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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 13 
THE QUESTION OF REFORESTATION has been too little 
considered in America, In Europe great advances have 
been made by municipalities and even by national gov- 
-ernments in conserving standing wood and developing 
new woodlands. Manchester’s determination to experi- 
ment in reforestation received the unanimous encourage- 
ment that it deserves. If the committee be given ample 
means and a free hand and if the needs of Manchester 
be carefully studied twenty years will reveal the wisdom 
of the action now taken. The forest land and the shore 
are the two great assets of the town; when these are 
wasted or neglected deterioration is inevitable. 
‘ An Inygustice Is Betnc Done to the horticultural 
world. In the mechanical field the inventor is protected 
by a patent and may reap the rewards of his genius for 
a period of years, but in the field of plant culture 
there are no laws or patents to protect the skilful agri- 
culturalist who has the genius to produce a new and 
really valuable hybrid. Why ought not such a workman 
be entitled to a patent protection, so to speak? 
Tuat A Bic EnciisH FretcHt STEAMER should run 
on the Whaleback in Manchester harbor and throw roc- 
kets during all the night and whistle for a tug and yet 
not get help from eight o'clock at night until six o’clock 
in the morning seems strange, It demonstrates again 
the desirability and necessity of wireless equipment on 
all sea-going crafts. 
Tue HeLpiessness oF New York in the throes of 
the recent storm is significant, What would happen to 
that city in the event of a serious railroad tie up? 
Wuen A Man Has Money he is not likely to have 
the time and when a man has the time he has not the 
money. Life is such a paradox! 
New Jersry is just awakening to the injustice of the 
free railroad pass. Massachusetts has long been out or 
that class. 
Tue Proposed Brit, regulating the sale of certain 
habit-forming drugs ought to be passed. The bill pro- 
vides that prescriptions for such drugs cannot be filled 
indefinitely but must be renewed, It is possible now for 
a victim to use an old prescription indefinitely. Under 
the proposed act the physician must specify the malady 
for which the drug is to be used and the prescription can- 
not be refilled. The troubles resulting from habit-form- 
ing drugs are greater than the public generally is aware 
and any regulation of the sale of the drugs ought to be 
tried. 
Tue Boston TRANscRiPT printed a six line item on 
the failure of an applicant for divorce and a certain 
other newspaper featured it on the front page in four 
inch type. The Transcript is to be commended as ever 
for its good judgement, What right has the press to 
exploit the difficulties of family life! Such a lack of fine 
feeling in the modern press is deplorable, 
“Bitty” SuNDAY, the famous baseball evangelist, is to 
conduct a great campaign in Boston next summer. It is 
unlikely that he will please or attract the cultured or even 
the church classes, but he has a message that will reach 
men whom the church do not reach. Let any good work 
go on! 
A New Town Hatt would be in the line of pro- 
gress, but Manchester’s determination to wait another 
year is merely an indication of municipal caution. The 
Town hall will come at the right time. 
WirH JORDAN IN Boston and Stotesbury in Phila- 
delphia opera has strong friends and backers in two 
Amercian cities. 
THE First Sicns of open weather and a coming 
spring will bring with them the usual crop of spring 
colds. 
Now THE SELECTMEN’S worries begin. 
Eciips— AS PER ADVERTISED. 
The eclipse of the moon, which 
was calculated to make the members 
of Mother Earth sit up and take no- 
tice Wednesday night, showed up as 
advertised. and modestly played its 
one-night stand in the heavens. Evi- 
dently most people were perfectly wil- 
ling to wait until 1916 to witness an- 
other such sight, as the eclipse did 
not excite any such interest as it was 
in the habit of doing in olden times. 
The interest shown might be instanc- 
ed in the remark of a passenger of 
the Gloucester branch theatre train, 
When asked by a brakeman if he had 
seen it. ‘No, where is it playing?” 
he said. The eclipse was accompan- 
ied by one of the most perfect even- 
ings this winter, The brilliancy of 
the moon was only outshone by the 
myriads of stars which vied with it 
for supremacy. In other words, the 
stage setting was perfect for an 
equally perfect eclipse. 
Everybody.reads the Breeze. 
WatER BOARD ORGANIZES. 
The Manchester water board has 
organized with Geo. E. Hildreth as 
chairman and secretary for the year. 
T. W. Long has been appointed clerk 
to the board and the other appoint- 
ments are as follows: George F. 
Evans, supt. and chief engineer; Ar- 
chie W. Greenough, engineer at 
home station; W. W. Soulis, engin- 
eer at Gravel Pond station; William 
D. Cook, asst, engineer; William J. 
Lethbridge, foreman. 
ScuHoor, COMMITTEE ORGANIZED. 
The Manchester School Committee 
met last Friday evening and organ- 
ized with the choice of Dr. W. H. 
Tyler as chairman and Albert Cun- 
ningham as secretary. Raymond C. 
Allen, the new member of the com- 
mittee, is purchasing agent for the 
department. 
ASSESSORS ORGANIZE. 
The Board of Assessors of Man- 
chester have organized with Edward 
S. Knight as chairman and secretary. 
Selectmen Bell and Cheever are the 
other two members of the board. 
Mr, Knight has served on the board 
about I1 years, part of that time as 
its chairman, He served first in 1891- 
2-3, and was again elected in 10905, 
serving continuously until March, 
1912, when he resigned. His long ex- 
perience in town affairs and especial- 
ly in matters of taxation eminently 
fits him for the important position 
to which he has recently been elect- 
ed. Manchester’s sixteen million 
valuation and its rapidly increasing 
expenditures makes the office the 
most important in town in many 
ways. 
Canada has a society of forest 
engineers. Dr B, E. Fernow, of Tor- 
onto, is president, and Mr, F. W. H. 
Jacombe, of Ottawa, is secretary. 
Any dove of peace that saw 
Huerta’s picture would know that 
Mexico is no place to build a nest, 
