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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1935
Page
4
The Athens Messenger announces its weekday afternoon publication schedule and a large Sunday morning edition. Publisher Gov Gordon Bush and General Manager Charles B. Harris oversee operations and editorial leadership.
David C. Warner calls for a comprehensive water conservation program to reclaim and preserve Ohio’s water resources. He urges source stream control, reforestation, erosion control, and intergovernmental cooperation to flood control, drought mitigation, and sustained agricultural and industrial growth.
The public urges tax cuts and a firm plan to balance the budget to restore confidence and stimulate investment. Many argue higher taxes hinder home building, job creation, and long term prosperity, warning that government spending has slowed the nation’s recovery.
Paul Mallon reports from Washington that local Democratic politicians are increasingly critical of the spending program. Red tape and Hopkins-Ickes friction fuel discontent, hinting at possible new arrangements if authorities unite. Roosevelt signals a modest policy submission next session amid a reform program nearing completion.
Brookings Institute prepares a 60 day report on gold policy and its impact on prices funded by a Rockefeller Foundation special appropriation. The institute remains non-political while its analyses inform political viewpoints and NRA critiques.
Prof George Drayton Strayer of Teachers College Columbia University led a non political protest against a national youth movement. In a teachers address he warned that central federal control of education threatens democracy and could enable propaganda and Fascist state development.
The Black Lobby Registration Bill failed to pass as the American Bar Association opposed it arguing it would blanket attorneys and be an affront to the legal profession. Notably, two high priced Democratic lawyers in the area, members of the so called 25 000 Club, were cited as influential in the debate.
The VFW led by James Van Zandt organizes for a universal pension plan, arguing the bonus already passed and predicting enactment within years. Roosevelt warned the Spanish War Veterans Pension Bill sets no precedent for World War II pensions. A Denver youth admits setting 24 fires, seeking thrill, while a union official seeks SEC records to aid bargaining. Garner's Japan trip revolves around Philippines route with no additional agenda.
Fashion experts predict shorter dresses while war news touches on casualties and morale. Melvin Purvis turns writer. employers judge applicants by appearance. Over 7,500 chemists out of work and a million amateurs idle. Mussolini’s sons head to Africa. Ethiopia’s rain ends with political implications. Tax cuts loom as investors and workers seek relief.
Narratives trace early settlement along Shade River in Meigs County with 1790s land purchases by Hal sey Chapmans Harpold and Alexander. Notes include George Cooper son of Lewis Wetzel, Major John White Revolutionary War soldier, and Pom eroy’s first settler Samuel Ervin. Mentions 1812 1807 1827 helps establish local pioneer memory.
A collage of remarks from Joan, Alice Brady, Senator Clark, C. H. Lake, Sir Malcolm Campbell, Maury Maverick, Leo Carrillo, and Samuel Insull, ranging from acting craft to international conflict and professional seriousness. The collection highlights views on emotion in acting, neutrality, and dedication in work.
The column invites signed letters from readers on current events. It describes a Washington relief effort involving about 5 000 unemployed workers collecting health data from 3 000 000 Americans to map disease and disability by geography age sex and occupation. The Public Health Service hopes this will justify relief spending.
Ten years ago Mr and Mrs J L Beckley and son Paul visited Leroy and Cleveland for ten days. Louis Allerly of Logan recalls being on the Shenandoah crew during the dirigible crash and was unhurt. William Salters was guest of honor at a surprise birthday party near Clarks Chapel. Rev and Mrs R D Powell hosted a family reunion with descendants. Walter Baird announced the birth of a daughter.
Bronze medals awarded to Thomas N. Hoover Jr. 26 months old, William Byron Orr 9 months old, and Mary Louise McQuade at the Athens County Fair babies show. Diplomas went to Dorothy Clendenin, Harley T. Bobo, Mary Louise Walker, Richard Kelley, Mildred Wilson, Elmer Ellis Jacobs, Lola E. Mills, and Donald E. Boden. Other high ranking babies include Mary M. Schaffer, Hazel A. Maynard, Helen Louise Bennett, Loretta Bell Lemley, Dora E. Lemons, Francis Kempton, Helen Jane Hill, Mary Josephine Twiss, Robert H. Littler, Fred Lee Helwig, John Daniel Bardin, Bernice P. Russell, Junia Beasley, Hazel R. Tribe, Robert L. Mills, Earl Gordon Campbell, James N. Brown, Charles E. Nichols, Robert A. Hawk, Robert Worthman, Russell Sams, Alice Isabelle Mills, and Franklin Bolin.
A verse titled Poets Corner White Rosebud expresses a lover’s adoration from Letart Falls. The poem uses imagery of a white rosebud and sunbeams to convey devotion and longing through seasons, ending with a personal attribution to Mrs Harry Wolfe of Letart Falls.
Ruth, an orphan living with the Lawrence cousins, faces tension with Letty and Jack Willer as Letty eyes Jack and Ruth decamps to the street. Ruth questions her place while Letty schemes and Ruth contemplates independence amid cramped rooms and fragile family dynamics.
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