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VOL. XI May 30, 1913 No. 22 
A Bap BILL 
The bill presented to the State Legislature by the 
Board of Trade of one of our cities, providing for the 
purchase by the state of all tuberculosis dispensaries and 
hospitals now maintained by municipalities, ought not to 
pass and should be reported against by the committee. 
The bill is a bad one and is not in the line of progress. 
The bill is on the face of it the confession of a lack 
of municipal enterprise and success in the case of the city 
presenting the bill. The honorable method and in the 
end the most effective method of correcting the poor 
management in the local centre would be to face the issue 
and “clean house.’’ The state ought not to be obliged to 
carry the local burdens. 
The passage of the bill will discourage the invest- 
ments of private capital either by will or gifts during life 
for tuberculosis institutions intended to assist the indi- 
gent and honorable poor. 
It has already discouraged municipal construction 
work on tuberculosis hospitals. Until this bill has been 
disposed of no municipality will construct, or begin to con- 
struct the tuberculosis hospitals or wards that are to be 
taken over by the state. 
The method of legislation is entirely wrong. In- 
stead of removing by legislation the responsibilities of the 
local municipalities the aim of the legislature should be 
to increase those responsibilities. The nearer the burden 
of maintaining a tuberculosis ward or hospital is to 
the tax-payer the greater and more rapid the progress 
will be, for a large municipal expense in fighting tubercu- 
losis will most surely result in larger and more scientific 
appropriations for the education of the public and pre- 
venting and removing the conditions which tend to in- 
crease tuberculosis. 
The Boston Association for the Relief and Control 
of Tuberculosis is opposed to House Bill 1722 and is 
using every legitimate power to influence public opinion. 
They should be sustained in their fight all over the state. 
Write Hon. Courtenay Crocker, chairman of the Ways 
and Means Committee, and register your protest in the 
interest of sane tuberculosis legislation. 
G. E. WILLMONTON 
Attorney and 
Counselor at Law 
WILLMONTON’S AGENCY 
Real Estate and Insurance of All Kinds 
School! and Union Sts., Manchester ~: Old South Bidg., Boston 
THE Spirit oF Memoria, Day 
It will be thoughtful minds and loving hands that 
cut the choice blooms of the shrub, garden and green- 
houses that the veterans of the Civil War may be well 
supplied with flowers for Memorial Day. We cannot 
afford to forget the precious memories of this, our most 
treasured national holiday. 
Fourth of July is already given up to sports and irre- 
velent merrymaking, although there has been some re- 
form in the observance of this day for the past three 
years. Then comes the suggestion that Memorial Day 
should be observed on the Sunday preceding it. This 
would be to surrender the treasured memories and the 
high ideals which the day stands for and would cast a 
slur on those persons who desire a fitting observance of 
the day. 
Whatever may be true of the larger cities, the North 
Shore is still glad to observe Memorial Day with honor 
and dignity. It is truly better to honor the dead that the 
living may consecrate themselves to nobler service. 
THE New ’Bus LINE 
Apparently the only possible benefit to come from 
the new ’bus line from Beverly to Beverly Farms would 
result in the Boston & Maine railroad deciding to put on 
an additional train to Boston between seven and nine 
o’clock each evening. At present the ’bus line provides 
such service between these hours, although at an increased 
fare of ten cents. 
The new line is launched by Beverly business men to 
stimulate the retail trade of that city, but as it is much 
more convenient for the people of the North Shore towns 
to trade in Salem the new line will probably mean but 
little to the residents of the shore. 
The usual spring rush is keeping the contractors and 
business men along the North Shore especially busy. 
There is apparently so much work to be done that it is 
quite impossible to keep Sunday apart from the regular 
working week. The business men of the Shore are en- 
titled to a day of rest each week. Apart from any relig- 
ious signficance, which none can avoid, no man, for hu- 
manitarian reasons, should be deprived of his Sabbath 
rest. But probably those whom we regard sufferers in 
this respect consider themselves fortunate to be so plied 
with work. 
The spectacle of ex-President Roosevelt accounting 
in public his life story in the use of stimulants is amus- 
ing when regarding it in one light. Looking at it from 
another viewpoint, it appears to be a decidedly mercenary 
attempt of his political rivals to hurt his reputation. Edi- 
tor Newett must prove that he New--ett now. 
Governor Foss calls the project for a new parish 
house for his church ‘too ambitious,” even after he had 
denoted his approval to the extent of a promise to fur- 
nish $4000 to insure its erection. His political enemies 
will add this to their collection of arguments to show that 
he is eligible to the famous Ananias Club. 
How little it is realized that they were once “The 
Boys of ‘61.’” 
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