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Views VIew expressed b by writers do not necessarily express those of ot Th The Deseret Neua e ewe n. n The department cannot cannot cannot can- can not be be- wed used for pox par Poe poa pONI s. s Pension Property Lien Considered An All Outrage Editor Deseret News Are we getting back to the days daysI I of the Spanish Inquisition that foul blot on history's pages For refined cruelty to the aged the Utah County Welfare Board takes first place So incensed are th the aged ased that some have had the temerity and cour courage ge to resist theIr theli demands for a property lien The Welfare Board has resorted to strangle hold tactics that would put the foulest wrestler that eve graced McCulloughs McCullough's Arena to shame Notwithstanding the fact that the cha chairman Mr Clanahan ha has 1 publicly stated that checks will wil not riot be available on the state an and federal proposition until March 15 and while checks for fOl direct relief relie are in the hands bands of welfare workers work work- ers era duly approved and made macic ou out outto outto to individuals to cover the last half hal of February yet these checks ar are being withheld under instructions unless the recipients will agree t to sign the lien applying on the new nev up set-up and this after those fo for whom checks were Intended ha had been assured of these February checks regardless and were relyIng on them to make payment for bot both fuel tuel and food for or which merchants had extended credit Utah legislators did you contemplate contemplate plate such methods of oppression when you placed power in th the hands of Utah's leading executive It Is his appointees who are largely large large- ly Iy responsible for these methods Does our honorable governor himself himself him him- self approve such actions It i ito is iso isto to o be hoped he does not but unless he tIe voices his disapproval in an e ef ef- ef way it will b be assumed that tha he does Present and past public officials official and other othel prominent t citizens Jhavon have on pioneer day and old folks gatherings gatherings gath gath- extolled these aged people and told of their love and respect I for tor them Now in hi the time the they need a friend are you going t to prove the sincerity of your utter utter- ances by protesting against these thes injustices Or like the priests am and the Levites are you going to pass oy by on the the other other side WILLARD BISHOP Orem Utah On Viewing Mormon Battalion Monument Editor Deseret News Some few days since the writer write while the crossing Capital grounds ground to carry out a commission for for- forthe th the thep p peoples people's oples ople's old age pension committee committe responded to the urge of old memories mem mern- ones orles to step over and hold com communion com munion with the tablet stone con eon taming t the e names of the Mormon battalion the real pioneer trail blaz ers era After reading the names of o othree three of my own family on the UsI list Us I recalled that my ray maternal grandfather grand father wore the gold medal o of Utah's pioneer leather maker an and that he preached the first Mormon gospel sermon in Scotland his natine native na ua na- na tine thc land It occurred to me as I think I It will to many of our aged people that our our- good gov governor could with wit much credit to himself have chosen the chairman of his his' welfare board from rom among the many descendants of this heroic five hundred rather than to have chosen him from a pioneer non-pioneer family Now this said chairman adds Insult Insult In In- sult suit to injury by again informing these thes aged people that the law that our om noble president named a a social security law was intended by him to secure them them neither neither in Inthe the possession possession possession pos pos- session of their homes nor from the humiliation of the paupers pauper's oath for themselves and all their relations Now aged pe people be advised that demands upon you to take the paupers pauper's oath are not only illegal megal but jut unconstitutional Our heroic president had passed a social security secure ty ity act and not a loan agency char char- ter er Furthermore this situation has created the tho chance of a lifetime for you and your descendants to show scheming politicians ns that the people are the government and owners of the funds from which the pen- pen sk ston n comes pAUL H H. ALLRED Management Of Money loney Editor Deseret News In IIi our government borrowing and taxing r r regime gime well may we wonder as stated in your editorial of f January whether hether we are not not- moving toward bankruptcy Franklin s said ld Remember that money is Is' Is of a a prolific generating nat nature re Money can b beget ge money and Its offspring can beget more moie turned turne to and so on Five shillings six turned again it is seven and and so on till It becomes becomes becomes be be- comes a hundred pounds The more there is of it it the more it produces es every turning so that the profits prof its rise quicker and quicker He that murders a crown destroys all that It might have produced even scores of pounds Plutocracy is teaching the people an object lesson Jesson in money della della- deflation tion which benefits only big banking banking bank bank- ing institutions to the effectual hurt of the common people The prolific generating of interest money continually borrowed over overa a and d over again it surely needs no prophet to tell the deplorable con con- seq sequences As 5 you say the continual continual contin ual piling up of one enormous deficit deficit de upon another must sooner or later put a terrific strain upon the government credit which money is the cause of our plight Before the common people nationally nationally na na- can have unabated prosperity prosperity pros pros- Inflation of or money money money-a a currency cur cur- rency good rency-good good for all debts must en en- sue ie Of course the money manipulators would be somewhat t Injured financially b but t it surely would be baj I better that a few die than that a aj nation perish To take care of conditions 10 locally aIly Is the reason for advocating that youth in a farm area use an exchange ex cx- change medium good only in a lo l where earned This 1 ed ed with silver money in l I lions of 50 cents and under would 1 a. a assure ure prosperity I J. J H. H MIDGLEY J Open To Question Editor Deseret 1 How far fal- the investigation of Townsend theory by a special con committee corn com j of the House of Representatives l tives lives will succeed in dispelling cred cred- credulous ulous belief in a scheme repudiated by every sound economic principle Is open to question j Those whose economic thinking Is Js so distorted they can for a moment mo mo- ment entertain the fantastic fantast c thought that by taking a sum equal 2 to nearly half the productive Income and nd spreading it among a special il group everybody will thereby be made richer and happier Is beyond i appeal to reason So with those thosa who can only envisage for themselves them themselves selves a life of easy comfort With no material worry for the rest of 5 their days than finding ways to toe spend a month If U stopping the Townsend Idea de from being put into practice d de de' depended j t on the conversion of these groups it would be a direful situa I tion It is the sound common sensa senEI I of the rank and file of the people that will lay the Townsend will Ii a athe aM t the wisp By the terms of the House resolution resolution reso reso- lution the special committee is to to Investigate the history and re of old age pension move movements ments and their various methods methods' of raising and collecting funds The strategy is plain but how liow well i advised remains to be developed If it could be shown there has been deceit or fraud In raising funds that of course would be effective effective ef- ef j in discrediting the move 1 ment and largely nullify its cal cat influence in the next election J That is what is sought J JMARK MARK V WALEN ALEN 1 I |