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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1935
Page
4
The Athens Messenger published each weekday afternoon except Saturday with a large Sunday moral edition. Gordon K Bush is publisher and general manager, Charles H. Harris serves as managing editor.
The new University College at Ohio University will require incoming students to make up high school deficiencies in the freshman year focusing on English science mathematics and foreign languages. Faculty counselors will guide small groups helping students choose a future path during this transitional year. The approach mirrors proven systems elsewhere and seeks to ensure a solid general education before specialization.
The state wrestles with conforming to the federal old age pension plan amid uncertain funding. Ohioans voted for pensions but not immediate action and the state faces a looming burden of hundreds of millions yearly, with unclear revenue and constitutional questions looming over reform.
Concord Massachusetts celebrated its 300th birthday drawing national attention to a town of 7 000. The piece highlights Concord as a sleepy New England village with a storied past, home to Emerson Thoreau and Hawthorne, and as a symbol of moral and intellectual vigor shaping America.
Washington notes explain why foreign observers only see select maneuvers and do not learn all secrets. Observers judge Russian airborne tactics by theater rather than battlefield reality, while naval award talks hinge on labor dispute protections and Camden yard strikes.
At the New Orleans encampment veterans urged staying out of future wars. Smedley Butler led the call noting wars arise from greed and urging patriotism with peace. Italian war chest rumors and Il Duce's anger at peace offers are mentioned along with a Vermont writer on his farm.
Malcolm Hartley writes about a paper shell pecan in Howard Whaley’s Bunker Hill farmyard Meigs County. The tree, planted from Missouri stock brought by the Whaley family decades ago, bears reliably and has produced for 20 years or more. Whaley has sold nuts at times for 28 cents per pound and a stray nut sprouted in a meadow, prompting protective stakes.
A decade ago social and school events in Nelsonville and nearby towns featured Mrs H T Lee as a guest, a Kiwanis Club picnic at East Side School Grounds, and a Y M C A leadership note at Ohio University. Twenty years back activities included Grange Fair attendance in Albany and a legislative reunion trip to Cincinnati. The clipping also notes a reunion at Mrs C H Hunter's home and a shower for Mr and Mrs Clifford Nanna with numerous locals listed. Including quotes from Hoover and Mussolini, the piece blends local social highlights with political squibs on liberty and the New Deal theme song.
Readers sign their letters and voice opinions on current events. The column parodies political figures, lampshades debate, and includes quotes from J David Stern and Henry Ford to reflect public sentiment and playful criticism.
Ruth Woodson posing as Elaine Chalmers stays in the Hunter house with Penny the caretaker while John McNeill travels to Washington after a family accident. The plot centers on mistaken identity, hidden feelings, and a resolve to protect Florence as the October night settles.
Dr Morris Pishbein highlights 25 years of medical progress benefiting women especially mothers. Advances include prenatal care, infection prevention, early cancer detection, health education, and diagnostic blood and X ray findings aiding childbirth and glandular studies for early pregnancy prediction.
A fragmented lyric explores vivid greens and yellows, birds, murmurs, and garden fragrances. The speaker reflects on mint, cloves, honeysuckle, and a pool’s cool air, expressing tactile sensations and a sense of discovering familiar natural beauty.
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