From Every Porn’ along the coast comes news of 
the plans of cottagers and hotel guests to remain later 
this season than usual. Many of the hotels which usually 
close after Labor Day have announced their intention of 
remaining open two weeks ‘or a month longer to accom- 
modate the extraordinary number of guests that want 
to remain at the seashore during September. Of course 
cottagers, who are not dependent upon the conveniences 
of hotels for the duration of their stay, have not given a 
thought to leaving the shore. Never before has there 
been such a widespread inclination on the part of vaca- 
tionists to take advantage of the best summer month of 
all at the shore. One reason assigned for this is the 
unusual period of continued hot weather in the big cities. 
The intense suffering ‘from the heat has been avoided 
by those fortunate persons who have spent their summer 
on the North Shore. Another cause which is keeping 
people at the shore this season later than usual is the 
prevalence of infantile paralysis and other diseases in 
a number of the larger cities. Perhaps no safer and 
healthful spot could be found at this time than the North 
Shore and realization of this fact has influenced many 
to extend their stay as long as possible. But greatest 
of all reasons for the increased number of vacationists 
who will remain for the end of the season is the fame 
of the New England Indian summer. Wonderful days, 
the like of which even [une cannot rival, are in store 
for those who remain during late September and early 
October. Then perhaps the crowds will have largely gone, 
but then will be days of perfect weather and solid en- 
joyment. 
At least three of the largest hotels on the North 
Shore have decided to comply with the insistent demands 
of their patrons to keep open throughout September— 
the New Ocean House at Swampscott, the Hawthorne 
Inn at East Gloucester, and largest of all, the Oceanside 
at Magnolia. The Oceanside management decided defi- 
nitely yesterday to keep open until the first of October, 
instead of the middle of September, if there is sufficient 
demand for accommodations. 
In ViEW OF THE PREVALENCE of infantile paralysis 
in New York and New Jersey unusually stringent pre- 
ventative measures are being taken to stop the spread of 
the disease. People leaving the North Shore during the 
coming weeks are advised to secure a health certificate 
for their children from the local health officer in the 
town where they have summered. There is no expense 
attached to securing the certificate, and it will insure an 
uninterrupted trip through New York and New Jersey. 
The authorities in the vicinity of New York city are 
demanding health certificates from parents of children 
under sixteen. 
CONGRESSMAN GARDNER has won his contest, which 
was presented to a special committee. This is a victory 
for free speech. License is not liberty and speech is 
being protected honorably when a man refuses to permit 
false statements to pass unchallenged. Senator Calloway 
has learned a valuable lesson. 
Grorcre F. WasHBurn has announced that the Massa- 
chusetts Real Estate Exchange favors the national action 
on the “daylight” question and in its support says: “Any 
increased use of daylight hours is good business policy ; 
it would be a wonderful advantage to employers and 
would make for greater efficiency; employees would 
benefit greatly in improved health incident upon more 
rational hours of out of door life and amusements; it 
will mean savings of millions of dollars annually to manu- 
facturers, merchants, business men and householders in 
reduced lighting and heating expenses; the number of 
accidents will be greatly reduced because business hours 
will be largely daylight hours. There will be greater 
economy, greater efficiency and greater comfort. It is 
the rational thing.” It will take along while for the 
machinery of the Government to move, but eventually 
the daylight plan will be put in operation to the advantage 
of everyone. 
Governor. McCarty has decided to call an extra 
session of the Legislature to administer justice to the 
guardsmen who are in service on the Mexican border. 
It proposed to pass legislation providing for the depend- 
ent families of the men in service, appropriate funds for 
the men who are discharged and who may come home, 
and to pass a law providing a method for the registered 
voters in service to vote for President and for Congress- 
men in the fall. An extra session of the Legislature is 
not always desirable and is usually avoided by the execu- 
tive, but every reason exists for the expense incurred 
in calling this session. The guardsmen are doing loyal 
service under particularly trying conditions and the least 
that Massachusetts can do is to make the provisions for 
which the session is to be called. The Governor has the 
precedent of the civil war, when the men in the field 
voted for Lincoln. 
ONE oF THE Most INTERESTING items in the sum- 
mer’s philanthropies is the work of a club of children at 
Cataumet, on Buzzards Bay. The children organized the 
Cataumet Berry club and have been picking and selling 
berries. The club has earned one hundred and fifty 
dollars and has forwarded it to the Boston Floating Hos- 
pital. What a cheerful item of news this is compared 
with the news from abroad that the young boys, still of 
school age, are being drilled in the rudiments of military 
drill and the use of a rifle! The ways of peace are 
preferable. 
Tur IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS which will have to be 
met after the present war is over are already giving the 
powers that be in Washington much concern. A bill is 
now being considered that will apply some drastic re- 
strictions. It is evident that the time has come for the 
Government to take the matter in hand and thresh it 
ou before he war in Europe is ended and the problem 
is thrust upon us. No one would desire to deprive the 
men of Europe the opportunity to obtain asylum in the 
‘new land, but there is no real reason why the ideals 
and interests of the new land should be jeopardized by 
the maimed and wounded of the old world, 
