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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 7 
In THEIR RETRENCHMEN’TS due to war conditions 
the Breeze suggests to the owners of large estates the 
inadvisability of cutting too deeply into mantenance ex- 
penses. Already the cessation of work has begun to 
work ill to the tradesmen and laborers on the North 
Shore. The times are hard. Every reasonable oppor- 
tunity that can be afforded for work on the Shore should 
be made available. There is much repairing that is usu- 
ally left until spring which could be done in the winter 
season to the advantage of the property owners and to 
the contractors. Look over your spring plans and see if 
there be not some way of starting that work early in the 
season. If there should be such a movement started and 
continued it would be a great help in meeting the finan- 
cial difficulties of many contractors. 
Mayor Curry 1s TrRyING Our an interesting pro- 
position. He has taken advantage of a state law making 
it possible for a city to employ women policemen for 
special work. There is a great need for such social ser- 
vice and it is to be hoped that the Mayor’s experiment 
will prove successful. The Mayor claims that he knows 
of certain industries that need attention. If all that he 
says be true his suggestion is more than valuable. De- 
spite the merits of his contest with a certain industry for 
moral wrongs in the administration of its affairs there 
is a wide field of service open for a woman of intergrity, 
firmness and tact to remedy certain evils which everyone 
knows exist in large cities. 
Tur Necrors of Boston object to the melodies of 
their race and to ditties written by white men and attri- 
buted to them. The censored volume has been removed 
from the schools of Boston. The school committee has 
acted wisely in so doing. The remonstrance should have 
been heeded; but the objections made by the men of the 
colored race are interesting. It represents another stage 
in the development of that race. It is a sign of progress 
indeed, but not a sign that is encouraging. The time will 
come, when the race has climbed still higher, that these 
early songs of the war days will have a place in their 
history that will be dear to them. 
Massacuuserts, Watch Has Hap such a proud 
record for its progress in philanthropies, state-governed 
and organized charities and social welfare work is woe- 
fully behind in its attitude to the question of biennial 
elections. Too much time is now given to legislation and 
too many laws are put upon the statutes of the State. 
The public should be spared the expense and irritation 
involved in annual elections. The day should come and 
right quickly when the annual election system is abolish- 
ed. A biennial election would be a public boon. 
Turse Are Days oF SEVERE Economy in everything. 
It has reached the printing offices of the country and the 
- Boston typographical Union has passed resolutions urg- 
ing all of their members to use extraordinary economy in 
the use of inks, paper, typographical brass, type metal 
and machines appurtenances. Everybody feels the bur- 
den of the war. 
An Eprrortar Writer in the Boston Transcript 
makes a striking comparison when he asserts that the en- 
tire standing army of the nation seated in the new Yale 
Bowl would not tax its seating capacity. 
Onr Way IN WuicH the serious menace of the hard 
times can be avoided is by every householder carefully 
seeing to it that petty bills are promptly cared for. 
In Mopern WarFare there are two arms of military 
service for protection and aggression, the army and the 
navy. This present war has presented a spectacular land 
campaign unequalled in the history of the world and the 
attention of the reading public has been focused upon 
that branch of the military. The naval battles have been 
of a less spectacular nature. Careless writers have com- 
mented upon and crticised the inactivity of the German 
and the English navies. It is true that the Audacious 
has been lost and that the Pacific contest was notable for 
Germany, but there has been no one contest in which 
either Germany or England has alligned a creditable naval 
force. There have been naval scrimmages, but no de- 
cisive battles. Is it therefore to be asserted that the navy 
of Great Britain has been inefficient? On the contrary 
it is apparent that despite the losses Great Britain has 
maintained because of the snipping naval policy of Ger- 
many that Great Britain has gained the supremacy of 
the sea without a naval conflict. The German fleet is 
bottled up and has not dared to meet the issue in open 
sea. It is of course impossible for anyone to forecast the 
future. The German fleet may force its way out and 
make a determined attack upon the naval forces of Great 
Britain. It is evident at the present that Germany hy 
its policy of naval inactivity has conceded to England the 
supremacy of the sea without a contest, for the present 
at least. 
Tur TENNESSEE INcrDENT has created more alarm in 
America than the incident warranted and the Secretary 
has been too severely criticised for his suppression of the 
news. The circumstances justified the procedure. The 
liberty of the press in America entails a peril that cannot 
be minimized. To have run the risks that are incident 
to the curse of yellow journalism would have been un- 
wise. All is well that ends well. The incident is in the 
past and no harm has been done. With the public mind 
harrowed and vexed by the Eastern situation and the 
tales of war the Department in Washington has been very 
fortunate in handling the Smyrna incident with such skill. 
It Is UNFoRTUNATE in some ways that the news con- 
cerning the gift of fifty thousand dollars to the Beverly 
Hospital was not carefully defined in the newspapers. 
The gift will eventually reach the hospital treasurer, but 
probably not for years. The public ought to know this, 
for such a gift while welcome, if wrongly announced, 
tends to discourage other givers. If the Breeze is in- 
formed correctly the sum has been reserved for an indi- 
vidual who receives the annuity through life and then 
the money goes to the Hospital. 
Tur ADMINISTRATION IS ENDEAVORING to smother 
out the Army investigation instituted by our Representa- 
tive; but Congressman Gardner is not easily subdued. 
The investigation should be made and at once. There 
can be no merit or sense in the opposition. If his asser- 
tions be not true then the facts brought out will prove 
the statements. 
Tue GOovERNOR’s THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION is 
of unusual merit. The sentence “On that day, and on 
all days, let us with reverent minds and hearts pour forth 
our gratitude to him for peace, prosperity and happiness 
which is our priceless possesson” in a few words ex- 
presses the significance of the good day. 
Tury Say rt Costs $25,000 to kill a man in war 
time. We've always contended that one live man was 
worth a dozen dead ones, 
