Low l1 Thomas Broadcast ^or Literary Digest Mover: be^ 10, 1930. Intro. Cnee more ve are on the eve of Armistice Day, and I know what a lot o r' the boys are doing. -hoy are shaking out their uniforms. Moth balls are rolling over the floor, and a lot o ^ gen11 emr>n -rho a *e tum inr; gr ay around the temples are bathed in perspiration. That perspiration comes °rom tryin-* to g't on uniforms that -vere made in the days when they had slender waists. Ah, but the years have been piling up and so have the pounds. I can just see th m vainly struggling in^o those uniforms. So give them an extra cheer when they go by in the par de tomorrow. Larly ♦’her. mornin:, on my way back across Pennsylvania from a visit 4‘o C 'ttysburg Co lege, X cr jssed over on of -h* > in os t bi idges X have . •- r ■ n. It is on the Lincoln H? ’t ay. It is known as the York-Lancastei* Y.ar Memorial bridge, and tomorrow it will be dedicated. I'he int lligencer Journal, a Lane as t r ne.vs aper that dates back almost to ^evolutionary <• ar aays, says that 50,000 people will be there for the ceremony. The bridge is a mile ana a half Ion-', and has 28 massive arches, and is just about as impressive a tribute as could be paid to the men who fell in the great War. aero my For the fir:t time since the war, derm ms in this country will take part of 1icially in Armistice Day ceremonies tomorrow. The occasion ' ii 1 be a ceremony in New/ xork a t Uadi son gpuare tomorrow morning, •ith ^he o a v in 0onsul dene ra1, in a11endanee. An i ov r In dmmany, the people yesterday observed—not armistice Day—but the 1-th of th founding of the German ■anniversary r nil: lie. Ther wer no big fireworks, sevfipel of the B rlin newspapers even failed to-ention it. As for A.iolph Hitler and his crowd, who -ire still rooting for the return of th old Monarchy, well they went into mourning abo'jt it. 2,000 of his followers gathered in a beer garden in Munich and drowned their sorrow in the beverage for which Munich has long been famous. Sal vat ion A my In London there is another important confab in progress - but it’s not political. The Salvation Army is ho].ins its annual conference. At last year’s meeting they had a regular free for all - bitter quarrels in the family of the famous General Booth. But this year, according to the I.K.G., everything is fri nly and quio^ ~ a ■' Tnain t i s>c is to work out a nov scheme o government for the Army, something to take the place o toe autocratic rule of the oonlh -unily. - 4_ L’Own in Sou'h America there is a missionary tr igedy, ..hi s evening * s papers adit a few detail:. Mi ssi - rr ri :!S i1;.:aerlean mission lies in-: a twc- year-ol chil-5 h-;ve been killed in the wilds of the Amazon Jungle, by savage Indians. The victims, according to th United dress, wese Arthur -yiee of Worcester, Massachusetts, his little daughter, r tz of Chieago. Tylee* s wife, who is also a missionary, was rounded. They were st tioneA in th jurs T.e of Sr=.zil, ^hrec ” eeks ’ journey y -.-ul lock c- r t ’rsm th ne.-ir st civilization Chins, Here’, a 'In :;h from China. Avelve missionaircs in Honan province hi ve sent a message to the A j '.•rican ^or ul at nankow savin; they expect a communist invasion. -Lhey " ant to out in hurry anti they ask that airplanes be sent i or them. -b- That’s ju t 'mother alarming note in the ant i-"orelrn situation out there in China. An-: one reason for the hatred against the sf m nations fs that old bugaboo - our American stand against Asiatic imi ration. An interesting article in th\s week’s Literary digest tells about a renewed burst in both China and Jaoan. The Digest motes Far Eastern publication-, papers the mo s': of us never have a chance to re id. The quotations show just hcv; much our b: n <n Asiatic iraigrants Is stirring up popular feeling out there. Cathedral bells Down in Mexico a curious mystery v.as solved. A few days ago a red Communist banner appeared in the tower of the great cathedral oh ieo City an tobody m ■ how il gol 1 ier =. Now according to the New lork Evening ■ orl g, the police have found that the old bell ringer put it there. He lived in hao ca^hedr-l belfry. Iu ■/as born ther . His father and grandfather had - 6 - spent their liv *s taking c^n:- o4' the bells. He was married in the belfry. Forty-tvo y i.rs he liv'd ith his bells, -and th n he stirt ‘d brood in r about life and politics. He fell in with the Comnrunirte, and *n } ling out th? red dcnmunist b nner, 1 hich made such a sensation. Today the bells are silent. And the old bell ringer? He is in jail. ^lyinr bp ctacular airplane "lights -re corning thick .nA ^ast these days. This afternoon Captain Hoy Ararael, that ^lying Chicago stock broker, landed in the Panama Canal Zone after a non-stop flight from !.:ev York. The International News service says he made the hop in 24 hours and 35 minutes. Captain Frank Hawks, say;.- the New York Evening Post, broke his own record when he came back from Havana to New York in 8 hours md 45 minutes. Over in Pur ope, the big DO-X has i - 7 - 1'j.naea a' Cal shot, n 1 ;r. , a four-hour fli.-ht from ••'nst- ^d-an. This completes the second leg of its Atlantic flight. The next hop ill he to Bordeaux, hr mee, then to Portugal and on across to show us what a really big plane looks like. The British gave the German flying boat a roaring welcome. Aviation is very much in the nevs in England today, anyway. The Philadelphia Ledger says that four big railways are planning an enormous new air system. They are going to offer cor. bin eh air and rail services between every part of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the continent. -^arh-- s t Amelia ^arhart the aviator, is report a on the v rge of the mo u hazardous long distance flight of all - a flight into the realms of wedded bliss. ..lie and George Palmer Putnam, the publisher, deny that they are raarri > . but according to the Nor York Evening Pest a license was issued in Noank, Connecticut. So everybody is wondering just what is v/hat. "noth, r romance that everybody was interested in v.as the marriage or Abie and his Irish Hose. Abie1 s The courts, however, have turned do’ n the suit which cent aided that the motion picture "The ^ohens and the Kelleys" was swiped from Ann Nichols' sensational stage success - Abie's Irish Rose. According to the New York oun. Miss Nichols sued the producers of the Cohens and the Kelleys" for three million dollars, but today the New York circuit court of appeals decided against her. News Item of the Da oports writ-rs everywhere are sizing U] the results of the r,ootb-tll games on Saturday. I was in Philadelphia for a while today and I found the sports columns featuring the name of Marty Brill. And no wonder. That Saturday game in Philadelphia between Notre Dame and the University of Pennsylvania was one of th classiest exhibitions of scientific football the gridiron has ever se n, and Marty Brill? Vvell, he was the hero. He was the Frank Merriwell of the game, and the human story behin th blazing brand of football he played Ls a grmd yarn, in fact about the best sport sto-'y of th years - so I'm picking it as the News Item of the Day. Marty Brill of Notre Darne was the st- r of that Saturday game and he knew something about the University of Pennsylvania. In fact, he used to be a student there* but ne didn t stay. Vhy? Well, because he couldn't make f % - 10 - the i ootball rhe;/- said he wasnf t good enough. But Marty’s father thought differently. He knew his son had the stuff. He was sure he had the makings of a great football player. £o, he took the hoy out of Penn, and he sent him to Notre Dame to see if he coulcn’t make the team there. hell, Marty did make the team. And then on Saturday notre Dame came bast to play Penn. V as Marty anxious to make good against Penn? He was, but brill senior was even more an; ious. He offered Marty a thousand dol'ars ror each touchdown he scored. The game began, 'nd th n came Marty’s first play. They threw him a pass. There was his chance. But he fumbled the pass. He went right over to Dgrrideo, the quarterback. "Give rae that ball again," he said. Carrideo -id. Brill caught the ball, and dug his cleats into the ground. He ran 68 yards for a touchdown. But that wasn’t all. a few minutes - 11 - late^ Brill romped ov r for another touchdown. ^hen a bit Bator galloped across the line with a third. In the stands Brill senior was watching. «as he mad about losing that thr e th usand dollars? Not he. There's Frank Merriwell for you, but, even outside of that, ev rybody agrees it was a wonderful game. Marty Brill said that the way th ^ot"e ^ame team was playing, all he had to do as run. Lynn Doyle, writing in the Philadelphia Bulletin, xhant remarked that ”The interference Brill got on his second touch iown •'as so perfect that he could have wheeled a baby carriage full of twins along, and given thorn a smooth ride." Rus colony A Russian syndicate has bought 9,000 acres of land do n in southern New Jersey for the urposes of establishing a Russian Cooperative Community. According to the Evening Ledger of Philadelphia, the colony is now - 18 - living m Canada, but its members have investlgatec! the land in New Jersey and believe it ideally .uited to the raising of hemp, which is the crop they are particularly interested in. Canals Now hold on to your seats. Volstead is dead. He dTed from 1 sinking something that didn1 t agree with him. But the Volstead I refer to is Volstead, the camel, that majestic dromedary at the N. Y. Central Park Zoo. ^ell, as I said, nrinking killed him, and now they're importing a new mat“ for his widow. Her name is Josephine II. The nev/ husband is on his way from Germany. He is . called question Mark, because they haven't given him ny real name yet. Dumb-Bells •ihy is a dumb-bell dumb? Because he -13- lacks V tarain B. So says Ip. Siegfried . laup' r, a scientist at the University of Chicago. Children who are not fed on whole grain cereals, milk, vegetables and egg yolk are only half as intelligent as children who are. The doctor, according to the Evening World, discovered this after experiments on rats. Shorts Here are a few oddities. According to the Evening Bulletin of Philadelphia, out in Oklahoma they fined a woman $5 for firing two shots at her husband, "presumably as a penalty for her poor marksmanship", adds the bulLetin. According to the Minneapoli s Journal q street eork r left a man-hole cov* of< and one of tho new midget cars disappeared through it like a squirrel going into its hole. The new Emperor of Abbyssinia now wants -13- (a) to build a million dollar palace, says the Associated Press, but his coronation cost him three million dollars and he is about out of funds. Although the newspapers and press dispatches are full of aviation these days, evidently there are some snots where air mindedness has not gone so very far. The Beacon Journal Akron, Ohio, says it has discovered a new way of figuring up the population of the town. Just fly over it and count the number co s in •'.hat is marked on the map as a landing field. The Evening Bulletin of Philadelphia quotes Rebecca West, th English novelist, as saying; "Morality reminds me o; ■. young man who is asked, *Do you think it right for a girl to sit in a mtnr s lap even if she is engaged?f To which the young chap replied, tYes,if it were our girl and our lap. Yes, if it were some other chap’s girl and our lap. But if it were our girl and some other chan’s lap, no, absolutely nf-’.’’ Out m bgypt nearly every Mo ha mined an boy is named Moses and most of the girls are named t- •‘lira - or ratima as they call It. The Associated Press cables that an Arab woman C-.irc h: r iven birth to quadruplets - one Tones r: three ratimas. End The law students out at Korth-est rn University, have just been given some profounc. advice by one of their legal adviS' rs. -aic the scholarly doctor, not only shoulc'. you study la -, but you should get married. Your v/ife should be broadminded. c siioul' have tset. the should be desirous of raising a •'araily. -he should know all of your faults in advance. In short, said the doctor, my advice is young man, marry your secretary. - 15 - 1'eteor You ra; y be able to see a few stranf visitors in the sky tonifht, and they v/i'1 1 be the advance guard of s vast sv.arm of visitors that will drop in to see us later, three years from now. They are shooting stars. We may see some of thora tonight, -ind then v/e should see more all the: r^st of this week. Out in s ace is a huge swarm of small t< dies, meteors, nn6 t.h y hit th earth’s atmosphere three tines each century. And when thy o, v/nll, that’s one 4 irr. hen you want J.o stay up at nights and be a star gazer. The sky is one glorious blaze of shoo4 ins stars, 'nd this, ha pens lust three timr s evr y hunc rod years. V.ell, you won’t see that big she v for thr c years. The real big meteor shov is due in but it is so vast that a fev thousand stragglers along its edge ought to bo along about now. o The 'Astronomers will be out watching tonight. -hey want to know if there are more shooting stars in the sky than usual this week. The astronomers are asking amateur ste r gazers to cooperate, and count shoo *ine stars from now till next Monday. So get your secretary, or your girl r your boy friend and let’s all go out nov. and count shooting stars. Goodnight, ano mind you keep your eyes on those stars.