LO‘y^-Ll TH j :.,AS BROADCAST FOP. THE LI TEH ARY DIGEST THURSDAY, NOVEMBER SO, 1950 GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY: There's so much news tonight that I'm going to have e lot of trouble squee7ing it all In. President Hoover discourses on child welfare, Mussolini does some broadcasting, The Man of a Thousand Mysteries is ill in London. Gypsies ere becoming respectable citizens. The rumous in Sra in has cuieted down. Germany's Foreign Minister makes some rather ominous remarks. In Hungary they celebrated the birthday oi the young pretender. India's fabulously rich Maharajahs are dazzling London, and the President of Brazil goes into exile. Let’s stay at home for a moment. HOOVER Three thousand -eorle are holding a conference in Washington on child welfare. President Hoover called the meeting r71 the Jnite House. in h s orening sneech, according to the United Press, the President says that human nrogress marches only when children excel their parents. He calls upon every American to do something for the 10,000,000 unfortunate and defective children in this country, to keep them from becoming criminals and public charges. "One community nurse now will save a do?en policemen in the future,” said the President. Mr. Hoover is a grandfather as well as a father, you know, and the three children of his oldest son are living at the White House. ”Children are the most wholesome part of the human race,” he says, "because they are fresher from the hands of God.” raiuvays There's another conference on - this time its s railroad co. ference. The International News Service says that officials representing 90 rer cent of the railway lines of America are in New York. Today they Pledged themselves to employ the greatest possible number of men throughout the coming winter -- in other words - provide jobs for thousands who they might otherwise be laid off. CHICAGO U. Th^ '^resident, of the university of 'Ohicego announces hi? intent! jn O j . introducing e new and rather startling system of education. The ^ew York Telegram says he is going to make it nos ible for students who are geniuses to finish the usual four year college work in six months. Those whose minds are not geared for sreed can take six years to cover the same field if they like. His idea is to base graduation upon ability rather than uron time srent. Therefll be some controversy about this next one too. 1 2 5 4 5 8 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 .■ * Page Herr Curt i us, Germany^ .Foreign Minister, stated today that there is no way of knowing at what moment Germany may be t^rcsd to take steps to throw off the burden of her reparation payments. He said Germany has never ^uarant^gd that she will be able 'co c he does not favor makinr the Versailles Hitler advocates. ihe International i fe w s G e r v i c e x c a b I e s this important news which has a meaning for all of us. jeTve been hearing a lot about how t he y 1 r e tackling t he u n em p 1 o ym e n t problem in our own country, but here!s a novel item about what is happening in Europe. They have a lot of unemploy­ ment over there, and the Germans are now planning their first big drive tor relief. That new Literary Digest, which is on the stands today, tell us that in hr ussi a the school : 1s to be raised one year. Children will go to school one year longer. This will help the unemployment terms of the Young plan. treaty a scrap ot paper^ as tire-eater 1 i 2 3 4r 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 « w - 2 Page it nation by keeping a lot of boys in school and out ot the employment market tiring the coming year 225,000 irospective young workmen will stick to :heir studies instead of going out and :ompeting tor jobs. Page 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 I 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 'if' ^ 1 1 f- . c _ s i'ii j o o I i n i in *t K © I t © g . d I i n ©s again. In an i nt e r vie v with a U n i t e d Press correspondent, he utters the old platitude thax :TThe best way to prevent war is to be prepared to defend peace.” But, he sagely goes on to say that Fascist Italy would much rather build houses than battleships, and he adds that Italy is ready to disarm if other nat ions will. That is a. oicture of Mussolini, t lie I 9 fighter and statesman. The New York SysnH n— Bun gives another picture of him to day--the picture of Mussol ini the father. The Bun says that the stern­ faced dictator of Italy throws off the cares of state when he is with his children. Then he swims and r i des and u'~ In short ■ plavs games and laugns pretty much I ike other fathers. HUNGARY Prince Otto of Funerary celebrated his 18th birthday today, but he didn’t become king. If the world War hadn’t come along and turned things unside down, this would have been a momentous day for young Otto, for he would have ascended the throne as emperor of Austria-Hungary, end reigning monarch of the oldest ruling dynasty in Euro-ne, But the 'Yorld "Jar wrecked all that, and tod^y was celebrated only by those Austrian an- Hungarian aristocrats who still hone to see Hungary ruled by a king. Officially, Budanest paid little attention to the event except to arrest P.7 people who got into a fist-figit during the zisfe celebration. Young Otto himself, says the international News Service is at school in Belgium, where his family is in exile. He 1? just another king without a country. And here's a president without a country. Page Washington Luis, ex-President of ar® Brazil, sailed from r i o today. HeTli probably be away for rather a long holiday. They say he’s going for his health. And that’s one way of describing it. I suppose they mean he is sailing for healthier parts. --- 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 7 * u - n, r f - -- n * l o 4 - Page_ •'on e ...an of a I'housand Secrets is seriously ill. is Sir Basil Zaharoff. I hey call him the Mystery Man of Europe. is said to be worth a' hundred mill ion do I lars how he made it is not known. He once bu t '• ut it is said he owned . onte Carlo never gambled. He married a Spanish Duchess, fter waiting for her for forty years. She died two years after the marriare. For vears Sir basil Zaharoff has been a powerful figure in the world's statecraft--but in just what way nobody knows. He is the man of a thousand secrets. ne put the thousand secrets : ~ J“ ~ ~ ^ into a diary l hen he burned it. Britain made him a i ght of the Grand eross of the bath. That was his reward for important services to the British Government, although he was a Greek. Just what these services were was never made pub! ic. - -.c-.r-i — 4. T- =i:.r c. £ — u '*• *Fj~\ - , b h.4r-fJT£: INDIA * Out in Indi<a, near the great British army base et Poona, they're being awfully nice to a man in jail.. Re's a little brown man who wears a loin cloth. They call him Mahatma Ghana!. He's the leader of India's resistance to British rule. According to the Associated Pressy his British jailers are doing everything to make him comfortable. He has three cells and a bath, and a flower garden. Sounds like park Avenue. His food is cooked by a high caste Brahmin, and they have a special herd of goats to nrovide milk for the Mahatma. A sreciel dispatch to the New York Evening World tells of the splendors of the Indian nrinces at the Round Table Conference in London. There's the Maharaja of Kashmir, who is spoken of as the richest mm in the 1 t i 1 i. f' I 3 4 5 6 7 i 8 9 1 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | 18 I 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 imiL- - 2 Page ___ world and who has a jewe I—studded robe wo r t h t itteen million dollars. And there fs the Maharaja of dholpur, who travels around his oriental dominions with a retinue of gold and jewel bedecked elephants. Then there is the Maharaja of Rewa who has among his officials a Lord High Executioner who struts about with his jewe Ied-beheading sword. /nnd the Maharaja of Patiala with his pearl necklace w or t h five mi I I io n * '.Ve I I , those Maharajas make a dazz­ ling display at the Round Table Conference, but none of them mean as much to the future of India as that little brown man in the loin cloth who squats on the floor in the jail at Poona and who is not at the Round Table Conference. Page 4 5 opain, atter all her recent labor unrest and disorders, is quieting down. ihe Associated Press reports xha the government is meeting violence wit an iron hand and that h is 6|not likely to he overthrown just at 7 present. 8 ! 9 * 10 ! 11 12 13 s 14 1 15 16 17 ' 18 19 20 21 22 23 25 ---- "r —— m i him —i n M s item A few minutes ego, I nhoned ^r, Keats Speed, Managing Editor of the New York Sun. I asked him to pick the News Item of the Day for me. He did, and the story he se' ected is 0 piece that arro eared in the Sun about gypsies. Well, Gypsies are always romantic, but there's e ssd note about this, because aonarently the Gypsies are not going to be romantic any longer. That is, they're going to hold an International Gypsy Conference at Warsaw, Poland, and they say the rlpp is to modernize the Gypsy and take the romance out of this ancient race of nomads and rogues. There's a Gynsy Hoy a 1 family. It's the Kwiek dynasty -kwiek- Kwiek. Its members rule the Gypsies in various l^nds. In Poland the hi oh end mighty KwieK is his Bohemian Royal Highness Michael II, Kins O a the polish Gypsies. Mike has ce led this Congress to modernize the Gynsies. Before the War the Gynsies in Eastern end Central Europe had e fine roving life. True, they did a bit of cheating V NEWS ITEM RETAKE A f minutes ago, I phoned Mr. Keats Speed, Managing Editor of the New York Sun. I asked him to pick tne News Item oi the Day for me. He did, and the story he selected is a piece that appeared in the Sun about gypsies. Well, Gypsies are always romantic, but there’s a sad note about this, because apparently the Gypsies are not going to be romantic any longer. That is, they’re going to hold an International Gypsy Conference at Warsaw, Poland, and they say the pirn is to modernize the Gyrsy and take the romance out of this ancient race of nomads and rogues. There’s a Gypsy Royal family. It’s the Ewiek dynasty - k w i e k - Kwiek. Its members rule the Gypsies in various lands. In Poland the high end mighty Kwiek is his Bohemian Royal Highness Michael II, King of the Polish Gypsies. Mike has ce led this Congress to modernize the Gyp s i e s. Before the War the Gypsies in Eastern end Central Europe had e fine roving life. True, they did a bit of cheating NEWS ITEM - S and stealing, but that was overlooked. Life was dull for land owners and ■neasants on the great plains, end the wandering tribes of Gypsies were entertaining. The men did marvelous magic tricks, and the women told fortunes. Then there were the Gypsy bands, and the people fcs of those parts could not live without Gypsy music. But that's all changed. Since the v'ar, times have been hard on the Stennes. The landowners are poor. The people have no time for amusement. And when the Gypsy does a bit of stealing, the people can't afford the loss. So the Gypsies are welcome no longer. In ftct, there have been pitched battles between the peasants end the nomad tribes. More recently, the talking pictures have been putting the Gypsy bands out of busine-s. And so 1 is Bohemian tioyel Highness, King Mike, believes that the Gypsies will have to give u’ their old ' andering lives. They must settle down. And now the King of the Polish gypsies has called thir' International Gypsy rmsrvm - 3 Conference to turn the world’s most famous nomads into ordinary citizens by abolishing their romantic wandering life. COOITD^E That history of the United States in five hundred words, the one that Calvin ^oolidge wrote, well, it’s not go'ng to be engraved in stone. At least, not in Gutzon Borglum’s stone, Borglum, you know, is the sculotor ’who is carving a whole mountain out in the Black Hills in South Dakota. He wants to engrave on the face of a huge cliff a brief history of the United States. Five hundred words was to be the limit, Ex-President Coolidge of course is renowned es the man of few ords. He was asked to write that history in five hundred words, which Mr. Coolidge did. But now that history is out. Borglum thought it wasn’t right, so he made chenges. And Mr. Coolidge says he won't stena for the changes. And so the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission is in session out in Chicago, trying to nick s new historian to write those five hundred words. SHOETS - A dispetch from "Paris tells of e druggist who vjbs an aviator during the .orld War and who now has invented what is said to be the smallest airplane in the world. It is only thirty feet long, but the poor inventor has been arrested because he flew his tiny rlane without bothering to get a license. Out in Sen Francisco they are getting ready to build the longest single suspension bridge in the world. It will be swung across the Oolden (Tate. The bi ' Central s^an is to be a little more than 4,000 feet long and P20 feet above the water. The bridge will be suspended on steel cables from towers 740 feet high. The towers will be surmounted by aerial beacons and observation platforms from which it will be possible to get a magnificent view of Sen Francisco Bay on one side and the T’scific Ocean on the other. This has been an unusurl day tor brevities in the news. The atsnctehes ere full of interesting short naragrenhs. For instance, the Associated Pres wires an item from SHORTS - 2 Washington telling us that the War Department has found it nay? to nay bills nromptly. And here’s how. Last year the War Department, by raying bills as quickly as they came in, saved nearly $400,000 on discounts. In ten years these nrompt nayments have saved them over a million. SINFUL An aged negro women in Louisiana, a former slave, named Hartha Larrison, is 111 years old, says the United Press. And she told the reporter that she considers this modern world very, very sinful. ■ yoinMii Page--------- i Montana’s first official gavel has 2 1 been presented to the State Historical 3 Society, says the Associated Press. That ^ gavel is an old fashioned six-shooter. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 14 15 16 17 181 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 IkZli: i__ sjiff i s sly / a a hole collection of sp ar k I i ng lines in the new Literary Digest. They arej'ii the Topics in Brief page, and are culled f r om news p a p e r s all over the country. Here are just a few of them:-- Talee this one from the Florence Herald: Lany autoists seem to think warning signs at railroad® crossings are merely intended for the locomotive e n g i n e e r . And herefs one that’s appropriate for the foothal I season. cur American educational system, remarks the San Diego news, may have its defects, hut nobody can deny that it has developed a high order of 3 u n t i n g an d passing. And here is an item from the Jackson News about royalty: Concerning the report that ueen .Mary of Lngland is going in for antiques, one is prompted to ask how conspicuous a piace her hats are given in the collection. A survey, says the Ch&tanooga limes, is planned to cl i s c o v er i i w n i c h state women have the most rights. king of f han d , vve T d s ay th e Sx ate of a t r i inony . Gornebody -out an iron bolt in Michael Sheehan’s niece of pie. Anyway, Michael started to eat the pie, end broke several teeth on that iron bolt. According- to the New York Evening V/orld, the judge ordered the pie bakery to pay $200.00 damages to Michael. In conducing this evening’s resume of the news, may I express the ho e that you will not find any iron bolts, screws, hammers, or other hard* ere, or even any oriental tiger’s whiskers in your rum^kin pie’ SO LONO UNTIL TOMORROW.