WAB Tti ^ ' the ozinous question — when tne war really blaze forth with murderous violence? Word comes increasingly that the people of d-reat Britain and France are becoming impatient with the stalemate state of affairs, the seige tactics — the half a war. ffDo something0— is being demanded more and more^Ln London and Paris. nDo something0— the cry was raised in the British House of Commans todaypere are a couple of typical statements:- Herbert Horrison the Labor Leader 3£.P. spc^e up for what he called more vigor and liveliness in the conduct of >> 'ptji ^ • JPt the war. And. #w reasoned this w£y;-°If we continue to conduct A /V the war on a leaisurly basis, said he, °we shall fail.0 Then blackauard. he added:- °Hazi Germany is acting as a perfect We are act in / as s perfect gentlemen^ _tfs a matter for c on si a era ti on perfect gentlemanliness can w_n .^dtor^e^.0 A hore ominous was the demand made by Sir Warren Fisher Defense Official of the British government, ae spoke these Yiords:- °it is necessary,0 said he, * to hit tack 4M Germany civilians in retaliation for ^murder of Englsih civilians at sea.° Talk like that might point toward the unleashing of the full horror. Meanwhile, Great Britain is having a war contract scandal. 1t broke today —charges that conniving agents otre A getting percentage cuts on contracts for military supplies,— tMa=^aMiry^mgrT" I I ti 7^^ influence in the getting of government A orders FM u AM) i : e end of the war was made official in Finland today, ihe Fiiaiibh Parliament voted to ratify the harsh treaty with Soviet Russia. Reports say there was a bitter debate. Tne ministry nad to deiend the peace treaty in the face of angry discontent. Tnere was, however, never any doubt about the issue. There was nothing else the Helsinki Parliament could do - except ratify. £3* From Stockholm comes a disenchanting report - trouble between the Finns and the Swedish volunteers who went to aid tnera. Not surprising, however, considering the way the Finns fefcl that the Swedish Government let them ccwn - kept help from reacning them. Tnat might inevitably lead to disputes between Finnish soldiers and Swedish volunteers. Stockholm tells of a fight, in which one Swede was killed. Sumner Welles is in home tonight, ending his peace mission v :,ere ne started it - the Eternal City. He’s to have a second set conferences there - with Foreign Minister Count Ciano and with ...Tjssolini. And it appears that he will visit Pope Pius the Twelfth. Moreover, he is to be received by King Victor Emanuel at nine o’clock tomorrow morning. And that royal audience is provoking speculation. The inferences are based on protocol, that all-important diplomatic code of etiquette. It is pointed out that protocol does not require Sumner Velles to oe received by the Italian King. It we.? 'different) wltn niooe»itrfrp, n-iV.j.^r16 Forei-^n- »H-, 1 'iairi c U-tesif.an v;r.ara-t^^ iiicnest Italian d^oorakioit, . _~>rn t-‘ r_ Mi-r-rn'O - r i-m—rrrriK— q I—t he- -i —fenoh — them. 2 1 15 aciuslThj-^s—to TO r»cfcJ.vLii_at_:.i.fe Ki..g thuuglt-Ctet»»- -;-rr<?tr&icordlag to ^etoe-vi^ The belief is tnat ,iCeor Emanuel is taKing some part in the diplomatic activity - maybe some iiev> plan. All of *hich ties in with the rumors of another Nazi effort for peace. ho.ue is seething v.ith rumors about Sumner Welles. Qne is tnat the Italians are s.s giving him additional German information. which nibbentrop left for them to pass on to him. Another report is that Mussolini may give the Presidents emissary an alarming picture of the prospects - following the end' of the Soviet-Finnish War. This picture is said to envisage the possible formation of a giant East European combination, consisting of Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, the Baltic nations and the Balkans - and maybe It£ly. This rumor is in line with the news that Berlin is strenuously trying to promote better relations between Rome and Moscow. That might be more possible now that the Soviets are no longer fighting the Finns. The tiSwUmption is that the Allies might be faced with a combination of everything east of the Rhine* ^nd tnatrs the menacing picture which Mussolini may place before Sumner Welles, possibility. TnatT£ tne VV£xy tae guessing goes in nome tonight. ROOSEVELT % » There was a livel/ today between President Roosevelt and benator Tobey of New Hampshire. The president really didn't say anything — he had to call off his press conference because of a cold. He made the statement through tne mouth of presidential Secretary Steve Early. Steve, confAjM&w^. the Washington correspondents, said what F.P.R. would have said, which was as follows:- "For the first time in his knowledge a United States Senator ope ly advised the American people to violate the law." This of course concerns the hot debate about the census, those personal income questions which have stirred up so much r^libuloo. The storm has been so lively that the Commerce Department, which runs the census, lias had to back down. Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins lias changed the schedule^ ■‘tfTiis way;— you can answer, if you want to, when the census man asks you abodt personal income matters. If you don't want to answer^ he gives you a card on which you can write the information, without your signature, iou can seal it and it will be sent to Washington, without the eensus man knowing anything about your answer. ROOSEVELT - 2 Ihe leader in the fight against the financial questions has been Senator Tobey. ue declared the inquiries w were an invasion of privacy and advised people to refuse to answer them. Iiie presidential statement today did not mention the name of Tobey, but there was no doubt about who was rnrnntjin thr ^npunnjatl<°m the ^BitGd--gtgtrs S bth As soon as this was made public, it drevf a hot reply from the iuew Hampshire lawmaker:- nWhat do you mean law violation?” demanded the Senator in effect. He described the census decree in these words:- ”An unauthorized ruleing of a departmental bureau.” And he asked — ”Does the President consider such an anauthorized ruling a lawr of the United States?” lereupon the^entleman rrom Hew Hanutehire with a^arm* in the^e words:- ”I\fs time,” S^td he, ”to It to ^tempts of departments t\ arrogate to\theniselves^ne function of \ legislative feody.” So what kind of violation did the Senator advise? Law violation, or unauthorized ruling violation? TELEPHONE Th- co^t of loiif distance calls is being cut. Tne federal Communications Commission today announced a reduction throughout the United States. It applies to calls covering a distance of more than four hundred and twenty miles - and the more the mileare, tne greater the slash of price. If a New Yorker is tniniiinf about phoning San Francisco, he wonft have to pay six aoUars and a half any more - day rate station-to-station. Hereafter it will cost him four dollars* A proportionate reduction for night calls and person-to-person. The Commission figures that tne new rates will mean a saving to the public of five and a half million dollars a year. NOhTH t>OU: T0iii^nt citizens of jdarshville, Wisconsin, are indignant - because theyT11 have to stay citizens of idarshville. They wanted to change the swampy name of their town, but the government won't let them do it. I don't know whether or not the folks of Marshville object to cogs ana^ftUQ-^ That really isn*t the reason why they wanted the name of their town altered. They sought to have the name changed to - North Pole. They grew Arctic minded when they thought of the town of Santa Claus, Indiana, and the volume of Christmas mail which people send via Santa Claus, aiarshvilig, with a pftpiilQMsn of eightyj' is threatened with a--lo39 of-it9-> jiu J L~fr?rfc eno way *fro weep-tne post anv>>t --- iiri'hi^i TnariTir n n i itmn i uni 1 rjn ruin Moreover, the citizens are trying to get a toy manufacturer to establish a factory in the town. And one inducement would be - to have the toy aaantf factory situated at the North Pole. However, it's all off apparently. The post office deoartment announces today that the North Pol© idea has been turned down. And the reason is given - because Marshville is not tne NORTH POLE - 2 ......... . E ji Lin 'I i \ ~ lit North '^ole would be okay. The inference might northernmost in Wisconsin. If it were ^ y) — seem o be that north of Wisconsin there is nothing) wnich should A please the Canadians. WITHER All day here in new York it has been bright and mild, brilliant sunsnine most of the^uar* And every time my eyes were dazzled by the sunbeams I let out a groan. I remembered the weather story 1 gave last night - about an icy blizzard sweeping toward the northern Atlantic states - a deluge of snow and sleet about to sweep upon us. So today I wondered - where was the blizzard? Later on that question was answered by a United Press dispatch, which cheered me up a lot. It tells of an unseasonable storm which sent temperatures tumbling from Ontario to the Gulf of Mexico. Up-state New York covered with ice and snow today. So the blizzard at least was somewnere - although not in New York City. It seems to nave swept a bit to the north* to—t+w-u ftilc- in south, as in New Jersey, triere were heavy A rains last night which today caused a threat of flood. The Delaware River has been rising so fast that people down the valley have been getting ready to flee their homes. The danger is the greatest alon^’ the lower reaches of the stream, where the Lehigh flows into the Delaware. At Morristown, New Jei'St-y, tne Vmippany River has driven fifty families from their homes. They live in <*. tn« section called - "the hollow." Union is self-explanatory - tne river flood pouring into the hollow. WHALE Here's a warning to skippers sailing the sea tonight. If, wmie navigating on the ocean some four hundred miles south of Boston you should sight a submarine - it isn't. Take another look, captain, that's the request the Coast Guard ma*es today, apprehending a lot of submarine alarms. Today, a steamer reported sighting a dead whale - a seventy-three foot cetacean floating on the sea. The probabilities are, says the Coast Guard, that more than one sea-going skipper Wrill sight the dead whale and sing out, ^Submarine ahoy!" Thereby causing a lot of radio alarms and general nuisance. gi e s .ne the freu.test pleasure to read sorae thing that Governor L€haan of New York said today. The Governor made a statement, along with his proclamation^ naming ilarch the Sixteenth as St. Patrick’s Day. Yes, the Sixteentn, because the world famous March the Seventeenth falls on a Sunday this year, and the Hibernian day-of-riays will be celebrated on 4 Saturday. Governor Lennon speaks taese words, which I am only too eager to repeat. ?Sons and daughters of Ireland,” says he, "have enriched our American life because of the prominent roles they have played, since earliest Colonial Days, and because cC their deep religious faith and their inherent love of tolerance and freedom.” Noble words. Governor - and true words. I have repeated them with especial fervor, because of this next story. It comes from Ireland. Today, in the Dublin Parliament the Ministry of Industry and Commerce faced a barrage of criticism concerning the Irish pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. Dublin complained because at the Irish pavilion there were no pretty girls to greet tne visitors. And, tbmj• there was no Irish whiskey - also to greet \ A IRISH the visitors. IRISH - 2 To tnis in Dublin today, Sean Moyian, Parliament ary Secre tary of tne Ministry of Industry and Commerce - made reply. There were so many pretty girls at the Fair that one v.o^d oe gics.a to go to tne Irish pavilion and get a rest them. Fie, fie, Sean, is that in the spirit of Tom Moore who wrot e: - rr: My only books wei’e women with looks i-nid folios all they've taught me." An Irishman getting a rest from pretty girls: YouTa MszrgJcJ' think tnat pretty girls...ave to get a rest from Irishman. A A But, anyway, thatfs only the half of it. - For Sean Moyian.went anead to discuss the absence of Irish whiskey at the Hibernian pavilion.^mle put it this way:- ”1 Know7 what I could do to a bottle of whiskey/’ said he. ’’And I Know'what an Irish-American could do to it. I also Know their reputation for fighting. And, grouping these two things together,” said he, ”1 think there was every justification for not having a restaurant at one pavilion.” The Dublin parliamentary proceedings went on with this final statement:- ”V>e don’t wish to see scenes which mi6ht be occasioned IRISH - 3 if there were a bar in the i-rish pavilion and if there were fighting." zXjz Y\au>* ytnose Dublin So, sinc^^Z 111 IT l*»«g»cga!s^glilui v.ords, you can understand why I eagerly welcomed tne opportunity to ^uote the, t^rmf ga^-q^ay J A Governor Lehaan. In fact, just to be sure, I think I’il say them ail over again. "Sons and daughters of Ireland have enricned our American life because of the prominent role they have played,” crv\ . o 'rlAKKoPKAfvE L,et1 s have an end of our Shakespearian troubles — the "him” or "he" controversy. I am now informed that the quotation from Macbeth that Gene Tunney and .1 made — is not b?d grammar at all.^fhere's so much protest that I»ve decided to put tne controversial baby on Gene*s doorstep.. As a radio news commentator, I «*11 let the former heavyweight champion of the world bp the grammarian. at»n K -tUz-etrzfrtxz:. l _ h »■ 1 vX t vI asked him to give me an A authoritative and definitive ruling, and.here it is! —- "I^e long been interested," writes Gene Tunney, v "in the difference of opinion among EnglaAn students on the grammatical accuracy of the quotation, lLay on, MacDuff; {And damn,d be him who first cries, ‘Hold enough.f<* Un Englsih grammar," continues, "the v rb* form \ ^ .1 is known as tne jussive subjunctive!— a contingent command, io ^ CtJc<L Latin it would be expressed -- fLet him be damned^' The contingency ~T , is in the phrase — * who first cries *Hold enough’. There," adds A Gene, "is your jussive subjunctive, and the regular rule of a nominative pronoun folld>v.riiig a neuter toerb cannot apply to it." J SHAKESPEARE - 2 -a jussive subjunctive. / G g ne Goes on with a iui’ther observation. ’’Shakeseear says he, ”can properly be indicted for solecisms of speech, as we % now understand Englsih — as in the words he out into Mark Anthony * s moutn in JUSTUS CAESAR:- X fThis was the most unkindest cut of all.* yet,’1 the former heavyweight champion goes on, f,this was most expressive and carried the meter of the verse.” So the Gene Tunney idea is that while we do find ungrammatical forms in Shakespeare, the I'acbeth quotation is not one of them. And his analysis agrees with the letters I!ve been getting from all sorts of grammatical authorities. They explain the use of the pronoun ’’him” in much the same way, although they donft get around to that awe-inspiring clincher the jussive subjunctive. v And now, Hugh, what jussive subjunctives have you tot to offer?