___ 1 Ms, i IB£L4NQ Lowell Tnomas for the Literary Digest Wednesday. April SO, 19bg. ■'rT| Page. 1 Good Evening, Everybody: J i n ^Today Pari lament gathered Dubl in the Irish in an atmosphere of fervent Nationalism. President DeValerai stood before the law-makers of Erin and read his bill for the abolition of the oath of allegiance to King Geo rge.-t-be- The tall, gaunt man presented the measure, and then there ill m II 1 ■; s H 12 13 14 15 16 17 16 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 skirmishing, -ar ou-n^-r- The bill was promptly passed by the Irish par I i ament j The Oubl in correspondent of the Chicago Daily News declares that the preamble to the bill shows that the more moderate elements of the OeValera party have persuaded the Irish President to soften the defiance somewhat. The tab bill provides that Irish legislators shal I be rel ieved of the ob.l i.9&tiorL t0 take the oath of a I I e g i ancejf^'The word nobI igation" is emphasized. Meanwhile, the text^of the oath to remain in the Irish constitution, while the method and formal manner of swearing allegiance to 1' j I : I S :;h 1 Page_- ^ !B£LAIii3 I 2 King George is removed. The comment is made that virtual ly al I -©=$ the members of the Irish parliament are in favor of abolishing the oath. Even the followers of former-President Cosgrave are in sympathy with removing this remaining token of the long dominance of England over Ireland. The Cosgrave men oppose- fr-k*r—»4-Ny l i + i rtrt n-f- n-afh7 hut nnf-y be c^aus-e -1 hey- think this end should be accomplished by reasonable and mutually satisfactory arrangement with England, ancP the abrupt, bold way that •A President DeValera is taking. 1 i auiat* eusso - jae Page. 1 And now 8.lonQ como mopB purnors 2 the possibilities of trouble between 5 Japan and Soviet Russia. The various t capitals of Europe are keeping a sharp 5 eye on, sX^anchuria. A United Press dispatch fet© 7 the Memphis, Tennessee, Press-Scimitar 3 gives a slant on what the political 9 experts in London seem to think. They point out various possible causes for a disturbance, particularly the presence of thousands of White Russians in Manchuria. These Russian exiles are bitter against the Soviets and eager to do anything to make trouble for the Red authorities in Moscow. They figure that if the Soviets get into a scrap with Japan , get I icked, why that shake the security of the Communist regime. the experts on international /\ ^ a.f f a i p s ^ t p y'^t o figupe out t ho mot]yes that may be actuating the Japanese^ They say that if trouble would break out between Japan and why the SUSSfi-JAE - 2 i T*i Page 4L militarists of Tokio would raise the old bugaboo of Bolshevism. They would tell the world that they were fighting against the Red communist menace, and that would give them an excuse for having their own way in Manchuria, an excuse which would appeal to the nations of the West. English statesmen are inclined to see ominous signs that the Japanese are preparing to make a bold stroke against the Chinese Eastern Railway, which is owned by Russia. From Berlin comes word that many Soviet leaders who hitherto KaAA» believed that there was no possibility of war between the Japane=*» and the Russia® feffiete, are now changing their minds. At Moscow it is admitted that 70,000 troops of the Red army are concentrated on the Siberian border, but reports are t hat^ti*® figure is much too maokdi low. They say that there are twice that many Red soldiers on t he Afr ont i er as many as 140,000. Meanwhile, bickering between Japan 8 a i is II § I i 1 I BUSSi3-JA£ - 3 Page. and the League of Nations is still going on. From Tokio comes word that the League has made some proposals for a settlement in Manchuria and also in the Shanghai area -- proposals that the Japanese do not like one bit. And with that comes more talk in Japanese official circles the Empire of the Mikado mssjt w i thdr aw^f r om the League. ^rPE^Jn this connection an interesting question comes up. It has been suggested that if Japan g^ets out of the League of Nations, why ^§3! would mean m al a ; 1 i A that she would also give up her mandate over islands in the Pacific that formerly belonged to Germany. After the World War the Allies split up the colonial possessions of Germany, and Japan got a whole string of Pac i f i Qj Ls I ands^- the Carol ine Group, for instance. K The Japanese if reply is emphatic. They say that if * Japan withdraws from the League, w£gr that won't effect those mandates in any . way, because those islands were assigned to Japan before the League of Nations came ! i ■ 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 1A^U \ BilSSfl-i-JAE - 4 fl Page. into existence. They declare that the German possessions were whacked up first^ and the League of Nations was formed afterward. n n .-7 ( . W-3?-SM I .1 Page____ £ f Asds r* aisis -■ 7 , r f I seems to x'~> be following 2 3 4 5 8 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 the lead of Great Britain. We found yesterday that payments on war debts are not included in the British budget. Today comes word that in the new German budget there is no ment ion of payments on reparations. A United Press dispatch to the Kansas City Journai-Post declares that while the fact has not officially been made pub 11c,here is reliable information that among the various expenditures enumerated in the new German budget, the^re js no, mention of a single mark^to be paid on those old reparations. Officials are keeping mum about ah it, but the German newspapers are uttering shouts of glee. They find a most significant connection between the absence of war debt payments in the British budget, and the absence of reparations payments in the German budget. They take it all to mean that the whole debt and reparations combination has been washed out. 1 i i Page - 1 2 3 4 5 Meanwhile, there was a new flare- up in the United States Senate today on the subject of war debts. A group of influential law-makers, led by Senator Borah, contended that there shall be 0 7 8 9 10 no cancellation of those debts which foreign countries owe to Uncle Sam. ^ /7 1 - A ^ ^ k ^j 11 12 13 I 14 15 16 17 16 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 I i 1 i EBLL_r_E£iin£S£l£^_4Z2I2Z32. Page, ■4 i Well, what’s your guess for Hoboken, New Jersey, dry or wet? a=^oiabi^ir6:enncatc:rco ■&JLrxXia. the answer votes I AfKt=3=t= f h at' s more t ha n 20 wet g^em Th e heaviest 1 *#? , , , major i t'fjss we.hap^had thtw far. A-ff# Just by way of contrast I et T s follow it one of the heaviest dry majorities. Lexington, North Carolina, verbffg 351 for continuance and 190 for repe al . (Zru u Let’s see what else we’ve got: tees*. rom Pine Bluff, Arkansas^ 'n ill — £=c^ 'tmm this way. 264 for ^ ■ : i 239 dry this way. the amendment,and 610 against Benton Harbor, Michigan 884 wet. Newburgh, New York, on the banks of the Majestic Hudson -- the Hudson is it? Wei I , Newburgh - maj est i c , i sn 11 votes 473 dry, I,453 wet. And here’s Newark---b ut from New Jersey. It^s Newark, Ohio, with 1,006 greeting prohibition with a j .1 f ar(^7 1 1 1 j jd ^1 1 EQLL---2 Page_ loud afirmative, and 2,812 registering an equally loud negative. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, gives us * 530 dry votes and I ,392 wet votes. • « At Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the ballotting shows 233 for prohibition, [ ,023 against. And a couple more second reports show Oakland, California, 2,279 for continuance, 9,776 for repeal. I n d i anapo I i s, Indiana -- , ^ • • 5,729 for the dry regime, 24,245 against I I 1 I • ■ tlAEMl 1 13 14 15 16 17 18 23 24 Pi­ page. JY vS HI 1 m £9i Drama soared higher than ever today in that courtroom out in Honolulu. For the first time since t hat^ hon or - s I ay i n g" case began, Mrs. ItegMaa Massif appeared on the scene. She entered the courtroom which was packed mostly with native women, who craned their necks to get a good look at h er. N Mrs. Massay took the stand in defense of her husband, her mother, and two sailors. The young wife's part is to tell the story of how she was attacked and to swear that the Hawaiian who was kiI led was one of the men who dragged her into an automible and carried her away* Mrs. Massey* is telling her story under the guidance of brilliant, blazing old clarence Darrow, who is fighting one of the greatest legal battles of his career^ Thej^^-^- hardest part for her will come when she will have to face cross examination by the prosecution. A United Press cable to the Chicago i Daily Times states that Mrs. Massey- is „ . I HAWAII-“ 1 2 Page the last of the series of witnesses whom Darrow has summoned in his attempt to prove that Lieutenant Mas3By was insane, was suffering from "a mental bombshell, as he he I d t he gun. There was a brisk battle of wits as the prosecution cross-questioned Doctor Williams, the psychiatrist who has given his testimony that Lieutenant Massesr, at the time of the killing, was suffering from what they call "chemical insanity," wtsSSk is described as a kind of madness caused by disturbances of the endocrine glands. In a sharp exchange of questions and answers, the prosecution brought out that Doctor Wi I I iams had been an alienist for the defense in several prominent murder dioh trials. But the Doctor stuck to his guns, persistent in his theory that Lieutenant Massey's mind was blank when the shot was f ired. 1 feMo i pagft /■? | "si I had a curious experience last night. I saw several mighty poor liars in action. They were telling bare-faced falsehoods to the best of their ability, but their ab i I ity was none too good. They were caught cold to their * astonishment, and to their confusion. !t was at a gathering of Chicago notables at the home of Burt Masses, known in these parts for his wit and sharp, pointed humor and savoir faire. * Judge Henry Horner, Democratic — • nominee for governor of Illinois, was tJo»» , * there; and Melvin Traylor, the Chicago banker who many seem to think will be the pr es i dent i al dark horse at the Democratic National Convention* ■ And then there were two of the kec leading publishers of the Middle West, Colonel Knox of the Chicago Daily News and Emory Thomason of the Chicago Daily Times. And Commander Gene MacDonald, explorer, yachtsman and radio magnate; also several famous lawyers, bank |8K« presidents and so on. __ ' | fittrlo \ ................... ... Ll£_Ii£I£CIQa._-_2 Tf-" Page And then just to make me feel entirely at home there was Freeman Gosden, yes, none other than Amos of Amos n1 Andy fane -- you know, the two exceedingly human chaps you ioTks I ^al A 12 13 14 15 19 21 22 23 24 25 me wa it ing on. Wei I * Amos didn ! t for when you happen to turn I am sorr *\rtx*A do so well )U&,rlS$3b&J££ A In my estimation Freeman Gosden was the poorest liar of them all. * How's that? Well, we were trying out the Iie detector, an incredible machine that catches you when you are telling a fib. And I don't mean maybe. The demonstration was directed by Prof. Leonards Keeler of Northwestern ■ University, inventor of the Iie detector, and Colonel Goddard of the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory of that university. For the purpose of parlor experimentation they hook you up to the contraption and then have you pick any one of ten objects. Then they show you 1 i 1 M-32-SM 1 SsrU i LIE-DETECTOR__ -__3 Page^ the objects one after another and you're supposed to say ''Hfl" to each one. When they show you the one you have picked and you say "no," that! of course, is a falsehood and the machine detects it. It has a couple of needles which register your pulse beat and your respiration, your breathing, and you'd be astonished the way your pulse and your lungs will act when you're in the process of tel I ing a lie. In a dozen tests, on those eminent bankers, pub!ishers, judges and so on, only one failed to give an instantaneous result and show the object that had been picked. bn—fae-t—i-t—wor-ke-d—overy- t-ime. And the man who was detected the most easily of all was Amos. When Freeman Gas den It'd I d his I ie the record the machine gave was so cl ear that even a layman could read it* So when you hear Amos and Andy tonight you can be sure that Amos is not a good Iiar. As for Andy, I don!t know what would happen if you tried the lie detector on him. In fact I wouldn't want I Asrto I 1 2 3 4 5 0 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 U.L_.DEI£mS_-_4 Page. JA. to try it. I think he'd bust the machine. Anyhow, they are getting astounding results with this uncanny apparatus. It is being used out here for the detection of criminals and for the examination of personel in large organizations. In practically every instance when a guilty man finds he can't fool the machine he breaks down and confesses. The Chicago police used it today with that result. Arrd—i f -rt wao- t-p-4-e-d——t-n—e-v-o p-y—ban k,—e-v-ep-y- governmental d^p-arntm-e nt-^—e-ver-y—l-a-r ge hot~e l—a-ft-d—at o r —e-ou nt-r y-;—t-en» of—RH=H=i=w%&—o-f—do I I a r o w ou-1 d—be—s avetl ov-e-pj/—y-ear . And, of course, every Tall Story Club in America should have or>e-» ov. JA jl . M-32-5M T> - I j 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 BGfiKEI Page___ Here's a new stunt for the air mail. It's no scheme of shooting the mails through the sky in fast planes. A United Press dispatch in the Chicago Daily Times relates that in Austria mail has been transported by means of a roc ket. During the last few years there has been quite a bit of activity on the part of inventors who build rockets that are supposed to do strange tricks, such as making a trip to the mo^n. And now the rocket seems torT vv^Kl- sp-ee-t-aeular"-si-ep—i-n—t-he—w*y—©4—praot iea-4- tt»c ^ Mail was sent from the top of an Austrian mountain to a village a mile and a quarter away. The experimentors had a mail bag containing about 300 letters. They went to the top of the mountain and there hooked the mail onto the rocket, and BANG -- awa speeding projectile. went Ahe vi I I age. ©.s ^tts_des±i«a±4<jn^. And the socket did the job. The mail I anded. near 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 'Til i m&zi - 2 Page. LSI I the village. And so it seems as if one of the wonders of the future may be mail carried through the skies by whizzing projecti les. ~w? V m JL ^ ■ I rpt&io i aoas Page n Here's a bit of news about cows and about spectacles. What's the connection between the two? Well, the ¥ cows wear the spectacles ^- at least I they do in Russia. j The Chicago Evening Post relates that in the northern part of the land of the Soviets they are equipping great herds of cattle with eyeglasses. The reason is that in the severe winter of Northern Russia the blizzards are so rigorous the cattle cannot keep their eyes open in the driving snow and wind. They wander along with their eyes shut, * qu i t e blindly, and m any of t h em are * 11 separated from the herd and are lost. I h at1 s where the s pe c t ac I e s come in. A cow wearing glasses wonTt have to keep her eyes open and she wonft get lost. j But it must be odd to see old bossy looking at cheaters you through a pair o f TC^k. I- - j LA.---------