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VOL. XIV 
We See By THe Salem News that the publicity 
division of the Salem Chamber of Commerce has sent 
out numerous letters to the ladies of Salen (and pre- 
sumably a few in Beverly and other adjoining towns) 
asking ‘“‘Why do you trade in Boston?” 
This is an old question. 
Manchester merchants ask, why do our women think 
they must go to Salem when they want to make any pur- 
chase larger than a pound of sugar? 
Salem merchants complain because so many women 
of Salem and adjoining towns go to Boston to make their 
larger purchases. 
Boston modistes, gown makers, milliners, jewellers 
and other dealers in the expensive commodities sold 
usually to. Back Bay trade, complain because so many 
3oston families go to New York to outfit their children 
for the season, for their larger purchases in jewelry, etc. 
But it is all very simple. Woman is the buyer for 
the house in most of our homes. If she has the means 
she goes where she can choose from the latest styles, 
and the largest assortment of sizes and varieties and, 
mark the w ord, where she can buy the most ec onomically. 
That is natural. The average woman buys as intelligently, 
or more so, than her husband could if he tried. It is 
proverbial that women are more economical and can 
make a dollar go further than a man can. 
When Salem merchants wake up to this fact, stop 
hood-winking the women with fake bargain sales, give 
the good women of Manchester, Beverly, Peabody, Dan- 
vers and other towns, as good value and variety as they 
can get in Boston, they will get much more of their trade 
than they do now. That they can never get all of it, goes 
without saying. But they could get twice as much as they 
now do. 
Salem merchants have for a long time been boasting 
with flamboyant assertion that they have as good goods, 
as large an assortment and as low prices as anywhere. 
But the fact is they do not, and the women folk know it. 
They hire a woman every year about this time to go 
around and write pretty little panegyrics in praise of their 
stores, their windows, their clerks and themselves. Hire 
her and pay their good money to her to delude them- 
selves with a false “idea. 
If ‘hes Sst seriously hire two or three bright 
women to act as detectives for them, send them through 
their stores to buy dress goods and other articles and 
then go to Boston and buy. articles of equal grade, they 
would have their eyes opened. Then they would have 
the real answer to their oft repeated question: “Why do 
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the women trade in Boston: 
November 10, 1916. No. 45 
Ik THE ORGANIZED LApor leaders persist in their boy- 
cott of the boy scout movement they will injure their own 
cause. There was no real reason for the attack being 
made in the first place. 
4 
Nov. 10, 1916. 
Tuer Baptists oF AMERICA have taken a strong for- 
ward step under the caption, the Five Year Program: 
The word is onward! Among other items mentioned in 
their campaign, brought out by the ministers of that faith, 
is the new emphasis to be placed upon social service. 
The central committee, known as the Northern Baptist 
convention has recommended that the churches all over 
the country interest themselves in “saving children, in 
securing playgrounds, in stimulating public interest in 
juvenile courts.” “Appeals are made for new interests in 
old-fashioned neighborliness, visiting the sick in homes 
and in hospitals, promoting campaigns for pure milk, pure 
water and pure food; aid in securing proper housing con- 
ditions, research and study of the causes and cure of 
poverty; an aggressive campaign against the abuse of 
druggist’s licenses, the use of alcohol, opium and _habit- 
forming drugs ; the promotion of intelligent studies of the 
sex problem and supervision of amusement resorts.” In 
all, the program of social service presented is broad, rea- 
sonable and sane. 
THE 
educational life of the city of Boston. There was a time 
when that centre was at Copley square. The Harvard 
Medical school was there and all of the departments of 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On Dart- 
mouth street the Boston City Normal school was located 
Boston Fenway has become the centre of the — 
and the Boston Latin school and the English High school ~ 
were not far distant. Copley square is still an educational 
centre. Boston University has the old buildings belong- 
ing to ‘l'eclinology and Harvard Medical school and the 
other schools are still there. However, the construction 
of Simmons college, the Gordon Missionary Training 
school, the Harvard Medical school and Notre Dame has 
made that great park system an educational centre. 
THE 
since they left for El Paso last June shows the wonders 
that can be accomplished by four months of steady train- 
ing. There is one thing assured: that we have now_a 
state militia that has had some real field service. The 
training will stand them and the state in good stead. It 
has developed a personel and esprit de corps in the militia 
that would have been unattainable in any other way. The 
service was altogether worth while to the young men and 
to the country. 
GERMANY HAs MApE ANOTHER master stroke not by 
arms but by diplomacy in according to Poland the privi- 
leges proclaimed by an official edict. The operation is 
only a minor move in the larger game, the war. Poland 
has been oppressed, deserves relief and will have relief 
only when the war is ended. 
whoever wins, Poland is certain to make gains in govern- 
mental liberty. Meantime the Imperial proclamation must 
be considered a temporary measure. Poland’s liberties 
are still to be won. 
One oF THE Most HeLprur charities in which the 
ladies of our Shore are interested_is the Florence Critten- 
don League. The home which they sustain has been the 
hope and new life of many an unfortunate young woman. 
The organization is efficiently conducted and the work ac- 
complished has been of increasing value to society. The 
well patronized bazaar at the Copley-Plaza this week 
indicated the interest which is felt in this worthy work. 
Tue PopuLAriry of the Harvard-Yale game does 
not lessen, when one considers that not a ticket was left 
for the “outsiders.” Harvard and Yale will not have 
enough to go around in the family. 
TRAINING Wuicu the young men have received 
When the war is ended, ° 
