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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1938
Page
4
Subscription rates listed for carrier and mail in Athens and surrounding counties with a one year price of 4.90 and other weekly and ten week options. Notices of associations and circulation bodies appear alongside the policy statement and imprint Sig: Chi Pre Atl.
The 1938 Pioneers brought the Northwest Territory story to Athens exposing the Ordinance of 1787 and its impact on civil government. Local residents rallied for a week of pageantry that educated and inspired across Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Minnesota Wisconsin, with Athens praised for hosting the event. Godspeed to the Modern Pioneers as they depart on a wide regional trek.
At a Chicago Oriental Society meeting a scholar described Mang Wang’s 2 000 year old emperorship with social experiments including regulation of key industries resource control price limits on crops and easy loans. The plan faced work relief failures and collapsed after Wang died.
A New York circus parade featured Gargantua the Great concealed in a painted wagon, a stunt praised as a clever tease. The piece notes the long tradition of hiding attractions and adds quips about other oddities and a new NAB czar for the broadcasting industry.
Washington bureau chief Franklyn Waltman Jr is hired as director of publicity for the Republican National Committee to sharpen minority party messaging. The piece recalls Charlie Michelson’s effective Democratic publicity push for Hoover, noting how instant, copy-rich statements influenced news coverage and public opinion.
Washington reports Roosevelt and WPA chief Harry Hopkins agreed on a large scale pump priming strategy. Plans favor merging PWA with WPA to speed funds for public works and housing, with at least 3 billion dollars likely for WPA. Hopkins may steer the program’s direction and housing agenda.
Government experts consider mass production of cheap prefab homes as a path to affordable houses. WPA labor could lay out sites and assemble units, while opposition from unions and suppliers looms. Congress may closely scrutinize pump priming proposals and any shift of public works control to Hopkins.
Southwestern farmers complain they are being sold rehabilitated mules that look young but are really too old to work. But then, they have no kick coming.
Secret service operatives claim dull eyes in portraits reveal bad money. Agents argue an eye for an eye approach supports their method to detect fakes.
Worth Peyatt of Millfield criticizes WPA job certification delays recounting a dawn rush on April 5 where people pushed to enter the office and a man collapsed. He urges officials to limit daily certifications and notify eligible applicants to avoid multiple long trips.
Edward Campbell of Coolville argues that a so called Young Political Club is mainly led by old politicians who use youth as a front. He contends the group serves the mentors’ gains, not young voters, and urges a separate youth club with a clear divide. April 6.
A burglar who broke into a Vienna home and was mauled by the resident’s watchdog won damages from the dog’s owners. The suit cites a law requiring dangerous dogs to be muzzled. The burglar had served a jail term prior to the ruling.
The piece argues many co eds attend the University of Tennessee to marry rather than pursue careers. It asserts daughters can learn life, social skills, and how to manage households during four years on campus. It values marrying well and notes college as a place to meet men affordable for fathers.
Rheumatic heart disease in children can cause lasting crippling and sometimes death. The condition follows sore throats and fever, may enlarge the heart and create murmurs or rapid heartbeat, with pale, tired, and short of breath children who sleep poorly. A late note mentions a queen wasp producing 10 000 to 20 000 offspring.
Joyce Milner endures a near drowning after a Caribbean cruise crewed by the Empress, with Dick Hamilton’s brave rescue attempt and a tense return to safety. In Bermuda Joyce shops, faces a Havana-visit offer, and hopes Dick will reappear, as the tale continues.
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