JjfiaSiilNG .Low b _Lx iJToni^s'^x^oScrTj^^TC" for the Literary Digest Friday. February g6T 19Ki>. 2 8 • 9 10 11 12 15 14 15 16 17 18 .19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page Good Evening, Everybody: ’ * ' -t ' % * Presicenc H oovgit ^ s cirvfci “hos.pdlinQ campa*irn seems to be producing results. The figures returned today by the Federal Reserve Bank show that the amount of money which people have been keeping hidden away has decrease^ by aS seventeen million dollars. All those dollars have returned to genera I c i rcQ I at ion through the medium of the banks. However, we have a still more impressive figure. President Hoover declared today that the decrease in the amount of hoarded money was sixty mil I ion d o! Iar s. And the government is going right along with the campaign against hoarding, and is as k i n g t h e p e op i e to dig up the money they may have hidden away and invest it in t ! ■ 0 n evv anti -hoard ing b T scih paxThey are calling these securities Baby Bonds, because they cone in such small denominations. Baby fronds li 1 r un a t he iv ay from $50 to $500. They bear two per cent interest and may be r e d e e m e d within sixty days. f h i s m a ke s hu i va I ent o f cash. Page U/vwO es sod7- t^ent frets It's an interesting thing to read what newspapers and magazines all over the country are saying about the Literary digest Twenty Mill ion Ballot Pro h i b i ti on Poll. Ami- "f”he ed i to rs give I C‘ . . * us many new slants of^tnvid importance^2' t© this immense test of public sentiment. For example, the Spr ingf f e Id , Massachusetts Union prints an incisive discussion on the meaning of the Poll with relation to the present political situation, and concludes with an illuminating slant. The Union points out that in both Republican and Democratic parties there is considerable sentiment for holding a popular referendum on prohibition. The idea is that such a referendum would take the wet-dry issue of the next political campaign. However, observes the Union, the present p ro hibition poll should indicate guite accurately how the proposed referendum would go. 1 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 EflLL Page .jf* v-er-y I i tt I e -de-ii-bt t-4q&t t h-e > —Lr4-^fe-s-P- 0 . r y —-p-po-h j b i— p^44-—w-H-t—f oreo-as-t Let us take a bit of comment from Zion!s Herald, a Methodist publication printed at Boston* This religious periodical gives us a discussion of the present Pol I , and then goes on to utter some mighty wise words, which are re-printed in the current issue of the L i terary Digest. "The present Poll", declares Zionls Herald, "will doubt he ss be of assistance to those who would ■fefiPt odit public sentiment before platforms are written and candidates chosen for the fall eIect ions . "The high degree of accuracy of the past Digest polls, both prohibition and p re s i dent i a I , has earned for them widespread respect and reliance. It is important, therefore, that no one should miss this opportunity of s how i n g the country where he stands dn a grecit M *23-31 11 Page___^£ 141 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 H-&31.5M moral question, ThW' -r, - X I h »O^^^toxia^ periodical concludes with th e f o I I ow ing positive injunct ion : "We urge everyone who receives a ballot to mark and remail it immediately." Well, that's a bit of wise advice from a source that should command earnest attention. SSSSu The ballots are still pouring in. Hundreds of thousands of people are making sure not to miss their chance® of declaring themselves. H tp —w-ft-r-d—'irsoMir'iq-f MAIL YOUR BALLOT IN AT ONCE. T±r±s=i=s=»ftefi i-trp+e^ na t-e e ¥^r y: d a y=»- /? n ^AJJL 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 H-a-Jl.SM EQLL_^_4.. There are two si ghts you inust not miss if you ever go to Phoenix, Arizora. One is the cactus forest, with those giant cacti that hold their arms, out like traffic cops. The other is Goveimop Hunt, the man who occupied the Governor's Kschi chair so long that folks began to call him the uncrowned king of Arizona. Well, herers the way Mr., Hunt!s nei ghbors in Phoenix have been rna rk i H8 their ballots, For the 18th Amendment 310, against, 767* Total, 1,077. And now let !s fly over the Crater Mountains and the Growler Mountains, and on across the Coast Range to the city where they have that celebrated Rose Bovs/1 , the one where thef^adio announcers each New Year1 s day, divide their enthusiasm between the big football game in the Rose Bow l and the glor ies of the California sunset. How do the tasadena folks vote? Well, just remember that a lot of them are not na t i v e sons. M ob t of them are from Iowa. ihe total number of Page____ Q POLL - 5. Pasadena ballots counted so far is 3,697, and the outcome is dry. i#8x 1,787 for repeal, 1,910 for continuance. And by the way, let's see if the Iow a f o I ks vo te the same whe n they are at home as they do when theyx'xg&kKGiec retire to Pasadena. Yes, it looks as though they do, -- almost. While the Pasadena vote is a shade dry, the vote from Ames, Iowa, the home of the Universitj is drier still. Out of a total of 300 ballots from Ames, 95 are for ! repeal, and 205 are for continuance. And here's another footbalI d ty, the home town of one of the grand old men of footbal l. Coach "Hurry- Up" Yost. I recall sitting up half one night in Ann Arbor, Wiichigan, discussing this same question of prohibition with Coach Yost, who is drier thanthe Sahara Uesert during a sandstorm. Ann Arbor casts a total of 1,567 t) which 500 are for c ont inuance, and 1,067 disagree . W 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 s ‘&3U5M EkLL ~ Page____ I never realized how far flung w as the fame of Gcranton, Pennsvl vania unt i I discovered that Correspondence Schools even tsEMslB a branch on the other side of the world, in Singapore?*. From Scranton comes a v ote of 7,101. 1,162 are for the present amendment, while 5,939 say it isn't satisfactory. 5 to I, from the home of the XX I.0.S. And figures that are almost identical come from a still I arger city a little farther north. Out of 6,224 bal Iots. Syracuse, New York, puts 1,196 . / * * in the yes column, and 5,028 say "no.” Here!s another of the famous cities of Kansas. Last night we had Emporia, and tonight we have Wichita. And the outcome is about the same - wet, but not overwheImingIy so. The ballots counted total 2,848. 1,199 are I , 649 take t he for the Amendment, oppos it e stand . Cl i m a t i c a I I y one of the dampest places I know of, and one of the most 1 ill 1| H . _o. EQLU -q Page_ U‘23-3U5M attractive cities on this spinning globe’ is the m etr opo I is on the shores of Piidget Sound, known as "the gateway to Alaska anti the Orient." And the Seattle vote is somewhat I ike the cl imate. The count up to now is 10,384 from Seattle. 2,136 of these are for continuance, 8,248 for repeal . And here come two of the most interesting cities in the country from the standpoint of the Prohibition Poll, at I east they are to me. I can vividly recall & when the Kansas City on one bank of the Missouri River was dry and the Kansas City on the other was as wet as, well, what shall we say? But, what are the views of the residents of those two cities now? How do they compare? From Kansas City, Kansas, c?me ballots t ha.t have been . counted. obb are for the 18th Amendment, 882 are against. While from across the river in ^ansas City, Missouri, I2.IJ6 votes have b|en received and checked, of which.4, y the present law is okay, and ion disagree* So it looks as though p £o»s I 1 5 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Once more the Chirese seem to be able to hold their ij^the vicinity of Shanghai. They came^^e a slashing counter-attack and broke through the Japanese lines. I he Jsp anese Commanders had p I a nned a t r sp , and t le tr ap was being sprung, but this counter-attack seems to have saved the s ituat ion. "Ear I ier says the New York Sun, ^Japanese aircraft made a bombing raid against the Chinese air base and destroyed four teen Soviet Russia made a formal protest to Japan todsy and complained of Japanese troop movements threatening the Russian border. The Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs also asked Japan to explain reports that Ant i-Bo I shev i c Russians are operating under the protection of the Japanese. A United Press dispatch in the New York World Telegram relates that at Moscow todsy the Commander in Cnief ot jjj the Red Army told a mass meeting of boviet leaders that the Red Army ' f . P1'eP?r e^nr^-r_ jump into the fight any time the borders of Soviet Russia are threatened. Paee^ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 k U’23-31-5M Here's a story with a lot of pep -- I mean real pepper. A girl went into a Chinese restaurant in Chicago and told Wing Foo Sam, a waiter, that she wanted an order of chow-mein to take out. She told him she wanted a first-class order because, as she explained, "It's for a mighty nice CHAP." Wing Foo Sam brought the chow-mein and the girl took it away, and a few minutes later the trouble began. There was one roaring protest from the fellow who ate the chow-mein. It nearly burnt his face off. When he got the chow-mein in his mouth he thought he was eating iquid fire. Wing Foo Sam was instantly fired by iis Chinese boss, but when he explained :he matter, he got his job right back, t appears that when the girl said the ;how-mein was for a mighty nice CHAP, Wing oo Sam misunderstood her. He thought he said it was for a mighty nice JAP. >nd when Wing Foo Sam heard what he bought was JAP, his warlike blood arose I. 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 i Page— //_ in him, snd h© hsard th© voices o*f his ancestors. As the United Press tel Is the story, Win q Foo Sam decided to "fix that Jap up good and proper. He spiced the chow-me i n with three tea-spoon—"fulls of blazing red pepper. !?■ ISfilZKX V 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 25 24 25 Page--- /2— It seems as if the Republic of Czecho Slavakia may have an interesting visitor pretty soon. Today the government at Prague officially lifted the ban against Leon Troizky, and said to Trotzky: You can pay us a visit if you like. The New York Evening Post states that Trotzky has been ordered by his physicians to go to a health resort, and it looks as though he might go to one of the resorts of Czecho Slovakia. There's been a good deal of feeling against Trotzky in Czecho Slovakia. This dates back to the Bolshevik KevoIut ion when Trotzky, as head of the Red Army, ordered any war prisoners who d idn’t disarm at once, to he executed. These were the days when the Czech prisoners were taking abi^part i^p the tight against the Bolsheviks. ^ X 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; 10j 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -5M Page /? Well, tere's something that ought to be of acute interest out in Hollywood It's enough to make the film magnates, the directors and the actors and the actresses, and a I I the rest of the people out there, want to go straight to Russia. Hoi I y wood is always thinkino about the fr oblem of how to get mcr e people to go to the movies. Well, the Red authorities sjt Moscow know how.-----Make t&em go^ A story in the New York Sun today tells how the Soviet Government has issued a decree that two million Russians | 1 1 ' i; will be compelled to go to the movies during the current year. A count-up of movie audiences has revealed the fact that only one million attended the Bolshevic Screen dramas last year. That isnlt enough, declares the Red dictatorship- “Go to the movies they oommsnd. end »hen a Red dictator commands, that means something. They say that the reason more a ^age. Russians don’t go to the movies is that the Soviet "films are exceedingly dull They don't go in for interesting subjects but pass out strong doses of Soviet propaganda. So, the movie fans stay away in great numbers. Now it looks as if they will have to go. Two million Russians will have to flock to the movjje^hous es, or they go to jail or S i ber i a. 13 14 16 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page /t 6 Well, Handsome Adolf Hitler has finally become a German citizen. And that sets at rest a lot of controversy that has been raging around the leader of Germany's Fascist party. During all his career as a firebrand and important political leader in Germany, Hitler has never been a citizen of the German Republic. He is by birth an Austrian, who enlisted in the German Army during the World War. He lost his Austrian citizenship, and that left h im a man without a country. But today, relates the United Press, Hitler was made a citizen. He was sworn in as a minor official for the state of Brunswick, and that automatically conferred citizenship upon him. 1&AUQ.Z . -'-uai'gg Page_ |”t looks 3,s if the pirls over in France are not going to vote -- at least not for a whi le. The other day the Chamber of Deputies passed a woman suffrage bill which thereupon went before the French Senate for consideration. Today the Senate turned the bill down, and the vote was mighty lop-sf^ed. i A majority of 216 to I said NO, the ladies will have to get along without the vote! The United Press reminds us that this is the fourth time in recent years that the French Senate has blocked a move to give French women the vote. . i MILLliii--2LL-R3 Page, of I 0 VO /1 l l i u n i v ers i t y of Oregon s om e 1 ec.r n 6 > , i'o i o r o l H or dec i ded fo find out how two students felt on the subject vers us mone y. * U n i : e u P r e s s dispatch h o w a questionnaire was circulated among the men in college. The question was: V/ould you in arry a woman sixty years old for a million dollars? And thatTs where the little god Cupid scored a great triumph. ninety percent of the men students replied that they wou 1 d not. They’d prefer love to money. Th at was highly i nsp i r i ng, and then the o a - e u s o f t he University were _ q ue s t i o n e d a I o n t h e s a rne line. i h e girls were c s Red : Wou la you m arry a inan sixty years old for a million do I lars? It pains me to re po r c that n i n et y p er cen i o f xhe girls dec la* ed t he y w o u I o rn ar' r y anybody for a million. And vvhe n poor t he spread his wings an d^ long unci I id. te^ard that - So ’V^vcg^f I 11,23-3J-SM