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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1939
Page
4
The Athens Messenger announces subscription rates and postal details for the paper. It lists carriers and mail options with prices including one year four fifty and ten weeks one dollar, plus county coverage and extra postage notes.
The House Appropriations Committee probes WPA cultural projects amid claims that Communist Party ties cushioned hires and inflated costs. Witnesses cite writer hires from non literary jobs and a sit down strike by Henry Alsberg. Officials say the World’s Fair Exhibit Building cost more than $500,000 with 82 percent non-relief labor. The inquiry questions waste and party influence in government funded art.
Generoso Pope, prominent Italian language editor, calls on Italian Americans to act as loyal citizens and build good relations with all Americans, contrasting with extremist rhetoric. He asks Italians to work with others to create and preserve friendship with nations of the old world.
A humorous column on American souvenir collecting notes the habit from childhood to old age. It cites stealing posters ash trays and hotel towels and jokes about World’s Fair signs being pilfered as a sign of national character. It contrasts American traits with French humor.
The season begins early to let owners exploit cold weather for lucrative summer doubleheaders, accelerating revenue opportunities and scheduling flexibility.
The piece notes that few visitors may inspect the scientific displays, yet it acknowledges learning the terms trylan and periphere.
In Washington a rift grows between the Roosevelt administration and business groups. New Dealers decry the Chamber of Commerce and NAM as right wing allies of Republicans. The Chamber faces boos for defending Roosevelt, while resolutions urged repeal of the wages and hours act.
The New Dealers plan to bypass the Chamber convention and stage an administration budget of speakers at the National Retail Federation meeting in May. President Roosevelt will deliver the spring economic address with Secretary Wallace and other officials on the program. The NRF, a retailers group, is viewed as more sympathetic to administration policies due to shared interest in expanding consumer purchasing power.
Washington profile examines the Justice Department antitrust inquiry into the building industry. It outlines four fronts under scrutiny materials distribution contracting and labor and describes how unions and contractors may collude to raise costs. The piece notes the administration seeks housing price relief and business recovery.
American women embrace Polynesian styles in a travelogue trend as husbands joke about the allure of island girls.
A collection of brief factual Q A items covering ballot law limits home and traffic death tolls snowfall records film production in the Soviet Union relief figures for New York City doctors practice costs gasoline engine feasibility newspaper revenues from advertising and circulation Oldsmobile history deicing gear and related trivia.
The Messenger's Service Bureau at 1018 13th St Washington AC offers reply service for factual questions. Legal and medical advice cannot be given nor extended research undertaken. Enclose a three cent stamp for return mail.
J Hobart Downing of Middleport cites a Bankers Magazine parable where two families hoard tickets for 20 bushels, later ruinously unused, as a critique of modern money and interest. The letter argues the economy mirrors this tale and condemns interest tribute.
A humorous note from Charles F. Davis recounts visiting Middleport Cemetery to raise the dead to persuade locals to build a flood wall. Spirits mock the effort, with one former still operator joking that natives nearby prefer staying in the afterlife. The piece ends with the departed’s chorus that Middleport is too dead to return.
J Hobart Downing argues that Roosevelt and others push borrowing and spending to aid the unemployed, yet business leaders cannot hire or sell due to government bonds. He urges taxing idle dollars to force investment and work.
The Kennebec Patent site in Augusta Maine will be memorialized with a bronze marker by the Maine Society as its 1989 project. Electric barbed wire fences are increasingly used by farmers for temporary pastures.
Sheridan Starr leads a 36 man Border Patrol contingent to stop Luis Barro and his 100 smugglers. They plan a stealth river crossing to trap the gang, but a rifle shot and federal halt cut their ambush, setting the stage for a night battle.
Dr. Morris Fishbein explains how daily life limits space and time for activity and urges fitness over bulky muscles. He notes fewer muscle uses, rising leisure, and the need to choose meaningful activities to build efficient, well toned muscles for overall health.
Robert B. Delaney, a wondcarver, has invented a two foot scratching post for cats. The carpet covered post has the underside turned out for a better scratching surface with three holes in the carpet stuffed with catnip.
Policeman W W R Crapps, listed as 6 foot 5 and 242 pounds, saved a dime by insisting on a 25 cent Children's haircut. The barber agreed only after Crapps sat in the children's chair. Eskimos use whale bones as roofing material.
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