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An Adverse Report has been returned on the bill 
prohibiting scenes of violence and bloodshed in mov- 
ing pictures. 
This does not mean that Massachusetts 
is not alert to the dangers of the moving picture. A 
‘pill will be formulated later that will obviate constant 
changing of the law. 
One carefully prepared law re- 
lative to moving picture exhibits will before many 
years be placed upon the statutes. 
_ An Enthusiast suggests that the battle-filags taken 
during the revolution be returned to Great Britain as 
an expression of good will and brotherly love. As 
there are less than six such flags it is not likely that 
much feeling will be engendered by keeping or return- 
ing them, It would seem to be the better part of cour- 
tesy to let the matter rest. 
February has gone! During the month on the 
Shore all records for continuous cold were broken. 
‘Good bye old February, your memory is more precious 
‘that it is preparing for war. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 15 
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The Following Sentence from President Wood’s an- 
nual report is interesting. ‘‘Nothing is so prejudicial 
to business as political agitation and uncertainty and we 
regard it as great gain that we have arrived at a new 
starting point.’? With such an optimism business ought 
to be better in the months ahead of us. 
La Follette’s Ambitions now lay in the direction 
of the Governor’s chair in Wisconsin. The accidents 
of fortune have placed more than one man in the Presi- 
dent’s chair. The accidents of fortune kept La Follette 
out. May he have better luck in his later ambitions ! 
Russia, it is asserted, makes no secret of the fact 
As a matter of fact is not 
this exactly what every nation is doing? Why are ap- 
propriations made for naval work? 
Archdeacon Stuck is for roads in Alaska first and 
then railroads. How often nations blunder by giving 
thah your presence! 
Someone With a Literary Gift and the time should 
arrange in a small volume the reminiscences that may 
be obtained from citizens now living of early Manches- 
ter history. 
Now That An Adverse Report has been returned 
against the bill prohibiting the use of fire crackers on 
the Fourth of July ‘‘kiddies’’ are happy for another 
Fourth. 
Secretary Bryan cautiously continues the requests 
presented in the Benton case. 
The Rain on Sunday was a money-saver to the 
North Shore towns. 
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WHITE PINE GROWING IS 
PROFITABLE 
The growing of white pine, says 
the department of agriculture in a 
bulletin issued on the subject, is a 
profitable undertaking at 6 per 
cent. compound interest. To bring 
in these returns, the trees may be 
cut when not more than from 35 to 
70 years old. 
The original white pine forests 
are approaching exhaustion, accord- 
ing to the department, and with the 
growing scarcity of large-sized, 
high-grade white pine lumber, low- 
er grades now find a ready market. 
Besides this, the tree grows rapidly, 
has a heavy yield, and is easy to 
“manage, 
Second-growth white pine, 90 
years old, on good soil, may yield 
as much as 49,000 feet of lumber per 
acre. On medium soil, stands of the 
same age 36,000 board feet, and 
even on poor soil, 24,000 feet. White 
pine boxboard lumber, one of the 
chief products of such stands, sells 
for from $12 to $18 a thousand 
board feet. Material for making 
matches, another product, sells for 
luxuries when necessities are needed most. 
positions, 
Mt. Desert Island and Nantucket have put the ban 
on the automobile. 
refuse to be modern. 
There are at least two places that 
Every One Knows who the Mayor of Boston is, but 
who knows overnight the incumbents of appointive 
The Opening of the lenten season and the increased 
influence. 
activities in Church circles cannot but have a beneficent 
The Appearance of a schedule for a baseball as- 
sociation is the first sign of spring. 
from $17 to $18 a thousand. Even 
larger material, suitable for sashes 
and blinds, some of which may be 
eut from 50-year old stand, brings 
from $30 to $35 a thousand feet. 
Second-growth white pine, the kind 
that is found on thousands of aban- 
doned fields and pastures in New 
England, and that which has 
sprung up after lumbering in many 
places where the original white pine 
forests stood, has a_ value today, 
says the department, that makes it 
well worth the attention of the own- 
er. 
Too often, caution the forest offi- 
cers, the farmer or other land own- 
er sells second-growth white pine 
stumpage for less than it is worth 
because he does not know how much 
lumber the stand is actually cap- 
able of yielding, or else is ignorant 
of the price the lumber and other 
products will bring. Too often, also, 
the foresters say, the owner of sec- 
ond-growth fails to realize that per- 
haps by holding his pine trees for 
a few years longer, or by thinning 
if properly at the right time, he can 
obtain a great deal more and bet- 
ter timber, and consequently a 
much larger relative return in mon- 
ey, than if he allows it to be cut 
clear when the first opportunity of- 
fers. 
The best second-growth white 
pine, 45 years old, will yield about. 
42.000 board feet per acre, but the 
same stand, when 55 years old, will 
yield 55,000 feet, an increase of 13,- 
000 feet per acre in 10 years. And 
this is not all, for along with the 
increase in quantity comes an in- 
crease in quality. Not only more, 
hut better timber is to be had. 
Counting in this factor of quality, 
the lumber from an acre of the best 
white pine, 55 years old, is worth 
about $1,000 against a value of $750 
when the stand is 45 years old. 
Nearly a Million a Day. 
Congress will provide $310,000,- 
000 for its postoffice business the 
coming year. The parcel post is 
proving a great money maker, but 
it is designed to make extensions 
in the service and reductions in 
rates, in order to keep the Depart- 
ment down to a merely self-sup- 
porting basis. 
