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VOR XIN Jan e2i peor: No. 3 
THERE Has Been Hep this week in the City of 
Boston a convention of the American Forestry associa- 
tion, and for three days the problems of the care of 
forests and of reforestation have been discussed. Amer- 
ica has fortunately awakened to the perils of wasteful 
cutting of timber and has begun to make a careful study 
of forestry methods. The North Shore has been well 
represented at this gathering. This district is particularly 
interested in preserving the forest growths because of 
their asset as a summer attraction. The shore and wood- 
lund combined are unusual along the Atlantic coast, and 
yet here we are blessed with a matchless sea coast and an 
enviable growth of standing timber. The Shore recog- 
nizes the value of such growths and will not permit 
thoughtless, mercenary destruction. The lesson the North 
Shore has learned concerning the preservation of its wood- 
lands is being learned by other sections and such organ- 
izations as the American Forestry association are doing 
much to stimulate interest in this subject, educate the 
public and inspire worthy legislative actions looking to the 
protection of standing timber and the development of 
progressive reforestation plans. 
THE Most SIGNIFICANT STATEMENT made by W. T. 
Colyer at the Manchester Brotherhood Monday night was 
that at the time of the outbreak of the war there were 
iternational interlocking directorates conserving the in- 
terests of the firms developing the armament and ex- 
plosive manufacturers. On the same board, directors 
from England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy and the 
United States were sitting side by side, directing their 
common interests, the development of a demand for arma- 
ments and high explosives. .Comments are unnecessary. 
The fact tells its own apalling and repulsive story. 
JoHN L. SALTONSTALL should be elected one of the 
delegates to the national convention. Mr. Saltonstall has 
served his district as a representative to the General Court, 
two terms. He 1s now the president of the Beverly Hos- 
ital association. During the trying days following the 
Salem fire he was the efficient chairman of Beverly’s Re- 
lief committee. He has public spirit and if elected will 
be guided by the preferential vote of the district for Presi- 
dent. 
Turse Have Bren Goop Days for winter sports and 
the week-end parties have been numerous this year. While 
there has been snow for coasting and ice for skating the 
roads have been passable for automobiles. Winter has 
compensations and it is a wise man or woran who learns 
to take advantage of winter pleasures. 
Tuts Has BEEN A WEEK worthy of Mark ‘Twain’s 
descriptive powers. There has been weather and weather. 
STO sReb a ByReeah 7B, 
THERE 1s No Dovusr that the pacificist’s argument ‘s — 
fundamentally and ideally correct. Peace is the highest 
Jan, 21,1916, 
aim and desire of the human family and that ideal ought — 
never to be neglected. There was a time in the history of 
the struggle against wilderness when man’s life was not 
safe because of the dangers from the beasts of the field, — 
and man was forced to arm himself not because he wish- 
cd to live in an atmosphere of fighting, but because it was 
the necessity of the situation. When facing the tiger, 
peace ideals are less valuable than a rifle. It is to be re- 
cretted that the world of men cannot learn to live peace- 
ably. 
sible. Arms for aggression can never be the desire or the 
ideal of Americans, but if aggression ever took place 
within the borders or along the coast line there could be 
but one thing to do and that is defend home and hearth 
to the end. Peace, America wishes; peace it desires ;— 
but not at any price. There are questions of honor, home 
rights, liberty and self-government that have been won 
by the labors of other generations. Jingoism must not be 
developed. 
They must not be subjected to the tyranny of militarism. 
The ideals of peace must be preached in season and out 
of season, but it will be folly to believe that the time has ~ 
come to abolish navies, discharge armies and dream that 
pacificism will bring peace. 
and spirit would result in a definite invitation for aggres- 
sion and tyranny. When the time comes to abolish police- 
mien in civil life the time will have come to abolish navies 
and armies. ‘The greatest gain that has been made in the 
discussion of this subject is the League of Peace. A 
league of nations will definitely enforce peace with the 
“big stick.” Force never makes right. The mere triumph 
of armies does not prove the righteousness of the cause; 
but it ought to be possible for the nations of the earth 
alter this war to unite against a common enemy, war. A 
league of peace must have first of all a spirit anong men 
that seeks for peace. The fundamental issue is the de- 
velopment of good will among men. War is the breeder 
of enmity, strife, jealousies and hatred. This spirit needs 
an effective antagonist. The spirit of evil must be over- 
come with the spirit of righteousness. This is the ulti- 
mate goal. Military prowess, commercial gains, diplomatic 
ascendancies—all these ideals are destructive and harrow- 
ing. Peace, good will among men, benevolent and helpful 
co-operation in business enterprises and mutual co-oper- 
ation in the end profits most for the individuai and the 
nation. Peace will come among men not by militarism, 
not by pacific non-resistance, not by leagues or laws of 
peace, but by the spirit. The spirit knows no law because 
it is above the law. When that spirit dominates the rulers 
of all nations, lasting peace can be assured, and not until 
tnen. After all the same message of peace that came from 
the lips of the Master of Men is the message of the hour. 
How is that message to be interpreted for the times? 
It Now Transpires that the conscription enactment 
has been one of the shrewdest coup d’états since the war 
began. Lord Derby’s attestment scheme was first put 
through and it was a triumph. This was followed by the 
arnouncement of the exemption of the married men of 
the land. When everything was in order the conscription 
plan was proposed and the slacker shirkers had no ground 
upon which to defend themselves, and the enactment was 
made possible by the sheer force of public opinion. Equal- 
ly shrewd was the exclusion of Ireland from the provi- 
sions of the conscription. Ireland left to its own initia- 
tive has risen nobly to the task. Mr. Lloyd George and 
Mr. Asquith may have made mistakes, but there was no 
hlundering in engineering the Conscription Act. 
Until all nations can live at peace, war will be pos- 
The young must not be trained to make war. 
That very attitude of mind- 
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