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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
IMPORTANT 
ANNOUNCEMENT 
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the BREEZE at news- 
will be advanced to 
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This change is made impera- 
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The 
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when 
the raw material costs nearly 
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high price of paper. 
magazine at 5c a copy, 
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cost of manufacture. 
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MANCHESTER, MASS. 
POWER OF NAVY 
= & 
FIREMAN DrMpsEY PHILOSOPHIZES 
ON IMPORTANCE OF MEN 
ENGINE Rooms. 
Set power of the Navy is in me.’ 
sig Jack Dempsey, fireman recruit, 
Hee “unburdened himself. as he sat 
with legs dangling on the turret of 
the Virginia. 
Around him seethed the prepara- 
tion for war. From the huge Boston 
Navy Yard shops arose the din and 
clamor of a mighty force rushing the 
final work to place in readiness the 
big steel fighting machines which are 
to play such an important part in up- 
holding the honor and dignity of our 
Nation. On the parade ground ad- 
jacent, a couple of hundred blue- 
jackets were running a quarter mile 
oval, hardening up for their work 
ahead. 
Something of the inspiration of 
this vitally energetic scene glistened 
in his eyes, as he swept his pipe stem 
in a short semi-circle before him to 
emphasize the might of which he was 
master. 
Huge of frame, horny of hand is 
Dempsey. It was only two days ago 
that he drifted into the navy recruit- 
ing office to offer himself to his coun- 
try. 
“Whether its sailorin’ or soldierin’ 
I told thim at the recruitin’ office, its 
the same to me as long as I can serve 
me country. Anyways that a man 
can serve and do his duty in a toime 
loike this is the best way,” was his 
gravely enunciated philosophy. 
“So I enlist as a fireman, the great- 
est branch of the service of the U. S. 
Navy. 
“Whin a man has put in a few 
years on the job, there is somethin 
about the firebox of a engin’ that pulls 
you to it, wance you have fed the big, 
hungry mouths that are always open 
and roarin’. 
“An after a little hustle ov feedin’ 
the big babies, the job is done an’ you 
can tale yer ease while the byes above 
are drillin an the ship is rollin easy- 
like in the cradle ov the sea. 
“Every man to his task, says I, and 
I’m a fireman be inclination and force 
of habit. And it is me duty to play 
firenan for Uncle Sam whin he 
needs me above all others. 
“Wance I stoked on a tramp steam- 
er, and it. was there I learned the 
power ov me callin’. 
“We wuz down where the heathens 
an the fever wuz thick as mud, an 
wan by wan the sickness took hold 
ov officers and crew until they wuz 
only a handful ov us lift to navigate 
the craft. What with the fever ragin’ 
we had a powerful time. Wan after 
April 13, 1917, 
-anither the byes below fell down with 
the sickness, an it wuz thin the real 
trouble began. 
“It wuz the Captain himself who 
came down to talk with us. ‘Byes,’ 
he said, ‘I kin get along widout me 
officers, but fer the love of Hivin, me 
ship will perish if me firemen desert 
me in this me hour ov need.’ 
“That is why I say the power ov 
the Navy is in me. | Whin the coal 
stops, the battleships stop, and the 
inimy can take yer at his own time.” 
Across the slip between the Vir- 
ginia and the next dock, the sailor 
drill had spread out into an open ord- 
er exercise. They were the “men be- 
hind the guns,” an integral part of 
the great fighting mechanism which 
is soon to spread its influence world- 
wide in the mighty conflict facing this 
Nation. I looked sideways at the 
inan beside me, who represented the 
silent working force of the American 
battleships, but his gaze was lifted 
above the immediate animation of 
roving units. It rested in the smoke- 
clouds coming from the huge stack of 
an adjoining vessel. 
“The byes hev started work fer 
Uncle Sam,”. he observed, with a 
touch of pride. And I knew .that 
down in the cavernous recesses of 
that gray steel hull, other representa- 
tives of the ‘power of the navy’ were 
bending their backs to the end that 
the traditions of the American Navy 
might be upheld, and the honor of 
the flag maintained upon the seas. 
The Navy needs more firemen. It 
needs thousands more patriots like 
Jack Dempsey. 
Kitt FLIEs AND SAVE LIVEs. 
Kill at once every fly you can find 
and burn his body. 
Observers say that there are many 
reasons to believe there will more 
flies this season than for a number of 
years. 
The killing of just one fly now 
means there will be billions and tril- 
lions less next summer. 
Clean up your own premises; see 
and insist that your neighbors do like- 
wise. 
Especially clean “out - of - way - 
places,” and every nook and cranny. 
Flies will not go where there is 
nothing to eat, and their principal 
diet is too filthy to mention. 
Beginning May 1 the price of the 
BREEZE at news-stands will be ad- 
vanced to 10c a copy. Subscription 
rates will not change—they will re- 
main $2 a year, $1 for 6 months (paid 
in advance). 
We cannot all be clever: we can all 
be kind. 
