‘April 7, 1916. 
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“PREPAREDNESS” 
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| SHOULD Mean More THAN PRE- 
% PARATION AGAINST WAR. 
"Editor North Shore Breeze, 
We Dear Sir:—The aims of the Spe- 
“¢ial Aid Society for American Pre- 
_paredness are so broad and as yet so 
little understood that I beg the court- 
-esy of your columns for an attempt 
to make them a little ciearer. 
" Preparedness, as those of us who 
are working in the Society understand 
ait, means something very far beyond, 
although necessarily including, pre- 
_ paredness to avert war. We believe 
jn this latter as any good housekeeper 
of a large and uncertain household 
_ believes in providing food enough for 
_ possible contingencies in order to 
‘avert hunger. In both cases it is bet- 
ter to have too much than to learn 
“one’s failure to provide too late. We 
do not feel that the oil carried by the 
“ten wise virgins precipitatel ‘the 
darkness upon themselves or their 
~ less provident companions, but rather 
“that it had a distinct tendency to dis- 
Bpel it. 
But we feel that preparedness 
should go very much further than 
merely preparation against war. 
There are many disasters which may 
be averted, by preparation and many 
others which, though not preventable, 
can be immensely mitigated by 
promptness in meeting them—a 
_ promptness which can only be brought 
about by preparedness. Anybody 
' who has been through a great catas- 
 trophe,—like the Salem fire, for in- 
stance—realizes how many hours of 
precious time could have been saved 
—hours which must have seened so 
long to the sufferers—if only, before- 
hand, those people who came to their 
rescue had understood just what to 
Heeand how to do it. ‘The night 
after that fire was a glorious one and 
- the refugees were far more comfort- 
able on the Common than they could 
wag = 
é have been under any shelter, but think 
what their discomfort would have 
~ been had a cold, northeasterly rain 
been falling, as might well have been 
Bethe case. Other disasters may come 
"which it is impossible to foresee, bit 
not, therefore, impossible to provide 
for. 
our preparedness. 
prepared to help to the extent 
That depends on the degree of 
If everybody 15 
that 
_ they can best help, it seens as if any- 
© thing might be ret with promptness 
~ and conquered, however unexpected 
it might be. 
: Greater in importance, however, 
- than even this high degree of pre- 
_ paredness—a_ preparedness which we 
should like to have include every 
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Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. 
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» they are able and in the way in which - 
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woman in the town and in the state 
(for this is an organization of wom- 
en) is the uplift which this great 
movement must bring to our daily 
living. The inspiration of the whole 
movement is the enthusiasm, the pat- 
riotism, which is stirring this Com- 
monwealth, as it has not been stirred 
since the great days of the Civil War. 
This great wave of patriotism must 
not be wasted in mere emotion—it 
must be turned to the service of our 
country—service which will lead us 
not only to prepare for her defence 
from threatened danger, but to her 
upbuilding for a higher, better life in 
peaceful living—service of each for 
the other and together for the whole. 
This is our ideal and it is for this 
perfected democratic service that we 
labor and in which we ask the co- 
operation of all. Our motto stands 
“Together, We Serve!” 
The Information Bureau at 541 
Boylston street is open daily from 9 
to s to receive all applicants for in- 
formation and all desirous of joining 
the Society. 
—Mrs. WitttAM LowELL PUTNAM. 
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TEE OF Navy LEAGUE. 
T’. Dennie Boardman, Andrew Car- 
negie, 2d, William Hooper and Wil- 
liam B. Walker, of Manchester; have 
been appointed to the membership 
committee of the Navy League of the 
United States and will help to repre- 
sent that organization in their district 
in the active, aggressive campaign 
which it is carrying on in all parts of 
the country in behalf of adequate pre- 
paredness against invasion and dis- 
aster. (They will co-operate with the 
members of the Navy League’s state 
committee for Massachusetts of which 
John LL. Saltonstall of Beverly is 
chairman, and will lend their ener- 
getic and enthusiastic support to the 
work undertaken to consolidate and 
organize the overwhelming sentiment 
of thinking people in behalf of ade- 
quate preparedness. 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
“T was afraid you and Dubwaite 
would come to blows yesterday.” 
“When we had our little argument 
about the war?” 
ON ea 
“No danger of that. 
ther of us is-a pacifist.” 
You see, nei- 
