LP.:.:ILL 3g0j\DCAST FOR THE JLITERARYDIOE ST THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 19^0 GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: I s \ it ) oss you. I irvs q II finished your turkey dinner. Or meybe sone of you prefer evening, instead of the good old fashionedl dinner time at noon. Anyway, here are a few bits of Thanksgiving day news to go along with the nuts and raisins. TOftKK?OIVINa A curious story sbout the first presidential Thanksgiving ni'oclamation conies over today in a dispatch from the Associated Press. George Washington signed the proclamation. It was in the year 1789. Then the document v. s lost for 13.. years, until it turned up in some strange fashion sn auction in New York, The Congressional Library of Washington bought it. In it George Washington called upon the citizens of the new nation to set aside Thanksgiving Day "to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of ell the good that was, that is, or that will be." Did you know that the setting aside of Thanksgiving as a national holiday was due to a woman? I didn't until I Picked ur a cony of the famous Hartford Courant of Hartford, Connecticut, this morning. In it I saw that it wr s in 1864 that this really became a national holiday, krs, Sar loserhine Hale, of New Hampshire was responsible. She had v -Mve small children, but she been left a young widow with fiv r in the business world, end was a fought her way to success in on thanksoivikg - 2 woman of orominenoe from 18£8 to 1877. She edited women's magazines, founded the Seamen's Aid Society of Boston, wss largely responsible for the building of the Bunker Hill Monument, and she was famous for her skill at roasting turkeys and suckling "Igs and at making mince pies. Well,-for twenty years Krs. Hale campaigned for the establishment of Thanksgiving as a national holiday, and in 1864, as the result of her campaign, the Hartford Courant -points out that Abraham Lincoln issued the first -nroclamation declaring Thanksgiving a national holiday. The New York World oolnts out editorially today that at e time like this when things look a bit glum to many, at any rate not so cheery as they did, say two years ago, it is interesting to recall that the Pilgrim Fathers who established Thanksgiving Day hadn't very much to be thankful far. They were cold, they were hungry, they had holes in their shoes, they had aches in their hearts for those who had died in the Preceding year remarks the New York World, end as for the Pilgrim Mothers, well ‘khe lesr said about their -plight the bet In fact, about all TTTANKSGIVING - 5 that con be seia for eny of the surviving nilgrims wes thnt they hed survived and honed to survive a little longer. The paners are full of Thanksgiving Day news items. For instence, you can imagine the joy in the heart of josenh Barhato. The Nev/ York Herald Tribune tells the story. For five months Barbato had been in the der-th house up at Sing Sing awaiting execution, but tod'y he is free at last. The Judge who pronounced his doom h^s now dismissed the charge against hi ' because of lack of evidence when his case was a—'esled. Reporters went to question him on what he thought Thanksgiving Day would mean after all those months in the de. th cell, Barbato *s hand shook and he was too overcome to reply. 1 2 1 3 4 ' 5 ! 6i 7 I 8 I 9 20 ! 11 12 13 I H 15 16 17 18 j 29 j 20 ! 21 ^ 22 23 i 24 25 KELLSIHli Th e Koribrabie f\ i Pari k d Kel logg, formerly Secretary of State and one time Ambassador to Great Britain, today was awarded the Nobel prize for peace for lhe year 19 29. nt The same time, the i- >‘-^r committee named the winner for 1930. Ihia yaanla winner is Or. Nathan Soderblom, the archbishop of Upsala, ^ we den. The International i\iews Service says that tv.r. Nel logg was named for the prize because ot his work in framing the Kellogg Peace Pact. He is the xxx fifth American to get the peace rize. The others were Roosevelt Elihu hoot, '..oocrow '.Vi Ison, and Charles b. u a w e s . The new Literqry Digest, which is on the stands today haff a strong article on the sit ject of peace. It is headed - SHOUTING FOR PEACE AND ARMING FOR WAR. >f y°u vvarrt 10 gRt & real insiaht into all those peace and disarmament discussions that are going on, you ought to read that article. Well, now we haVe °n ° , +u. . not in the few th i few things that are not Spirit; o t Than1 s c; i v EUSSli, Page___ 1 The reporters at that dramatic 2 trial over in iVioscow ha«./f. n 3 grim st or i es. They describe the 4 setting in the court room cs being like 5 a. Russian film tragedy. According tocc e the United Press dispatch, the 6 of the 7 8 professors who have testified all teld. 8 the same story, (tnd they apparently 9 repeated with monotonous reguIarity«~the 10 story that while they held important posts 11 in the Soviet industrial organization 12 they were secretly working against the 13 Bolsheviks. One of the defendants tells H 15 16 17 I 18 j 19 | 20 | 21 ; 22 ! 23 how he gave secret military plans to the French covernment. Another describes how they were forming ar\ ant i-Commun i stic organization right within the ranks of the Red Army. They all tell how they were conspiring with French c.nd British statesmen. They point out Poincare, Briand, Winston Churchill, Sir Henry Qeterding, the oil magnate, and 1 , n 1 n& 1 lawrence as conspirator legendary Colonel La\ nf Colonel Lawrence Their ment ion 0 1 RUSSIA ~ 2 Put5 the final touch on that fantastic melodrama in Moscow. For the cast 1? years, every time there has been trouble anywhere someone has attempted to nut the blame on Lawrence. Two years ago, when he was serving as a private in the Royal Air Force out on the Afghan frontier, end at e time when I happened to be in Moscow, the Russians gave out e report to the effect that Colonel -awrence was behind the Afghan revolt. That story went all over the world and was rather generally acf'ented. At any rate, it so embarrassed the British that they had to take Lawrence av.T.y from India and have him stationed in England agr.ln From Russi*. let’s make a flight across the globe to South America, where there’s more fighting down in Peru. Lest night I told you about rioting between workmen end students in Lima. Now the trouble has grown more serious. According to the International News Service, several leaders of the revolutionists have been executed. Peru is just through with one revolution. At the end of that session of trouble e provisional government v/as established, and now this new government seems to be having difficulties. They ere blaming it on the communists, for a change. Page 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 ! 18 I 19 20 21 22 23 I 24 25 ! 1 Things are quiet in Spain today, but there are ominous signs In Madrid the people are nervous because there are thousands of soldiers on duty in the streets. The city is under such a heavy guard that you can see the government is expecting trouble- Leaders who are opposed to the government are constantly shadowed by detectives. The New York Times correspondent .the people bel ieve that the republicans are ready to start a revolution to overthrow ttre king Troub I e started a few days ago with an outbreak of strikes and riots. , And these were caused by hard times. According to the nev; Literary Digest, the^ labor disturbances in the Spanish cities are just another troublesome angle of the world wide business depression. But when strike riots began, they soon took a political slant. ”h0 are for a reoubl Ic and against King Alfonso tooK advantage of tbs trouble and tried to turn it into a revolutionary movement. SPAIN - 2 The Digest erticle joints out that- the S-aniards are getting repay for en election in Jamiery, the first election they have had in eight years. X su>>-nose you've long ago heard how the football gi games came out. cut in case you have missed them I’ll reel off a few. Cornell trounced the University of Pennsylvania 13 to 7. Colgate P7 - Brown 7. Syracuse walloped Columbia 19 to 7. Oregon State and West Virginia tied. Pittsburgh 19 - Penn. State 1?. St. Mery’s 7 - Oregon 6. Tennessee S - Kentucky 0. Texes ?6 - Texas Ag. 0. Alabama 13 - Georgia 0. Tulane 12 - Louisiana 0. Florida 55 - Georgia Tech. 7. Utah 41 - Uteh Ag. 0. Notre Dame end Washington State ) unbReten. Alabama and Utah > EARTHQUAKE In Jansn, some 30,000 r-eonle haven -1 as ffluoh to be thankful for as the most of us. Their homes have been destroyed by that earthquake. Relief workers are still searching through the ruins of towns and villages in Central Japan- Airnlanes flew over the devastated regions to find the localities where the destruction was worst, end also to surervise dettichrnentr ot Japanere soldiers who were rushed out to do relief work. Tress cables plrce the total number of dead at 300, and the injured at 500. Talking about reorle who have no reason to be thenkful Page I oootsman tore up two five ao I i ar 2| bi Ms. i r£ Ts l news i tem that m u I d 3 attract anyoneTs attention. The New 4 York Times assures us that it really s happened. ,,ho was the Scotsman? V/ h y '-Rj^ e f ? v/as Sandy u.cNei I, skipper of the ^ Iv.auretan i a -- the man who saved that e shipwrecked crew in mid-ocean last week. 9 Here!s how it happened:- Captain oandy 10 iN.cNei I came back to his ship with his II pockets full of clippincs about that 12 ocean rescue. But this he ro stuff me ans 13 so little to him he aionTt bother to u reaa them. He tore them into little bits 15 and threw them away -- and then ui s- 16 covered heTd torn up ten collars alone 1 with the c I ippings. nTo tear up ten dollars is un- 19 lucky for anyone11, said Captain ^.nciy 20 IkicNe i I , "but for a Scotsmajp to oo it, 21 hoot mon, thatTs terrible .1 23 j 24 ! Page Ji-1. - u DP 3! 4 5 6 ; 7 8 ! 9 ; 10 11 12 13 H 15 16 ! 17 ! 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 here’s one ot the strangest stories I * v e seen in a Io n r time. U u t in Los angeIes a writer is suing a convict. He wants carnages tor the loss ot five years o 'i his lire. he wasted tre t i ve years in hunting buried treasure. The convict is known as bluebeard ..ats on. len years ago ..atson was given a lite sentence Tor coin: away with one of his twenty-five wives. he boasted that or the twenty-five wives,he had polished Fi ve years ago v.r i ter?u**«<*_ off si xtee n . Hill, while on a visit to the prison, met o I ue bear d ..atson, and the convict tola the wr i ter that he nao buried fortune ot w87,000; which he had got trom his victirr-s. he told where the money was. i he writer went searching tor it. He searched tor it tor bx tive years.-E^r sf ^ never toune it. '=JiU ....... . ls •A , i)2.5 000 - damages suinc; the convict ior w<- , Tor those rive years he wasted m tna- useless hunt. 25 asirf*; MEXI CO Page__ l! 1 ln lv's x i c o a lot of people are j 2 hunting African lions, Burmese elephants, a and Himalayan bears today. That sounds i impossible, I know. But you see a circus o train near Guadalajara jumped the track, 6 and a number of oeople were killed. A 7 tank car^ full of gasoline caught fire, a and blew up. Soon the coaches were 9 ablaze. The cars with the wild animals 10 sere shattered. Some of the wild beasts 11 were kill ed. Others escaped. According 12 to the United Press, several lions 13 started out on a cross-country dash, and 14 maddened elephants and bears went 5 tearing through the smal I er town of 16 Guadaloupe, wrecking everything in their ’ 17 path. Hunting parties, with all kinds of ; guns, have been organized and are now ‘ scouring the hills for the animals. 20 ! 21 ; 22 23 24 ! 25 I n ■ r ’ ^ Uuli— iliS Page. 1 Out e. l . r a i n s v i I I e ^ t he yT r e h av i n a 2 a dancing rn ar a then. Oscar Pronto is 3 ou l on tne i 1 oor shu r t 1iny a lone and 4 -tte nas a bcid tooth. ^ ciac tor has told A- s him that the tooth will have to be e pulled right away. uid the doctor's ? verdict put Oscar out of xhe running - or rax her 9 a jugful.A^els having that too in pulled out right there on the dance nd he 1s going to be dancing I suppose the dentist will be his dancing partner 10 11 12 13 U 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 f loor.. while ‘cooth is being yankea Page_ 1 Near I-orr i stov.n , New Jersey, three 2 rail road linemen v/ere stringing wires 3 from a pi auto pin mounted on a handcar* 4 Suddenly c n e y saw c n e e vv York e x p r e s s s roundi ng a curve. i here was no time to e get that handcar off the tracks* Those ? linemen justone leaP to a network a ot wires, and worked their way, hand over 9 hand, to the cro^s arms or a telegraph 10 pole twenty feet away. The train hit u the i r hana-car, and splintered it into i2 kind line woog . The linemen shinnied 13 3own the telegraph pole, m i y—ti ZZiL*^ n;! ' v i_i a Page. t s n 6 v e r v 6 r y d i f 1* i c u 11 Tor & ^trs-veler xo remember where he spends a 5 holide.y. He usually devotes part of it 4 to wishing that he were home in ,-,rnerica Mvith his family. In 1917 I was with the ■Italian Army an had just come rrom the rront. o; 11 ~ t - l i N .i uiii'U I..ajor A Tot ip, ; '- j r -.i .. i >, i nt i was s with me. He had been in America and io wanted to arrange some special way of r. celebrat i nr Thanksgiving. .*6 traveled 12 most ot the day on a troop train and ij at dark X arrivea in the City of tsolo: na. »The lights were out because or the fear is ot air raids. ..e could only vino one “restaurant open. It v/as on^ ot those it meat I ess days too. But when v;e explained “to the waiter that it v/as an important “holiday and that we wanted to celebrate, 20 he winked ana in a little bit came back * i i o h top us consisting 21 wi th a special uisn - * i onns but x the 22 of a platter of rrieo egg > as a i/o nouT I aoett • hidden eras were on 1 y Cc.mou i i ai ", . . . . rc -ere delicious 24 underneath t horegg3 ^er 25 steaks. personal - Then we growled eround the streets looking for a rlaoe to sleer. There wasn't e room to be had in a hotel. But an officer directed us to a building which looked like a palace. e banged the he: vy knocker and the caretaker came to the door with ft lantern. We explained what we wanted t and he sr.id there wa; only one place in the nelece where he could "Ut U5 and that was in e tiny bathroom. Major To'fsi curled ur> on the floor and I slept in the tub and that wes the wey we celebrated that Thanksgiving Day. Thanksgiving is a great day for the poets. Hi vhilli^s* thfe f^ous humorist who conducts the Sun Dial - iumn of the Kev; York Sun, bursts forth with a string of verses which he colls "Thanksgiving Meditation." Maybe a few of the verses would make an arnropriate ending for tonight Here they ere: '.Veil this Thanksgiving I am glad For lots of things That weren’t so bad. I’m thankful, end I»d have you note, That I was not A Lirton boat: And I give thanks In strident tones That I did not play Bothy Jones I*m glad that I Did not, oh man! Campaign as a Republican: With gratitude I deeply thrill That I don’t rule In fnr Brazil; And this I think Is also true Of Chile, s^ain And of Peru; And I give thanks -- As vho should not? -- By racketeers I was not shot* And this, too, cheers much, for sooth; Against West Point I war not Booth! Well, Fi, as a Thanksgiving rhymster is quite some -mark ins. 'i'hat poen^s good, That poem’s fine. And now I think I’ll add e line. I hope for you The day * s teen bright. So long until Tomorrow night.