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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1926
Page
4
Washington reports the U S Marines resumed guards on mail transport on October 16 and since then no major mail thefts occurred nationwide. Only a minor Minnesota hold up was noted, not affecting the overall record of reduced robberies and a safer mail system under Semper Fidelis.
George Kaler was elected captain of Ohio University football for the 1907 season after two years at fullback and All-Ohio honors. Ohio basketball teams prepare for contests, while President Ellis discusses College Athletics in chapel. A student recital features violin piano and singing.
A daily thought extols women for weaving heavenly roses into earthly life. It cites Proverbial wisdom and a Schiller quote praising women and their pleasant paths.
The piece argues that rising understanding of mental disorders reduces stigma once tied to the mentally ill. It notes historical shaming of patients, cites harsh phrases, and praises psychiatric nurses for improving access to care and easing family despair.
A lighthearted debate about subject verb agreement imagines a railroad right of way producing oats and contrasts opinions from University of Chicago Northwestern Harvard Yale and Princeton scholars. The piece humorously notes confusion even among top institutions.
A discussion on life expectancy notes that 47 percent live beyond 60 and 30 percent beyond 70, while only one in 5000 reach 100. Two-thirds of centenarians are women. Medical science aims to lengthen the lifespan and improve the age of expectation, with social and economic worlds needing to keep pace.
A commentator notes that many people still know little about how weather works beyond what the weather bureau teaches. The remark underlines public misconceptions and calls for clearer explanations and accessible forecasts.
The speech references a failed U S air force project with three navy planes from California to Hawaii all failing. Two seaplanes intended for a non stop 2000 mile flight to Panama also failed with one crash after a few miles and the other down later. The piece argues the United States cannot carry out a simple flight while other nations could do so regularly.
In a critical editorial voice, the piece urges the President to demand answers over a Kansas City speech that praised an air force described as capable of flight but criticized as flop worthy. It argues the nation misled the public about aviation strength and readiness.
Senator Oscar Underwood argues Governor Smith of New York is the logical choice to defeat the Republicans in 1928. He believes war dangers are distant and cites Ku Klux hostility to Smith’s religion could become an asset at election time, shaping the contest against Coolidge or Hoover.
Senator Underwood announces retirement from the Senate and politics and says Governor Smith’s Catholicism would not block Southern support but doubts the party will nominate the New Yorker.
A commentary foresees a tangled 1928 Democratic fight over Ku Klux, prohibition, religion and other issues. Republicans may back President Coolidge for a second term if he seeks it. else Secretary Hoover could secure the nomination with a pragmatic program aimed at enacting needed policies.
Reports from Rome say Guglielmo Marconi seeks annulment of his marriage to Hon Beatrice O'Brien daughter of the Baron L Achiquin. The Westminster Catholic court granted the annulment and it now goes to appeal before the Rota for final authority.
The annulment rests on a claimed agreement by Marconi and his wife to separate at will after marriage. This alleged contract, seen as violating Catholic doctrine, would render the marriage real neither from the start nor in law, akin to fraud in a contract.
A Washington golfer achieved a hole in one but on an incorrect green, drawing surprise and questions about course layout and rule interpretation during a local outing.
No nation is as bad as its rich tourists. France remains hopeful as the American ion meets in Paris next year seeking improved relations and mutual understanding.
In a Manhattan loft a tobacconist stocks pipes and blends from Australia to Honolulu, epitomizing a city famed for goods from every corner. The piece visits fruit dealers, plant specialists, a fish importer, weasel rentals, Chinese records, Hebrew records, and a Sixth Avenue pharmacist still using ancestral herb measures, all reflecting a vibrant, old world retail mosaic.
Questions and Answers cover fox mating habits in the wild and in captivity, whether a steno grapher should send a Christmas card to her employer, and a query about Florida's largest city. The biology note cites the Biological Survey on monogamy in the wild vs polygamy in captivity.
A compact scan of radio slots features O'CLOCK and 8 to 12 O'CLOCK listings for cities including Chicago New York Baltimore Pittsburgh and more. Programs span musical variety orchestral opera lectures and vocal instrumental ensembles with many stations like WTAM WJZ WEAF KDKA WKRC WCFH WHAM and KGW broadcasting across the period.
Washington December 6 McNary Haugen farm relief bill is to be reintroduced in both houses early in the short session. Supporters hail it as a cure for agriculture but prospects for passage look poor. Optimsitic factors include possible Coolidge support and southern cotton concerns, but time pressure and prior defeat hinder prospects. A proposed single twelve member board would replace two, with a $250 million appropriation for surplus removal and loans to cooperatives.
Opinion splits among top senators and congressmen on the McNary-Haugen bill with prospects uncertain. Some doubt committee fate, others pledge to push it through this session despite opposition from other relief measures. Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon, poised to lead the Senate Agricultural Committee, is the bill’s author.
McNary explains a program to segregate and withhold surplus basic agricultural commodities or sell it abroad at best available prices, applying the loss to all producers of the affected product.
The excerpt discusses Jacksonville's 1925 population of 96 450 and traces cabbage origins from Europe to early U S cultivation. It also touches on laundry rinsing, a White House radio set, wood cracking, and gelatine capsules in brief Q A style.
The proposal seeks a 42 cent tariff on wheat with an equalization fee on farmers to cover surplus exports. It argues the plan would shift gains to farmers by about six cents per bushel while delivering 36 cents more per bushel, aiming for early introduction with regional support anticipated.
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