JUNE ON THE SHORE 
The rare June rays have come and with them the 
wealth of the new season of sunshine and open gardens. 
Every nook and cranny, open field and standing wood has 
been covered by a delicate green. ‘The usual healthful 
foliage of the spring season seems better this year than 
ever. 
The flowering plants, shrubs and trees are constant 
delights to the lover of nature. The broad leaved herse 
chestnut tree has not yet passed through its glory ‘The 
conifers have been covered with the light green growth of 
the new season and are strikingly attractive. The azalea 
has its own lovers and its buds still please observers. 
Of the other flowering shrubs the mountain laurel of the 
woodland, the prize of boyhood wanderings, and now a 
willing and pleasure giving captive of the gardens on the 
shore is beginning to open its modest cup flowers touched 
with a drop of crimson, but destined to show more white 
as the flowers spread their wings to the air. 
The woodland is in glory and so are the fields. There 
the buttercup and daisy of childhood ecstacy, the cursed 
white weed of the farmer, moves before the breeze in an 
undulating sea, giving delight to the eye and youthful 
merriment to the young lives, there gaining health from 
the air and happiness in the flowers of the field. Out 
to the open, Nature is calling, and happy the man who 
can respond to its silent, but eloquent call. June days 
have wings. Will no one clip them? 
The recent movement inaugurated by well intentioned 
clergymen to prevent ill-advised marriages of men and 
women not competent, physically, to marry because of the 
taint of tuberculosis or other disease is in the line of pro- 
gress, but it cannot solve the serious problem. The 
clergyman is pushing the problem back still farther by 
requiring the certificate of a physician. Unfortunate- 
ly this itself will present difficulties and possibly abuses. 
It throws a burden upon a doctor that ought not to be 
thrown and subjects him to temptations to pass an in- 
competent person for the fee involved or to prevent the 
possible injuries that may come to his practice by offend- 
ing the proposed contracting parties and their friends. 
Physicians are helpless under our present laws and to add 
another task will be an unfair imposition. A highly re- 
puted physician recently addressed a meeting in which he 
mentioned, without using names, a serious violation of 
the laws of eugenics, in which he had been interested. 
He knew the diseased condition of one of the contract- 
ing parties. He was instantly called to task by an en- 
thusiast for not communicating his information to the 
other party to the marriage contract. ‘The answer re- 
veals the difficulty in the way of this whole forward 
movement. He said, “If I had, the marriage would have 
not taken place and I would have been civilly liable and 
the diseased individual would have had a clear case 
against me. I would not only have violated the ethics 
of my profession, but have been liable to a law suit. If 
any progress is to be made in this direction it must be 
made by the state legisiatures and not by the agreement 
The community should protect the phy- 
of clergymen. 
sician from unjust prosecution.” 
In an age of commercialism an appeal to idealism in 
living and. endeavor falls, usually, upon stony ground; 
but the high standards set by commencement speakers 
for the young lives which have “commenced” real life 
are not altogether fruitless. All instruction must be 
prodigal. It must be sown to the wind and it is fortunate 
that some seed always falls upon good ground to bring 
forth fruit to the surpri.e of the world and that in ways 
little dreamed of. The assertive, manly appeal to the 
Beverly High school class to live a life rather than live 
for a living is only one illustration of the good work that 
has been done by men of. power and influence in the in- 
terests of the new generation. Instruction is accumula- 
tive. It is impossible to determine the exact gains made 
from day to day or to determine the results of stirring 
addresses. But the work is done and like the rain and 
sunshine that falls upon the rose garden we know not how 
the mystery is worked out, but there it is and he who 
thinks must know it. 
Anniversaries have characterized the last weeks of 
the Beverly Catholic churches, Rev. F. J. Curran, form- 
erly of Beverly, Beverly Farms and Manchester has com- 
pleted twenty years of successful service. At Beverly 
Farms the Rey. Nicholas Walsh celebrates this week the 
twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination. His ministry 
has been successful and he has built up the parish won- 
derfully. ‘The Breeze extends its congratulations to the 
leaders of these two large churches which are such ef- 
fective instruments for righteousness in their respective 
communities. 
The address of Professor Marshall Perrin at the 
Manchester High school graduation last week, on “Ameri- 
can Ideals” was an encouraging one. One of the marked 
failures of commencement speakers was entirely absent, 
that of impracticability. Professor Perrin has served 
as Professor in Boston University with success for many 
years in the department of Germanic Languages. His 
own son recently received in a period of three years the 
degrees of A. B., A.M, LL. B., and PH. D. It is evident 
that Professor Perrin’s ideals are not without honor in 
his own home. 
The committee in charge of the dedication of the 
new Public Library in Beverly was wise not to permit such 
a building to be opened for public use without an im- 
pressive service of dedication. Such events ought always 
to be seized as psychological hours to impress the respon- 
sibilities of citizenship and the opportunities for public 
service. In chosing an illustrious son to make the ad- 
dress Beverly did well 
May was not encouraging to shore life but June has 
more than made up for it. 
