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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1918
Page
9
A discussion in Quincy centers on how to honor returning soldiers and sailors with a memorial. Readers consider form, site, usability, and enduring design to satisfy those who served, while avoiding shoddy architecture and ensuring future generations approve. The paper invites public input and stresses unity to avoid delays.
Recurrence of the influenza outbreak prompts officials to close schools in several towns and urges strict personal hygiene. Debates over regulation persist as doctors warn many deaths could be prevented with vigilance.
Happy Jack Squirrel worries over Bob White’s hunger and winter survival. He realizes Bob has wings and could raid Farmer Brown’s hen yard like Bully the Sparrow. He finds Bob White and family cold and desperate, sparking a plan to help them survive the winter.
The speaker argues that payment for work defines equality and that business honesty and service can end wars. They contend nations condemning the dollar rely on class privileges, and democracy requires a global business organization with the motto to every man his penny.
The Daily Telegraph naval critic lauds American leadership and rapid growth of the U S Navy during the war. He notes training for landsmen, a tenfold personnel expansion from 176 ships to about 1800, and praises American seamen for magnificent work.
As influenza cases rise nationwide Indiana merchants differ in stance Some Indianapolis retailers comply with health board orders to adjust hours and enforce masks praising cooperation while other cities consider boycotting newspapers to avoid disease coverage The piece highlights varied merchant responses to public health efforts.
In Indiana some merchants ignore public concerns and focus on private gain. The speaker notes efforts in Indianapolis to weed out such retailers and urges the rest of the state to follow suit for better civic life.
New York December 13 William Agnew Paton author art student and former newspaper publisher died at a hotel in his 70th year His career spanned writing study and publishing with ties to the city press tradition.
Maurice Francia Eagan, ex minister to Denmark, argued in New York that Germany has not been crushed and will seek to start over. He warned against expecting a submissive Germany and predicted a renewed effort led by Liebknecht to form a strong, almost autocratic state.
America offers protection against rash marriages for returning soldiers. By order of the provost marshal general questionnaires are sent to marriage license bureaus at debarkation points and must be answered by soldiers and their prospective brides.
In Berlin the Prussian Guard entered the city to a large welcoming crowd. Outside Berlin the guard was halted by independent socialists who urged disarmament. A paper commented the guard had placed itself at the service of the counter revolution.
The Japanese delegation to the Versailles peace conference will leave tomorrow for San Francisco. Admiral Austin M. Knight, commander of the US naval force in Asiatic waters, will also be a passenger, having been relieved by Rear Admiral William L. Rodgers.
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