Our NEw Issur 
greets its readers this week in a new 
of colors, for the season of colors on 
the North Shore has arrived and The Breeze, in keeping 
The 
dress, 
sreeze 
a dress 
with the season dons its new gown. Aside from this 
feature The Breeze is different in other ways today. 
It is a better looking paper: in fact it is a magazine, 
and it is our intention to make it in keeping with the 
North Shore,—high class in every respect, a standard 
for others to follow. Nine’ years ago last month when 
The Breeze made its initial bow to the public, it was a 
simple little sheet of twelve pages. Its growth has been 
steady and consistent. At that time there was one other 
paper published on the North Shore that attempted to 
“cover” this resort territory. That was the North 
Shore Reminder, published by Ainslie & Grabow, now 
the E. R. Grabow Co., of Swampscott, during the sum- 
mer season only. ‘The Breeze has just bought this pub- 
lication and the two papers are now merged into one, 
and during the fifteen weeks between June 1 and Sep- 
tember 15 the paper will be published under the name of 
NortH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder. We _ intend to 
give the North Shore a publication every week that will 
be representative of the unsurpassed territory in which 
it is published, the beautiful North Shore of Massachu- 
setts, the center of the fashion and culture of the entire 
country during the four months of summer. 
“Sir Joun Luspock” 
The brain of Lord Avebury, “Sir John Lubbock,” 
is at rest; the end of life that is merely human has come 
to him, but his spirit must share the personal immortal 
life and his work will live after him. His death leaves 
the world poorer for the loss of a great spirit, but his 
life leaves the world richer for his brain activity and 
work. His was a versatile life and his brain activity al- 
most unparalleled. Completing his school education at 
an early age, he entered the school of life to earn a liv- 
ing and to give expression to the ambition clambering 
within him. He was a lover of man by nature, a student 
of life by choice, an industrious spirit withal. 
His one hundred best books have been a help to stu- 
dents and profitable to the publishers, but ‘“The Pleas- 
ures of Life” and “The Use of Life” have been of greater 
worth and inspiration, for in them are found the irre- 
pressible expression of a great mind. Reading these, 
many have taken heart again, viewed life from new 
heights and with the vision that inspires. 
An experienced pen he wielded, not the driven pen of 
compulsion, but the vitalized pen that had back of it 
the hand that moves freely because the brain was in- 
spired by love for writing. Sir John Lubbock was a 
great man, but fortunately he will live in his books. 
APPLIED. CHRISTIANTY. 
The days of Christian evidence as defended in the 
early part of the last century by argument, history and 
philosophy have passed. A new note is now being sound- 
ed by the leaders of the church to demonstrate religion 
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by good samaritanism is fact as well as in faith. ‘Two 
of the leading denominations met last week and their 
emphasis upon social service and practical Christianity 
fore-tells a more trustworthy religion for the future. 
The Unitarians and Baptists may not agree in dogma, 
but their convention utterances demonstrate that there 
is a unity of purpose and a desire to demonstrate the value 
of the Christian faith in relieving the present social un- 
rest. 
The reforms and movements suggested touch vital 
spots in the life of the people. Some of the things con- 
sidered were the rights of laborers and employers to or- 
ganize, living wages as a minimum, the old age problem 
and other measures of interest to the public. At De- 
troit the Baptists incorporated planks in their social ser- 
vice platform emphasizing the need of a higher stand- 
ard of the family in the home, the abolition of child 
labor, the regulation and safe-guarding the labor of wo- 
men and other preventative measures. 
With the press and pulpits united in the same pro- 
motion of the humanitarian side of life the next fifty 
years in America ought to give evidence of a great so- 
cial betterment movement hitherto unknown. ‘The be- 
ginning of this movement is already here. 
War brings destitution, suffering, bloodshed and 
pain, and innocent women and children usually bear the 
brunt of the consequences of war. Constantinople is 
now a sink hole of suffering and starvation. Funds are 
being raised by the American people for their benefit. — 
Hon. Oscar §. Strauss, formerly United States Ambassa- 
dor to Turkey says: “At the time of the Johnstown 
flood the Turkish Government transmitted through me 
a substantial contribution for the relief of the sufferers 
caused by that appalling disaster, which was gratefully 
recognized by our Governnent. This is a time when the 
people of America can give effective expression to the 
brotherhood of man, the lesson of which will teach more 
forcibly than any words the American spirit for the pro- 
motion of international peace and good will, and will por- 
tray the noble purposes of American benevolent and edu- 
cational institutions in the Turkish empire.” 
Autoists and others who frequent the roads of the 
North Shore in the summer will be pleased to learn of 
the plan of the State Highway Commission to lay out 
and construct this year a mile of road from the town 
of Essex on Essex avenue, toward Gloucester. ‘The im- 
provement will be two-fold in that the City of Glouces- 
ter is to construct an equal amount of highway on the 
same road next year from that city to Essex. ‘This grant 
of road is the result of a campaign by the Gloucester 
business men, city officials and others interested. 
The time has come when malicious and unjust at- 
tacks on organized industry should cease. President 
Winslow in his annual report to the United Shoe Ma- 
chinery Co. says: “The company has not been immune 
against the epidemic of assault which has hit other suc- 
