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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1919
Page
7
A page of opinion urges securing suitable land for an aviation landing field and backing the Build Now movement to permit at least 200 new dwellings next year. It calls for a modern high school, an owl car service for morning trains, a hard road to Taylor, Missouri, river terminal improvements, a new barge line, and expansion to include nearby areas before the next census.
The essay argues for restraint in patriotic fervor and urges viewing art beyond nationalistic bans. It cites reactions to German music during and after World War I, noting English and French openness to German works and calling for art to unite rather than divide humanity. It highlights politicians and profiteers as drivers of war rather than creators.
An Illinois proposal urges mobilizing volunteer woodmen to harvest bottomland timber near Quincy for immediate fuel needs. It argues labor, not capital, will drive success and warns of coal shortages. A Kansas minister left pulpit to mine, illustrating widespread fuel crisis concerns.
Diagnostic education calls for teaching tailored to each child’s abilities and limits. It uses assessment to place students in suitable programs, helping emotional and moral development and preventing failure from a one size fits all system.
The New York Tribune argues President Wilson misled European leaders by assuming moral authority beyond his official status. It states Europe believed he spoke for the United States and blames him for the treaty ratification difficulties. The piece urges him to rectify his blunders to save the treaty and protect US interests.
In Brooklyn Finns form cooperative societies to cut rent costs. Six families pool resources to buy land, build a sixteen unit apartment house, and move in paying a shared fund and mortgage. Success prompts a second project and plans for a third, proving union lowers living expenses.
A reader submission from Fred Haskin's Daily Quiz outlines questions and provided answers on topics from gorillas in captivity to the Diamond Jubilee, the Kow Tow salutation to the Emperor of China, the tread mill in British prisons, the 1912 Olympic champions, Quo Vadis author, and Victoria's Jubilee. It notes the Bureau offers answers by mail with a two-cent stamp and warns it cannot give legal medical or financial advice.
A digest of December 6 anniversaries includes Henry Jenkins dying at 169 in 1670, Marie d Este fleeing with her child in 1688, Rhode Island captured in 1776, La Perouse discovering Navigator's Island in 1877, Turin handed to France in 1798, Napoleon era events, 1812 ship actions, Alfonso I death in 1139, Hartford taken in 1261, Pope Clement VI’s death in 1352, Pope Clement VII escape in 1527, Lincoln’s 1864 message, and a Q&A on small republics San Marino and Andorra with population figures.
In Thornton W. Burgess tale The Great Fight Lightfoot the Deer faces a mysterious challenger down by Paddy the Beaver’s pond. The rival’s antlers clash with light and fury as animals gather and watch a brutal, exhausting battle.
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