cause of the manufacturers appears 
more just. ‘he assertion that the 
enterprise has been making exces- 
sive profits is shown by the declar- 
ations of the woolen 
Seven per cent is paid on the pre- 
ferred and nothing has even been 
paid on the common stock. As it ls, 
the former sells at eighty-seven to 
eighty nine and the common is pro- 
_ portionately low.’’ 
The operators of the mills would 
like to increase wages but the busi- 
ness will not permit. They are 
handicapped by short hours and 
high wages and actually compete 
against child labor. In some of the 
Southern mills it has been a common 
practice for the parents of children 
to put their children out in the mills 
under one certificate. The law does 
not require the surrender of the age 
certificate; consequently a parent 
may send several of the younger 
children to work, it may be in an- 
other mill, on an older child’s cer- 
tificate. There is also no law 
against children loitering about 
mills. It opens the way for abuses. 
A boy is assigned five looms. He 
‘has younger brothers who loiter 
about to help him. They are not em- 
ployed. The mill pays the older 
boy for ten looms. ‘The helping 
brothers are not paid because they 
are not employed but the funds 
reach the common treasury in the 
home. Against such conditions the 
manutacturer competes. 
The reported fact that many 
heads are earning four, five and six 
dollars a week seems to be true, but 
the fact needs explanation. Many 
of the foreigners are persistent in 
their demands for work. In such a 
search they will loiter for hours, 
saying, when the head of the de- 
partment appears, ‘‘me want a 
job.”’ Eventually a sign—‘‘ Boy 
Wanted’’—for a boy’s task is hung. 
A man, it may be the head of a fam- 
ily, takes the boy’s work and gets 
the boy’s pay. This is the explan- 
ation of the fact. 
It comes to light that the Ameri- 
ean workers are happy, contented, 
industrious and making provision 
for old age. The mill directors have 
been humanitarian in their activi- 
ties and there is peace in the mills 
between the operatives and _ high 
class labor. 
The struggle has ceased to be a 
labor difficulty. It is a flagrant ex- 
ample of class spirit, socialistic an- 
archy and despotic demagoguery. 
The I. W. W.—facetiously dubbed 
the ‘‘I Won’t Work’’—are exploit- 
ing the situation and the honor of 
organized labor (as commonly un- 
derstood) is not in any way in- 
company. ° 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
volved. It seems to be a socialistic 
insurrection with a determination to 
precipitate a revolution if possible. 
The workers are not protesting 
against any one ill which could be 
arbitrated. They are _ stubbornly 
‘‘kicking against the thrusts,’’ and 
the outlook is dubious. If there is 
any thing that can be done to solve 
the problem it ought to be tried— 
but who is to know what will solve 
this acute difficulty. 
The Beverly Water Problem 
Another issue is brought forward 
in the Beverly-Salem water prob- 
lem. There have been already pro- 
posed two methods for increasing 
the water supply of the two cities. 
One was the sale by Salem of its 
interest in Wenham Pond to Bev- 
erly and with the sale money pur- 
chase admission into the metropol- 
itan system. The other was the in- 
crease of the present supply by 
waters from Ipswich River. <A third 
proposition is advanced, really only 
a variation of the second plan. The 
engineer of the Salem board has an- 
nounced through the board the dis- 
covery of a natural basin which may 
be used for a storage reservoir. The 
reservoir is in Putnamville, Dan- 
vers, and will require only the con- 
struction of two dams, one 600 and 
the other only 400 feet long, in or- 
der to store 1,500,000,000 gallons. 
It is evident that the problem is still 
unsettled. To endeavor to reach a 
decision on the three plans as now 
proposed without careful investiga- 
tion by both boards will be folly. 
Bath-house Question 
One of the important items to 
come before the Manchester voters 
at the annual meeting next week is 
the question of building a public 
bathhouse at Singing Beach. The 
Breeze has always favored an im- 
provement of this nature, if such 
an improvement could be brought 
about in the proper manner. The 
removal of the scores of small tum- 
ble-down shacks from the beach, 
now used and owned by individuals, 
and some sort of a public building 
erected, would do much to improve 
the looks of the beach. We do not 
favor, however, the construction of 
a large building, a ‘‘double deck’’ 
affair, such as is now proposed. 
To build a bathhouse of the type 
alluded to, would be a very serious 
injury in the opinion of many tax- 
payers, to the town of Manchester. 
Many voters think that the con- 
struction of a bathing pavilion on 
Singing Beach will destroy the char- 
dacter of the beach, an will bring an 
undesirable class of people to the 
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The voters should act cautiously 
in this matter. 
The Rev. Albert G. Warner of 
Manchester, has approached the un- 
ending liquor problem discussion 
with candor and sanity. He has 
marshalled the material in his ser- 
mons with a master hand. He has 
dealt with principles, leaving the 
problem of details to the mind and 
will of the people. 
The Van der Pyl articles in the 
Herald have been a masterpiece of 
sense, style and diction. A class in 
English at Wellesley were given the 
Ettor sketch as a study in good Eng- 
lish, 
The Town of Manchester will be 
intensely interested in the outcome 
of the bill before the legislature pro- 
viding for local option on club li- 
censes in no-license towns. 
A Beverly Boom may follow—let 
it come—the deepening of the har- 
bor channel. The national appropri- 
ation included in the harbor bill be- 
fore congress. 
T. R. is spilling his third cup of 
coffee before he gets it. 
Socialism is undefinable —in its 
evil. 
Gardner stands pat for Taft. 
After one has read about all the 
atrocities that are still being perpe- 
trated. on the other side of the 
globe, he can’t be sure that the 
world has advanced very far in the | 
past two or three hundred years. 
The man who would  humilate 
me must be more magnanimous than 
TIT am. Coarse wit and venomous 
sarcasm ‘belittles him. from whom 
they emanate far more than him 
toward whom they are aimed. 
