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Lowell Thomas * Broadcaafege
for The Literary Digest,
Tuesday, March 5, 1951,
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Tonight the United States of
America has a national anthem. I
suppose some of you will say, "Yes,
but why tel I us that? ¥/e have a
national anthem tonight and we've also
had one every other night since Hector
was a pup".
Why, of course. Hasn't the
Star Spangled Banner always or nearly
always, been the national anthem?
The answer to which is:- "No,
it hasn't."
It has been to all practical
purposes, but not officially, not by
government decree.
But today the Senate passed a
bill, which had already been passed by
the House of Representatives. That bill
sets forth that the Star Spangled Banner
shall be the national anthem. So that
just about settles it.
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Of course the bj I ( still has to
be signed by the President. To be sure
Mr. Hoover is in a vetoing mood just
now, but the story going the rounds in
Washington tonight is that the President
is not likely to veto the Star Spangled
Banner.
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Well, "long may it wave, ofer
the land of the free and the home of
the brave." And long may we sing it-
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- President Hoover ve
Muscle Shoals Bill. ^According to the
International News Service, the President,
in his veto message, states that he
opposed to the government going diinto
business in such a way as to compete
with its own citizens.
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This is the Muscle Shoals compromise
that was agreed upon by the Senate and
the House of Representatives. With the
President firmly saying No',’ it looks
as if the bill wu^Td have to wait untiI
the next session of Congress.
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Among the disturbances of the day
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was a riot at Albany, New York.
hundred Communists crowded into the
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galleries, while the State Legislature
was in sess ion .'feectap- They, frroke out
into a terrific uproar, anst^Tne state
troopers took a hand.
According to the Associated
Press, it was a wild fight before the
rioting Communists were
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motion picture house at Youngstown, Ohio*
The theatre was completely destroyed.
Luckily it was empty. The blast hurled
the ticket booth alI the way across the
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street, and for blocks houses were shaken
and people thrown sprawling. Nobody was
hurt seriously, but one girl was reported
to have lost her voice as a result of
the shock.
According to the International
News Service, the fire department blames
the blow-up on gasoline, and there's a
suspicion that fire bugs were at work.
Philadelphia had an explosion too.
it partly wrecked three apartment houses
in West Philadelphia. A score of people
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pol ice be I ieve that
somebody planting a bomb.
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Now here!s a solution to
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one of the most curious
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recen t months.
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Edna May Cooper is a Hoi lywood
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film actress and an aviatrix. Together
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with another young woman, Bobbie Trout,
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she established a world's endurance
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iflying record for women. That occurred
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last January. A week ago she took off
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in an airplane intending to fly to
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Santa Monica, and she vanished, dropped
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out of sight, and all California
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hunted for her.
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And now she has reappeared
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at Monterey, California. She had lost
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her memory. She registered in a hotel
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as Caroline Hope and called a doctor
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to treat her for
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Monica. V/hen he told her she was in
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Gouverneur Morris, the wife of the
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novelist, who lives
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At the doctor's suggestion she wrote
a note to tors. Morris, and she signed
it - Edna May Cooper. ^sVie kept
looking at the signature she had
written and
- WHY THAT'S MY
NAME.
Then her memory came back -
all except what had happened to her
after she had started out in her
airplane from Hollywood. She showed
evidences of having been battered and
bruised. The doctor said it might have
been the result of an airplane accident
or of a beating.
According to the United
Press it is thought
the explanation
of the strange episode that Miss
Cooper underwent so great a strain in
breaking the endurance record that it
caused her to lose her memory.
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Today the Texas Rangers are in
command of Ki Igore. They didn’t come
in as in the old days, galloping
mustangs, and singing a song. They
swooped down'^iSefeast town by automobile
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and by train.
The trouble with Kilgore is
chat it is so rich. It is the center
of a wild and hilarious oil boom.
The owner of the general store found
himself worth a couple of million
over night.
A gusher was brought in
on a miserable little cotton patch and
a poor-white farmer had wealth beyond
all his dreams piled into his lap.
Well, naturally things began
to buzz around Ki Igore and they buzzed^
in somethinq like the old Wild West way.
Gambling houses end
sprouted
like a bed of mushrooms.
According to the New York
Evening Post things got so scarlet in
Kilgore that the state had to intervene.
So the Texas Rangers pounced down upon
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the town and rounded up the bad citizens.
A couple of hundred of t+ve«r were herded
into an old shack* Not a single pistol
was found in the entire collection, and
that 1s not like the old Wild West. A
dope needle was found on one man and
that's not like the old Wild West either*
But in any case, Kilgore, a
bad town in the oiI boom land, is a much
chastened and sobered down place today*
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Here's a real note on unemploy
ment.
Along the coast of Maine
there is no need of anybody being
jobless so long as there is an ocean
in the neighborhood, and believe me
there is plenty of ocean up there off
the rHaine coast. Men without jobs
have simply become fishermen. They
got out and catch x the food they
need for themselves and families, and
what they don't eat they sell.
According to the associated
Press,there are six thousand new
fishermen along one section of the
Ma ine coast.
Jobless meb go in for ice
fishing. K
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knock holes through the ice on the
inlets and tidal riverscan catch
ten pounds of smelt a tide hsup and
they can sell,fish for twenty-five
cents a pound.
Well, I've always envied a
fisherman's life. It seems I'k® a
glorious combination of work and fun,
a Ithouoh I know, of course, the work is
long and hard.
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Now I don't like this next
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The Associated Press inform;.;
us that the International Garment
Manufacturers Association
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that overalls are not in good form.
Of course, we know they are not in good
form at a banquet, but those garment
manufacturers say they are not good
form for a man laying bricks or
plough!ng a field.
fhey say that a^working man
wear more formal garments, and
explain that the proper costume for thp
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well dressed
a cotton suit well tailored and with
trousers neatly creased.
We've a I I heard comic talk
about street sweepers and farm hands
dressed in tail coats and plug hats.
I suppose that's what the garment
manufacturers are driving at. Well,
so far as I'm concerned, the garment
manufacturers can wear those tailored
cotton suits with knife creased trousers
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themselves. When I putter around my
house repairing something - and
usually making it worse - I'm going
to stick to my old pair of overalls.
VANISHING BA^IUKG SUIT3
Now coraee
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mystery that has been
solved,
it's the
mystery of the disappearing bathing suits,
.An American with a villa on the Med iter ran eon Coast of
Prance, was said to have procured a number of the disappearing
garmente. They were like ordinary bathing suits except that
when they became wet they dieeolved, and vanished.
The story was
that
this American
would
invite large
Gompaniee of comranles
of guests to hie
villa and arrange it so
that they
Game
without bathing
suits.
Then he
would
suggest a
swim
and
would bring
forward
the vanishing bathing suits. The
guests innocently would
put
them on
and
then
merrily plunge into
the water of the
Mediterranean and
the bathing suits would promptly
dissolve.
And that's when the fun began. There were exclamations
of dismay and shouts of astonishment and consternation. Friends
of the distressed bathers would come running with barrels.
Meanwhile the host would be rolling around on the sand in serious
danger of laughing hime if to death.
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That. t» Lfie i^tory ttie Lew York i/Vening Poe^ ^elis tonight.
And it explains how an American business man cabled the tale back
to his firms, and presently those firms were inquiring who were
the French manufacturers that made the vanishing bathing suits.
They wanted to order them by the thousands.
'"he French manufacturers locked up the American with
whom the story started. He said it was just a yarn. He had
merely told it around as a tall story. (Well, I think we ought
to elect him Grand Prevaricator of the Tall Story Club.)
Meanwhile a number of people over here in the United
States who were all set to buy those vanishing bathing suits,
are wondering whether some clever chemist won't come forward and
find a way to produce them
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V/e I I , after the vanishing
bathing feuits, let's take up the
case of the disappearing ink.
At Upper Uarbyt Pennsylvania,
Mrs. J. W. Ne i I so n
advertised
that she wanted to sell a fur coat.
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A couple of strangers called and after
a bit of bargaining bought the coat
for 865.00. According to the United
Press, they gave Mrs. Neil son a check
for 465...00U.
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A few hours later she looked
at that check again. By this time it
was a blank, checte* It had been: written
with disappearing ink and every trace of^
writing had vanished. Mrs. Neilson cewt
remember the name of the
stranger who signed the check, and there
is nothing in the vanished signature
to give any hint.
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I have just been looking at one of
the most unusual p ictures--photograph
I mean--that I have seen in years. It
is a picture of a water-spout at sea.
In fact, it is more than that, it is a
picture of six water-spouts all in a
row--alI six whirling and swirling from
dark somber clouds that are milling
above the Sulu Sea.
The Sulu Sea is a sort of far
eastern Mediterranean. It lies between
the Phil ippines and the north coast of
Borneo.
Water-spouts are quite uncommon.
In approximately 100 voyages at sea, I
have only encountered one water-spout
and that was in the Caribbean. But in
this picture, there are six. One water
spout is awe-inspiring to behold, but
six of them in a row--well that seems
impossibIe.
A French sailor snapped this
strange photograph and it appears in
this week's Literary Digest.
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The London News-Chron ioIe prints
a cable f r om its Indian co r r esp onda nt t
Robert Bernays• And that cable starts
o f f i n a som ew hat s t ar 11 i n g f as h i on.
^Gandhi,11 it says, 11 has suddenly
swung over to the side of peace* That^
the miracIe whioh has transformed the
in a few hours from one of
even despair, to one of
considerabIe hopefulness. This sudden
changa in Gandhi1s unyieIding attitude
can hardly be e x agger at ed^
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jGandhi has compromised with the British
authorities on the subject of salt.
Now, that question of salt has
been the chief moral issue between Gandhi'
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Hindu Nationalists and the British Indian
government. The British have a
salt I nd i a • An d this the Nationalist
Party resents. Gandhi's non-violen t
rebel lion began when the Mahatma and his
foI lowers went to the seashore, bo i l ed
seawater down* and made salt.
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Gandhi's recent negotiations with
Lord Erwin, the British Viceroy, were
held up by a couple of \thorny questions
on which they couldn't lagree. And the
principal one of those thorny questions
was that same subject orf/salt.
The International News Service
states that! in that compromise on salt
the British will still keep the saT4:
monopoly, but they will permit Hindus
along the seacoast to manufacture and
sell that prime necessity of I ife--salt
Gandhi is still conferring with
the Viceroy, and the report is that alt
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And now let> try to imagine a
terrific honking of horns,
blowing
of traffic cop whistle#, and angry
shouts in Spanish.
Yes, folks, we're in Mexico,
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where a traffic jam is threatened that
will make even New York and Chicago
traffic jams seem like a wide open road.
The Associated Press states that
in Mexico City the taxi drivers' union
is demanding recognition haft by the city
authorities, and they don't want any
independent, non-union drivers to get
hacking licenses. They've informed the
city fathers that if they^dont-jf have
their way they'll proceed to tie Mexico
City up with the most terrific traffic
jam in history. They'll just park their
cars in a series of impenetrable jams
and tangles at the intersections of the
principal streetsvof the Mexican capital.
(The city fathers
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Mexico City are
stroking their whiskers and wondering
what to do.
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Now boys--duck. I am ducking
myself because there is a big brick
coming our way• At the same time there
is a big gold medal awarded to the
ladies. It seems that it's the wives,
and sisters and daughters who are the
possessors of culture--and not usc-^^i. j
This comes from Dr. Charles Gray
Shaw, the author of a highly
successful book called "The Road to
Culture". I read it a week or so ago
and found it mighty fine.
Dr. Shaw says that we men have
gone in for business and fcr physical
culture, while the women folks have
gone in for intellectual culture. Men
began to turn away from cultural
education a gener at i on ago and the women
began to turn toward gtiI taracfc-etteBratTror
about the same time. The result,
according to Dr. Shaw, will be that the
great works of art in the future wilI
be produced by women.
Well, that certainly is a big brick
thrown in the general direction of the
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ot the i.ien-fo Iks.
I guess the only
thing you boys can do is brush up
on your culture by reading ur. Shaw's
book. In fact, l think that tonight.
I'll re-read a tew pages from "The
Koad to Gulture" myself. And as we
less-cultured tel lows say, so long
until tomorrow.
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