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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1920
Page
9
The Davies Whig urges public action on aviation landing and building at least 200 dwellings this year. It proposes a modern high school, an owl car service for morning trains, a hard road to Taylor, a focus on river terminals, and timely work to secure a new barge line.
England shows emerging openness to adjusting the peace treaty terms as economists call for changes. Bonar Law hints Allies would consider a fixed indemnity if Germany offers a lump sum, suggesting a shift in stance since the United States favored a definite reparations amount at Paris. The President says such an explanation is an international secret.
The piece notes indignation in the U S Senate over President-elect Deschanel's plan to outfit his aides in regal livery and gold braids. It contrasts American democratic simplicity with French republican monarchy symbols, suggesting the French return to imperial splendor reflects their government structure and spectacle.
Dr. Frank Crane argues Lincoln’s democracy was born from his environment and era. He cites Arthur E. Morgan on Lincoln growing up in a society without aristocracy, where equality of opportunity and labor defined life, shaping Lincoln into the nation’s foremost democrat.
The article argues temperament often masks bad emotional habits grown from undisciplined feeling. It cites Betts on how anger, fear, jealousy, and even love can be formed as habits. Readers are urged to study character, admit responsibility, and begin forming better emotional patterns.
The passage argues that a premier who is only a nominal head risks unease similar to that caused by an American president, because the public remains wary of centralized power. In France the figurehead is kept handsome and conspicuous to satisfy the love of the picturesque without danger.
Boston Post critiques the London Telegraph urging Britain to stop buying American goods to reduce debt. The piece argues the advice is illogical and impractical, noting Britain would starve without American supply and that importers act for gain. It flags inconsistency in boycotting made in America when America supplied key wartime needs.
London Feb 15 The New Witness editor Chesterton denounces American millions funding prohibition in England while neglecting aid to Central Europe’s starving children. He calls the war era strain on Anglo American ties a pestiferous urge to curb English customs and individual liberties.
Washington reports that teachers nationwide face a crisis from stagnating pay, with rural schools in New York state closed and the teaching force shrinking by 145,000 last year. Ernest L. Thurston urges Congress to raise wages to attract qualified educators, warning of declining student instruction and a hollowing profession without higher pay and respect from taxpayers and state governments.
The column presents Q and A on topics from eugenics to salaries, religion, assassination, and metal rust. It cites the United States Public Health Service on first cousins marriage, notes US teacher salaries rose about $75 in two years, lists Lutherans as the largest world denomination with 63 million members, and mentions three Republican presidents assassinated in Maine history.
Old Mother West Wind gathers the Merry Breezes for a feast at the Big Rock where Fur Hunter's Son lays out carrots apples fish for Muskrat Otter Mink and Coons. The party dances under a silent shadow while the feast vanishes by dawn and Hooty the Owl smiles.
An old question set covers topics from gold's water resistance to Admiral Sims successor in London and sugar cane origins. It notes Vice Admiral Harry S. Knapp's promotion, possible sugar cane origins in India or South Sea Islands, Lincoln Beachey's death at the 1915 Exposition, and college votes on the League of Nations with figures from 113 colleges and 158,078 participants.
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