Canpipatg Hucuers has begun his campaign with a 
demand for a revival of Americanism. This slogan is 
at once timely and popular. The large number of immi- 
grants that have come with their varied ideals and inter- 
ests have introduced customs and ideas other than those 
which America has been accustomed. America has 
faced the serious problem of assimilating them  satis- 
factorily, retaining the best that the old world can furnish 
and inspiring the newer citizens with the ideals of the 
new life in America. The war in Europe with its conse- 
quent discussions and race feelings in America, has made 
it evident to the most careless observer that American 
ideals must be asserted and that the animosities of the 
old world should die. America is the land where ani- 
mosities die. So the cry has gone out, “America first.” 
Such a slogan must be shallow if it refers to loyalty in 
arms alone. It must go deeper; it must refer not to the 
F petty gains, made by mutual trading; it must seek the 
F deeper things which make manhood and develop the 
! stamina of the nation. American ideas, ideals, sense of 
righteousness, and principles of democracy must be for- 
ever in the fore. In seizing these principles Hughes is 
showing himself a keen observer of the times and a real 
| prophet of the future. America must assert the principles 
for which the nation came into being or perish. On this 
% continent was brought forth the new nation conceived 
4 in liberty and dedicated to the newer principles of social 
equality, opportunity and worth. 
Tue Flurry THar Arosr over Mexico aroused the 
administration to the serious question of finding mounts 
for the cavalry and draught horses for the other branches 
of the service. The war in Europe has made heavy 
demands upon the supply of horses in America and the 
nation is the poorer for the transportation of so many 
mounts for European use. Steps have not been taken 
any too early to conserve our resources and to provide 
suitable horses for our own military needs. One of the 
lesser calamities of the war has been the destruction of 
so many valuable animals. America was “penny wise 
and pound foolish” in not taking steps earlier to preserve 
the American horses. 
THe Passace oF THE CHILD Lazor bill, with only 
twelve dissenting votes registered against it in the Senate, 
shows at a glance that the United States is determined 
* to give the children an opportunity. The bill will pro- 
hibit the product of any mine or quarry, in which children 
under sixteen years of age have been employed, as an 
article of interstate commerce. It will also exclude the 
products of all mills, canneries, factories and workships 
in which children have been employed who are younger 
.than fourteen, or where children between fourteen and 
sixteen have been employed for more thar eight hours 
per day, before six o’clock in the morning and after seven 
o’clock at night. This will work justice for the factories 
and mines in states having strict child labor laws. 
Tur PLarrspurc IpEA was given a thorough try-out 
last year and it turned out much more successful than its 
most sanguine promoters anticipated. This year the im- 
petus given to it by the call of the military forces of the 
states of the Union to the colors in June has made the 
camp even more successful and popular. On August 15 
the Naval Cruise planned along similar lines, but for 
the benefit of the Navy, will begin. This idea will be 
given a thorough trial this year and there is every reason 
to believe that it will prove as valuable an ally to the 
Navy as the Plattsburg experiment has proven for 
_ the Army, 
Aug. 18, 1916. NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder bi 
Tur News oF THE Vicrory at Gorizia was very 
cheering to the Italian forces because it starts the wedge 
which the Italians have been seeking to thrust into the 
Austrian lines. This victory can only be interpreted 
as part of the general offensive movement planned by 
the Allies and which has been in operation now for nearly 
a month. With the English offensive pressing in along 
the Somme, the French holding the Verdun district with 
tenacity, and the Russians pressing forward with recur- 
ring victories, it would appear that the Central powers 
were severely harrassed, if not on the way to defeat. 
From the outside evidences it would almost appear that 
the German forces have spent their power. Even the 
offensive which the Germans assumed at. Verdun has 
been constantly turned by the attacks by the French. 
However, maity are now trying to play the roie of 
prophet to determine the future. Wild and mild guesses 
are being made now as to the probable length of the 
war,—and there is but one answer,—no one knows, and 
no one can tell. 
Tie Norru Snore has never lost its interest in its 
humane work for the sufferers from the present war, 
but no cause has been more popular than the work for 
the wounded soldiers in France. Those who were fortu- 
nate enough to view the cinematograph pictures Sunday 
will never forget the impressions made by the film loaned 
by the French Government and skilfully presented by 
Alexander Powell, who is spending his summer in Man- 
chester. This cause is appealing to and deserves the 
support which is being given by the residents of ‘the 
North Shore. 
Tur AMERICAN PrEopLE have made small fortunes 
out of the munitions industries, but there have been 
equally large fortunes made in the sale of foodstuffs. The 
demands of the armies for staple articles, such as wheat, 
corn and beans have been so great, that prices have been 
inflated and farmers and merchants have enjoyed an 
unusual degree of prosperity. But the high prices have 
resulted in hardships which have been borne by the pur- 
chasing public in America. America is paying a heavy 
price for the foreign war. 
Tur Cominc YEAR is to be an interesting one in the 
annals of the higher institutions of learning in and near 
30ston and in New England. The Harvard Divinity 
School is to celebrate its anniversary by raising a much 
needed endowrent fund. The Business department of 
Boston University is to find a new home in one of the 
Technology group of buildings. Technology will begin 
its year of academic work in the new buildings beyond 
the Charles, and the trustees are to inaugurate a new 
president at Dartmouth. 
ONE oF THE PROMINENT political parties is to try 
the moving picture method of obtaining publicity for its 
candidates and already arrangements have been made 
with a string of theatres to present the thrillers devised. 
This will be a new epoch maker in the industry and if 
the films are carefully executed there is every reason to 
believe that they will surpass the spellbinders’ and the 
political phamphleteers’ methods. 
Tre Barrie oF VErpuN will mark the high water 
mark of the Teuton offensive, while the Battle of Skag- 
gerack will be the sea battle that tested Britain’s strength 
and drove the German fleet back to safety. However 
destructive the fleet of Germany may have been, the 
fact remains that Great Britain commands the sea and 
the fleet turned back the German fleet effectively. 
