As Usual IN Every ENTERPRISE of public note and 
practical humanity the North Shore is taking the lead. 
The Red Cross movement has passed beyond the experi- 
mental stage and has now become the recognized agency 
for organized humanitarian work whether it be rendering 
aid in the flood districts of the middle west, the fire-swept 
precincts of Salem, the flood areas of China or the war- 
sritten lands of Europe, the world looks to the Red Cross 
to lift the banner of humanity and to rally around it the 
organized workers for practical and sane relief. | Miss 
Boardman of Manchester is the international leader of the 
work. Miss Louisa P. Loring of Pride’s Crossing has 
charge of the state work, while Mrs. Robert S. Bradley 
of Pride’s Crossing is the active leader of the work on the 
Shore. Eearly in October a Red Cross benefit will be 
conducted in the home and on the spacious grounds of the 
Bradley estate at Pride’s. The efforts that are being put 
forth to make this event a success ought to triumph. In 
any interest that effects humanity the North Shore is in- 
terested, and this event in early October ought to be gen- 
erously supported. 
THE GERMAN Army has been in retreat, but retreat 
and defeat are not words of the same meaning. The 
Germans had the Allies all but routed and in retreat and 
they cane back. To conceive that the stupendous German 
military machine has been whipped is a serious mistake. 
They can and may come back. Nothing short of a de- 
feat at arms in a decisive battle will avail anything. Such 
a battle has not yet been fought. But one thing is certain 
that there will not be a seige of Paris for the present. 
There is an irony of fate in the fact that perhaps after 
all the strategy and cunning of the German military lead- 
ers to throw the contest upon neutral territory so that 
another nation rather than their own would become the 
scene of battle, the decisive battles will be fought on Ger- 
man soil. The war is not yet ended, however, and peace 
is a long way off. 
On Monpay THE MAINE ELEcTIONS were held with 
some surprising results. The censure that was expected 
to be placed upon the administration did not quite materia- 
lize, although the republicans made some gains. But al- 
together it was a gratifying record for the democrats. 
3ut “as goes Maine so goes the Nation” is no longer a 
trustworthy slogan. The losses made by the progressive 
party are significant. It is evident that the tide is begin- 
ning to ebb, but it does not appear that the returns in- 
dicate that their hope has become “forlorn” as yet. 
CONGRESSMAN GARDNER Was WISsE in his decision to 
remain in England to assist in the work of relieving the 
destressed Arrericans. To have returned merely to do 
political work to gain his renomination would have been 
disastrous. Mr. Gardner can continue his relief work and 
the voters of the district will attend to his renomination. 
PrucKy BELGIUM WILL SEND a floral exhibit to the 
California Exhibition. 
Former Presipent Cuartes W. Exsor of Harvard 
University has come out with a very clear statement of 
the difference between heartfelt sympathies and legal 
neutrality. There is every reason why the» American 
public is out of sympathy with the German aggression and 
its war like campaigns, but that is not a disregard of its 
neutrality professions. It will be hard for the average 
German who cannot understand the American point of 
view to believe that the American people have warm 
hearts for the German people but have no sympathies 
with the German military program. America does not 
wish the annihilation or the punishment of the German 
people as Germans; on the contrary the American nation 
wishes to see the great nation of Germans to come into 
their own industrially, and commercially, but not by mili- 
tary aggrandizement. ‘They can only come into their own 
as the militarism which has brought on this war is 
crushed. In wishing this spirit crushed in Germany 
America’s real wish is to see a new Germany rise out of 
the battlefields of the old world. The spirit of repub- 
licanism and humanity are strong in the new land. The 
humanity of. the American people goes out to the German 
people bound in the shackles of the military idea while 
the republican spirit of our people desires to see Germany 
self-ruling with all the freedom and success such as repub- 
licanism only can bring to that Old land. As a nation we 
must stand neutral, legally and strictly, but there is no rea- 
son for muzzling the press or for one to withold his opin- 
ions. The German cause is unpopular in America not 
because the American people dislike the German race, but 
because the cause they have endeavored to fight out has 
not been high or exaiting. The destruction of Louvain, 
the violation of Belgium: neutrality and the rapid attacks 
made on France cannot be overlooked. Such military ac- 
complishments are not in keeping with ambitions of the 
American people. It looks as though the German cause 
was lost. The German Kaiser has not been fighting a 
holy war and if in his glory warfare he be humiliated 
America is glad. But this a different feeling from re- 
joicing over the slain and wounded German soldiers who 
have laid down their lives. 
A Wisk OrDER HAS GONE Our from the school sup- 
erintendents in this section forbidding the partial discus- 
sion of the war situations in the class rooms. This does 
not mean that current events may not be referred to or 
even studied, but it does mean that the class room must not 
be used as a means to propogate the bias of any teacher. 
Any thoughtful man will appreciate the fact that the range 
is short and that to interpret rightly the events that are 
now transpiring it will be necessary for time to pass. 
Tuosrk Beicrum Mriiitary MEN left in the rear of 
the advancing horde of Germans are now causing the mass 
some worry. 
THE CONVENIENCES AND SIGNS OF WEALTH of yes- 
terday are the inconveniences and signs of proverty to- 
morrow. : 
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