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Especial Correspondence
With three rousing cheers the Post
masters Association OF New England
placed the stamp OF approval on sa!e
and sane protest against the govern
ments loss OF money on second class
matter and the rural free delivery,
made by Postmaster William X. Will
cox OF New York, before the associa-
tion's quarterly meeting in this city
the other day. Mr.. Wilcox said that IL
newspapers and magazines are to be
carried at a loss, the resulting deficits
should be charged 10 educational pur-
poses, instead OF to the postoffice de-
partment.
Governor Guild has issued an appeal
10 the citizens of the State asking aid
for the starving natives OF Northern
Japan, who, he said, "are literally
tearing up the grasses in the fields for
food" The Governor referred 10 the
fact that the President has already
made national appeal for the famine
victims whose crops have failed to-
tally. DR.. Edward II. Bradford presi-
dent and Gardner NJ. Lane, secretary,
OF the Red Cross society, As State St,
are custodians for the fund,
Acting Chief John A. Mullen has
been appointed by Commissioner
VI sor % a.,
ment to succeed the late Chief Chcs-
we'll; District Chief John Grady Of the
7th battalion. with headquarters in the
house Of engine 22 on Warren avenue,
was made assistant chief. Chief Mul-
len was the recipient OF most enthu-
siastic greeting in South Boston on
the way to his home on the day of his
appointment He was obliged to hold
impromptu receptions all along Broad
way. Business men, clergymcn, per
sonal friends and even the school chill
dren offered their congratulations
and when the chief reached his home
and was greeted by his family he could
not keep back the tears that rose to
his eyes. On returning TO his private
Office he found numerous messages
OF congratulation and many callers.
March has made good-it arrived
like a lion. A high blustry wind and
q temperature of nine degrees above
zero was noted at exactly midnight.
Bleary eyes, chattering teeth and frost
tinged fingers and ears were in vogue
on the first day of the month. Gales
of wind kept the city envelOpcd in
clouds Of dust and played horse with
mems hats All the way from Is above
zero TO 10 degrees the thermometer
fluctuated throughout the day. II
read II above i'm Newspaper row when
morning dawned and sank steadily but
slowly as the day wore on. Storms
ragged all day and night along the At
lantic coast, hut their fury was centred
on New England ley blasts have been
blowing off Cape Cod at the rate Of
from 60 to 20 miles an hour. but am
pie warning was given all coasting
craft, SO that few mishaps have been
reported in this immediate vicinity.
Consideration would reign supreme
among Bostonians if they only realized
that one-third Of all the people who
die in middle or youthful life, that is
between the ages Of 10 and 80 years,
die fighting the terrible disease Of tu-
berculosis, yet ii is So" declared DR..
Edward o. Otis, president of the Bos-
ton Association for the Relief and Con
troll of tuberculosis. at the opening of
the State Board OF Health tuberculosis
exhibit in the South End the other
evening. "Promiscuous splitting on
sidewalks, in cars. theatres and halls
is the principal ally of tuberculosis" ."
he continued. THE Boston Dispen-
sAry, corner of Ash and Bennett streets
has been asked by our society To estab-
lish an evening clinic in their institu-
tion SO that working people may be
examined without losing their work.
Mayor Fitzgerald heartily favors the
project, and il would he great bull
wark against disease
u h' aHdl'HlNl JbHduH MtSl-DtllcT
known as Herr" Most-delivered a
lecture on the revolution in Russian
before an audience Of about 500 people
in Paine Memorial hall recently. Per-
haps quarter of those present were
women. Most traced the revolution
airy movement in Russia from its be-
ginning in 1925. under Tcherchewsky.
who advocated the education of women
and was imprisoned for 80 years,
through the reign of Nicholas |. who
freed the serfs; Alexander IL, who was
assassinated; Alexander III. who died
of fear and under the present Car
Nicholas III, laying special stress on
the events of the past year rs the out
come OF q : agitation and organization
Of the past so years. He predicted
that when the winter was over in Rus
sia the revolution would he renewed
and continued unti1 pzo ric,, oe oh,I