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If some of the scandal-monging 
ministers who took so much interest 
in the Ettor trial to learn all about 
“social conditions” and the “under- 
world” would take the hint and study 
the moral conditions all over New 
England they might be doing some- 
thing worth while. If they visited the 
regular sessions of the criminal courts 
they would find material enough to 
last them for a lifetime in aiding boys 
and girls from getting into trouble. 
But they are looking for sky-rockets ; 
a chance to pose and preach and pub- 
licly agitate over an element that are 
hardly worth their attention. Let 
them look to the parents of the boys 
and girls in their own community and 
they. will be doing something beside 
theorizing about “social conditions.” 
The semi-professional of every de- 
scription in sports seems doomed 
among college men and those taking 
part in amateur sports. The necess- 
ary exit of Thorpe, the Carlisle In- 
dian athlete, from the field of amateur 
sports has opened the eyes of all in- 
terested on both sides of the Atlantic, 
and we will probably see a tighter line 
drawn around American coritestants 
in foreign amateur sporting events. 
The conditions surrounding college 
athletes have always been suspicious. 
A very few college presidents are not 
firmly against the playing of profes- 
sional baseball in the summer by their 
- students as a means of helping defray 
the expenses of tuition. Now is a 
good time to clear up the situation. 
Mr. Alexander McGregor. presi- 
dent of the Republican club of Mass- 
achusetts. gives his constituents some 
good advice when he says. “If there 
are things in our house to be cleaned, 
let us clean house; if there are false 
leaders in our party, let us sidetrack 
or eliminate them; if there is too much 
standpatism in evidence. let us let in 
some progressiveness but above all 
things let us get in touch with and keep 
‘in touch with the temper of the times; 
Jet us free ourselves from the idea 
that by holding back we can put a 
brake on progress.” This should have 
teen the Renublican doctrine for the 
past few years. 
Better wait until the end of May 
‘until you figure how much vou have 
saved on the winter’s coal bill. 
After the exposal of the ferry graft 
in Boston it is unsafe to sav “over the 
river” to Mayor Fitzgerald. 
President-elect Wilson “must have” 
eight hours sleep nightly. Hope he 
gets it. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Salem now falls in line with a cur- 
few for all boys and girls under six- 
teen years. Doesn’t sound like May- 
or Hurley. 
Milwaukee seems a queer place to 
raise $1,000,000 for a Prohibition 
party. 
THE RAMBLER 
The Rambler was greatly interested 
in the usual minute detail which has 
been paid to David Belasco’s latest, 
and said by some to be his most suc- 
cessful play, “The Woman,’ now 
playing at the Park Theatre. The 
noted producer never lets escape his 
attention the slightest detail or any 
little suggestion that will aid the 
imagination of his Teer In “The 
Woman” he ‘has tertainly kept up his 
reputation. It #§ the little things in 
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a play that help to make it worth 
while. One of these little tricks of 
suggestion which may in itself be tri- 
val, but seems to have all the ear- 
marks of a finishing touch of the great 
Belasco, is contained in a tense scene 
between Jane Petton and Mary Nash. 
The women are holding a clandestine 
conference in a hotel apartment at a 
time when a visitor is expected. To 
make a sudden interruption of their 
talk realistic the women must be warn- 
ed of his coming, for the visitor is a 
man. Instead of a commonplace ring- 
ing of an electric bell Mr. Belasco has 
apparently utilized one of his -sany 
stage tricks. He conveys the coming 
of the visitor by a more substle moana. 
First, the audience, and also of course 
the women upon the stage, hear the 
purring of the elevator as it ascends 
to the floor where the apartment is 
situated. Then the soft shove as the 
door of the “lift” is opened; thus we 
are informed of the approach of some- 
one. It is indeed a little thing and by 
many of the audience perhaps unno- 
ticed, but it has its significance as an 
example of the detail and “playing up 
of little things” for which Mr. Belasco, 
the producer of “The Woman,” is 
noted. 
Judging from the advance in price 
of kerosene and gasoline, Mr. Rock- 
efeller has begun to save all the pen- 
nies he can once more.—Lawrence 
Telegram. 
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