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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1918
Page
5
The president extols women for their discipline and self sacrifice in service to the nation. He calls for equality in political rights and credits women with driving economic aid to suffering peoples and armies abroad, expressing gratitude for their ongoing contributions.
The speaker proclaims complete victory and urges a peaceful, just world order. Focus shifts to international justice, rebuilding Europe and Asia, and the Republic of Colombia treaty ratification. Domestically, economic readjustment follows a self-reliant, flexible populace resisting heavy government control.
After the armistice, war control agencies were dismantled but some restraints on food and shipping persist. The War Industries Board and related bodies provided centralized knowledge of supply, labor, and industry, now offered to business to aid a return to normalcy.
The nation moves quickly to a peaceful footing after the fighting ends. Private initiative will not provide immediate jobs for all returning soldiers, so public works should resume promptly to create unskilled labor opportunities and develop unusual lands and natural resources.
Senator Sinnott urges Congress to grant a wartime agency power to establish export and supply priorities for Belgium and northern France. He argues that postwar reconstruction requires more than money, noting razed factories, lost machinery, displaced workers, and threatened markets. He warns against leaving these regions to cutthroat competition and urges action to avert long hardship.
A call for immediate tax readjustment to support industrial readjustment after war. outlines reducing 1919 1920 obligations to provide a sound foundation, with taxes on war profits from 1918 1919 and war contracts. warns against delaying clear, definite plans to prevent uncertainty and aid business revival.
The secretary of the interior advocates expanded reclamation plans to redeem about 300 million acres for cultivation by cooperative states. He cites 15 to 20 million arid western acres with available water, 230 million acres of cut forests not yet plowed, and 80 million acres of swamp or overly wet land. Congress could mobilize soldiers for projects and enlarge appropriations to spur rural and agricultural growth nationwide.
An old liquid claim promotes S S S as a pure vegetable blood purifier and tonic for skin diseases. It asserts eruptions stem from impure blood and vows relief and full health, urging readers to obtain SSS from their druggist and seek expert advice if needed.
The secretary of the navy has submitted to committees the authorization for the next three years of building plans. The plans align with the policy Congress established, not wartime exceptions, and call for uninterrupted pursuit of this policy. It would be unwise to shift programs for an undetermined future world policy.
The speaker admits lack of ready guidance on future railroad policy after wartime government control. He stresses immediate study without bias to decide what is best for public and owners, noting wartime needs proved railways unequal to mounting tasks. He warns against leaving the issue unresolved and anticipates relinquishing control unless legislative solution appears.
The speaker argues for reform of transportation policy away from old private control toward a mix of private and public regulation or even full government control. He urges rapid study, release of railroads from current controls, and options to unify administration, while noting suspended censorship of cables between Paris, Washington, and London to enable freer communications.
The speaker states a paramount duty to join allied representatives in Paris to discuss the peace treaty. He cites the need to interpret and apply the peace terms, ensures his counsels aid in settlements for common benefit, and honors the sacrifices of armed forces who fought for the nation’s ideals.
Paris dispatches report the German Reichstag will be convoked soon, signaling possible action on national aims as Europe watches how Germany translates ideals into policy. The Zurich-based L Information summarizes south German newspapers conveying the plans ahead of parliamentary session.
London dispatch reports King Nicholas of Montenegro has been deposed by the Akupahtina Montenegrin national assembly, according to a Prague source. The message notes uncertainty and a sense of unreliability in the claim.
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