NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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New Haven’s DousiE Task. 
A double task has been imposed up- 
on the management of the New York, 
New Haven and Hartford Railroad 
Company. Besides the work of main- 
taining efficiency and improving facil- 
itie’, the attention of the officials has 
been diverted by the added responsi- 
bility of answering and refuting the 
recent attacks upon the company. 
Their efforts to meet the arguments 
of the critics and to allay the possibil- 
ity of public distrust are inspired both 
by a desire to overcome the demora- 
lizing influence upon the employees of 
the company that these attacks have 
had and also by the natural inclina- 
tion to protect their own interests, 
for no man relishes the thought of 
having a bomb thrown at his business. 
Whatever may be the motives be- 
hind the attacks, the New Haven 
management makes no denial that 
they have seriously affected the effi- 
ciency of the road, besides resulting 
in incalculable injury to the interests 
of industrial New England. Both 
President Charles §. Mellen of the 
New Haven and Mr. Lucius Tuttle, 
formerly president of the Boston and 
Maine railroad, attribute the origin 
of the opposition to the New Haven 
to the purchase by that Company of 
Boston & Maine stock. President 
Mellen aptly traces back also these at- 
tacks to Louis D. Brandeis, who, he 
claims, for ulterior purposes, has 
“assailed by underground campaigns 
and publicly by irresponsible mouth- 
pieces, the integrity of the manage- 
ment.” 
The attack on Mr. Mellen are really 
attacks on his well defined policy in 
providing an efficient railroad system 
for New England. 
It was because he was attacked so 
viciously and indiscriminately for car- 
rying out his policies that President 
Mellen departed from his custom of 
devoting his whole time to the busi- 
ness of the New England railroad 
system and recently wrote the letter 
to the Boston American. In this let- 
ter he explained in detail his policy re- 
garding the New England transporta- 
tion system. In addition to this many 
other efforts have been made to re- 
store public confidence, for the suc- 
cess of his policies and the continued 
prosperity and development of indus- 
trial New England are inter-depen- 
dent upon the ability of the New 
Haven to command credit and _ to 
keep its financial skirts clear. 
He is a true friend who will listen 
to our troubles without telling us how 
much worse off he has been. 
Miss Helen Keller the Blind and Deaf Girl is 
in Boston Lecturing. 
The accompanying picture of Miss 
Helen Keller and her companion, 
(Mrs. Macy), was printed in the 
Breeze several years ago at the time 
the summer salesroom, ‘“The Handi- 
craft Shop for the Blind” was opened 
in Manchester. Standing on the little 
green in the square, in front of the 
shop, Miss Keller delivered a_ brief 
speech to the large number of towns- 
people and summer residents present. 
Since then the shop has been torn 
down and the salesroom is now located 
on Bridge street. 
This is of interest at the present 
time because Miss Keller and her com- 
panion are in Boston and during the 
past few days have propounded the 
doctrines of Socialism to thousands 
of people in that city from the plat- 
form of Tremont Temple. As she 
stated in her lecture in that auditor- 
ium Monday night she is not of “the 
one 
f at 
parlor type of Socialists.” To quote 
her, she is ‘a sure-enough one.” 
Miss Keller is also a suffragist, be- 
cause, as she says, “I love justice and 
fair dealing. Socialism won’t destroy 
incentive—incentive is merely a de- 
sire for food, clothes, happiness. It 
won't make people lazy, but I think 
it’s time the workers had a chance to 
be lazy. Really, the lazy ones will 
not the get the cake under Socialism 
as they do now.” 
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“Brown’s house was_ robbed last 
night.” 
“Ts Mrs. Brown going on the stage, 
or is Brown expecting a visit from 
the tax investigating committee?” 
It is said that moving is cheaper 
than paying rent, and it is also better 
than quarreling with your neighbors. 
