as the eight-hour day for women and children in industry, the re-adjustment of our system of taxation, genuine home rule for cities, the abolition of the poll tax for women, etc. With forward looking aggressive candidates it entered the contest and won the victory, although the party had no group of wealthy men to appeal to for financial support and the usual campaign advertising was entirely eliminated. Then the legislature met, a body composed of earnest intelligent men from all walks of life that will compare favorably with any legislature of recent years in leadership and membership, and an honest endeavor was made by the Governor and the legislative leaders of the majority party to carry out its election promises, assisted by some of the more progressive Republicans. The platform measures were passed by the House, but were killed in the Senate by the Republicans. These issues still remain unsettled through no fault of the Democratic party or its leaders. They will again be a part of the state issues to be fought over in the next campaign. Democrats may well look for success at the next election if their party continues to take a forward position toward solving the perplexing troubles of the average man. The recent session of Congress, Republican controlled, was a W The disappointment to the country. The action of the Republican majority in the State Senate was a disappointment to a majority of the voters of New Hampshire. Senator Moses appeals for a revival of party loyalty as a solution of the troubles of his party and states that in the old days "a conscientious town committee could make a canvass which would reveal within the narrowest limits exactly how the votes would be cast on election day." Those were the good old days, but in the language of the cartoonist, "Them days are gone forever." The votes can no longer be counted before they are cast. The people are doing their own thinking and realize that the men whom they support with their votes are only their instruments through whom they hope to improve their political condition of life. They are not pawns owned by a political party to bring victory or defeat to this or that group of political leaders. It behooves the Democratic party to continue to sail a direct course, take a definite position on all public questions, fight for the rights of the "average man" and win the right to the support of all liberal minded men and women, be they Democrats, Republicans or Indepen dents. "THREE SENTINELS OF THE NORTH” AND THE DURHAM MEETING BY JOHN G. WINANT LIAM S. Rossiter of Concord contibuted to the July issue of the Atlantic Monthly an article entitled "Three Sentinels of the North" which ably represented the economic the economic crisis through which the northern New England states are now passing. Mr. Rossiter, formerly a high official of the United States Census Bureau, is the head of the National Association of Statisticians and has a wide and well earned reputation for ability to make important, valuable and truthful deductions from carefully obtained and assembled figures. His deep and sincere interest in Northern New England made his article in the Atlantic Monthly a forceful appeal as well as a convincing argument; it is encouraging to find that it is receiving the thoughtful attention it deserves in this section of the country. We need people of a strong resourceful type, and yet we are told that 500,000 of our native men and women have left our north country and are living out their lives and earning their living elsewhere. There is no co-operative effort made to-day either to persuade our boys and girls to remain in New Hampshire or to encourage young men and young women to come East and settle in old New England. As Mr. Rossiter pointed out, our first step is "organization." An economic survey should be made and a program formulated; and yet before we can successfully turn migration northward. and eastward, we must find a livelihood for those people who now make up the citizenry of our state. For although it is true that man cannot live by bread alone, yet it is equally true that men cannot live without bread. Sentiment may encourage us but it cannot feed us. State loyalty is a fundamental virtue, yet state prosperity is equally essential. The most representative gathering thus far held to discuss a program of action was at Durham, Thursday, August 23. This meeting was called by Dr. Ralph D. Hetzel, President of the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Hetzel acted as Chairman and all the leading organizations of the state were represented. The chief feature of the meeting was an address by Mr. Rossiter in elaboration, explanation and further emphasis of his magazine article. Former Governor Robert P. Bass, Major Frank Knox, President George M. Putnam of the State Farm Bureau Federation, President Hetzel and others ably discussed the subject and object of the meeting. A committee of three was appointed to draft resolutions from which the public could gain an accurate understanding of the position and aims of this gathering. The report of this committee as unanimously adopted was as follows: It is apparent from statistics that have been presented to this meeting that new economic and social conditions call for a readjustment of many of those activities which have in the past maintained the people of our state. "This fact is well illustrated by the stationary population of the entire state, the steady and continuous decline both in rural population and production, and the intensified pressure of industrial competition. "To meet this situation, a full knowledge of the facts is the first essential. We recommend that an accurate survey be made covering the following: Some Scenes from This Etheldreda Seabury as Martha Hilton. The famous men and women of history have walked our streets again. At Portsmouth and Dover, the earliest settlement of the state, the splendid days of the Royal Governors have lived again. In the cities and towns throughout the state centennials and sesqui-centennials and Old Home Days have turned people's thoughts toward days that are gone. And out of it has come, not a passive pre-occupation with glories that are past, but a determination, significantly exhibited by that meeting at Durham, to make the days to come of equal brightness with the past. With the exception of the picture of Adonijah Howe, Jaffrey's beloved physician of the old days, these pictures are of the Portsmouth pageant. But they might be matched by hundreds of others from the celebrations of the sixty-eight towns participating in New Hampshire's Old Home Week. David Thompson reading to his wife a list of provisions recently received. Men in advance of Miles Standish of the Plymouth Colony are also in the group, anxiously waiting to learn if Portsmouth can send provisions from their supply just received to the starving people of Plymouth. Dorothy Adams, whose tireless work and pleasing personality permeated the whole pageant. An interpretative dance interlude. The group includes, (left to right) Vivian Goldsmith, Lucille Jacques, Bertha Cohen, and Virginia Fournier. Some Suggestions for Campers BY H. REYNOLDS GOODWIN Diagrams used with permission of the National Council from the Handbook for Boys, Boy Scouts of America. IT T has long been a truism that the American man is what hs is because his ancestors were compelled to wrest their living from a hostile wilderness. The connection between the harsh conditions of the old days and the present sturdiness of character for which the typical American is noted is a real one, and in this fact there lies a serious lesson for us of softer days. We no longer must fight the wilderness for life, but we shall loose something very precious from our national life if we do not find a substitute for that struggle. Our Pioneer Days, winter carnivals and camping trips show that we recognize this fact. More and more every year the love of the trail and the mountain stream makes its converts. The American Order of Hikers this order this year. Just shoulder your pack and strike for the woods. One night in the open, lulled by the whispering breeze and exasperated by the humming mosquito, and you are a member. You will be a member for life, too, for once a man gets the smell of balsam and the sound of a brook by night into his system, nothing can eliminate it. Once a hiker, always a hiker. Fig. 1. The rectangle tent, showing (below) how rings are arranged and cloth stitched. The corners are pegged and the peak supported by being secured to an overhead branch. and Campers is growing by leaps and bounds. It has no officers, no headquarters, no membership fees, no anything except members and a genuine spirit of fraternity. This last is very real, as every hiker knows. On the trail men and women of all classes meet and mingle with the utmost good fellowship, swapping grub, cooking over the same fires, laughing at each other's jokes. You can join The first thing to do is to gather your outfit, and there are few things so absorbingly interesting as to assemble a kit which shall be ideal, that is, very light and very inexpensive. The absolute essentials are a pack for the grub and blankets to roll up in at night. To these you add as much as you think will be necessary for comfort. The ideal is to carrry not an ounce of superfluous weight, and yet to leave behind nothing which is really needed to make the trip enjoyable. You do not want to be a traveling sporting-goods store, but neither do you want to eat halfcooked food or loose sleep at night from being cold. And the best fun of all is to see how many articles of equipment you can make for yourself. Take the match-safe for example. You can buy a very good one at any |