Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-02-27
CLERKS IN BODY
FAVOR PENSIONS
Government Employees Want
Protection Against
Need in Age

zoe" clerks in tAc Washington &C.
partments siil are deeply Interested
In a movement o. secure legislation
from congress which viii enable
them when they have grown old In
,hc service 10 retire on pensions.
There is q GOOD deal Of opposition IN
Donrrsss 70 any scheme t2' civil pen
sions. but Eueland has old age PEN
sions and civil pensions OF a kind
which recently seems 10 haze ap-
pealcd 20 many OF the American law
makers. and ID is predjctcl freely In
/ Washington that before many years
/ The government employees viii In the
age retirement matter be put on q
/ footing with the army and navy.
There are some hundreds OF men.
and women. too IN Washington who
would be eligible for civil pensions II
the Law were to be enacted In the
daily procession to the departments at
the hour for beginning work there G-s
many men and women moving along
laboriously on crutches Hundreds Of
others need canes TO aid the hating
steps and hundreds OF others who
need them get along without them.
fearing that the use OF them would be
an open confession OF weakness.
Two Sides 70 the Question.
There is a plan to retire every man
and woman who has reached the age
Of seventy years II this bin should
become a law some OF these men and
women who have reac..vd the Psalm
lists allotted span OF life will not have
TO take the trail that leads from Cap
itol Hill 10 the poor house
There are two sides 20 this civil
pension question There are men who
say that there Is no reason why the
government employees should not have
saved enough 10 provide against old
age just as other men and women are
compelled 90 take care against the
future The other side OF II Is that
the cost OF living is very high In Wash.
irgton and that government pay is
none too generous. One thing Is TO
be taken Tor granted. there will be
a hard fight before any civil pension
law Is passed by congress
Representative Nicholas Longworth
OF Cincinnati. o., returned the other
day from Oyster Bay. whete he had
been visiting his distinguished father
in-law. Theodore Roosevelt and an.
nounced II am for President Taft for
denomination II Is perhaps needless
to say that MIR Longworth is Re
publican Washington has believed
for long time that Mr. Longworth.
who Is an exceedingly popular man.
rather resents the tendency OF the
country to know him mainly as tho
sonin.law OF Theodore Roosevelt" II
IL Just possible that the Cincinnati rep.
resentatiye may believe that his re-
cent pronouncement of loyalty to MIR.
Taft while there Is a chance that Mr..
Roosevelt may be candidate. Is
enough In itself finally to take away
from him the "sonln-law" designa.
ton.
Roosevelt and the Murche Baby.
The United States marshal for the
district OF Massachusetts Is Guy
Murchie. a Harvard man. who was a
sergeant In ROOsevelts regiment OF
Rough Riders Marshal Murchie IS
well known In Washington and the
city heard not long ago with sorrow
| OF the death of Mrs MurChie the
marshals wife There are four chill.
drcn In the Murchie family. all under
six years OF age
When Theodore Roosevelt was pres.
ident he paid a visit TO Harvard uni
versity, where his son was to join a
club TO which his father had belonged
before him and was to join It with
certain ceremonies IN which the grad.
uate members were 10 take part The
president also was To make a speech
TO the Harvard students and the time
allotted for his Boston and Cambridge
visit was so brief that everything he
was to do was timed and tabulated
and there were To be no Interruptions
to the program.
The president reached Boston and
Just after the mayor and the governor
had greeted him and the presidential
thought was turning TO the next afair
on the program. Mr. Roosevelt re
ceiyed message Instantly he en-
tered carriage and was whirled away
C. a Mount Vernon street residence
II was the home OF Guy Murchie and
, in the parlor OF the home were Mr.
! and Mrs. Murchie. a number OF friend;
and relatives and Bishop Lawrence Of
the Episcopal church. There was also
a baby. and the possible future Rougt
Rider was 10 be baptized
II was the news OF the baptism tina
took President Roosevelt to IN,
Murchie home and there. good Dutci
Reformed churchman that he Is, b,
stood godfather and did promise an'
vow three things" In the name OF IN,
, babe at the font. q good Episcopaliai
babe and the grandchild of one Of tn
: greatest clergymen that the Episcopa
, church has held in It's communion. ID
r. Winchester Donald. who died som
time ago and who was chosen unanI
mously as a successor TO Philip
Brooks by the people q Trinit
church. Boston. Mrs. Murchie was
daughter OF Dr. Donald.
Simple Toll.
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