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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1920
Page
3
Former Governor Samuel W. McCall argues for Herbert C. Hoover as president in Harvard Magazine. He praises Hoover for wartime relief work in Belgium and U.S. food administration, urging a practical technocrat over partisan politics to cut living costs and save billions.
The engagement of Miss Mildred Efford a prominent soprano soloist and Mandeville R Leggett of New York has been announced by Miss Efford's parents Dr and Mrs Byron Efford at 152 Wachusett avenue Arlington Heights. Miss Efford is noted for singing in Boston and eastern cities and has appeared in Chin Chin and was billed as the modern Jenny Lind during a South tour. Leggett a veteran of the 308th Infantry 77th Division served overseas including the Argonne Meuse and now works with Lumen Bearing Company Buffalo New York. The wedding date has not been set.
The class of 1920 at Boston Latin School held its class day exercises in the school assembly hall. The program featured a five company military drill, a principal address by Colonel Edward L. Logan, and a notable recitation by Joseph Schneider, a Newsboy at Camp Devens during the war. A class song by Lyman B. Owens was sung by Clarence J. Burns with organ accompaniment and a Harvard double quartet performed.
Roger W. Babson of Wellesley says he will move to Washington to continue battling Senator Smoot, who chairs the joint committee on printing, over what Babson calls censorship and control of Washington news. He claims Smoot seeks to discredit the Democratic administration and questions if the attack serves Republican aims.
The sixth regional convention in Cleveland adopted a labor and social programme. It calls for an eight hour day collective bargaining abolition of night work and child labor minimum wage and equal pay for men and women performing similar work.
James Labshire of Rutland and A Anderson of Rutland were sentenced in Rutland City Court to 12 to 18 months at hard labor for non support of their families. Labshire’s failure to support his 18 children drew aid from the State Board of Charities. Mrs. Anderson testified her husband sent only a small sum and left home for six months. Salvation Army Captain Tripp testified the Anderson children lacked clothing and nourishment, with two boys staying in bed for lack of coverings.
The Charles Sumner School in Roslindale hosted an afternoon program by Sub-Master Joseph I Whalen's class. The event featured pupil singing, essays by Ruth Lynch Mary Sullivan and Grace Stewart, a one act adaptation of Dr Heideggers Experiment, cast members Ralph Petersen Wesley Lamprey Richard Upham William Liergiebel Alison Durcar and Margaret Murphy, plus musical numbers by Fred Stewart Florence Reinhart and Doris Higgins with Harold Burton stage manager and Edward Davenport assistant.
Four New England women including two from Boston were chosen as delegates to the World Congress of International Suffrage to be held in Geneva Switzerland June 6 to 12. The United States will send 24 delegates to this post war congress. Mrs. Wirt Dexter and Mrs. J G Munro are the Boston delegates and alternates. Other New England representatives are J Marion Horton of Windsor Vermont and Miss Frances Healey of Hampton Falls New Hampshire. The party sails from New York May 19.
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