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Red Cross Week 
June 18-25 
How MAny oF us Furty Reavize the task we have 
undertaken in this war? Do we know we are fighting the 
most terrible and perfect machine of war that has ever 
existed? Are we aware that our boys are to undergo 
conditions so horrible we cannot even bear to think of 
them? When the young men are enlisting and register- 
ing with a spirit our President says has never been sur- 
passed and are giving up their time, their business, their 
pleasures and perhaps their health and lives, is it too much 
for us to give some of our money? President Wilson has 
designated the week of June 18 to 25 as Red Cross week 
and has appealed to the people of the nation to volunteer 
funds for the support of this great work. This appeal 
would never 
heels of the Liberty Loan bond campaign ‘and scores of 
other appeals, if the need had not been as great as it is. 
The very nature of the appeal shows how serious is the 
situation. America is shortly to send a great army into 
France and, without the means of obtaining the necessary 
supphes for the wounded, the suffering will be unspeak- 
able. Can any person, who is left free with time, busi- 
ness and pleasure intact, hesitate about assisting the boys 
who will sacrifice so much! The need for funds is not 
when that untold suffering has begun. It is NOW! 
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LrtrLe DistuURBED BY THE CONDITION of the state or 
nation in the present crisis the delegates to the state con- 
stitutional convention are keeping at their task of organ- 
izing for the purpose of dissecting the constitution. While 
the nation is bending its efforts to the prosecution of war 
it seems a little out of place for a body of men to be de- 
liberating upon so fundamental a question as the revision 
in any way of the state constitution. It is to be feared 
that too little public attention will be given to the acts of 
the delegates and when the great war is over and men sit 
back a little bit calmer to regard the work of their repre- 
sentatives it may be found that changes have been enacted 
which will not meet the approval of the majority. The 
men who have been elected as delegates should keep in 
mind their responsibility to those whose representatives 
they are and should act cautiously in any matter of change. 
*Twere better if the convention adjourned to more settled 
times, but if the delegates feel they must act now, the less 
they attempt to accomplish the better. 
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Joun L. SALTONSTALL OF BEVERLY has formally an- 
nounced his candids cy for Congressman in our district 
made vacant by the resignation of Colonel Augustus Pea- 
body Gardner. Because of the engrossing care of the 
Red Cross work of which Mr. Saltonstall is the New 
FKngland president it will be impossible for him to give 
his attention to the work of his campaign. He is quite 
right in his decision. The voters of the Sixth District 
appreciate the work which he has done and is now doing 
and will loyally support him at the primaries in the fall. 
Tne Linertry Bonn Commrrrers of Beverly and 
Manchester were successful and did their part in the 
campaign that has just ended, If all of the towns and 
cities of equal size had succeeded proportionately well the 
over-subscription of the issue would have been large. 
have been made at this time, close on the’ 
Red Cross Week 
June 18-25 
DELIVER Us From Harrep! There is one vital point 
upon which we as citizens must guard ourselves in the 
great contest before us, and that is that there grow not 
up in our hearts a spirit of hatred toward those in our 
midst with foreign blood in their veins. We have said 
that we are not to prosecute a war of revenge, but a con- 
test for right and justice. This sentiment comes easy 
enough at this time. The danger will come later, when 
the real shock of war is felt and grim death fans us with 
his sable wings as he takes a son from this home and a 
husband or brother from that one. Americans cannot 
afford to harbor hatred, and especially can they not afford 
animosity toward our citizens of foreign descent. If the 
citizen of Teutonic blood is loyal to our country, though 
he grieve at the necessity for war with his fatherland, his 
burden is heavy enough without the added knowledge or 
suspicion that he is viewed with antagonism and distrust. 
There are some who are unquestionably traitors to the 
land of their adoption, but they will soon come to their 
just end. Time will efface them. But their acts should 
not prejudice in our minds those who are loyal and who 
are stanchly supporting the government, even though it be 
with hearts saddened by regrets. If Americans are even 
approximately true to their ‘ideals they will not permit the 
loyal to suffer for the acts of the disloyal. To do so 
would be to defeat the very aims in view in the struggle 
before us. We now are impelled by one consuming de- 
sire, the freedom of humanity in its broadest sense, and 
the greatest freedom to which we can attain is freedom of 
heart from rancor and bitterness. No great cause was 
ever won without martyrdom. Some must suffer greatly, 
all must suffer some. It is nature’s way in which she 
works out human redemption. But if bitterness and 
hatred is permitted to creep into the martyrdom and suf- 
fering, their uplifting and purifying influence is nullified. 
Let us pray to be delivered from all bitterness, that when 
the contest is ended even our foes may be brought to the 
light as we see it. 
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MANCHESTER HAs PuRCHASED LIBERTY BONDs in 
much the same way that Manchester responds to other 
appeals to the patriotism of its citizens. Its quota was 
reached without great effort on the part of the solicitors 
and represents almost entirely the subscriptions of the 
townspeople and not the contributions of summer residents. 
To the many summer residents, whose permanent homes 
are elsewhere, has fallen the task of swelling the larger 
quotas demanded of the large cities and their response has 
been in most cases as prompt as the situation demanded. 
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Tur Arracks. MAapgE ALONG THE WESTERN FRONT 
have been continued with marked success by the English. 
The attack at Messines was spectacular, daring and suc- 
cessful. The British are wearing the Germans down at 
this point. The success attained in the face of great 
difficulties has been recognized by the German military 
authorities, 
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Tue Visitors, who have come for the summer will 
find many agencies through which to work for war chari- 
ties, but none so important as the Red Cross, 
