NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
ests in Wenham Lake presented a 
problem with but few days within 
which to act, but a bill was framed 
and presented to the legislature be- 
fore the last day for receiving bills 
for 1912. The outcome of the ques- 
tion is still problematic but if the 
legislature will grant permission 
and Beverly can make an equitable 
agreement with Salem the plan pro- 
posed seems not only reasonable but 
desirable. Meantime there must be 
patient waiting for the process of 
legislation. 
The Manchester Sanitation Problem 
The community owes to itself 
good schools, good streets, good 
water and proper sanitation. Man- 
chester may be proud of its civic 
betterment interests. The Town 
has solved in part the problems of 
schools, streets and water in no 
small degree and the consummation 
of its plans for sewers has taken the 
form of a bill which has been pre- 
sented to the Massachusetts General 
Court by .its representative, on 
petition of a special committee of 
its citizens. Sanitation is an impor- 
tant question which when properly 
solved means health and all its at- 
tending blessings, neglected means 
sickness and all its baneful ills. 
There is every reason to expect. that 
the bill will be passed in due form. 
There is no reason to suppose that 
if the bill is passed by the legisla- 
ture that it will be rejected by a 
vote of the Town. It would appear 
that the sewer agitation is about 
ended and that a wholesome modern 
system of sanitation (will displace 
the less desirable sanitary arrange- 
ments. This action is only second 
to the adequate water supply which 
the town enjoys. It will be a great 
day for Manchester when the legis- 
lative act is adopted and then exe- 
euted. The finances of the town are 
carefully administered and a satis- 
factory and economical plan of ac- 
tion will be evolved. The sewers 
will be worth more to Manchester 
than the interest cost on the install- 
ment of the plant. Great credit is 
due to the enterprising citizens who 
have studied this’ problem and 
brought it to its present solution. 
The increase in the individual tax 
will be negligible, but if it does ap- 
pear, the individual will still get 
more for his tax money than he can 
get in any other way. <A compre- 
hensible report of the findings of 
the special committee through its 
engineer Desmont FitzGerald will 
soon be printed and distributed 
among the voters of the town. 
Values 
Life is a seeking, making, obtain- 
ing and conserving of values. Some 
never learn values above those of 
pound and pence, labor and time, 
and physical goods as comfort, rec- 
reation and ease. But the real val- 
ues of life are only determinable in 
the terms of hfe. Such values are 
indefinable because they are only 
defined in terms of themselves. 
Consequently life may be spent or 
gained according to the ‘‘values”’ 
which we seek out of life. Life is 
what we put in, not what we take 
out and the individual, the firm, the 
community, or state, that exhausts 
its energies in the lesser goods or 
values at the expense of the greater 
goods or values has sacrificed the 
best for the sake of the near good. 
So is it with legislation. Good leg- 
islation costs and the community 
sacrifices lesser values for higher 
and better values. To obtain the 
better values of education, good 
roads, scientific sanitation, good la- 
bor laws, fair wage regulation, ben- 
eficent corporation regulation and 
wholesome hours of labor the com- 
munity must surrender paper values 
or gold values for the better values 
in comfort and ethical government. 
‘‘Legislation,’’ says the cost of liv- 
ing report (Mass. Page 474), ‘‘for 
the protection of labor and the pub- 
he health imposes a certain tax on 
industry. It increases for a time at 
least, the expenses of production 
and distribution, and is paid for by 
consumers in the form of higher 
prices of products. So far as leg- 
islation is necessary to attain the 
ends sought and is effective in se- 
curing its intended results, the tax 
that it imposes is a reasonable price 
for the advantages secured. In the 
main, moreover, such legislation 
proves economical in the long run, 
for it conserves and increases pro- 
ductive efficiency. The temporary 
increase of the cost of production is 
offset in the end by the heightened 
productive powers of the popula- 
tion. But it must be recognized 
that even if such legislation results 
in a permanent increase of the ex- 
penses of production, it can be justi- 
fied on higher ethical grounds. 
Cheaper production is not the only 
aim of social progress. A body of 
law that yields substantial values 
throughout the nation in the form 
of good health, sound morals and in- 
telligent citizenship, is well worth 
the price of a permanent increase of 
production cost.’’ Herein is the line 
of progress: the community surren- 
ders lower values for the higher, 
and that gain is the true economy. 
MANCHESTER 
The Guest Night of the Manches- 
ter Woman’s club to be held in the 
Town hall, Wednesday evening, 
February 7th, is open to the pub- 
lic. Members’ tickets of admission 
30 cents and guest tickets 60 cents 
must be obtained before Monday 
evening. February 5th of Mrs. F. 
C. Rand, Mrs. G. S. Sinnicks or 
Miss Annie LL. Lane. Miss Bee 
Mayer will render a program of In- 
dian songs imitated on the harp. 
She is an expert entertainer and 
will make the evening most enjoy- 
able to the Woman’s elub and their 
friends. Schlehuber will cater. The 
meeting opens at 7.45 p.m. 
At the Armory at Gloucester last 
Friday evening Co. G of that city 
presented the Gloucester High 
school cadets with four sabres for 
use by the four First Sergeants. 
Forster Tenney of this town is the 
captain of one of the high school 
companies. 
A spirited game of hockey was 
played last Saturday morning on 
the Channel between the High 
school team and a picked team cap- 
tained by Cheever Hersey, the game 
resulting in a tie, 3 to 3. The line- 
ups: High school—Hayward rw, 
Long lw, J. Gillis ec, R. Knight r, G. 
Crafts ep, H. Baker p, MeDiarmid 
2, Hersey’s Pets—Kehoe lw, Her- 
sey rw, Cool ec, Gillis r, J. Gray ep, 
Cawthorne p, Preston g. Umpire, 
Cregg. The town employees had 
cleared the snow from the Channel 
much to the pleasure of the young 
people. 
Mrs. C. M. Shatterly and son of 
Lang, Saskatchiwan, Can., Miss Sa- 
die Kehoe of Newburyport and Mrs. 
Hdmund Jackson of Oyster Bay are 
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. James 
Kehoe, Summer street. 
Mrs. John Schaadt of Pembroke, 
has been a recent guest of her aunt, 
Miss Mary Baker. 
Frederick Lane left this week for 
Windsor, N. S., where Mrs. Lane is 
spending the winter. 
Little Miss Elsie Wheaton has 
been ill during the past week with 
bronchitis. 
Cheever L. Hersey is a member of 
the Salem Commercial school bas- 
ket ball team, and has made good 
on one of the backfield positions. 
Wednesday of this week the team 
played at Lynn. 
Gordon Baker met with a painful 
accident the latter vart of the week, 
being bitten on the nose by a dog. 
Medical aid was called and several 
stitches were taken to close the 
wound. 
