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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1915
Page
14
Professor FE. C. Smore of Harvard told Massachusetts school superintendents that equality in education is lacking and that what is needed are more efforts, at the City Club yesterday during a School Superintendents' Association meeting.
State and local education leaders debated the idea of a State school fund to ensure equal opportunity in education. Maine Superintendent Payson Smith described payment methods, noting Maine’s use of the state treasury for school bills. The group authorized its legislative committee to back House Bill No. 670 to establish the fund and distribute support fairly. President William Fisher Sims presided. Deputy Commissioner William Orr attended the luncheon and head table.
At the request of Washington School Associates Mayor Curley authorized placing the cap stone of the old Washington School on the Roxbury Municipal Court building second floor. The stone, inscribed Washington School 1840, requires a $300 expenditure.
London reports publish correspondence between President Poincare and King George just before the war. Poincare states war would be inevitable if Germany believed Britain would not intervene, while peace might hold if Germany could be assured Britain would intervene.
In a diplomatic exchange President Poincare asserts that Britain France and Russia must present a united front to preserve peace while King George replies that he is pressing with Russia and Germany to delay military actions. Both leaders pledge continuous efforts for calm discussion and a peaceful settlement.
Charles S. Mellen former president of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad was further examined today by assistant United States Attorney General Frank M Swacker before the federal grand jury probing the rail line affairs. The secret inquiry will continue next week with Mellen still under examination.
The Massachusetts Civic League committee voted to support the Governor’s call for state management of county prisons. It argues for separating sound from mentally defective, inebriates from others, and youth and first offenders from hardened criminals, a separations not possible under the county system, implying state control or ongoing harmful conditions.
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