14 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
Tuts is THE Time of the year to give careful atten- 
tion to the trees upon your estates. Surprising advances 
have been made during the last decade in the study of 
preventative forestry. Trees must be carefully pruned 
and treated. ‘There is a right way and there is a wrong 
way. There was a time when the surgeon operated in a 
room supposedly sterilized by means of sprays of disin- 
fectants. It is now known that such methods of opera- 
tions are archaic. The time has passed when a saw and 
axe are sufficient for tree work. Limbs should be care- 
fully cut back to the tree trunk to permit the growth of 
bark an opportunity to heal over the wound. The wound 
should be carefully treated with tar. Deep wounds should 
be carefully cleaned and every mite of the rotten wood 
reroved, then tarred and covered with cement if the 
wound be deep enough. But all cement work is ineffec- 
tive if the least portion of decayed matter be a behind 
the cement. Heavy limbs should be bolted or chained 
in such a way as to permit the tree to sway ann he wind. 
li is lamentable how careless estate Owners can be in the 
care of trees. It is always wise to seek the advice of an 
expert forester. There are many who do not know their 
craft thoroughly and craftsmen should be engaged and 
the “quacks” avoided. 
Proressor M. J. Bonn, of the German government 
teaching force, at Munich, declares that because of Ger- 
many’s failure to Prussianize German Poland, the por- 
tion which fell to Germany's lot at the time of the parti- 
tion of Germany has resisted successfully every effort 
made by Germany to Germanize it. Inasmuch as all 
utterances made by the German Se eretin are censored 
before views are expressed, confidence is being placed in 
the declaration by the German professor. However, the 
war is not ended and it takes two to make an agreement. 
It may be that Russia will regain all that has been lost 
and the territory will be found at the end of the war in 
the hands of Russia. However that may be, whether 
Poland is controlled by Germany or Russia, it is more 
than probable that Poland will be granted some form of 
self-government and be governed from its old capitol. 
\Vhether the new government will be controlled from 
Berlin or Petrograd remains to be seen. 
THe Crry or BrEverty has made a good beginning 
upon the problem of treating tuberc -ulosis. The Mayor 
has appointed an efficient commission that has been doing 
excellent work. The municipalities of Massachusetts are 
alert to the responsibilities of properly caring for the 
sufferers with tuberculosis. Specialists in the study of 
tuberculosis have demonstrated again and again the 
practicability of eradicating the disease in its early stages. 
It is the work of these tuberculosis commissions to pre- 
sent opportunities for all for expert advise and treatment 
of disease and to disseminate information. The white 
scourge is a plague, indeed, communicable and dangerous 
always; the public needs to be cautioned and educated. 
As Was To BE Expecrep the death penalty for mur- 
der has not been abolished by the legislature. It was but 
natural that the governor should seek to avoid the respon- 
sibilities such a penalty involves, but it has not vet been 
demonstrated that death is not more to be desired than 
a living death for life in prison. 
Tue Sprinc SEASON is opening and with it comes 
out-of-door recreations and opportunities for automobil- 
ing and other open air sports. The season has begun and 
with it a more natural life may be lived. Fresh air and 
sunshine are great health agents. 
April 21, 1916. 
War 
FE, dream ‘of peace and we plan for peace, 
For peace we pray when we kneel at night, 
And not for a day do we ever cease 
To watch for a fair excuse to fight; 
We agree that war is a thing of dread, 
Its cause a crime and its cost a shame, 
But we place a wreath on the captain’s head, 
And we grant the conqueror deathless fame. 
We speak of the useless waste of blood, 
Of the bitter woe and the sinful strife, 
But we mount our guns by the roaring flood 
And devise new schemes for destroying life, 
Our envoys linger in foreign lands, 
Inspiring trust and alloying hate, 
But our ships are manned, and with ready hands, 
We grasp the weapons and watch and wait. 
We hear the sighs of the ones that bear 
The terrible cost of armament— 
Who toil and give, but who never share 
The glory for which their years are spent; 
We shudder when innocent blood is shed. 
War is the world’s most ghastly shame; 
But we twine a wreath for the captain’s head, 
And we grant the conqueror deathless fame. 
—S. E. Kizer, in The Chancellor. 
Procress HAs Bren Mabe in the development of 
the military preparation of youths of the school age. 
ci are those who go so far as to make it obligatory. 
‘he City of Boston, how ever, has been in the lead for 
over a generation; it has maintained its high school cadet 
regiments at an efficient grade. The military drill can 
never do any one any harm and it may sometime be of 
some good. Anyone who has had any military training 
knows that there is nothing in the simple drills of the — 
school regiments to develop the militaristic spirit. On the 
contrary it has a tendency of taking out of the minds of 
many light-headed boys the thirst for military adventure. 
One day’ s march carrying a heavy gun is enough to show 
a growing lad who wrests at restraint that military ser- 
vice and discipline is something more than a picnic. 
THe Fortunate Owners of ship stock are now 
profitting by the almost unprecedented advances in ship- 
ping rates, but with them there are equivalent risks. 
Travel upon the high seas, especially in the submarine dis- 
tricts, is far from comfortable. Ships operating in the | 
war zone earn their charges by the great risks taken. 
THe WooLen Mitts of New England have been 
enjoying a period of unprecedented prosperity and the 
mill corporations have voluntarily granted an increase of 
five and ten percent in the wages of operatives. Here 
is a marked illustration of the benefits accruing to stock- 
holders and to workmen. 
ANOTHER RAILROAD WRECK is reported and the in- 
vestigation will determine whether it was the failure of 
the system of safe-guarding trains or whether it was due 
to man failure. Meanwhile it is wise for all concerned 
to await the careful work of the proper commission ap- 
pointed to determine the cause of the wreck. 
In a choice of evils, war may not always be the worst. 
—Abraham Lincoln, 
