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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1934
Page
4
Regional newspaper credits and associations listed for publication and distribution. Subscription rates shown include carrier pricing: Ohio one year four eighty dollars, six months two fifty, ten weeks one dollar, four weeks fifty cents, one week unspecified.
A long, urgent commentary warns that wind erosion from plowed plains will devastate millions of acres. It notes soil fertility loss, rising land impoverishment, and the need for grass cover, crop rotation, and reformed farming to avert desertification and protect national prosperity.
News notes rising participation in 4 H and Scouting across Athens Meigs counties with more youths enrolled than ever and adults including business leaders supporting the effort. Girl Scouts near a new home funded by donors while farm and 4 H activities push agricultural engagement, aided by long term community effort and parental balance. The piece also touches on congressional budgeting and Morgenthau’s financing signals ahead of September.
Washington notes that Congress nears adjournment amid fatigue heat and rising pressure. Democratic leaders Republicans and lobbyists engage in typical legislative maneuvering as the session winds down.
The discussion centers on a House relief bill approving 1.172 billion dollars for Roosevelt relief agencies. Critics note limited debate and broad authorization allowing future spending. Senate tactics include delays and manipulated promises on tariff amendments, with Harrison withdrawing a proposed lumber coal oil copper exemption amid partisan maneuvering.
In St Paul on June 6 a speaker at the University of Minnesota events about the Newspaper Guild triggered vivid impressions from a collegiate columnist. The columnist noted Broun’s distinctive appearance and described his tan shoes, worn belt, and wrinkled trousers in a sharp, period tone.
Reporters were barred from a private prep school visit as a dignified sub-master refused entry. The press pressed him into a makeshift role as reporter and even demanded the school yell. Photographs were taken by an itinerant photographer and sent inside to the President with a note waiting at the gate.
A collection of remarks warns of a potential Dillinger crime wave if he is not captured, questions the thumbprint system, and includes Lucregia Bori’s remarks on living, plus Col. Leonard Ayres’s view that lasting recovery requires old normal processes.
An observer praises a young reporter's accuracy in a sketch of Floyd B. Olsen at the Guild convention. The narration describes Olsen as a red headed governor in a gray suit with pressed trousers, while the speaker admires the student’s perceptiveness yet questions the rest of the pen portrait.
The piece notes Floyd B. Olsen as a possible 1940 candidate in winter betting, but says Farmer-Labor groups will back Roosevelt. It describes Roosevelt's appeal despite drought and labor troubles in Minneapolis, with local faith in him as a champion of the underdog. It mentions Olsen as a radical to business interests and recalls troop use during a strike.
Olsen is praised as a striking speaker with humor and a rare radical streak. He supports Farmer-Labor cooperatives receiving government loans to run elevators and packing houses. He argues government ownership of railroads and utilities is inevitable, and that capitalism must end gradually, though he has never read Karl Marx. He avoids terms like ideology or class struggle in public remarks.
Florida's Duncan U. Fletcher, a prominent senator, weighs in on contemporary debates amid sensitive public reactions. The article notes Fletcher's stance and the surrounding political climate, highlighting notable votes and district concerns.
Howard Scott, a Battle Creek hotel clerk, warned that price systems are a racket without payoff. He was watched by a police officer at his desk while he attempted to rob a nearby restaurant, but was caught before he could ask for a lift home.
Dr Morris Fishbein explains that before insulin diabetes was fatal for children but now many survive and live long lives. He notes fears about injections, emphasizes insulin replaces missing pancreatic secretions, and stresses diet control, regular exams, and proper sterile technique for injections.
A discussion on how mothers may handle neighbor children misbehaving in their homes. It suggests respectful boundaries, mutual forbearance, and arbitration between mothers rather than escalation. It notes that rules vary by household and cautions against punishing another woman's child directly.
The report notes a Detroit to New York flight of one hour and forty seven minutes. Soon filers will arrive in New York even before they start. The drought has been destroying a million bushels of wheat daily per the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The farmer bears the cost, not the government. Professor Adolph A. Berle, once a praisetruster, asks that his ten thousand dollar salary as city chamberlain of New York be cut to a yeas. Brains eb.
Explanation of Yesterday's Cartoon describes a Toledo Ohio beheaded chicken in 1887 that rose, walked, and was sold to George E. Meyers who kept it alive for about sixteen days by tube feeding. The bird remained active yet blind and collided with objects during this period. It also notes Army ranking figures and a teaser for tomorrow's cartoon.
The Messenger prints a detailed lineage from Alvin Ogdin Sr born 1775 to Ruth Marie Merritt born 1917, noting marriages, birth dates, and property ties across seven generations in Columbia Township Meigs County Ohio. The piece highlights the Ogdin Run settlement near Dyesville and a silver dollar coin once owned by the first settler’s descendants.
The letter from Edna Harpold, dated June 4 in Chester, Ohio, extols a street corner orator as a brilliant man who can answer every question and settle issues from breakfast to lunch. It mocks government incompetence and claims he will expose faults in groups like the NRA and AAA and discuss topics from Dillinger to home brew.
A review of Tatiana Tchernavin’s Escape From the Soviets portrays Soviet Bolsheviks as cruel and inhuman figures. The piece discusses the author, wife of a Russian intellectual, and notes her husband was a professor in Petrograd at the revolution’s outbreak, as they fled Bolshevik oppression with their child.
Ten years ago the Ladies' Aid of United Bret at Fairview met at Mrs Carl Morris home. Hooper returned from a year in Canada. Mrs Margaret Goff near Danvie reported an egg laid by Buff Plymouth Rock measuring 7 3 4 inches around. Louis Seidenfeld Murray City noted 88. Relatives of Mrs Anna Waller Me planned a birthday surprise party for Ber. Friends and relatives celebrated birth at the Pierce dow field.
Members Hen Eccles Ed Loses Clarence Liggett and crew aid travels to Maine for a summer of 10 foods. Names include Blossov er Darrell Moore Hares Moore berry Miss Ida Bowser guest Gerrison Columb Miss Helen Falloon and others in Rutland. Mrs Margaret Tea teacher trainer from City Mich returns for her daughter's high school. Eleanor Gallaher guests of Zeime Krapps. Talks at a Sunday School district convent led by T Piel president Prof L J Addicott and others. Colonial era tension referenced with Bolsheviks and a baby escape tale amid a dangerous journey.
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