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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1919
Page
9
The page urges concrete civic projects including a new high school, an owl car service to meet trains, a hard road to Taylor Missouri, street paving this year, river terminals planning, a new barge line, and expansion of Quincy's outlying territory before the census. It then argues historians calm in facing social and political unrest through history and the cycles of progress.
Dr Frank Crane argues labor is a human problem not a business one and calls for turning work into craftsmanship. He warns against egotism among leaders, urges education to raise joy in work, and notes public opinion cycles from wartime unity to postwar contention while seeing value in seeing labor as a lifelong craft.
In a muddy Nebraska cornfield a farmer helped Sergt. W. H. Kline install a new engine on Lieut. Bo W. Maynard’s plane while the pilot slept. Kline directed the repair with the farmer handling tools and hoisting the engine with a tree limb. The pair, alongside Maynard, then flew toward dawn, hailed as heroes for restoring the Liberty aircraft.
A 1919 essay argues that lack of earnest desire to advance blocks progress. It contrasts obsessive drive for alcohol with idle craving for amusement and ease. true success requires a genuine will to achieve and hard work, while idlers are social parasites to be sanctioned.
An editorial praises the spread of automobiles across the business district, noting the shift from horse drawn carriages to gas cars and modern garages. It cites the Vermont street plant upgrade and growing demand for city stations as evidence of progress and dealer responsiveness. The piece argues city planners owe gratitude to the auto industry for sanitary, efficient transport.
The Philadelphia Bulletin notes that Senator Hitchcock did not intend to threaten the Senate with extreme use of war powers if the treaty is not ratified. It argues that even a state of war is not an absolute monarchy and questions the implied threat.
In New York a major printing trade standoff shuts most plants as thousands of workers walk out or threaten to, while publishers fear November issues. The conflict, labeled a strike by employers and rock-out by workers, involves the International Typographical Union, wage demands, 44-hour week goals, and complex splits within the Big Six. The scene includes mass meetings, firings, new unions, and a society-wide disruption of magazines and newspapers.
A reader offers questions to Fred Haskin's Daily Quiz via The Whig Information Bureau in Washington. Sample Qs cover cinema meaning and war costs. The Treasury states U.S. war period spend about 32.5 billion with normal costs around 2.5 billion. net government war cost near 21 billion. First Division saw the most fighting in France.
In a children story Danny Meadow Mouse flees a startled Buster Bear by darting under his paw and slipping behind a tree. The tiny mouse is glad to be small as he avoids capture and contemplates the advantage of being little. Next story teases a queer game of hide and seek.
On October 21 events span centuries from witch trials to naval battles. Notable items include Margery Jourdemaim burned for love potions, Edmund Waller’s death, William Penn’s governance changes, James Hillhouse’s birth and Elm City legacy, the 1789 Continental Congress adjournment, Trafalgar's battle and Nelson's death, Samuel Smith authoring My Country, tis of Thee, Mrs. George Gilbert’s acting era, and Edison’s first incandescent light in 1879.
The report notes heavy Allied losses with 4,204 killed and 10,141 wounded. It records 6,469 Germans captured and claims the Second Division took 12,026 German troops with 4,419 killed and 20,627 worst. The 77th National Army Division, largely New York troops, is credited with the greatest advance.
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