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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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Volume 9 February 24, 1911. Number 8 
The individual voter in Manches- 
ter is responsible for the present low 
standard of politics and he alone 
can rescue the siuation. We shall 
always have a town government 
with all its advantages, but we must 
be on our guard against its disadvan- 
tages’ In a city the government of 
all is delegated to the few, but in a 
town we have the purest form of 
self-government. How is Manches- 
ter using her trust? Does the aver- 
age citizen rise to his responsibility ? 
The Breeze does not hesitate to say 
that the present chaotic conditions 
is due to too-low standards set by the 
voters for their officers and the read- 
iness with which the gullible ordin- 
ary citizen allows his judgement 
concerning the main issues to be 
wharped by some insignificant or un- 
worthy contest over matters which 
in a business corporation, run upon 
business principles with the same em- 
phasis upon important matters, 
would be settled at on meeting of 
its board of directors. 
What Manchester needs is to rise 
to her opportunity. Let her carve 
out a vigorous and honorable policy 
and then. find the men to put it 
through. Our town interests are not 
to be determined by personal pre- 
ferences of any one set of individ- 
uals. The present state of affairs 
will continue until we cease to cater 
to the worst and begin to strive for 
the best. A strong policy and a vig- 
orous man will mean much. And 
Manchester will find that a clean-cut, 
high standard will in the end be her 
solution and save her good name 
from being a by-word of eastern 
Massachusetts. 
We repeat again that a strong man 
with a broad, elevating policy will 
have the unprecendented support of 
our voters. Manchester can do it, 
and she will. 
It is the present unworthy policy 
which keeps out many able men from 
publie service. But even this is open 
to eriticism, for such men should 
realize their personal responsibilities 
in honorable self-government, face 
the condition and lift our town af- 
fairs by concerted and determined 
activity to a high degree of effi- 
clenecy. 
THE HOME. 
A home is the base and triumph 
of civilization. The unwritten his- 
tory of the progress of the race from 
its early rude, unrestrained life in 
the far off beginnings of society to 
an organized moral community may 
be traced to the home—a father 
and a mother caring for their own 
children. Upon this one institution 
rests the success of Christianity, the 
triumph of civilization and the secur- 
ity of the nation, and for this rea- 
son the making of a home is conso- 
nant with the eternal problem of 
self-maintenance. Too much _ has 
been written and said about house- 
keeping, its difficulties and embar- 
rassments, and too little about home 
making. A father or a mother, or 
the ruler of a larger househould can- 
not escape the more precious duty of 
home-making by devoted sacrifice in 
house-keeping. A home teaches the 
simple lessons of hfe that makes 
existence in any society tolerable. It 
emulates love, and its altar fires 
should never burn low. From each 
sympathy—the capacity to suffer and 
enjoy life with others—goes out 
spontaneously and freely so that 
home becomes a safe refuge from the 
busy, imitating, saddening whirl of 
hfe. The responsibilities of life and 
work-sharing should not be placed 
too early on young shoulders, but 
they should be sheltered from un- 
necessary care until by frank and 
helpful assistance they may be taught 
to bear the burdens of work in our 
world. No home can long endure 
without self-sacrifice of the sincer- 
est and most unselfish character. A 
home is the school of every heavenly 
virtue. But unfortunately the enem- 
G. E. WILLMONTON ... 
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 
Willmonton’s Agency 
SCHOOL AND UNION STS., MANCHESTER 
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ies of life do their worst work in this 
place of refuge: selfishness, sin, lazi- 
ness, carelessness, thoughtlessness 
and uncontrolled temperament work 
havoe and rots the home of its life. 
The unfortunate part of it all is that 
the guilty cannot bear all their cruel 
wrong—the innocent suffer for and 
with the wrong-doers. The true 
home-maker stands guard over the 
door of his home with the same dili- 
gence that fights fearlessly the wolf 
of starvation and poverty, guards it 
against the little foxes that destroy 
the vine. In that home good cheer, 
music, companionship, good litera- 
ture and a_ disciplined life in a 
practical christian fraternity should 
reign. Blessed are the home-mak- 
ers: to them is the joy of living! 
THE PROBLEM 
A house does not make a: home, but 
with the home-making spirit an 
earthly house is indespensable. <A 
modern family cannot be content in 
a 17th century house, cold, cheerless 
and unsanitary. Discontent ahd un- 
rest amid such an environment is at 
once noble, a sign of good healthy in- 
stinct. The housing problem at Bev- 
erly Farms and Manchester has long 
ceased to be an impending danger; 
it is more than acute—it is a 
condition. which confronts every fam- 
ily and business concern in the towns. 
The policy of the larger landed es- 
tates on the one side and the with- 
holding of land for a larger figure 
out of proportion to its real worth on 
the other has resulted in the present 
conditions. The policy is suicidal to 
every industry in town and to the 
best interests of the so-called sum- 
mer colony. 
The bane of the North Shore has 
been its unwise and un-American 
class distinctions. The peril works 
damage to the best interests of all 
and the dreadful housing conditions 
does more to irritate honorable men — 
and women worthy of better oppor- 
tunities for decent living to discon- 
tent and unhappiness than any other 
one thing. That there is not a single 
first class public place where a 
stranger can find a place to lay his 
head for a night, at Beverly Farms, 
or where a party could obtain a 
simple meal, served with ordinary 
decency, is an unfortunate truth. 
This state of affairs ought not to con- 
tinue. It is peculiarly lamentable 
when one considers the other side 
of the North Shore life with its 
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