6 NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
North Shore Breexze 
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VOL. XV February 2, 1917. No. 5 
“Will February March?” the boy did say. 
“No,” said the teacher, “but April May!” - 
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. THROUGH THE CourRTEsy of the school committee of 
Boston and Rev. Fr. Hickey, supervisor of parochial 
schools, the Women’s Municipal League has been able to 
recruit thousands of crusaders in the campaign to exter- 
minate the rat. Circulars are being distrbuted through 
the school children of Greater Boston to thousands of 
Boston families, who are urged to join forces in the 
campaign. To emphasize the menace of the rat and to 
enliven the campaign of extermination the league has 
designated February 13 as Rat Day. Cash prizes are 
offered to the person bringing in the most dead rats to 
each of the several sanitary stations designated and a 
grand prize of $100 will be paid the person bringing in 
the greatest number of dead rodents in the city. The 
circulars, which the league is distributing through the 
school children, are printed in three foreign languages as 
vell as in English. The results obtained through the en- 
listment of the school children will unquestionably be far 
-eaching. The campaign against the rat has a tremendous 
economic and health value. It deserves unstinted sup- 
nort. Mrs.°Leatherbee’s talk at Beverly Farms two 
weeks ago published in full in the issue of January 19, 
was very convincing as to the great work being done by 
the Women’s Municipal League along this line. 
FEBRUARY HAs CoME again. The worst month in 
the vear for all business men on the Shore and _ partic- 
ularly those connected with the building trades. Herein 
lays a secret. Now is the time to make summer plans 
and to do your spring work. February is just as good 
a month to plan as March and the contractors and _ busi- 
ness men can meet the demands made better now and 
give better prices at this time of the year than at any 
other season. It will be a good time to look over your 
office, order your season’s printing, make plans for sum- 
mer building operations, send orders to the gardeners to 
do early spring work, clean up the stable, care for the 
harness, overhaul the motors and to begin operations on 
building changes. There are many skilful men who 
should be at work these winter days. Business men an! 
owners of estates, who have learned the’secret of early 
plans for work. have learned one of the secrets of domes- 
tic and business preparedness. 
Some Criticisms have been made of the delays at 
the postoffice in Boston by several objectors. There are 
many reasons for delays for which the postmasters and 
the employees of the department are not responsible. 
Many times delays that are due to personal negligence are 
attributed to the postoffice department. A _ forgotten 
letter, found in a pocket of one’s clothes, has been the 
experience of all. The whole discussion only brings out 
with increasing clearness the adequacy of the postoffice 
service which the North Shore enjoys, 
Feb. 2, 1917. 
THe Beverty Y. M. C. A. has effectually met the 
needs of the young men of the city and has proven itself 
a long needed and much appreciated institution. Under 
the leadership of Edgar J. McGill, the president of the 
corporation, and David Black, the secretary, great pro- 
gress has been made. Mr. Black by his efficiency has met 
the business situation with skill and by his pleasant per- 
sonality has been able to win the affections of the young 
men who are associated with him. The financial needs 
of the institution are met by voluntary gifts, dormitory 
rentals and from membership fees. Anyone seeking to 
expend money for a philanthropic purpose would do well 
to investigate the needs of the Beverly Y. M.C. A. All 
men are eligible to membership and can in this way by 
their membership fees increase the funds of the organiza- 
tion and by their influence increase the sphere of work of 
the association. An efficiency campaign is to be inaug- 
urated in the five days from February 13 to February 17, 
and the enthusiastic young men on the teams should be 
able to secure five hundred new members. The associa- 
tion needs the members and the men of Beverly and the 
surrounding district need the Y. M. C. A. Everyone in- 
terested in the social betterment problems of the North 
Shore will heartily support Mr. McGill and Mr. Black in 
the campaign under way. 
Many NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS are apparently 
alarmed over possible interpretations of the Bourne law, 
so-called, passed by Congress in 1912 as a rider to the 
postofhce appropriation bill. The bill was designed to 
limit the use of the press by politicians influencing voting 
at primary or other elections and provided for the desig- 
nation of all political advertising as such. Many news- 
papers fear a broader application of the Bourne law 
which would strike at the very news columns of the pub- 
lications. It is pointed out that the real estate, automo- 
bile, theatrical, insurance, and even the baseball pages 
might be subject to a broad interpretation of the bill. It 
is 1mpossible to legislate for control of the press without 
directly affecting the reading public, the formidable ele- 
ment which politicians should hesitate to offend. 
THERE 1s A GREAT Dray of difference in the way you 
figure your income. The farmer who is fortunate enough 
to be able to live and save counts what he has, over and 
above his living expenses. A business man with an in- 
core of an equal amount, say fifteen hundred dollars, must 
live and pay his household expenses. The new income 
tax laws have been equitably adjusted to meet the exist- 
ing differences. The city dweller is envying his for- 
“nate country brother, the country brother envies him 
and no one is satisfied. 
Boston University, always in the fore in its exten- 
sion work, has undertaken a splendid task in providing a 
course of four extension courses in recreational leader- 
ship for girls. One on “Becoming a Woman,” by Dr. 
Gulick; “Psychological and Social Devises in Character 
Building” and two courses by Miss Margaret Slattery on 
the “A-verican Girl” and the “Community and the Laws 
of the Teaching Process.” All persons interested in 
recreative leadership will welcome the courses presented. 
THe UNDERGRADUATES at Harvard under the inspir- 
ation of a wave of patriotic fervor have voted 960 to 339 
in favor of compulsory military training while representa- 
tives from four theological schools have voted equally as 
emphatically opposed to the movement. It is surprising, 
however, how popular the compulsory military plan has 
*beco~e and there are indications that the Harvard vote 
is indicative of a popular feeling that has not been ex- 
pressed, = 
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