iJ • A • >•.. O i. W W VJAiJ X - 12JHB/Z2 Good Evening, Everybody: A ThoseAoptimists who^hope^ to be drinking wine by Nev; I ear1 s Day ~ that is, drinking it with due sanction S of law - are xaSto for a disappointment. Of course, this was several times predicted by polilrical observers, A dispatch to the ^ew York Dun tells us that /the Vvays end Means Committee of the House of Representatives today rejected the bill offered by Representative Lee to legalize the manufacture and sale of kx ?/ine,^ The Congressmen felt that If thfy passed such a bill it would certainly be rendered invalid by the Supreme Court, even if President Hoover did not veto it as contrary to both text and spirit of the Eighteenth Amendment, Chairman Collier of the Ways and Means Committee announced that the vote was fourteen to nine against the Lee bill, which had proposed legalizing BisiMxxixlxx naturally fermented wine with a. Federal tax of twenty cents on each gallon. At the same time a Committee of Senators was at work on a provision whereby when and if the prohibition amendment is repealed, dry states may be protected. The beer bill of the Ways and Means Committee, which was reported yesterday by a vote of seventeen to seven, A is going to be the cause of a vehement fight on the floor of the House. It will come up for a vote next Tuesday. The correspondents quote Speaker Garner ....... 1 l in other Democratic leaders to the effect that they are confident the bill will pass. But there will be no party steam roller to roll over and quench the debate. The opponents of the bill will be allowed to say all they have to say, but they*11 be outvoted. That*s the prediction of most political observers. X 1 ihings are still in a turmoil in the P^rench government, In fact, strictly speaking, there is no French government, at any rate, no Cabinet. Up to the middle of this afternoon it seemed to be an accomplished fact that the new Premier to succeed Mr. Herriot was aha M, Camille Chautemps, a colleague of Mr. Herriot. And x ^hautemps had announced that he hoped to have his former chief in his cabinet with the portfolio of ForeSJn Affairs. Late this evenin'-’:, however, a dispatch to the Brooklyn Times Union brought the news that Mr. Chautemps had begged off and told the President of the Rephblic that he refused to assume the responsibility for forming a cabinet^ ^ ^ _ _vvrt-vAje., iTie debt question was the stumbling block. Mr. Chautemps declined to abandon Mr. Herriot^ policy of honoring France’s signature ate**, paying the debt instalment. He sound A it impossible to round up enough deputies in the French parliament to support him in this stand - hence his throwing up of the sponge. :'-Sa * A later dispatch brought the information that the President of France had invited Senator Paul-Eoncour to form a cabinet. Senator Paul-Boneour is an Independent though he used to be a member of the Socialist party. But he too is In favor of paying th debt. Moreover he is firmly loyal to Mr. Harriot in whose cabinet he was Minister of War Cables 1 rom Farid today indicate that France may tes? fs. ~ ” ~ — pay her^debt instalment to Uncle Sam after all. This on / no less an authori \ than that of Mr. Camille Chaugepij^s who is design-: ted as the next Prime Minister of France. A dispatch to the^bw York; Nhv.s auot.es Mr. Cbaugemps as hoping that Mr, Herriot# 'the icceot the portfolio of .--Foreign Affair itingent on th^-erttitude of the Chamber seeing to pay—the- Unj t. ed state s. ---- ---- - Hoover to Congress on the subject of the debts. This will be sent in Monday. President Hoover is receptive to the idea of discussing a revision of the French debt. That does not mean, however, that he‘s in favor of a general conference on the debt question. And the report that -‘-r. Hoover .:as contemplating another meeting with Fresident-elect Roosevelt on this subject was formally denied today in .ashington. There m nlifilil j - i tt be another message from President A, ‘ A . - Follow France. j.he excitement about the debts has brought about a curious situation throughout the country districts of France A cade to t;ie Philadelphia Evening Ledger describes it as a !,Back to the Stockingn movement. Everybody knows that the French are a singularly and exceedingly thrifty race. Just as is the averdon£^~ which at various times in history, strikes French peasants, Sgg^g^rifg., They like to keep the money in the old Well, an epidemic of this sort of hoarding has been observed in France recently. The overnment was about to Issue some new hundred franc gold pieces worth in United States money about four dollars. But tne fpar of this hoarding epidemic has caused the French Cabinet to delay putting these gold pieces into circulation. The reason for the postponement is that these gold pieces would vanish and gravitate into the stockings of the thrifty. ihe default on tho debt payment by the French seems to have soiae goats In Cincinnati. Four hundred office sirIs employed by one firm in that Ohio City, got together and made a pledge. They bound themselves neither to buy any articles of French origin nor even to accept them as gifts from their best hatsbnr*. In a southern city a group of club women bound themselves not to travel in France until her debt payment was -r -i-. _ /•. pj.x-LuJ-r'r'j.i't.Ljo ■Lhe hopes that v/ere entertained for Philippine independence seem to be postponed again. Yesterday the -5* Senate adopted the amendment giving the Island+s independence ta eight years. Today the -dOTT**r^~l±c3u*eo'L— C,cing-rs-u-a. reversed A -------- j \ . and and rejected the amendment. The v,1 eat her prophets are certainly turning out to be true prophets this month ~ 1 mean those ..no predicted a severe and early winter. Uncle XXEXSX S-S-Sam*s t-t-teeth are ch-ch-chatt rring, and he!s sh-sh-shivering all over today. Jack Frost has bound the Middle test and the East with iron fingers. Huge blocks of ice on the Great Lakes made navigation a hazardous affair. The highway from Maine into Quebec was flooded owing to ice jams in Kennejpbeck River. A i-n Pennsylvania there .Ye re temperatures of two above zero - thirty degrees of frost. But thatfs nothing compared to *T~uLe. , northern ^ev; lork/A Ov/X's Head the thermometer dropped to twenty-six below zero. Louisville, Kentucky had its coldest weather in four years. Record low temperatures are also reported from Indiana. There was snow in Phoenix, Arizona. J-n Ohio the cold was responsible for the death of three people. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, an o.l<i home Lurned oo the ground while fourteen of the form r inmates, old men a id women, stood shivering and chattering on the sidewalks, watchih:' the flames destroy th1 & 11 ere s ooe for writers of detective stories. The body oi a murdered man was found in a motor car on a New York & Street today. J-t was wrapped in^burlap sack. And the spot where it was found was right in front of police headquarters in New York. The discovery 'was nor made until about one o’clock this afternoon. A story in the **ev; York Evening Post says that it must have been there for sometime while hundreds of policemen passed in and out of headquarters without seeing the gruesome bundle, I onder how Sherlock Holmes or my friend Mike Fiasehettia would solve that one. -- Then a less gruesome crime puzzled the New York A. ------------ " today, sp truck of aspirin was stolen by bandits. The value of the load was not more than ten rhpusand, dollars, but thf robbery is 'iving the cops s. headacheY& cu^2_ uFvfcfc . r 1 There's a proposal on foot in Washington to save the U, S. Government fifty-one million collars in payments to veterans. General nines. Administrator of Veterans* Affairs, rfVO? .iniiithrTi restrict allov/ances to all t±ag- former soldiers gacafe A A A that is, all those not permanently disabled, to a proportion of fifty per cent , |:-hat toS^voi veterans who are less than fifty pT ce t^ disableit, woulf get no allovvanee. General Hines calculates that this would tste more than three hundred and ■wue-K fifty-six thousand off the Federal payrolls. General Hines added the statement: uIf a man xhx is only twenty-five per cent^ disabled, he is able to carry on. In that case the Federal Government should h not be called on to help him," Motor car owners may be interested in a new machine which devised in England. It tests your capacity without your going on the highway at all. Br. E.h.Free nthe Week’s bcience" describes it as follows: The person to be tested sits in a seat precisely like the driver's seat of an automobile, with an ordinary steering wheel in front of him and all the usual controls. In. front of him an ordinary highway seems to unroll on a screen^, precisely as though the car were being driven along a road. Turns are to be made, other cars passed and so on just as in actual driving. ’ ost persons experience a com- olete illusion of actual driving a car in this way. The machine has been used at the National Institute of Industrial Psychology in London. Drivers v/hose re­ actions are too slow, too rapid or otherwise improper are detected by means of this machine. It is even poss ole to stage on the screen what seems to be e-n. ol a collision with another car or a tree^and thus discover ifeS* a driver would • A in a real emergency. ilACHINE • • 2 Actually the highway scene is a motion picture, which runs off on the screen independent of any motions made by the driver, but they say 'tut' A that the most effective x - l U i * — 'T+svicJkr ~LdLsir~ii? in the social ' e* rx.. A in -i a shin-ton, .0. A dispatch to the ^ew York Telegrami says it arose over the reception which President and Mrs. Hoover gave at the thite house last night for the diplomatic Corps, hsu: 11 y the principal guests at these s±m»±j32i diplomatic shindigs are «s» v.ashin -ton nobility, the rich, tnose mentioned in the social register, and. those in high 't&yi/ML office, out on the election campai na this year President and Mrs. Hoover met a host of people throughout the United States, t o' people throughout only met th--m, but liked cn m and decided they v/ouli like to see th m again. £o they ordered the White House Social staff --- W$~ to Invite e. large number of the non soci; L—register* v/hom they had met through the Middle west. Some tar e thousand tv/o hundred invitations .vero mailed out to the prairies, the mountains, an; the valleys of the nation. J-n fact, like the character in the ^ew Testament, - they went out 10 the highways A and byv/ays 4^ ? , t^£U»-*2^Z/yv up St ■ t tra ihis rather upset traditions ^^4a;.r-tr: and the ^resident's social staid' figured that If anything like a falr percentage of these people accepted, there would not toe enough room in the -hit •- H use. -ortTwy cut off many members of the hashing ton nobility, thereby causing great walling and gm rhino of teeth in the homes of th socially elect. Telephones janrltd and complaints came in. In vain the White House i norl f ^r secretaries explained there would be other receptions. Ttaafr A A did^w^. oacify the coraoiainants. They wanted in on the axaraix d I pi oma. tic sh I nd 1 - f^-nrrtg^rf^; “ (j Well, most oi toera rot nothing. But the out of town people who received their invitations, were delighted and thrilled even If A* ** v. kU zxx&** we r e'*w±& able to attend. The barter idea which is taking such a hold in the United States is spreading to Uie young. Or rather, I should say, it is spreading to the young in an organized fashion. There never was a time when swapping v.-asn11 a popular pastime among healthy boys. Cluo nell, in the Madison Boys^jdhaz in New York City they are carrying out an experiment. The bo. s ^xss there don’t do their swapping as we used to do hen I was at school. They have an auctioneer who presides ovtr the bartering. The first of these sessions took place yesterday evening, and within two hours more tnan two hundred trades were effected. Not a single penny of money changed hands, but plenty of other thin s did. For instance, the auctioneer held up a pair of skates owned by a ten year old boy. The affair was d con.ucted in this fashion: The auctioneer v;ould crya "what am i offered for a pair of ice skates^" One boy held up a knotted x neck i ^ i .L/ j U 2 old detective magazines. Another offered a pocket knife, ^ s&zJ a and a cigar box half mr.rb1 ?s. Another Then the auctioneers said 10 the owner of the skates: ni)o you see anything you like ?11 The boy shook his head, bo tn- auctioneer called out: ’’Come on, he oesn't want those things. :«»ake him a •/ combination Up spoke a boy in a loud voice. swap one set of mountain goat horns, one box camera, -cmr : ncg, on bag of marbles, ■***&* ont sli a ly used harmonica, for th"Jice skates, *$m 3hU*r- t&Bk Th orner of th- so,- cried out; irxui'tWlyi- ^ i €< y^rvOr»-a_ srvv, p i.^ — i i 11, i — ‘ Only I onft wan the book.,! And that's how it went < k & for some two hours. m A . ■ "l" .... _~ 1' Uu-Uj^-L)^. a There__ be £somethin,-: to keep the Lootball fans A excited tomorrow, even though the season is supposed to be over. game 4^ Berkeley, California, between ^Sb^y^. c/jl „ , oii the University of California and Georgia Tech. According A A to the experts the odds on tne Californians to win are two to one. V M— H-» /. a doggy tale from Royal Oak, Michigan. A dog catcher was driving down town with ten dogs and three cats in hi^ wagon, ii, one of the intersections his wagon ran into a bus and whilethey were interlocked, a trolley ran into thewhole mess. The dor catcher was not injured, Buj^he took one look at the wreck an:i decided to ret up and ro home. The aogs ana cats had already none that very thing. A-> * * MORONS __ .... . Scientists are always finding out amusing things. Humorous fellows — scientists. A Professor of Psychology at Creighton University in Nebraska has been looking into the question of morons. He listed a hundred of them. And of those hundred he observed thac not less than eighty wore "drag" mustaches. I am not quite sure what a "drag” mustache is, but if it*s what I think it is I'd better spend the weekend in Omaha argulngwith that Professor. But no, on second thought I'm leaving for Pittsburgh tonight, Washington, Pa., and Johnston, mustache and all. So I'l say so long — SO LONG,UNTIL SUNDAI AFTERNOON