12 NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
North Shore Breeze 
Published every Friday afternoon by 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE CO. 
Knight Building Manchester, Mass. 
J. ALEX. LODGE, Editor. 
Telephones: Manchester 137, 132-M. 
Subscription rates: $2.00 a year; 3 month (trial) 50 cents. 
Advertising rates on application. 
To insure publication contributions must reach this office not 
later than Thursday noon preceding the day of issue. 
Address all communications and make checks payable to 
North Shore Breeze Co., Manchester, Mass. 
Entered as second-class matter at the Manchester, Mass., 
Postofiice. 
VOL. XII Mar. 13, 1914 No, II 
Tue Women’s Municipal, LeacuEe of Boston of 
which Mrs. J. T. Bowlker is president and Mrs, Robert 
S. Bradley is a leading worker is doing a mighty work 
to better conditions in the City of Boston. The work 
is laid out along broad lines and is certain in the near 
future to make even more sweeping reforms in muni- 
cipal life. It has a department of public sanitation which 
has demonstrated its usefulness and efficiency beyond 
the fondest dreams of its organizers and well wishers. 
The house problem is attacked by another branch with 
success along varied lines. The prenatal clinic con- 
ducted for mothers-to-be is doing a valuable work of 
education that will improve the child’s chances of life 
and happiness to say nothing of the mother’s health 
and peace and comfort. A street and alley department 
has effectively labored with officials and citizens to im- 
prove the living conditions of streets in the slums and 
to improve the conditions of the alleys even in some of 
the more favored sections. The inspection of candy 
factories and places where food products are manufac- 
tured has resulted in startling facts being revealed and 
some drastic reforms actually enforced. An interesting 
work among the children by means of educating exhibits 
has been marvelously successful. It is evident that this 
organization has won its place and just praise for its 
work and successes ought not to be far off, ‘“The har- 
vest indeed is ripe and the laborers are few,” as Mrs. 
Bowlker well says, but it is more than evident that the 
workers who have served with faithfulness and self-de- 
nial in the past have reaped both where they have sown 
and where they have not sown, so rich have the rewards 
been of ‘good seed well scattered. Nothing has been left 
undone that these industrious workers could do. The 
rewards of labor and the satifactions of completing a 
task well, surpasses any praise of man. ‘The Women’s 
Municipal League deserves and should have the finan- 
cial support of those who can help that way and the 
personal service of those who can render personal ser- 
Vice. 
Tue Reckyiess Use oF GASOLINE in these days of 
the motor car and the motor boat is annually claiming 
toll in lives and personal suffering, Few people realize 
the explosive power of that colorless fluid. A light is 
unnecessary for an explosion. A sudden draft of air 
from an opened door has been known to cause just the 
right mixture, Too much care can not be used in 
handling this deadly liquid. Safety first begins in the 
care of gasoline. 
A Doc Is THE Best oF Frienps and he who knows 
them best learns and understands most about them, All 
but speech is within their power, Now a great Dane 
dog finds an exhausted lad buried waist deep in the snow. 
Trying his own powers first he did not succeed in re- 
leasing the boy from the snow at Greenwich, Connecti- 
cut. Intelligent animal that he was he searched out a 
man and led him to finish the task. Teddy, of Sweet 
Briar Farm is surely a hero. Who can understand that 
a dog knows and thinks, His affections are deep, A 
dog’s friendship compels the respect and affection of 
humanity. _ Nothing but a dog? Who can dare think 
such a thought with history so rich in beautiful incidents 
such as this of Christensen’s Teddy! Well did Mrs. 
Browning write her beautiful poem on her dog Flush. 
The devotion of dogs to the human race entitles them 
to a high place among the friends of man. 
Tue Inpustrta, Epucation propaganda work still 
continues. The work progresses more slowly than it 
ought; not because the need is not apparent, but because 
of the apathy of public opinion and the opposition of 
the powers that be that favor the so-called classical 
methods of education. Commissioner Snedden made 
a telling address in Beverly in favor of ‘the newer meth- 
od, While progress may be slow the end is inevitable. 
Modern conditions demand a more liberal educational 
policy. It is well that our children are taught the stud- 
ies that refine and make for culture, but it is equally 
important that they be taught to earn their daily bread 
and become self-supporting and contributors to the gen- 
eral weal. 
WuiLEe Many AMERICANS are still opposed to the 
Panama Exhibit in California as another: infringement 
upon the courtesy of neighboring nations the refusal of 
the House of Commons to co-operate is nevertheless dis- 
tasteful. The American people ought never to have put 
the good will of Great Britain or the good will of any 
nation to this test, If the House of Commons reverses 
its decision it will be a royal expression of good will. 
If on the other hand it declines to co-operate its attitude 
ought not to be criticized even though we may resent it. — 
Tur Errort Has Breen Mang to extend the initia- 
tive and ‘the referendum. ‘Theoretically the initiative 
and the referendum appear democratic, but as a matter 
of experience they are subversive to the interests of 
democracy, The average voter gives but little thought 
to questions of referendum. Ask yourself! Have you 
not been surprised at the referendum articles that have 
appeared on the ballots in recent years? Is it not true 
that the referendum articles are neglected entirely by 
many and voted upon without thought by many others? — 
President Lowell is right in his attack upon the refer- 
endum. 
THE GOVERNMENT OwNERSHIP of the telephone sys- 
tem would result in chaos and paralysis of efficiency. 
What would happen to the system if the same fear that 
periodically attends changes in the political world should 
permeate the telephone service, 
In Ati THE Wortp there is nothing so valuable as 
a good name. If newspapers would only learn to guard 
the treasures of others what a good world this would be! 
THE Moruer’s Pension PLAN has been in opera- 
tion now for three months and the results have de- 
monstrated the wisdom of the legislation, 
