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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1922
Page
4
President Harding, in a live address to Congress, places enforcement of transport, prohibition and farm credits at the top of national problems. He rebukes claims that the United States has been aloof from world affairs and notes America’s aid in international relations, especially the arms conference.
President Harding outlines a plan to convene governors and federal authorities to forge unified national and state transport policies. He proposes railroad mergers and better interchange of freight cars, and favors empowering or reforming the Railroad Labor Board under the Interstate Commerce Commission to curb strikes and stabilize rates. Leaders push farm credit legislation this session and seek lower freight costs.
The president urges a new labor division with ICC powers to enforce decisions against carriers and workers to prevent strikes that disrupted transport and fuel supply. He proposes a labor tribunal, stricter prohibition enforcement, governors’ conference, expanded farm credit, central freight car pooling, railroad mergers, child labor ban, tax-exempt securities limits, immigrant registration, irrigation expansion, forest conservation, and aligning production costs with consumer prices.
The President outlines plans for stronger labor dispute resolution, a labor division in the Interstate Commerce Commission, and enforcement measures. He supports expanding farm credit, addressing livestock and land loans, and urges prompt action on production credits while warning about the dangers of enforcement laxity. He reiterates firm stance on constitutional prohibition and calls for commissions to align duties between states and federal authorities. He proposes alien registration, child employment amendments, and tax exempt securities reform, stressing tax revenue and efficient public projects.
Four Law School students occupied a two and a half story wooden house at 6 Story street when a noon fire trapped them. Henry Kaltenbach a Princeton graduate and first year student suffered severe burns to the face head and arms and glass cuts while Walter Cobb Dudley Wallace and John Northrup escaped with minor injuries. Fire origin unknown. seven to eight students were inside and four fled before flames reached them.
The passage notes national concern over coal costs awaiting a commission report. It argues the gap between production costs and consumer prices fuels unrest in agriculture and fuels public protest against the high cost of living.
In Northfield Vermont a Norwich University Political Science Club discussion uncovered cadets who admit Klan membership. Each member reportedly carries a ten dollar Klan receipt purchased to promote the organization’s work as canvassers recruited last spring across Vermont.
The State Department of Education released figures showing an increase of 26 719 students from the prior term. Last year high school enrollment reached 107 406, up from 92 357 in 1920 21, while elementary enrollment stood at 658 168.
Mrs. Alice C Kennedy Strickland formerly of Randolph and resident of Boston died at her daughter Mrs. Joseph D. Hurley’s home 49 Prince Street Jamaica Plain. Funeral Monday at 8 from the home and a solemn high mass at 9:30 at St. Mary’s Randolph. She was born in Randolph and widow of T Jeff Strickland shoe manufacturer. Survived by daughter Mrs. Hurley wife of the Post plant superintendent.
A 125 car auto parade toured the city last night in support of James T Purcell candidate for City Council. The procession formed at Post Office square at 7:30 pm and moved through every ward with Purcell and family aboard, followed by supporters and a 50 piece band providing continuous music.
In Washington the House, led by prohibition allies, struck down amendments weakening Volstead enforcement in the Treasury supply bill. Representative Hill of Maryland faced defeat for curbing prohibition unit spending as debate praised and criticized enforcement methods. The era’s stance was reinforced by President Harding’s address and a Civil Service reform proposal from Tinkham. The piece also notes a Flapper Number in a Boston magazine and weather-related bread-consumption conjecture.
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