Lowell Thomas1 Broadcast for The Literary Digest, Tuesday December 16 , 1950 ,___ _ Page 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 13 19 20 21 22 23 24 1 u o o o evening everybody: ..el!, t h e r e 1 s a Iot of zip in the air hereabouts tonight.. Old id an i n'cer sap ms to hcive arrived with his whiskers of icicles. But snappy as the weather is here, itTs a whole lot snappier up at White River, Ontario, where the thermometer is reported to have dropped to 2S below. ,knd snow m Ac,s rar south as Bunny Tennessee, twelve hour blizzard has blanketed eastern Uanada A schooner went A aground in the cale and tour seamen were lost. Several t i sh i ng boats are missing-RtOh Capea Breton Island was isolated for a time the stor m :b I ov,,K do wn the / A. telegraph wires. A lot of damage has been done b” the unusually high uides in the bay of Fundy, where the tides are always higher than anywhere else in the worId . Up in the Berkshire Hills of New York and [.ass ac hu setts i x . sras so cold todciy that an usk i mo dogA s to I @w. i i ve g 1 ovos . h ihat he wanted with the rifth one the 25oSsocicted Tress dispatch aoes 0©efe Sciy • • •- f I .i— 1. n t • • . -ij -L .u Page i e v: s tr on t o n i a h t I % i 3 -w ^ ^r e v oP-y b o d-y -pp © p ?. r H=i cr i© r — s^B pg- 3 s: •; i n; ton s j in c. c. i i n y i i Ke c 1, o s g old wc p "b u 1 I s ii i n s | , ,r v.^.v ' vv<a.. te^T A «K. h- f-^ *v--U 1* ' 4, L 3 4, 5! of f e r ©- j V-&Z& i reci dent Hoover tsiBMmxmXffiiMibffi eIreminds one or Grant, when that famous 7] s © n e r a I s a i d h e wo u I d f i c h t it out a 1 o n g 8: t hed" line if if took all w i nt e r . The 9 United Press states that the President 10 i s determ indd to fight his big battle 11 w i th the Senate^ r i gh t noand on the 12 issue of unemployment relief. He is said 13 to have privately informed Republican 14 leaders in the Senate that it is up to 15 the Senate to make it war or peace. If lei the Senate wants to cooperate with the 17 18 19 ,/hite House, wfept all well and good. If not, well, the President is read;/ for &\\\' •-* C q battle. And that battle mayAbe the big so issue of 1932. 21 The Associated 22 Hoover 1 s unemployment relief program is 1442 . F r e ss s'srys th at j tvir 2S a 1 1 tann 1 ed up ^ i n 24 po 1 i t i cs, the web of Congressional ’ i ^ ji The Senate is netting ready 25 to cons ider Senator Larol leLt^s proposal •,:., o K-I.;: 2 U k 2 . Page 1 1 t o give c n e i r s s id e n t a vigorous c & I 1 - d o w n 2 1 i n return ror x 3 Ur . Hoover denate , ihe fight, of course " ''hat v i ggrous rebuke which the is about the amount of money to be put up for ^unemployment relief. The Senate has been 7! talking about appropr i at i ng a lot more sthan the President thinks necessary 10 ii euoc 12 131 14 22 23 24 25 12-1-30 SM 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 i .u .=£. i-1-L _ JL j_i " 3 Page I Tne o tatessnen dov/n in ..ash inn ton wzxfoi -ut today & five foot snake appeared before the . ub!io Lands bor.iiTi i ttee of ciie House of fiepresentat i ve ihat snake was wrapped, around a lady's neck and Owe n. : he la d y vv a s A U r s • R u t h B r y a n on^r ess woman from Ha.rida. and s. d a i! h t e r o r* ? si v x h e £ r v a n r s i axe .< mm am c e nn i nc s w: jvve n v/as a r c: u i n :: t or the creation of a nat ion l . I park i n the Florida averr lades, and she was telling about the wonders of the proposed park. .mono those wonders are snakes U o vurl not rattlesnakes m copperheads esp water moccasins, ux handsome and inottensive k i n r s n a k e s a n d t o p r o v e h e r p o i n x t h e Con r e s s v/ om n t u r ne ci s n a k e c har m Gr(an d e x h i ta i t e d a b i g k i n r sn a k e . j t around her neck, whi Ie S'fcjL v; r a;' p ea the mu 1 e members ox x he ooHimi ^ tee edged away. She offered to pass it around to t He rn f i' i n s pe c x i o n b u x cn e y s€ v: ere h a v i n c e n o u: h t r o u b ! e w i t h o u t takinv on any snakes. d t he v I uis Page j n Liie fop i g s i n Brief page of 2 1 w Q © k o Lit 8 r c. r y B i c e s t is t h e usual 3 . 0 : o I I e O' t i 0 ' n o t b r i g h t I i n e s , a n d t h e 41 ^ ^ SGo ^ u o l e s a x i rn e 1 y f ho u cj h f fro in 5; Tam,pa I r i bun8• Hspe if is i "everybody hopes that old Santa t h i s t he 6 ! 7 Glaus hasn11 joined the ranks of the unemploved. H V/e I ! , apparent I y he hasn T t. Old 10 Kr is K r i n g I e is s t i I I h ar d at w o rk on 11 h i s old job. There are going to be sixteen million dollars1 worth of dolls tucked away in Christmas stock ings next week. Oolls--and spare parts for dolls- 15 represent one-fifth of the Christmas toy 16 bu 3 i tie s 3 t h i s ye a r . a, * d no mat t e r w:ha t 17 hap pens i n o ther I t nes of business, the 18 selling of toys goes right on booming. 19! -n 11 o o e t h e r s c.s the Intern a x i o n a I N e w s 12 13 14 20 3er vice, s ome 11 1 i n g 1 i ke S8 m i 1 I i on 21 do I I are w i II be paid out of Qadrs 22 1;pooketbook th i s m onxh f or toys , an d over 23!I6 000 000 of that will go for dolls. A ■ 24 25 l2-''0 SM 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 HO.L.- l -U i - Page^. In N e w Y o r k tv/ o be, n d i t s are ere- i t e d v; i x h h av i n g m ad e a so rne w ha t tragic error. They held up a man and who did the victim turn out to be? He turned out to he a policeman off duty. l'..e po I i cemany beat xhe bandits to the draw and captured onej and vc unded the at her. E-rTK~::;-3 I don't know if this next one is 8 record or not, but it ou-iit to be. .'roinarily one banker in jail is enough, but here’s a case of 3h bankers in jail. This nrodigy occurs over in Paris and is the result of the failure of the Oustric Bank. The collarse of trv t banc caused a big financial scandal, and three members of the French gove -nment v/ere forced to resign on account of it. As you kno\ the Tardieu cabinet we. beaten in Parliament recently and France nov. has a new cabinet. This is said to be rertly on account of those same bank scandals. And an Associated Press dis-natch states th> t the French ' inister of Justice ha healed 135 French bankers or financial agents and 35 heve already been marched off to the ?aria lockuo. Just what would 35 bankers, all in jail together, find to talk about. 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 Seal'll Page Over in revolution torn opain the censorship , , . to tel!. A so strict th w h a t t it is hard happening. Martial law is in force from one end of the country to the other, and the Associated Press cables tnat /5,000 soldiers have been nob® I ized. The government claims that the revolt has been put down. But a d i spatchfr oiii Paris to the London Daily via i I that the revo I ut i on i sts are A letting the upper hand, and that King ,I phonso may Tea^©- Ladr i d at any -v detachment of 1,000 men of the Spanish "oreign Legion is on its way from horth sf r i ca to Madrid. Some of the .egionna i res, it is said, refused to smbark for Spain unti I they were guaranteed double pay. Aamon Franco, the famous Spanish iviator,who was one of the leaders of 1i f \l the revolt, op t q .w.ay by atr oP I ane^ d _ i s^ 3af e n Portuga I . are a number^*’' )f other heads of the revolutionary movement. Thev have been interned by the Portuques© government s~Ai:: - 2 *'v Asr • c I d ted Press dispatch states that the pe-uhlic n rev >luti nists of S-cin clslra to be in control of the ' rovince of V.- lenci?.. They soy they have caoturec and executed three loyalist generals. lililKil Page 1 - v/n,le aQ° i told vzssl about a case 2 l U c , u Vi a s be i nr cried by an ar b i trat i on 3|conir:;ittee over in Turkey. 12 heirs of 4 Mbclul Hamid, the famous old Red Sultan, 51 ha q Coen cryin q to ret back some of the 6 property 1eft by the former tyrant of 7; j ur ke y. .according t o the International 81 News Service, the suit has been dismissed, 9 and several curious facts have been 0 brought out. A son of the Red Sultan 11 is playing the saxophone in a Constantinople night club. .Aid one of Abdul Hamid !s daughters is dancing and singing as a 14 cabaret entertainer in that same gay 15 12 13 18 191 20 21 i 22 23 24 25 nu\ r ' Page 1 1: V-____________ \ r ror.i Jhina comes more news aboirt 2 3 the Oornmun i s ts out t ere* ihe /-iss oc i ated i t e s s states t h £ t x h e y a r e 4 rep or ted t o have c ap tu r e u t he town of 5 Kune - n . Leanwh i 1 e th e Ch i nese Katr ona l i si 6 covernment has ordered the gu o pre ss ion 7 : 8 of all reports which tell about the movem nt of nationalist soldiers against ; 9 the Communists. - ^«■ ^^ ~C<~ r: r 10 11 12 13 14 15 ;i -.It |i I 1 j t 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 r- 1 2 3 4 5 i 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 5M coLai m.im Page -JL In her'; i any they are doing someth ing to help the color blind automobile drivers. They have had a few accidents over there because drivers were color blind. Traffic lights at rai lroad stations will be colored as usual, but the white light for safety will flash intermittently and slowly, while the red light will flash rapidly. If you canT t tell the red from the white, why \/ o u can time the f lashes. ' A ^ I i I ri CIBLOir I htttod. to see a asS good story get chucked out of the window. hut just the same there is nothing like the truth. tel , there is a good story about the origin of the word ’’sirloin". No, not so long - just "sirloin.,, The tale is told th- t there v s a Ting of England in ye olden times, and he was 3 right jolly fello- . He sat at dinner in his castle and the cook brought ~n a loin of be- f. It was so magnificent that the lin*.- dre- his sx sword and knighted that cut of beef. That made it a ; ir- 3ir Loin, and thrt is what it has been called ever since. hel, there is a column in the Literary Digest conducted by Dr. Hi? t► -11 y, the famous editor of the Funk and ’.Vagnells dictionary. Dr. ,rizeuclly tells how things get their names, end this we k he utterly denier th t story about tl e origin of the • ord ’'sirloin”. He says it it merely one o: those things thet ,'ounc food. The rlr in the world doesn't signify knight at all. It is merely Trench for the vrord"ahove”: in other .ord -oho-.' the loin." And so f. no the pretty bubble is burst. 712 Kert- : another Dne tho; e championship affairs - the sort of thing you know the t establishes a record. There ere t lot O j . : toi’i about the kind of cooking young brides do and this one is about a ie baked by a young bride. The United Ires- inforiLs u. that the story came out in e Chicago Domestic Relati ns Court, end that -ie which Lrs. zieba baked certainly must bief.k all records. Six years e(To the day after the wedding she brkec a r.ie nd plac' d it before her bridgeroom. Mr. Zieba ate e ri ce of th* t pie and he h* m * t been the seme man since. For six years no-, he has been laid up, all because of hi s brides fin t ale. BOYS An ei^ht-yeer old boy, on orphan in an institution at Paruerf our -, Yirrinia, found & pocketbook. And it had some money in it. r!e called some -then boys, and they all started down to the ice cream store to have e good time. /hile they were furr 1 ing with the -ocretbook, f bystander got a look at it end gam ed. Ther ; were hundred dollar bills, in tlr t nocketbook, 10 hundred dollar bills - and some smaller money besides. The hew York hveninr ' ost tells us that e fe: hours later the nolice returned tl > soney to the owner. But before the boys lort no.* . es i n of it they at leas t managed to have e couple of ice cream sot.--. , so it all ended hap- ily ^or verybody. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Page L. it Out in California a boy stole a fiddle. It was an old otradivarius worth thousands of dollars. The associated Press tells us what the boy did with the fiddle. He sold that priceless otradivarius for a dime. i'l ■■ 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 5M J 0IV Page ‘: V- ' i ; cow th£;t co ;.i e s next cl i dn ' t quite jur.ip over the moon but sh d i d some Lining c. I most c . g extraordinary. Over at HuddIesfie 1 d, England, workers in a factory ’..ere busy at their machines when a cow came crashing in--thnough a skylight. Hanks and glass came raining down, and along with them came the cow. She landed on some beams and huna there above the factory workers' heads. ^n I nternat i on a I iievvs^S^ informs us that Bossv oot tired of the areen meadows so she nuanacied to get on top of a low roof and t he n she c I i inbed to one a little h j 0herE3 until she go t r i g ht on top of that factor y. She strolled around up there and tlienAmade the mi stake of wa I k i no onto a skv I i c lit • iHtid do v/n o a me ^ aMi. ^ the cow untiI she cot^tangl3dAamong the be £ ["js j t t o o k men with ■ft d l o Civ an u tackle to haul her down.O^ ^ JU^-bo y—. x to Id you the other nioht thr t the vorst mosquitos in the world ..ere to be found ur -long the Arc1 :c Circle, -■'ell, I kne\. it v/ould he- en. Here are a couple of letters telling .e in no uncertain terms that I'm wrong. One, of co ur s e , cor e r f r he Jersey. The Jersey skeeter is famous in ring ■ nc * ry, At any rate,, Arnold Aronsdorf, of Dumont, 'Tew Jer ey, rendi i: s little legend from out his way. It seems they had >n.e ;keeter out there who wss king of them all, and that insect we biting a ter bucket. A men hit the skeeter with a hammer, and sort of riveted its beak to the ride of the bucket. There was a great whirring of wings, and the man saw the water bucket fly awry, Tlr t mosquito was just taking it along, t • ••• '<i."o r ever el y criticized by L-.r « hicSv/eeney t of Kev; York. He awards the calm and crown, end the gold handled _ly 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 m - '.5L Page. 6 w a 110 r t j the r 'GS'c Afri can mosquito. i .•.cowe.ena y s ^ x hat he vo rkeel out . no i e < i c h c ha «k o c ke t e I lap Institute ind he knows. It is the yellow fever losquM:0 that they have along 1 :he Al vory Ooas'c and Gold Coast fty. i ,63t Africa, and it's the most deadly of 1 If I eat i O s a ts kind. The huge mosquitos of A I aska ire just pleasant little friendly playmates )eside his 'Test African brother. Mr. icSweeney concludes his letter by saying: ,:Look out for the yellow fever of ..frica, and be sure and take an extra of quinine before you sign off ton i ght!; Well, I've dieted on quinine in ndia, in Burma, in [vialaya, and a score f other countries. hi f a c t I T v a had ora than m v share. So i f t here a re any osquitos lurking around tonight as we end up trek through the dc.yT s dense maze of ews uispate hes, I am quite wIi l ing co Ie c o m e o n a else have my ii share o t t h a re me d y dvocated by the engineer from West Africa. nd in the meantime, I Ml buzz around where there ere no mosc ui cos and see if 1 can swat a few news items for our next session. tc o o | o n f' u n til t om o r p o w * Al ... j