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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1919
Page
4
A bill in Congress proposes a new year structure with 13 months of four weeks each starting on Monday. New Year Day and Correction Day are excluded from weeks. Months named January February Liberty March Etc. year totals 364 days.
Colonel Arthur Woods requests Congress support for a 4.6 million dollar appropriation in the sundry civil bill to keep the United States Employment Service operating beyond July 1 1919. He warns that shutting it down would harm returning soldiers and sailors seeking civilian work, noting the service as the country’s primary placement mechanism.
The Supreme Court held that income earned by alien non-residents from stocks bonds and mortgages secured on U S property and transmitted by a U S agent is taxable in the United States.
Major General Clarence R. Edwards commander of the 26th Division and Col Hume with Adjutant General George McL Presson led a guest party in Oxford County to celebrate soldiers returning from overseas. The event at the county fair grounds featured a parade in khaki, speeches, a banquet and sports before Edwards proceeds to Bethel and Stamford.
Former Governor Eugene N. Foss stated he would fight for government ownership of railroads. He argued that private control by bankers and brokers from State Street and Wall Street prevents a fair deal and demands periodic reorganizations.
At a City Club luncheon guest list including Nathan L. Amster and ex governor Foss discussed a single great railroad system run by a government board with private interests. Foss urged government ownership as the only solution and warned against private ownership with public regulation. Roger Babson favored keeping railroads scrambled, opposing government ownership after years in Washington.
The Equal Month Calendar Association proposes a perpetual calendar with each month lasting four weeks from Monday to Sunday and all holidays falling on the same weekday. A 365 day year adds a New Year’s Day unattached to any week and a Leap Day called Correction between dates, aiming for Congress action and a 1922 start. Joseph A. Barnes leads the campaign from Minneapolis with a $1 annual or $10 life membership.
Atlantic City New Jersey June 9 recommendations to the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association call for physicians to be prohibited from posing as specialists until they complete a postgraduate course of at least three years in the specific medical branch they plan to practice. The convention opens tomorrow night with President elect Alexander Lambert of Chicago delivering the address. A speaker noted that 30,000 physicians volunteered for active service, 20,000 served in camps, and 60,000 aided the government in various capacities. Hubert Work urged physical reconstruction schools, arguing health is more vital than intellect. The report from the council on medical education said graduate nurses should be allowed to treat disorders, as they are trained by physicians in hospitals, contrasting with followers of various pseudo medical cults.
Springfield June 9 The striking weavers and loom fixers of the Hodges Fibre Carpet Company rejected a 15 percent wage increase with a 54 to 18 hour workweek, while demanding 20 percent. Workers walked out last Thursday after failed talks, halting the plant and unemployment affecting several hundred.
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