Tue District Porrck have formulated a few rules 
concerning gasoline with which every motorist should be 
familiar. No motor car should be filled with gasoline 
until the engine has been stopped and every lamp on the 
car extinguished. In filling cans with gasoline care should 
be exercised to avoid the generation of frictional electric- 
ity by having a wooden handle intervene between the 
metal of the pump and the metallic bail. In pouring 
gasoline through chamois experience has taught that there 
is enough frictional electricity developed to teach man 
to avoid it. This can be done by maintaining a metal 
contact between the metal can and the car. A copper 
chain should be soldered to the can in such a way as to 
make a direct contact during the filling. After one has 
done all that he knows to avoid gasoline accidents the 
element of danger is always great. 
THE Herorc Action of the six men who gave their 
lives in a vain effort to save their comrade in the hold of 
the British oil ship San Valeree will soon be forgotten 
by a disinterested public that passes from one item of 
news to another without feeling or meditation, but the 
spirit that inspired those hardened sailors to heroic action 
is the spirit which makes this old world of ours worth 
living in. Happily that spirit endures. The names of 
the heroes and the incidents vary, but the spirit lives in 
the lives of countless thousands. 
GASOLINE 1S A DANGEROUS SERVANT. More power- 
ful and more destructive than fire it is a good servant 
when well curbed, but a hard master uncontrolled. ‘The 
narrow escape which the three men in Manchester had 
recently by an unexpected explosion of gasoline affords 
the North Shore an almost tragic illustration of the de- 
struction gasoline does. 
THE Extenston Work of the County Agricultural 
School is commendable. Instruction should be given to 
the young and inexperienced, but there is also a field 
of usefulness which is afforded the School in communicat- 
ing to experienced men the results of work in modern 
scientific studies. 
Tuer District Porice Laws and regulations con- 
cerning the construction and maintenace of garages has 
cause consternation among the owners of automobiles. 
The owners of single garages have no cause for anxiety, 
but the owners of public garages have some thinking to do. 
THE SHORE HAS SUFFERED severely from the drought 
and all the gardens are in a bad way. Many a gardener 
will bear the blame for short supplies and late arrivals 
that should be blamed on the weather. 
Tue Mexican Siruation remains acute, but there 
is peace and not war on our hands. Can we have any 
regrets while peace reigns. 
THE Supreme Court of the United States has not 
contributed anything to the Thaw farce. 
Ir THERE BE A CLEANER, better governed town with 
all its modern conveniences, than Manchester and with 
such a low tax rate we do not know where it is in this 
state! Manchester has a civic pride that must and will be 
maintained. We do not particularly admire the spirit and 
“civic pride” of the individual in any community who 
makes a nuisance of his property that the town or some 
individual who is imbibed with the real “civic pride” may 
take it off his hands. Fortunately Manchester has been 
and is free from such low-handed methods. 
THE COMMITTEE ON ORDINANCES presented an or- 
dinance to the City of Beverly providing for the election 
of a Planning Board. Such a board is in accordance 
with an enabling act passed by the legislature. The pro- 
visions of the act seem reasonable and progressive and 
Beverly does well to venture. The idea should be given 
a trial. 
WITH ALL THE SENTIMENT recently expressed re- 
lative to Flag Day a new flag ought to be forthcoming 
for the West Beach pavilion at Beverly Farms. Here is 
an opportunity for some individual or the patriotic orders 
to serve the public. The only building the public owns at 
Beverly Farms ought not to lack a flag to unfurl from 
it flag pole. 
Boston 1s MAKING CONSIDERABLE ado about its new 
pumping station. Here is hoping that the residents of 
that honored city will have no reason to regret the delay 
caused by the remonstrants! Boston needs a pumping 
station; it needs it badly. May it not need it even after 
it is built. It would be tragic if it should be needed be- 
fore contruction. 
Tue Business Men of the country have as mucn 
right to petition the government relative to a measure in 
which they are interested as any other group of American 
citizens, but there must have been methods used that were 
particularly offensive to call forth that rebuke from the 
President. 
Tue NortH SHore has been particularly free from 
such dreadful assaults as took place on West Beach. The 
police department may be trusted to ferret out the mys- 
tery of the case and bring the guilty man to justice. 
Ir Was a BeaAutrruL Sprrit which prompted one 
of our summer residents to give a musicale in the inter- 
ests of one of the local girls’ clubs. 
Ir wAs LEFT FoR AN IsLAND Town in Maine to cele- 
brate the tercentenary of the naming of New England by 
Captain John Smith. 
FLAG Day Was OpserRvED with reverence and fitting 
ceremonials in Manchester, as well as elsewhere. 
Two SumMMER HoripaAys are gone and the Glorious 
Fourth is at hand. 
