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VOL. XII sept. 25, 1914. 
THE War CoRRESPONDENT IS Out oF Work these 
days. The agile penmen of other times must find new 
occupations or ways for adventure if the allurements of 
the profession are dramatic. The good of all concerned 
is served the better by the refusal of the allies to permit 
the war correspondents to report the war without cen- 
sorship. (The ‘‘suppress” bureau has its work to do and 
in the end the public will acknowledge that, despite the 
desire and clamour for excitement and news the decission 
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of the military authorities to make the campaigns as— 
secret as possible is wise. ‘The main facts of the war 
have been published, though many details have been 
withheld. From the military point of view the censor- 
ship becomes a necessity and a military precaution, but 
there is a defense for the bureau that is still greater. 
It. would be an international calamity'to give the reading 
public all the undigested and poorly written hurried 
scrawls of newspaper correspondents. Not only would 
it be impossible to develop and maintain a truthful public 
opinion and knowledge of the facts, but it would tend 
to debauch the minds of the millions of readers of news- 
papers and reviews. ‘There is enough now that leaks 
through to satisfy the news interests of intelligent people. 
But for wealthy newspaper syndicates to feed the debas- 
ing instincts of the public with harrowing tales of 
slaughter and experience would have the tendency to 
lower the quality and standard of public thinking. The 
newspapers as they are now conducted have their lower- 
ing effects upon human minds, especially upon the 
thinking of young children. ‘To feed the inflamed fancies 
of growing boys with tales of carnage, bloodshed and 
slaughter have suggestive ills that teaching and instruction 
cannot blot out. One of the greatest curses of our own civil 
war was the results the conflict inflicted upon the boys 
who were too young to bear arms, but whose minds were 
alert enough to sense the meaning and perils of war. 
The censorship works many hardships, the morbid minds 
are unsatisfied, the press writhes under the restraint, the 
newspaper correspondents are cooling their heels in out- 
of-the-way districts, the fame of individual generals is 
unheralded, mothers and wives and friends worry for 
news that does not come, but in the end all must acknow- 
ledge that the censorship has its rightful place in this 
horrible carnage, both for the military and for the hu- 
mane reason. 
Tue ANnTI-SALOON LEAGUE has been waging a state- 
wide campaign for national prohibition. The issue of 
National prohibiton has advocates that can not be rallied 
around the No-licence flags. 
does not fall as justly as appears at first. 
SHORE BREEZE 
SEPTEMBER HAS BEEN A “Giorious”’ Monts, despite — 
the truth that “glorious” is a much abused adjective. | 
When driven to despair to express himself the patriotic 
orator seeks it out as the climax for his spread eagle 
address. 
mate use when the conditions are not worthy of so “great” 
a word. 
brought some “great” weather. Again the words fail. 
How can weather be “great”? It is well after all that 
language has its limitations. Perhaps one ought not for 
the sake of rhetoric, pure and of good usage, to say glori- 
ous or great when speaking merely of weather. But the 
weather has been good enough and great enough and 
glorious enough, to break all the rules of grammar and 
good English to describe it. Anyone can talk about the 
weather. Everybody has to. It is not always-a sign of 
conversational powers or even an average thinking ability 
to descend to it in conversation or—to resort to it for an 
editorial in our weekly. But,—has not September of 
1914 been as worthy of conversational comment and 
editorial enthusiasm as the debaucheries of the old world? 
September has been a glorious month! ‘There comes the 
word again. Let it stay, Mr. Blue Pencil! September has 
been a glorious month. It calls forth regrets from lan- 
guid pupils and teachers and workers within doors. The 
Breeze never poses as a weather prophet, but it has al- 
ways maintained that the summer colonists who came 
early and remained late were wise, for they have learned 
the charms of a North Shore spring and fall. This year 
the fall month has excelled the charms of mid-summer. 
During all the summer there has been no such succes- 
sions of days to compare with the spell of weather that 
began on Labor Day and that has continued until the day 
this paper goes to print. The colonists who have returned 
to Boston or New York have surely missed the best 
weather of the season on the Shore. 
THE GOVERNMENT INTENDS To PROVIDE new means 
of obtaining sufficient revenue to maintain the business 
of the nation. It is proposed to tax brokerage business 
and banking companies as in the Spanish War. ‘This 
may well appear just at the first glance, but the burden © 
From what are | 
the brokers to pay their tax for the good of the govern- 
ment? There has been no stock market since the 31st 
of July and it has been for the good of all concerned that 
such wise precautions were taken by the exchanges of the 
country. But if there be no business the brokers can 
have no revenue. ‘To add to the burden already great 
the additional tax will be a still greater hardship upon all 
brokerage houses. In ordinary times, with stock trans- 
fers and the conduct of the brokerage business, no-one 
would object, but in these unsual times with such forms 
of business practically at a standstill it would seem wise 
that some other way out of the financial difficulty of the 
nation be devised. 
WitTH AN ENTHUSIASM THAT IS WorTHY of the or- 
ganization and the workers of the Red Cross society 
progress is being made in the arrangements for the Red 
Cross benefit to be held in Beverly Farms the sixth of 
October. ‘The whole North Shore should rally to the 
colors of the society and make the event one long to be 
remembered for its profitableness for the good of the 
“cause.” 
Wuen Uncie Sam Goks into the telephone and 
telegraph business and annexes the coal mines and oper- 
ates the railroads most all of us will have to look to 
Uncle Sam as an employer? 
In conversation the word is debased by illegiti- 
“Glorious” is a great word but September has _ 
