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Vol. XI. 
JantarysT7 2101s se rRNOe 3 
Are AMERICANS “MOLLYCODDLES?” 
Somebody has either been playing 
a huge joke upon a German man of 
letters now stopping in Washington 
or else he has a much mistaken theory 
of the manliness of residents on this 
side of the water. At any rate, we 
~"'! take him at his word, and accuse 
“1 of asserting that “America’s fu- 
ture young men is going to be a very 
dainty youth,” a very mollycoddle, in 
fact. 
Such a learned man as Dr. Louis 
D. Edvarts lays claim to be can hardly 
be thought to be guilty of such an er- 
ror of speech, nevertheless he says he 
believes that the American youth of 
the future will be a type of English 
Johnny, with monocle, round shoi!d- 
ers and a bored expression of counte- 
nance that will indicate inertia and 
the fact that he is a mgllycoddle. 
It is very apparent that this gentle- 
man is not aware of the fact that 
America leads all kinds of sportsman 
ship and that the pace that the sons 
of this country set for their foreign 
brothers is a trifle too fast for them. 
One does not have to wrack his brain 
very much to find that American athle- 
tes made the other contestants in the 
Olympic games take a “back seat,” 
and that an American holds the all- 
round athletic championship. Evi- 
G. E. WILLMONTON 
Attorney and 
Counselor at Law 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
dently our German friend is not aware 
of the immense work that is being 
done by nearly every city and town 
in the matter of providing play- 
ground for the young people, and that 
every college and university counts its 
stadium or football field just as val- 
uable as its libraries and laboratories. 
We always hope to give the foreign 
visitor a good impression of the coun- 
try when he visits Washington, but 
evidently the only “young Americans” 
that he has met have been effeminated 
by their surroundings and not the 
live-wire product that everyone as- 
sociates with the name American. We 
see no real danger of our emulating 
our English brother and becoming a 
mollycoddle. It is not a part of our 
make-up. 
Tuer SHORE WELL CaRED For 
With several energetic and progres- 
sive men directing the political desti- 
nies of the North Shore section in the 
State House and the cities along the 
shore, this section ought to be well 
cared for during this year. 
At Beacon Hill Patrick H. Boyle, 
Representative from this district, is a 
resident of Manchester, while Sena- 
tor Norwood, a Hamilton man, and 
one who has done much for this sec- 
tion, is the North Shore representative 
in the upper branch on Beacon Hill. 
Allison G. Catherton, formerly of 
Manchester, and now Representative 
from the Beverly district, is looking 
after the interests of the Garden City, 
while we have in Washington Con- 
gressman Augustus 
whom everyone knows, is “always on 
the job.” 
In the local city governments for the 
first time in many years two mayors 
have been selected from suburban 
North Shore towns. <A_ Beverly 
Farms man, Herman A. MacDonald, 
is chief executive of Beverly, and 
Magnolia this year sent Harry C. Fos- 
ter of that section to the mayoralty 
chair in Gloucester. Which is every 
reason to believe that the shore will 
be well taken care of this year. 
SPOILING Our BEACHES. 
An important recommendation of 
the State Board of Harbor and Land 
Commissioners to the Legislature is 
that prohibiting persons from taking 
sand from beaches in this state. If it 
is carried out it will be a misdemeanor 
punishable by law to remove stones, 
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sand, gravel or other material from a 
beach shore, bluff, headland, island or 
bar in or bordering on any tide wa- 
ters. Offenders will be punished by 
fine of not less than $20 nor more 
than $200. 
This is surely a step in the right 
direction, as persons of this section 
can testify after seeing the wholesale 
devastation of our beach lands as a 
result of private parties hauling away 
wagon-loads of sand and gravel from 
our shore front. In many cases the 
beaches have been practically ruined 
by the practice, and as there has been 
no law to prevent it, private parties 
have continued to work havoc with 
the shore. 
The beaches are a part of the val- 
uable assets of the North Shore and 
if the recommendation results in a 
law, a preservation of our beaches will 
be effected. At present the beaches 
are fast losing their worth for bathing 
and recreation purposes, and a quick 
release from this practice will be wel- 
come. 
” 
Mr. Munsey’s SUGGESTION 
The rank and file of Progressives 
do not seem to take kindly to the 
suggestion of Mr. Munsey in his 
newspapers that to prevent the Demo- 
crats from gaining further power the 
Progressive party should fuse with 
the Republicans. They say they have 
nothing to compromise; there is no 
middle ground with them, and that 
they have no particular antipathy to- 
ward either of the rival parties. A 
joint convention of Progressives and 
Republicans, as suggested by Mr. 
Munsey, is distasteful to the Bull 
Moosers, who believe with the Re- 
publicans, that the control by the 
Democratic party is only temporary. 
Therefore they do not intend to trade 
with any faction to gain the ends 
which their party strives for. After 
all is said, neither the Republicans nor 
the Progressive party should worry 
much about the ascendency of the 
Democrats, for their rise into the 
limelight promises to be short-lived, 
at least to the coming administration. 
In the meantime, everything can be 
done by both of the other parties to 
keep the “Dimmycrats,” as Mr. Doo- 
ley terms them, from coming out on 
top again. 
Don’t say 24-cent eggs—it is spell- 
ediscent” 
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