May 18, 1917. 
Tur MoveMeEN’ FoR UNtversat, health insurance has 
begun and effectively. The leaders of two of the great 
organizations favor state laws and some forms of com- 
pulsory health insurance have already become law. As 
a corollary a large amount of educational work must needs 
be done. Already the larger insurance companies have 
seen the financial advantages of this sort of instruction. 
The schools have also had instruction in practical hygiene 
and now comes the state-wide law which will mean the 
beginning of a larger movement. The task is a great one 
and skill and ability of the leaders will be taxed. All 
sorts of plans must be tried, clinics, public laboratories, 
moving picture instruction, lectures and literature. The 
work of saving the state physically has begun and it 
should be continued with vigor and enthusiasm. 
BES 
Ex-PRESIDENT RoosEVELT is making progress with 
the division which he is raising to carry the colors to 
France and it would appear now as though he would be 
able to win his point with Congress. The decision that 
was made to adopt the selective draft policy presented 
real difficulties to Congress in caring for a volunteer divi- 
sion. Ex-President Roosevelt’s friends have been success- 
ful and it is not at all unlikely that the amendment thai 
has been drafted and passed by one house will become 
law. France has sent us Joffre, and England has sent 
over Balfour! May not America send over one of our 
former presidents? 
SEBS 
Tur AverAceE AMERICAN has already become a citi- 
zen of the world. The war has broadened our horizon 
and all have begun to realize that the interests of all men 
are linked with all men. The ends of the earth meet. 
Who could have thought far enough into the future two 
years ago and have foreseen the intelligent and sympa- 
thetic interest America is taking in the destinies of Fin- 
land, Poland, Servia, France, Great Britain and Belgium! 
The war has taught all men the value of brotherly love 
and has forever demonstrated the evil of malice and 
aggrandisement. 
BSE 
Tue Harvarp Mepicar, Unir that was in line last 
Saturday at the reception given to Marshal Joffre received 
a most enthusiastic applause from the throngs along the 
route second only to that which was accorded to the offi- 
cial visitors to America. They made a good appearance 
along the line and they will carry to France the sym- 
pathetic interest of all true Americans. 
BES 
Tue Surprrnc PLANs have now been enlarged and 
an anouncement of the national purpose to construct many 
steel vessels is now made. The work of constructing 
many wooden bottoms will be pressed with enthusiasm 
and the work of constructing steel ships will be rushed. 
America had decided upon both systems of construction 
work. 
SES 
Ir Was to BE Expecrep that Boston would live up 
to its reputation as a great financial center. The city has 
responded to the national call and is running a close sec- 
ond to the City of New York in the way it has under 
written a creditable number of the new bonds issued by 
the government. 
= S&S = 
Iv Is Quire A TAsK to instruct the average layman in 
the intricacies of the legislative duties of Congress. Why 
should prohibition for the war be tried in with the bill 
against espionage? Why not care for each on their 
merits ? 
Ess 
Hoover Is INDEED Ong of the great men of the age. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 13 
ONE OF Our N&éEw ENGLAND VILLAGES has already 
set in operation a commendable plan for codperative plant- 
ing. Instead of stimulating erratic and perhaps vain 
efforts by amateurs the committee has circulated contract 
blanks to be signed by the willing subscribers in the town 
and by the committee for a certain amount of vegetables 
to be delivered in the fall. The prices are also agreed 
upon. With these assured sales the committee has made 
other arrangements with farmers and expert  horticul- 
turalists to raise a certain amount of food stuffs at cer-_ 
tain prices. The farmers have consequently begun to 
plant early and heavily with the assurance of the local 
committee that the vegetables thus raised will be cared 
for at reasonable prices. There are some very apparent 
and serious objections to the plan, but despite these ob- 
jections the plan has passed through its first stages and 
the farmers have begun to plant with the assurance that 
their vegetables will be placed at reasonable prices when 
raised. 
SES 
SENATORS OWEN AND Gore have received from their 
constituency a resolution passed at a mass meeting de- 
nouncing the principle of universal service as un-American 
and a monumental disgrace. The resolutions are the sin- 
cere expressions of a large number of people who have 
lived far from the American coast and who have not yet 
awakened to the seriousness of the task which has fallen 
to us. America has never stood for militarism and has 
agreed to the conscription policy as an emergency act. 
The American nation has learned from the experience of 
Great Britain that the first and imperative duty of every 
nation is to assume that every male has a responsibility 
to the Government which must be met. 
BESS 
Mayor Henry L. Hiccinson of Manchester. and 
and Boston, was one of the persons present at the hear- 
ing given by the Governor to hear the case for state wide 
prohibition during the war. The major is a level-headed 
man and no one has ever found him erratic in his judg- 
ments. Most men now agree with him in the position 
which he has taken. It is intimated that the Governor 1s 
awaiting action by the national government before tak- 
ing a step in Massachusetts. 
SEBS 
DEsPITE THE Fact that the season is somewhat back- 
ward, but now well opened, and the hysterical fear that 
some have entertained concerning the life on the shore, 
the homes along the coast are reported as being taken 
early. Already a record number has arrived for early 
season residence. 
ESS 
AuL Have BEEN WailTING for something to happen 
in Germany to end the war, but the best way for some- 
thing to happen in Germany will be for something to 
happen in America and France and Belgium. Our troops 
are needed and the great war must go on. The way ‘to 
have something happen is to make it happen. 
SESS 
It Was A HAppy THouGnur that inspired the govern- 
ment department to rename the interned German steam- 
ships after the German heroes who came to America in 
our early war and aided us in our contest. 
Bs BS 
Tur Succrstion Or Congressman Heflin of Ala- 
bama about padding warships with cotton lead us to hope 
that no New Hampshire patriot will recommend stuffing 
them with granite.”—Boston Transcript. 
BESS 
THE SUPPRESSING OF THE PRESS does not appear to 
be popular in America. America has fought too hard and 
too long for liberty of the press to permit it to be sacri- 
ficed even at this hour, 
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