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Pro PATRIA 
Religion being sound 
And Patriotism high, 
(Both being one if viewed aright,) 
Doubt not men will be found 
Who for the Right will fight— 
Or for their country dare to die. 
—J. A. TORREY. 
| HE Norra Snore district is to be protected by a vol- 
unteer coast patrol this summer, according to infor- 
’ mation given Mayor James McPherson of Beverly, by 
Lieut. Roger Upton of Marblehead, who is forming the 
{ patrol. 
4 This will be purely a volunteer service on the part 
of yachtsmen, who will be given some naval authority, as 
well as civil authority. The yachtsmen in this service 
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; must give the use of their boats, will supply their own 
uniforms and food, and will receive no pay. The Gov- 
; ernment will furnish fuel and oil for the boats. 
: It is expected that not more than seventy-two hours 
service a week will be demanded from each volunteer so 
‘that he will be able to attend to his business affairs. 
Owners of boats will be given the rank of lieutenants, if 
E the craft is large enough, and the commanders of smaller 
craft will have the rank of boatswain. The owners of 
the boats, if they do not care to serve, may name the 
commanders of the boats and select the crews, with the 
consent of Mr. Upton,-who probably will command the 
entire squadron. . 
The headquarters of this new coast auxiliary service 
will be Marblehead. The boats may be called upon to 
patrol the coast up to five miles off shore between Cohas- 
set and Gloucester, in the seventh section of the First 
- Naval District, of which Commander R. D. Hasmrouck 
has been given command. The boats will be armed by 
the navy, and yachtsmen with boats thirty feet long and 
more are asked to communicate with Mr. Upton, if they 
desire to enter the service. Enrolment papers will be 
issued within a few days. 
“Don’t Get Excited,” says the Gloucester Times, 
editorially. “Every little while we meet some excited 
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individual who is sure that this will be a bad season for 
the beaches because of the danger from German  sub- 
marines or raiders. Very like unto him are those who 
think that all the beaches should be kept dark this season 
because of the possible danger of a bombardment. All 
of this is foolish enough. The best advice is to forget it. 
If the summer is fair and warm, there is no reason why 
the season should not be as good as any. People in the 
hotels or cottages will be as safe as if they were hidden 
away somewhere in the mountains. ; 
“What is the ground for all this confidence? Simple 
this, that Germany is not fool enough to attempt to stim- 
ulate enlistments in this country as she did in England. 
She knows as we all know that there 1s nothing whatever 
to be gained by bombarding undefended seashore resorts, 
while there is everything to be lost. If she did ever send 
a vessel over here, the work would be done either in the 
vicinity of the great cities or along the steamship routes. 
Certainly it would not be on any part of a coast which is 
and will be well patrolled. The German bases are too far 
away from this country and the risk is too great to make 
possible any such proceeding... It is very likely that we 
shall not see any raider over here, but if we do, we shall 
certainly not find it just off our shores, but in far more 
important and less well defended sections. 
“Our people are so little familiar with war and so 
excited over it when it comes that we get to seeing things 
where there is nothing to see and to expecting things 
where there is nothing to expect. We have done that 
many times. But there is no need of repeating such 
foolishness. .Our beaches should be run just as usual, 
and people should live on them as they are accustomed. 
The only signs of war we will see there are possibly an 
occasional warship of our own, or some patrol boats of 
the new fleet. There will be fighting, but not on this 
side of the ocean. 
Dr. and Mrs. J. Henry Lancashire are going in for 
farming this season on a more extensive scale than is 
permissible at “Graftonwood,” their estate bordering on 
Grave’s Beach, Manchester, and so have hired a farm at 
Wenham. They have just leased Mrs. Douglas Robin- 
son’s (Dorothy Jordan) place for the season. The cot- 
tage on the estate will be used by Dr. Lancashire and 
family more or less, in addition to their spacious house 
by the seashore. The family will move from New York 
to the North Shore the latter part of this month. 
-ries with it a severe penalty. 
LOCAL TAX RETURNS 
Must pe Finep py May 15—SEVERE 
Penaity For FaAILurE TO 
ComPLy. 
Tuesday, May 15, is the last day 
for filing local tax returns in a score 
er more towns and cities of suburban 
Boston, including the Town of Man- 
chester. Returns must be filed as of 
April 1 and should be made to the 
local Board of Assessors. 
Failure to file a local return car- 
Under 
the new law persons failing to file 
local returns as prescribed by law 
may be made to pay the same tax 
that they paid a year ago when 1n- 
tangible personal property was tax- 
able locally. Under the present law 
intangible personal property is ex- 
empt from local taxation, so that 1 
one has to pay, as a penalty for not 
filing local returns, the same tax as 
paid last year, he is really being tax- 
ed doubly on intangibles. 
For the information of our readers, 
some of the personal properties on 
which returns must be made are list- 
ed below: 
Cash on hand not including checks, drafts 
or money in bank. 
Vessels or part interest in. vessels, includ- 
ing sailing boats, rowing boats, canoes 
or power boats with their furnishings, 
stores and appurtenances at their fair 
cash value. 
Mules, horses: or 
year old. 
Domestic fowls exceeding $15 in value. 
cattle not less than one 
Automobiles, motor trucks, motor cycles, 
flying machines. 
Vehicles not self propelled. 
Harness, robes, blankets, 
stable equipment. 
Household furniture within the State, ex- 
ceeding $1,000 in value. 
Watches, jewelry, precious stones ani 
metals, including such as are owned or 
used by any minor child of the person 
filing the return. 
Note that the above list is not the 
corplete one, but contains an enumer- 
ation only of such articles as we be- 
lieve would interest many of our 
readers. 
Blanks for local returns may be 
obtained from your local Assessors’ 
office. 
garage and 
Our days are better lighted by 
loving smiles than by sun.—Hodges. 
