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Volume 9 August 18%, 1911. Number 33 
The Modern Social Movement. 
One of the marked characteristics 
of modern thought, discussion and 
legislation has been socialistic. This 
does not mean socialism as a method 
of solving the problems of wealth 
nor as a definition of one’s political 
affiliation. Unfortunately the word 
Socialism has become attached to a 
most flagrant propaganda which is a 
breach of socialism itself. Any 
thought or discussion which turns 
from benefitting the individual alone 
to the benefitting of a class becomes 
at once a social movement in the 
true sense of the word. Schools, 
churches, Y. M. C. A.’s and every en- 
terprise which aims to lift and en- 
lighten is and of necessity must be 
socialistic in its aims. The modern 
man is rapidly learning that he has 
a responsibility which he owes not 
only to himself but to all who are 
around him. Men are studying the 
severe problem of poverty that they 
may find some of its causes and 
abate it if possible. At a convention 
recently held in Philadelphia, a 
conservative body of men in a social 
service commission approached the 
modern situation with the following 
resolutions : 
Equal rights and complete justice 
for all men in all stations of life. 
The right of all men to self- 
maintenance, a right ever to be 
wisely safeguarded against  en- 
eroachment of every kind. 
«- G. BE. WILLMONTON ... 
-Attormey and Couasellor at Law- 
The right of the workers to some 
protection against the hardships re- 
sulting from swift industrial 
changes. 
The principles of conciliation and 
arbitration in industrial dissensions. 
The protection of workers from 
dangerous machinery, occupational 
diseases, and mining’ disasters. 
The abolition of child labor, and 
the protection of children from ex- 
ploitation in industry, and from 
work that is degrading, dwarfing, 
and morally unwholesome. 
Such regulation of the hours of 
labor for women as shall safeguard 
the physical and moral health of the 
community. 
The suppression of the sweating 
system. 
The gradual and reasonable re- 
duction of the hours of labor to the 
lowest practicable point, and that 
degree of leisure for all which is a 
condition of the highest life. 
A release from employment one 
day in seven, and a wage based not 
on a seven-day week but on a six- 
day week. 
A living wage as the minimum in 
every industry, and the highest wage 
that each industry ean afford. 
The most equitable distribution of 
the products of industry that can 
ultimately be devised. 
Suitable provision for the old age 
of workers, and for those ineapaci- 
tated by injury in industry. 
The control of the natural re- 
sources of the earth in the interests 
of all of the people. 
The gaining of wealth by Christian 
methods and principles, and the 
holding of wealth as a social trust. 
The discouragement of the im- 
moderate desire for wealth; and the 
exaltation of man as the end and 
standard of industrial activity. 
These aims are ideal, but society 
makes progress by having ideals and 
while we have men who have leisure 
and who are thinking out these prob- 
lems there are other men perhaps 
equally as good men who are chained 
by circumstances so that they can 
not better themselves in the slightest 
degree. There is a type of servitude 
even in our own day and every fair 
minded and true thinking man or 
woman will welcome the modern ef- 
forts to benefit society in which we 
all must live and cannot escape. 
The virtue of originality is not 
newness—it is only genuineness. 
Willmonton’s Agency 
OLB SOUTH BLBG., Boston 
SCHOOL ANB UNION STS, MANCHESTER 
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The New Steamer. 
The fire committee of Beverly has 
a problem on its hands to determine 
the type and size of the steamer 
which it was voted to purchase for 
Beverly Farms. The long grades, 
the high hills and the large houses 
in the district presented an unusual 
problem for a suburban district. The 
first decision of those who under- 
stood the situation best was that a 
first size steamer ought to be pur- 
chased. With the view in mind of 
getting the best piece of apparatus 
possible to do the work in the place 
the committee went to work. A 
careful examination was made of 
steamers in Salem and Boston, and 
an interview was arranged with a 
disinterested expert high up in the 
Boston fire department, the result 
being that a thorough knowledge of 
the situation from an expert’s point 
of view was put at the hands of the 
investigating committee. No publie 
reports of the findings of that com- 
mittee have been given out, but the 
additional appropriation asked for 
and which without doubt will be 
granted will be sufficient to purchase 
a second size Metropolitan steamer, 
but insufficient to purchase a first 
size steamer. If this be the purpose, 
the committee has shown good 
judgment and will receive the hearty 
approval of all who have been in- 
terested in the solution of the fire 
problem in Ward Six. 
The difference in the price be- 
tween the first size and the second 
size Metropolitan steamers is hardly 
worth the consideration. Efficiency 
was the first consideration—if the 
number one steamer would do the 
work so much better. There are 
other elements which enter into the 
problem. Even at the same price it 
is believed that a greater efficiency 
is represented in the second sized 
steamer. The experts explain it by 
the illustration of a small _ shovel 
which is used so much more rapidly 
as to exceed the work producing 
capacity of a larger shovel and con- 
sequently can take care of the work 
better. Those who know, claim that 
the first sized steamer will not be 
able to get rid of the water quickly 
enough when held back from the 
friction generated in long lines of 
hose. This will tend to keep the 
capacity of the steamer down, 
whereas the smaller sized steamer 
will be able to deliver its water with 
accuracy and _ rapidity, promptly 
getting it out of the way. The first 
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