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Vol. X ° May 24, 1912 No. 21 
Memorial Day 
The swift season has rolled by and 
an opening spring brings us again 
to the great day of the year dear to 
every Grand Army Man and to those 
who have suffered losses from the 
war of the rebellion. We may well 
pause and ask the present genera- 
tion if the day is to be permitted to 
pass out because of its abuse. The 
day should be reversed. There has 
been an unmistakeable tendency for 
the newer citizens and the children 
of the present generation to trans- 
form this holy day into a day for 
eames and sports and recreations. 
The day has been set apart as a mem- 
orial to the nation saving work 
done by the men of 1861 to 1865. So 
marked has this disrespect been that 
there is an increasing sentiment in 
favor of observing the Sunday pre- 
ceeding Memorial Day as Memorial 
Sunday. Fortunately the Towns of 
the North Shore have been loyal to 
the traditions of this great day. 
Too much eannot be said for the 
fidelity with which the day is kept. 
Contested games, entertainments 
-and other publie festivities are not 
appropriate for this day of days. 
Let the spirit of the day be main- 
tained. Let the new generation 
show its reverence and respect for 
the work which the men of the 
other years did for the country by 
attending with the members of the 
Posts their memorial church services 
and by partaking in their memorial 
rites and exercises on Memorial Day. 
Senator Crane’s Decision. 
The announcement made by Sen- 
ator Crane that he will not seek the 
renomination and election from his 
State as Senator came as a great 
surprise to the citizens of Massa- 
chusetts. The importance of this 
item of news was readily noticeable 
in the prominence given the  an- 
nouncement on the very morning 
when the returns from Ohio were 
being awaited with such interest. 
Even the Ohio election returns were 
geiven a secondary place in the 
news of the state and justly so. 
While a few friends knew of the pro- 
posed renomination the announce- 
ment was a surprise to the average 
citizen. Senator Crane has been an 
able representative of the Old Bay 
State and has continued to maintain 
the prestige of the State at Wash- 
ington. While he had no talents as a 
pubhle speaker he has had an indom- 
itable strength as a worker and dip- 
lomat. The positions of trust and 
honor which he has enjoyed in the 
City of Washington has been cause 
for state congratulation. His with- 
drawal only adds to the chaotic con- 
ditions in the affairs of the republi- 
ean party both within and wiihout 
the state. : 
Although blessed with ample 
means, Mr. Crane neverthcless, chose 
the thorny path of public service and 
has won enviable laurels. It is one of 
the triumphs of our republican sys- 
tem that men of ability and leading 
in financial affairs ere willing to lay 
aside the possibilities of business pre- 
ferment and developments to take 
upon themselves. the not unusual 
thankless task of serving the public. 
Twice Mr. Crane has had the oppor- 
tunity to serve in the Cabinet of the 
President of the United States and 
refused. This is a testimony itself to 
the commanding position which the 
Massachusetts Senator has attained 
in Washington. The sense of honor 
of the man was never more clearly 
shown when he refused to allow the 
manufacturing company of which he 
owns an interest to compete for a 
government contract because of his 
official relations with the govern- 
ment. 
In the withdrawal of Mr. Crane 
the state will lose an able conscien- 
tious man and the nomination of his 
sucessor is only second to the prob- 
lem of the Choice of a President. 
Capital Punishment 
Capital punishment cannot be de- 
fended upon moral grounds. No state 
actually has the right to take life. 
The only defence which capital pun- 
ishment can have is the one arising 
out of the argument of government- 
al necessity or expediency. There 
is, however, a growing tendency 
which will, inevitably, sooner or lat- 
er result in the exclusion of capital 
punishment in America. But mean- 
time the law remains. The nauseat- 
ing behavior of certain papers in ex- 
ploiting the recent event arouses the 
contempt of every well thinking cit- 
izen. It is subverting the honor of 
true journalism to the greed for 
gold. Instead of giving the public 
what they ought to have the cheap 
papers have sought to give the peo- 
ple what they want for a considera- 
tion, the price of paper. Executions 
make papers sell. The temper of the 
Boston Transcript was ideal. Actu- 
ally a search through its columns was 
cent event. There ought t» be some 
necessary to find a notice of the re- 
public legislation which will pro- 
hibit the repetition of the news 
columns of the last week. If capital 
punishment is to remain a part of 
our law the growing youth should 
be protected from the details of the 
chamber of death exploited in the 
daily papers. This is not a trumped 
up appeal. On Wednesday morning 
the editor saw outside the office a 
lad hardly twelve reading, in the 
middle of the sidewalk, oblivious to 
time, place and everyone else the ac- 
count of the execution in his father’s 
morning papers. There is perhaps 
dual responsibility in that the father 
should not have had such a paper in 
his home but there is the larger re- 
sponsibility of the community for 
permitting the publishing of such de- 
tails. The problem is a severe one 
which will tax the brain of our best 
thinkers to find a solution. There 
ought to be a way out so that while 
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