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Show f Ohio pension peddlers have already announced their determination to try again at the old folks' expense. It Is to be hoped that their supporters will realize they've been duped, and decline to be hoodwinked any more. Rnit to Crackpot Pension Schemes VOTERS of California and Ohio have snowed under the two latest pension panacea schemes. The Ohio scheme to pay $50 a month to very retired needy person 60 years or older was beaten by a 3 to 1 vote. The California "hare and eggs" scheme to . - pay $30 a week In scrip to every retired person over SO was beaten, 2 to 1. . Those votes are extremely significant to the nation as a whole. They spell finis to crackpot crack-pot pension schemes all over the country Dr. Townsend's $200-a-month plan Included. Certainly Cer-tainly If California, Including Los Angeles, the fountain head of crackpot ideas of all sorts. Votes "No" so emphatically, the pension prophets haven't a chance anywhere else in the Country. The vote Indicates another thing that the people are getting back their American confl. dence and optimlam: that we are on the way back to normal In business and sanity In gov-, gov-, ernment Crackpot schemes are historically al-. al-. luring to a depressed, uncertain and frightened people. As soon as they get back their courage . and life looks a little brighter, they want none ' of these miraculous curealls. Now, with the pension panacea peddlers on the way out. we can concentrate our efforts " In behalf of the aged on sane and workable pensions within the nation's ability to pay and carefully limited to those actually In need. Already we have accomplished much In this direction as a nation. The average pension being be-ing paid In the United States today la $19.36. Except for the south, the average la well above that, close to $35. Next year the federal government gov-ernment will match up to $20 a month, making $40 pensions possible If states are able to raise their ante. Next year also the old age annul-. annul-. ties under the social security act begin, so In succeedings years larger pensions, based not on charity, but on the lifetime earnings of the Individual, In-dividual, should solve the pension problem without with-out resort to the fantastic schemes of dreamers. There remains one danger, however. The pension prophets, although discredited and impotent im-potent politically, will still cry their wsres and siphon the pennies, nickels and dimes from the pockets of needy aged. The California and t |