Show OTHERS VIEWS A Reader Questions Question Our Ability To Pay Dear Editor One of the Nations Nation's greatest bills before the Congress is the Townsend Old Age Pension Law Twenty million persons have signed the that have been forwarded from every state in the Union asking the passage of this Bill making the payment of a Na National ional Old Age Pe Pension sion of per month a n. law at once In the past years our state and national law makers who number 1700 men and women now have placed some laws lawson on the state and national statutes 1 Not a single law has been made to protect unorganized property owners owners owners own own- ers who lost since 1929 two hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred billion dollars in closed banks watered stocks and bonds that have had the water squeezed out leaving the owners with a wet blanket to keep themselves warm In the general national election in 1934 of the voters voted It seems he who is not in office has no concern with plans for the administration or their duties as citizens It is safe to say we have some organized office holders holders holders-coun- coun county ty municipal state a and nd national national- who cast their votes at the last las election But the unorganized and unprotected property owners do donot donot donot not go to the polls and vote If they would they could turn all the crooked Dinosaur politicians out of office All our laws are arc made by law law- The new laws are approved by the local Bar Association state and national They benefit from crooked law to the tune time of 20 20 annually Can the Nation afford the Townsend Townsend Townsend Town Town- send Old Age Pension of per month Let us demand the facts We Ve demand to know what is going on in the secret chambers behind locked doors Let us demand the truth a about abou out our country and the financial wizards wizards wiz wiz- ards whose gold bricks have turned turned turned turn turn- ed to brass these brass these empire builders builders builders build build- ers who all but wrecked an em em- pire James J. J Cook |