Misinformation, Please

In the wake of babies, wise guys and the public at large, four Congressmen took to the air last fortnight to flaunt their information and misinformation on a quiz show. Cooked up by a Washington advertising man named Henry J. Kaufman, broadcast from the Capital over WJSV as a CBS house program, the new show was entitled No Politics, made quite a hit on its first rendition, received over 1,000 letters from listeners, although aired at the unseemly period of 1:30 to 2:00 p.m., E. S. T.

First Congressmen catechized on No Politics were Republicans Brown and Andresen (Ohio and Minn.), Democrats Ramspeck and Coffee (Ga. and Wash.). They muffed five out of 13 questions on literature, history, people in the news, etc. News to the Congressmen was the fact that Franz Lehar was a Hungarian composer, that Hervey Allen wrote Anthony Adverse, that Kichisaburo Nomura is Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., that Mason Britton is a Knudsen assistant. Most embarrassing was their collective inability to identify James K. Polk, John W. Davis and Joseph Varnum as onetime Speakers of the House.

Conducted according to congressional procedure, No Politics includes a "Speaker" and a "Clerk." Each time the participants muff a question, the "clerk" introduces a "bill" to give $5 to the sender. Speaker on the program's initial venture was Newshawk Ernest K. Lindley, who will be followed in the role by other correspondents. Last week, because the Lend-Lease Bill was coming to a vote, no representative could afford to play No Politics. But this week the show will be on again, with two more pairs of Democrats and Republicans revealing further aspects of the congressional brain at work.

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