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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1915
Page
5
Bedford March 7 In church circles the engagement of Eleanor Stearns Wiggin daughter of Horace S Wiggin to Frederick Stanley Howe of Cambridge is announced Howe a Harvard University graduate class of 1908 is assistant secretary and publication agent of the American Unitarian Association
A 3000 strong color protest at Tremont Temple voices demands for fair treatment of Black Americans. Leaders Moorfield Storey J Mott Hallowell Francis Garrison and Martin Madden condemn segregation Jim Crow and anti marriage laws while calling for federal action and printed resolutions to Congress and the President.
Over 25 children aged 4 to 14 performed hymns and oral recitations at a vesper service held by the YWCA on Berkeley Street in the South End. The youths were from Mt. Hope Home for Children directed by C. L. D. Younkins the superintendent.
Indignant crowds protested a proposed constitutional amendment on sectarian appropriations at a mass meeting in the parochial school hall of the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer East Boston. Speakers included Rev. Mer M J Splaine Hon Joseph H ONeil Frederick W Mansfield and Joseph T Brennan addressing Archdiocesan Federation of Catholic Societies members.
Clergy and laity united against attacks on the Catholic church urging Catholics to oppose a proposed bill. Speakers defend Rome’s rights, call for defense of women and clergy, and condemn anti Catholic agitation while praising church influence and court appointments. The gathering endorses Irish German unity and calls for aiding Ireland’s independence and a broader anti England stance.
Redemptorist fathers opened missions at St Patrick's Water town St John's Roxbury and Jesuit and Dominican missions at St Mary's North End and St Leo's Dorchester The women's weeks alternate with men's sessions at each site A women retreat runs at Convent of the Cenacle Brighton Cardinal O'Connell spoke at Holy Cross Cathedral mission closing St Catherine's Guild heard Jeremiah Burke Boston schools supervisor The guild includes prominent Boston professional women and Trinity vice rector Rev James F Mellyn oversees finances
W. M. Cusick, a Harvard undergraduate, started a new society at Harvard called the National Security League, which lines up in favor of growing national defense in the United States.
Clan-Na-Gaels of Massachusetts staged a celebration at Hibernia Hall for the 137th anniversary of Robert Emmet. The program featured "Die Wacht am Rhine" and "Ireland a Nation Once Again" with the German Singing Society of 25 voices. Robert Sturm of the German-Amer ican Alliance spoke on anti-German sentiment and proposed Ireland Germany cooperation. The McPhergus, a Scottish leader, appeared in kilts promoting Scottish nationalism. Irish Volunteers in service uniforms assisted as ushers. Philip Adams, great-grand-nephew of John Quincy Adams, attended.
The German citizen and former first lieutenant of the German army, identified as Horn, argues the Vanceboro bridge destruction was a wartime act and seeks neutral nation rights. U S Marshal Wilson and Deputy Smith will transport him to Bangor with a preliminary hearing likely in Boston, pending testimony from grand jury witnesses.
Mrs. Sarah G. Eaton of Malden, believed second oldest resident, died at her daughter Rosella Cass’s home at 85 Main Street aged 97. Born in North Reading she married Warren Eaton at 14 in Malden Universalist Church. Cass is the couple’s only child.
Edward P. Joyce told the Common Cause Society in Franklin Union Hall that socialism is a chimera. He argued value results from machinery capital and labor and that labor's share cannot be precisely computed.
The discussion covers whether socialism can sustain invention incentives and employment, with critics arguing state control risks unemployment and political manipulation. Proponents claim private property limits resources and question Christian stewardship, while a Japanese report on Christianity is referenced.
A speaker argues society should redistribute the unearned increment to capital and calls conscription in wartime the most extreme confiscation. He notes no church objected to this viewpoint.
The Osservatore Romano credits Pope Benedict with arranging a prisoner exchange between France and Germany via Switzerland. Vatican negotiations, driven by the Pontiff's care for war victims, enabled the agreement now in effect. The paper also honors Bishop Hittmayer of Linz who died of typhus contracted visiting wounded Serbian soldiers.
Pupils of Mme Frances Rivelli along with J MacKnight performed at a Jordan Hall concert last evening. The program featured Mascagni Verdi Mac Knight Dechener Puccini Gounod with MacKnight playing flute obligatos and solos. Miss Soracco sang with beauty and range earning repeated encores and flowers. Miss Kellen showed a clear high soprano. Messrs Tratti and Linzi were warmly applauded.
Superintendent Countie summons all night postal employees to appear at 9 o clock amid a probe of vandalism at the Boston post office last Friday morning. Rumors suggest the act may involve one of 300 or more workers recently laid off under retrenchment policy.
Miss Helen Alexandria Parks of Lexington resigns as superintendent of nurses at Burbank Hospital Fitchburg and prepares to join the Harvard Medical College detachment heading to a Paris area hospital to care for wounded soldiers. She is one of three nurses chosen to accompany the expedition led by Dr Harvey Cush ing, a noted brain surgery authority.
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