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Rev. Dr. Walter S. Eaton will 
preach at the Village church Sunday 
morning on “An Honest Man.” 
The Whist club held its regular 
meeting Tuesday afternoon of this 
week at the home of Mrs. Ernest 
Lucas, Summer st. 
John B. Knowlton fell on the ice 
last Saturday and dislocated his 
shoulder, as well as receiving bad 
cuts about the face. 
Irving Eaton, a Junior at M. I. T., 
spent a few days of the mid-year re- 
cess at The Parsonage with his par- 
ents, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Walter S. 
Eaton. 
Mrs. John E. May was hostess last 
evening at her home on Western ave. 
to the Lend-a-Hand club. The Club 
has had a busy winter thus far and 
has sent packages of clothing which 
the members made, to the Belgian 
Relief Committee and to the Glou- 
cester District Nurse association. 
An unusually interesting Forum 
meeting is planned for Sunday even- 
ing when Camil Saldanha, an edu- 
cated Hindu, will give an illustrated 
lecture. This speaker offers much 
that is removed from the common- 
place in lectures and there will prob- 
ably be many who will embrace this 
opportunity to hear him. 
Arrangements have been completed 
for the Foster Club Valentine dance 
which the members are giving at the 
Woman’s clubhouse tomorrow even- 
ing. This is to be.a fancy dress party 
and will undoubtedly be very success- 
ful, as have been all the parties this 
club has given this season. 
The Parent-Teacher association 
held its February meeting at the Wo- 
men’s clubhouse this month instead 
of at the Blynman school, as has been 
the custom. It met at the clubhouse 
Tuesday evening with a large attend- 
ance present. A new arrangement 
for moving pictures was shown, and~ 
Magnolia people displayed great in- 
terest in it. After the pictures the 
Foster club held a cake and candy 
sale. 
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MAGNOLIA FORUM 
John P. Whitman, a Boston news- 
paperman, gave a talk at the Magno- 
lia Forum in the Union Congregation- 
al church last Sunday evening in 
which he described some of the forces 
at work in large cities both tending 
to drag down and uplift civilization. 
He stated that in the present crisis 
when a large part of the world is 
busy murdering and slaying fellow 
human beings, it becomes the province 
of the United States to work out the 
problems of peace and progress not 
only for the states, but for Europe as 
well. 
“In the cities,” he declared, “where 
a majority of citizens now live, les- 
sons are learned and standards set 
for the rest-of the country. In the 
great cities are to be found focussed 
the best and the worst, and the fight 
between the two though not accom- 
panied by sensational spectacles— 
similar to those across the Atlantic, 
may, nevertheless, be followed by re- 
sults equally far-reaching and signi- 
ficant.” 
“T have found,” the speaker went 
on to say, “four malignant forces 
combining their foul strength to pull 
down and vitally cripple the best that 
American civilization stands for. 
R. E. HENDERSON 
BOX 244, BEVERLY, 
Also Hunt’s Market, 172 Prospect Street, Cambridge. 
——J. MAY——— 
Real Estate and Insurance Broker 
Shore Road, Magnolia, Mass. 
Sole Agent for the Gloucester Coal Co. 
Feb. 11, 1916. ™ 
ORDERS TAKEN AND DE- 
Magnolia, Massachusetts. 
Notary Public 
Should they win in their struggle for — 
supremacy the twentieth century city © 
will become the abode of no honest — 
men, and will be given over to the 
powers of evil and decay.” a 
Mr. Whitman took his illustrations — 
from his personal experiences as a — 
social settlement worker and as am 
journalist. He described as the four — 
evil geniuses of the cities “drink,” — 
“corrupt politics,” “large interests and — 
corporations without souls,” and “ig- 
norance—lack of broad education.” 
A depressing picture of how these — 
influences work was given with speci- — 
fic illustrations, largely taken from 
the city of Boston. 7 
The last half of the talk was de- 
voted to “civilization’s antidotes” for 
the urbane diseases above mentioned. — 
The growth and influences of the 
social settlement was mentioned as a 
powerful civic factor in developing 
neighborhood consciousness and local 
unity as fighting forces. Larger and— 
more extended use of school houses 
for all citizens old and young was 
cited as even a more hopeful step in~ 
the upward progress of democracy—_ 
bringing all elements of communities 
together, not on a charitable basis, 
but as free and independent citizens — 
using their own weapons. ; 
(Continued to page 19) 
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