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Feb. 13, 1914 No, 7 
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Linco.n’s Brrrupay! It is well that we pause oc- 
casionally and reflect on the meaning of some of these 
holidays and semi-holidays such as the birthday of our 
beloved Lincoln, recognized Thursday throughout the 
land. We have so many holidays, they are apt to come 
and go and the true meaning of the day pass un-noticed 
and un-thought of, save that we have had a relapse from 
the usual business cares. ‘Io us of the North, steeped in 
the sentiment of the North, the people of the South are 
still inclined to loom up as of an entirely different sphere, 
We can see them only from a distance; and somehow 
everything looks different at a distance, whether it be 
things, men or events. It is well to see men and things 
with the eye of intimacy and close relationship, as does 
our friend Joe Mitchell Chapple, who entertained in 
Manchester last week with his “Flashlights of Prominent 
Men and Women.” And so with the South; these holi- 
days help us to see the events of that great conflict from 
a closer viewpoint. The editor had the pleasure on a 
recent visit to New York to make the acquaintance ot 
Mr. G. Terry Sinclair, a southerner by birth, one who 
had served the Confederacy throughout the war as a 
drummer boy, and whose brother, Col. Sinclair, 1s now 
writing an interesting series of articles on the war for 
the Hearst Magazine. Mr. Sinclair is much __inter- 
ested in the movement started by a southern soldier, S. 
A. Cunningham of Nashville, Tenn., to erect a monument 
in Indianapolis in honor of a Union officer, and he was 
lamenting the fact that the movement had just suffered 
a great set-back by Mr. Cunningham’s death. Cunning- 
ham was one of those thrown into a Northern prison 
of which the Union officer was in charge. The southerners 
seek to honor their former prison-keeper because of his 
fair treatment of them. Mr, Sinclair told also of an- 
other loss,—Bishop Dudley of Kentucky,-a Virginian by 
birth, who had worked indefatigably of late years to 
raise a fund with which to erect a monument for the 
negro men of the South, Everyone knows of the crimes 
committed by the negroes before and after the war and 
of the lynchings that once marked crime of this nature; 
but it has been pointed out as remarkable that during the 
war, when the women and children were left unprotected, 
rarely was a crime of this nature heard of: And so if 
is that a movement ‘s now on foot among the southerners, 
to erect a suitable monument in honor of the negroes as a 
mark of appreciation of their faithfulness in caring for 
the women and children of the South as the men left 
home and went away to war. It is such instances as 
these two that make us look at the South from a diff- 
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erent angle and appreciate that the two parts of the 
country are being welded together as they were before 
the war,—the object for which Lincoln gave his life. 
MarveLtous Curés have been made by means of 
radium. Now it.is an accredited truth that radium will 
cure cancers; not all cancers, but cancers in their early 
stages of growth. This, however, does not mean that 
cancer can always be cured by radium or that it will 
ever be a substitute for the knife. Surgery is now the 
most effective agent known to science in the treat- 
ment of cancer. But radium is proving itself to be a 
valuable assistant to surgery. Even in operations, an after 
treatment with radium has been found a most valuable 
agent, By this means isolated cells not found by the 
knife have been destroyed. ‘The effective use of radium 
and its real powers are still unknown. It will take years 
of patient research and study to increase the knowledge 
of radium properties and their therapeutic use. Radium 
radiates three forms of rays, named Alpha, Beta and 
Gamma, the names of the first three letters of the Greek 
alphabet. ‘The “Gamma rays” have the known therapeu- 
tic value in the treatment of diseased tissue. It is 
‘gratifying that even this little ray of hope is known. An- 
other one-hundred years ought to reveal the cure for 
this scourge of mankind. 
THe Go-to-CHuRCH CAMPAIGN was successful all 
along the shore from Beverly to Rockport. Even the 
pastors were surprised at the results of the campaign. 
From the reports of Manchester and Beverly Farms it 
is readily seen that the gain in attendance was pheno- 
menal. At some of the services the members of the con- 
gregation were able to greet other members who have 
for years neglected the house of worship, Already plans 
are laid for a continuance of the gains made. Last Sun- 
day was Go-To-Church-Sunday; next Sunday is “Keep- 
it-up-Sunday” and the Sunday after that “Try-it-again- - 
Sunday” and the following Sunday, “Make-it-a-habit,” 
is the slogan. ‘The Church ought not to be neglected and 
every catholic and protestant should rally to the support 
of the pastors in the work of the church. The Go-to- 
Church Campaign was worth while. It was a good move. 
Now it remains with the attendants of church to make 
church-going a habit. 
Ir is Now PossrpiE to purchase the bonds of the 
State of Massachusetts over the counter of the Treas- 
urer’s office. A similar enterprise failed in the city of 
Chicago. As a democratic movement to place the bonds 
at the disposal of all citizens of the state the idea is a 
good one, 
tried out can do no harm. What failed in Chicago may 
succeed here. Meanwhile Treasurer Mansfield ihas stir- 
red the ire of the bankers by his manner of advertising 
for bids for the six million dollar bond issue, and then 
rejecting all bids. He blundered, they say. 
A Great Mass MErtine was held in London Mon- 
day insisting upon a great navy to insure the national in- 
dependence of the Kingdom. It is becoming a common- 
place idea now. ‘The maintenance of a Navy that will 
command the respect of the world seems inevitable, how- 
ever much it may be regretted. It is peace at any price 
that the world needs, and the large navy is tolerated for 
its police powers as a means to that great end. 
BILLERICA will soon be on the map, with a new two 
It ought to be a good policy and to have it 
and one-half million dollar repair shop, to be followed - 
later by the employment of two thousand men, 
