Tur Enrrance or Irary has been expected since 
eptember. Now it is the first of June. Austria and 
ermany accuse her of treachery and consider her activi- 
s a betrayal. Italy has been shrewd to wait until her 
‘orces were equipped for the field. The entire nation has 
een steadily preparing for the inevitable since last Aug- 
ust and now the die is cast and the inevitable has come. 
Italy is now determined to wrest from the power of Aus- 
tria the territorial additions that it has long wished. War 
as been declared by Italy on Austria. Italy has not de- 
red war on Germany, but the alliance that now exists 
ween Germany and Austria will bring forth before the 
sk is out a declaration of war from Germany. Then 
y will declare war with Germany and the formalities 
“be over with. But the declaration against Austria is 
ually a declaration of war against the German-Aus- 
an alliance. The entrance of Italy into the fray on the 
le of the Allies adds another force that ought to mean 
eatlier peace. An earlier peace does not necessarily 
san an early peace. How Germany can master the 
nations that answered her call to arms seems impossible 
und yet Germany has been able to hold for months the long 
attie-line through Belgium with its wedge thrust down 
1o France. The Russians have not been able to accom- 
-plish all that was thought of them in the eastern cam- 
_paign. There is a long war on and no one can see light. 
Poor Lrrrie SwitZeRLAND is suffering beyond words 
yecause of the war, despite its neutrality. Surrounded 
‘on all sides by hostile forces and without a seaport of 
ts own and raising but little, comparatively speaking, their 
_ plight is lamentable. Negotiations are being made where- 
by they can obtain supplies through Italy and its ports 
on condition that the goods so obtained are not re-export- 
ed.. However Switzerland may succeed in these negoti- 
ations, its condition is pitiable. What if ‘military neces- 
sity” should demand a passage through their homeland, 
would anything defer the enemies? Will Switzerland’s 
neutrality be of any more value than Belgium’s ? 
In Turse Days or Conrricr it is efficiency and not 
bravery that counts. Warfare is a highly specialized 
science nowadays and it requires discipline of mind and 
hand. Such discipline must go with bravery. It takes 
‘time for a nation to develop a class of trained men. The 
time has gone by when the preacher may leave his study, 
the clerk his desk, the journalist his inkpots and seize a 
~ musket and then return after driving back an invader. 
- Sem, Anorner Accipent in Beverly Cove at the 
crossing of East Lothrop and Corning streets. Automo- 
_ pilists and cyclists should beware. The corner is a treach- 
 erous one, but anyone using due care can easily avoid a 
collision. 
Tur Crry of SALEM catastrophe has raised the fire 
joss in Massachusetts this year to an unusually high fig 
ure. ‘That fire was a terrible lesson to the North Shore, 
but the lesson was well learned. 
Tur Surrracists are busy answering the -anti-suf- 
fragists and the antis are busy framing answers to them, 
—and the world rolls merrily on. 
. Trary Has OptarNneD without a shot millions of 
dollars worth of Austrian and German ships interned in 
| é Italy. What a strike! 
2 Grrmany ts “WINNING” so fast it is finding it to be 
advantage “to acknowledge” the extent of its losses. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
i9 
ConcrEssMAN~Hosson dealt with two of the most 
vital questions before the American people today in his 
speeches on national prohibition and on national defence, 
made in the House of Representatives recently. In his 
national defense speech he says our naval policy should 
fe based on ai philosophy of our. national life and our 
manifest destiny, a naval policy that would insure peace 
as long as honorable peace is possible and would insure 
victory if war must come, a policy that would insure the 
peaceful observance of the Monroe Doctrine in the Wesi- 
ern Hemisphere, and the Open Door Policy in China and 
the Pacific, establishing over the earth respect for the 
rights of the weak and universal acceptance of the prin- 
ciple of equal opportunity and justice for all in the com- 
mercial rivalries of the world, a policy that would insure 
respect for our rights as a neutral and enable us to avoid 
the turmoils of belligerency between the nations, a policy 
that would insure our security at home and promote the © 
general cause of peace in the world. In his temperance 
speech he urges federal Constitutional prohibition only 
against the “‘sales” for beverage purposes,” and leave to 
the taxing power of Congress and to the reserved rights 
of the states the whole question of controlling personal 
use and the question of use for other than beverage pur- 
poses. This distribution of authority is in accord with 
the genius of our institutions. He does not underestimate 
the importance of other issues in saying that these two 
questions are the most vital questions before our nation 
today. 
War May Justiry all forms of conflict including the 
use of poisonous gases, but it is hard to make America 
believe that poisonous gases and submarine warfare are 
worthy weapons for nations supposed to be civilized. 
CONSIDERING THE Orrick of President from a per- 
sonal side what a care that man in the White House has 
had to bear this year, considering his home life, his per- 
sonal sorrow and the Mexican and European situations ! 
Tur Forty AND BLINDNEss of wat is realized when 
one thinks that there are thousands of innocent men and 
women fighting for they know not what. 
Every kind word you say to a dumb animal or bird 
will make you happier. 
MEMORIAL DAY. 
Flowers sweet and fragrant we offer today 
To the memory of men who nobly have bled, 
To men who fell in the midst of the fray, 
And men who have since joined the ranks of the dead. 
From the last narrow trench near the City’s bright gates, 
They’ve charged o’er the ramparts to glory and peace, 
While an unsevered union of prosperous States, 
And millions of freed men rejoice at release. 
The din of the battle gives place to a hush, 
As the white wing of peace o’er-shadows our land, 
And the men who with the sabres led cavalry’s rush, 
Now bear sweet garlands of flow’rs in their hand. 
While the men who have heard the last tap of the drum, 
Have enlisted again in the army above, 
And they shout a glad welcome to the boys as they come, 
To the army of God where the watchword is love. 
—GEoRGE FE. WILLMONTON. 
Manchester, May 20, 1915. 
