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That big railroad merger, which
was announced by the President day
bet or e yesterday, will result in two
railroads pushing on into New York,,
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Chesapeake & Ohio-Nickel P I ate
A Washington dispatch to the New York
Herald Tribune says that they will now
net direct access to New York City, just
I ike the Pennsylvania dnd the New York
Centra I.
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President Hoover celebrated the
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New Year by corning out with his first
official act for 1931. He issued a
statement pledging the United States to
adhere to the London Naval Treaty.
The International Newsk 3^r v i c e
statement. Mr. Hoover ssagss he caused the
treaty to be made publ ic so that every
article and clause may be observed and
filled^in good faith, by the united
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Republican Party, c.nd oenator Norris,
the insurgent uepublican leader from
Nebraska.
The whole huI I aba I loo came up
with dramatic suddeness ax a meeting of
•chat senatorial Campaign Investigating
Committee. I mean the one headed by
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The Nyc Committee, as you
know,
has been investiqatim vhe various
campaigns expenditures made in connection
with the big election last November.
Wei I, the Nye Committee was
in session. I he proceedings were cp i nt
alonr in humdrum fashion. Then a man
arose from among the spectators. Strange
to sav the man was not one of
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right up in meeting and
blurted out that he was gpcisctt^ there in
the interest of the public and the
truth. The name of this visitor was
Charles I. btengle, dd i tor of the
National Far m N e vv s .
just like a stage play, where somebody
entirely unexpected, suddenly explodes a,
bombs he I I .
kr. btengle tola the Committee
that he
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received &665. vv h i
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13; been hands a to him in bills by fvir .
Lucas. Vhy?
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what
started one of the most interest inn
political fights seen in this country
in a long time.
kr. Lucas, Executive Director
of the Republican National Committee,
was putting .hat money into circulation
to help one o1 the candidates running
for senator out in Nebraska.
The Republican candidate was
senator Norris. I he uemocratic candidate
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although executive _iireccor oi the
.vepublican hat ionI Jonimittee, was oal
out to help the republican candiaate.
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ciie democrat. inax was the bombshell.
Lr . Lucas v/as then brought before
che Committee and he promptly admitted
"that he ns.d secretly distributed con
siderable money '.o help elect the
democrat, an ei be ax oenator Norris.
However, as you kno , Senator Norris
was re-el ected.
..ell, the full story of that
dramatic meet i nr of the Nye Investigating
Committee appears i n
L i ter ar y
digest, -^hrt
came- ou t- —his tnom
The uigest c uotes the '..ash i noton
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then goes on to tell just how things
have developed in th e course of the big
tig t. Lr. Lucas declares that he was
s i rnp I y he Ip i nr an ope n oemoc rax aga insx
a i.epubl ican whom the ..epubl i cans I ook
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you 0nn ir-iarinn ho*" hot under the collar
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f*ull rxcount in this weed’s Higent,
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finisher ’t eeg of Pr^oace '-.af r ;i~ •
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„ f the name had died. On the other hand four physic iuns
atte-idiag Jo.f f re liuv e now issued a signed stai ement thot the
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Marshal is s * ill alive, and that hie -•.on d it i .-.n is still abort
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New Year ushered in a big
in Eng I and--that is, in
000 m i ne »© pdcers walked out.
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The government had been trying to bring
about an agreement between the miners
and the mine ownersiji but failed.stm* so
the strike is on. According to the
lT?te:rrrat:ronal'=:^ews-^esvy'ic'e^ there were
180.000 men.out^of work in
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doubled now.
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afterno .'•.a to pick up p/ youa^etcr, un- stopped for a moment
to }. a’ * •_ a chat with Tony., h- v •. teliin.r rue about one funny
t'.i.'.u or another, •md then he pichef ci^ li'ows Item cf the Bay
f o r u. e •
MI d riv o a cor a uo od 6 eul, H said Tony, '"'And s*:.> Jo
a lot c- f other people. They’ll all a purer rate thi - ^ale :. f an
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'"ell, thi a s *■ o ry will please all you people who live
in fear of traffic co;3, and are always expecting to get a ticket
Up ah V.liite PIaxus, Uev York, there’s a cor who
certainly began the New Year i.. the ri uht wa^:. "he New York
Herald Tribune tolls us that he was pounding his beat when he saw
a peculiar lo sing limpu sine parked right next to a ”lJo Parkinh"
sign. There was no driver in it, and he J u st mad e out a ticket
end hung it on *he sheering wheel.
V/ell now. I’ll give you three guesses as ’ • what this
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‘^a •■••. u ’ ■’ e see?, it n ert i:; lv. d oee ve^erve a pair of Sister
Susie’s pi.n'k crochet an^ouff s. And t .is Patro 1 •.■vai lv-H often
ridden in that sane '; 1 •rii.n • -iad helped xrsy. meny a prisoner
into iJ for i : id e around to +he station house.
"he -atrol ron warn1' t in aetive service any -aore. It
had been sold to •an aatomobil f irr.. The own err obeyed the su-a-nons
■-a;.7 wen4- to court, and then the whole vthite Plains p . 3 ic e force
curat into lau. deter. Tod
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a is brother officers pave the blushing
cop a be- u + i *' ; 1 shiny tin medal corn...
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Right here I fm enthral led by the
pleasant vision of being hit on the head
with a snowbalI and having a jewel drop
out of that snowball.
t&t Hartford, Uonnecticut, two
young burglars took a lot of jewelry
they had stolen^ and/wr ap pe d bracelets,
necklaces, and rings up in snowballs.
They were running away from the police
and ^ sn at che d the snow as they ran, and
when they had the jewelry made into
snowballs they thr-ew^tPxrs'e. snow-bafl-s- i nt o
the river. ihey've told the pol ice
where they threw those diamond-studded
snowbalIs. But, according to the New York
Herald Tribune, the water was 20 feet
deep and there's a lot of ice in the
river. So they'll have to wait until
spring to dredge for the jewels.
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that eight marines hav been killed cai d two wounded in i ic arara a,
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furtlilr details of the f i -ht hav e r orre across the cables yet.
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Here1s a flash which states
that ibcx& the boy kidnapped out in
St. Louis has returned home.
..el I , St. Lou is began the year
with one of the biggest manhunts ever
staged. Adolphus Busch Orthwein, the
thirteen year old great-grandson of the
famous brewer, Adolphus Busch, and
heir to a large part of the Busch
fortune, was kidnapped. I he
International hews Service tells us that
the family chauffeur was driving the
boy to a New Year's Eve dinner at his
grandf athe r ' s house. A negro with a
gun stopped the car, forced the chauffeur
to get out, and then drove away with the
boy. And immediately that manhunt got
und er way .
..ell, as I said, this late
dispatch states that the boy has returned
home unharmed. The ct. Louis pol ice
have not given out any further details.
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This afternoon as I was going
over the news dispatches, I sat back for
a minute and fe! I to thinking about the
year 1930. It was an important year
for me, especially these last three
months since I joined the Literary
Digest and have been dropping around
each evening with the day's news.
As I thought back over it there
was one
that overshadowed al I
others. I got to thinking of the huge,
almost fabulous power of the radio,
with its well nigh incredible potentiality
for disseminating not only the news of
the day, but for spreading opinions,
ideas, reports, and rumors.
It reminds me of how important
are the things we say, the reports we
spread, and by this I do not mean simply
the words that wine through the ether,
the words spoken into the microphone.
I mean the things we tell each other,
and the rumors we pass along.
Just yesterday, in the office
of the Literary Digest, while I was
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chatting with some of the editors, one
of them referred to the incalculable
harm that can be done by spreading false
rumors, especially at a time like the
pr e sen t.
Then he ment ioned a writer who
Iived more than two hundred years ago, a
trench bishop who had some keen things
to say about the spreading of eviI news.
iviy friend said he thought the
great trench Bishop's words might well be
trumpeted far and wide, especially today.
Then he picked up a book and turned to
a page. The book contained the writings
of the brilliant Bishop ivlessillon. Said
the good bishop:-
"The tongue of the slanderer
is a devouring fire that tarnishes
whatever it touches. ,,herever it passes
it leaves only desolation and ruin. It
turns into vi le ashes v/hat only a moment
before had appeared to us so precious and
brilliant. It is a disguised hatred which:
sheds in its speeches the hidden venom
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Well, I suppose you've all made
your
New
Year's resolutions and I'll bet
they're good ones. Probably a lot
better than mine. Yes, I've made a few.
In fact this is the' first t i me' I. es ver
did make an^. Here they are:
To begin with, I've resolved to
give you the news during the coming
months in as brief and pithy form as I
can, I mean the news that the International
News Service, Associated Press and United
Press send along to us.
I-u rthe rmor e, I resolve to lay off
saying things on the air that make some
of you I isteners write in and
me.
For instance, I resolve hereafter
to pronounce ^ntietam correctly. I
si ipped on it one n i nh t,
I resolve never again to arouse
the wrath and fury of the boys down in
Amarillo, Texas, by saying that they are
any less adept at wearing tai I coats,
striped trousers and spats than the Beau
Brumme I s of Park nvenue and Chicago's
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I, as* ;ii'b* T re a4 ^ ■ .* u a I. e • v Y ear’s po ej a ? e n t i n by a
r a'' i e list j;ier-. An 3 here's another one. In fact this one rather
puzzled rn e " . en I fir f read it through. It cane on a /.lain
sheet of paper without any frills, and hero’s the way it ooes;
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How who the ^ ickens sent rne this?
Sez you.
It’s not painted and it's no* embossed,
And mi-hty little did it cost;
"'he paper i* -ei f is pref*. puuV
the sentiment - a lot of bunh.
The whole affair’s a piece of junk
Sez you
?/ ell wh a t th e d i c v e n s e at in ’ y ou ?
Sez I.
If ain’t the pie crus* turns fae trick;
But is the filling t h in or t h ick? Aye - th atf s t h. e t r i Q k l
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It ain’t the puoer so never mind it.
But It’s the thought that lies behind it
So turn the darn thing round and find if.
Whereupon I turned the page around and on the back war
written HAPPY i.V/7 YEAR FRO: BILL HOLLA! T), of Ithaca, Lew York
Well, Bill Holland certainly figured out a neat and
unusual way of sending .Jew Year's greetings, and now I’m going to
I rea'1 yea a 1. cf Year's poem Bent in by a
• • , iet_:,ier. Aiit here1 a jiiot},3r one. In fact thia one rather
puzzled me ’hen I fir."1' re a? it through. It c
me
on a plain
sheet of oaper without any frills,
here’s the way it goes:
Now who the hie ken a s nt me this?
Sez you.
11 * s :o t pa in f ed and it's n o * e-mo s sed ,
And rfti.jh■4- y lit 11 e did it co st;
The paper i+ -elf is pret*; pj.ik
“he s en t i ■nent - e lo t o f bunk.
The wk: 3 e
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Sez you
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11 wh. a t t h e d i c ken s ' a f i n * y ou ?
Sez I,
11 ail. * t the pie c ru s t turn s t?ie t riek;
But is the filling thin or thick? Aye - that’s the trick I
It ain’t the paper so never mind it.
But it * s the thought that lies behind it
So turn the darn thing round and find it,
■.Thereupon I turned the page around and on the back war
written KAPhY lh!7 Ylh\h SRC BILL IIOLLAI'D t of Ithaca, Lew York
’Yell, Bill Holland certainly figured out a neat and
unusual, way jf send inn C. rw Ye r* s yreet in.’s, and now I'm going to
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