Show MANY SEEM BROKE IN WASHINGTON Condition True of Those With Large Incomes I as Well By David Gibson W WASHINGTON Oct 21 Every Every one seems to be broke here Most lost Incomes are obviously derived from the national sugar can and the lid seems to be bc on rather tight so far faras faras faras as increased salaries ar are concerned living charges hav having Ing gone up and standards standard of ot living remain the same This condition is as true with those of ot large Incomes as small ones For Instance there are numberless widows wid wId- owa of ot men once prominent In the political political political po po- business and social life of ot the nation who have for tor years lived here herein herein in retirement and with enough fixed income to maintain them in pretentious pretentious pretentious preten preten- luxury But since the war income tax and the increased demands of ot tradesmen Hard and servants have caused them to give up their houses and take to more modest modest modest mod mod- est quarters and ways of or life Within the past two years many afine a aIne afine fine Ine old mansion in downtown Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington has been converted Into a a. boarding and rooming house There is many a department em em- still receiving 60 per month just justas as they did twenty and thirty years ago One old man testified the tho other day I before a congressional committee ee that he had reared a family on his present 60 a a. month salary but that he was was now thankful that his family was ort oft his hands In these times for what he ile I received was not enough to support I himself to say nothing of ot his good old oldwife wife I One of ot the committee asked the witness wit ness what he did In the way of ot amusements amusements amuse amuse- 1 ments If he ever attended moving picture shows Nothing replied the witness the best hest my wife and I get In the way of ot moving picture shows Is when we move past the tho show windows during our Sunday walks But continued the tho old man Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun day Is my only time off oft and the merchants merchants merchants mer mer- chants have recently taken to pulling down the curtains of ot the windows we like to look In the most and so our only source of ot amusement has been largely red reduced The government go maintains no pension pension pension pen pen- sion system for tor Its and there are numberless cases of blind and otherwise incapacitated clerks by reason reason reaton rea- rea son ton of Ot age and who are arc forced to go to their department each morning ring In on the time clock and sit all day In Idleness at the desks where once they Were useful and this In order to get the Income to maintain themselves I |