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Tocit.yT 1 Chri. tmas news is about 350 men who are going
to have the merriest Chri. trr s they have had in a long time.
The 350 men ere convicts. No, this isn't one of those xiczxi
stories about a Nerry Christmas in jail. These neonle are
going to do their Chri etnas celebrating et home.
The Associated "ress states thr t Governor Graves, of
Alabama, has anno anced that 350 long-term men who have distinguish
ed themselver for good behavior in ■orison, will be given Christmas
oaroles. They ..ill be released for 15 days and allowed to go
wherever thev ■ le se. Of course that looks like a grand chance
but the Governor says every one of the 350 will do the square
thing rnd report beck when their time is dp.
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Here's - question th t cau*ht my eye todey:-
-y/hen was the fir. t Christmas card sent?" That question is in
the hew itt-rary uir,e: t. It's in the weekly Digest Q^uestionaire
fell, i turned to the article in which the answer is given and
I found that th* first Christine.', card was sent in 1844.
An
English artist, sent
• c .rd to a friend and on it he drew a
sketch to sy ■:b :»1 i ? e Chri .• t
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The Li ■ .t h s r fa sc in: - ting article on the origin of
Christmas customs in
general. It quotes from an article by
!.Ii Id red Blakelock in
The Homiletic Review, end goes on to say
that the Yule log for example was a ragrn custom of the ancient
Britons , and the t th lights on Christm's trees come
from
an old Swedish custom. If you want to find out the real meaning
of charming ceremonies that surround Christmas just turn to your
Cigest end read this timely rticle.
Kow for a story of a little dilute that arose over the
Old
question of •’•those go In,* to ride in - no, not the family oar,
but t: 6 f liithj aii _ :,i . According to the Asrocteted Press
i:rs. I cur;' :.;eyer of Chicago went to court end akseu the Judge
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Er.ker her hu:brnc r‘oo taking joy rides in the T'amily plane.
She said the ::.r.chine didn’t belong to him. It was hers. And
she wanted to take a few flins in it herself now and then.
.Vith
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husb.- nd and v.ife quarreling ufriously you might
call that flying "Cline e ’’fury lane." hut the ’’fury rlane”
Is somethin • el .. eg- in. And it’s right here in today’s news.
It’s a new British tyre of fighting r-lane.
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disnatch to the
New York Cun steter tin t it has tremendous speed and tremendous
ziiikiT.hiKg climbir * rower - also tremendous fighting power. It
will be used to attack bombers, and from uhe description -t
to de erve the name of "fury -'lone.
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By tht • y, Colon - 1 Linde rgh’s new rltme caught fire
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According to the ml rn-tional Kews Se vice Lindbergh
nut it out
- hi. . ife re:n:..ining in the plane all the time
The plane was on the ground.
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Alia here co er a unusual item:- Down in the Virginia
House
of
Delegatee t
rrorasBl
has been
nade to erect a monument
to Revo±ut_
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arny. The idea it- to coi..:..■ lit.prate the brave* y of the British
sruy under denerel Corn.a Ills, the army that was cornered and
surrendered at Yorktovn. ’hat a difference a hundred years
makes.’.
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*«^thisAis the story of a little
white hen that got tired of commonplace
barnyard life and turned hobo. The
United Press tells us that trainmen out
in Nebraska saw her come wandering down
the lane from a farm and she did just
what any other hobo does--she rode the
rods. She just perched herself on the
rods,£s®ast the train pulled out. But
apparently a tramp's life didn&t have
any permanent charms for that little
white hen. At Inland, Nebraska, she
hopped off the rods and scampered over
to a chicken farm. And she made herself
at home and hasn't shown any more
inclination to start out on the hobo
trail again. txUt.
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decreed thet I livt in some s-range - laces. Last niett I
mentioned the r t- ■ mine Ue* t of the i..ergui Islonds in the Bey of
Bengal. A d at one time 1 dwelled for r while in the so-called
no-irian' s-lsnc .>
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C-intrsl Asia in the Afghan mountains.
.1.11 of v,nich seems mi *hty tame beside this next iteiji.
It's about a man ho i. going, to live for two months inside the
crater of r live v • 1 c: no
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-Tien I was a youngster I too happened
to life for a fe\. years in tl •
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crater of a volcano. But
it was extinct - and of course that doesn’t count. But here is
a man, Fatln-r Bei-ruii d. I'ubba: a, head of the Department of Geology
of the University of Santa Barbara, California, who is casually
goimr to make : i: home right in an active volcano v;here the
Central heating plant in his cellar will^be reel fire and brimstone
Digest Travel lumber. But Father Hubbard says he "refers his
The name
f this volcano is Aniachak and it is said to
the Alaskan neninrule.
3o you see
one piece thrt isn’t
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fire and br*:. 'ne In thin world rather then in the next.
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lie, out m Java, another active volcano pot
busy toc-y. Lereri is the name of it, and Merapi had been
slumbering - eacefully fa and olitely for some 80 years. Now,
however, the Associated Fres state? hat the mountain is snouting
fire eg:in. Cloud; of block : moke
are
belching from the summit,
and every second or
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out of the smoke dart tremendous flashes
of fire. A hundred lives l av- been snuffed out and the Javanese
are said to be fie ing . ildly through the drrknes just as the
inhabitants of T'omneii fled some £000 years ago.
ENGLAND
Fr'> v; let' ’:: take the new Dutch mail nlane that
flies aero sc Asia to Euro - e.
in Lone on they are having ' fight in Parliament about
the right of the v.orkina man to go on strike. At resent England
ha; a lav. directed steinst strikes, esrecially general strikes.
But the Labor Government ..ants that changed. A London dispatch
to the Lev. York Evening Post states that Prime minister MacDonald
is attero tin - to rut through s bill to legalize all kinds of
strikes so Lon.*-- as they are ^eeceble; ell excert general strikes
for ^urely politic - 1 ■^ur-'o ses. The whole matter is really up to
the Liberals in -rl Lament. The Labor rarty has to de-end upon
the Liberals, beet use the Liberal, hold the balance of -ower.
VATIC-'
Herefs anotii r 3na of those startling combinations of
the nev. end the ole cron in;? into the nev/s. The Vatican over in
R°ne hes orderea three heli0°o t.ers. well, the heliocopter,
es you knot. Is the up-to-the-minute, neW-fBnglecl thing in
avis, t. c n.
hnd tx,< V'tican, e a you knov., stands for ell that is
old and historic. The "-ope ’.vented ka to have an aviation field
in the Vatican grounds, but, according to the New York Tines,
there wasn’t enough room for an ordinary aimlane to take-off
cr land. The Autogyro, which the New York Times calls a snecies
of heliocorter, can go almost straight un or sink slowly down
just about the v.ay a parachute does. The Autogyro doesn’t need
any large lending field. And so, hovering above the historic
Vatican and the dome of St. Peter’s, built and ch corated by
Raphael and Iviichelangelo , those weird "planes that lo T
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like
flying
windmills
will soon be seen drifting here and there. if
St- Peter an', i.'ichelsngelo are looking down frorajthe cl^ud raxling
vn Heaven, won’t they get a thrill out of that.
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I found my News Item of the ,Q ay in
a peculiar way. I ran across Herb Roth,
the we I 1-known
artistr and
he was at his desk sketching out a
drawing with hasty, excited strokes.
"I can just see how this thing
occurred," said Herb*. "And what a
fight it must have been!"
Herb wanted to tell me a story, and
he was doing it by drawing a picture,
and the picture showed a famiga savage
struggle between a tiger and a python.
It was based on a United Press dispatch
from Bombay which told how a huge^python
got into a xihMBggicn clinch with a^Bengal
tiger. And that certainly must have
been
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the giant python, nearly 29 feet lonS
99 and 3 feet in girth, just killed . n he
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it was torn by a ti9^
beaten
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ground V.f,s covered with tiger's fur. That huge python had
rrobebiy dror.rec from a tree Just rapped himself around Kr.
Tiger, and the
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’eil’ yOU 0atl v,ork out the details of that battle
for yourself. It’s a great chance to use your imagination.
Herb used h _ s alright in tiiat ricture he was drawing, and I *m
going to see if I can’t ret him to finish it ur for me so I can
hsnff it in my tronhy room.
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An Intere: tin,-- lot or letter- vQ„ ,
-Lexter, have betn coming in
lately fro., folio, te.l inP me about curious things, bits of news
that have never be-n -rint. or that never get beyond the
local oarer.- . For in: tanoe, here's a hunting story from N.C.
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;, of Youm/v; , Pennsylvania Mr. Hons tells how his friend
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George Himelright, v;ent on •• deer hunt. George had s friend
along and they ..•ere sitting on a stump when a fine big doe went
by.
"That • r tou “h, ” raid George, "now if thet was a buck
we’b cet him easy."
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George
ke-t right on wishing that a buck would
cone el on*.
uc enly he got his wish -- but not the way he
wanted. A buck came tearing through the brush and bolted out
into the clearing. That buck was in a hurry. He was traveling
so fast that he couldn't nut on the brakes and turn when he saw
Oeorge sitting there right in his way. The buck took one flying
leap. Did he make it? No.
^is forefeet hit George on
He landed right on ton of George,
the head. His hind feet
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George
went sprawling from that stump,
and
as he tell he heard the birdies
twittering
and saw plenty of stars.
..‘nat happened to the buck? V/e I I
hefs probably going yet.
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TT^5RAf:v DIO:
The
Literary
Di«eet
this
week
quotes from the
American
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Lumberman
on the -re: *.
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economic situation. Here's what it
says:
"All v/e ne- u is rac s consumrtion of what we have made by
mass production. ”
And her-
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line which the Digest Topics in Brief
page that quotes, ” Jud'-e'*:
"A magazine is conducting a contest
to learn which ere the tv/elve greete. t dates in history. 15,000
contestants, e rredict, will start their list ’Anthony's date
with Cleopatra'",
Those winter colds in the head come in for a wise
crack which the Dige t ru ites from the Florence Herald, of Florence,
Alabama. It says:
" verybocy has a guaranteed cure for a
cole - that Is ev rybody except the doctor."
pODUKr’
;ell , if fol' Dv. the advice of this week’s winter
Travel
nur ier o*.
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will
have a choice of a
lot of intere. ting pi ce; to visit.
But there is one -lace
v;e won't go - end that's to Podunk.
Because there ain't no such
rilsce es Podunk. At * r.;. r«t€*, nn article in the New York Evening
Sun
srys
that a .,e i ch of tho United States Postal guide shows
that Podunk is -urely an irr- 'In’ry r-lace. It’s just a burlesque
name used to indicate a one horse tv;on. But, soy, I’d swear
I’ve teen in Podunk many a time. ’Where did the word come from?
•‘jell, -odunk is the name of an Indian tribe, end you
Vvill
find
neny a Els Chief - p?. ir. - in-the-Face and many a little squaw
Shotted Fawn among the “odunks. ^nd do’.vn on Long Island th
e town, not Podunk but Potun , and that’s not much better.
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saying that you seldom hear newspaper
men sneak well about their own profession. A reporter will
usually tell you
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a sad lot reporters are. gut here co^es
my friend Dr. John Finley, Associate Editor of the ^ew York Times,
telling us v.hat fine fellows reporters are.
Ti en ':e adds that they are the real historians of the
oresent day. 'ell, I for one have rlenty to thank the renorters
for. Here I or hro-dcaot’n ■ the news every night, the news which
reporters ere sending in from all marts of tlie world. Their
names are not usually signed to the information they collect.
For the most art they are jur t nameless, silent workers collecting
the news for ell of us.
Dr. Finley says the reporters will be on the job until
the lart reporter h's filed his last cony, and the last ecitor
hes made his last comment, until the last edition ha.> ^one to
Zresr and until Gabriel’s trumret has been heard by radio around
the earth. Veil, T think I’ll finish with th’t bit of Dr.
Finley’s eloquence, but I’ll be bock tomorrow
e vening with moie
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neWS ^ y°U’ th8t iS* 1 WU1 Unl-'
surnrises „8 by
slipping u. to the microphone ahead of .e and sending out
that truni- t
ilsst.
So, unless you hear from Gabriel in the
meantime,
SO LONG UNTIL TCI ORHCV..