' LLH1L£ I#owell Thomas broadcast for The Literary Digest Page r I 1 2 3 4 J 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Good Evening, Everybody:* l-rom the Kepublic ot bhile tonight comes a mention ot the idea or airplanes bombing ships. Yes, that seems to be what the government down there is threatening. It may be that the attempt will be made to squelch mutiny in the uhilean navy by sending a squadron of 30 planes to drop high explosive naifeA missils on the rebellious warships. I he Associated Press explains that the men aboard the Chilean squadron at uoquimbo have mutinied. I he cause of the trouble is the fact that the government announced a plan to cut the rate of pay in the Navy. I he ■■■ sea- dogs ot the Kepublic of Uhile don't like that notion of getting less money, do they rose in mutiny and drew up an ultimatum demanding that the government cancel the slash in pay. I he sailors forced the officers to sign that uItimatum. ■■cfaifa I he united Press declares that the entire Chilean battle fleet is 2-1*31—SM UHlLi 2 Page *2- 1 | 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ; 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 j 23; 24 | 25 ! involved in the mutiny, with the excepcion ot the submarines, and that 5,000 sailors and non-commissioned officers are in revolt. Well, tonight the authorities have sent the heads ot the fl&vy to Coquimbo to pacify the revolt. Ihe sailors are being told that they have the wrong idea about the cut in pay. It won't affect them as much as they think. It’s mostly the higher /aiLli:xxgf*& that are to be slashed in the Navy department. Yes, these are soothing words, to which the mutinous Jack-tars are listening. but along with the cooing ot the Dove of Peace comes the old- fashioned yelp and IraStg^of the dogs of war. The government has told the sailors that it they do not immediately return to their duties, why a squadron of 30 airplanes will be sent to bomb them into submission. 2-1-31-5M 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 - 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 SM illGtSI Page ±2, Now, wait a minute, folks, while I catch my breath. I have a bit of news here about a new record that has been made. No, it's not a speed record or an endurance record or anything I ike that. What makes me catch my breath is the mention of a price--8400> yes, 400 bucks. Well, that wouldn't be a lot of money to pay for a sky-scraper or an ocean liner. But let me ask you this:- How woulri you I ike to pay 8400, for a year's subscription to a current magazineV Yes, I can hear you answer, "No, not m e, ^ K-il vUv [ Well, this is just another one of those things that make us realize how lucky we are. We pay four bucks a year for our subscription to the Literary Digest, that is those of us who Iive in the United States. But on the other hand there's one gentleman in this war Id who is paying for his yearly subscription to the Literary Digest the large sum of 3400. That's a record. It's something for the other boys in the iUSESI Page Now, wait a minute, folks, while I catch my breath. I have a bit of news here about a new record that has been made. No, it's not a speed record or an endurance record or anything I ike that. Vi hat makes me catch my breath is the mention of a price--$400> yes, 400 bucks. iVell, that wouldn't be a lot of money to pay for a sky-scraper or an ocean liner. But let me ask you th i s: - How would you like to pay S400* for a year's subscription to a current magazineV Yes, I can hear you answer, "No, not m e, *■ -vuik ! Well, this is just another one of those thinas that make us realize w how lucky we are. ,ie pay four bucks a year for our subscription to the Literary Digest, that is those of us who Iive in the United States. But on the other hand there's one gentleman in this war Id who is paying for his yearly subscription to the Literary Digest the large sum of 3400. That's a record. It's something for the other boys in the uJLQ££I_-_#2 Page___ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 magazine field to shoot at. How come the price is so high. Well, it's a matter of distance. Way down in the other hemisphere, far south of the equator, in the modern bustl ing city of Buenos Aires, Argentine., is a prominent newspaper edjtor. He is S. A. Cole, of t h e^ Ar gent i ne daily, El Mundo. He wants the Literary Digest and he wants it fast. As an important editor who has to keep up with the progress of events, he must have authoritative comment, especially concerning the affairs of that big brother of the North Uncle Sam. And he fegoam the Literary Digest is just the place to get it. It's a long, long way to Buenos Aires, 7392 miles, to be precise. The mail takes a long time to get there. No, the mail isn't fast enough. Seigneir S. A. Cole must have his copy quicker than that. Ihe answer is the air mail, but that's expensive. Never mind, send the Digest by air mail, no matter what the 6-16-31 5M Page -£> cost. The amount of stamps needed to take each copy of the digest down to Buenos Aires by air mail isAS7.50* That makes a lot of stamps on any piece of mail. Multiply this by the number of weeks in the year and add the subscription price, and the total comes to S40 0, se pssi Wei I , those record-breaking weekly copies of the digest make a swift, interesting trip. I'd like to take that jaunt myself. Ihey go from New York, by Pan American Airways, to Miami, then to Jamaica, and on to barranquiI I a, in the Kepublic of Golombia. And now get this for a thrilling bit of sky travel. Ihose copies of the digest make turn fca at barranquilla and shoot over to Uristobal on the Panama Banal and then swift planes down the western coast of South America. Golombia, Lquador and Peru flash underneath. Santiago, Ghile, is the next stop and the last lap is across southward on the wines of DIX -T - 4 —----------------- — the sn rid; et of the towering Andes and then across the ranrphs of the argentine to Buenos Aire; end the office of : enor 3, Cole, editor f tlo t vigorous journal El Itundo. And that's s on; e trip, h:hy you could v,rite n whole book about the sky voy ge •.h * ch th'-'t record-breaking weekly co- y of the Digest takes, over the longest air-mail route in the western Hemisphere, and maybe in all the world. And by the wry ' enor Jole, down there in Buenos Aires, is 'isteninr in tonight, and it's ’inter time where he is. He is listening to this Literary Digest broadcast pf the news tonight. Tilli i. by saecif-l arrangement with the National Broadcasting Contnany, which is sending there words that I am sneaking b’r short wave to Couth America. And right at this point I'd like to send the salutations of the Literary Digest to that editor's rlert newspaper, LI j : undo and to the progressive Republic of Ar.genina, " ji ii ii 'l y "' * - 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 iiEAlN "to Y\juA.~^ixcL^t^tcA^. .There was a wild scene in Barcelona, dpain, today. In the Barcelona prison a riot broke out, and soirie prisoners set the jail afire. The local governor was there at the time. He was inspecting the prison. There were reports that a number of convicts were ill and were not getting medical attention. And he was there to invest!gate. In that jail at Barcelona are confined a number of strikers who were arrested iq the course of the recent I a bor They have been making trouble, with disturbances on and off. for the past few days. 17e I I , as the International News Service, draws the picture, the governor was inspecting the jaiI when the riot started. Ihere was a mad turmoil. Prisoners set the place afire and smoke roI led skyward. A heavy force of police surrounded the institution to protect the firemen while they fought the blaze. A 24-31—SM .......- — -lW— ||lnl■^ll ii ii n SEAlii - 2 Page ^ huge crowd gathered in the streets. In it were hundreds ot men who sympathized with the strikers inside, and they started trouble too. uiv i I guards charged the crowd, striking right and left with the flat of their sabres. Several people were hurt. And so the fighting went on, plenty of it, -- the police outside fighting the mob, the police inside fighting the prisoners, and the firemen fighting the tire. lIjaLI 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 1 Page 7C< l «^Aofticial statement was given out today of that agre'ement between the Vatican and the Italian government. As outlined by the United Press, it tallies with the previous reports, tmphas is is laid on the fact that the catholic organiza­ tions that are now allowed to re-open are to confine their activities strictly and entirely to religious matters. n {XTvAX- y J~0 H-7!- , — -A- 7 24 25 2-1-31—$M ^euaaL-iii 1 2 3 4 5 <f 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page. m. Let's try to imagine a tremendous sound, yes, one immense and confused roar -- 60 million feet beating a salvo on city streets and on country roads, striding, skipping, shuffling, running. No, I'm afraid it's simply beyond imagination. The new Literary digest, which comes out tomorrow, tells us that if the sound of those 60 million foot­ steps from the Atlantic to the Pacific could be caught by microphones and concentrated in one broadcast, why the rhythmic thunder would overwhelm the ears of the world. Yes sir. I'll say it would, and it would be one gigantic symphony marking the opening of the school year. The 60 million feet of 60 million youngsters, now that vacation is over, will make that annual pilgrimage to the school-house tor the opening of a new season. The figures that the new Literary digest gives us tor this year's school enrollment are staggering -- L4 million 616-31 5M Pape ^! children in grammar school, b million in High School, and there are about a million students entering the colleges. Kepublic's young feet -- migration of Iife-beginners. .Perhaps if we could see it in its true proportions, it v/ould seem to us the most stupendous march in human history -- this September trek of a bouncing generation of American citizens in the making. That's the way the L i ter ar y , u i ges t celebrates the i£j‘. ^ of schoo l well, it reminds us grown-ups of our own school days, of how we wrestled with that thorny old multiplication table, and later with Algebra. And as for grammar, even today I have alI kinds of trouble telling the difference between an adverb and a relative pronoun. but tney were glorious days, with all those games and sports, and mavbe a punch in the eye the march, march, march of the once in a while. school in the tougn uiu m i n m i yA bripple creek. It was education in .CHO'T (1) - . the roui.-h, vt.:ry r.va^h. It’s different no\., v;ith ell those fine un-to-dete schools, the But thet -rtiele in the Literary Digest ebout/opening of the school season goes further then sentimental or humorous im” res i ’ ns f i chool deyr. It carries a headline wh.: ch should make us sn ’ to cttenti ri: That headline is:- ’’Business Takes Up “hen Johnny doer Back to School.” The Digest gives a series of facts to show us how much school opening means with relation to bu: iness conditions. And toe beginnim? of this year’s school season is going to do it; bit in rutting Old Idan Depression on 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 5M ££tL^L_iil Page. 13 a steep, si ick, and si ippery toboggan just where he belongs. ^£E>S2Gcj an interesting experiment. Just make a survey of the advertisements in the current issue of the Literary Digest and the forthcoming numbersj that will appear during the school season. Look those ads over and see how many of the products advertised fit right in with the ideas of school consumption. You'll be astonished how many of them wiIl appeal to you as just the things that little Johnny or Iv.ary would like to have. Well, I haven't time this evening to take up those curious and interesting ways in which the opening of school is a boost for business. I1 I I jus ’ l give you A one example. LetTs go back to those 30 million children trooping to school, with their 60 million feet beating on city streets or country roads. The Li terary Digest points out that those feet wear shoes — 30 million pairs of shoes. And new shoes are appropriate tor the beginning of the sc ho ol year. I h a t * s a 1 I 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 5M S£hiaQL_ill - 5 huge Page___ tot of business right there. And then inside those shoes must be socks. You know how fast school socks wear out. I do. I have a boy th death and destruction orT" t i s Arm from stockings you go to garters, and from there on and on. You see how it v/orks, an endless chain making tor consumption and better business. Well, I had a few things to say about the big, the almost fantastic, difference between school days when I was a boy out at Cripple Creek and school days in these up-to-date times, but \ guess I'd better wait until Tomorrow V. Page. 5 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 One of the most famous buildings in Lurope was blown up today. There was a terrific roar as heavy charges of high explosive v/ent off and Moscow's great cathedral tumbled into ruins. This was the work of the Soviet Government. ihe Bolshevists have deliberately blown up the great cathedral of Moscow. •) h o ■ t’ gr^nadrfo'rra-1 treir^-Q-er vfc e I a hi S tH’S'T^tney iave blown up the magnificent eaifice to make room for a building of their own. They intend to put up what they call--"The RHace of the Grand Plan". This is to be an eflif ice in honor of that much talked-about fi verve ar plan. I suppose it is going to be a sort of Bolshevist Uathedral. WBkl Well, the great Uathedral of Moscow has long been famous. It was built o/er a hundred years ago by "tehE Emperor A | exander the h irst to commemorate the defeat of wapoleon in Kussia. It stood as a monument to that epic-making military campaigh in which Moscow was ktoJl 5M CATri'Dr^'J. - ; burned and ha* ileon *Grernl Amy was wrecked and ruined. The rreat C^thedr> 1 of Moscov/ war- indeed a grandiose construction. ,ith its blue, bulbous doner it dominated the l.oscov. skyline. J recall seeing it a. the greet landmark of Moscow as we came in by air . ever- l years e/>o. It vould hold 10,000 •wo r shir era. But no\. it her been blown ur>, shattered to bits by the high explosive bombs f the Red Government of Moscow. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 10 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 i it uILKICiS Page____ / The news tonight about Sir Hubert Wilkins and his North-PoIe-going submarine is-- no news at all. For three days the Norwegian radio station at Bergen has been unable to get in communication with Sir Hubert and his party of adventurers. The Associated Press reminds us that the North-PoIe-going submarine pushed its way through the drifting ice day after day. It drove along on the surface, and at last reports it was within several hundred miles of the North Pole. And alI that time Sir Hubert Wilkins was in constant touch with the outside world by wireless. He sent over the ether vivid accounts of that tremendous Arctic jaunt which he and his companions were making. In his last word he said he was waiting for a good opportunity to dive under the ioe. Wei I , three days have passed, and the Norwegian station in the Far North has not been able to get in communication klLKlMS Page with him. Perhaps there is something wrong with his radio, or again it may be that he has actual ly taken a dive under the ice and is on his way to perform that almost incredible prodigy of a submarine dash to the North Pole. IVliXV-y <*£32 fcsLtcrt 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 5M ms Page. M- Here's a dispatch about King . a familiar look. Big neatly-trimmed beard. Yes Ge or ge the-first-of-South-Africa. Well, King George the First of Sout h Africa eyes and a he's ktxawtx none other than our old friend King George the Fifth of Great Britain. The International News Service reports that there is a movement under way in South Africa to change the King's title. Yes, he's to.remain King George But he's also the Fifth of Great Britain, to have an additional title. The South Africans who are behind the movement point out that South Africa is practically an independent nation within the British tmpire. The mxxi main thing is that it has the same King as Britain and the British U^ominions, and so they toaxg think it quite logical to be I ieve that so far as South Africa is c one er ned^Ktrr^. should be known A ^ A as King George t he F irst ot oouth Afric a M JL C-a b> CMytJk /bzA RdsCJLS^ 3 7^3/