Show r Pi I Mothers' Mothers Pension Bill MRS 1 KINGS lUNGS bill introduced in the House and providing for for the partial support of mothers who vho arc dependent ent upon their own efforts for the maintenance of their children should have ha careful consideration at the hands of the tile Legislature The fhe issue raised by the measure will be solely that of advisability ad whether government paternalism in Utah has reached a n point where the counties are arc willing villing t to assume this burden Those who ho feel that it has Ilas and m that society must shoulder houlder the tho loa loath load l that is in many instances crushing the he individual will find this proposed law fully safe safe- guarded It limits expenditure to in any anyone one year ear provides that the money shall be bo paid only upon order of the juvenile court limits the amount each mother shall receive to 10 for the first child under fifteen years of age and arid 7 1 a 1 month for other chil- chil dren Iren This bill is a radical departure from the time accepted ideas of the past and follows to some e extent the principle David id l Lloyd loyd George Georgc has established in England Much can be said for and aud a against it there theres is s no doubt that modern progress makes this one une of the he serious of modern problems and that society in inI I order to protect itself must seek seck to guar guard and pro- pro teet the children as future citizens That poverty promotes immorality and crime has been abundantly demonstrated and economists argue that the state can better afford to spend money noney in in training the citizens of the future than to expend it later in punishing pun pun- shing them for misdeeds that are arc often the able ible result of a youth spent in penury and squalid surroundings On the other othet side of the question it may be said that hat the citizen who wilo maintains his own family and andis ands is s but barely able to do that in comfort should not be jc asked to help belp bear other burdens he cannot safely assume The Republican Herald-Republican has no other recommendation recommendation recommendation rec rec- to make at nt this time lime than that the legislators legislator give the bill thoughtful consideration be- be before c- c fore ore either cither accepting or rejecting it t I r rt h |