Dee. 10, 1915. 
-In His VotumeE entitled, “My Larger Education,” 
Booker T. Washington observes, “that more and more, at 
the present day, education must take the place of force 
in the affairs of men. The world is changing. The great- 
est nation today is not the nation with the greatest army, 
not the nation that can destroy the most, but the nation 
wiih the most productive machinery: the nation that 
can produce the most.” He lived to see that commerical 
ascendancy has its dangers and that there virtually exist- 
ec before the present war of arms a commercial war for 
world-wide trade supremacy and that that struggle has 
precipitated the strife in arms. He makes a shrewder 
~ comment, however, when he adds, “‘the.aim of the highest 
statesmanship should be the improvement not so much of, 
the army as of the school.” If the statesmanship of the 
world had been directed to that end the year 1914 would 
have been less tragic. 
IN ORDER To PRovipe the money necessary for the 
proposed increases in the Army and Navy the President 
suggests among other things a direct tax upon gasoline 
and a tax of fifty cents per horsepower on every auto- 
mobile. With a state tax, a local value tax, a national 
tax anda water tax and an owner’s tax as an operator the 
owners of small cars have an initial expense in operation 
that will deter many from purchasing. The owners of 
automobiles will not object to reasonable taxation, but 
taxation on automobiles will be a little overdone if this 
proposed levy becomes operative. 
In His Messacr President Wilson addressed him- 
self to the problem of the hour and with a strong hand 
and clear vision placed before Congress the necessity of 
making adequate naval and military provisions for the 
future. All party lines will be wiped out in the work be- 
fore Congress along these lines. It is a pitiable necessity 
that compels such an increase in our naval and military 
preparations, but it is an unavoidable precaution that must 
be taken, 
Tuer TEACHERS oF Boston in convention assembled 
have condemned compulsory military training in the 
schools as an influence tending to foster a militaristic 
spirit. There are those who know that military training 
in the schools has influenced growing boys in the oppo- 
site direction. Military drilling is not altogether popular 
THe DePaut Tram ‘defeated the Beverly High 
School team after the latter had put up an heroic contest. 
The Beverly boys were out-classed. It was a good game, 
clean and open and the football enthusiasts enjoyed a 
pleasant afternoon in the open air. 
Tue Curistmas SEASON is upon us again and in 
Manchester and in Beverly Farms municipal Christmas 
trees are being planned for. Both programs were suc- 
cessful last year and afforded the communities a pleasant 
evening before the holiday. 
Tuer SEconp Concer? of the Arbella club has dem- 
onstrated the popularity of the enterprise. The two 
programs have been of a high order and the members of 
the club and the subscribers have been afforded two rare 
tausicale treats. 
Tue Crrizens of BEVERLY .*ARMS will have an op- 
portunity to vote for Mr. Thomas Connolly for alderman 
next Tuesday. He is a business man of ability and sterl- 
ing honesty and ought to be elected. 
NORTH “SHORE BREEZE 11 
THE SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE 
N the great town of Lifeopolis 
A justly famous school 
Exists, it is attended by 
The wise man and the fool; 
The master is severe and stern, 
But one, however dense, 
May learn of him; who wouldn’t if 
Taught by Experience. 
One never is too old to learn 
At this academy ; 
And almost everything is taught— 
At least, it seems to be. 
No books are necessary here; 
One learns by failure; hence, 
Well educated, those who’ve been 
Taught by Experience. 
No holidays are granted here; 
The tasks are hard to do, 
But those who their diplomas win 
Obtain the larger view; 
Their hearts with Love and Charity 
Are filled as recompense, 
And on their sheepskins one may read; 
“School of Experience.” 
—E «xchange. 
WHEN A STATE has to expend each year more than 
$4,000,000 for the support of any one group of its popu- 
lation, that group presents a serious problem. When 
Massachusetts first began to provide public care for its 
insane the matter appeared to be a comparatively simple 
one. One hospital, providing for 200 patients, was con- 
sidered sufficient, In less than a hundred years the state 
finds itself with 17 institutions, caring for some 21,000 
patients a year, at a cost last year (1914) of $4,700,611. 
New patients are being admitted to the state hospitals at 
the rate of 3,000 a year. Some of these recover, but the 
majority are incapacitated for the rest of their lives. The 
efforts of the state up to the present have not only not 
lessened the problem, they have not even kept pace with 
it. The reason is obvious. Providing care for the men- 
tally diseased after the damage has been done, important 
and essential as a humanitarian measure, will have little 
effect in lessening the amount of mental disease. The 
emphasis of effort is misplaced. Greater stress must be 
placed upon efforts at prevention, A hundred years ago 
this could not be done, as the causes of mental disease 
were not known, but today the chief factors in the pro- 
duction of mental disease are known and steps toward 
prevention are possible. 
A Boston Boy has returned from the seat of the 
war with shattered nerves and broken health. After 
months of negotiations he was released from military 
duty by Great Britain. The story of his experiences and 
his mental and physical condition ought to serve as a de- 
terrent to roving, adventurous youths whose minds have 
been turned by the war and the opportunities that it pre- 
sents for adventure. This young man has reached that 
stage in his mental experience where he does not wish to 
have “war” mentioned to him. What a pity that he 
could not have learned his lesson before he went. 
VitLtA Has LEARNED how to commit new atrocities, 
but he is an amateur compared to the Turk and the in- 
vaders of the Armenian territories, 
