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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1919
Page
3
Washington explores teacher retention in rural districts by offering rent free or low cost cottages beside schools to improve home life. The piece advocates attractive housing as essential to keep teachers, notes that birds provide pest control benefits, and mocks the idea of eradicating birds urging humane treatment.
Women at Kansas Agricultural College join the field of tractored farming. Four women graduate from the farm motors program this year, with 20 to 30 more in a summer course. Professors say women perform as well as men, tackling grease and dirt with systematic, energetic analysis to solve farm labor shortages.
Ornithologists, sportsmen, and agricultural experts have united in a broad campaign to stop senseless slaughter of song and game birds. They argue preservation serves utilitarian aims and have achieved results by appealing to practical interests rather than sentiment.
Dr. E F Bishop clinical professor in New York Polyclinic argues narcotic addicts outnumber consumptives and education is key. He says treating addiction as a disease shifts focus from punishment to humane, competent care and outlines a path for prevention and treatment. He notes most addicts are medical cases, not inherently hopeless, with some needing confinement while most require medical management to end physical dependence.
The remark contemplates the difficulty in arranging the world suggesting that adding a larger bloc would prolong turmoil. It implies that expanding to a “big forty” would delay resolution by about a century, noting the current troubles of the group termed the “big four.”
A fragment notes hope that postponing the peace treaty until the next winter would allow the terms to be settled more comfortably and sensibly. The comment reflects cautious optimism amid ongoing negotiations and uncertainty about a timely agreement.
A fragmented line notes that the United States Senate is beginning to act like a peace conference, signaling diplomatic posture. The remark contrasts legislative sessions with talks aimed at resolving conflict.
San Francisco reports late today that representatives and strike leaders clashed over wage demands. Delegates quoted D P Fullerton suggesting the company cannot meet demands in full, prompting mixed views on settlement prospects for tomorrow. Conference ends without understanding as union warns of wider action in Oregon, Washington, and California. Woodland and Lodi electricians join the strike while Oakland operators begin strike benefits of 50 dollars to needy girls. No change in commercial telegraphers’ strike.
The American peace delegation accepted the resignation of Dr. S. B. Morrison, member of the Russian experts section and the U S representative on the Baltic Commission. Morrison quit over disapproval of notes exchanges with Admiral Kolchak, arguing Russia cannot be restored with Allied cooperation with the Omsk government.
New York June 19. Pamphlets by Nikolai Lenine and Leon Trotzky urged American workers to rise up and take things in their own hands. The documents were part of a mass of papers seized at the Russian Soviet bureau and entered as evidence at a legislative committee hearing on Bolshevism in the state. Prominent American radicals’ names appear in the correspondence.
Associated Press reports in Kentucky on a Wednesday in June the oath of fealty to Greece is referenced with incomplete wording. The fragment mentions a potential ceremonial pledge and attribution to a news agency note. The text is garbled but signals a formal oath or allegiance context.
The Associated Press reports New York June 19 that rates on the Pacific cable from San Francisco to the Philippines will be reduced. The move aims to lower telegraphic costs for messages between the United States and the Far East.
Clarence H. Mackay, president of the Postal Telegraph Commercial Cable system, announced effective September 1 rate reductions. The San Francisco to Manila rate falls from one dollar per word to eighty cents, to China from 1.10 to 88 cents, and to Japan from 1.21 to 80 cents.
In the ruins of the Louvain library, destroyed by Germans in 1914, President Wilson was conferred the degree of doctor of laws by the University of Louvain.
Representatives Walsh and Dunne of the American Irish society sent a letter to Premier Lloyd George asking for the immediate release of Countess Markievicz described as minister of labor in the Irish republican cabinet. They say her arrest was a reprisal for giving information about brutalities against Irish women.
Brest June 19 The U S 9 Harrsburg sailed this morning with 2000 casuals and 500 sick American soldiers. This brings the total number of troops and officers leaving Brest for the United States since the armistice up to 675 000.
New York June 19 full success in all its objectives has crowned Boy Scout week June 6. No.14 according to statements issued today by William G. Meadai the national citizens James E. West chief scout executive and Colin N. Livingston president of the scout movement.
Six De Haviland planes departed Hington field for the Mexican border under their own power. Six more aircraft will follow, and about 1500 enlisted personnel are to be moved by rail to El Paso for border duties.
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