BROTHERHOOD MEETING 
SALEM CLERGYMAN TALKS ON THREE 
UNALIENABLE RIGHTS OF AMER- 
ICANS. 
HAT the question of American 
“preparedness” is uppermost in 
the minds of most men today was 
convincingly demonstrated on Mon- 
day evening at the meeting of the 
Brotherhood in the Baptist church ves- 
try. In what was characterized as 
one of the most interesting meetings 
of the Brotherhood a spirited discus- 
sion of preparedness and of the 
merits of the Wilson policy of “watch- 
ful waiting” grew out of the Rev. 
Harry J. Newton’s address on “The 
three unalienable rights of an Amer- 
ican.” Mr. Newton, who is pastor of 
the Crombie street church in Salem, 
began the discussion when he depart- 
ed from the narrow lines of his sub- 
ject to criticize the Wilson policy in 
Mexico and in the Lusitania affair. 
Mr. Newton in opening his address 
said that the framers of the Declara- 
tion of Independence were very care- 
ful in their selection of words. They 
declared that men had the right to 
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi- 
ness. He laid emphasis on the word 
“pursuit,” remarking that the framers 
of the important document realized 
that the attainment of real happiness 
was an impossibility. 
“We ought to be happy,” he said, 
“but few of us find happiness. The 
socialists say that the attainment of 
happiness is an industrial problem and 
and that by reorganizing society we 
will attain happiness. Though I find 
much that is good in socialism, that 
fundamental principle of it which says 
that a change of condition will create 
happiness, I cannot agree with. You 
can put a pig in a parlor, but that does 
not make a gentleman of him. Ina 
reorganized society people do not 
change; you can still have a social hell 
in your reorganized society. The 
question is a moral one and not an 
economic one. 
“We must distinguish between 
pleasure and happiness. Pleasure is 
that which satisfies the senses. It has 
no continuity. Happiness is the re- 
ward which Christ promised in the 
Sermon on the Mount. 
“One of the strangest contradic- 
tions in the moral world is that al- 
though we may pursue happiness or 
pleasure, we never get them. It is 
wrong to pursue pleasure as an end. 
Pleasure is a by-product of life; not 
an ultimate commodity. It is attained 
only when we work for a great end, 
the attainment of ‘character.’ Even 
happiness is never reached if sought 
as an end, 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
“Another statement of the Declara- 
tion of Independence is that all men 
are born free and equal. ‘This is ab- 
surd. One man is born blind, an- 
other deaf and another sound in body. 
They cannot be equal. When I look 
at the industrial situation today and 
think of the great war, I say, ‘Free- 
dom, where art thou?’ Freedom is 
only attained by submitting to certain 
conditions and then it is not freedom. 
“The Declaration of Independence 
guarantees to all men, life. I know 
no person who can give it nor any 
government which can give it.” 
It was when Mr. Newton took up 
the “protection of life and property” 
guaranteed by the Constitution that he 
found occasion to roast the Wilson 
administration. Referring to the 
murder of hundreds of Americans 1 
Mexico he said: 
“Mr. Wilson seems to have no 
policy. He does not seem to know 
what he is doing. While hundreds 
of Americans were being murdered in 
Mexico and on the the Lusitania, his 
policy has been watchful waiting-— 
mostly waiting. Armed intervention 
is necessary in Mexico. There is no 
government there worthy of the 
name. We should go into Mexico to 
protect the Mexicans against their 
worst enemies, the bands of maraud- 
ing bandits.” 
Mr. Newton does not approve of 
Congressman Gardner’s preparedness 
propaganda, but believes in prepared- 
ness *himseliv-: Mes préters to<call it 
“protection,” however. 
He charged that the newspapers of 
the country were subsidized by the 
munitions interests and that it was im- 
possible to get a pacifist argument in- 
to print. Mr. Newton, who is a na- 
tive of England, made the remark re- 
garding the newspapers because, he 
said, a statement of Lord Roseberry’s 
had been suppressed in this country. 
That Englishman is quoted as saying 
that “every increase in preparedness 
in America meant a corresponding in- 
crease in the preparedness of every 
country in Europe.” 
He said that he approved of having 
a more efficient navy, but that the 
“military germ grew upon the thing on 
which it feeds.” He said he favored 
protection, “theoretically,” but that 
military preparedness would bring a 
war. “Get ready for a fight and you 
are sure to have one,” he said. 
In conclusion he said he had a 
great deal of sympathy for the moth- 
ed who “‘did not raise her boy to be a 
soldier,” as he himself was the father 
of a boy. 
The reference to preparedness stir- 
red up many of the members who 
asked questions regarding the advis- 
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ability of intervention in ue an) 
increased army, a confederation of 
nations for peace and other similar 
questions before the public at the 
present time. 
Following the discussion refresh 
ments, consisting of doughnuts, crack- 
ers and cheese and cocoa, were served 
by the entertainment committee. 
Because the date of the next meet- 
ing falls on Town Meeting night it— 
was voted to postpone it and leave 
the selection of the next meeting 
night in the hands of the executive 
committee. A vote of appreciation 
was given Mr. Newton for his ad-— 
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LEONARD DECKER. . 
News comes to us of the death ia 
Malden two weeks ago of Leonard 
Decker, a native of Manchester, at 
the age of about 68 years. Mr. Deck- 
er’s last stay in Manchester culmin- 
ated four or five years ago when his 
son Frank sold his drug business. 
The family moved to Quincy, and 
later to Malden. The remains were 
taken to Maine for burial. 
SipnEy MarsH. 
Former Manchester friends of Sid- 
ney Marsh of Jamaica Plain were 
grieved to learn of his death at his 
home on Tuesday, following an ex- 
tended illness. Mr. Marsh was form- 
erly employed by Lester Leland 1a 
West Manchester, but owing to fail- 
ing health he was compelled to give 
up his position last May. He went 
to New Hampshire hoping that the 
change would be beneficial. After a 
short stay he moved to Jamaica Plain 
where he made his home until the 
time of his death. 
Funeral services were held at his 
late residence, 20 Oakdale stre 
Jamaica. Plain, at 8.15 o'clock this 
morning. Requiem high mass w. 
held at the Church of Our Lady 
Lourdes at 9 o’clock. Besides his 
wife, Mr. Marsh is survived by four 
sons, the oldest of whom, Thomas, is 
employed in the Manchester pos 
fice. The deceased was a membe 
the North Shore lodge, 68, A. O. 
W., of Manchester, and a delega 
from the order attended the fune 
Station-agent and Mrs. F. C. R 
were in Portsmouth, N. H., over Sut 
day. ze 
