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*' TULSA DAILY WORLD, SI URLOUGHS SPUR STORK -A„ocuned~?T*r,- OLDEST EX-SENATOR HAS BIRTHD AY Blind Robert L. Owen (left) oldest living ex-senator, from Okla homa, celebrated his 89th birthday anniversary at a luncheon in Washington Saturday, cutting the cake with the assistance of Thomas P. Gore, also blind, who served with Owen as first senators from Oklahoma after its admission to the union in 1907. __________ J --------------- WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (/P)—'The stork has been much busier in this war than in World war I. One reason, says census bureau expert John D. Durand, is th a t va rious European nations have delib erately granted more furloughs for married men to visit their homes. Another reason is th a t both Eu ropean countries and the United States have paid allotments to serv icemen’s dependents in this war. In the United States the birth rate has stayed so high for three years th a t the population effect of the war has been a large n et gain. For every soldier or sailor killed In the war, six "war babies" have been born—in addition to the number of babies th a t would normally have been expected under the prewar birth rate. . In the first World war the prln cipal belligerent countries, after a short initial boom in births, had very Jow birth rates. Even in the United States the birth rate showed a tendency to drop in the latter part of 1918 and in early 1919. , America May Sell Huge J Arms Stores to Europeans WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (^P>— Prospect that American armies switching from Europe to the P a cific theater will leave huge stores of arms and supplies raises the question: "W hat’s to be done with the stuff? Speculation here is th a t great quantities will be sold to armies of liberated countries and thus con W orld W ashington B u re a u tribute to easier political stabiliza WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Robert L. Owen, who came to Wash tion. ______ Ex-Senator Robert L. Owen Honored On 90th Birthday 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 90th year, was passed through the senate Among those present was that during the 18 years he was in of Thomas P. Gore, who went to fice," Gore said in a brief tribute. the senate with Owen. The men Owen served in the senate until 1925 when he declined to run be are the only living members of cause, he explained today, ”1 had the senate of 1907. some things I wanted to do.” e r a l i s s l m o Chiang Kai-Shek, through Gen. Patrick ] Hurley, Owen said. Premier Stalin soon will have a copy of the Russian version, Owen said. Owen said he had ^ ov' Robert Kerr a medal originally pre sented to his grandfather by Thom as Jefferson in 1809. Handed down to Owen, the medal is to be placed in the state museum by Kerr, Owen In the private dining room of the “He acted," Gore said, “his belief said so th a t its code should become speaker of the house of representa th a t the best way to kill time was a way of life for Oklahomans tives, Oklahoma congressmen, their to use it.” The code lies in the enscribed , . . Speaking briefly, Owen pleaded words, “peace and friendship.’’ wives, and a few friends of Owen and Gore gathered at luncheon- to for a world based on justice, Rep. Jed Johnson of sixth district, praise Owen and to reminisce of friendship, and love. He said that presided. Rep. Victor Wickersliam the days when there were no radio, to beget nobleness in others, one of the seventh district arranged the must be noble himself. luncheon. Attending were Mrs. electric light or automobiles. "Just as hate begets hate, so Johnson and Mrs. Wickersham, "Just as these came true,” Owen' ♦ said, “so will a universal lan love begets love, and nobility be Rep. Ross Rlzley of the eighth dis gets nobility,” he said. trict and Mrs. Rizley; Rep. William guage.” Owen thus used the op Owen listed material progress he G Stigler of the second distiict, portunity to plead for the cause to seen achieved as the develop Rep Paul Stewart of the third dis which he now devotes all his a t had ment of the railway, hard-surface trict; Rep. Lyle H. Boren, of the tention, a global language. highway, telephone, telegraph, radio, district; Rep. Mike MonA large cake containing a single phonograph, electric light, airplane. fourth roney of the fifth district; Royce red candle which Owen later blew He said th a t the biggest enemy fac H. Savage, U. S. district Judge to out, was brought into the room by ing the world is ignorance. Tulsa; Marie Moore Stewart, of three waiters as the guests sang, To combat this, he said, was the Oklahoma City, with the Democratic "Happy Birthday, Dear Senator.' aim of his “global language.” A p an national committee; Harvey Walker Present also were the wives .of to achieve "one language in which professor of political science a t Owen and Gore, the present sena all men could converse from one Ohio State university, who said his tors from Oklahoma, Elmer Thomas, end of the world to the other. The father/homesteaded in Oklahoma in and Mrs. Thomas, Edward H. Moore, accomplishment of this is my ob 1904 and his grandfather before and former Sen. Josh Lee, member jective," Owen said. that; G. H. Woodward, who works The system, based partly on pho with Owen’s law office in Wash of the civil aeronautics board. has been developed for Eng ington, formerly of Tulsa; Herbert Among the major achievements of netics, and Spanish. It is being worked Broughtan a friend of Owen; Dr. O w e n was his work in guiding lish Russian, Chinese, German Janet Meade, professor of languages through the senate in 1912 a bill to out for other toungues, Owen said. at the University of Virginia; Lieut. create the federal reserve system. and After a hours study a person E. W. Kingsbury; Miss Hazel Com Sen. Carter Glass, then a member should befew able to make himself stock, employe of the Reconstruc of the house, led its passage by the understood in any language, Owen tion Finance corporation and chair house. The bill was entitled the said. , man of the music committee or Owen-Glass bill. Copies of the system for Chi the Oklahoma State society. "Senator Owen had his finger nese have been presented to Genprints on all im portant legislation
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