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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1920
Page
7
The Che Ouiury Whig Page of Opinion and Comment urges a public aviation landing field suitable plot and backs a Build Now movement to enable at least 200 dwellings this year. Plans include a new high school, an owl car service for early trains, a hard road to Taylor, Missouri, and modern river terminals to attract a barge line.
A district superintendent reports the New Jersey Methodist conference voted to remove the reference to dancing card playing theater and similar amusements from the Book of Discipline They will replace the clause with a demand for a thoughtful conscience in amusements and avoidance of acts that cannot be used in the name of the Lord Jesus This places responsibility on individuals over enforcing a lenient law The reform is praised as a practical solution to a long standing issue
The article argues that railroad presidents will be paid from boards' choice, often $50,000 or more, with some doubling that. It cites Philadelphia Rapid Transit President Mitten, hired at $100,000 annually, noting dividends, rising wages, and increased service under his tenure. It contrasts this with figureheads being costly luxuries.
Jealousies between rival veteran groups sparked tense moments at the Ways and Means Committee hearings last week. Most witnesses favor a cash payout of 30 to 50 dollars per month of service, with a 180 dollar minimum, while others seek land allotments or home stimulus. Some propose revenue increases near 2 billion dollars to fund any scheme, though the soundness remains untested.
The essay sits in a timeworn Rome setting where Bray of the ass symbolizes the world’s burden bearers. Crane links the braying of donkeys to human misery from ancient toil to modern labor, citing biblical and classical imagery to argue for justice and mercy for the oppressed.
The article argues courage stems from sentiments beyond the self-preserving hunger and fear instincts. It cites self-respect sympathy racial pride love of justice and country as forces that reinforce courage. Courage is presented as learned and improvable through cultivation with planned methods to nurture it in crisis.
Editorial comments on Maryland's 54 to 44 vote to dispatch seven delegates to West Virginia to influence that state's legislature against a woman suffrage constitutional amendment. Calls it a novel if possibly inappropriate form of inter-state lobbying and questions its propriety and effectiveness.
Mrs. Robert Bacon funds 24 beds in free wards at a Paris hospital, honoring her husband, former secretary of state and ambassador. The piece praises American individual initiative, recalling a billion Francs charity after a Paris bazaar fire and notes European wonder at private giving versus government action.
In Key West, fishermen and diverse crews cluster at the turtle market on the old wharf. Giant green, loggerhead, and hawksbill turtles, captured far at sea, endure crowded pens, with flesh, soap, and cannery uses. The piece details shell value, eggs, hatchlings, and the turtles’ vivid fate.
This reader quiz feature from The White Information Bureau presents questions and official answers on varied topics. It covers military education biographies mail forwarding Valentine sentiments Swiss government and more, with concise responses from designated officials.
A fragment from a children's tale follows Grandfather Frog as Merry Little Breezes seek a plant and encounter a North Woods stranger stripping bark with long teeth and spears. The Breezes learn not all things that prick are claws or hair as they observe the stranger’s work. The scene transitions to the next story.
An OCR style page presents a quiz on elections and law. Questions cover electoral system details, party conventions scheduled for June in Chicago and San Francisco, the first husband of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson as a jeweler named Norman Galt, and copyright terms of twenty eight years with renewal. It also recalls Gretna Green in Scotland and a Kentucky Gretna Green, plus patent searches at the United States Patent Office.
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