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THE 1917 CHRISTMAS CLUB 
Opens Dec. 11, First payment Dec. 26th. 
Ask the man who had one in 1916 
He has money already for Christmas. 
He has a neat little sum coming to him and all 
from the loose change that used to run away 
YOU ARE WELCOME 10 JOIN. 
THE MANCHESTER TRUST COMPANY 
MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA, MASS. 
Banking hours 8:30-2:30; Sats. 8:30-1; Sat. Ev’gs. 7-8 (deposits only) 
Heis happy. 
from him. 
Assoc. Mem. Am. Soc. C. E. 
Lee’s Block, Manchester 
MANCHESTER 
Mrs. Robert Baker and daughter 
Esther returned Monday from spend- 
ing Thanksgiving with the former’s 
son, Robert M., and family in Phil- 
adelphia. 
The Gloucester Basket Ball club 
will play the fast St. John’s Literary 
team tonight, champions of Greater 
Boston 1915-16. A large crowd is 
expected to attend from here. Danc- 
ing after the game as usual. 
Manchester 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Dee. 8, 1916. 
RAYMOND C. ALLEN 
Member Boston Soc. C. E. 
CIVIL ENGINEER 
Investigations and Reports—Design and Superintendence of Con- 
struction—Design of Roads and Avenues—Surveys and Estimates. 
ESTABLISHED 1397 
:: :: Tel. 73-R and W 
Allen Post, 67, G. A. R., held its 
annual election of officers last Friday 
evening. The following will serve 
for the ensuing year: Enoch Crom- 
bie, commander; Nathaniel Morgan, 
senior vice-comdr.; Alfred S. Jewett, 
junior vice-comdr.; James H. Rivers, 
adjutant; Charles P. Goldsmith, sur- 
geon; John G. Haskell, quartermas- 
ter; Henry T. Bingham, chaplain; 
Charles H. Stone, O. D.; Dennis Sul- 
livan, O. G. 
Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. 
Electric Co. 
ELECTRIC LIGHT and POWER 
Celebrate Electrical Week by adding to your home one of the many electri- 
cal appliances which add pleasure to the household. 
See our circular which 
offers you an unusual opportunity to do this. 
Office: 
21 SUMMER STREET 
Telephone 168W 
T. A. LEES, Manager 
LATIN AMERICA 
Supjyect oF INstrRucTIVE TALK ‘tO 
MANCHESTER BROTHERHOOD BY 
Rev. G. E. ALLAN. 
“The trouble with our relations 
with Mexico,” said Rev. G. Edward 
Allan, pastor of the Prospect st. 
Methodist church of Gloucester, in 
an informal talk at the Men’s 
Brotherhood, Manchester, Monday 
evening, “is that we expect them to 
reach our standard of civilization in- 
stead of assisting them to reach the 
highest type of their own civilization. 
There is too much religion and too 
much ignorance in Mexico. Mexico 
has had more than her share of 
trouble, but she is going to get out of 
it. The great need in Mexico today 
is not that the American government 
send soldiers there, but that we should 
intrust to Harvard, Yale and other 
great universities the establishment of 
a course to train young men to carry 
our American system of education in- 
to the country. Mexico needs, also, 
religious freedom.” 
Mr. Allan spent two years in Mex- 
ico and five years on the west coast 
of South America, principally in 
Iquique, at the foot of the Chilean 
Andes, where he taught in the uni- 
versity. He displayed great fami- 
liarity with the economic, political, 
religious and social life of the south- 
ern republics he had visited. 
The speaker said that the Panama 
canal was one of the greatest en- 
gineering feats in the world, but was 
the cause of widespread distrust of 
the American government on the part 
of certain of the Latin republics. He 
said that while the people distrusted 
cur government they treated Ameri- 
cans well. In seven years in Latin 
America he said he had never had an 
unkind word spoken to him. Mr. 
Allan related some amusing anecdotes 
in connection with his early attempts 
to master Spanish. His experiences 
with the customs officials of Chile 
were also amusing. Speaking of the 
currency of the southern republics, he ° 
said the system was a gamble. “You 
receive paper money from the govern- 
ment in payment of its obligations, 
but when you wish to pay the govern- 
ment in paper it demands gold,” he 
said. “ “But I have no gold,’ you ex- 
claim. ‘Well, we can sell it to you,’ 
the government replies. And you al- 
ways lose. Gambling is the curse of 
every Latin American country.” 
German and British banks control 
the business of South America, and 
handle practically al! of the shipping, 
both imports and exports. The 
American flag is seldom seen in a 
Chilean harbor, perhaps not oftener 
