Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-04
Washington Briefs

Special to Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
WASHINGTON, April 4.-Senator Rob-
ert L. Owen, Oklahoma, recently back
from central Europe, tells q characteristic
and tragi-comic story Of conditions in
Vienna. A porter from his hotel carried
the Senator's baggage to a nearby rail-
road station. Mr.. Owen offered the man
q tip Of 10000 kronen-worth in Ameri-
can money about $3.50. The austrian
politely but firmly refused to accept it.
He explained to Senator Owen that you
Americans are feeding my country and I
could not take >trinkgeld from any United
States official" The porter proceeded to
say that his own children depended for
subsistence on American food-bounty
daily dispensed TO the youngsters Of
| Vienna and other Austrian cities IN their
tens Of thousands. The Vienna free food
depot Is in the palace of the Archduke
Ferdinand, whose assassination precipi-
tated the World War.
Postmaster General Work, once a Penn
sylvania farm boy from near Marion
Center, last week received the following
letter dated at Eden. Wye: {Note spell
ing)
Dear Old Friend Of long ago:
II want to congratulate you on your
appointment as a cabinet member. I often
think of the last time II saw you in
Pennsylvania was in your fathers back
field splitting rails, so hear IS hopeing
that you keep on going up to you get
where the other Great Rail Splitter COY
to.
with best wishes for your success 1
will do what I can to help you,
Banks W. Brady,
Postmaster at Eden, Sweetwater coun-
ty, Wyoming"
Banks W. Brady is the son Of a man
whose farm adJoined that Of DR.. Works
father near Marion Center. Mr.. Brady
left Pennsylvania nearly forty years ago.
He is a merchant at Eden, Sweetwater
county, Wyoming, and the small post
Office paying 800 a year is in his store.
There VIII be presented in Congress
this week some enIghtening details on
the timely topic Of coal gouging. 1t ap-
pears that the municipality of Lincoln,
Neb., recently made an experiment
in coal-buying, on communal account.
Tho city council borrowed $4,000 for
purchase Of coal in Illinois. After trans
porting it across the Mississippi, paying
bankers interest on the funds, dis
tributing the coal to municipal dealers
anu kncn deAAfSAAuS IL AZ 0SsAASu QudH-
titles at consumers doors, Lincoln was
able to sell coal to it's people at IS a
ton less than it ordinarily costs locally.
Senator who intends to discuss Lin
coins experience will offer 1t as prima
facie evidence that where there Is a will
to stop coaP profteering, there seems to
be way.
Tomorrow will witness g revival of
public interest in Washington in the
Knickerbocker Theater horror of Jan. 2S
forgotten, for the most part, as is our
short -memoried way-when tho Federal
grand jury will submit its report. The
jury has taken evidence since Feb. %,
and examined a host Of technical wit
nesses. 1t IS expected there will be q
series Of indictments on the count Of
involuntary manslaughter," supple
menting the indictments found IN March
by. the coroner's jury.
The Foreign Relations Committee of
the Senate has been petltioned by q Jew
ish delegation from Massachusetts to
urge the United States Government for
mally to recognize and approve the
yearning desire of the Jewish people for
a national home in Palestine, the land
Of their forefathers." The petition has
Deeu pEeSeuCeU lHEOuSA SSHdJOE LUuSe,
chairman of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee. 1t incorporates a resolution re
Gently passed unanimously by both
houses of the Massachusetts, Legislature.
Senator Lodge has had the resolution =
spread upon the minutes OF the Senate
and ordered to be printed in the Con
gresslonal Record.
His many friends In washington re
grets to learn that Senior Don Federico
mot FREDERICK Alfonso Pezet, Peruvian
ambassador to the United States, may not
return from his present sojourn in his
native country, Senior Pezet is famed as
the prize mixer" of the local diplomatic
corps. He speaks the language Of the
United States with vernacular fuency and
makes 1t his business to know everybody.
Before becoming Peruvian ambassador
here, SGnor Pezet- was consul general ST.
San Francisco.-Copyright, 1922, by Rub.
lie Ledger Company,