•J-i * x * O U a .4 V> V*/ ^ «.o L/ iml> X i^./gy/S£ Good Evening? Everybody: A step witnout precedent was agreed upon in Vv ashing ton today. The leaders of the Democrats in Congress are preparing to rive President-elect Roosevent when he becomes President hi what they callfei blanket authority to make whatever i..iTyfc cuts tjiXikEXEuexxH and reorganize.tion^as. he sees fit in the raachinerfy of the federal government, ^ A dispatch to tlie Li’tmis.ryn ‘gtm..points A K out that no president of the United States will have had such broad powers, it will enable Mr. Roosevelt to eliminate government bureaus and consolidate otners. In fact, to make the economjfs*. sm most sweeping changes ;sn It is honed^ by the Democratic leaders,that tags authorization for the new president will be tacked on as an amendment to the general deficiency bill of Congress. A —i.ux *> ashing ton is quite interested in what seems to be a disagreement between the President-elect and the Vice-president­ elect. Mr. Garner the other day indicated that he would support a general sales tax and people the impression therefrom that A Mr. Roosevelt was also in favor of the sales tax. Mien the announcement came from Albany that the President-elect was vehemently between Mr. Roosevelt and AWr. Garner, ibis became even more evident when Speaker Garner referred to the President-elect1s idea for raising revenue as^%3«££Abookkeeping && official circles in the capital are amused and curious to follow the development of this disagreement and see hOW ~'^U )l) l.l n ^ OUt . m . .1 m a r \u a I, L V j . there^Si^a rift G-orge Bernard Shaw is still contributing to the gaiety of nations. As many newspaper readers ms# know, fir famous G.B.S. is on a roun the world cruisfe. Before he boarded the liner he announced publicly that he v:ou.ld not :ive a single autograph to anyboay for a ny reason or any pur pose w ha tsoever. Vvell y the stewards foresaw a chance of turning an honest penny. On some liners it’s the custom not to pay cash for drinks but to sign a check. They thought they'd keep all of G.B.S.'s checks and sell them to autograph hunters for a nice profit. no disgust of those stewards, who A evidently hadn't read the papers, when they learned that there wouldn't be any bar checks from G.B. S. As all Shavians ***«»'* tell you, ohaw is a teetotaler^ r xj \ juu ^ Theyfre having floods down ia&***m Sonth. The rivers of half a dozen stotes are swollen and still fegy=asga rising. In Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and South Carolina steady winter rains have increased the streams to many times their normal volume. In Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi many pcopleare a ready homeless. The houses of others are isolated by the flood waters. Sometime a?o the Scots, evidently set on fire by the spectacle of the 1rish Free State, gave voice to a demand for home rule for Scotland. In England that demand has caused not only discussion hut amusement. In fact, many Englishmen reply that what is needed in Great Britain is home rule for England. All over Ensrland they say, and in every line of endeavor leading jobs are filled by Scotsmen, Irishmen, even Welshmen. At present six of the British Cabinet are Scots, including the Prime Minister. : 1 ! I f I | xi.tUwi.kP ^ battle to the death, is about toi^nmir between A A motor trucks and railways. A dispatch to the Automotive Daily News reports that the scene of battle will be the California Legislature which convenes next week in Sacramento. The that no quarter wall be shown by either side. The railroads are determined to make the motor trucks pay for the use of the highways. Motor truck owners are resolved to survive the attack. Behind the railroads in this fight are banks, insurance companies, and all hnose who invest in railroad stocks. What's going to make it tough for the truck owners is the that/California State Treasury is empty and are looking wo tne truck lines to help fillit. tno truckmen say they have an investment of half a billion dollars in California, diving employment to thousands of people. This they <M, is auite independent of the cus lines. Well/. dgEsre—i.a^.^ ■ - — -- * q_ dL ^ w-e ~to W j 2 w -«Z- IiUuO Out in tovas there's an unusual hut quite tiraely movement, It is called the "Give a hog" campaign. That's what the Iowa farmers are doing xei & for the unemployed, a dispatch to the lievi York Sun points out thatwhile Iowa farmers are shy on cash, they are long on hogs. In fact, there are about eleven and a half million hogs in the State of Iowa. In some counties the te-rv*. are being distributed in the /v form of sausage. One suggestion is that farmers donate every ^£7 tenth hog of those they are feeding W the market, that this will not only provide millions oj . pounds It is believed of free- meat -gJI&Jr'Ar for those in need, will also reduce the market oupply, A- A. putting up the or ice of pork to the cash consumer. thereby Here's some nev:s from India for a change. ¥es? you messed it. The hero is the gentleman commonly known as Mahatma fi Hews Gandhi. dispatch to the Newark/^im^s reports that it*s quite likely Hr. Gandhi may soon be released from prison, loincloth and all. hext Tuesday ho will have been in jail a whole year y Rumors are freely current that not only Mr. Gandhi but twenty i&jBESMgm: thousand other political prisoners will be set free by the British Raj. £ x uii. i- -t-iri Ti.it. example of Mr, James Joseph? more commonly known as Gene lunney, former champion o± the v,'or‘id ? seems to be snreading. That is, nis literary example. In fact, says a communication to the hew torx Sun, the former heavyweight champion of Italy has gone Mr. iunney one better, Krminio Spalla,feH for that is the name of Italy Vs heavyweight champion, has written a play. Maybe that's not so remarkable. But my playwright friends tell me that '"hat bs rema.rii 3 .ble about Mr. Spa 11a1 s achievement is that he got his play produced, Xt was put on at one of the popular theatres in Milan. The house was .iammed by d delighted audience and the blushing author had to take numerous curtain calls after every act. Mr. Spalla's play is a comedy about boxers and prizefights. I wonder what Gene iunney will have to say to that. -L.U n: ci a fire in Brooklyn today which was no% different fi-om many other tires in Brooklyn or elsewhere except or the behavior of an individual named Minnie who lived on cue premises. Minnie had been missing from her home quite a while but the dairyman with whom she lived assumed that it was Minnie's own business. As a story in sl the ew fork World Telegram relates, when the i lames broke out the fire engines rolled up and smoke was pouring from the building, the dairyman thought once more of Minnie but decided istefc it was too late to do anything Presently from the heart of a tremendous billow of smoke out rusned Minnie over the coils ox hose and between the legs of firemen. fn Minnie's teeth was a ^iny kitten, minnie being a cat and the kitten a new arrival. Four times Minnie dashed through the smoke down into that cellar 01 that building, each time with a newly born kitten in her mouth. i^-rrrt -------- ■ ■ fi CITY .,hfen you meet a friend on the street in Mevv York these days, you don't stop to say hello, t&444^±±fe«s;g=a33Lij .d l y^T-> , — II!1^- 1 ?ES 32. ’’Have you been to the. Badio 0ity?M4:CTii I'leili1*" The papers have been full of - ^ ]-- 1> tlo ri-nnbt- yau—ha^e -read a -11 ft-bout-it-r-—Just about- OV' 'Py ouporlatl'ye ad jeotive—In the ang^oh- langua-g-o ha-e-boon ueod 0 \ Well, I went last night with a party of fellow I s ! travellers, the Martin Johnsons, and Sir Hubert Wilkins and his I 1 SI? I lady. When talking it over afterward our conclusions were about as follows: That to visit New York and not see the new Badio Music Hall would be like going to Egypt and missing the Pyramids, or like ~~'g o i —to -'i nd a a— a no iftiLOS-mg triio Taj ivlanalj or 1 1 ^ c vi 31 ting ■Pckiug wiUiuut a tri p 1 lo Lhu To-mul j uf Ile'F; rn-ur the Great Wall When I entered that auditorium last night I lelu as though I had turned back the pages of time, and tnut I . n- i q the first modern thing I have entering some ancient temple, it that feeling. It reminded me of the ever seen that has given me radio CITY - £ Arch of Ctesiphon In the desert north of Baghdad. Yes, here is something that would bringto those wizard builders of old, the kings who built the Temple of the Sun at Baalbek, the Temple of Karnak, i3?r Lnmaa» Ian Sophia' in. Isarn£ - n 1 ■ ill 111 tfrlffer-ggr Masrnra ■p -hHlriil --.l-u- Indl'ac: r -t-j-* J- It looses serious ior New 'i ear1 s Eve kxexx revelers in ban Irancisco. •nnvi’ Because the Deputy Prohibition Administrator S) oi toat joyous city has decided that men's trousers can be a vehicle. He has issued warning that if on Saturday night Uncle Samf s prohibition spies find men with flasks in their hip pockets, the things in which trie flasks are transported will be confiscated. — j<i<ucfcr, H-eso ^ m il i i I I tirnn gwimini ntm tr you'. iiThg1 3S3&i£z :~"np-"■the "'P^uHlbl biQjj—ggg&gsfr1!ytra tirr M Just ho:, a pair o pants can become a vehicle only a prohibition administrator seems to know* rni-wJU-i-y Premier Mussolini has decided to quit using the famous / island of hipari faixaxHKaxx off the northwestern coast of Sicilyj as a home for prisoners. A cable to the New York Italian newspaper, II ^rogreso, reports that there are only about four hundred political prisoners left on the various islands. These will be concentrated' on one single island in the Adriatic. People ho like po smohe on trains have complained for sometime that ihey get a rough deal on American railroads. So the other hay the ^socawanna cook a straw vote among their commuters to fin;; out vnat the majority of the travelers actually want. The question asked the commuters was - Should there be ’.ore than one smoking car on short trains aasd two on long trains? % A story in the Jersey Journal reports that as a result of this ballot it is found that seventy-six per cent, of the voters prefer the present system, which is one smoking car to every short train and two to long ones. Only a small percentage were in favor of smokin being permitted in every car except one^ eliic.b- ^fnr» non-smokers, as is llii liustcmr, in turope. ilk KXZ nei*e1 s something that ought to encourage the ladies. A credit man in St. raul, Minnesota, declares that women toda^^ are among the bt st credit risks in the country, woman, says this credit man, uses her credit judiciously, raakes and sticks to her budget, and keepfc within her income. He says further that single women are better risks than single men. Men take chances and women don’t. As the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin points out, it looks as though there were no longer any reason to ’’Pity the poor wo iking goil” because the poor wo iking goil takes excellent care of herself. IfeUrU. *& A lev; lays agoy my friend V.! If red Punk, president of Funk and V.anna 1.1 o, v-as investigating the Question: What are the most beautiful words in the English language? Out in Los Angeles the National Association of Teachers of Speech are now engaged in considering the worst words. Here are some which the teachers €t think should be eliminated: Spinach, sap, tes oh-boy-oh-boy, flatulent, phlegmatic, plump, plutocrat**6 Far be it from me to differ with the "Teachers of Speech", but business men tell me thr-t it's quite unnecessary to expunge the word plutocrat from the language. Plutocrats today just ain1t. a lady teacher from Hunter College, New fork, has a curious list of words she considers objectionable. They are: parsnips. spinach, and nasty. As far as J- am concerned. cwy rhirtti i^rL parsnips Heref s a fashim story that may astonish some people. the Even the overall vorn by men at work and^eineham apron of the housewife are controlled by Dame Fashion. This was told by a North Carolina professor to the American Economic Association. A story in the Cincinnati Dost reports that this pervasiveness of fashion is quite inconvenient in the cotton business. It makes it difficult to stabilize the manufacture of textiles. The fluctuation of styles affects curtains, draperies, sheets, and Whenever we Occidentals get to priding ourselves too much on acnievements or ideas, along comes some Chinaman to tell us that our id- as are old stuithat ixX his forefathers knew and discarded thousands of years ago. Down in Atlantic City where the American Association for the Advancement of Science is holdinr its winter junket, two Chinese scholars nave been contributing further to the humility of the white race. The doctrine of evolution, for instance, says one of these scholars, was lmo*:n in China twenty-five hundred years a^o. Another told thr American learned men that Chinese surgeons were administering anesthetics in the third century before Christ. Also that the Chinese biolo-ists beat the Englishman Harvey to the theory of the circulation of the blood through the human body by some two thousand years. _____ ________ x n 1 0 r 0 *31b i £1 Put at least onc^idea at this meeting oi scientists was advanced by an American. A Xork doctor told the learned assembly that the notion that wisdom ana age ro together is all rot. » ~ 11 e went on to say that this theory Is not only wronr but harmful especially In government. Said he: a ’"'Putting ol'I men in hir:h places lias been s^/great detriment, There snould be a maximum age for political office ,11 The doctor went on to declare that science would. be better off if most university professors would retire at the- age of fifty KNUFF (Ending) Theodore York of Gallagher Street, Springfield, Orixo, sends me a plaintive letter that I am sure will touch your hearts. nMy Vvife and I have been married seven years,” he writes, l!And We’ve had born to us two girls — twins — and three boys. The twins came first. Then when the first boy arrived we said we would call him ’Enuff’ -- E-n-u-f-f because we thought two girls and a boy would be enough. But two years later we had another boy. So we ex figured Enuff was not the right word to stop them. So we said we would name this boy ’Climax.’ "Then for a while we rested, I mean rested assured that we would not have any more. But to our surprise on J December 15, this year, another boy came. Ana we aidn't ;mow what to name him. After reading a±± of a certain city being infested with dandelions and having tried all hinds of chemicals and weed poisons they could think of, and not getting rid of told to 'learn to love them.' The^d^^^and them, they, were KNUFF - 2 before long dandelions ceased to bloom in that city, "Now we have decided to love our children more, and we are very glad we have so many. And we have named this last boy 1 do Long Until Tomorrow.