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Volumes 9 December 29, 1911. Number 52 
Too True 
It is only too true that the chil- 
dren of American parents who are 
surrounded by every evidence of 
affection and care are unmindful 
and negligent of the opportunities 
which are laid before them and to 
be had for the grasping. Such a 
fact stands out when the alien, liv- 
ing perhaps in a squalid home with- 
out encouragement or apparent 
prospects, sets himself to the task of 
redeeming his time. It has been 
proven over and over again in ex- 
nerience that the lad who appre- 
ciates his college training is not the 
one who has had the opportunity 
thrust upon him, but the ene who 
has had to fight to obtain the chance 
and then to work hard to redeem 
the opening which has been ob- 
tained. 
Dr. N. C. Schaeffer, the state su- 
perintendent of schools and publie 
instruction in Pennsylvania, has 
done the public a good service in his 
forceful warning to the young 
American and his parents. He says 
‘“Children born of foreign parents 
realize the advantages thus placed 
within their reach. Many of them 
study with a zeal and earnestness 
which will make them winning com- 
petitors alongside of American 
youth, who waste their time at so- 
cial functions and in the gratifica- 
tion of self, instead of practising the 
self-denial which hes at the founda- 
tion of all true success.’’ 
O R T -H 
SHO R 4B 
This ought not to be, but the 
conditions will doubtless continue 
and the unfit will be left behind in 
the race for supremacy and_ the 
strong will win. It remains for the 
individual American boy to deter- 
mine whether he will seize or ne- 
glect the opportunities which are 
his for the having and redeeming. 
The Indian Durbar 
By a facetious and ingenious ap- 
pellation the king and queen of 
Kngland have been called the Em- 
peror and Empress of India. Three 
times now has a Durbar been held, 
the first crowning the good Queen 
Victoria in 1877. At this Durbar 
the Queen was represented by Lord 
Lytten. The second Durbar ac- 
claimed King Edward VII the Em- 
peror and the Queen, Empress of 
India. The King and Queen were 
not present in person. At the Dur- 
bar held on the 12th of December 
their majesties the King and Queen 
of England were present in person. 
This Durbar consequently was the 
first Durbar given at ‘which the 
Crowned Heads of England were 
present in person. The elaborate, 
spectacular and impressive  cere- 
monies were held at Delhi. History 
will record as one of the items of 
the events the transfer of the Cap- 
ital of India from Caleutta to Delhi. 
The demonstration cost millions of 
dollars but doubtless the English 
government believed that the spirit 
of Good Will likely to be created by 
such a celebration would be worth 
all it cost. This remains to be seen. 
The Problem of the 
Maine 
In 1898 the Sampson board of in- 
vestigation declared that the Battle- 
ship Maine had been blown up from 
without by a charge of low tension 
explosives placed forward and was 
followed by an interior explosion 
of the forward magazines of the 
Maine. For years Congress has 
dallied over the task of removing 
the hulk for various reasons not the 
least among them being the fear 
that perhaps a later investigation 
would reveal that the Maine had 
been blown up from within from 
perfectly explicable causes. Now 
the work has been completed and 
the fears have been dissipated al- 
though no light has been actually 
thrown upon the tragedy and per- 
haps it is well that it should thus 
Battleship 
BREEZE 
remain shrouded in mystery. It is 
satisfying, however, whatever view 
one may take of the war, to really 
know that the United States govern- 
ment did not precipitate a war be- 
cause of an alleged act of treachery 
which was discovered only to be an- 
explicable accident. The later re- 
turns corroborate the earlier work 
so accurately that it is a praise- 
worthy comment upon the efficiency 
and skill of the first board of in- 
vestigation. 
Men and Religion 
A Men and Religion Forward 
Movement has been inaugurated by 
a group of enterprising men, and 
the campaigns will be conducted 
this winter in many of our Ameri- 
can cities. Locally the City of 
Boston will begin the work of ‘the 
movement which will be followed 
by lesser campaigns in and around 
Boston. The City of Beverly was 
made a centre and a series of meet- 
ings will be held from Thursday af- 
ternoon to Sunday evening one of 
the weeks of late February. An in- 
telligent study is to be made .of lo- 
cal conditions by aggressive com- 
mittees and the speakers are to use 
these details as the basis of their 
activities and their speeches. 
The Saturday afternoon and éve- 
ning of that week in Beverly is to 
be made the boys’ and men’s day. 
In the evening a mass meeting will 
be held in old Beverly to magnify 
the work of the Bible schools and 
the study of the Bible. The Bible 
classes of the district have com- 
mitted themselves to the work of de- 
veloping an 
ning’s program. On Sunday eve- 
ning there will be a mass meeting 
for men held in one of the churches. 
At Beverly Farms and North Bev- 
erly similar meetings will be simul 
taneously held. The movement is 
well organized. Its great danger 
will lay in the multiplication of or- 
ganization but if the regular chan- 
nels are used with discretion ‘and 
good judgment, wholesome results 
ought to be forthcoming. ~ 
The Minimum Wage - 
A thorough study has been made 
by the commission appointed by the 
state legislature to investigate the 
wages of women workers in Massa- 
chusetts and a report will be made 
to the incoming legislature. ~The 
movement has the entire sympathy 
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