NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 47 
Tue MiL.K AND Basy 
been made. 
GoveRNOR Foss may well be happy in as much as the 
i has confirmed 
Mr. Foss does not neglect to 
Interstate Commerce Commission 
of his own assertions. 
say he said it first. 
Hycreng Assocration of 
Massachusetts is doing faithful work and progress has 
To care for thirteen hundred babies in a | 
month is a record the organization Should be proud of. : 
pail On out.” 
many needed it? 
Ture SUMMER ‘TRAGEDIES increase. 
Arter Fiery Years of laxity and inactivity the 
State of Maine is giving the Prohibitory law a genuine 
, AS 7 aia be Pa = ‘ ‘ 
lik Minister of the Summer Capital preached a 
sermon on “humility.” . 
Did he think the President 
The columns 
of the Monday morning papers are full of tragedies. 
Ir ts Evipenr from the appeal made in today’s 
Breeze by a North Shore minister that there are labor 
problems that never reach the press. 
Tur ‘Time vo INAUGURATE a campaign against the 
three-flat nuisance is before the cellar is dug. 
Tur Drink Brit, of the United States on the basis 
of its present population is equivalent to an expenditure 
of $355 a family of five. 
Mr. Metnen ts Stmpry Paytne the penalties of his 
unusual success as a railroad manager, 
The North Shore Church Problem 
By REV. CLARENCE STRONG POND, Pastor of the Beverly Farms Baptist Church 
The problems which confront the 
churches of the North Shore are 
unique and serious. Unfortunately 
the opportunity for action that would 
help solve these problems does not 
come to those most interested in their 
sclution. The faithful few and the 
ministers may maintain the services 
of the North Shore churches with 
regularity and do faithful work, 
handicapped by conditions which 
faithfulness on their part cannot 
overcome or even relieve. ‘Those who 
own estates neglect the services of 
the church. ‘The hours of service of 
those at work for then are such as 
to prevent regular or even irregular 
church attendance. I am informed 
by many who attend our varied week-_ 
day services that they are unable to 
attend on Sunday because of 
hours of their employment. 
A concrete example may be given 
of our Scandinavian service on alter- 
nate Fridays which was _ originally 
held at 7.30 and changed by request 
to 8.30 p.m. The result was at once 
apparent in the doubling of the at- 
tendance. Even at that hour many 
come late. 
Another serious influence which 
every church has to combat is the 
non-attendance of church people dur- 
ing the summer months. During the 
winter these people attend the 
churches to which they belong and 
increase the power of their home 
church by the moral influence of their 
personal presence in the House of 
God. In the summer they come to 
the shore and the church is forgot- 
ten and their personal influence will- 
ingly or unwillingly, wittingly or un- 
wittingly, is thrown with the unright- 
the 
eous element which is existent in this 
as in every communty. The church 
consequently has an added burden for 
it is handicapped by the inertia of 
church people, and young: people are 
quick to detect the habits of summer 
people and their neglect of the church 
services. ‘he results of such influen- 
ces upon young plastic minds are dis- 
astrous and those who do not know 
the exact facts cannot appreciate the 
great harm that is being done to young 
minds on the North Shore by the 
abandonment of the church during 
the summer months, by those who are 
accustomed to worship regularly dur- 
ing the winter in their own home 
city churches. ; 
This is not so much a protest as it 
is an appeal. 
I do not believe that those who 
come to the shore realize how much 
the efficiency of the churches of the 
North Shore have been impaired in 
the past by thoughtlessness on the 
part of summer residents or owners 
of estates, nor how much they can in- 
crease the efficiency of the churches 
by personal attendance and a little 
careful enquiry concerning the hours 
of labor on the Sabbath Day of per- 
sons in their employ. 
The attendance of the permanent 
residents of the North Shore is ir- 
regular just as soon as the summer 
season opens. ‘The helpful automo- 
bile and ever ready telephone has add- 
ed other burdens and it is a fortu- 
nate business man on the North 
Shore who is able to get through the 
Sunday without some attention being 
demanded concerning prospective or 
pending contracts. Here again is 
another cause that prevents church 
attendance. The whole problem of 
hours and labor on the Shore harm 
the church and the attendance and 
in the end the community, because 
this influence cannot continue from 
one generation to another, with its in- 
creasing influence, without doing a 
harm to the community which in the 
end must react—and that inevitably 
against the Shore as a place for rest 
and residence. The church has al- 
ways been the safe-guard of honesty, 
morality, probity and | righteousness. 
Its work is fundamental and should be 
aided and not hindered. 
What can you do to stem the tide? 
Banp Concert NExt WEEK 
The Salem Cadet Band will give 
another of their popular concerts at 
Manchester next ‘Thursday evening. 
Following is the program: 
March, Maine Capitol Chase 
Overture, Pique Dame Suppe 
Waltz, Blue Danube Strauss 
Solo for Baritone Selected 
Mr. A. Harris 
Selection, I] ‘Trovatore Verdi 
(a) Intermezzo, Silvery Bells 
Botsford 
(b) Melody, The Rosary Nevin 
College Songs, Campus Echoes 
Rollinson 
Selection, Robin Hood de Koven 
Concert Medley, Bric-a-Brac 
Missud 
March, Semper Fidelis Sousa 
Star Spangled Banner 
Jean. Missup, Conductor 
Van Demmit—Rather poor house 
tonight, eh? 
‘Manager—Yes, poor but honest. No 
passes were given tonight—Puck. 
