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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1920
Page
12
The Boston school budget for the year Feb 1 1919 to Jan 31 1921 totals 4 731 055 86. Salaries top the list at 3 362 543 85 for teachers. janitors receive 273 927 08. officers 104 872 90. physicians and nurses 86 990 33. teachers pensions 51 524 02. Building repairs and furnishings cost 260 620 10.
President Wilson received Texas primary returns showing administration policies overwhelmingly sustained. Ex-Senator Bailey, a leader of anti-Wilson forces, was defeated in his home county and precinct, according to dispatches from Washington dated May 3.
Telegrams from across the state reach President Wilson who reviews results with Secretary Tumulty on the White House south piazza. The administration aims to unify delegates behind the League of Nations at the San Francisco convention, likely backing McAdoo despite no official candidacy. Texas results boost McAdoo momentum as Southern states may follow.
General Clarence R. Edwards spoke at a Boston University Law School gathering hosted by the Republican Club in Isaac Rich Hall. He urged using army and navy service as a school of American manhood and praised two agencies: a sound body and mind and the dignity of labor. Lieutenant Governor Channing Cox followed, calling on over 300 students from Tufts Harvard Technology and BU to engage in politics as citizens.
Farm loan bank officials meeting in Washington today said the agricultural industry is increasingly retarded by the system’s inability to make further advances to farmers.
Thousands of farmers were forced to drop plans for extending or expanding crop plantations while a survey of conditions faced by banks was ordered. Commissioner Lobdell of the Farm Loan Board convened a conference to assess the situation.
Conference members urged against another open market bond issue and postponed decisions. Officials expect Congress to empower the treasury to absorb the board’s next bond issue to prevent a summer of loan inactivity. Commissioner Lobdell cited many pitiable cases from halted advances and some foreclosures.
Mayor Peters announced that sales tax proposals will not be enacted this session. The committee on new revenue sources may consider a luxury tax or a general sales tax, but no action will occur during the current legislature.
In Washington on May 8 the Albanian commissioner C A Chekresi denied reports of an Albanian uprising in Epirus and massacres of Greeks.
War Labor Board secretary W Jett Lauck told Boston arbiters that high wages follow rather than drive living costs and that profiteering and raw material control push prices. He cited meat packers and shoe costs to show labor gains lag profits, urging lower prices on staples like sugar.
H Ware Barnum of Boston Elevated pressed Mr Lauck for an audited rate, claiming higher shoe profits reflect a proper fare. Lauck replied any fare rise depends on capitalization and efficient operation, arguing workers should not be underpaid to prop up finances.
Sewell Ford recounts a playful feature where readers shared wishes aloud to Shorty, who acts as a fairy godmother guiding small fantasies into laughter and charm in a lighthearted magazine piece.
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