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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1920
Page
7
The Quincy Whig urges completing a public aviation landing field and supports the Build Now movement to allow at least 200 dwellings this year. It calls for a new high school, an early-morning owl car service, a hard road to Taylor, Missouri, river terminals, a new barge line, and a riverbank public bathing beach.
The Whig editorial defends landlords in Quincy while condemning rent hikes as excessive and notes Detroit and Chicago comparisons. It argues landlords seek high returns on replacement value, stresses new housing scarcity, and calls for constructive study of Quincy’s housing problem to avoid perpetual unaffordable rents for renters and unprofitable yet needed investment.
The overalls movement has surged in Quincy and across the nation but is not expected to rapidly lower living costs. Clothing dealers anticipate a short lived fad that could boost spring sales, while no immediate impact on prices for food rent or shoes is foreseen. The spread signals a shift in attitude toward rising costs, even as its practical effects remain limited.
Crane reflects on moving day revealing memories and concealed old crimes. He compares moving to judgment as possessions reveal themselves, warning how clutter binds people to homes and transforms lives into fixed, rooted existences.
Industrial psychiatry would aid employers and workers by providing mental and nervous disorder expertise. An industrial psychiatrist could reduce accidents, improve efficiency, and help manage workers with inborn or acquired quirks, boosting earning power and welfare.
The piece argues that people are taking action themselves, urging production speed and consumption limits. It warns against legislative price controls and favors consumer-led relief via refusals to buy at high prices, hoping the overalls movement signals a broader shift with resolve to persevere and achieve results.
Harvey's Weekly argues the American Legion should repudiatesordid demands by profiteers In contrast it urges government support for wounded veterans to become self supporting productive members of the industrial commonwealth not charity but integration into the economy
The piece laments rising overalls costs as the season demands them for work in gardens and garages. It notes the south’s adoption of overalls and predicts prices will climb further, affecting practical wear.
Washington April 16 A long discussion explains why the government can be sued only with consent and outlines Section 145 of the Judicial Code. It contrasts law with justice in government liability, noting the constraints on compensation for negligence and the role of Courts of Claims versus district courts in such suits.
Reader questions answered by The Whig Information Bureau headed by Frederic J. Haskin. Topics include Mondell’s House role, Bible word count, deer antler renewal, Bowery name origin, government insurance payable to relatives, and standard value of American money. Plus a note on a table stakes poker game with unlimited betting.
Grandfather Frog, known as the Oracle of the Smiling Pool, is asked by Jerry Muskrat and Little Joe Otter to help stop Fur Hunter's Son from setting traps near the Laughing Brook. He agrees to reveal his plan at sunrise after a long contemplation atop Jerry Muskrat's back, gathering a crowd of forest creatures.
A collection of Q and A items covers topics from naturalization numbers to veto power, Canada’s WWI troops, and the plumed knight nickname. Questions discuss how many people naturalize annually, whether governments are notified of subjects gaining citizenship, North Carolina’s governor veto status, Canada’s wartime role, James Blaine’s nickname, and states with large towns over ten thousand.
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