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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1932
Page
4
The Athens Messenger operates weekday afternoons and a large Sunday edition. Published by THE ATHENS MESSENGER & HERALD PRINTING CO with Gordon K Bush as Publisher and Gen. Mgr and Charles H. Morris as Managing Editor. It serves about 100000 across five Ohio counties and lists professional affiliations and mailing rates.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes colonel Lindbergh and wife seek help from Salvatore Spitale and Irving Bitz, calling gangland the only force able to pressure crime origins. It argues the fifth estate wields power beyond law, questions enforcement, and laments rising kidnappings and underworld profits amid Prohibition-era crime.
A reader describes Athens Saturday traffic as the worst seen in small towns. Main streets stay jammed from morning to night with parking, double parking and crowded side streets despite few pedestrians nearby. Residents from nearby blocks drive in, while locals boast about urban drivers preferring big city streets.
On a New York night in Times Square and midtown, wary crowds eye a ribboned message as the Lindbergh kidnapping dominates public awe. Reporters, theatergoers, and street people observe a city in tense suspense, with flares of aviation chatter and anxious mothers among the sidewalk throng.
A department offers free responses to any question not seeking medical legal or financial guidance. Readers mail inquiries to The Athens Messenger Information Bureau Washington DC. Sample topics include uses for glass agates in industry Japanese imperial worship red cotton grown in Alabama and Mississippi pallbearers at George Washington's funeral and how Natural Bridge formed through limestone erosion.
A speaker vows to curb luxuries and risky spending by cutting back on cigars, meals, decoctions, golf, and betting. He touts a self help flight toward thrift while admitting the struggle to abandon ingrained habits and embrace the old rule that saving equals earning. The piece blends humor and moral resolve.
A terse biblical fragment from Genesis 9 6 emphasizes the gravity of blood guilt. It reflects on the principle that shedding man’s blood incurs bloodshed in return, signaling ancient moral law and divine judgment.
British tea brokers recall the 1866 race between clippers Ariel and Taiping. Ariel left Foochow May 30 and Taiping 20 minutes later. 99 days later Ariel passed Deal at 8:00 am September 5, Taiping eight minutes after. Deal to Foochow about 16 000 miles. Taiping contested due to 20 minute delay claiming victory.
In a signed Athens note and a Coolville letter from March 1932, writers discuss a rural shift toward farming as a livelihood, noting deserted farms, local self-sufficiency, and the growing appeal of countryside living, alongside concerns about highway speeds and traffic fatalities.
A reader recalls an editorial arguing urban workers displaced after World War I should return to farm life or smaller towns. The writer notes postwar overexpansion and job losses, predicting many will not regain city payrolls and will seek simpler country living despite urban amenities.
The Athens Messenger advertises a government bulletin on moths in homes noting moths infest upholstery and threaten valuable furniture. It urges housewives to obtain a copy by mailing in a coupon with four cents for cost handling and postage.
A request for a booklet on moths in upholstered furniture asks for payment of four cents in coin or stamps. Provides a return address with Name Street City State for the copy.
A reader from Athens Ohio March 5 1082 urges caution for parents about common childhood diseases. She notes that taking sick children to public events spreads illness to other kids and even to adults, stressing preventive care and thoughtful behavior. She warns that even so called harmless diseases can weaken older people and cause lasting harm.
A brief obituary notes a man whose life honored his father and mother and blessed his community. His widow and two daughters survive, and the family takes pride in his name.
Reported in India, Hindu bookseller in Calcutta faces deadly attack after publishing a Mohammed picture. A Mohammedan student stabbed the Hindu bookseller, provoking expressions of outrage and threats toward British rule and potential unrest across the region.
Rev Ahibrand of Mechanicsburg reported 500 to 1,000 robins settled on an alfalfa field near his home Tuesday evening. The Elks Lodge announced support for the Athens Boy Scout movement and plans a moving picture exhibit at the Opera House to raise funds. Logan sustained a serious fire Tuesday night destroying the L Schneider store on East Main Street with losses estimated at 15 000 to 20 000 dollars. Dr E B Bryan to speak at the High School Parent Teacher Association meeting. Marie Grim of Pasadena California won the 10 prize from the Pasadena Evening Post for a message from George Washington to President Harding.
An ice gorge at East Mill site and dam forced Williams and Patterson to dynamite 100 tons of masonry at the dam’s west end to secure the structure.
The critic weighs Ethel Mannin’s Commonsense and the Child, noting fear and frustration seed adult neurosis. She argues for a balanced approach merging freedom with social restraint, cites a psychologist’s experiment with unbridled liberty, and warns unchecked license may yield lonely, unloved children.
Washington tax hearings examine cigarette taxation as a patriotic issue. Julius Parker argues 20 million smokers pay high taxes while income tax contributors are fewer, with total tobacco revenues near 500 million. A six cent per pack tax rise is debated, amid shifting consumption and state tax variation.
Aristide Briand, who dreamed of a United States of Europe, has died at age sixty nine. He was a French statesman dedicated to France and its dominant role in Europe and world gold production, and he prioritized France above all else.
The report notes Japan increasing forces while the League of Nations urges restraint. It compares to earlier Mussolini events and details tensions with Greece and China as Russia masss near Japan’s operations, with cautious but defiant posture from Beijing and Moscow.
Daily Lenten devotion reflects on Acts chapter 8 verses 1 to 8 and how persecution led followers to Samaria where Philip preached. It notes faith and resilience turn discouragement into victory and urges prayer for spirit to empower service to Christ.
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