 Tuere Are MAny Reasons to believe now that labor 
vill have a period of prosperity that will continue until 
the war is ended and then for a year perhaps after the 
‘signing of the treaties of peace, but after that there will 
be a period of business depression combined with a larger 
number of unemployed men unknown in any other period 
of the life of America. Thousands of men will be relieved 
of temporary employment in the munitions factories and 
in industries dependent upon the war. To these will be 
added the large number who will forever forsake the old 
world to try their fortunes in the new land. Then the 
opportunities of the old world will have been developed 
and American goods will inevitably meet the competition 
of the foreign-made article. Many such industries will 
inevitably go to the wall. For business will seek the 
“more economical market and failure will mean just so 
many more men freed of employment. The laborer is 
wise who trims his sails for the coming trouble. 
Brsuop Wintt1AM LAWRENCE has been successftil in 
collecting three million dollars of the five million-dollar 
pension fund for the Episcopal Church. The plan has 
bon very carefully worked out by a well known Francier 
and when the fund has been assimilated it will be a success. 
Episcopal clergymen, in common with the ministers of 
other denominations, are not paid munificent salaries, and 
when the terms of usefulness end there is usually very 
little accumulated for old age. The proposed plan 1s 
- mutual, in which the trustees of the funds and the churches 
_ become partners and the clergymen the beneficiaries. It 
: is this co-operative scheme which marks the distinctive 
_ advantages of this unique and scientific plan. The other 
_ two millions of dollars needed to complete the fund should 
be forthcoming soon. 
& NEITHER PRESIDENT WILSON nor former Justice 
_ Hughes have begun their great drive. President Wilson 
evidently intends to be aggressive and Hughes is big 
- enough to see the futility of putting Wilson on the de- 
fensive. If signs do not fail the American people may 
expect a clean, ethical, above-board campaign. The cam- 
-paign four years ago was a disgrace to the American 
people and everyone felt it, but this year there will be 
a great political contest that will be an honor to both 
contestants. 
ConcrEss 1s STILL, IN Session and there are indica- 
tions that adjournment will not be voted until as late as 
August 20. Meantime most anything can happen in 
Mexico or in Europe to continue the session. President 
Wilson intends to postpone his active campaigning until 
Congress adjourns if he adheres to his present plans. 
Meantime everyone will be spared the rigors of the contest. 
Turse Ark tHe Happy Days of conferences, sum- 
mer institutes and schools. Each year there are an in- 
creasing number of such conventions of people and during 
the summer months New England is a great vacation field 
for tourists and summer inspirational gatherings. 
It Is Qurre Norrceasie that all of the churches along 
our North Shore are open all through the summer and 
the clergymen are on duty. The summer visitors may 
well encourage them in their work by attending at least 
one service on Sunday. 
Tue Secretary oF THE Navy intends that the navy 
shall be thoroughly dry and has had sold at auction all of 
the expensive cut glass so necessary when a social glass 
was passed. ‘The world moves. Daniels means to keep 
the navy out of temptation. 
chanical devices. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 53 
New EncLiAnp Has MAINTAINED the lead in the 
manufacture of shoes and of shoe machinery and the 
history of the two industries, which are really one, reads 
like a romance. It is but a few short years ago when 
the North Shore was dotted with small houses, many of 
these are still standing and may be seen near old buildings, 
wherein the workmen were able to turn a shoe out from 
the leather to the finished shoe and with but few simpl- 
tools. The shoes were essentially home-made and hand- 
made. But in these few years progress has been rapidly 
made until now there are a great number of processes, 
requiring highly developed and ingenicusly conceived me- 
The “shoe” exhibit now being held 
in Boston gives the ordinary citizen as well as the expert 
an opportunity to see the progress that has been made. 
New England evidently is determined to maintain the 
supremacy already attained. 
Miss Sack Has Mape a BrinitAnt Sucess’ of the 
Buttalo Salon of American Sculpture. For generations 
the new world has been bowing, justly it is true, to tise 
precedence that the old world has inevitably taken in 
salons. In introducing this feature to America and con- 
nning it to American art, as a distinct inspiration fot 
Awerican artists, Miss Sage has scored. The exhibit 
demonstrates that while the new world must still revere 
the vid world and concede the leadership that has been 
gained by years of inheritances, it is evident that America 
is proving an apt learner and that the future looks brigit 
for American artistic progress. 
THe SHArKs 1n New Jersey have given just cause 
for apprehension of danger in those waters, but there need 
be no fears of danger in the waters about the North Shore. 
There has never been any reported attacks in this vicinity. 
Despite the fact that the yellow journals have featured 
the shark scare for more than the facts warrant, the in 
shore bathers on the North Shore are not in any more 
danger than in their walks along frequented roads. The 
automobile is a greater menace than the shark. 
Tue Rep Cross will have another opportunity to 
render aid in the flood districts of the South. One calam- 
ity follows swiftly upon the heels of another, but the 
Red Cross Society has been efficient enough to meet the 
exigencies as they have arisen. 
ALL 1s Quiet ALonc the Rio Grande and most Amer- 
icans prefer that it should be so. The citizens will be glad 
when they learn that the recruits have been discharged 
and are on their way home for the pursuits of peace. 
Tue Frencn Dramatic Company which declined to 
meet engagements in America this winter because of the 
tragic conditions existing in the fatherland, had a knowl- 
edge of the fitness of things that is admirable. 
Lorp KrrcHENER EvipeNntTLY Conceived and brought 
to its perfection the plan, already history, of a concerted 
plan of attack. It is one of Irony’s fates that he was 
unable to live to see his plan in action. 
Tur Carg Cop CANnar, SAW an opera bouffe wreck 
when the collier sank and the crew were able to save 
their lives, clambering up the bank, without so much as 
wetting their clothing. 
One of the best examples of how to send letters in- 
correctly is that of a soldier who wrote home to his wife 
the following sentence without a single stop or comma: 
“May heaven cherish and keep you from yours 
: ” % f 
affectionately John Don. 
