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Friday, January 29, 1932 ' LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. Page Nine Pension Lists Put Staggering Load on Austria ! By Wade Werner VIENNA m Never has hard pressed little Austria been able to exclaim' In 'the prosperous Ameri can manner: "One automobile for every five in habitants 1" Even In the midst of an unprece dented economic crisis, however, she still is able to say: "One pension for every five in habitants old enough to vote." How numerous pensions are In this republic of 6,600,000 inhabitants is best shown by figures. The Aus trian government has on its payroll 108,215 active employes. On its pen sion list, howevur, ,lt has 116,944 persons drawing government money monthly. This Is a pension list more than 7000 nameef longer than the pay roll. The - fact that pensions equal 78 per cent of active salary makes the effect virtually a double payroll. The Austrian railways, govern ment owned but with, a budget of their own, have 71.600 employes. They pay 65,500 pensions. The municipality of Vienna has 25,000 persons on its payroll. It pays pensions to 17,000 others. Only three years have passed since the old age pension law for industrial workers went into effect, so there are only 77,300 persons drawing pensions of this class. Pensions paid by private firms and corporations are estimated at 300,000. Municipalities outside of Vienna add about 65,000 to the public-private pension list. In other words, more than 625, 000 Austrlans are drawing pensions. .The governmentt'b share of this financial burden jfc- acutely- in creased Just now by unemployment Insurance paid to 430,000 jobless. Trates Back To Empire Splltup There are many reasons for the ' unusual growth of pension lists in Austria. One of the most lmpor- ; tant is, that when the Austro-Hun- j garian empire was dismembered af ter the war, thousands of civil serv ice, railway and school employes liv ing In what are now parts of Cze choslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Jugoslava and Italy, clung to their , Austrian citizenship and came to i Vienna. ( Bather than treat these faithful , employes brutally, the authorities : here found places for many of them and later pensioned older workers to make room for the younger genera tion. Thousands of this class of pen sioners, not being superannuated, found new Jobs to supplement their incomes. A few even manage to hold two Jobs In addition to draw ing the pension. This naturally makes for denun ciations of the 1 "doppelverdiener1 (double-earner) by those who would create opportunity for the uneny ployed. $$$3$3$$&$$ As Wets Massed in Washington for Legislative Drive Sport Slants 4 Tk, ,, is just as important to me as the Paris label in a own ! " The last word in sugar! 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The veteran invited the youngster to go along. They walked and talked for an hour. That is, Tommy did the talking, Steve the listening. Tommy told Steve the importance of the left Jab, how to maneuver, tho things to watch for most in the ring, how to keep off a rushing or too eager opponent. A few nights ago they helped Tommy out of tho ring after ho had failed utterly to stop the rushes of Steve. "I wish It had been anybody but you," Steve said to Tommy after ward, in the dressing room. "You were always my idol." OA lilt Y IX WRONG JOB Here's winter news from the Old Sargo: "Speaking of Forty-Niners, Cardi nal Gabby Street (and he shoots luider 49 plenty) holed out two ap proach shots at Scbifferdecker while playing with Dodger Joe Becker on one of last week's coldest days. "Tho first was a 60-yard approach on No. 1. When Gabby addressed his ball 60 yards from No. 2 green a few minutes later,, he remarked: 'Just to show that other shot was no fluke, watch this.' That approach trickled into the cup, too. And to think he's wasting tlmo winning baseball championships." GKIMI!!? IN FOLD The reason -no squawk hns been heard about salary matters from old Burleigh Grimes, who outgamed the hletics In two . bristling wjorlds series duels last October, is quite simple, after all. Grimes signed a two-year contract with the Cardinals before tho 1931 season and all the Chicago Cubs have to do is take It over. Presum ably they are satisfied, since they took over the obligation willingly and even tossed In Bud Teachout in tho exchange of Hack Wilson. Grimes, writes Jim Crusinborry in the Chicago Dally. News, has put his bnseball money into a place where he farms like a country gen tleman and raises or trains fancy riding horses. Hemnkes a nice prof It at this business, too. When he was In Ohio, the pitcher told Crus inborry, he once bought a horse for $200 and sold the animal for $2500 after training it for a year. GKIKP FOB CAKD FOKS One of the -reasons why the Car- 111 Washington By Herbert PI u miner WASHINGTON Lanky Joe Byrns of Tennessee, who at present is hold ing the purse strings of the nation, is doing a rather neat Job of eco nomizing these days. When he took over the chairman ship of the house appropriations committee in this congress, he set himself to the task of cutting ex penses. Rigid economy in everything was his watchword. The first major appropriation bill ho sent to the house for approval was that for agriculture. More than ten 'and a half million dollars less1 than the budget had recommended was lopped off. Buchanan of Texas took It to the floor from, the committee. One would have thought ten and a half million dollars had been added to tho bill by the way It wa re ceived. Republicans and Democrats alike Bcemed to vie with each other to see who could praise the commit tee the most. It turned out to be a love feast of the first water. Plttimlne Hip rtrlve for ontl-prolilMtloii loRlslatlon In consri'ss this year, wet senators and rcpresentat Ives i e h own o i ho steps of the capital in Washington where they were Joined by members of the Crusaders ZnownLZn ZmnK n- prohibition repeal. Left to right, front row, ore: Senator Jesse II. Metcalf, Rhode Mini stor John J. Bh lne, Wisconsin; Senator llimm Muxlinin, Connecticut, who Introduced a 3 per cent hee I ' Fr G Clark, .nmanderln-chter of tho Crusu.ler; Senator Marcus Cool.uffe, Massachu setts; Senator Millard 13. Tydlngs, Maryland. dinals may think as well of Ray Starr as. they do of the more cele brated Dizzy Dean Is the record- of Starr's achievements in Internation al league company in 1931, Just re vealed by the official averages. The Rochester right-hander led' his league in twirling effectiveness, at 2.83 runs per nlne-lnnlng game, besides showing the top record of 20 victories and 7 defeats. He pitched 18 complete games, but was a trifle wild, issuing 102 passes in 216 innings. - Tho twosome had Just got off the fifth tee, Mr. Everett's drive being very poor "not any farther than from hero to the door," was his statement in court and he had gone to the ball and was preparing to hit It again, when he saw that Mr. Goodwin, of tho following three some, was preparing to strike off. This Game of Golf 4$4$3$3$g3s3$$$$ lly O. It. Keeler Tho case, dealing with' golf, Is re ported as Everett V. Goodwin ct al., No. 403, supreme court of North Carolina, Dec. 2, 1931; an appeal from the superior court of Gultford county, from a judgment for the plaintiff. In reading the report, I was struck forcibly by the fact that when a golf cose gets Into the courts it seems to develop more angles, and more unexpected, angles, than when argued on tho course which Is a lot of angles. Boiled down by a layman. It was something like this: Tho plaintiff (Mr. Everett) and a companion, a Mr. Elkins, were play ing a round as a twosomo on one of thoso dollar - a - day scml-publlc courses, Just in front of a three some including the defendant, Mr. Goodwin. mr. gooowix imm;s Ho "hollered," It appeared, and told Mr. Goodwin not to "drive this way." But Mr. Goodwin did drive, the ball luckily going over Mi". Ev erett's head." After which (plaintiff testifies) defendant and his com panions wcro "driving balls In and about him and his companion from tho fifth hole up to the fourteenth." Made it a sort of habit, it seems. I can guess tho twosomo was slow, and was holding up tho threesome, which was becoming fussed. On the fourteenth tee. It was tes tified, the defendant and his com rades drovo. beforo the twosome had got more than 50 feet down tho course. At the sixteenth tee tho casualty occurred Mr. Everett was edging over to the rough, he stated, to try to keep out of tho three some's line of fire. But Mr. Gooa wln's drive struck him on the knee cap, knocked his legs from under him, and fractured the patella. a past age. At the close of the World war that went out, and we are now all one country." Even the sometimes "hardbolled" Knutson, Republican of Minnesota, joined m tne retrain. And wnen Knutson has a kind word for Demo crats and Democratic polities it means something . "I want to say for the Record," said Knutson, "that I appeared be fore Mr. Buchanan several times, and, although W3 (belong to different poli tical parties, I found him just as sympathetic with, our problems in Minnesota as with any other part of the union." ( ' t Praise Is Lavish Compliments flew so fast that Bu chanan appeared a bit embarrassed. He finally begged them to be a little less lavish in their praise and cay It witn votes. Tho Idea that has long .persisted that congressmen merely want to represent their own section has been rofuted by the committee, was the tribute of . one. To which Buchanan gallantly re plied: "Oh yes, that Is a fossil remain of Politics Pushed Aside . ' That Is tho wust of what success the appropriations : committee has . thus far met with. Byrns from the beglnnlng has Insisted that every one . who wants to be heard will be given-. the opportunity. ' V "There's no place for politics In I my committee,", he 1b fond of saying.:; "I want to run it In a folksy way." fi Byrns Idea of economy Is not con- , fined to reducing expenses In a vague ; sort of way. He scrutinizes everything , closely. There is, for example, a mat- ter of $10,000 he dented members of . congress for a gymnasium In the new house office building. I Britten of Illinois, a former ama-;. teur boxer of note, and some of thOy others objected. t "We've got a gymnasium In tho old building," said Byrns. "I've never seen it, but they tell me It's there,.! 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What duty does one golfer owe another In playing the game? Mr. Everett says he called out to Mr. Goodwin as the latter was "drawing- back to hit It": "You are liable to hit me." Ho did. tThej lower coujrt Jury found for tho plaintiff and awarded hlnv damages In the sum of $600, against Mr. Goodwin and the golf club Jointly. Tho higher court held thero was no error. 1 wish the opinion had gone Into sonuo details as to what "duty" one golf player owes another in play ing tho game. Light Cavalry Ilnssnrs, light cavalry troops, were originally raised by Mathlas Corvlnus in 1-158 to fight against tho Turks. The name is probably from the Mngynr word lmsz, mean ing 20, tho troops having been rulsed by selecting every twentieth man In tho community. Hussars be came a part ol the British cavalry In 1S05. Old Writon Got Bounties At tho close of the Seventeenth and the beginning of the Eighteenth century, writers, even of the rank of Addison, could scarcely live by a mcro sale of their writings. 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