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Tue Norrto Sore Has BEEN well represented in 
the struggle across the seas. Norman Prince gave his 
life in service as a member of the air fleet. A. Piatt 
Andrews is still in service as chancellor of the ambulance 
corps provided by Americans. Henry B. Sheahan of 
Topsfield, has served honorably in the ambulance corps 
also and his volume, “The Volunteer Poilu,’ and _ his 
articles in the Atlantic have been read with interest. Miss 
Rosamond Bradley of Beverly Farms is now serving in 
the hospital at Poissey and gratifying reports of her ser- 
vice are received. Nearer at hand the struggle has been 
felt and Lieutenant N. S. Simpkins and Lieutenant Mac- 
donald, both of Beverly Farms, are in service now in the 
National Guard. Commander Pentecost of the Savonia, 
of Topsfield, is now at sea and in command of a very 
important part of Great Britain’s sea service. The wai 
and its sacrifices of comfort and ease are known on the 
North Shore and the North Shore honors these loyal folk 
who have responded so quickly and efficiently to the call 
to service of their country. 
Tue Pacirist Is Ricut in his ultimate premise— 
that it is wrong for one man to take the life of another 
and that force, malice, retaliation and murder are just 
as wrong for the state as for the individual. The honor 
and justice of these premises no man will refute, but 
when an individual man faces an abnormal creature who 
recognizes no law the fundemental laws of self protection 
are operative and in that death struggle he is morally bound 
to kill to maintain the very principles for which he stands. 
America at heart, in sympathies, feeling and inclinatiouis 
is pacifistic and the pacifists truly interpret the feeling of 
America, but they do not interpret the mind of the Amer- 
ican feeling when they believe that America is willing to 
sacrifice everything for peace. The Pacifist is as much 
out of place today as was the Tory of the Revolutionary 
War or the Copperhead of the Civil War. America does 
not and has not wished war, loathes war, but if war 
must come—and it has—America will meet the duty and 
assert its rights and fight for righteousness, honor, self 
protection and justice. 
PRESIDENT WiLson Has PropucED A DOocUMENT 
which the severest critic dare not characterize as acad- 
emic. In his arraignment of the conduct of submarine 
warfare by the Hohenzollerns, in direct violation of the 
laws of humanity, he has produced a masterpiece. His 
summons to Congress to carry out the will of the people 
and declare war upon the Prussian will live in the his- 
tory of this nation and of Germany, for it will mark the 
beginning of the awakening of the German people. As 
soon as a conception of its portent to them dawns upon 
the people, the days of the Hohenzollerns are numbered. 
Approval of the President’s message is universal. 
Tue Desir Sipe or THE LepcER of this war is al- 
ready so great that it is well to note in passing a few of 
the credits that may be read:—The Japanese yellow peril 
passes away, the Russian, French, and Italian forces are 
united in a common work and thirty thousand Siberian 
prisoners are on their way back to Russia, and the Jew 
has been restored his rights and opportunities! 
Tart, RoosevEL?T AND Witson all agree. Taft and 
Roosevelt have congratulated the President upon his able 
state paper. As long as these two gentlemen agree it is 
reasonable to believe ‘that the paper is a great state docu- 
ment. 
Tur Natron Is CaLLinc on every man to plant as 
much foodstuffs as he can. This is good sound advice 
and should be heeded. 
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PRESIDEN’T WILSON’s DECLARATION that a 
state of war exists between the United States 
and Germany and the subsequent action of Con- 
gress served to hasten plans of many summer 
residents of the North Shore for an early de- 
parture from the city to their shore homes. The 
fear that the declaration of war would bring 
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secure haven for the families who annually fre- 
quent this section. The patrol of the First Dis- 
trict Naval Reserve, in which many North Shore 
men are prominent, will give a feeling of added 
security to those who may have been disturbed 
by imaginings of submarine danger. Conditions 
on the North Shore will differ little from past 
seasons the coming summer, unless it be that a 
more serious tone will prevail in the activities 
of the summer colony. 
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Tue NATIONAL GUARD recruiting campaign is meet- 
ing with success and if all of the district answers the cali 
to service as loyally and as quickly as have the young 
men of Beverly, Poverty Farms and Manchester the 
quota will soon be obtained. James P. Phelan of Lynn 
is chairman of the Massachusetts committee on recruiting 
and he has announced the plan to be followed for the 
present in bringing up the numbers in service to the re- 
quired plans. To “accomplish the ends in view four plans 
are being worked out: First, filling up all companies to 
peace strength, one hundred per company; second, a re- 
serve of fifty men who shall take the oath, be measured 
for equipment, to be in readiness to fill the companies to 
war strength; third, the arranging of public meetings to 
gain recruits for the National Guard, Regular Army and 
for the Coast Guard, and finally, when the ranks are fill- 
ed, to organize a home guard which shall work in con- 
junction with the civil forces of law and order. The 
work has already been under way two weeks and organiz- 
ations are being perfected to complete the work in hand. 
MassacHuseErts Is WELL PREPARED in at least one de- 
gree and that is in the fight to destroy the paralysis germ. 
The Harvard Commission appointed to study the disease 
has been at work all winter and if the disease does show 
itself again the physicians of Massachusetts are ready to 
meet it as they never have been before. 
LA Forierre HAs AGAIN distinguished himself for 
his obstinancy and filibustering. He knew that despite 
his own personal views, the American people were ready 
to meet the aggressor and challenge his attacks. La Fol- 
lette should have recognized the will of the republic of 
which he is but one feeble and not altogether a worthy 
member. 
“SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE” has been the common 
heading of letters from the front, but now our dailies are 
telling us that the regiments are entraining for “some- 
where in Massachusetts.” 
A. Hacxerr of Cincinnati, “Todge is 
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