Mole V.No. 9 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MAR 
Bo AROUVE 
20 Pages. ‘Three Cents. 
THOUGHTS HERE AND THERE 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
Irksome as small cares and troubles 
often seem, they bear some such relation 
to the discipline of life as the slight 
touches of the painter’s brush or the 
sculptor’s chisel have to the perfection of 
his work. ‘‘Trifles make perfection,’’ 
said Michael Angelo, “‘and perfection is 
no trifle.’’ 
Societies, schools, even churches, 
must have their by-laws, rules or regulat- 
ions, though often the fewer the better; 
even the family the most primitive form 
of society, should have an unwritten 
constitution; but life cannot be governed 
by rules, here only principles will answer 
that apply in widely different circum- 
stances as rules never can. 
Some things are antiquated without be- 
ing antique; whatever is antique is in- 
teresting and sometimes valuable, 
whether it be a fashion, a book or a 
character; what is merely antiquated is 
at the best only amusing. 
Thinking a thing is so does not make 
it so; as, for example, thinking that a 
pistol is unloaded, or that children are 
safe on the street nights, or that we are 
right and everybody else is wrong, or that 
we know more than God, or that we are 
as important to the world as we often 
think we are, or that all men take us at 
our own measurement. 
“*T did’nt think’? is a very common 
excuse, but it is a very poor excuse in 
most cases; the fact is we ought to think; 
evil is wrought by want of thought as well 
as by malice prepense. 
Natural law is as old as the universe, 
but there is no end to discovery and _ in- 
vention; there are new processes, not 
only in milling and photography, but in 
philosophy as well; there is no new 
truth, but new combinations and applicat- 
ions of old truth. The uses of radium 
and electricity are very new, but there 
have always been radium and electricity. 
The talk about sub-liminal consciousness 
and that sort of thing is comparatively 
new, but if there is such a thingnow there 
always has been such a thing. Ina very 
real sense there is no new thing under 
the sun. 
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The power of one man may be very 
small, but the power of many men com- 
bined as in a state or nation may be very 
great; as a single snow-flake is one of the 
most slight and fragile things in nature, 
but get enough snow-flakes together and 
you have a force that will overwhelm a 
whole village when loosened from its 
hold on the mountain side. 
‘‘When the tale of bricks is doubled, 
Moses appears,’’ is a saying of the Rab- 
bins; so the bondmen in the South found 
itas well as the bondmen in Egypt; 
when burdens and sorrows become in- 
supportable, deliverance is often nearer at 
hand than we think. 
It is a relief to common people, but 
what must it be to Browning clubs, to 
learn that the poet himself did not always 
know what he meant by his Delphic ut- 
terances; that he often used words be- 
cause he liked the sound of them, or the 
music of their rhythm? Alas, for his 
many wise interpreters and their confid- 
ent interpretations. 
The spirit in which work is done and 
life is lived may dignify the most com- 
mon round and trivial task, or it may 
belittle the most pretentious achievement 
and degrade the highest calling; it is as 
possible to make the great small as it 1s 
to make the small great. 
Sometimes office confers honor upon 
aman, and sometimes a man confers 
honor upon an office; there be mean 
men whom circumstances make appear 
great, and there be.great men who make 
a lowly position in life high and honor- 
able; as there are rich poor men and 
poor rich men, so there are great little 
men and little great men. 
Nothing is ever gained by haste; 
especially do the best things often call for 
patience; ‘‘I have waited for thy salvat- 
ion.’’ It is ture, right waiting includes 
activity, but it excludes worry; to the 
wise and disciplined mind there is no 
needless delay but only a necessary period 
of preparation in what often seem the 
tardy movements of that increasing pur- 
pose that runs through the ages. 
If England succeeds in her present 
plans for an aerial navy, for transport and 
supply balloons and fighting aeroplanes, 
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CONDEMNS VENTILATION. 
Building Inspector Cheney of Beverly says 
ventilation of New Primary School Build= 
ing at Manchester not up to requirements. 
The Committee Refutes Mr. Cheney’s 
Statement, “Impartial Test’ by prom= 
inent authority shows system to be alright. 
Building Inspector Ansel J. Cheney 
of Beverly says the ventilation of the new 
John Price Primary School building at 
Manchester is not up to the standard as 
required by law, and such a statement 
will be met with much surprise by the 
citizens of Manchester, as it was sup- 
posed the new building ranked among 
the finest in the state in every detail. 
The building committee refute Mr. 
Cheney’s statement in a communication 
printed below and hint that the inspector 
was biased in his opinion. "They show 
that an “‘impartial test’? by George 
Huey, a prominent authority on heating 
and ventilating, would indicate the ven- 
tilation to be above the state require- 
ments, much less the opposite. 
The Beverly Times of Monday contain- 
ed Mr. Cheney’s report, which was as 
follows: 
“In room 1, 19 feet of air is circulat- 
ed per minute per scholar. In grade 2, 
27 feet; in grade 3, 19 feet, and in the 
kindergarten room, 29 feet for 40 
scholars. 
“Usually the extracting ducts will reg- 
ister a third more than the inlet, owing 
to leakage. In this building, in some of 
the rooms, it was below the supply and 
in one room, 33 per cent below. 
“Thirty cubic feet per minute for each 
scholar is the minimum amount accept- 
able. ‘The sanitaries at this school are in 
excellent condition.”’ 
The Committee’s Statement. 
Editor of the North Shore Breeze: 
As our District Inspector has seen fit 
to publish his test of the heating and ven- 
tilating of the John Price Primary School 
Building in the Bever/y Times, under date 
of Feb. 25, we, the committee having 
the building in charge at the time of its 
erection, would like a few words to say 
through the columns of your paper. 
When the plans for the building were 
completedthey were submitted to the chief 
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