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VOL. XIV 
November 24, 1916. No. 47 
ANOTHER WEEK and Thanksgiving will be here with 
all its good cheer and happiness. Families, separated by 
distance, will reunite and there will be happy hours of 
feasting and pleasure. President Wilson has written his 
Proclamation and could do so in a happy frame of mind, 
considering his re-election. He has a personal cause for 
rejoicing and Thanksgiving. ‘“The season is at hand in 
which it has been our long respected custom as a people 
to turn in praise and Thanksgiving to Almighty God for 
his manifold mercies and blessings to us as a nation. 
Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the 
United States of America, do hereby designate the last 
Thursday of November next as a day of Thanksgiving 
and Prayer, and invite the people throughout the land to 
cease from their wonted occupations and in their several 
homes and places of worship render thanks to Almighty 
God.” 
A New ENGLAND SABBATH PROTECTIVE LEAGUE has 
formally lodged a protest with the Railroad Commission 
against the granting of permits for special trains on Sun- 
days to attend the services conducted by “Billy” Sunday 
in his Boston Tabernacle. The protest has been made 
in good faith, but does not appear to be altogether reason- 
able. For the intent of the law is to prohibit pleasure 
excursions and picnic parties. The “Billy” Sunday cam- 
paign evidently has begun the greatest moral movement in 
New England for two generations. The Railroad Com- 
mission should encourage the passenger departments to 
grant such permits, for it will make it possible for thou- 
sands of men and women to come under the influence of 
the movement which can but make for good. The 
secretary of the Protection League is an honorable man 
with high purposes, but lacks in this particular incident 
clean-cut discriminating judgment. 
In ANNouNCING His Canpripacy for the mayoralty 
of the City of Beverly for another term, Mayor Mac- 
donald says: “Having been mustered out of the United 
States service, I wish to make formal announcement of 
my candidacy for Mayor of Beverly. I shall later dis- 
cuss thoroughly the work and business of the city which 
I assume are the issues before the people.” Mr. Mac- 
donald will have the good wishes of his many friends in 
his campaign for re-election. 
Rocer W. Basson, vice-president of our local Trust 
Corpany, has been making a financial study of trade con- 
ditions and announced to the Dry Goods association that 
the retail trade would enjoy an unusual holiday trade. 
This is cheering news. It will be good news indeed to the 
small tradesman, but it is better news when one stops to 
consider that it means that the rank and file have the 
ironey to spend, 
Nov. 24, 1916. 
Emperor Francis JosepH of Austria, whose deata 
has been reported periodically since the beginning of the 
great European war, died Tuesday evening. He was 86 
years old and had survived 68 years of the stormiest and 
lengthiest reign of any ruler in modern history. He 
ascended the throne of the dual monarchy at the age of 
1g and while he achieved no reputation as a just nor 
popular ruler he welded together and strengthened his 
empire in the face of aggression from without and with- 
in. In the long span of his rule Franz Josef saw and 
had a hand in the unfolding of more than half a century 
of European and American history; but of the greatest 
event in Europe’s stormy history, the present momentous 
struggle, he was doomed not to see the conclusion even 
though it was his ultimatum to Serbia in 1914 which 
plunged the continent into war. His importance to the 
cause of the Central powers had been lessened during the 
last year by the centralization of authority in the Ger- 
man War Board and his passing will have no marked 
effect on the outcome of the war. He belonged to the 
past rather than the present. 
RESOLUTIONS PAssED by the Massachusetts Woman 
Suffrage association this week protest against apparent 
sex discrimination in the appointment of clerical em- 
ployees by the Federal government from the civil service 
lists. They point to the fact that among 120 recent 
appointments in the clerical force of the war department 
and 33 transfers in the same department only one woman 
was included. They also contend that there is a sex dis- 
crimination in the matter of salaries of employees as well. 
The question of the employment of women in depart- 
mental positions in Washington has been threshed out a 
great many times and it is because the preponderance of 
expert opinion favors the employment of males that the 
apparent “discrimination” exists. 
Tue Bevery ScHoo, TEACHERS have discovered a 
new law, that of the High Cost of Living. They have 
petitioned the school committee for an increase in their 
salaries. This will make it necessary for the committee 
to increase their budget. This in turn will make it neces- 
sary for the city to increase the appropriation and there 
must follow an increase in the tax rate or an increase in 
valuation. The High Cost of Living always tends to 
increase expenditures in every direction. No one will 
wish to oppose paying any school teacher the legitimate 
compensation that is earned and deserved. ‘The situa- 
tion, however, presents an admirable example of the re- 
sults of inflated prices. 
“NoruHinc Is Ever SETTLED until it is settled right,” 
said Charles Sumner, who was not thinking of an Adam- 
son eight-hour law. But, nevertheless, he uttered a 
truth regarding it. President Wilson’s “settlement” of 
the threatened railroad strike just before election by 
bending to the will of the Brotherhood leaders quite evi- 
dently only paved the way for more serious trouble later 
on. Hints of a re-opening of the railway controversy 
are coming daily from the labor leaders in conference 
over the application of the new law. 
TuereE HAs BEEN A CHANGE in the coal situation in 
the New England States during the last two weeks. 
While locally the dealers are embarrassed because of the 
inability of the shippers to ship coal, yet in other places 
the situation has eased up somewhat. The public will 
have to exercise a little patience; the dealers are hard 
pressed by the exigencies of the situation, but are doing 
everything in their power to provide a sufficient coal 
supply for the winter demands, 
