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Show Labor's Pensions Not for Townsend; Crusader For Old People Still Says His Way is Better !r DOYLE 8MEK NBA Staff Correspondent CLEVELAND (NEA) The picture pic-ture in the newspaper showed jubilant Bethlehem steel workers cheering ' over news that their strike had won them $100-1-month pensions. - A lean, white-haired old doctor looked at ., the newspicture and Shook r his head sadly. "These labor people don't realize what they're after ," he said firmly. "What they want Is security and I maintain they won't get It that H ...... This ancient crusader Dr. Francis E. Townsend thinks he knows a better way.- He hss thoueht so since 1933 when, after watenlnt three , old women icrnuncr food from a Barbate can, he wrote a letter to a Long Beach, Cel., newspaper. The letter let-ter suggested that the government govern-ment retire everybody (except criminals) at age 60 on a $200-a-month pension. NewPlan : To the everlasting surprise of it author, the letter launched the Townsend plan for old-age pensions. pen-sions. It boomed, but he never was able to put it over. Now he f--,-y.... . , . f FIGURINES SUPPLIES REYNOLDS ; 84 North 4th West Provo MB South Main Springville J Resurgence By Dr. Charles Chambers t , -" ! . - .... Some say health ia the greatest blessing;. Some say peace of mind. I believe there Is an even greater . blessing than either of these. Just as it Is easy to be good and yet good for nothing, it is relatively easy to be at peace mentally , and physically and yet live without purpose. You ' don't spread light by being anti-darkness. People speak of "the middle way." Any halfway of life can only be half-dead. The greatest continuous thrill of life is living "in tone with the infinite." GIT UP TO Fcr Your Old Watch regardless of ag3,rnc!ce, style or condition. Wc will remain open every Friday from Now (3 wmm i: ( 3!i ? Inwglne . . yaw get iCf i 2 J eHs-wene far yvr ld watch when S -, ill. 'MJ fcf) Si 1 H.lbrw f your thole. . . . ih - . . Afvi -.V lf " you mora In tjC? rGXvox "BESS? Jmr : fvan X ( w- EASY CREDIT l S wm Nonfer.,for ff Carrying Charge n, frj1 i 1 crrif&f'X l imt rcW a I has a new plant aubmitted to the Blst congress, wnicn he confidently confi-dently expects will be debated on the house floor during the upcoming up-coming session. The other day Dr. Townsend was visiting his only son, Robert, In Cleveland and attending a round of celebrations of the Townsend plan's 16th birthday. Robert is the national treasurer of what is now the "Townsend plan for national insurance." A midwestern country doctor who turned political economist, the elder Townsend still bangs out pieces for the plan's weekly newspaper with the energy of a cub reporter, although he is 82. He continually repeats his amazement at the way the plan caught on as it did among the aged, at any rate. Many Backer Three months after his initial letter to the editor, Townsend, "the new prophet of plenty," had 70.000 signatures on a petition which would make his plan the law of the land. Within three years, "Townsend clubs" were located all over the country, and, the movement touched off a congressional investigation. in-vestigation. Dr. Townsend stalked out of the hearings and was on the verge of jail for contempt when President Roosevelt pardoned par-doned him. In 1939, a Townsend plan bill was defeated 302 to 97 in the house Of representatives. Political Poli-tical observers, however, credited, the "Townsend appeal" with set ting the stage tor noeranzing me social security act, although Dr. Townsend always has criticized social security. During the war the movement waned, but now there is a drive underway to triple the membership" member-ship" by January, 1990. Estimates 122 WEST CENTER until 9 n.m. until Xmas L CRUSADER - Dr. Francis Townsend, who sti" t nks his pension plan is the best. of present membership run vaguely to 5,000.000, but Treasurer Treas-urer Bob Townsend claims "infinitely "in-finitely more followers." v ' New Hope The great hope of the Town-sendites Town-sendites today is a new bill (HR 2135) buried in the house ways and means committee. Unlike the old Townsend plan, it does not call for payment of a "fixed" pension. pen-sion. Instead, it would divide among the aged and infirm all the proceeds from a three per cent gross income tax. Townsend followers will make a big push to get HR 2135 out of committee during the next congress. con-gress. Already they claim 179 of the 218 signatures needed. The kicker in the new plan, as in older ones, is the requirement that a pensioner must spend all the money he gets within 30 days. "We want to make good marketers mar-keters out of the 12 or 15 million old folks," Dr. Townsend said. "If they had money to spend there would be no depressions." The doctor thought he had some pointers for labor in his percentage tax on all incomes. "Why don't they get wise enough to demand that wages be tied to China Communists Decide To Reform Ancient Alphabet HONG KONO J.ft)One Of the more ambitious long-term pro jects to be attempted by the new Communist government of China is to reform the Chinese lan guage. It is a' project which has de feated more than one conqueror in China's history. With an alphabet of more than 40,000 characters, several hundred regional dialects and an 80 per cent illiteracy rate for an etti mated 475,000,000 population, the immensity of the task can be ap preciated. It is not an Uncommon sight to set two Chinese from different parts of the country converse by writing down characters, being unable to understand each other's dialects. Scholars Organise Nevertheless, more than 100 language scholars met in Peking th other day and formed the All-China All-China Association for Reforming the Chinese Language, according to a Peking radio broadcast. They will attack the problem on four fronts: Romanize the Chinese language and simplify the characters: find a unified dia lect for all China based on the northern dialect: help national minorities reform their languages, lan-guages, and publicize the need for language reform. Although some scholars and intellectuals in-tellectuals know 40,000 Chinese characters, only about 10,000 are necessary for ordinary day-to-day usage. Most vernacular news papers confine themselves to the latter figure. Contrary to popular belief, however, it is not the number of characters so much as the use of them in composition and the understanding of them in com bination that makes ' Chinese probably the most difficult lang uage in the world. Japanese Solved It The Japanese long ago discovered dis-covered a method of translating their characters into Romanised phrases for easier intercourse with foreigners, out no such sys tern has been followed in China. One of the great deficiencies of the Chinese language is in the technological field. Many Chinese characters gain usage through everyday neces sitv. and do not even appear ih Chinese dictionaries. The word coffee, for example, is composed of three characters, one meaning "mouth, the second meaning "frame" and the third meaning "no." Mouth indicates that the subject is edible, but the other two are used simply because they are pronounced "ka" and "xe," or coffee. the monthly volume of business done?" he wanted to Know. The fault of strike-bought pensions. pen-sions. Dr. Townsend explained, is that Mven though workers get the high wages and pensions they want, tney sua can i control me price system. The only possible bug Dr. Townsend sees in his old-age in surance plan opponents say they see plenty of them-is the chance of overproduction. But he's sure we can always find a way xo ais-pose ais-pose of surplus products. And for hoarding that monthly allotment, he said, "why should people hoard if they know they've got a guaranteed income for life?" Legal Notices Probate and Guardianship Noticea 'onsult County Clerk or the Respective Re-spective Signers for Further Information. In-formation. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DIS TRICT OF THE STATE OF UTAH, IN AND FOR UTAH COUNTY. In the matter of the Estates of William R. Frampton and Cather ine Beck FramDton. Deceased." Creditors will present claims with vouchers to the undersigned administrator at his home in Pleasant Grove, Utah, or at the law offices of Christenson & Christenson, his attorneys. 32 West Center Street, Provo, Utah, on or before the 23th day of January, Janu-ary, 1950. RAYMOND R. FRAMPTON, Administrator of the estates of William R. Frampton and Catherine Cather-ine Beck Frampton, Deceased. Published in The Sunday Herald Her-ald Nov. 13, 20, 27, Dec. 4, 1948. View-Master S2.00 Reels, 35c 3 for $1.00 Fairy Stories 33c, 3 for . .11.00 Bible Stories 50c each Library Box $1.85 Heindselman's Music Store MUSIC STORE 1X0 W. Center BL B Country Boy Plays City Slicker With His Dad's Savin WIST. BEND, Wis., Dee. 3 (U.r)a 16-yewr-Old former country boy was charged with delinquency Saturday on his admission that he stole $2,800 on his father's savings and spent it lavishly to play eity slicker. The boy, whom police chief Arthur Juech declined to identify, took the money from his father's bank account through a ruse and squander ed in on expensive gifts for friends, fine clothes, and trips to Milwaukee. Juech said the boy's school mates knew him as a veritable verit-able fashion plate. But his parents thought he wa going to school in the ordinary clothing they provided for him. The boy confessed that he would leave home each morning and go to a hotel room he had engaged secretly. secret-ly. There, he would Change Into expensive gabardine shirts and tailored suits before be-fore going to school. On his way home, he would stop at the .hotel room and change back to his regular slack-and-sweater outfits. Girl, 9, Sees Father Kill Her Mother, Sister, Twin Brother MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. J CU.I i Pale and trembling, nine-year-old Bonnie Faye Bean today told authorities how her 50-year-old father, in a fit of drunken rage. shot down her mother, sister and twin brother last night. The little girl was so bewildered be-wildered and shaken that she scarcely realized that the rifle blasts had killed her mother, 35-year-old Mrs. Fannie Bean, and sister, 11-year-old Dorris Jean. Bonnie Faye's twin, Donald Ray, was sent to a hospital with a bullet wound in the abdomen and his condition was critical. While Sheriff Jimmy Thompson Thomp-son patiently learned the story of a terrible five minutes from the little girl, his deputies were searching for the father, W. F. Bean, a mechanic. Bean was last seen as he walked away from the house after the massacre, muttering, "I'm going to kill myself." Bonnie Faye said she and her seven-year-old sister Thelma saw the shooting. "Daddy and mother were argu ing." Bonnie Faye told the YOU see it quick -stepping along; the highway and you can't miss the parallel. You glimpse a bold front end sleek tapering fenders flaring, streamlined stream-lined roof lines even to "double bubble" taillights, here is the look of "the fastest thing that flies." Then you try one on the road, cour tesy of your Buick dealer. Adjectives flock into mind "agile" -"nimble"-"eager." ou realize that here is action, swift and easy action born of Fireball valve-inhead Itraight-eight power action floated on .soft coil springs that, for all their lightness, keep your grip on the road sure-footed and firm. This you tell yourself, is traveling as traveling should be. Comfortable in the spacious manner man-ner of king-size interiors. Easy in the lightness of controls, which can include even the magic of Dynaflow Whmn hmtfr automobile Juech said the boy financed his spree by calling his father's fath-er's bank and posing as his father. He told them to have the money ready "for my son to pick up." The boy was well known at the bank and employes asked no questions when he appeared ap-peared for the funds. Juech said the boy's parents par-ents showed little Interest in their loss and that he personally per-sonally had signed the delinquency de-linquency complaint against the youth so that he .could be given a psychiatric examination. exami-nation. "I blame the parents as much as the boy," the chief said. "It's a case of too much freedom and a kid trying to keep up With the Joneses." Juech said a total Of $3,400 appeared to have been taken but he boy still had $304 on his person when arrested and some of the embarrassed friends returned the expensive expen-sive gifts he had given them. "The boy apparently realises real-ises now that he didn't have to do what he did to get a reputation as a sophisticated city boy," Juech said. sheriff. "He shot mother first. Then Jean started screaming, so he shot her too. "Donald was standing behind Daddy. I don't think Daddy meant to shoot Donald." The rest of the story came from Mrs. May Rice, the land lady who rented a two-room apartment to the Beans recent ly. She said she ran for the apartment apart-ment when she heard the shots and met Bean at the door. "Well, it happened at last," she quoted him. "Do you think I'm cra2y?" Mrs. Rice said Bean shook his head and told her, "I didn't mean to shoot the boy and girl." Then he walked out, rifle under his arm, muttering, "I'm going to kill myself." Mrs. Rice said she heard four or five shots a short time after that, but she was "so busy that I didn't have time to think.1' Police understand that Bean, besides the four children he had by his slain wife, was the father of seven others by a previous marriage. ai ' l TM h HthttY TAVlOt, A1C NtfwvK Drive if you wish. Pleasurable In the wide, wide outlook that's yours, and the inner satisfaction of having a Buick for your very own. And we might add another thing, just by way of being practical. It's frugal too. 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Showing the good taste attributed attrib-uted to kings, the shah chose willowy wil-lowy Joanne Frakes, 23, as his partner Friday night at dinner and a square dance. The blonde, blue-eyed Oak Park, til., girl wore a red rose, the national flower of Iraa, in her hair. The young Northwestern university uni-versity graduate admitted she was thrilled. "What girl wouldn't bet" she said. "After all, I've never danced with a king before. "He's a good dancer-dances Just like an American man." Miss Frakes, public relations director for the hotel where his majesty stayed, received the dinner din-ner invitation through one of the shah's retinue: The courier carried car-ried the added suggestion that his Suburbs Struck Harder by Polio CHICAGO (U.R) Suburbs gen-; erally ere considered to be i healthier places to live, but polio ' struck harder in the outlying districts dis-tricts of Chicago than in the metropolitan area this year. ' Cook County's health directors, ; Edward A. Pizszcek, said the polio rate was 30 cases per 100,-000 100,-000 people in the suburbs, but only slightly more than 10 per . 100.000 in the city. The difference may be in the fact that suburbanites travel more, 'Pizszcek said. The San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1908 took fewer lives than the Coocanut Grove fire in Boston in 1842. CORRECTION! MEN'S PAJAMAS $998 ; i BROADCLOTH & FLANNEL Z- "! Instead of $2.00 As In Friday NiU Paper : - FLETCHER'S I 368 WEST CENTER PROVO, UTAH ; . ; - STYUNQ thn In First Date With A Square Dancing J majesty would very much likl to accompany her to the square dance thrown by the hotel in hfi honor. - Envious American males conceded con-ceded he wss smooth on his fee) and seemed to have a snannv Una of chatter. . Joanne said the shah "talked about nothing in particular, about the murals on the walk about what he liked and didnT like. Just the usual things you talk about." . "He's very nice," she said. 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