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.
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By Alun J. Gould
(Associated Press Sports Editor)
This goes back a few years but
you will let that part of it go if
you happen to bo interested, in what
Steve Hamas did to Tommy Lough
ran In the ring at Madison Square
Garden.
Tho scene was Philadelphia.
Tommy, the big shot, was getting
ready to go on for a main bout
Steve was an unknown youngster,
billed for a preliminary.
They met by accident outside a
hotel, both aiming to take a limber
ing up walk. Steve recognized Tom
my and spoke. 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
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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." ( '
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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,.!
One's enough." j ,
And that was all there was to it. . 5
Meeting of Extremes h
Extremes meet, and tliero Is noj:
better example than the haughtiness,,
of humility. Emerson.
WIIOSI3 FAW.T?
Among the points at issue may
bo cited:
Was the plaintiff injured? If so,
was tho negligence of the defend
ant wanton and wilful? Was the
plaintiff also Injured by the negli
genco of tho golf club, as alleged?
It was shown that certain rules gov
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Did the plaintiff by his own negli
gence contribute to his own Injury?
Was the twosomo "merged" with the
threesome (as seems to havo been
alleged by ' somebody) before tho
casualty, which thus would ihavo
been a purely accidental affllcatlon
between members of the same
match?. 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.
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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
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century, writers, even of the rank
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a mcro sale of their writings. But
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