Sept. 1, 1916, 
Tue Boston & MAINE RAILROAD has assented to 
a receivership and the railroad will be operated in this 
way. While temporarily it will appear as a disadvantage 
and an open acknowledgement of the management of the 
impossibility of operating the road under the existing 
conditions, in the end it will be advantageous to all con- 
cerned, It will clear the slate of many embarrassments 
and through the courts afford the railroad an opportunity 
to begin anew. The railroad is a valuable asset to New 
England and its holds valuable franchise rights and has 
a ~ ay opporttinity. Temporarily the stockholders will 
feel the embarrassment of the situation, but in the end 
it will be for the good of all. It does seem regrettable 
that the railroads should ‘be subjected to such unjust 
cbstructions in the prosecution of their business as to 
make such receivership of a great railroad enterprise 
necessary. 
Tue TELEPHONE CompaANy has made a new agree- 
ment with the operators employed whereby the begin- 
ners are to receive five dollars. An _ increase of 
a dollar follows as soon as they are placed at work. A 
fair and honorable scale of increases has been arranged 
for whereby the operators will receive a maximum wage 
of fourteen dollars per week, and the supervisors will 
receive fourteen dollars, with a regular scale of increases 
until a maximum of seventeen dollars a week is reached. 
‘The telephone company has always been honorable in its 
treatment of the help and every effort has been made to 
maintain the working quarters of the exchanges upon a 
high level: of convenience for the comfort of those at 
work. The young women who work so faithfully for 
the public and for the company deserve an honorable 
wage and comfortable working stations. These the com- 
pany seems inclined to afford. 
Tuere Are Picrure PiAys that ought to be sup-. 
pressed. They have gone the limit not only in the theme 
presented, but in the method which they have used in 
gaining publicity. Evidently the public has no redress, 
and ‘while folk patronize them they will continue to run 
in defiance of protests in the names of purity and right- 
eousness. No one would make a single protest against 
a moving picture in and of itself, because the moving 
picture is and has been and can be a great educational 
factor and a pleasure to countless thousands of people. 
It is a thousand pities that it cannot be maintained upon 
a high level of morality. The present methods of censor- 
ship are not as successful as most folk would desire. 
Tur Osstninc Trusty, who knew his limitations and 
requested that he be locked up because of the temptation 
to flee to seek the bedside of his dying father, was a 
shrewd, far-seeing man. What a pity that his vision had 
not come to him before he was confined within those walls 
of stone. It is a wise man who knows how to keep out 
of temptation. 
WuatA Pry Ir Is that all of the talent and strength 
now being wasted in fighting in Europe cannot be em- 
ployed. in united action in wiping out the evils which afflict 
all mankind, poverty disease, wickedness and social in- 
justice. 
Tuer Buirprnc PLANs for next season are maturing 
and in Beverly Farms and Manchester this year there 
will be an unusual amount of work. The Shore is build- 
ing up rapidly, and with a high type of residences. 
Ir Looxs As Tuoucu the legislators would have to 
go back to school before the children do. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 45 
THE WoMEN’s AMERICAN LEAGUE, in which Mrs. 
John Hays Hammond is interested, is now turning its 
attention to the fear and misery caused by the scourge, 
infantile paralysis. The organization is planning a social 
event to take place tonight, with the purpose of raising 
funds to fight the disease. While the object of the league 
is to furnish hospital supplies and necessities for the men 
at the front and in mobilization camps and to furnish 
needed assistance to the families of the men in service, 
the imperative need which the prevalence of infantile 
paralysis has presented has made it desirable for the 
league to broaden its field of work and add to the new 
department. The older work will be prosecuted with 
efficiency, while the work for the prevention of infantile 
paralysis will be carried along simultaneously. The league 
should be supported in their needs. 
Lasor Day ENDs THE SEASON for many of the shore 
resorts in New England, especially among those who must 
send children back to school early in September. But 
on the North Shore the September holiday is the begin- 
ning of the best season of the year and it is an unusual 
thing for a cottager to close his summer home so early. 
The number of persons staying the year-round has in- 
creased quite rapidly during the last decade and there are 
indications that this year there will be a still larger all- 
the-year colony. 
THE TERRIBLENESS OF THE WAR is evident in one 
little item of news that comes from the allied Teuton 
powers that the lads of seventeen have been called to 
training. This means that lads that were hardly fifteen 
years of age when the war broke out are now subject 
to service in the field. War evidently is no respector of 
persons... 
Mr. Justice BRANbEIs has spurred the Zionist As- 
sociation to renewed activities by agreeing to accept their 
invitation to be with them. Mr. Justice Brandeis is a 
shrewd man, knows human nature, and has stimulated 
an organization in which he is interested to exert them- 
selves. 
WHokEVER WINS IN A LABor Dispur it is the public 
in the end that pays the bills. The higher prices that now 
prevail’may be traced back directly to increased expendi- 
ture necessary in every enterprise. 
Tuere Are Honors AwattinG the genius that dis- 
covers a prevention and a cure for that dread disease, 
infantile paralysis. 
HERE is no secret that in a vigorous way the develop- 
ment of the aeroplane on an extensive scale and with 
a view to its general use both for passenger and freight 
service is quietly proceeding, says Collier's. There are 
those who do not hesitate to predict that within the next 
decade, and perhaps within five years, the aeroplane will 
be in common use and will be brought within the reach 
of men of moderate means so as to afford them a ready 
vehicle of transportation from their city to their summer 
homes. The interesting fact is noted by President Ed- 
ward M. Hagar of the Wright Company, that he has 
recently received a request for estimates on ten aeroplanes, 
each of three-ton freight capacity, with which valuable 
ore from an inaccessible mine is to be carried from the 
mountains to a convenient shipping point. The part that 
the aeroplane is playing in the great European war aston- 
ishes all observers and must inevitably lead, at the close 
of the war, to a wider utilization of the aeroplane in 
peaceful pursuits. 
