April 13, 1917, 
ANOTHER COMMERCIAL ScHEME has been launched 
to. standardize the garage service which is given along 
popular motor routes. Several men of wealth have organ- 
ized and it is proposed to establish a chain of garages 
operated by a central organization. There will be a gar- 
age, it is planned, every twenty miles. These garages will 
be furnished with supplies purchased by a central agency 
thus permitting an economical handling of motor sundries 
as a side line. The plan is colossal and not without merit, 
but somewhat late in the day. Along the principle routes 
there are garages now in large numbers, each with 2 
clientele that is assured. It will be difficult for any cen- 
tral organization to operate a chain of garages without 
local patronage and that will be a hard task where garages 
are already firmly entrenched. The success of the plan 
will be watched with, interest. 
BES 
Tue INTERESTS OF Many North Shore folk have 
long been centered upon Boston’s old North End and its 
great need. For years Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw took an 
ective part in the solution of its settlement problems. The 
work has been well done and the years of labor by many 
interested people have not been in vain. Now the City of 
Boston will by its powers of eminent domain take a large 
tract of land with the buildings theron and raze them to 
the ground and construct a North End patk. The need 
has long been felt and the work is already under way. It 
is a step well taken. 
BES 
News Comes to AMERICA by way of London, that a 
Reuter despatch from Copenhagen says: “that it is re- 
ported that the Chief Director of the Kosmo Steamship 
Company has ordered all captains of the line to be at 
Hamburg on July one with peace conditions in mind.” 
The peace words are in the air and it is to be hoped that 
the concerted activties of the allied nations may be suc- 
cessful. 
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THe ComMiItreE on Pusricrry for the Constitu- 
tional convention has been rendering a valuable service to 
the citizens of the state. The list which they endorsed 
was promptly supported and the success of the men whom 
they suggested is due in no small degree to their good 
offices. 
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A ae Frac Froa's to the breezes from the staff at 
the Huntington Memorial hospital, Boston, the gift of 
General Peirson of our shore. General Peirson is always 
patriotic and public spirited. 
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From tHe Raprprry with which the cottages all along 
our shore are being rented it is evident that the city dw el 
ler appreciates the safety and joys of a summer by the 
sea. 
To Heip StTiMuLATE PLANTING OF and 
GARDENS. 
Edwin P. Stanley in a highly patri- 
otic manner has opened the way for 
the extensive cultivation of garden 
plots in Manchester this summer. In 
a letter to the editor of the BREEzE he 
outlines a very practical plan, which 
others having available land could 
st., plow 
charge 
April 12, 1917. 
MANCILESTER 
The 
NORTH. SHORE-BREE ZB 
harrow it, 
such people, as desire, to plant it. 
will be only what it costs me. G. 
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SAFETY 
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Conmittee on Public 
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Tur MANCHESTER WoMAN’s Crus has already be- 
gun to do its share of the work of preparedness. An 
exceptionally valuable lecture on food preservation was 
given by Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Belt. The lecture was 
timely. Every housewife this year should learn the art of 
canning and lay by for the future every vegetable that 
she can dry or preserve. There 1s a need and every one 
can show their patriotism by caring for a garden and 
canning and preserving for winter uses. 
Tue Press AND THE PuLpir are cooperating with the 
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty ‘to 
Animals in presenting the claims of a “Be Kind to Ani- 
mals’ Sunday, and April 22 is the day set apart for the 
work. One cannot escape, however, from the conviction 
that the one great task before the nation is the settlement 
of the “war” problem. ‘There is need of such humane 
instruction, for war brings sufferings, not alone to man, 
but to his faithful servant, the horse. 
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THERE Is No Question about the world shortage of 
food and these two significant statements from Montrea! 
despatches to a leading journal carry their own message: 
‘We have seen for months that if it had not been for th» 
United States, Canada would be reduced to starvation,’ 
and Queen’s college, Kingston, will “send a delegation ot 
elderly professors into the Northwest this summer to 
serve the dominion as farm hands.” These two sentences 
tell a story of war. 
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Tue Census oF THE UNiversitits has been made 
this year and in point of attendance Boston University has 
already slipped into the third place with an enrollment 
one hundred less than the registration at Yale, which is 
second, with Harvard in the lead. The University has 
grown rapidly during the last decade. 
GreAtT BRITAIN AND FRANCE made the mistake early 
in the war of believing that the war was to be a short one. 
America knows that the war will be shorter than the 
war for which the allies were forced to prepare, but it is 
now providing against the error of believing that the war 
is to be a short one. 
MANCHESTER Is TO Have a Red Cross First Aid 
course “to train men and women in the promotion of hu- 
~an efficiency and. the relief of suffering.” The course 
is under the auspices of the Red Cross society and its lec- 
tures should prove valuable and popular. 
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AN OFFICER ON StcK LEAVE says he longs for peace 
and the time when he can devote himself to a life long 
labor in constructive peace work, but not until the task 
is done. This is pacifism of an intelligible order. 
and invite men of sub-committees: Committee 
aid societies, A. 
Warner; committee of food pro- 
duction and conservation, Austin 
Morley; committee on home guards, 
Raymond C. Allen, Alexander Rob- 
ertscn; committee on trucks and mo- 
tor cars, George S. Sinnicks ; co‘nmit- 
tee on ee hygiene and sanitation, 
My on coordination of 
STANLEY. 
COMMITTEE. 
Safety 
follow with advantage to the com- met Thursday afternoon in the office Dr. R. T. Glendenning. Each chair- 
munity. He writes: of the school board. Town hall and man wil pre epare a list of names com- 
Editor North Shore Breeze transacted the following business: pleting the membership of his com- 
Dear Sir: Owing to the necessity of voted to have meetings each week mittee and present it at the next meet- 
the people doing all the garden plant-- Wednesday 
ing possible this year, T propose to 
open the field that | have on Summer 
evening, at 7 
the office of the school board and ap- 
pointed the following men as chair- 
o’clock at ing of the committee. The commit- 
tee has received 250 enrolment cards 
and the promise of 36 autos. 
