sKssawggsgsssssi i-4 a X wX.j_t jJiiUiWO/iui - . 1 ? /•;)/•'?. Good Evening, jfcverypody: Here1s something that1s new because it's so exceedingly ol' . There1s a move on ‘oat to establish a system oi barter throughout the entire nation. The idea is to Jobs for the jobless by what they all need^X^* In this manner the people who are starting movement claim it will be possible o got idle factories going again. The hev, York <»orld T iegram declares that one of the- group twM? is xm ^tuart Chase, the economist The basis of the scheme is an unofficial sort of money. ii Tokens o takt the place of money ill be provided. h&se will be giv< n to the unemployed for whateve r work they do, and <*-"7 piy£*}\ '**• ‘ '-+AS-OS1 the unemployed ' ill offer them to manufacture rs, distributors, ana lenclord ” ,er. ?’r 1 goods and rent. The na.ie of trie organization back of this is the Emergency Exchange association. Incorporated. This Association expects o begin such an exchange of services for goods within 2 a short time In two of the borcu hs of Mew York. As soon as they get goinr, similar exchanges v.ill fee established in communities in other parts of the country, and it is hoped sees* th#* movement will spread. lof t?»-storeg k in* 'tsx»-r^ 0 %—the Me’w- -¥crlr. C i l y ■■c. i v i i.on -■>ino-Apsoci a tion gyp ret a* to start- UB—wri^T-a-li—tr of rivr thousa nrr- uncffq->loyed-^ho-—. ^p^-h^ad'-s--of' familiysT—gYr^--fMrn-^r<h"--r'Cr h-^^in yhff an^ tfoinor.1? rlrthlrr -# -aca* tji-ro-1r i> y i sh a-,, canning ^ p&c —ehe-reby—prov luin-^-^a—outl-^t-——f *''‘m pro cue tf*. And here’s a new Idea on the beer question. Beey, says one win- of the party which wants to make it legal, shall be served at every soda fountain. A good five cent glass of good beer at every fountain, or 9 bottle at every corner grocery. Also, of course, to be bought with every meal or sandwich in any restaurant. That*s the gist of the new idea. A stoi-y in the dev. York World Telegram reports that all these in favor of modification are practically united in declaring that once beer is legalized it should be sold with tht same freedom as soda pop or near-beer. This, they claim, vill be the easiest way of preventing the return of the 40Id time saloon, impnri This suggestion was an important part of the testimony today before the committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, Other itnesses told the Congressmen rnfxxhK how much other industries besides the brewers* would benefit if beer were made legal. There was a representative for instance, of a big motor truck corporation. Likewise a witness on behalf of the Electric Power industry. The Congressmen were airap told the t the lumber trade would be helpe> . The principal v.itness tomorrow will be decretarfcr wfx of the Treasury, Ogden Mills. Hoover JfcKaoLXfifcj&sx President Hoover took a drastic step today. He ordered a sweeping reorganization of Uncle Sam’s government. He advised tfcs* Congress of this in another bulky special message. This message took the form of a series of executive orders. These executive orders will become lav/ unless Congress objects within sixty days. The gist of these reforms is the grouping or consolidation of fifty-eight executive agencies and bureaus of the Federal Government. The President wants to abolish obsolete bureaus and consolidate others. His scheme would enable forty -Ik government agencies to do the work now done by fifty-eight. In other words, it would eliminate no less than fifteen of these overlapping and superfluous bureaus. pfj.XJL>i:-n News from Germany today is that Adolf Hitler has Suffered about his worst setback Since he first loomed large on the German horizon. There is an important rift within the ranks of his party. Two of his foremost lieutenants have resigned. One of them is exceedingly important because it was he who wrote the program of the Hitler party and has been writing all its public manifestos. In fact, it is hinted that without his help the handsome Adolf would have a tough time writing his speeches. Some observers eee the fine Machiavellian hand of Chancellor^General von Schleicher, in this Hitler mutiny. It is believed that the Chancellor and the Militarist Party have ?ot about as much use out of Hitler as they think wise, and would now be glad to see him take the skids. A dispatch to the New fork Sun indicates that the cause of this dissatisfaction within the Hitlerite ranks is the arbitrary and autocratic control exercised by Hitler. UCi-D-liJ For today just a short item on those European debts, 75 u */" John Bull is getting ready to pay Uncle Sam^ninety-five and a half million dollars either in gold alone or in gold and dollars. The French on their part are ready to follow John Bull*5 example, with reservations. Premier Herriot indicated that he was ready to pay what France owes, provided his Parliament would agree. His Finance Minister is in sympathy with this step. A session extraordinary of the New York Assembly began in Albany this afternoon. Its purpose, as was mentioned a rev. days ago, is to enable Father Knickerbocker to cut down on his terrific overhead. So many of the large salaries paid to folks who work for New York City arandertrayu So the idea is that the law makers shall cancel those mandatory A* provisions. The big news of the opening day is that Governor is President-elect Roosevelt/xr® working hand in hand with former Governor Alfred E. Smith, to bring about an even more drastic A revision of New York City * s government than was contemplated up to a week ago. And that affords an interesting spectacle. Almost at daggers drawn last July, now ’working tooth and nail wfiSai the same object. A The plan which Mr. Smith outlined for consolidsting^Np7 . Jr ^ ---- / ias caught on so rnuc be put into effect at this extraordinary session of the Assembly New York has' caught on so much that there is hope that it may A " X Of course, there!s terrific opposition. Tammany _ £ and the cth»:-r political es chines in i/e•• ±®?£. ana nc^lint at if the tops of their lungs.'* So this session ottnt tc be suite lively because there ^g>^buni to be a fierce bat tie betne n the A A supporters of Gov rnor Hoosevelt and Grrmer levtrnor Gnith on ^ the one hand, and the ‘grtSwfrs^y^frr^r on the other. There was a dramatic ena to a long drawn out trial in ilovv York today. Conrad H. itann of Kansas City, President of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, Director General of the Fraternal Order of Kagles, oerson-ajr—__ sideni, Hoov^iu, was sentenced to five months in Jail and a twelve thousand dollar fine. This sentence was delivered today in the Federal Court where Mr. Mann and two others were convicted of operating a lottery. It xx has apparently not yet been decided when the second trial of Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, on the same charge, will be held. jXtJ-!. i. A curious tragedy came to llrht in Chicago today. A report to the Jersey Journal relates that a trembling old man stumbled into a oolice station out there and told the desk sergeanti !,I have just killed my . ife.” the sergeant coulcln11 take him seriously because the man v.as so old ana .A. n resoectable. and sober, tsem A s Finally the old man's insistence began to convince the sergeant ana an investigation turned up the following facts:— 7%C(Z / The old raan had been married to ^ledaiat woman thirty-nine -A’ A A irl th: years. For thirty-nine years they got along, maybe not in friendly fashion, but anyway they rot along. Last week the wife got a. divorce and ordered the old man out of his house, As he told this story he added: ltI couldn't stand that.11 then the oolice went uo the house they found the old man's wife on the floor dying, AS t s r th i r t y - ni n e y e a r s. Another divorce case in Chicago today was somewhat more on the comedy side. A dispatch to the Brooklyn Times Union relates that a gentleman named Christenson was seeking a djworce. Part of his grievances against his wife was her peculiar way* of playing pinochle. Mr. Christensoh told the Judge how his wife at one time bid three hundred and fifty with hearts trump. Said Christenson: !tI led the ace of spades and she trumped it.11 Now it so happened that the Judge who heard the case was himself an expert pinochle player and he commented that this was excellent play. So the husband continued: "Yes^ Judge, but the next time I led spades she followed suit.” At which the Judge was startled and exclaimed: nShe couldnft do^that.” To which the witness replied: "But she did. And when I objected she hit me over the head with the card table.” Mr. Christenson then went on to tell of the time when Mrs. Christenson had taken up a coffee pot and ------ "jdiere the Judge interrupted: •'Stop”, said His Honor. irThe pinochle incident was quite enough. i4^o^e*-%ecree granted.” VISUAL voice I have Just had a weird experience. During the past fifteen years I have lectured some thousands of times on viwhtrt 9 win iyalajjii^and other parts of the world. Today for xXCtJt K 2^Jt the first time i^,listened to myself, ^g3^tace35==as=±3^aafcteftfart llmG£Eea&c==^it^KfT!t ■tfox&<±x*x a device called the Visual Voice, Two friends of mine, both of whom foarea' for years T h L c ^- c iadiii had a great deal to do with illustrated decided that the ideal thing would be to let some one else do the talking. bo Mr. A. T. Fischer of Cleveland, and Harry Chase, who travelled around the globe with me for many, many years, created the Visual Voice, half the size of an ordinary suitcase, both talks and shows pictures. You connect it to a light socket, press the button, and that's all there is to it. It is for £ "£*** /*-**■•' -fit t y—«=^tIAt^ai •a.dr'& Jj£ -£ t? -ttU ^ f+d' training saiesmenj^or^sChbidis,^«*ea Z?K77 I've 2 morsel here that; will mean something to Princetoni':ns all over the world. It comes from the 'fis±KG^tiD*fc T i me s . For years the fira horn of Princeton has been a source of abuse^ argument, discussion, and facetiousness. Nobody who^s ever been down in that section of New Jersey can have failed to hear it. In fact, throughout the state Princeton^ fire horn is scornfully known as the Cow Horn. -‘•his because it made a noise something like a thousand giant mooly cows in distress, ^ Residents of Princeton, including the faculty of the University, winced every time that noise resounded over the New Jersey plains. A Princeton professor of literature said he expected any time to learn that that cow hotel had awakened r /i - toy * the famous Seven Sleepers, kven the Princeton firemen did not think highly of their famous fire signal. Some members of the Princeton Fire Department told the city council that their n ' - - nerves were shattered by the noise of these thousand giant c^c^y-tJL A A nerves 0 0,1 _ £ gyK^x aaix^asxlrHX—f^nwa- fccrqsawi^iaMKSa Well, ltfs all over now. Princetonfs cow horn has been disconnected. Princeton citizens request that no flowers should be sent ^Cia-v>waiC ■ to celebrate its A. 0 > i 1 jju UUH j JL ■ J, r\ Ap™* A stoi-^ that will interest all radio Ians, Morton K Downey is a papa. Eis wife, the beautiful Barbara Bennett, gave birth to a baby early this morning. The story describing the event in the New York /.orId Telegram relates that M#rt4h Downey hung around the hospital until the authorities sent him home. There, while he was waiting through the small hours the for news from the hospital, he was joined by/^ song writer. Jack Erickson. they decided to improve the waiting hours by writing a song, a new song to celebrate the arrival of the baby. You might have thought it would cramp their style, not knowing whether the baby would be a boy or girl. But that didnft phase them at all. They just left blank spaces for the words: he or she, him or her, his or her. At two thirty this morning in the blank spaces with he, him, and they were able to fill his< Well, that unwillinp; trip that the nimble-legged ' Masjcc Marilyn Miller took to Europe, has turned out to be quite eventful. You may recall that Miss Miller was seeing a friend off on the Bremen and did not heed the nAll ashore thatfs going ashore 11 signal. Bo she and several others without so much as a toothbrush or a passport to help them on their journey, were carried all the way to Europe. Among those in the party was Don Alvarado, the movie actor. When the Bremen arrived at Cherbourg, Miss Miller wanted to go to Paris to see her ex-husband. Jack S kx Pickford, who was ill there. But the French authorities said nay, because the graceful Miller was not equipped with a passport. So she had to go on to Southampton where John Bullrs authorities said Miss Miller and Mr. Alvarado could stay in London until a boat was on its way back to America. Later it was announced that Miss Miller’s permit to stay in England had been extended because she * s been ill since her arrival in London, and unable to leave her hotel. Today comes the news,, as reported in the Mew X'ork Evening Post, that Miss Marilyn Miller announce© /I her engagement to marry Don Alvarado. ~T^ j C W0II7—havo—heon—a- m ome-rehle adven^ra for %h o- Though the football season has been officially over lonp- ago, two of tomorrow* s games promise to be monster events both as regards the play and the gate, It*s expected that some hundred and two thousand people will see that encounter between the fighting Irish of Notre Dame and the unbeaten Trojans of the University of Southern California, at the Olympic Stadium in Dos Angeles, A—good deal of publicity has been given to reports tnat several of t^ie strongest Notre Damh players are under the The football experts declare that the Southern California boys are not raking these reportedXillnesses seriously. On several previous occasions, as for instance in the recent game between Army and Yale,teams that had been rumored to be crippled by illness turned out bti the gridiron tip be regular steam rollers. ^the Trojans say th^yare not going be fooled and led into underestimating theirN^pponents. Then there*s that game between teams representing the Nofcth and South at Baltimore tomorrow afternoon. That promises to be jammed too. A crowd of not less than sixty thousand will see the battle. According to the experts, the North and South teams are rated about even. 'T’CCc —A* "h<x~w. -^zQA ^ ' ~ ' ^ - /Y1 PARBQT A woman went to a New York hospital today with an injury acquired in an unusual way. Her pet parrot had bitten her on the lip. As her husband explained the in­ cident:- wThe bird was an Xfmas present to my wife 9 years ago. Every night she took him out of his cage and kissed him goodnight. Last night she was a bit late and I guess the parrot resented it. So he bit her.” Well thru this microphone I can*t even bite. ALL I can do is to say solong until Monday.