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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1920
Page
4
The incoming administration approves a cabinet role for the vice president elect and Governor Coolidge agrees to join as an ex officio member. The piece argues a vice presidency with real influence is overdue and emphasizes the need for practical preparation for the nation’s top office.
The piece argues wage cuts face opposition but note wages remain higher than pre war levels in real terms due to cheaper goods. It cites New England textile mills with a 22 percent cut yet workers earn 120 percent more than at war start. Inflation is easing and prices and wages may not return to old levels.
Voices in Washington complain that other nations stockpile oil and purchase gasoline while the United States might be left with scarcer supplies. The debate centers on whether America should conserve its oil at home or seek imports from different sources.
A proposal notes last year's franked mail by Congress cost about 10 million dollars. The idea suggests replacing free government mail with a stamp allowance to reduce expenses.
Mr Burleson must have found a certain satisfaction in this Christmas mail deluge. He can blame half the trouble on Santa Claus.
The inquiry centers on whether Mr. Harding will join the League of Nations or if the League will align with Mr. Harding. The ambiguous statement signals a larger debate over the United States commitment to the international body and domestic political implications.
A short essay argues poverty largely stems from shiftlessness not systemic injustice. It observes many poor Americans rise to respectable, useful lives through industriousness and temperance, noting no inherent conditions in the United States doom the poor.
The speaker argues that natural endowment, not chance or law, shapes outcomes. The master and servant had equal opportunities, yet nature handicaps the servant inescapably. The speaker claims effort cannot overcome this disparity and that divine design favors the better equipped.
In Westminster two Highlanders gaze at a building marked MCMIV, noting a Scots name McMiv on a famed London edifice. A banter about married and bachelor friends reveals the humor of social life and personal constraints.
An examiner questions originality of a student’s composition. The student asserts originality and hints that a few words may be from the dictionary, implying limited similarity to existing works.
Mr Johnson and Mrs Lovejoy share morning chat about photography with Mrs Lovejoy's dog Dido. Johnson compliments the dog as a beauty and then, recalling himself, reacts with nervous amusement while stroking Dido's head.
A humorous, collective slice imagines training chimps to high feats such as shoe polishing and jazz, with four handed ukulele, multiple drums, and noisy percussion. It jokes about politics if chimps run things and recalls a gold find in Broad Street.
Frederic J. Haskin catalogs remaining wild pigeons in the U.S. including the band tailed and white crowned species, notes their habitats and behaviors, and contrasts them with extinct relatives like the passenger pigeon and the dodo. He cites ecological factors and human impact on these birds.
The Athens Messenger Information Bureau invites readers to send questions to Frederic J. Haskin in Washington D C. The bureau will answer information queries only, not legal medical or financial advice, and will not resolve domestic issues. Include full name address and two cents for return postage.
The United States Department of Agriculture examines and experiments with varied African plant specimens imported from America, including kaffir corn sorghums certain grasses dry land rice mangoes and a seed filled gourd resembling butternut in taste.
New York Dec 27 Europe plans its greatest invasion of American auto speed tracks in 1921, according to the Automobile Club of America. Entry blanks have already been received by prominent French, British and Italian pilots for the Indianapolis 560 mile sweepstakes next Memorial Day weekend.
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets marketed as a safe substitute for calomel claim to stimulate natural bowel and liver activity, purify blood, and avoid calomel’s side effects. The ad cites a 17 year medical practice behind the formula and describes Olive Tablets as olive colored vegetable compound with olive oil. Also notes a Christmas wedding of Miss Hansel to Clarence Hartman and a Logan Home Telephone Co gesture giving silk stockings to female employees and stockings for the men.
Manager J H Blankenship received a wire to close the Bessie furnace plant indefinitely from owners. The unit, one of three high grade silicon iron stacks in the U S, had been out of blast for weeks while repairs were completed. A resumption was expected immediately after repairs.
The Misses Nan Kate and Mary McBride spent Christmas at New Lexington with their sister Mrs. A J Ward and returned home today. Logan public schools teachers are holidaying at home: Miss Pfau Portsmouth Miss West Marietta Miss Horn Athens Miss Peterman Bucyrus Miss Gerlin Barberton Miss McKiney Cornell Miss Alspach Columbus.
Miss Cecelia Blasius is home from Sacred Heart College Cincinnati to spend the holidays with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blasius.
Miss Philomene Ambrose arrived home Thursday evening from Washington D C where she is attending Trinity College to spend the holidays with her parents Mr and Mrs H F Ambrose in North Market Street
Mrs Hal Murphy of Athens stayed in the city for Christmas and several days as the guest of her mother Mrs Lydia Westenhaven, Miss Westenhaven and Mrs August Steinman, sisters.
Hon William Wion of Nelsonville manager of the Nelsonville Cereal Company was a Logan business visitor Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Maud Tuttle of Nelsonville was a Logan shopper on Thursday, confirming her routine shopping trip and presence in the city.
Miss Viola Hansel has resigned from her teaching position in the public schools.
A daughter was born at the home of Mr and Mrs Fred Kreysig on Thursday. Dan Soliday cashier at Farmers Merchants Bank is now a grandfather as a result of the new addition to the Kreysig family.
Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Sunderland and Mr. and Mrs. Val Wright visited with daughter Marian during the Christmas season, sharing time with family.
In Logan the Logan Clay Products Company treated its more than two hundred employees with baskets of Christmas cheer. Under manager M E Cole the workers each received a dressed chicken can peaches pineapple two dozen oranges two dozen bananas nuts apples grapes and a big box of candy costing over 1000 dollars.
Miss Margaret Lytle, an office training student from Columbus, arrived in Logan Friday evening to spend the Christmas holidays with her parents, Mr and Mrs Will Lytle, in North Street.
Chris Neal, a Chicago foreman for Farm Implement News, arrived Thursday to spend Christmas holidays with his sisters Mesdames James Shew and Johnny Selb on West Second Street.
Coolville’s M E church hosted Christmas exercises last Friday evening directed by Mrs. G R Gunder and Mrs. H M Walden with a large appreciative audience. Several locals and visitors, including J E Bailey of Glouster and D T Burns of Passiac, NJ, spent time with local families over the holiday. Gertrude Roberts visits her grandmother Mrs. Gray in Parkersburg, while a social hop occurred at the I O O F Hall hosted by the dancing club. Mr. and Mrs. C H Verwohlt of Martins Ferry and their two children holidayed with A R Saunders and family. A R Frame of Athens was also a visitor.
Coolville Lodge No. 337 F. and A. M. held its regular meeting last Tuesday evening electing F. B. Tidd as Worshipful Master E. Harpold as Senior Warden C. L. White as Junior Warden A. M. Frame as Secretary H. M. Walden as Treasurer W. B. Roberts as Senior Deacon A. L Rogers as Junior Deacon D. D. Creesy as Tyler and Chas Cowdry Emerson Daugherty as stewards Refreshments followed and a good crowd attended
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