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Show PAGE TWO Th T.o Would i This is the second and last article on the Townsend plan, written by John T. Flynn, America's Am-erica's outstanding- writer on economic eco-nomic topics. The article is copyrighted copy-righted by the NEA Service Inc. (Newspaper Enterprise Association.) Associa-tion.) Dr. Townserid's plan includes twp essential elements. One is that the aged get $200 a month each. The other is that they spend it within the month. If they take i $1,500,000,000 a month from those who earn and pay the taxes and fail to spend it all, effective purchasing pur-chasing power will be reduced to the extent that they hoard the money. Dr. Townsend recognizes this. He therefore is trying to work j out a plan to compel the pension- i ers actually to spend their money. : The pensioners will not be given j cash. Instead, an account will be opened for him in a local bank1 selected by the government. The 1 check will be sent to the bank and an account opened for him! for $200. This he can get only by ! making checks in payment of his j purchases. The bank will not ! check unless the $200 of the pre-' ceding month is all drawn against, i Cash Is Necessary- However, if the old gentleman wants to save, what will prevent ; hfrn from making a check to his grocer tor iu to cover a z pur- . chase and getting the change in i cash? As a matter of fact you have to recognize his need for ! cash. He can't give checks for street car fare, movie seats, a cigar, ci-gar, a cup of coffee in a restaurant, restaur-ant, etc. He must have some j cash . And you cannot check up ! oh his purchases to see if he col- j laborated with his dealer to get some cash on a check. It would take an army of snoopers and sleuths ten times as big as the prohibition army. There can be little doubt that the plan would not aid the economic eco-nomic society. That being so it would not help the aged, tor since the money must come out of the producing element of society, and since the producing element cannot can-not pay it out of its present pur-ihasing pur-ihasing power and since the plan will not increase purchasing power, pow-er, it would break down altogether. alto-gether. The aged as well as the youngsters would all be victims of a scheme, conceived in good faith, by well meaning people, but people who do not know how this mysterious machine works. f f Gives Import Advantage The tax would be a tremendous . : C' , PERSONALLT USED CARS When I sell a Particularly Particular-ly good used car, one that I have checked over in my shop, reconditioned recondition-ed so that I know it is going to give the fullest satisfaction, I personally personal-ly endorse that car. If it doesn't make good T WILL. You can buy it with confidence. The following fol-lowing cars are Personally Person-ally Indorsed by me. 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Anns (Co. 70 East 1st North Phone 14 TJIsiy It Work? discrimination against all goods made wholly in America. Thus a suit which was a home product from the sheep"s back to- the final garment would have to bear a long series of 2 per cent taxes on a numerous series of transactions. But a suit made abroad and imported im-ported would have to pay only on the one or two transactions which took place in America after its arrival. The Townsendites put the cost of their plan at about $19,000, 000.000 2400 a year to each of not more than 8.000,000 people over 60. About 2.300.0O0 others will be exempt for various reasons. rea-sons. But they insist, and with some justification, there will be an offset off-set against this heavy charge. One of these offsets will be, they point out, the .saving of $2,500,000,000 - -the cost of supporting 775,000 inmates of poor houses. Where these fantastic tigures come irom I do not know. The last enum- i eration of people in poor houses ; by the Census Bureau was in 1923 There were then only about 51.134 persons GO years of; age and over in almshouses. It j is fair to assume they did not cost the people more than $500 , e;ic5i Jo" ?Uf th amount at S1000 each and if we assume tne nurnber was doubled, the total , cost would not exceed $100,000.- i Q00 which is yrrv far from $2i5oo.- QOO.OOO It will be seen, there-: fore, that this offset is of no im-porta im-porta nee. f .Job ( la i ins Kxaggeruted The Townsendites assert that, as old persons receiving pensions must withdraw from work, the jobs they vacate would be available avail-able for younger men and women. It is difficult to get precise figures fig-ures on the number employed. In 1930 the number of persons 60 vt ars and over and gainfully employed em-ployed was about 4.000,000. Many, however, were proprietors, professional pro-fessional men. Here the advocates advo-cates of the plan make an error in arithmetic. They subtract from 10,300.000 persons over 60. some 2,300.000 who would not receive pensions because of criminal rec ords or because they have incomes over $2400 a year or will not give ; up work. Having subtracted them once, they cannot subtract them 1 again. They cannot subtract all of the employed from the remain- der of S, 000. 000. Persons 60 years and ov r with criminal ' records would be about 500.000. j The gainfully employed with in- . comes would be about 1,800.000. j These are included in the 4,000,000 I old persons with jobs. As they would not get pensions and give , up their work, the number who would quit work would be at the outside 2.200.000. .- re we io assume inai Liie le- tirement of these 2.200.000 will create that many jobs0 Some 1.200.000 (,f these are farmers. Are we to assume that the re- Of course, they do not hold jobs at all. Their retirement would not make jobs for anybody merely mere-ly leave a farm vacant for some other farmer to buy. What is more, many of these left are not employees. They are proprietors of their own small establishments litlte stores, service enterprises of various sorts. Their retirement retire-ment might clear up that particular particu-lar business, perhaps, but would not create employment. It is not po.ssible to arrive at a figure Lone Star State Sun Queen Radiant as the Texas sunshine Is this belle of the Lone Star Btate. chosen as queen of the Southwestern Sun Carnival at El Paso. Elected by popular vote. Miss Ruth Staten will reign over this opening event of the Texas Centennial tete. MOVING! If moving call the Hardy Trans, fer. Modern equipment and men who know how to handle the most fragile furniture. PHONE 148 -OUR BOARDING EGVD TV-VE TROUBLE YOU OENTLErAN TjONT APPRECPTE THE SKbNflCANCE OF- fvV INVENTION ' ELECT PMC LIGHTS VAXE M THE. SHAsPE OF T3T3NKNJC3 6LKSES;SO THEY'LL. 'BE USEFUL WHEN THEV "BURN OUT THINK HOW MANY EL.E.CTPAC HTS mJRN OUT A "DAY, OVER THE NATOM -v- ASSOCIATING YVTH A "POTENT I AL. VULT MILLIONAIRE f Lindon Officers Are Installed LIN'DON Officials of Lindon town elected in November, were sworn into office at short ceremonies cere-monies conducted Wednesday at the Lindon school house. Robert Walker, principal of the Pleasant Grove grade school, was sworn into office for a term as chair-han chair-han of the board, after which Mayor Walker officiated in installing in-stalling the other board members. They are as follows: Albert Anderson, And-erson, William Hooky, Wrenard Tomlinson and Clarence Wright. Officers made by appointment will be named later. The outgoing P'fM-ni. in excess of a million jobs which would be made accessible to younger persons. This is Munethmg but it is very far from the n.000.-000 n.000.-000 jobs which the Townsendites claim. These are not arguments against the fundamental dutv of society to provide for its aged population. But they have an im- portant bearing on the benefits which will result to the balance of society from the plan and show the looseness of the arguments in favor of the plan. CAM Smoke- me and UL. HOUSE VOURE LKE AAV COUSNl- ALWAYS HAS AN VDEA TVAAfS GONNA IVWE. H1N A NMLLION ME INVENTED A j-rAY WORD, 'BUGGY WITH A THAT TjOULT "BE RLAYED T-LUTE y along ximmm A.LONG COrAES TH AUTO NAZIS CONTINUE Despite imitation all v. r th- world against hold-iiig the l'J-'lG Oly jupic- Cani'-e in ; rinany, dur- to persecution charged to the Nazi regime, Cerinans are continuinsr extensive plans for the greatest great-est session of the sport contests in history. Here is a picture taken as the Olympic ( on.initt- f met in Berlin, showinc; Chairman Chair-man lb it Von Tashamnier nnd Ost n, cent r, as he discussed pl.ii.s toi tli" sanies with his as-1 - . i . 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It was the 20th anniversary of the "perfect attendance at Sun- VU J .) ilVV 411 -f V V 111 V 1 1 L All IliC JV, ond ward and more than . 600 persons were present at the exercises. exer-cises. President T. N. Taylor was the principal speaker at the services and complimented all the members mem-bers with an unbroken attendance as they were presented to the school. Other speakers were B. F. Cum-mings, Cum-mings, superintendent of the Utah Stake Sunday school board and his two counselors Joseph K. Nicheles and J. Hamilton Calder, W. Monroe Paxman of the stake presidency and Raymond Green of the ward bishopric. Maurice Jones, stake secretary gave a brief history of the movement in the ward. An interesting musical program was given in connection with the exercises consisting of two xylophone xylo-phone solos by Franeelle Chiis-tensen Chiis-tensen anel a vocal solo by Mrs. Bern ice Dastrup. Mrs. Alene Simmons Sim-mons accompanied both soloists on the piano. Lc Roy J. Olsen, superintendent of the organization presided at the exercises. Following the meeting a picture was taken of the perfect attendance group as well as one of the officers and teachers of the organization. . LINDON MRS. IAUKA W. ALLKE1) Reporter I Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Walker entertained en-tertained a: a .Ww Year's day dinner at their home. Covers .were laid for Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Wen-dell Swenson and baby, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer York and family, Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Swenson and fam-C'ly, fam-C'ly, all of Orem, and Mr. and Mrs. John Swenson Joe and Wesley John Swenson, Joe and Wesley I Swenson. i Mr. and Mrs. Reed Gill-! Gill-! man entertained on New Year's ' day for Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Hoo-ley Hoo-ley and family, Mr. and Mrs. Al-! Al-! Mrs. Alroy Gillman of Pleasant Grove, Morrell and Thelma Gill-I Gill-I man and Mrs. Annie Gillman. Mr. and Mrs. Fk)yd Kirk and . family and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd , Kirk and family of Salt Lake . were dinner guests of Mrs. Annie ' Kirk on New Year's day. Mr. and Mrs. Earnest A. Fowlko entertained at a diner party on i New Year's day. .Theist who participatel in the affair were Mr. arid Mrs. John Halladay and f" - j ijn'M so GiAoVjf (' 11L',TR,EI) vl Romance? Well, . t 9 a. ...' finnftiniiniTiiiiiiVtirnfin'iiiiMiiiinimiTinrTimfft In Hollywood the latest rumored romance is that of John Gilbert and Marlene Dietrich. But then, in Hollywood, whispers of romance start when a man and a maid are seen together more than once. Camera-s,hv Camera-s,hv Miss Dietrich and Gilbert are shown leaving a theater in the lirsi uiuture taken of them toeether. baby of Provo. Mr. and Mrs. Jos- -ph Pa&e ami son Kit-hard of Salt Lake and Mr. and Mrs. Ray- mond Jacobs. Mr.-. Elizabeth Pntt and George Pratt spent h nday afternoon m Provo. Mr. and Mrs. Fiulon Williams spent last week visiting in Eureka j with friend" and relatives . ; Mr. . Richard L. Walker was a Provo visitor n KrMav afternoon Mr. .)( . ;h Han en b i U.st wc-eK for Girnlalupe, California He expects to oe eniploye'd there. Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Anderson Ander-son entertained Tuesday evening at a Swedish party at their home. ! Swedish games were played and . luncheon was served in keeping with the theme (Jf the party. Those who participated in the al-fair al-fair we-:c Mr. and Mrs. Alma C'hristian.-e,:, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Kichins, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hilton. Mr. and Mrs. Loren West of Pleasant Grove and Mr. and Mr s Howar d War nick of Manila Hansen Services Set for Wednesday SPANISH FORK - Funeral services for Heber wll known farmer who was found de; Friday mornmg. will nesday at 2 p in. in war d ; h !) '1, with Lii'iic .w officiating. T. Hansen. of Benjamin d in his bed be held Wed-the Wed-the Benjamin Bishop Paul Friends mav P . -. VMS'. v. wWS.VA'..; I warn 'ymSBteSr L It's Mentioned V call at the C'laudin Funeral home at Spanish Fork until Tuesday morning ami Irom then until time j for the June ral at the family home at Benjamin. Interment i will be in the Spanish Fork City cemeterv. Owls are 10 timea better mous-ers mous-ers than cats. The swivel chair wis inventeel bv Thomas Jefferson. Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On No matter how many medicines you have tried for your cough, chest cold or bronchial irritation, you can fret relief now with CreomulsiQn. Serious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with anything less than Creomul-L-ion. which goes right to the seat of the trouble to aid nature to soothe and heal the inflamed membranes mem-branes as the germ-laden phlegm is loosened and expelled. Even if other remedies have failed, don't be discouraged, your drugcri.ct is authorized to guarantee CrecmuLsion and to refund your money if you are net satisfied with re-suits from the very first bottle. Get. Crecmulsion right now. (Adv.) c J I: J. l.rtli . i |