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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1936
Page
4
The piece argues the Roosevelt idea of retiring workers at 65 with a government pension faces practical limits. It notes older men may fear rusting out, while younger workers need training, and that mechanization and changing jobs complicate any solution. It calls the pension concept a distant fix and stresses care for aging workers.
The piece argues that travel across the South and Southeast shows a changing nation. Americans become curious nomads exchanging ideas in trailer camps and tourist spots. Interregional mingling fosters a cosmopolitan populace with deeper mutual understanding across states.
The piece notes Nebraska's adoption of a unicameral legislature after a long fight and reports New York will consider a resolution to study a one-house system. Proponents cite elimination of lobbying across houses and increased prestige, while acknowledgments of legislative flaws suggest the effort may at least spotlight weaknesses.
An exposé lists top beneficiaries of AAA aid for reducing cotton and hog production. It highlights how modern farming concentrates profits among a few large plans, with a planter earning over one hundred dollars for cutting cotton and a hog operation netting half that much for fewer hogs.
In Washington a new Republican Brain Trust proposes briefing methods to spur more debate among Congress members. The piece notes tensions with Ickes and the push for a potential new PWA setup, while recounting remarks at a public meeting and a ghostwritten joke inserted by a ghostwriter.
Government department heads complain the new social security agency raids its workers. Civil service rules are bypassed as personnel seek skilled clerks from other departments with higher grades and pay. The New Deal faces internal conflicts over staffing.
The article notes broad fertile acreage amid rising corporate farming. It cites AAA data showing large benefit checks to corporations, with tenant farmers increasing. In hill country, small farmers toil long hours for few acres, while many work alone and avoid being labeled as stockholders.
The forum letter by William Jenkins of Coolville attacks WPA pay and national figures, arguing workers face lower wages and urging support for relief amid drought and flood. He cites Roosevelt Garner and Robinson, noting high official salaries while WPA workers decline. He contends government relief isn’t philanthropic and calls for fair treatment.
Poet readers contribute verses including a piece about a mother's old bonnet and an Easter bonnet memory. The column notes a reader, Mrs Ella Vernon of Jacksonville Ohio, and includes a public critique about WPA workers and mental health care with a Montgomery-like reference to Athens and Hockingport, urging humane treatment and rehabilitation.
In Rendville the Hickey family arrived in the early 1880s to seek mining work along Sunday Creek Valley. They settled on Smoky Row and ran a boarding house that attracted transients, with Mrs Hickey asserting control and turning the place into a disreputable saloon amid brewery rivalry. The tale notes a waif girl named Glenn and hints at family tensions as the situation worsened. (To Be Continued.)
Toby Ryan, a fashion model, rises in demand after being dubbed The Hill Yer Soap Girl. In a domestic drama, Harriet Holm attempts suicide by gas in their apartment, prompting Bill Brandt to rush her to hospital while Toby grapples with guilt and fear for Harriet’s fate.
The article summarizes a four month diet series stressing protective foods like milk fruits vegetables eggs and cod liver oil to prevent deficiencies. It notes balanced intake half of calories from protective foods and details daily servings with emphasis on milk vegetables fruits and eggs and mentions ongoing nutrition research and food industry labs contributing to dietary knowledge.
The answer notes breath odor varies by substance and no single reagent can reliably detect it in small amounts. A non afflicted person’s sense of smell is likely more sensitive than any chemical test.
The article argues that understanding diet links to bone and tooth decay and diseases like pellagra and scurvy shifts views on nutrition. It suggests dietary changes could extend life and even potentially enhance intelligence, with children growing taller and heavier than ancestors.
Ten years ago C H Martin of Nelsonville was named deputy auditor for personal tax returns. Mrs Evelyn Hallett hosted a party for daughter Carma Bertine Heffner with guests including Vivian Beagle and Jane Galvin. Irene Devlin left for the University of Iowa to organize a thetta Pi Alpha chapter. Elks officers were elected with E R Lash Jr and others named. Hocking Valley Livestock Club chose Everett Ball as president and Anna Cook as secretary. Local Elks printed a supplement to The Athens Messenger. Visitors included Prof Herbert MerVay and Anna Pearl McVay. winds of change as Windet joins F Bredman Company in Athens.
A garbled OCR passage references Elias Calles and a remark about not traveling to Mexico amid politics. It also mentions fear induced by a subway false alarm and Boston Red Sox pitchers, with stray phrases about neighbors and a pennant.
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