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PROTECTION OF MATERNITY. 
The Chairman. And how much of a force do you have in your 
office ? 
Mr. Burnstead. We have three men, two men in the office and 
one man as the occasion requires, and any stenographer as occasion 
requires. Our president is Rev. Dayton W. Lyman, the editor for 
many years of the Fall River Daily News. We have in our organ 
ization men whom I will not name, for they stand high in their com 
munity, and it has never been our purpose to give notoriety to the 
names of the men we represent, because from time to time it is the 
duty of the members to favor or to oppose legislation, and we do not 
wish to make it at any time unpleasant for any of our members. 
Then, in addition you have had a telegram from the Civic Federation 
in Chicago, another one of which I have here, and I will show you 
their letterhead, which will help to show the extent and the standing 
of that Civic Federation of Chicago, and the letter itself contains 
interesting matter upon this bill from them. 
The Chairman. What is the Civic Federation of Chicago? Is 
that a branch 
Mr. Burnstead. No; it is a local organization that has been fight 
ing measures that would tend to increase the burden of the taxpayers. 
The Chairman. Many of these have very large names, and we like 
to find out about them. Does that cover the civic associations of 
Chicago, or is it a letterhead organization? We can not find out 
whether some of these societies are real bona fide societies or whether 
they are letterhead societies. Do you know anything about the 
Civic Federation of Chicago? 
Mr. Burnstead. I could not tell you as to that. 
The Chairman. Did they send you a copy of the telegram that 
they sent to the committee ? 
Mr. Burnstead. Yes, sir. 
The Chairman. How did they happen to do that ? Are they con 
nected with you in any way ? 
Mr. Burnstead. Well, we have been working together. 
The Chairman. Did you wire them about the bill ? 
Mr. Burnstead. I notified them of the hearing by telegram, and 
they wired me as to the name of the committee, and 1 had a telegram 
sent back to them with the chairman of the committee’s name. 
Then I have filed with the committee, for what it may be worth, the 
editorial already referred to by the preceding speaker in the Journal 
of the American Medical Association, the highest medical authority 
in the United States. I have in my pocket a letter which was re 
ceived at the beginning of 1920 upon the subject of obstetrical care 
by the Government, from the Boston Obstetrical Society. The 
president, Dr. Franklin 8. Newell—this is from the letter— 
At the recent meeting of the Obstetrical Society of Boston, the president, Dr. 
Franklin 8. Newell, authorized me to forward you the following extract from our 
minutes. January 27, 1920, the following resolution was passed by a majority vote 
of the society: “That the Obstetrical Society of Boston is opposed to the proposed 
legislation in regard to maternity benefits, as not calculated to improve obstetrical 
practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.” 
James Lincoln Huntingdon, 
Secretary.