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© Ex-Senator Robert L. Owen Honored On 90th Birthday , ; _ . -'•f _____________ . World Washington Bureau . v- WASHINGTON, Feb, 3.'—Robert L. Owen, who cahne to Wash ington as U. S. senator from Oklahoma'in December, 1907, two months after the Sooner' state, joined the. union, was honored to day by the present congressional delegation/as he entered his I! 90th year. M H n n m n n n | Among those' present.; was Thomas P. Gore, who went to the senate with Owen. The men are the only living members of, the senate of 1907. ■ .■i' In The private dining room of the speaker of the house of representa tives, Oklahoma congressmen, their wives, and a few friends of Owen and Gore gathered at luricheon, to praise Owen and to reminisce of the days when there were no radio, electric light or automobiles. “Just as these came true,” Owen said, "so will a universal lan guage.” Owen thus used the op portunity to plead for the cause to which he now devotes all his a t tention, a glpbal language. A large cake containing a Single red candle which Owen later, blew out, was brought into the room'.by three waiters as the guests sang, “Happy Birthday, Dear Senator.” Present also were- the wives of Owen and Gore,-the present sena tors from Oklahoma, Elmer Thomas, and Mrs. Thomas, Edward H. Moore, ROBERT L. OWEN and former Sen. Josh Lee, member of the civil aeronautics board. Among the major achievements of all >men ' could converse from one O w e n was his work in guiding end of the world to the other. The through the senate in 1912 a bill to accomplishment of this is my ob create the federal reserve system. jective," Owen said.1 . Sen. Carter Glass, then a member The system, based partly on pho-, of the house,.led its passage by the netlcs, has been developed for Eng house. The bill was entitled the lish and Spanish. It is being worked out for Russian, Chinese, German Owen-Glass bill., ' “Senator Owen had his finger and other toungues, Owen said. prints on all important legislation After a few hours study a person that was passed through the senate should be able to make himself during the 18 years he was in of understood in any language, Owen fice,” Gore said in a brief tribute. said. - . , - 5, > Owen served in the senate until Copies of the system for Chi 1925 when he declined to run be nese have been to Gencause, he explained today, “I had e r a l i s s i m o presented Chiang Kai-Shek, some things I wanted to do.” through Gen.Patrick “He acted,” Gore said, “his belief Owen said. Premier StalinHurley, soon that the best way to kill1time was will have a copy of the Russian to use it." ,. ’ ,/>•' version, Owen said. Speaking briefly, Owen pleaded Owen said he had given Gov. for a world based on justice, friendship and love. He said that Robert Kerr a medal .originally pre to ’ beget nobleness in others, one sented to his grandfather by Thom as ‘Jefferson In 1809. Handed down must be noble himself. “Just as hate begets hate, so to Owen, the medal is to be placed love begets love, and nobility be in the state museum by Kerr, Owen gets nobility,” he said. said, so that its code should become Owen listed material progress he a way of life for Oklahomans. had seen achieved as the develop The code lies in the enscribed ment of the railway, hard-surface words, “peace and friendship.” highway, telephone, telegraph, radio, Rep. Jed Johnson of sixth district, phonograph, electric light, airplane. presided. Rep. Victor Wickersham He said that the biggest enemy fac of the seventh district arranged the ing the world is ignorance. , luncheon. Attending were Mrs. To combat this, he said, was the Johnson and Mrs. Wickersham; aim of his "global language." A plan Rep. Ross Rizley of the eighth disto achieve "one language in which trlct and Mrs., Rlzley; Rep. ^Vlillam G. Stigler of the second district; I Rep. Paul Stewart of the third dis- ~ trlct; Rep. Lyle H. Boren, of the fourth district; Rep. Mike Monroney of the fifth district; Royce H. Savage, U. S. district judge in Tulsa; Marie , Moore i Stew art,. of Oklahoma City, with the Democratic national committee; Harvey Walker, professor of political science a t Ohio State university, who said his father homesteaded in Oklahoma in 1904 and his grandfather before that; G. H. Woodward, who works with Owen’s law office i n Wash ington, formerly of Tulsa;' Herbert Brough tan a friend of Owen; Dr. Janet Meade, professor of languages at the University of Virginia; Lieut. E. W. Kingsbury; Miss Hazel Com stock, employe of the Reconstruc tion Finance corporation and chair man of the music committee of the Oklahoma State society.
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