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VOL. XII October 30, 1914. No. 44 
A Four-Hunprep Mire Moror Trip from the North 
Shore through the Berkshires convinces one of the wisdom 
of the policy inaugurated some twenty years ago in the 
building and maintaining of three great trunk routes of 
State-owned highways in Massachusetts. The completion 
this fall of those three roads marks the successful culmi- 
nation of this policy. The three main routes thus com- 
pleted are: The southern highway, from Boston to the 
New York line, by way of Worcester, Springfield, Lenox 
and Pittsfield; the shore route, from Salisbury on the New 
Hampshire line to the tip of Cape Cod; and the Con- 
necticut Valley route up and down the State, from Aga- 
wam on the Connecticut line, passing through Springfield 
and Greenfield, to the New Hampshire line at Northfield. 
The Boston-Pittsfield route has been completed by the 
filling in of gaps in Becket and Lee, the shore route by 
important work in Plymouth and Bourne, and the Con- 
necticut Valley route by short bits of construction work in 
scattered places. These three continuous highways, of 
a type of construction the most permanent now known to 
road builders, put this state ahead of all her sisters in this 
kind of facilities. Excellent progress has been made upon 
several other routes. Pehaps the most important of these 
is the northern route across the State, from Boston to the 
New York line, by way of Fitchburg, Athol, Deerfield, 
Greenfield, North Adams and Williamstown. The “Mo- 
hawk Trail,” as that section of this route which traverses 
Flordia Mountain, between the Deerfield Valley and 
North Adams, has been christened, has been formally 
dedicated and is now open to traffic, though a short stretch 
on this side of the mountain was not in use three weeks 
ago when the writer made the trip. The State road on 
this northern trunk route has now been completed be- 
tween Boston and Deerfield and between Charlemont and 
Williamstown. During the coming year it is almost cer- 
tain that the existing gaps in Shelburne and Charlemont 
will be filled in. Although the Highway Commission has 
not yet accepted the concrete road as a definite advance 
over the bituminous macadam of which the yast majority 
of its highways are constructed, experiments along this 
line are being made. Still another type of road, bitumin- 
ous macadam built by the preparation method, is also 
being tried. The majority of the new roads are at least 
18, and in many cases 21 or even 24 feet wide. It might 
also be added that while the initiative in these trunk lines 
was taken by Massachusetts two decades ago, the other 
New England states have since taken up with the scheme 
and there are hundreds of miles of such roads in all-the 
states, especially New Hampshire, which was early awake 
to the value of such motor roads as a summer resort 
asset. 
In His NEw Book on THE War IN Europe, Albert 
Bushnell Hart, Professor of Government at Harvard 
discusses the antecedents of the -present conflict and its 
effect upon this country. In discussing the benefits which 
he believes would come from adoption here of the Swiss 
system of military service, in addition to the value for 
purposes of national defense, Prof. Hart writes: This 
country is not likely to adopt the idea that it can afford 
to give or need give two or three years out of the most 
productive part of a young man’s life to learn the art of 
war; but there is much to be said for the Swiss system 
of universal service for brief periods, amounting together 
to about six months, and more for the officers. The Swiss 
are very like the Americans in their individuality 
and democracy, and neither of those qualities has been 
cut down by such service. In spite of the undersirable 
side of the barrack life, which is a severe test of a young 
man’s morals, such a universal service would do much to 
set up American youth, to push back their shoulders, in- 
flate their lungs, train their leg muscles, teach them to do 
what they are told, make them aware that every man-child 
in the world is born to perform service at the behest of 
older people. It will take the boys out of the slums and 
the schools and the farms and the shops for a few months, 
show them how large their own country is, give them the 
feeling that they are responsible for its welfare and de- 
fense. If the European war directs the United States 
toward that course, it will not have been altogether evil. 
Dr. NEwELL Dwicnt Hits, a successor to Dr. 
Henry Ward Beecher in the pastorate of the Plymouth 
church, Brooklyn, is an optimist of highest rank. In Bev- 
erly before the Teachers’ association he recently delivered 
an address on America and its Opportunity. So much 
calumny has been predicted by muck-raking periodical 
writers and paragraphers it is refreshing to know that the 
tide has turned and that the really deep thinkers of our 
age are conquering pessimism and its blighting influence. 
America is a great country and within its precincts the 
destiny. of the highest hopes of humanity will be de- 
veloped. 
CoLLEGE Proressors have been blazing away at the 
immoral, doctrine of Dr. Rudolf Steinmets published in 
his book “The Philosophy of War,” for a decade, but 
now arms are settling the contest that has been academic 
hitherto. In it he claims that loyalty and war are closely 
related ideas. To neglect war means to sacrifice the 
nobler qualities of national loyalty. It is this perversion 
of the idea of loyalty that is ruining Europe’s national. 
life. 
Ir SEEMS A THOUSAND PITIEs to see so many apples 
going to waste when there are so many people living in 
the cities to whom even the poorest apples would be a 
blessing. The greatest misfortune of all is that the poor 
fruit will not even pay for the time required to handle 
them or the boxes and barrels needed to pack them. 
PROHIBITION AS A Nationa IssukE is one thing and 
as a State issue it is another matter. The Prohibitionists 
have seen the hole in the Progressive alignment! Will 
Walker’s election assure either? But the plank shows the 
world do “move.” Watch Russia. 
THE UNPARALLELED WEATHER has continued. Many 
farmers back from the shore have completed their early 
and late fall work and have been able to do fall ploughing. 
MUNSTERBERG Stays. What a surprise! What» 
other issue could have been possible? 
