Show OLD AGE PENSION utah now has an old age pension law and the legislature is to be congratulated for hiving passed it the united states is the only major industrial nation in the world without an old age pension system with the machine coming along so rapidly more and more men who are on the verge of old age are compelled to gt e way science medicine hygiene and modern living conditions have combined to increase the span of life thus between the machine which takes his job and the achievements of the scientists which makes him live longer the man over sixty finds himself caught between two millstones aiding old age should be neither a charity nor a philanthropy nor should it be dependent on the merciful attention of children industrial old age pensions have broken down in most cases and are not satisfactory encouraging indeed is the fact that in the federal congress as well as in more than thirty states movements are under way for action in this direction six states now have laws for old age pensions and even if they are inadequate they are at least a step forward the rules in these states are varied the age requirements range from 60 to 70 years the amount of pension from 20 to 50 per month while the funds are to be raised in some cases by the states in some by the counties and in some by both combined the result of the movement now under way in new york state will be watched with interest all over the nation vernal express |