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LITERARY DlGh^T
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hat loud and raucous noise is the braying of the
Democratic Donkey, "he venerable animal has had to do its
braying sad and low on more ^han one occasion, but th-s time
it’s a *riumphant, ear splitting hee-haw, No wondei*. It
was a Democratic landslide all right. Kight now there is
s* il 1 some doubt about whether the Democrats will have control
of the lower House of Congress or no4-, but in any case they
are mighty near to it. With a few discontented Republican
votes they will be aole to swing either the Senate or tne
House.
Cne thing tha* stands ou+ is the way the South
returnto its old democratic raith. The South is certainly
solid once more.
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the camel of prohibiticn got a hard
prod in the ribs. That hardy animal is still strong and
defiant, but a large section of the public exhibited a strong
desire to send the dromedary trekking back to Arabia. On the
other hand, Pennsylvania has gune bo + h Republican and dry, and
borrow o course went in with a huge vote in hew Jersey.
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editorial offices of the New York world,
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a staunch democratic organ, andA^
told me
the for Id wi II say
editorial ly tomorrow morning:
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exception to the statement that the
Hoover administration has suffered a
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examines the returns, the more it appears
how directly the voters aimed their
ballots at the administration."
The New York Evening To sTt, on
the other hand, is Republican, and it
carries an editorial this afternoon,
which states:
"Y/e do not be I ieve that the
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Democratic landslide must necessariIy
be a bad thin; tor business. In fact,
it seems to us that a change may be, as
an important New York banker said !a
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AUSTRIA
It was a lively electicn day. But they’re probably
:o ing tc have a livelier one ever in Central Europe, in Austria
mhe general elections over there will take place next Sunday,
and evidently the police are afraid the Socialists are cookin.
up some schemes to make things hot. So they have raided
Socialist headquarters and clubs all over Austria, and are
seizing firearms right and left. The Associated Press says
they have collected. 40 machine guns, 4,000 rifles and revolvers
and a half million ax cartridges.
In Italy, on the other hand, the dove of peace seems
to be preening its feathers.
ITALY
Tim* dispute apout naval paTity between French and
Italian? seems cn the way to adjustment, Hugh Gibson,
Am ricari Amb -.ssador to Belgium, has been taking a hand in
negotiations between the French and Italian governments, and
he seem: to be smoothing things out. The Hew York Herald
Tribune says the Italians have handed Ambassador Gibson an
olive branch to extend to the French,
France and Italy have had an agreement in force
binding them not to start any ship building competition. But
that agreement expires on December first of this year, and then
the naval competition may begin. But it looks as though
Ambassador Gibson may save the day because Italy offers to
extend that naval holiday,
"he mention of Itaiy reminds me of a gorgeous Italian
scene 1 saw today, - a picture. It had the brilliance of
sunlight in it, a wall with an arching gateway, and a two
wheeled wagon drawn by a donkey, a peasant in the wagon, and
an old peasant woman at the donkey's head, Lven the shadows
are golden*
It's the cover of the new Literary Digest which
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will be ori the stands all over the country tomorrow morning.
In the "letters arid Art" section of the new Digest
is an article of vivid and timely inieivs'. It tells how
some remarkable ancient ruins, which were recently unearthed,
bring a strong light to bear on our contemporary American
civilization.
Anyway, it's -an interesting thing to see a German
archaeologist looking at some ancient ruins
and
finding out
things about us.
That’s all very well, but I want to say right here
tlie Chinese have got to stop shooting at the Luzon.
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.'hat American gunboat, the Luxon, has been fired on
again. Ghe is patroling along the Yangtse River, and as I
mentioned last week she ran a gauntlet of shell fire from
Chinese bandit batteries on shore.
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now she has been
dodging shot and shell again. No damage.
In the
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Literary Digest is a very important
article on China. It tackles a question that many people have
been thinking abo t. You will recall that the President of
China has be so converted to Christianity. He has become a
kethod1st. Well, how will that effect the future of
Christianity
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the Christian missions in China. The Digest
goes into the question rather thoroughly,
and
shows you how
people are jm answering it out in China.
In Brazil, an American citizen is bein^ held prisoner.
..e is ^aptain Morton Hoover, b ,t no relation to President
Hoover. He has been down there as aviation instructor.
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Late d is patches to the International Hews Service say th* that
the Brazilian officials refuse to comment or tell why Captain
Hoover is being imprisoned
Here's a ^lash, a telegram:
It reads; Dr
Grenfell's original hospital Battle Harbor Labrador burning,
Details lacking. Well, Dr, Grenfell is the mail who for y«,:ars
has been doin^ such marvelous medical missionary work among the
isolated people on the storra beaten shore of the Labrador,
And if his original mission burns down, that will oe a famous
an'} historic landmark removed. But if it burned it will be
rebuilt,
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, Grenfell would never let a fire hold up his work
for long.
And a late dispatch tells of another mine disaster.
A terrific explosion took place this afternoon m the Sunday
treek coal mine near Athens, Ohio. The latest dispatch from
the International hews Service says that 150 men are trapped
in the mine. One of them is W. E, Titus, president of the
company, who was making a tour of inspection when the explosion
happened, A wall oflame hemmed in the miners,
and
rescue
workers ar: having a hard, time fighting their way through the
intense heat and suffocating smo'e and coal gases. One
unidentified bosy has be n brought oat of the mine.
7/ell, it's been raining all day here in hew York, and
there'a a howling :ale off the Atlantic coast
Radio dispatches to the Associated Press say that the
steamer Aquitania, one of the biggest ships on the seven
seas, has been nit by one of the worst storms its officers
have seen in years.
•Vell, you know the saying about the ill wind. That
gale is bothering ships on the sea, but it is giving a helping
hand to ships of the air, provided of course they are going
in the right direction. With a tail wind to help it, one
flew from. Philadelphia to Washington at 192 miles an hour,
and another one whizzed from Baltimore to Washington at 233
miles an hour.
We hope one of those tail winds will help that big
German plane the Bo-X along.
"he DO-X. has started at last on that long delayed
trip from Germ^iy to America. A late news dispatch from the
International hews says that the big flying boat finished the
firs* leg of the flight this afternoon at the .hutch naval
airdrome near Amsterdam, Holland. It had sixteen passengers on
board, altho it can carry 150, The Germans are mighty busy
in aviation these days. Among other t rings they are making
their big airships safer.
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mhe Zer'pelins of the ■future are going to use helium
ga8* ""he As ;oeiate^ Press, says this is ma^e possiDle by
the United States, which controls the world’s supply of helium.
He 1 ium i,s not iaf 1 ammable, and i^ it had been used in the
R-lOi -- the Brit 1 all airship which
crashed in France last
month -- every man on board might have been saved.
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whi hi brings me to a note about one of the most daring projects
of our time.
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.'v man sailed for Europe today on a
r o m an tic mission- He is G ap tain
Dananhower, formerly a submarine officer
in the U. 3. Navy, You a I I have heard
how 3 i r Hubert 'll i I k i ns , the f amous Arctic
explorer, is going to make a trio to
the North Pole in a submarine. Well
Captain Danenhower wiii be in command of
the under-sea boat on that amazing
voyage. He is on his way to Europe now
to arrange for the baptism of the North—
Pole—going—submarine.
He will invite the
gr and - cl au gh ter of Jules Verne to be the
sponsor at the christening.
.irrliar, -ILcp-in V'rntft r. s-rr-rip !-i^-t~rrr s±gpy
o^f—o7 agoI i he ■ t he- one v/ti i ofv
S-4r_Hu-bert •'•Jf t^ki n s— -ign-ao tag—iuo-iaaJi-e,. Most
of us, i suppose, have read Iw£Di^
Ihausancl Leagues under ±te_ , an d w i I I
recalI how the mysterious Captain Nemo
took his submarine, the N£U.til4us, under
the ice to the North hole. That story.
written more than fifty yea.rs ago, is so
like what Sir Hubert Wilkins i ntend s to
do that it takes one's breath away.
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Sir Hubert, by the way, is going to
his craft the N.^U±ilus, after that
original strange boat of the mysteri
Captain Nemo.
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NC3EL PR I.IE
And here’s another transatlantic flight.
The Nobel Prize for Literature this year has come
drifting across the Atlantic. A dispatch from the Associated
"res states that it has been awarded to Sinclair Lewis. Well,
Main Street and Babbitt nade a lot of stir a few years a^o as
sensational best sellers, and tne committee which awards the
Nobel Prize have pinned the big medal on Sinclair
Lewis'
realistic and satirical pictures of hum-drum American life.
And here's a typical Americanism which is not so
hum-d rum
RAT S
The governor's mansion in Texas is almost a hundred
yea-s old, and like all old buildings, it's something of a
happy hunting
ground for rats. '’’he United Press says that
every tovernor who has lived there has tried to exterminate
tho se rats. But no luck. Now Dan Moody, the present
governor, is tackling the problem. He is out with blood
in his eye, and he bought himself an airman. He’s shooting
the rats with that air gun. An^ Dan is a good shot. The
rats are getting scarcer and scarcer.
That’s rough on the rats, but the re’s
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all of
you who've been worrying about those
poor homeless turtles out in uhicaco.
i he Mela iviuseum is going to take them
in, says the International News bervioe
ana then establish them in a pleasant
little oolony on Lake Michigan. but
where they came from ana who painted
the pretty pRXRgK orange stripes on
their backs, is still a mystery.
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They We abolished i he speed limit
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in uetroi t. lhat doesnTt mean you can
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throttle wide open. According to the
s new ordinance;you must ^rive at a care-
s full and prudent speed not greater nor
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Here's a t hr i I I er fr om down t he
Florida way. It was sent on to me by
Harold Larkin of Miami. He's the United
Press correspondent down there. Well,
Mr. Larkin nominates the story of the
News Item of the Day, and
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it's got
so much hair-raising adventure in it
that I am going to let his selection stand.
It's about an aviator named Robert Moore,
and he has just been amointed
the Curt i ss-Wr. i ght flying base
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at Miam i .
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Moore was an automobile racer in the
old days, a speed demon along with Barney
Oldfield and Lddie R i ckenbacker, and during
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in the famous Lafayette Flying Corps.
In July of ISIS he was shot down in
flames, and officially reoorted "killed
in action". But Moore had not been
killed. He drifted to earth in his
blazing plane, with the flames enveloping
and choking him. He was so terribly
burned that he was in the hospital for
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Then in 1982 Moore ran into a. second
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blood-curdling adventure. Down in Florida
he was flying a sea plane cal Ied Miss
Miam i . One day, with six passengers in
the plane, he had to make a forced
landing in the Gulf of Mexico. Miss
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And now, the Curtiss-Wright Company
v/an ting a man of courage for its Miami
Base, has picked Moore for the job. And
thev've certainly picked a stout-hearted
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neither food nor water, and the passengers
went mad. They tried to kill themselves,
but Moore stooped them. Then he watched
them die of thirst, one by one, until
only he was left. He slashed his hands,
and drank his own blood. And then he
became unconscious. Well, a ship picked
him up. His tongue, swollen to three
times its normal size, was clenched
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here ’ o a feather in. the cap of us poo r downtrodden
tnen. In. an interview with a United p -ess correspond en t, Miss
^ ref a. Wolf, a. domestic science teacher of Des Moines, says
that hoys are better cooks than girls. And she ought to know
Decause' she has U3 of them in her cooking classes, Uhe goes
on to say they1're not only better cooks, but they a e neater
in the kitchen.
Well, maybe. But the most of us will gladly continue
to trust our +aie to the women when it comes to cooking,
ho master what the experts say, I’m a real doubting Thomas on
that point. And now that I have summarized the news I am
going fca where I can get the best meal in the world - and it
will be cooked by a woman. I wish you could all join me.
Good night