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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1919
Page
2
President Woodrow Wilson returns from the Peace Conference to a nation that appears to have fared well in his absence. Supporters say his trip fostered understanding with other nations and momentum for a League of Nations, urging Congress to back the peace proposals.
The U.S. Bureau of Education urges agriculture to be a central, year round subject in high school curricula. It recommends 12 month instructors focusing on kitchen gardens, animals, crops, and market gardening, arguing future honor and money lie in agricultural knowledge rather than classical studies.
May his tribe increase. Mayor Ole Hanson stood as the sole figure to end the sympathetic general strike that shut down Seattle. He ordered work to resume, prepared backing, and the strike fizzled, earning him high praise and comparisons to Roosevelt.
News and Comment from Des Moines reports the Iowa Legislature debated and passed a bill replacing "may" with "shall" to require county boards to fund county farm bureaus up to double the $1,000 subscriptions, capped at $5,000 yearly. The session also addressed a plan to annotate state laws, salary questions for state employees, and a cigarette license bill. Recess scheduled after next week.
Sub committees working on the public utilities bill have not reported findings yet but are pressing to craft something fair and practical. A large public hearing occurred Friday. Banking committees reportedly draft a bill regulating private banks and barring new ones from organizing in the state. A radical concurrent resolution from Senator Wilson of Apangs county proposes a statewide referendum in 1920 on abolishing the present General Assembly and replacing it with a single house, commission, or other form. If voters approve a constitutional convention, the question of a new state government would go to that body. Senator Wilson notes no current state has such a plan.
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