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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1924
Page
4
A brief daily reflection presents two maxims about temper and restraint. It cites Proverbs warning against speaking without thought and Virgil noting anger softens with time.
The piece argues that the League of Nations has alienated the United States by pressuring it to join and by threats about nonmember nations. It notes Japan's demand to expand the League’s jurisdiction over immigration and critiques Wilson’s treaty approach, warning of possible wars over ambiguous provisions.
Leeds scientists scrutinize Venus with telescopes and spectroscopes and suggest Earthlike climate and potential primitive life forms. They speculate vegetation and animals resembling early Earth and even possible human life at the poles, challenging Earth-centered views of life in the universe.
Architects and builders promote a new fireproof house design with cement block walls, stucco, slate roof, and metal lath interiors. The second completed model aims to prove family safety equals office fireproof standards while keeping costs affordable. The plan promises year round comfort, reduced insurance, slow depreciation, and timber conservation.
Dr. J. J. McConnell and former Cleveland mayor Tom Johnson favored street soapbox talk as a safety valve for dissent. They cited a public square free speech stone that allowed speakers to vent within decency, a system that collapsed when the draft arrest sparked a riot.
The quote warns entrenched power that suppressing speech creates danger of unrest. It argues oratory is the natural outlet for agitators and that peaceful change relies on preserving free speech and a free press in democratic nations.
Bishop McConnell urges keeping channels of discontent open. He argues free em is a safety valve and that radicals only want to talk, exhausting themselves and then resting. Sane orators and papers will bring needed changes peacefully, preserving free speech and free press as democratic safeguards.
Washington reports scientists in Philadelphia and Ithaca warn that future wars may surpass imagination in destruction. They predict no non-combatants will escape and cities could be annihilated by advanced chemistry and weapons, with peace chosen only over mass death.
General Patrick and General Squier warn of radio controlled air raids dropping bombs far more destructive than prior shells. They predict ships sunk by bombs with smoke screens, and planes delivering silent attacks with parachute flares.
An expedition began from Darkeling India on March 26 1924. It comprised thirteen English men and several native porters under General C C Bruce who relinquished active leadership due to illness to Colonel Norton.
The article discusses rumors of a death ray and its potential to disable aircraft and engines, noting no authoritative confirmation yet. It mentions an international disarmament conference in Geneva next June and speculates science may influence future war and peace efforts. It also cites Dean Inge on moral salvation through a great dramatist.
Henry Ford tells Collier's that he withdraws his bid for Muscle Shoals after awaiting three years for government acceptance. He notes his coal holdings in Kentucky and elsewhere will be used to generate electric power and extract by products during combustion, following a German method.
The text argues Ford offered a nitrate supply deal to the government that would have given the United States dominance in explosive power. It contends acceptance would ensure near total nitrates for fertilizer at low prices, while rejection would waste hundreds of millions. It stresses Ford deserved the chance.
The report notes a registration increase of 120 257 in New York over 1926, suggesting registration growth far outpaces overall population gains and reflects shifting civic engagement.
Republicans and Democrats alike believe Coolidge will carry New York state while many reformers think Al Smith the Democrat will win the governorship. The outlook centers on political confidence ahead of the upcoming election.
The text laments lack of campaign advertising and funds. It cites G. W. Perkins’s past anti Root New York constitution ads as potentially swaying hundreds of thousands of votes. It notes politicians lack money and know-how to craft ads.
A description contrasts Paris womanly coyness with rouged shoulders and London artists applying artificial freckles on women. It notes a restless mood in the era, then briefly shifts to Olympia the mother of Alexander dancing with snakes, scantily clothed.
The piece contrasts ancient Greek drama with later morals and sermons, asking where modern theater holds influence. It notes Euripides and Aristophanes shaping thought more than philosophers, and ponders Dean Inge on stage power versus Bunyan Voltaire and preachers like Beecher Moody Sankey.
The famed French writer Anatole France died at age 89 after a life of renown. In his final moments he called for his mother, a detail recalled as a defining thread of his memory, with family love described as prevailing over all achievements.
The piece speculates on long distance air travel from Germany to the United States and the implications for heavier-than-air craft armed with TNT and poison gas, comparing a Monday departure to a Wednesday arrival and forecasting rapid cross continental combat use in the near future.
The author urges Congress to approve a ten million dollar increase for aircraft this year and to back a large flying fleet. Citing the prior wartime scramble for machines, the piece argues for domestic production while also buying abroad, warning that more flying machines and submarines could delay the next war.
In Madison Square Garden two lawyers Hilquitt and Untermyer debated La Follette's suggestion that Congress could pass legislation over an adverse Supreme Court ruling. A cosmopolitan crowd of ten thousand attended a discussion on the Constitution. The two speakers were both of Jewish descent. one Russian, the other German, one socialist, the other capitalist.
Miss Margaret Gillis of Martins Ferry returns from Europe aboard the Homeric after the vessel battled a Atlantic storm. Friends say her journey was wonderful and describes the voyage positively.
In Elyria Ohio Bonnie I Rahmer secured a divorce from Louis M Rahmer after thirty minutes on the ground that a secret letter written before marriage and to be opened a year after wedlock shocked her, ending her love and respect for him.
Public notice describes The Athens Messenger Information Bureau with Frederic J. Haskin directing. It explains questions are answered for information only and not legal medical or financial advice. Send question with name address and two cents for postage.
A compilation of short questions and answers on topics from religion and geography to history and famous figures. It covers counts of women preachers, boundary terms for DC, Hipparchus latitude work, the Cullinan diamond, Doggerbank location, Bartholdi Liberty completion, Jubilee Singers, and Everest ascent team size.
Hamden residents share a flurry of family and social updates. Fred and Mrs. McKinniss recently married settled in Chillicothe while Eva Kirkendall returned from Columbus. Sidney Dye visits family in Hamden from Texas as various locals attend events and note illness and births.
The Buckeye reports total protection policies totaling 2 600 900 08 dollars covering loss of registered mail forgery of certificates of deposit checks holdup fire cyclone and misappropriation by staff. Five percent time certificates are secured by first mortgages on homes with over 1 000 000 reserve fund. Five percent compound rate certificates allow semiannual compounding. Resources exceed 27 300 000 00 dollars.
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