fop ltterapv digest v-V".^D.-Y, EECErPER 17, 1930 INTRO GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: I’ve got en unusual item to start off with tonight. It includes news from all over the world. News from everywhere all in one story. How csn th't be? Well, there has been a mysterious shaking of the shell of this old nlanet of ours. The Seismogreh of the Harvard Observatory has been catching it. They say the distrubance has been going on for a week nov and it re ched its climax last night. According to the International ^ews Service it doesn’t indicate a big earthquake anywhere, but just a lot of small shakings Oi. the earth crust. Scientists say that tiny tremors like this have been observed every once in a while for years, but nobody knows just what they mean. :^ v „ l Page. i wo l h i n rs h appened t odav Lii.iL i.iade uie Ion to str iks out on xho .rail c.oain. iv.uoh as 1 love stayina e.t home, .aJjo u ch i s season of The vear there comes The old, old itch to he off. The first thin-: that made me rest­ less was a luncheon where I met a lot of my friends from Africa, India, Australia and other corners of the earth. f?6r-weFg- g.-t ftru s =Fds -=?fhcr: ha d Gr o^secF-sa^fr^O-t-h^ar— tea N=s=- t i :.-;c srn a —a g«Trrp. . / e recall^!. hovi v:e had o u t i n j a i r o isBt ..o in bay, -e# oinrapore; A dined and it ’/as all I could do to keep from co i no J o v/n and hopping o ii the n e x t bo a t n d t hv3 n w hen I got ba ok t o m y office the second thing happened. Jn my desk i found an invitation to co on a tour o t t he Sunny South , d o wn th r ou■. h yj pn jpj ^ f the Carolinas, the b Iue-crass countrv of i entuck1/ .anu lennessee, o,winter resorts or c nen on mue on t ^ x x x p< xix x ;< G c o r n i a , r I or i da, and ti I o n _ the r. ulf of iwexico. TEAVEL - 2 ^ UIUjer th:t ^vitetlon I found another urging me to run dovvn to Texas and then take a jaunt across the Painted Desert of New Mexico and Arizona, to California the land where it is always afternoon and never the time to worl. And under that was still another invitation. This one v/as to S' end the winter in Hawaii and then voyage on around the world to the romantic icles of the South Seas, to New Zeeland and Australia. ,'here did all those invitations come from, and will I ecce-'-’t them? Veil, much as I love travel, this year T can’t get awry and I’m going to pass all t ere invitations on to you. So here and no- just con. icier yourself invited to Bermuda, to the romantic isles of the West Indies and the Caribbean, to -outh America, Mexico, miroue end Africe. How will you receive the invitation? Why, jurt turn to the new Literary Digest, the one that comes out tomorrow. It's celled the Winter Travel Number, end it tells you ell the f seine ting daces to go in winter time. TRr’ 1-3 on the cover is a colorful Picture rhowins how they traveled .n i hir country a hundred years ago. It*s a -nicture 0 l p C ) c“ - ^ --ai UT * the roof sits a guard with a Long- Ton ri- i-e and r coon skin car. A lovely maiden in her Colonial cos-one i.- junring fron the eor ch to the arras of a man who lo )ks a bit like Oeorge 'Washington. It’s a handsome cover, and I couldn’t help thinking which I’d rr for, those ’-'cturesoue old days of stage coaches, or the '■'resent day of swift travel by luxurious trains, and ralatial steamers that take us around the world in less tk time than it once required for a tri-' to V/estern Canada. j ±th the massing of the stage coach a little of the romance and gl raor of olden times disarreared. But nocern trans ortation has added inmensely to the joy O a li.e. It has raad it nosfitile tn for us to srend our winter holidays traveling to all the f cinating -laces that are described in this week’s "Vinter TrcveJ dumber of the Literary Lise t. o0 ^- tnr. kx of the ooen road anneals to you, just turn to the Digest and nick out thft holiday soot But for a that tickles your fancy most.. ^ moment now let’s see what’s going on both here at home and in far countries. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 5M A/\ Page L Th e tecL oxates , ...........^ i •! ^ t n i l ^ p r o h i b i t i o n cl e g i s i a -.ill i cj.1. i. wlark, redora! < ucire 0 VC, P Hi jg n t i s C 0 l D l! . i n i * e v; o e r c a • - li u n d e u vs o \; n v h g opinio n » xhat xhe - i hxeenxh ,;mendment was un- cons:ixutional, because ix had not been auopxoG ro erlv. Aarousea plenxy of controversy, anci the ..ssoci ated tress tel Is us x i ta x t!i c r e v; a s c. n i nci e d i a t e conference of 30vernment off icars • They ann j ui 1 ce a x .1 at an i ■.o u i a te &ppea I 11 o Ju e . 1 ark 1 s dec i si on v; ill be taken xo L 6 ^ uor e.vie Jour x • ) Page l 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 ! 25 i 1 Gut at Gibraltar two British submarines ran into each other, and were damaged so badly that they may need dry- docking. According to the Associated ^ress, they were on their way to Hongkong to join a squadron which is going to try to BBHnpsc suppress piracy in Chinese waters. J fan 'jo'iu1 ? (ii ft /lsjc<j - flu' ^ / tff u uLc It /jtUistt J&c lltAy f ,2-, » SM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 j n 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 5M GUiilELALiii Page S' 1 h o r g has b» e n a s w i f t, snappy rev oIu io n down in :; uatemaI a. it br oke o Li t s u d u e n 1 v , e. n a n aa ' a -is udd&n success. A The Guatemala 'o vornment headed bv vice- presiderv: Palma has been overthrown, and a new government headed b'/ General Orellana is in power at Guatemala Uity. ihere was heavy fighting between i-ederal 'croops nc xi; l rebels, in the streets ot the capital city, and the KHXXXBixxRexsc International hews oervice states that tse i.. j n i s t l r ot ..ar was killed in the battle. Page___ Y * i mu £i£hii Hi If vxo-'us: A <-»nd nere 1 s Aact i on e .n d "thrill, Down in Honduras they were staging a bull •fight. The bull was charging. The matador slippea and fell, and the 5 maddened bull lowered his horns, sjThis was all taking place 7lriqht in front of the grandstand, and Hip among the spectators was r.ajor Geyer, an nmerican military attache to Honduras 101 In a flash he whipped out his pistol and 11 fired. The bull fell dead just as 12 the fal len matador 15 16 17 18 19 , 20 21 22 23 24 25 i 121 30 SM hit An a Acc ?rdlng to rer from Aurore there w&s street fighting over in RuiriHnie todey. The United press reports thrt the n lice in Bucharest battled with five thousand students who ax were making a demonstration against King Carol. They were angry with the king for being too sympathetic toward the jev.s of Human i a. l/ell, Rumania is a fascia? ting rlace, and travelers over there ere 1 ; tening to tales of Ballean roll tics and intrigue ' hich would -rovlde material for several melodramatic novels. Rumr nis also is e glorious ’'lace to go on that Vinter holio? y that the new Digest tells all ebou*. Page // u/- A That revolt in Spain seems to have A 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 j 11 12 13 ! U 15 quieted a own. There v/asnTt any f i g1 1 1 ing today, and a special cable to the hew York Sun says that the "general strikes in various cities are petering out. I he United Press sSaiSi A that ..ueen Victoria of Spain had a long-distance talk with the editor of the London evening Ltar, sirrct^s+fe^s^r-taer " there everything v/as absolutely quiet in u.adr i d and there no need of a I c. r t.i. The C u e e n is L n g I i s h ^ member of the -tnglish royal family 18 19 20 : 21 ' 22 23 24 25 I u-<-30 5M 1I£L Page / ^ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 ! 18 ; 201 21 22 23 ! 24 ! 25 ‘ 1 I had a telephone call today from oy CaId' eI I . Uy is aw veteran aviator who i o kilo v/n i a r an cl w i de a mo no f I v i no men for his satirical remarks. He has the caustic type of humor. jell, Cy opened up in his usual vein and said:-- "Aviation seems to be important, at least it is to the a.viators who make a living out of it. And I'm not trying to put over any air-minded propaganda on you because that air-minded stuff is usual ly hot air-minded. But, just the same, your nees item of the day ouc'ht to be that bic flight tbu.t the Italians started this morning." Well, I guess Cy is right. I hat certainIv is a monumentaI fIight which l v 4 u s s o I ini has started on its way. la big bombers BiVMSfa are f I ^ *f o rna *t i o n^ci c r o s s the S o u 'c n a 11 ci n l i c . Ac go r din n to the United Ir e s s, they s t c. r t e u out ft' on i rl o iii e c Ii i s m o r n i n q , c. n d landed in Spain this afternoon. They'll hop over to from the hest ■f p j q a o. n d t i iG n t ui k e o i f kf r i can coast f or South 12'' 30 5M KET'S I - ^' - 2 America, Two surely elanes are alena: with the IP. bombers. They ere e 'Trying ■: lot of soere norts. This is the first time such 8 Di?- * -r.aa t L n oi h. :: a11eoiT)tGd. a non-r"top oesan flisht, and e lot of reo'le are Vvondering whether that flock of mechanical birds will be able to keen together on the long hon across the Atlantic. 'Veil, I heo^ened by chance to be the historian of the airolane flight around-the-world. The one when that groun of U.S. Army vi- tors circumnavigated the globe several years ago. 4 olanes started out end P finished the entire journey. Yes end those -Inner kert together remarkably well. They were nearly always in sight of each other. 01 cour e they did get separated a few time'', especially in s.nd r tor ms over India and in the fo^s over the North Atlantic, on the v." y from Scotland to Iceland, Greenland, and dovn the Labrador. ° ^ planes may make it without such a lot of trouble. 1ITHBAF.Y Drr _ There ere three remarkable rictures in this week’s Literary Digtv u, m ad. ition to the stunning one on the cover. They ere Matures of the photograrhs of the ill-fated Andre Polar expedition which tried to drift to the North Pole in a fewv; balloon. One shows the balloon, after it came don on the i e; another shows the Cf.-np which the adventurers built for themselves in the Arctic; in the third picture two men are standing over a rolsr ber*r they’ve sh>t. There hotogrr^hs were developed from films recently found t th- ce ap of the ill-fated explorers. The negatives had ben lying there since 1803, end still were in a good condition. The literary Dige t tells us that these Andre pictures remind us of similar films found with the men who perished in the Scott South Tole expedition. These Scott seg&tives lay on the ice for nearly a year ^nd then were found and successful, y develop el. SIN-7 ror t;;e 1= t few days the news has not been comr without something about Professor Einstein. He has been getting into the limeli -:.t about a- often er Lindbergh, the Prince of Taler, ' nc L'-cy Ar ‘ :r. '■ell, he is on his way to California the goal of • ny traveler ):o will be enticed there by the '.‘inter Travel Nu: b^ r of the literary Digest th t comes out ton or row. Legion "*ost out in California. A motion was introduced declaring that the f . :: Term, n cl* :.list . hould not be remitted in California. Now, don’t make any mistake and think that the boys out there have be-^n *udying relativity ^nd find :t*s ell .rong. The Associ' tec rre 3 r informs ur thrst they don't object Professor hinrtein'r methmaticnl theories at all. Vhet they don't like is his pacifism -- the way he says that there shouldn't Today's Pinstein note is about a meeting of an American be any more ore 'ration for .or. Page 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101 11 1 Henry t-ord has just been in an auto mob i le accident,^ out at Youngstown, Ohio. .v. [■:. Bare, of that city, was driving along when suddenly his car and N'.r. Ford’s car collided at a street intersection. ..ccordinq to the Associates Press, nobody was hurt--both cars were just banged up a bit. That's a little like the famous old yarn about the sheriff who was locked up in his own jail. i2, ,, II of which proves nothing except isl that i\.r. Ford, the great builder of i*| cars, has his traffic troubles like the i5j rest of us. IB' 17 18 ^ l 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 2 3 41 5 6 7 8 9 101 11 12 13 ! , I Liii ( Page Here's o f>e -U J _ 4- _ • . , ^that begins with sound and ends with a sour note a sweet 11T s about love and honey--that is, Llmer Love and Haycraft honey. They were driving along in a car and ran into Harry ^Ui.i,.i6rf i e I d ' s Ate^s* .nn argument started, and Harry says that Love faa^eTA^) him in the jaw and Honey kicked him. accord i ng to the ,.ssociated gress, Harry sued for JLO.OOO in a Ohicago court."E^t: the judge said j5,0G0 would be enough. s* vwL **u$i "T- L Vi -^cyy^ , TOR^r~- ihi ^ next, bit ol news should go off with e hang -- at least those torpedoes went off with one. An Assieiat'd Press disootch fror Orangeburg, South Carolina, t 11s us thr t Johnny Bradford aged ten was all set to celebrate a^^roech ' ng Christmas. He had some f ire-crechers and 26 torpedoes. He had the tor’edoe; in his hin socket. Well, Johnny was bend ins* xve: and one of the other boys came ur- behind him with a -addle. And the ’ addle land d on thr t socket-full of 26 torpedoes.' Bang went the torpedoes.* Johnny wasn’t hurt, et any rate not seri usly, but his trousers were blown into the next county. 2ND At ti> end of my evening’s broadcasts I hove been signing off with the salutf tion - ”So long until tomorrow," end several radii listeners have written in asking me about the expression - so long. For exesr'ls, there is L. Anderson of Nev'erk, Nev; Jersey, v/ho asks wher« the ohrare So long comer from and whether it ir good 'inrlish or sl^ng. 7el , T didn't knov. So 1 went to Dr. Vizetelly, the Digest's learned Lexocogrerher, "Hello Doctor ssld I, "tell me about 'So Long'", whereunon the le rn* d doctor held forth ar follows; "j'y hoy, If **ou' 11 look In the funk & s^nells ^te^nderd Dicti nary you will see thi t So Long is a corruption cu the or! nt* 1 so lute. 11 n * salaam'". Then Dr. Viretelly adned that some authorities connect 3o Lone with a somewhat sinilar German exoression. As to whether 3o Long is slanr or not. the standard Dictionary describes it as a colloquialism r-ther than slang, and Dr. Viretelly told me that some of his ponderous books say thr t Lon^ ori? ^nated England and fir.t came into use along about 13*30. Later it s :: d - - algreted t i^ri-a and became more American tlien English. 3onii r; dlo t: ked whether I v;rs correct in using what Dh. \ izetelly re lied; ’’Eey nil means go ahead. It’r t col oquialism all right, but that make- it all the more vivid and lively,,, Of course , if I .. nt c to be entirely correct I su^ore I wight u: * th »ri ‘In'.l word for So Long now and soy "Salaam” ti you. But el ir*:.* . ‘th thf t should go a low end sweeping oriental be , an4 unfortunut* 1;* I c n*t ae you to make the how. Anyway "salaam" sounds r xipous and stately, and. I’m afraid 1*111 not a bit that . ' y. So If it'r all the same to you folks, T*ll Just end as usual tonight with, 30 LO’*^ ?"'TIL TOfc ORRO .