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Company and without favor. After 
the trial the boys were assigned to 
work rated according to the time 
standard at twenty-three cents an 
hour. They were, however, placed 
on piece work making it possible 
for the individual to develop and 
earn according to his ability. It 
does not mean that the boys will 
average twenty-three cents an hour 
for their first week or will earn that 
for some weeks to come. It does 
mean that at the very beginning of 
their career in the great institution 
they are beginning on work rated 
at that amount per hour. In other 
words the two years’ training has 
made it profitable to them and to 
the United Shoe Machinery Com- 
pany to put them at work upon such 
work as is worth twenty-three cents 
an hour. This is the beginning and 
with such a start the lads have the 
assurances of a bright future. 
Their time is in their own hands. 
Credit is due in this innovation 
to the untiring efforts of the former 
Superintendent of Schools in Bev- 
erly, Mr. Safford and to Mr. Vose, 
Assistant Superintendent of the 
United Shoe Machinery Company. 
This experiment is now being tried 
in the new mechanical school of the 
YMCA in Boston and seems to 
present a way out of the limitations 
of the modern school system and of 
the limited incomes 
boys. Any effort which tends to 
inerease the efficiency and skill of 
the citizens of a city or makes for 
the highest type of civic righteous- 
ness. The United Shoe Machinery 
Company should be commended for 
this public service. 
The Sherman Anti-Trust Bill 
The so-called Anti-Sherman Law, 
the result of a long debate in 
Congress, was actually drawn by 
the Judiciary Committee of the Sen- 
ate to whom the original bill, 
splinted and plastered, had been re- 
ferred. The Sherman Anti-Trust 
Bill reported provides that, 
' ‘Byery contract, combination in 
the form of trust or otherwise, or 
conspiracy in restraint of trade or 
commerce among the several States 
or with foreign nations, is hereby 
declared to be illegal... . 
‘‘Byery person who shall monop- 
olize, or attempt to monopolize, or 
combine or conspire with any other 
person or persons to monopolize, 
any part of the trade or commerce 
among the several States or with 
foreign nations, shall be guilty of a 
misdemeanor... . 
“The word ‘‘person’’ or “‘per- 
sons,’’ wherever used in this Act, 
shall be deemed to include corpora- 
of growing 
tions or associations existing under 
or authorized by the laws of either 
the United States,... any of the 
Territories; 3) s. ell ve. Staten OL ogee 
any foreign country.”’ 
Under this bill the Government 
has been doing effective work in 
purifying the complicated trust con- 
ditions in the United States. By it 
the Standard Oil Company and the 
American Tobacco Company have 
been brought to the bar of justice 
and a threatened attack sent steel 
tumbling. Now the General Electric 
Company has been arraigned and 
the Northern district of Ohio, Judge 
John M. Killits renders a decision in 
favor of the Government. Attorney 
General Wickersham claims that the 
new decision establishes precedents 
of genuine value to the Government. 
The new decision will prevent the al- 
leged combination in restraint of 
trade in incandescent lamp fixtures 
and enable independent manufac- 
turers ‘‘to secure the parts necessary 
for such manufacture without the 
unfair and unnatural restraint 
which has heretofore  existed.’’ 
These investigations are temporarily 
embarassing to the industries in- 
volved but must in the end be pro- 
ductive good not alone to the con- 
sumer but to the producer as well. 
There is business enough and profit 
enough in wholesome enterprises 
without the unjust gains of illegal 
restraint. 
The movement is on for ‘‘free’’ 
sugar. John Arbuckle has for years 
been in the harness. Every barrel 
of sugar last summer from his sugar 
refinery had on it a broad announce- 
ment that the removal of the duty 
on sugar would lessen the price to 
the consumer two cents per pound. 
It is his avowed purpose to make a 
determined fight for the introduc- 
tion of such a bill this winter. Our 
government is committed to a pro- 
tective tariff system which is also 
revenue producing. The removal of 
the tariff would end the protective 
element in the sugar tariff and re- 
move the revenue also. If the rev- 
enue be taken from sugar where 
shall it be placed? 
The decision of the Board of 
Trustees of Technology to take the 
shore land on the Charles River be- 
tween the Harvard and Old Boston 
Bridge is admirable. Cambridge 
and Boston are one and the develop- 
ment of the shore line under the ar- 
chitectural supervision of the Tech- 
nology Department, affords an op- 
portunity unrivaled in its possibili- 
ties. The contingent clauses in the 
arrangement are certain to be ful- 
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filled and the $100,000 grant by the 
legislature and the gift of Coleman 
du Pont will help solve the financial 
problem, This decision helps the so- 
lution of the Charles River Basin 
problem. 
C. A. Vincent at New Bedford 
said, ‘‘The use of cigarettes injures 
physically the action of the heart, 
the power of the lungs and the re- 
action of the flesh. It so acts on the 
mental fibres that as time goes on 
the user deteriorates in mental 
power. It has such an effect on the 
users that prominent business houses 
will not employ boys who are ad- 
dicted.’’ The law prohibits the 
selling of cigarettes to minors, and 
all know that Vincent is right now 
if the boy will only believe and act 
by it. 
W. Cameron Forbes, formerly of 
Boston, has ‘‘cornered’’ a Philippine 
‘‘eorner on rice’? and won. An un- 
scrupulous combine attempted to 
‘control illegally and inhumanely the 
rice product and acting upon the 
authority of our insular bureau, 
Forbes arranged for a supply of 
American corn to replace the rice. 
The result was magical. No words 
of contempt are strong enough to 
condemn ‘‘merchants’’ who will 
profit at the poverty of their con- 
sumers. Good for Forbes. 
At last the conservative workers 
to alleviate the evils incident to the 
inter-state liquor traffic are at 
work. Much harm has been done by 
erratic cranks and the work of the 
National Conference called to ‘‘eon- 
sider the growing evils of the Inter- 
State Liquor Traffic’? will be sane 
and effective. The signers of the 
call assures sensible and careful 
constructive work. 
Boston University is to have a 
Gala Week. There will be hours of 
festive greetings and feasts of rea- 
sons. The new President will be 
inaugurated with dignity and aca- 
demic ceremony. The University 
has made wonderful progress in its 
short career and all congratulate 
them upon their coming prospects. 
The Beverly Gas and Electric 
Company have voluntarily made a 
reduction in commercial gas and 
electric current. The promises look 
good—the new bills will look better. 
Will Manchester attain an equal ad- 
vantage? 
Now, Beverly Farms, the new 
sidewalks and clean streets! 
Listen to Manchester’s own band. 
