“Nov. 26, 1915. 
Venice Has at Last CompLetreD its preparations 
for war and the lovers of art will rejoice to learn that 
1G precautions have been neglected to preserve its great 
art treasures. Art objects of value and costly paintings 
have been removed from the city and the buildings of the 
city have been buttressed and buried in many cases be- 
neath sand bags to minimize the damage done by possible 
aerial attacks. Venice evidently intends to protect her 
treasures so far as she is able. There are those who feel 
that the citizens of London have been a little remiss in 
their preparations and that its art and historical edifices 
should be protected more thoroughly than they are. 
What a loss to the world it would be if Westminister 
Abbey were destroyed by fire! 
Tur New Avuromosiie PLAtes of 1916 will be light- 
er and of a cheaper construction and-the Highway Com- 
mission will save ten thousand dollars, but the price of 
tne plates will not be changed to those who must renew 
rumbers originally issued. Why should they? 
trouble caused by the commission by such renewals wouid 
not be compensated for at the old rate. The light cream 
background will not reflect the light so readily and the 
mumbers will-be correspondingly more legible. The avoid- 
ance of chipping will be another advantage that the mo- 
torist will oe 
YALE HAS ACQUIRED a man of ability in the appoint- 
ment of Dr. Nichols as the head of the department of 
physics. Dartmouth will lose as Yale gains. Dartmouth 
College holds an unique place in the educational work in 
New England and the presidency is a position carrying 
with it high honors and an enviable position in the acad- 
emic world. ; A prominent Boston man is mentioned by 
his Biriieaiactic friends as a possible choice, but the trust- 
ees have nO. yet given the matter consideration. 
THE Cigar Expositions in California have present- 
ed the authofities of the state with a peculiar problem,-— 
the care and assistance of a great number of workmen 
who have sought work in that state and have not been 
able to find it: It has become necessary to warn work- 
men all over the United States that work is scarce in 
‘California and that capable workmen even are forced to 
lose time. Expositions have their drawbacks. 
THE MANy THANKSGIVING house parties this year 
are evidences of the lengthening season on the Shore. 
How different from the years when Labor Day was the 
signal for a general exodus from the North Shore. Now 
many remain all winter and the week-end parties are 
popular. 
THE CLERGYMAN Wuo Marriep the couple that at- 
‘tained such notoriety in New York must be a diligent 
reader of ancient history. Is it possible that he could 
have read a newspaper recently and yet not known whom 
he was anarrying? 
Tue Beverty Hicu ScuHoor, football team is to meet 
the team from Chicago on its own home field on Saturday, 
Dec. 4. This event will probably be the most important 
scholastic football event in the county this season and it 
is certain to arouse much interest. 
It 1s RumorepD that Roumania is now becoming a 
possible participant in this war. Is there no end of this 
trouble? All the Balkan states will be involved and to 
what avail to them? 
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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 11 
Gratitude 
By Waldo Pondray Warren 
Acknowledgment of the Source of any good 
thing is simple justice, and justice is the basis of all 
that is good. Unless we turn with gratitude to the 
Source we turn away from the Source. 
Receiving the good things of life is chiefly a 
inatter of spiritual plumbing—if the proper connec- 
tions are made with the Reservoir of all Good the 
water flows through; if the connection is broken at 
any point the water simply cannot flow through, no 
matter how much we desire it. 
Gratitude is one of the basic laws of being; it is 
final, inexorable, unfailing. No man can oppose this 
faw and win, no man can observe it and-fail. —Who- 
ever 1ecognizes this law becomes at once a new crea- 
ture—begins to focus every desire on establishing 
the right connections with the Source of all Good. 
Gratitude is the key to the treasure house of the 
Infinite Good. The right to use that key is yours; 
but without its use every door is barred before you. 
To be sincerely grateful for life itself and its bless- 
mgs, and to acknowledge the Source as: well as the 
channel, this is the one assurance of the continuity of 
blessings and the increase of the satisfactions of life. 
(Copyright 1915, by Waldo Pondray Warren) 
Tue Poriticar Parties are beginning to rally their 
torces for the national campaign. A prophet is not neces- 
sary to forsee that the two issues will be the tariff and 
preparedness. The increase of revenue needed for an 
ethcient preparedness program must come from some- 
where. The easiest channel for increased revenue must 
ever be the tariff, so that the two issues become one. 
A Boston ‘Miss’ has married.and refuses to change 
ker name and she asks pertinently, why should she? Will 
tl.c children bear his or her name? The customs of so- 
ciety are based upon common sense and before many 
years the bride will discover that her ideas have an er- 
ratic element in them that she will gladly admit. Time 
snooths over many things; it is a great teacher. 
A Commission 1s A? Work on plans for a suitable 
celebration of the three-hundredth anniversary of. the 
scittlement at Plymouth by the Pilgrims. The event is 
worthy of commemoration and it is to be hoped that the 
new plans to be presented will be in keeping with the im- 
portance and significance of that brave colony of Eng- 
lishmen. 
THE SECRETARY OF THE Navy has censured the ad- 
miral who was acquitted by the general court martial. It 
is evidently the purpose of the Secretary of the Navy to 
give instruction to the rank and ‘file of the service that in 
the future the recommendations of the younger men in 
the service shall be given proper consideration. 
Mr. JAMEs B. Dow is a candidate for re-election i0 
the Beverly school board, from the Sixth Ward—the 
severly Farms district. He will be unopposed, © His ser- 
vice has been of a high order and Beverly Farms and-the 
City of Beverly are fortunate in having a capable man 
serve them so willingly and efficiently. 
