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land will be wearing crepe. 
~ truth in the report that the enemy is weakening ... He 
very long war, indeed. 
‘tional elections. 
E. ALEXANDER Powel, a careful and trustworthy 
war correspondent of the London Daily Mail and Scrib- 
‘ners Magazine, writes, concerning the British trooper, 
“he knows that before the Germans can be driven out cf 
France and Belgium, much less across the Rhine, all Eng- 
He knows that there is no 
knows that this is going to be a long war—probably a 
Every British officer or soldier 
with whom I have talkd has said that he expects that the 
spring of 1916 will find them in virtually the same posi, 
tions that they hold now. They will gain ground in some 
places, of course, and lose ground in others, but a year, 
- so the men who are doing the fighting believe, will see no 
‘radical alteration in the present western battle line.” 
Such a statement is not welcome to the British people, 
Py but it has all ear-marks of truthfulness. 
THe PEABopy Fire has caused the authorities of the 
towns and cities in this part of the state to make a care- 
tul study of the dangers of the schoolhouses within their 
jurisdiction in the event of fire. Parents may rest as- 
sured that care and intelligence will be used in providing 
schoo] children as safe an exit as possible from all school 
buildings ; it is impossible to eliminate every possibility of 
danger. The trouble this present week in a Peabody 
school shows that the personal element may prove a large 
factor in the case of fire. Three hundred children rush- 
ed out of a building under the terror of the “fire” that 
ecured recently. Fortunately no casualties ensued, but 
there might easily have been serious accidents. There 
is as much danger and trouble in needlessly alarming folk 
as exists in the faulty construction of our buildings. 
Tue Unrtrep States GovERNMEN’ has finally filed 
a protest with the British government for the violation of 
our national shipping rights. For a long while the at- 
titude of the British government to our rights, while not 
deliberately unfriendly, has been unjust. The exchange 
of notes with Germany over the Lusitania and the adjust- 
ment of our differences with that nation has detracted 
the attention of the public from our grievances with great 
Eritain. It is not likely that the remonstrances are pleas- 
ing to great Britain, but a speedy correction of the abuses 
complained of may be taken for granted. Great Britain 
is not going to alienate the friendship of so helpful a 
ncutral as the United States, 
DrEsPrtE THE ConTINUED Rumors that come of Eng- 
land’s impending conscription, the volunteer system has 
been successful. England may yield to the demands of 
the advocates of conscription, but nothing can destroy 
the honor attained by the loyal sons who responded to 
the call to arms in the hour of danger, voluntarily.. There 
is a moral conscription act at work in the old country 
that is proving effective. 
Tue Turee Leapinc Democrats who have been out 
of harmony for a long while have buried their differences 
and have united. Those who are on the outside cannot 
but wonder what the next move will be! It is plain 
enough, however, that the State election of 1916 will be 
as closely contested as the one this year. 
Tuer Porrricar Por has begun to boil and the na- 
tional parties are outlining their campaign for the na- 
When will the State have biennial elec- 
tions and the President have a six-year term? 
o& NORTH “SHOR EU BREEZE 
War Notes. 
IX. 
“Whom the gods would destroy 
They first make mad.” 
E, live only for today, 
And mingle in the deadly fray. 
Life is a thing of Here and Now, 
Little caring why or how. 
Never mind about the Past, 
The Future we may not forecast. 
The things we see and hear and touch, 
Only these concern us much. 
The struggle and the deadly strife 
Of business and of social life, 
Labor and capital, which the master, 
Threatening ruin or disaster, 
Life at issue with itself, 
Mad for glory or for pelf, 
While the world’s great, seething throng, 
Lose the sense of Right and Wrong. 
Wrong and Right, it would appear 
Are but expedience now and here. 
Lost the dread of tribulation, 
Lost Morality’s foundation, 
Lost the sense of retribution. 
(These the fruits of Evolution?) 
Ceesarism is not dead, 
Nor the Roman spirit fled 
Which would rule the world by Hate, 
The whole earth to subjugate. 
What the remedy? I misdoubt 
They must fight the battle out, 
Till, weary of the senseless strife 
Which makes for death and not for life, 
They recognize a Power above 
And prove the greater might of Love. 
—JoserH A. Torrey. 
THe Bay Stare RarLRoaD is making a contest for 
its raise in passenger fare from five to six cents, but every 
1aunicipality it serves is uniting in opposition to its sug- 
gested plan. The Public Service Commission will have 
to thresh out the Bay State case, but a matter of public 
opinion and attitude the last decade, has not shown any 
desire on the part of the public to grant railroads living 
wages. If it is proven that the Bay State has no case 
the price should be reduced. If they can prove the neces- 
sity of the added penny the increase should be granted. 
Even railroads have to pay bills. 
Tue AspIRANTS FoR Posrtrions upon the football 
teams in our colleges in 1916 will be careful how they 
svend their vacation in 1916. The taint of profession- 
alism must be kept out of College athletics. 
THE SuccEss OF THE PLATTSBURG enterprise and the 
popularity of the cadets’ school in Boston indicates that 
the American youth is awake to the perils of the times. 
Wuat A DIFFERENCE there is in the financial worid 
tcday in America compared with the trying days just 
aiter the war began. 
YaLE Writ Have to look to her-laurels; Harvard is 
developing a strong team. ide 
