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Vol. XI. February 21, 1913, No. 8 
On THE “GoLD Coast’ 
A reason for the high cost of living 
that is rightly termed peculiar by the 
Salem News, although indorsed by 
that paper, is indeed novel, to say the 
least. To quote the Witch City jour- 
nal: “Wealthy summer residents who 
come to the North Shore from New 
York, Pittsburg, Chicago and other 
centres of wealth, set the pace for 
costs of high living along the ‘gold 
coast’ of the North Shore.” 
It is claimed that the “pace set” by 
our wealthy visitors has a marked in- 
fluence upon the permanent residents 
of the Shore, in that “they find their 
standards of living judged by the 
standards set by men of wealth.” 
The residents of any community 
should welcome any raise in the stand- 
ard and reputation of their town, no 
matter whence comes the  incen- 
tive And it is safe to say that any 
influence which the wealthy summer 
residents have made upon the perma- 
nent residents on the Shore has not 
been detrimental to the interests of the 
latter. It is sometimes a good thing 
for small townships to have high 
standards to measure up to. It keeps 
them from getting into a rut, and to 
have the North Shore anything but 
what it now is, a beautiful summer re- 
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sort, would be a slighting rebuke to 
Nature’s gifts. 
The summer residences built by and 
peopled by those on the so-called 
“gold coast,’ do not raise false ambi- 
tions in the breasts of the permanent 
citizens; they rather give them an 
added reason for being proud of their 
towns. ‘The “permanent” residents 
have much to thank the wealthy sum- 
mer residents in this section, for if a 
higher standard of living is apparent- 
ly set, it is confined within the limits 
of those who can best afford such a 
standard. There is no fear of the 
permanent residents “apeing the lux- 
uries” of the wealthy people. Their 
motives in life and mode of living are 
not unlike those of other persons in 
the same surrounding environment. 
It is hard to see where the wealthy 
residents’ presence raises the general 
high cost of living. Of course there 
might be something said of the “cost 
of high living.” 
THE VALUE OF LIBRARIES 
“Read some books for no other 
earthly reason than you want to, and 
the man who does not want to read 
at all—may the Lord have mercy on 
his mind!” was the counsel of Presi- 
dent Faunce of Brown University to 
some students who were looking for 
advice in connection with their col- 
lege training. This man of letters 
demonstrated to his charges that they 
could in the long run get more out of 
the college library than would be pos- 
sible from the lecture room or labor- 
atory. And in like manner every man, 
woman and child should realize that 
a college university extension course 
is really open to him in a good pub- 
lic library. 
Every good library in a city or town 
is really giving the advantages ob- 
tained in the average university ex- 
tension course. There is of course. 
that lack of proper guidance and se- 
lection of proper books for study 
which goes with the extension course. 
But many libraries are now giving this 
guidance to their patrons, so that a 
great deal more can be gleaned from 
the volumes which interest the stu- 
dent than if he had no outside aid 
whatever. 
It is this guidance which makes the 
resident course at a university so 
helpful. His selections of books and 
his interpretation of their varied 
meanings are so carefully looked af- 
ter that he gets much more good out 
of his studies. The frequenter of the 
average public library is of course 
without guidance of any sort and gets 
but comparatively few privileges. 
But the resident of any city or town 
should not neglect too much the li- 
brary course. 
pleases to take it, and his hundreds 
and thousands of teachers are within 
the leaves of the books without mon- 
ey and without price. It is his own 
fault if he ignores his chance. 
THE BLUFFING PREACHER 
A rabid, notoriety-seeking minister 
of the gospel is about the most despi- 
cable character that the world affords, 
and we have had an instance of this 
type in the “Rev.” Cady of Boston, 
who has been filling the newspapers 
full of his rantings on the manage- 
ment of affairs at the State Prison in 
Charlestown. Apparently District 
Atty. Pelletier saw the bluff that the 
minister was getting publicity on, and 
he very effectively squelched the un- 
worthy divine by summoning him to 
his office and making him prove his 
charges or be “en silence.” 
We had enough of muck-raking 
ministers during the Ettor trial at Sa- 
lem, and such outbursts as that of Dr. 
Cady are apparently uncalled for, in-— 
asmuch as he has been unable to 
It is his as long as he 
prove a single assertion that he made. — 
The preacher is supposed to be well 
booked on preaching, teaching and 
counseling charity, but he had better 
read up the lib-l laws before he ven- — 
tures further into his “reform” work. 
When Dr. Cady talks as he has he is 
to be placed in a certain list of “un- 
desirables” we have heard about be- 
fore. 
To HELP THE CONSUMER 
Wisconsin never seems satisfied to 
let things drift. The higher cost of 
living is felt as acutely there as any- — 
where else, and a movement has al- 
ready developed in the Legislature at 
Madison to try to correct part of the 
evil by law. 
A bill now before the lower house 
provides that the State Industrial 
Commission shall prepare and pub- 
lish a list of persons who wish to buy 
produce from the farmers. direct. 
The list is to be made up from appli- 
cations filed by such persons on 
blanks provided by the State. An ef- 
fort will be made to confine the list 
G. E. WILLMONTON 
Attorney and 
Counselor at Law 
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