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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1938
Page
4
The Athens Messenger lists notices including subscription rates and society notices. It contains a lengthy poetry section from MEN'S CLASS at Pilgrim Sunday School and a Biblical piece about The Home of Lazarus with names Nelle Bell and Mrs Walter Gastin from Athens and Haydenville Ohio.
A column notes that charm in marriage rests on homemaking basics. It praises comfortable chairs, clean living, and feeding the partner, while WPA adult education in New York expands workshops to teach homemaking through practical projects like new draperies and color coordination.
Reassuring news comes from steel centers where employers and employees are nearing agreement on price reductions without wage cuts. If other large industries follow steel, a market-break may occur, easing construction costs and reviving business confidence amid the industrial doldrums.
Incomplete text shows scattered fragments from a local notice. readable elements hint at an official action or event though key names dates and places are missing.
An editorial argues that condemning erection of filling stations and other structures in Athens is futile without support for a zoning ordinance. It notes residents resist and differ on lines, and suggests councilmen must set definite areas to allow action. The piece urges empathy with officials under pressure.
H L Mencken analyzes birth control slum clearance and interstate gun traffic prohibitions and exposes their flawed logic. He notes uplifters claim a great evil must be remedied and urges critics to propose alternatives or stay silent. He dismisses the New Deal reasoning as preposterous.
The WPA has allotted 85 867 dollars to study the worth of tourist trade to Florida. The piece jokes about relief clients benefiting and imagines broad WPA projects from climate to engines, politics, oil, steel, skyscrapers and more across various states and cities.
Rumor suggests congressmen private secretaries will seek travel reimbursements to and from Washington and senators may push for barbering costs to be covered as well.
On the Senate floor New York and Wisconsin senators discuss the merits of their state cheese as a light food for thought. An English hotel keeper bans blond waitresses, prompting questions about propriety and conduct.
Dr. Francis Townsend, the old age pension advocate, travels to Washington to begin a 30 day jail term for contempt of the House. The episode highlights how Congress sometimes clings to dignity in ways that strain public respect for the chamber.
United Press reporter Paul Mallon published a secret Senate roll-call on a cabinet nominee. Senators protested being exposed and demanded the source, but Mallon refused to reveal it. The inquiry ended with a muffled laugh and the secrecy rule being rescinded.
A popular leader Townsend faces a contempt probe after Congress initiates an investigation into his plan to give every citizen $200 monthly. Jasper Bell leads the inquiry, exposing political machine ties amid ballot-stuffing scandals. Townsend reads a statement, then walks out as he nears sentencing.
RFC holds 1.5 billion for lending while California tunnelers strike at San Jacinto Tunnel pressuring Jesse Jones to ensure collective bargaining. California congressmen accuse Metropolitan Water District funds of backing anti labor tactics amid deputy sheriffs and guns. Senator Wagner proposes NRLA compliance for federal aid recipients.
Code cables reveal Chancellor Schuschnigg of Austria came back to Vienna in a nervous collapse after meeting Hitler who forced him to accept Nazi domination. In private talks he called Hitler a madman on a mission. Northern senators and papers mild. southern critics mock filibuster moves as spectacles and braying donkeys.
The Charlotte News denounces the argument that the anti lynching bill would trigger legalized miscegenation in Dixie. Northern Republicans oppose the bill, and Minority Leader Charles L. McNary is shown voting against cloture while previously supporting it on nine occasions.
Athens Rotary Club luncheon at Hotel Berry featured F. D. Forsyth of the Bank of Athens explaining trust departments in modern banking. Mrs. John Finsterwald urged early notice to shrubbery buyers via the conservation chair. Donald Cooley Jr. marked his first birthday alongside George Washington after birth on Feb. 22 to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Cooley.
Twenty years ago George Whipple Harvey M Roach James Woodard Mr and Mrs E H Cotton M E Twiss and W W Daggett of the Athens Retail Merchants Association traveled to Columbus for the second annual community conference of the Ohio Retail Merchants hosted by the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. Athens schoolchildren entertained GAR and Woman's Relief Corps on Washingtons Birthday. Dick McKinstry a U S Army private spoke to Mohican Class at the Presbyterian Church.
Wahiawa’s small rural school, 25 miles from here, becomes the first to produce its own artichokes for pupil lunches. Authorities urge pupils to cultivate celery beans peas and spinach on the school grounds as well.
Jerry Whitfield and Cabell Banks plot Polly Chelsey's rescue aboard the Clitte smuggling ship. Clute exits to a harbor near Calais while Polly, disguised as an old Frenchwoman, slips aboard a cart to safety. They reach Calais and celebrate in a Parisian French hotel as the plan continues.
Dr. Morris Fishbein explains that heart failure now reflects specific conditions rather than a single diagnosis. Damage to heart muscle or valves, infections, poisons, or blocked blood vessels can impair pumping, yet the heart often adapts, enlarging to endure prolonged strain and allowing years of continued life with the condition.
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