10 NO RSELE eas EEO Ree Sb REE 
It 1s ANNOUNCED that a correspondent of a leader 
of the Catholic church in America believes that the. Ger- 
man Emperor intended to make a successful demonstra- 
tion at Verdun and then announce his conditions of peace. 
The thought seems possible. Yet, if the Kaiser had sin- 
cerely intended to have done that would he have made an 
announcement for peace terms if the success at Verdun 
made it probable that the success could have been re- 
peated. Success at Verdun would have driven the idea 
out of the mind of the Kaiser and of his armies. They 
would have set their faces southward and continued to 
fight it out along that line if it took another summer. 
CHAIRMAN STONE Reports “that so far from the 
President desiring to involve this country in this di as- 
trous European War, his supreme wish is to avoid that 
calamity.” This has been evident throughout the war and 
so far the President’s supreme wish has been gratified and 
America hopes that that wish may be fulfilled. 
GERMANY BLAMES ENGLAND and England blames 
Germany, but America considers both responsible for 
their transgressions. As a matter of fact Germany only 
has been guilty of such atrocities as are reported from: 
Belgium and such tragedies as the sinking of the Lusi- 
ania. 
THE LEAGUE To ENFORCE PEACE is going to stop war 
if they have to go to war to succeed. 
Proressor Tart’s life has been'much more peaceful 
than that of President Taft. 
March 17, 1916. 
AN Errort 1s Bernc MApk to change the voting day 
on the question of local option from the day on which 
local elections are held to the day of the state election. 
Iu is a subterfuge that has been tried before without suc- 
cess. The bill has been reported favorably by the com- 
mittee, but with a strong minority dissenting. Massachu- 
setts is committed to the policy of local option and that 
policy should be sincerely maintained. The bill will be 
defeated. There are no reasons for its defence. 
Tur Worip Now Knows that when a foreign nation 
1s negotiating with the President of the United States, it 
is dealing with the American people. This was the real 
issue back of defeat of the Gore and McLemore bills. 
The Congress of the United States has refused to inter- 
fere with the executive branch of the Government. 
In DECLINING POSITIVELY to become a candidate for 
the republican nomination for President, Justice Hughes 
is proving himself a man worthy of the high office which 
he holds. If the convention drafts him for service it 
witl be a signal honor worthy of Hughes. 
In Aserrine the so-called pacificist movement with- 
in Congress and throwing his influence against the Presi- 
dent, William Jennings Bryan’s political activities are not 
in harmony with his international program.  Pacificism 
begins at home. 
Marcu Has Proven itself as bad a winter month 
as February. The signs of an early spring are nowhere 
apparent. . 
UXCLE DUDLEY” in the Boston Globe is preaching 
the same gospel that the Nort SHore Breeze has 
stood for always in the matter of booming New England 
as a summer resort. What the NortH Snore BREEZE 
has preached intensively and practiced thoroughly along 
the North Shore prominent Boston business men are now 
applying to the whole of New England. The Globe says: 
“Switzerland’s thoroughness in handling its tourist 
trade is bracketted with a thorough and effective system 
of advertising its wares. While the care of the tourist 
is in private hands, largely, the advertising is intelligently 
directed as.a public function. Thus the people and the 
State work together to make the most of Switzerland’s 
stock in trade. 
“In the well worked-out and entirely businesslike 
system of the Swiss in attracting and holding tourist 
patronage, New England has a model that may serve it a 
good turn in the present campaign for organized effort to 
bring before the world the many attractions of the New 
‘England States as a Summer playground. Switzerland, 
with its cantons, is quite analogous to New England with 
its States and their variety of local interests; yet all sec- 
tions work together in getting tourist business. The cen- 
tral bureau advertises Switzerland as a whole, the various 
localities advertise themselves through the bureau, and 
all the information a traveler needs is given out through 
a recognized official channel. 
“In New England not so much stress need be laid on 
the official character of a central bureau as in a European 
country, perhaps, but the functions of a central bureau 
are needed at this time to put New England’s advertising 
before the public in the most efficient way. 
“While each section of New England catering to the 
tourist—and broadly speaking that means every section— 
naturally wishes to see its own attractions recognized by 
all the world, there probably is not one city, town or ham- 
let from the New York line to the New Brunswick bor- 
der, whose tren of substance would not be willing to con- 
tribute something toward a great advertising campaign 
for all New England. 
“This is an age of combinations, of team work. It is 
a'so a golden age in the development of our country. Our 
people are rich, and are spending more money in holidays 
than ever before. Hotels whose rates would have aston- 
ished our grandfathers are now doing business to the 
limit of their capacity in all well advertised resorts. 
Florida in the past few weeks has entertained her record 
crowd of Winter holiday makers. New England, by pro- 
per advertising, in the coming Summer may entertain her 
record crowd of ‘Summer folk.’ 
“Your conservative neighbor may say: ‘What’s the 
matter with the business we are doing now?  Isn’t New 
England entertaining about 1,000,000 people at its resorts, 
its farmhouses and its cottages, every Summer? And 
aren't those people spending here anywhere from $75,000,- 
coo to $100,000,c00? Why spend money to advertise 
when you have a business like that?’ 
“The fact that we have the business may be cited as 
the best evidence of our need to advertise. With such a 
start the business may be doubled.. The hotels that do 
the best business today in New England are the more ex- 
pensive ones. There is room for more like them. There is 
room fora better grade of small hotel in many shore resorts. 
There is room for better construction, giving a greater de- 
gree of safety from fire, and—what is economically im- 
portant—a lower insurance rate. There is room for 
better roads in many rural sections, to invite the tourist 
trade. 
“All that we lack may be had, if we get the business; 
and the way to get the business is to mix brains and 
printers’ ink and spread them with a push.” 
