L.T. SUNOCO - May 22. 19^ Good Evening, Everybody:- The whole world is keenly interested today in a speech made this morning before the Disarmament Conference at Geneva by Uncle Samfs Ambassador-at-large, Mr. Norman Davis. This speech turned out to be a dramatic affair because it marks a new phase in the history of the U.S.A. It was a full and candid declaration of Uncle Sam's position on that waytay important question: To arm or not to arm. The most significant part of Mr. Davis's address appears in the following words: ''President Roosevelt's messaie^is a clear indication of the fact that the United States will exert its full power and influence and accept its share of responsibility to make the result in disarmament definite, prompt and effective." LEAD - 2 Mr. Davis also said: wish to make it clear that we are ready, not only to do our part toward the substantive reduction of armaments but, if this is effected by general international agreement, we are also prepared to contribute in other ways to the organization of peace.” And he added: ”In particular we are willing to consult the other states in case^ef-^a^^tfege€^%^^tgr■ pe»eti with a vioir-to ‘ ■~U4: - avertMft^ conflicts.” A»d Mr. Davis wpytJwwTS; A ”In the event that the states,in conference. determine tha'Vj^ State has been guilty of a breach of the and take measures ;hax a State h against the violator, then if we (that means the U.S.A.) concur in the judgment rendered as to the responsible and guilty party, we will refrain from any action tending to defeat such collective effor^t which these ^ States may iinax make t£> restore peace, T^ive exj-uir*/ v¥iu.uxi uiitfse p sy e.” >V!jk£^M3L_ .^AT f^u kV MPJsJhiJ) xi L*SXGZt if the Conference at Geneva fails, it will be a serious r obstacle in the way of the economic recovery of all the nations or the world. It will also seriously impair the mutual confidence which the nations hope to establish at the Economic Conference in London. Any results from this conference will be impossible if the world horizon is obscured by war clouds. 3.Q. FOUR-POWER Another matter over which the foreign offices of the world are exceedingly pleased is the prospect* for the immediate signing of Premier Mussolini* s Four—Power Peace Pact. It is expected that the representatives of Italy, France, England and Germany will put their signatures to this treaty in Rome, either tonight or tomorrow. Secretary of State Hull told our representative in Washington that this Four-Power plan of Mussolini* s will be of great help toward the success of the Geneva Conference. Incidentally, the State Department interpreted Herman Davis*s spee A ing that while Uncle Sam is Kfe willing to consult with other countries in case the peace of the world seems in danger, at the same time he will reserve his right to freedom of action and decision, and he will not be bound by the decisions of any caucus of other nations. NBC FARM MORTGAGES une of the first mortgage holders to comply with the suggestion of the President to delay foreclosures pending action by the government was a large bank on the Pac4fle Coast. To be precise, the Bank of America, one of the biggest financial institutions on the coast. The ggfffftciadbs officers of the Bank announced that there will be no foreclosures for sixty days &'s president told us by telephone that the Bank is just as anxious as anybody to save the homes of people in California. Incidentally, they expect £vw* better timesgi1 1 this coming year year.a hundred million dollars 1c larger than last year MORGAN Anybody visiting the office building of the United States Senate today ..ould have thought it was a theatre Jrailding playing a great popular hit. It was jammed with hundreds of —‘UnSedl v^vt). people trying to get passes to a show. And this show is the A revised edition of the investigation of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency.' The tremendous popularity In tomorrow1s performance Is due to the fact that no less a person than J. F. Morgan will be the first witness tomorrow morning. The head of the mighty house of Morgan will be examined by the Chief Counsel for the Senate Banking'Committee, Ferdinand Pecora, formerly an assistant District Attorney in New York. To accommodate ail those who want seats, the hearing would have to be staged in Madison Square Garden, Bey/ Yorw, or the big Convention Hall in Chicago. As it,is, the investigation tawes place in a small committee room. It wonTt be possible tor many of the general public to be present. A considerable portion 3f the available space will be-taken up by lg' 3 'in lirai\>\pst of the passes seem to nave been, grobbed up by wives of the noble Senators. taxes Xou^d better sit tight on your chairs for this one. And don't throw things at your radio, it isn*t the radio*s fault. Xes, this is a story about taxes. The Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives has been at it again and has decided to jump your income taxes. The Committee did this by a vote of thirteen to nine. The normal tax on net incomes of four thousand dollars will be raised from four per cent to six per cent. In the higher brackets it will jump from six to eight per cent, if the Cominittee*s plan is okayed by the Senate and House and President. WASHINGTON: R.F»C. Here is good news for unpaid policemen^, school teachers and other city employees everywhere^r who have missed the old pay-roll because of unpaid taxes. President Roosevelt has taken the first steps toward legislation to amend the Reconstruction Finance Corporation's charter. It will be so changed as to help states and municipalities out of theit financial difficulties. REPEAL tomorrow wiH fee quite an important day throughout New York £tate. XtTs the day when the voters will elects delegates to the Convention which is to decide whether the Prohibition amendment shall or shall not be repealed. Maybe you heard Postmaster General Farley speaking over this network half an hour ago. Mr. Farley made an eloquent plea to the voters to roll up an overwhelming majority for repeal. Incidentally, if New York votes wet, it will be the sixth state to ratify the abolition of the Eighteenth Amendment. [( h £ NEGRO Who says school students are narrow minded? They had an election the other day in the senior class of the high school in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The seniors were voting to decide who was the most popular and best liked boy in the class. By an overwhelming majority they voted for negro boy. And it is a remarkable circumstance that although there are seven hundred students in this high school, only twenty of them are colored. A similar episode happened in my high school days out in Cripple Creek, Colorado. There was only one negro boy and he was about the most popular chap in school Nuv, foi d. tall story which I think deserves a copy of the took. It comes from Frank Morrissey of Overbrook, Pennsylvania. Maybe football fans will recall that Frank Morrissey used to play professional football, in fact he did so for four years. Well, the story is that Frank who weighs two hundred and twenty pounds, was once pointed out as a model by the mother of a small boy who refused to eat his spinach. Said mama to her offspring: "Look at Mr. Morrissey. See how big and strong he is. I am sure he always ate his spinach." Thereupon Frank said to the youngster: "You want to know how I got this big? Well, one time I lived near a ten acre field all planted in spinach. One day there was a terrific shower and that ten acre field was just flooded with water. Immediately after that the sun carne out with such force that it turn, d that water inv"> s beam and cooked the spinach. "Well, my boy, "continued Morrissey, "you know wnat I did? I got down on ray hands and knees and I ate up all that spinach, and TALL - S that’s how I got to be this size.” Now that’s a tall story that is a tall story. But M£S. Morrissey informs me: "You ought to hearf'the tala he tells excuse when he comes amsm late." >V A All right, Frank, you’re elected. NUDISTS I had imagined that the nudist craze was almost over, but evidently out on the Pacific Coast it*s going strong. Up in the mountains some fifty miles from Los Angeles, is a place known as Elysian Fields. It is a hotel for those who follow the cult of the ultra-violet ray. The rule for guests, male and female, is no clothes except at meal times. When they sit down to table the feminine guests wear fexaxxx brassiers and dinner clothes. Dinner clothes at the Elysian Fields consist* of shorts, sweaters, and sneakers. There are other curious rules at this hotel. They have no running water, no lights, no gas, no radio. The meals are cooked An an old-fashioned oil stove. Apparently this institution is not bothered by the California coppers. The manag. ment of the camp explained to us on the telephone that they fca^xneixfex do not fear the invasion of the law because they are not members of a cult, but are just conducting a commercial camp on unusyal^ linf s . ^ioito.-S are rciJDISTS - 2 welcome, provided. they are willing to Si® follow the rule of When in Rome do as the Romans do. If you're calling on anybody at the Elysian Fields you have to take off not only your shoes but ^vory>thrn,g>4ovm- your—jj0^44^1 mey had a celebration in France recently which X am sure will interest all those who listen to the radio. The celebration was in honor of Adolf faaXj the Belgian musician who invented the saxophone. I am informed that there are people who have exceedingly unhind things to say about poor Mr. Sax, But, as the London Times points out in an editorial, the pains we suffer are not Mr. Sax*s fault. He*s not to be blamed for some of the ghastly noises made in his name any more than the man who invents! gasoline explosive engine is to be blamed for all the motor accidents 30fipc3E80^. or any more than Shakespeare is to be blamed for all the bad^Hamlets. The Times points out that itfs a peculiarity of the saxophone that no other instrument, in fact, not even a whole orchestra can drown its noise. It is, SB.fi the Times, ttat once penetrating and languorous, aggressive and cajoling. It mopes and yearns with all the reticence of a film-star. It is blatant and SAX - 8 slimy; it is honey^ powdered with cayenne pepper. It is as sentimental as a green suburban girl with a on a matinee idol, and as delicate as an income-tax form or a Customs officer on a cold wet mo^ning.,, i 3 aii,,The worst thing about a saxophone isIT, adds the Times, "that it Is easy to play, and that is why it so often makes us suffer." London Times James Connolly of New Brunswick, New Jersey, sends me a curious news item. He says that a young chap in New Brunswick named Thomas Perri is training for an unusual trip; he intends to walk all the way from New Jersey to Africa. His plan is to walk to Canada, then across North America to Alaska. &e will wait there until the Bering Sea is frozen over; then he proposes to walk all the way across the continent of Asia, to the Suez Canal; and at that point he will enter Africa. That certainly sounds like a tough assignment, just about a twenty thousand mile stroll, when you figure in all the detours he will have to make. From the temperate zone to the Arctic, across ice fields, down the coast of Kamchatka in winter, across China, through deserts, yes, that sounds like Quite a stroll. L.T, Personal Corres. Here1 s an item that will remind some people of that celebrated operetta of Gilbert and Sullivan,** H.M.S. Pinafore. <V The item comes from the Department of the Wavy in ^ashingtonj D. C. From that august department we learn that Rear Admiral Lee, Commander in Chief of the fleet, has issued an order which zgMXSsts recalls the words of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Sir Joseph Porter when he sang: jtJtHKX "Now I hold that on the seas The expression*!! you please; A particularly gentlemanly tone implants And so do his sisters and his cousins and aunts His sisters and his cousins whom he reckons by the dozens And his aunts." itndxAdmxx Rear Admiral Lee says that m fatui e the use of profane and obscene language is taboo in Uncle tarn’s navy. The Commander in Chief has requested his officers to see that this I |;| f: y i ; 1 a I ill 1 ! If ii 111 I ril U 1 | 1!1 1 i 'I '| !!■ !: tf IS I practice is discontinued. NAVY 2 Uncle Sara1s gx gobs will have to take a leaf from the book of Gilbert and Sullivan^ Captain Corchoran who said: ’’Though bother it I may occasionally say I never use a big big D What never? Well,hardly ever.” ■■What?—-We-Hhe-rdly over-:—Ai^-^rrly--Ta^e^ Uvix£ NBC SCO. V'7' '■ ^ v\MMa ^ '^L^' V0^7 l _