NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 25 
H. J. GAY ELEGTRIG G 
Successor to Glarke and Mills Electric Go. 
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NO School Street 
Telephone: 8394 
“Why honor our soldier dead? Be- 
cause they heard the call of a dis- 
tressed honor, because they answered 
the call of service. And again, we 
honor their memory for what they 
have given us. Grant made possible 
the victory over Lee, but we shared 
it with him and this is why we honor 
this day the memory of those who 
fought for the country; they gave us 
the benefits of their victories; they 
made us all brothers and sisters in a 
common cause. 
“Let us realize, then, that on Mem- 
orial Day we are walking on hallowed 
ground. We cannot count the cost 
nor measure the service of those who 
answered the call of their country. 
‘This do in remembrance of me,’ we 
seem to hear the vast multitude of the 
dead say. When we think of their 
giving and not counting the cost of 
their great gift of establishing a per- 
manent institution, our hearts thrill 
within us and we guard with jealous 
eye the trust they handed down to us. 
“Before a large building can be 
safely erected it is necessary that the 
foundation be firm. To insure the 
stability of the building excavations 
are made, going down many feet in- 
to the earth. Much toil is expended 
that the foundations be firm and se- 
cure. When this preliminary work is 
done others build upon the foundation 
that has been so securely laid. This 
is one of the lessons we can learn on 
Memorial Sunday. Our illustrous 
patriots laid the foundation of a 
mighty country; they gave their lives 
that these foundations might be 
Strong and secure. It is rather for 
us, the living, to complete their work. 
“The United States is a nation slow 
to anger, but when she is called to 
war she is called in the name of hu- 
manity. The pages of history can be 
searched in vain for anything like the 
service which the United States has 
rendered the Negro or Cuban. Other 
nations have helped a struggling na- 
tion to win its freedom, but this has 
usually been in large part for some 
selfish motive. The United States 
not only redeemed the negro from a 
life of bondage, but it sought to com- 
plete its work. Blood and death laid 
the foundations of the Negro’s free- 
dom. Education is seeking to com- 
plete the work. 
“Tf the United States were to en- 
ter Mexico with the purpose of inter- 
vention, it is safe to say that in a few 
years education would abolish illiter- 
acy and its sanitation would greatly 
decrease the death rate. What the 
United States has done for the Negro 
and the Cuban it can do for the 
Mexican. 
“Now, then, are still open oppor- 
tunities to complete the work which 
our illustrious dead have begun. We 
are not summoned to battle by the 
bugle. We are not called upon to 
offer up our lives as a sacrifice that 
our country’s honor may be vindi- 
cated; but we have a task no less 
holy,—opportunities are ours to com- 
plete the work of those who counted 
their lives but little that they might 
give us a heritage. 
“One important way in which we 
can complete the work started is in 
the nature of eliminating moral illi- 
teracy. There were 16,000 murders 
in this country last year and most of 
them committed by young men. The 
whole land is virtually in the throes 
of investigation concerning graft and 
corruption. Multitudes are discour- 
aged and pessimistic about the future 
by reason of the apparent decay of 
manhood. Our statistics show that 
about 18,000,000 children and youth 
never cross the threshold of any 
church, Protestant, Catholic or Jew- 
ish, on Sunday. Some states forbid 
the public school teachers giving in- 
struction in morals. The result is a 
generation trained in intellect, but 
illiterate in the conscience; intelligent 
as to the reason, but moral idiots; 
schools for developing arts, schools 
in law and medicine, colleges for drill 
in everything except conscience. We 
let our children grow up ignorant of 
right and wrong in childhood and 
then hang them when they commit 
murder. Instead of hanging the child, 
we ought to hang the parents and the 
state that permitted this moral illiter- 
acy. 
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“The women of our country are 
the fairest. Our men are the most 
virile ; but it is here that lies our great- 
est danger. Prosperity that fills our 
land may yet destroy us. We need the 
blessing of God now more than in 
times of direst national calamity ; for- 
get not the Lord, our God.” 
MANCHESTER 
The section of the Common oppo- 
site Allen’s drug store has been resur- 
faced this week. The sods were 
scaled off and considerable loam was 
put in to level off the spot. It was 
here that the Old Corner Store form- 
erly stood. Semons & Littlefield were 
the contractors. Magnuson is to put 
in a bed of plants in the center of the 
plot. 
The band concerts for the coming 
summer have not yet been arranged 
for. We will probably be able to an- 
nounce the dates and the band next 
week. 
There was an automobile accident 
on Beach street, opposite the postof- 
fice, about 4 o’clock Wednesday 
morning. Four young men from 
Gloucester, who had worked most of 
the night, were taking a spin up 
through Manchester before retiring. 
Another Gloucester man, Clifton C. 
Harding, of Friend street, was said 
to be considerably under the influence 
of liquor, and pleaded to be taken 
along in the car, and the young men 
consented in his coming, thinking it 
would do him more good than harm. 
As they reached Manchester center 
they decided they would go to the 
garage on Beach street for some gaso- 
line. When the machine turned the 
corner Harding happened to be stand- 
ing in the rear of the car. He fell 
onto the macadam road-bed, crushing 
his nose, tearing his lip, and otherwise 
bruising his face as a result. He was 
rushed into Dr. Blaisdell’s nearby 
and Sergeant Andrews took him to 
the Addison Gilbert hospital in the 
ambulance later. 
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