comes a good share of 
her money, but she can afford, in 
somebody's eye, to spend thousands 
of dollars in another part of the city, 
where improvements are not an imme- 
diate necessity. 
When men like Chas. H. Dalton 
and Judge Loring, and scores of 
others, who turn thousands of dollars 
into the city treasury each year, sign 
their names to a petition asking the 
city to give them better streets, it is 
