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No. 20 
VOL. XI May 16, 1913 
SCHOOL GARDENS 
In thousands of cities and towns in 
this month of May, the children are 
digging, planting, raking and weeding 
like industrious little ants, in school 
gardens. It is a winsome sight, full 
of poetic promise for years of ser- 
vice ahead. 
But many of these school gardens 
will not look so poetic about Aug. 15. 
In the majority of cases, there will be 
no one to supervise this little agricul- 
tural enterprise. The teachers will be 
scattered to the four winds of heaven. 
The vagrant impulses of childhood 
will reassert themselves in these boy 
and girl minds. 
The experiment is being tried in 
Manchester this year for the first 
time, through the efforts of the North 
Shore Horticultural society. The 
Manchester boys and girls will have 
an advantage over boys and girls of 
other communities inasmuch as the 
members of this organization have 
proffered their services in helping the 
young folk learn how to cultivate their 
gardens. 
Youth finds a dreamy pleasure in 
drifting irresponsibly from one diver- 
sion to another through summer vaca- 
tion. Doing garden work in the leis- 
ure of July is much harder for the 
youngsters than in busy May and 
June, when the school habits of dis- 
cipline hold them down to regular 
tasks. 
Which suggests that the school 
garden movement, which has become 
national in its scope, is useful princi- 
pally in so far as it teaches thorough- 
ness, which is good as far as it goes. 
American children are admitted the 
world over to be clever, agile of mind, 
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and very apt. But they lack the gol- 
den principle of thoroughness of 
finishing a job to the limit until it is 
done and well done. 
It may well be questioned whether 
the training given by a school garden 
during the spring months is of any 
value, if the child gets the idea that 
the thing can be left half done when 
school closes and not completed. Un- 
less some provision is made to have 
the gardens kept up until vegetables 
and flowers ripen and the produce is 
harvested, the information gained may 
not offset the positive harm done. An 
unfinished garden, suffered to run to 
weeds and to miss its full fruition, is 
a bad precedent of irregularity and 
deficiency to fix in a child’s mind. 
B1LuE RipBon BABIES 
Baby shows are no novelty, but the 
recent show in New York, where so 
many “perfect babies” were judged by 
the Gotham critics leads one to be- 
lieve that with the scientific system of 
marking them that babies, or rather 
their place in the world, is being ex- 
aggerated. They have their import- 
ance, it is true, but it is not to be ex- 
pected that they should all be prize 
babies. 
A great deal of work has been done 
by mortals in this world who would 
never take a prize at a baby show, and 
it is doubtful if the great majority of 
prize-winners in school or college ever 
captured such a trophy. It is usually 
hard to ascertain what a young man 
will do out in the world after he has 
left college. It must be still harder 
to tell what kind of a man a blue- 
ribbon baby is going to make. 
The eugenists are going to have 
their hands full if they attempt to 
coin a world of 100 per cent babies. 
The baby shows are instructive and 
entertaining, but if all are not winners 
of ribbons we should not despair. It 
takes all sorts of persons to make a 
world, and it also takes all sorts of 
babies to make all sorts of people. 
Our Forest Frres 
With over 1200 forest fires reported 
since April 1 by the fire wardens at the 
_ 20 observation towers in the state it 
would seem that even more radical 
protective measures are needed to pro- 
tect our local forests. There are 1700 
deputy fire wardens on call, but even 
with this fighting force there have 
been eight fires which have run utterly 
beyond the control of this force, one 
costing a human life. All of the fires 
destroyed standing timber, cut wood 
and buildings. 
With all of the preventative methods 
now used severe measures should gov- 
ern the actions of those persons who 
deliberately start forest fires. Many 
fires are set by individuals who do it 
with the intention of being paid to 
extinguish the same. A great deal of 
small brush that is left by roadsides 
by men who are paid to clean the 
highways is a prey to the carelessly 
thrown match or cigaret stub and 
often branches out into a forest fire 
of large proportions. A law prevent- 
ing lumbermen from placing the dried 
tops and branches of trees after re- 
moving the large trunks would not be 
amiss and would without doubt pre- 
vent many fires. 
Despoiled of much of its foliage 
during the past few weeks through 
fires, in most cases unnecessary, Mas- 
sachusetts has lost much of its beauty 
and charm to the tourists who come 
here each summer. The fight against 
the brown-tail moth and other pests 
has been discouraging enough to pri- 
vate owners of estates and municipal- 
ities, but the denuding of the forests 
is all the more so and just as un- 
necessary. This state is paying dearly 
for its fires and is accordingly deaden- 
ing the interest in the preservation of 
its timber lands. 
Must Report ACCIDENTS. 
The following statute, recently pass- 
ed by the Legislature and signed by 
the Governor, goes into effect on May 
22d. As this piece of legislation af- 
fects particularly those of our read- 
ers who own or operate automobiles, © 
we desire to bring it to their atten- 
tion. ‘The statute reads as follows: 
Sec. 1. Every operator of a 
motor vehicle, which for any rea- 
son is involved in an accident in 
which any person or property is 
injured, shall forthwith report the 
same to the Massachusetts High- 
way Commission. 
Sec. 2. For any violation of 
the provision of this Act said 
Commission may revoke or sus- 
pend the license of the operator. . 
This statute is aimed to assist the 
Highway Commission in its work of 
investigating and keeping a record of 
accidents. 
PusBLic ENTITLED TO PROTECTION 
The campaign waged by the Mass. 
Milk Consumers’ association in sup- 
port of the Ellis Clean Milk Bill, can- 
not go un-rewarded. Ultimately the 
association must win. Mrs. Wm. 
Lowell Putnam, Richards M. Bradley, 
Dr. Hugh Cabot and others of our 
North Shore colony are actively inter- 
ested in the work of the association, 
the chief aim of which is to unite con- 
sumers in obtaining efficient inspection 
and a pure milk supply. 
The Legislature cannot much longer 
