nRO /■..DCAST FOR TPE LITERARY DIGEST TUESDAY, AUOU-T 18, j?31 VATIC j ^N good EVENIKG, EVEEYBODY: A rer ort c o : a e s from Rome this evening t ha t the disrute between the Vaticf;n and the Italian govermaent, the one we have been hearing so much about has been settled. The Rome eorrer- ondent of the International News Service cables that he ha. word to this effect fro . a high official sourse at the Vatican, It is added that the agreement will be formally made public within the next few days. Only this much is definitely stated -- that the quarrel has ended to the entire satisfaction of the Vatican, * A later reoort from Rome tells us that the Italian government confirm? the rumor of an agreement with the Vatican, The Italian fiuthorities state that an understanding has been reached between the Pone end Mussolini and that the terms will he made ^ublic shortly. EUfiLMIl ™-s« Page___=Z Ifaa big economy drive is getting under way over in .London. The British government is I money. It's the old case of I iving beyond your income, spending more money than you receive. The British Exchequer is facing a huge deficit, and the heads of the parties in Parliament are all agreed that expenses will have to be cut down. Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald is holding a meeting of what they callmal the Economy Committee today. Proposals are being drafted for a slashing of expenses. The International News Service declares that the Government economy proposals will be discussed in a full meeting of the British cabinet tomorrow. The situation in London is something of a political paradox. The heads of the I i Labor government real i ze that John Bull will have to stop ^sp^» \ v They have confabulated with the heads of the rival parties, the Conservatives and the Liberals, and this was the reply they received I-- if 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 H 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 Eusutm - 2 page----- 3 ___ "Righto, Ramsey old chap, you've | jolly well got the right idea." ! The Liberal and Conservative parties have promptly O.K.'d the economy plans of the Labor leaders. But just the same, the Labor cabinet faces some stiff opposition. It's in the ranks of their own party. There are a number of Labor M.P.'s who don't agree with that economy dr ive. . The reason is that if there's to be a slashing of expenditures ' in England, why among the first to get it in the neck will be what they call SocialistjcExpenditures. This includes the huge amount of money which England is spending on the dole and on other c schemes of socialistic improvement. These are eating up money at a terrific x&< rate, and they're a fine place to lay the ax in any economy drive. Naturally there are a number of important figures in the Labor party who don't want these social i st i c expenditures cut down, and the b itj test of the MacDonald economy policy is k'Ml-SM ZU&LLM - 3 Page ^ scheduled to come on Thursday when there will be a meeting of the Trades Union Council of the Labor party. And so during the next couple of days we are likely to hear of important news from England on the subject of the financial crisis. One, ^h iryg i s certain. however, A has got to balance budget _ Vx ^ —A "tj -v ^ A*c.- ' j i - JT- v "FA. M'. U? v ^X m ■te^fcvvl-CA^~' o'oJc^uc^ ur<Lv^ "ii- -pU'^4 £^ va d „dr 4 v71^ /n SEMN ................ !— A new i clea comes sJ ong in the proposed Constitution tor xhe Spanish Republ ic. /\ constitution has been drafted and was brought before the Spanish Parliament today. It is now being debated. One clause in the new Constitution is an Anti-War proviso. It declares | that Spain renounces war as an instrument of national politics. This information comes in an Associated Press dispatch. And I g ss the only thing we can say is that w.hen a nation puts a declaration apa i n st war in its constitution, that's somet h i n g n ew m D xd Page------ JL-------- 1 Page. k- of^political sensation at5t' ^ Governor Roosevelt of Nev/ York, made puhlic a bit of correspondence that he hjis had^ w i th the Government at Was-hi ngton It a I I s e ern s to boil down to something like t his There are a number of matters to n 12 13 14 15 be negotiated between United States and Canada in connection with water power, when President Hoover was Secretary of Commerce he took up the matter and came to the conclusion that the water paver quest ion should be negotiated by a commission of American and Canadian - i6 experts. He recognized the right of 1 ? New York State to- be represented in these 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 MMI- sm discussions. x ^ Recently Governor Roosevelt has been informed by the chairrna.n of the New Y o r k P oiv 8 p a ut h o r i ty t h a t t he P r e s i d©n t had begun negotiations w i t h C an a d a an rf the state of New York was being ignored. So Gov ernor Roosevelt wrote to the D p e s i d 8 n t a n d asked w h e t h er an y k 9 10 11 12 R£m3Ei£LI. Page____2 negotiations with Canada had begun. He d i dn T t reoe i any r n n I y r! ir eot I y from the Presi ‘ent. instead he got a note fr m Acting Scop t ary of St at Castle \ l.o is an ol e' friend of his. Secretary Castle began his letter TfOear Fr^nkTf an c! i n a purely personal way stated U-VV(|jZjn- - that ruo nenot i at.i ons were t f 1 'f* a satisfactory reply from the Pres i dent. He thinks that Mr. Hoover should have stated on his own account 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 that there were no negotiations under v/a.y between United States and Canada. An d s the Go ver nor of• Kew York has now put the matter before the public by giving out for pub I i cat i on the correspondence +hat he directed to President Hoover. The Internationa! News Service makes the comment that the power issue may be an important one in the next Presidential c a mp aim an d that Governor Roosevelt of New York has a good chance ts of becoming the Democratic nominee. And so the controversy looks I ike an important poll t i ca I mo ve. 6-t6-31—5M 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 id ii 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 l-SM I Page--- SI-- * v i The old subject of the number of women as compared with the number of men received some new illuminat ion today in a set of figures given out by theWadhjjfc Census Bureau. The proportion of women in the united States is increasing. The Associated Press reminds us that there have always been more men than women in this country. of course that is natural because the immigration to our shores constituted a greater proportion of men than women. These new census 3Lr\j% figures show that there aaa sti IIAmore men in the country than women.^ Esr ' l-920 there were 104 men and boys for every 100 flt®»1anci girls. the figure for men and boys is now only I02.5. With the negro population, on the other hand, there are more women than men. ror every 100 negro women there are 97 negro men. Among the whites the ladies are most numerous in the couth. ijftOoP Women § 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—SM Page--- 2. £QEilLillQii_^_£2 out-number the men in most ot the « Southern states. This is also true in some parts ot the Northeast. 11s tea in the V/estern states that the men make the strongest shov/mg. In Nevada there are 140.3 men to every 100 women. in Wyoming the ratio is 123.8 to 100. in Montana it is 120 to 100 . These figures^ indicate an i rnpressive I tujz a^uz »-vu2+<, masculine preponderance But they are hopelessly unimpressive when we bring forv/ard the figures tor the old days. Back in I860 Montana had more than 256 men for every 100 women and that, as the Associated Press reminds us tells a good deal ot the story of those pioneer times when the cowboys sang melancholy songs on the great dusty plains. Ylo 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 l-SM £a£iILiIlQN_-_££ Page--- out-number the men in most ot the Southern states. This is also true in some parts ot the Northeast. I t’s tes in the V/estern states that the men make the strongest shov/ing. In Nevada there are 140.3 men to every 100 women. in Wyoming the ratio is 123.8 to 100. in Montana it is 120 to 100 . These tigures i nd i cs,te, a q impressive masculine preponderance out they are hopelessly unimpressive when we bring forv/ard the figures tor the old days. Back in I860 Montana had more than 256 men for every 100 women and that, as the Associated Press reminds us tells a good deal ot the story of those pioneer times when the cowboys sang melancholy 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 5M E1SH Page_. /'I Word of an exciting fishing trip comes along this evening- Jay Holmes, a member of New Yor k^soc i ety, took a party of friends out in a motor launch off the coast of Maine. They didn't come back on time. In fact, they were missing all last night and part of today, k-t&frep m-feA—Ke hne s—h-a d -te-e e n—e-ru i s mg ar&uftd—i n h i s h anrT-sotrt e- b i § y ao-ht and wHen-- t he d-i fTn 11 shol^-uo-,—the went—eut—l-ook in g for—h-H?K Well, today the party of fishermen reappeared after an^flf-hour absence, and they told a story of a particularly exciting bit of fishing. They were after horse mackeral, a big and powerful fish common along the North Atlantic coast. You donTt catch a horse mackeral with a hook and line. You harpoon him. lie II, F i sherm an Ho I me s an d his party of society friends did harpoon r horse mackeral, and a big one. That fish is described as being a 700-pounder. The harpoon landed fair and square, and thatTs when the fun began. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 lb 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 ElSii Page----- IL The horse mackeral just started traveling- He traveled this way and that, taking the boat right along with him. This went on for eleven hours. Hnally, as the International News Servi ends the story, the harpoon wssr worked loose. It WsrtP'dragged right out of the fish's back, and old Mr. Horse Mackeral went on his way. Fisherman Holmes and his society friends went on their way. That is, they went home and put an end to the fears that their absence had caused. C6 ■ ; DIGE'-'T V/eli, I know one thing I'll be doing this weekend. I1!! k® boiling b bi ick in b ^ot of water. Recently I hed. a fireplace bmrt of bricks, and that's the reason for those peculiar anti cs I'm going to indulge in over the week-end.* The Literary Digest has been running e series of articles, one every other week, which tell us a lot of useful facts about buildings, ^ bout the way our houses are put up.' % This week's issue goes into the subject of building with stone end tells us a whole series of interesting facts. For example, there's information about limestone lumber, ;bout granite veneer, the colors of sandstone, and the delicate textures of marble. As an enthu'iantic house-holder, that article gave me e bit of useful knowledge;' and from it I turned to a book with a beguiling title. It's called "The House Owner's Book." It's printed by the publishers of the Literary Digest, Yes, end it's on sale at bookstores all over this country. The first chanter discusses that very important matter of how to become a house owner. Oh yea, one of the sub-headings is entitled ■- "Problems of Financing the Home." Well, I’m DIGEST - 2 wrestling \j±th th; t "'roblen every day, and I immediately sat down and read the chapter. But I was still stuck on the subject of building, and right there the seconc chanter took up the tonic of building materials. One sub-heading read, "How to Test the Quality of a Brick." And the text went on to tell that the first es ential of e good brick is thrt it should be well burned. Let me read a line or two out of "The House Owner's Book" — "The cimnlert method of testing a brick is to strike it with a hammer. If it gives a clear ringing sound, it’s well burned." Another test, a little more complicated but still simple enough, is to find out how much water a brick ; ill absorb. The first thing to do is to dry the brick in an oven. Then you weigh it carefully. Then you rroceed to boil it. You keen it in boiling water for about five hours. Then you take the brick out and eigh it again. The v/et brick vill weigh more than the dry brick weighed. The difference in v/eight tells you whether it's a good brick or not. For the soft type of brick ___ ^ ^ ... i DIGEST - 2 maam the difference rhoUj.c not be more then one-sixth, in other words, 1 that brier, absorbs more than one-sixth of its weight of water» why it's a punk brick. So that’s the resson why I'm going to be bo’ling bricks uo at the farm over the week-end. But wait a minute, if I don’t get off this subject of bricks, someone is liable to throw one at me. The only excuse I can make is that I am one of those enthusiantic house owners to whom ’’The House Owner's Book,” rublishec by Funk & ''/agnails, is directed. And from bricks let’s turn to the subject of bouquets. At Constantinople, or Istanbul, as the Turks now call it, they are handing a fe.. bououeta, composed no doubt of the famour roses of Shiraz, to Anneeta Grew, the yr. old daughter of the Ambassador to Turkey. She did a bit of swimming die Anita Grew. Today she swam the length of the historic Bosf'horous all the way from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmora. The Associated ^ress says it took her five hours to make the 15 miles along the legended DIGEfT - 4 straight that separates Europe and Asia. They say this is the first time the feat has ver been acconr-li shed. Of course it would never occur to a Turk to do all that swimming. To old Abdul water is something ith which to erform the sacred ablutions and to ~ut in his hubby bubbly ^ine. m&mmmmmm 1 ci) Page___ /'/ \<e seem to have a new champion this evening, although I don't believe he is recognized by any of the sporting commissions or that his name will go down on the record-books. His name, by the way, is Nicholas Ispas. He's 9 years ■ “ old and the Chicago police have declared | him the scooter champion of the world. Yes, Nick did some hard traveling on a s.j scooter. In Chicago today Police Sergeant Michael Sheehan was making his rounds when he noticed a very t i r ed-I oo k i ng smal I boy pushing his way wearily through the &■■■■ traffic on a scooter. There was something hopeless and all played out about the lad that attracted the cop's attention. "Hey bud, where ya' go in?" shouted Sergeant Sheehan. "I guess I'm go in' home," sighed the boy, "but I ain't very sure." The boy gave the policeman his address. The United Press is the authority for the fact that the boy's il; 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 SCfiOIER - 2 home was at Indiana Harbor, on the out­ skirts of Chicago, 20 miles away. The I lad had been travel ing for 10 flours. Nick Ispas' mother sent him out on an ,j errand. And Nick, with all the dignity of 9 years, always travels on his scooter. " He scooted around to the store, and then as he scooted back he turned the wrong corner and got all tangled up. Well, ■ Nick is a sturdy lad, self-reliant and independent. He didn't want to ask if 11 anybody the way. He just kept scooting on and on through strange streets, hoping at last to find his house. He thought he was on his way home, but he was going in the wrong direction. And for 10 hours he just scooted and scooted and traveled 20 miles. Well, I guess two miles an hour on a scooter isn!t so bad. Anyway, when the sympathetic cop took the weary lad around to the station- house and the other policemen heard the story, the verdict was unanimous -- that Nick Ispas was the scooter champion of the world. After he had had a chance to H w I- sm * rest up a bit, the scooter champ was delivered home to his mother. And now the time has come for me to scoot, so -- . SO LONG UNTIL TOMOKROW. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25