[Universal Newsreel (1933) - Cecil H. Dill]

[Music] n [Music] uh tell me Mr D how did you happen  to discover this amazing talent of yours well I'll tell you Mr hegerman in the  year of 1914 in the month of February I was coming home from school and my hands  got very cold and you're seeing I had no mittens and I began of course pressing them  together to get them warm and that wouldn't do but pretty soon I began squeezing them  and I was surprised to think that I could make a few different sounds well and I  begin playing every day and pretty soon I could play Yankee Doodle clear through and  that was the only tune I could play for three whole years and the next tune I could play was  marching through Georgia then the trail of The Lonesome Pine then for about everybody wondered  then how I could do it and would bother me so much that for about six years I put it away until  I met a old showman that come up to Travers once and he says can you do your old novelty anymore  Cil I said I don't know but I'll try and I tried of course and it come right natural to me after  letting it go for 6 years he said well if I was you he said I would practice it up and see what  I could do some time in the stage when I was in Chicago the election in New York City  this year is quite different from the usual political contest between the  Republican party and the Democrat this is a fight against a cruel vicious greedy  political machine we are fighting this vicious machine whether it is the machine of Manhattan  or the machine of the Bronx we are ready to fight Mr Curry in Manhattan and Mr Flyn of  the Bronx together or separately and to that end we appeal to the decent gliding New York  citizens who love their City to Rally to the support of the entire Fusion ticket it is the  only hope of rescuing and saving our New York City I am in this campaign because I believe in the city of New York I refused to un for May last year  because that office alone was to be filled had I been elected I would have been  a mayor in name and form only with every major decision determined by a tam control  part of estimate which already had shown a bitter and Relentless opposition  to every reform and every economy I offered the challenge has been given  the call has gone out come with me and list under our Banner join our  forces in a glorious fight for civic Justice and common decency  in the city like of New York City