12 NORTHYSHOREDBREEZE 
Nurth Shore Breeze 
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VOICE Deple wow ors No, 38 
Witn THE CurREN’T Issug the Breeze resumes its 
former appearance, laying aside its summer dress with 
the passing of the season. During the week just passed 
the Breeze enjoyed the most prosperous months of its 
existence. In the purchase of the North Shore Reminder 
(a sum ver weekly) last spring it added to its clientele in 
the Marblehead-Swampscott section of the North Shore 
to a very appreciable extent. The combined Breeze-Re- 
minder grew during the ten weeks from June 15 to Au- 
eust 22 into a 76-page magazine, brimming over with 
the news material that interests the summer visitors, and 
its advertising clientele showed its appreciation of the 
production that we were forced at times to turn away 
business. ‘The Breeze-Reminder of next season will sur- 
pass anything yet published on the North Shore. 
“Tur BANKERS and the trunk lines that control the 
New England transportation system are today inter-lock- 
ed, and in that interlocking there is no voice of New Eng- 
land.” —Gov. Foss at Worcester. If the trunk lines out- 
side New England, together with a few banking houses, 
control the New England transportation system, it is cer- 
tain that their control is not based on the ownership of a 
majority of the shares in these railroad properties. They 
vote only a minority of the stock. It is the old story of 
the majority interest being so widely scattered among 
many small stockholders that a concentrated yet powerful 
minority interest may absolutely dominate a corporation. 
Can this be prevented in any way other than the modifi- 
cation of the “one ‘share one vote” principle in corpor- 
ation mangement? In England the banking laws render 
it impossible for a few large stockholders to outweigh a 
majority of the stock scattered among many holders. 
In the bank of England each stockholder owning $2500 
stock or more has but one vote. In the Union of Lon- 
don and Smith’s bank each 10 shares up to 100 has one 
vote, but no holder, regardless of the amount owned, has 
over 20 votes. In the bank of Scotland, every five shares 
has one vote, but no shareholder can have more than 20 
votes no matter how much stock he owns. Apply that 
idea to other corporations, say railroads in America, and 
some of the complaints now prevalent would be unheard 
of. 
Trerk 1s AssurANCE from the department of agri- 
culture that white potatoes this coming year will be plen- 
ty enough to satisfy all demands, notwithstanding that 
the crop is short by a trifling 100,000,000 bushels. 
IN ALL THE ReEcorDs of recent disaster on land there 
has never been a more heroic struggle than that put forth 
by the company of boy campers on their return trip from 
a summer’s outing. During the preceeding days these 
lads had been trained in making bandages, binding up 
wounds and making improvised stretchers. Little did 
they think how soon their new instruction would bring 
comfort and assistance to many. Back of it all, how- 
ever, we must not forget the mind that developed the 
plan for the camp and developed the interest and com- 
manded the respect of the public sufficiently to make the 
camp possible. ‘That quiet man who conceived the idea 
of assisting the lads to noble conceptions of manhood is 
the real hero back of the sensational work of those hor- 
rible hours in the railroad wreck on the New Haven 
road. It was the relentless discipline executed with good 
will toward the boys and from the boys that made the 
group of boys men in a twinkling of the eye. The dis- 
cipline of previous hours transformed that group into 
an organized force for good instead of a disorganized 
troublesome annoyance in a tragic hour. ‘Teachers may 
go their way without ever having the satisfaction that — 
this man had in seeing the young hopefuls whom he has 
trained rise to an emergency; but the hard work and 
careful instruction does its work, and despite the fact 
that the results appear so uncertain and trifling and dis- 
tant the work is done and in the fight of life no heroic 
effort of the commonplace is unrewarded. ‘The plaudits 
of the public may never come, but the rewards of life are 
too certain to be denied or forgotten. 
Tur GARDNER CAMPAIGN opened with a rush and if — 
the same activity that prevails in Essex County can be 
obtained in every other county the nomination seems se- 
cure for Gardner, although he himself is too careful a 
politician to be too sanguine. Work and plenty of it 
needs still to be done. Congressman Gardner’s record 
ought to command the respect and commendation of our 
citizens. A careful examination of his official record in 
Washington reveals the mind, will and heart of the man. 
That he has been on the right side of humanitarian legis- — 
lation is seen in his vote for the child labor law, prevent- 
ing the overworking of children; the white slave traffic 
law; the hours of labor on railroads law; the public play- 
ground law; the unhealthy occupation bill and the eight 
hour bill for woman labor in the District of Columbia. 
Surely no one can challenge Mr. Gardner’s record on these 
measures. It would seem that Massachusetts could find 
him an excellent governor. 
ADVERTISING not only pays, but its value as news is 
coming to be more and more appreciated. ‘There is not 
an enterprising corporation or shrewd business firm that 
is not now informing the public through the medium of 
advertisments what kind of new business each is engaged — 
in and what are the prospects for the future. The old- 
time methods of silence on the part of public utility cor- 
porations have been abandoned. Even the Standard Oil 
Company was finally obliged to advertise its purposes and 
to authorize its managers to give out interviews. 
is advertising to a greater extent than the heads of big 
transportation companies and those corporate bodies en- 
gaged in the dissemination of intelligence by telegraph, 
telephone and wireless. These are sensible moves. The 
public is intelligent enough to appreciate all publicity bas- 
ed on the truth. The truthful advertiser succeeds all the 
time, and he is deserving of all the increased patronage 
he is sure to receive. When there is a lull in business 
from any cause shrewd men of affairs get busy and ad- 
vertise—Boston Globe. 
No one 
