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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1920
Page
9
The Quincy Whig urges a publicBuild Now movement to enable at least 200 dwellings this year, plan a new modern high school, establish an owl car service for early trains, construct a hard road to Taylor MO, and secure modern river terminals with a future bargeline.
Specializing city health argues for a future sanitation clearing house to disseminate scientific facts. The piece contends boards of health should prevent disease and guide residents, not merely treat illness, and notes doctors are pressed and specialization rises. It cautions Quincy may resist reforms yet promotes ongoing public health cooperation.
An Associated Press observer notes Bolshevik officers in Russia cheerfully accepting American pork and beans, highlighting Bolshevism's failure. The piece argues hunger and lack of incentive stem from Soviet policy, contrasting with American stability where money and work exchange goods. It mentions Russian distrust of paper money and the Hoover campaign's puzzling “what's his politics?” query.
Dr. Frank Crane argues for intelligent state forest conservation to prevent a wood famine as WWI pulp and lumber shortages loom. He cites Illinois, Ohio and Indiana as prime reforestation sites and urges a national forest policy to sustain paper and timber for industry.
A 1920 commentary on the British Prison Commission report denying a fixed criminal type based on appearance. The commission studied 3000 convicts and found similar physical variation between criminals and non criminals, stressing that judgment should not be based on looks.
Detroit Free Press editorial honors General Townshend, noting his bold Mesopotamia campaign aimed at Basra and oil wells. He faced overwhelming odds, survived near victory at Baghdad, but retreated after fresh Turkish reinforcements and siege conditions at Kut el Amara. His surrender ended a brilliant attempt later neglected by honors, ending his army career.
Washington column surveys alcohol's role in literature and art, weighing how prohibition may reshape inspiration. It cites Whitman, Poe, Swinburne, DeQuincey, London and others, notes the lure of booze in the narrative tradition, and foresees new themes like bootleggers and reformer tension for writers and magazines.
The reader is invited to submit questions to The Whig Information Bureau in Washington D C with a two cent stamp for return postage. The sample Q A notes New Zealand as having the lowest infant mortality at nine deaths per thousand, while the United States figures are not fully shown.
Rats in a farmhouse nest cause a fire by chewing matches. The Red Terror of fire spreads from dry shed boards to the house. The farmer and wife battle the blaze with water until it is extinguished. They blame the pests and vow to rid the place of the rats to save their home.
A compiled Q and A style note shows varied inquiries on infant mortality rates with 16 out of 1000 babies dying, a claim that Russia has the highest rate at 28 per 1000, plus questions on military retirement pay after 30 years, butter versus margarine nutritive value, centenarians in the U.S. and travel rules for Cuba. The responses outline three fourths pay after thirty years, no difference in nutrition, 3,565 centenarians in 1910 with 1580 men and 2,175 women, the illegality of moving private liquor without proper paperwork, passport requirements for Cuba, government coverage of repatriation costs for soldiers, and a grocer’s permissible profit on sugar.
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