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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE 18, 1937. 6 PROPAGANDA SPREADERS TELL YARNS AHOUT STATE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT (Continued from page 1) is what the needy aged are expecting and that is what they are justly entitled to receive, since the governor vetoed the tax exemption bill leaving sufficient revenue available to pay these needy" aged persons $30 a month. The objectors, however, are already busy hatching up excuses and alibis. Thirty dollars a month is too much for these aged veterans, they claim. One writer, William C. Patrick in the Tribune, The state department of says: public welfare was advised that $3t a month in cash is more than the average family income in Wayne county, and $G0 for married o couples i3 more than the f in an upstairs apartment at their sons home. They are furnishec rent, light and heat without charge. Should this be considered income and deducted from cash benefits which might be given them by the By JOHN EDWIN PRICE state?" well-to-d- ap-lica- nt ' Advertise For Dependable Business... In your desire for increased business this year you no doubt desire intelligent, dependable customers, who buy good quality merchandise and have the money to pay for their purchases. The Utah Labor News readers are among the hest paid workers in Utah. Most of them have steady jobs. They eat well and wear good clothes. They are home lovers and huy furniture and household goods of the better class. w ell - worded advertisement and quality merchandise to back it will bring you a share of that dependable business which the Utah Labor News readers possess. jt All I know is what I see in the passenger train pulls in every 52 papers" said the late Will Itogers. seconds. There are 1600 churches Anyone who can read may gain a with a membership of over a mil- self-respe- ct ifes horizons. Knowledge enriches life. A beg- gar is rich if he has it. A Midas is miserable without it. Precise Warning Two negroes had quarrelled over a game of cards. The dispute grew more and more heated, and suddenly one of them reached for lis hip pocket. Niggah," he said, whats de date? I aint payin no heed to dates," was the reply. I jest thought youd like to said the first negro, enow, cause just 12 months from today youll have been dead a year. Little Old New York A New Yorker, with plenty of ;ime on his hands, has figured it out that a new business and a marriage start every 14 minutes in New York City. A death occurs every 12 minutes, and, a birth every eight. Every hour and 15 minutes, somebody sues for a divorce. A lion. The biggest Protestant congre- gation in the world belongs to a church in Harlem. That Top Note Boss of Roadworkers Excuse me, but was that you singing? Miss Soprano Yes, why? Boss Well, next time you sing dont hang on that top note so long. The men have knocked off twice already, mistaking it for the dinner whistle. A man who lives right mcetng of the Progressive a Adprincipal speaker. several dressing an audience of hundred enthusiastic Democrats he made the charge that administration Democrats in Utah violated their preelection agreement with the progressives of the party. Dr. Maw urged the progressive Democrats to forget the past, supthey helped elect, port theoutofficials and fight to put people but go In office whom we can trust." He said he would join hands with any or all Democratic groups in a program that would bring and maintain a new deal in Utah. Joseph W. Jensen, speaker of the house of representatives, criticized Governor Blood for vetoing the homestead tax exemption measure and charged the state administration with showing persistent determination to frustrate and obstruct" measures to correct uncovered by the irregularities joint legislative investigating com- was iiiiiiiia'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiaia'ia'irii'iiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiaiiaiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiaiiaiiiiiiiiii!iii lot of knowledgs over a period of years from reading the papers. Will Rogers of course also knew a lot which he had learned from the book of life, from contacts with people and problems and from thinking about his relationship to them. Very much may be learned from others. If our manners are such that people like to converse with us, we can often learn in a few sentences what it has taken them a lifetime to find out for sure. Hard experience which we may never go through may have cause them to know something for a fact that we can only see as half true. That is why it never pays to be too cocksure we are right. We may be right only so far as our experience and partial knowledge ' of what others have learned will permit us to be. People wont care to try to add to our knowledge if we give them the impression that we already think we know it all. Its fun to know a little about a lot of things and a lot about a few things. If you do, you are good company for yourself when alone. A person with a good general knowledge of many things stands on a mountain top. He sees the farms and villages, rivers and roads, factories and stores below and can comprehend much of what they meant to human life. A person who knows a lot about a little, has eyes like a microscope. In all of life he sees things which do not exist for others because he see things as they are related to medicine, teaching, engineering, architecture, farming, business, or whatever it is he knows a lot about. Knowledge helps a person see how things might be so, which he at present does not understand. Has he not found many things possible which seemed impossible in his youth ? Knowledge makes sensible people humble as it opens up vistas of learning which they could not explore in a thousand lives. Knowledge acquaints us with the great and good in all ages and in every land. causes Knowledge and commands respect. It puts us at ease in the presence of cultured people. It builds mental muscle to lift untried loads. Knowledge helps us to adapt ourselves to other people and new situations. It may and often does aelp one to earn a better living. It is still true that a much larger percentage of those listed in Whos Who in America are educated men than are not. And if he truth were' known probably hose without a formal education, feeling their early lack, have been men of wide reading, many contacts and much hard thinking. Every bit of knowledge gained makes further knowledge easier to grasp as we have so much that we know with which to compare the unknown. Knowledge is a great good. It wrings us fun, inspiration, confidence, comprehension, satisfaction, friends, capacity to earn, ability to earn; and generally pushes back At Democratic League of Utah at the Newhouse hotel Wednesday night Senate President Herbert II. Maw , Why should it be considered income? They do not receive the money and if they cannot work and are not earning or receiving any money with which to purchase the receive." necessities of life, why shouldnt The public welfare board will they be entitled to federal and receive plenty of advice from now state funds up to $30 a month? If, on. however, the investigator found Provisions of Law that the man and wife had been The law states that $30 a month provided not only free rent, free shall be the maximum" income light and heat, as well as food and that can be paid to anyone individ- other necessities at the time of apual in needy circumstances. The plication for assistance was filed, law provides that examinations the couple would be disqualified. shall be made to determine the They could not be considered in amount of income, if any, each needy circumstances. Not until all is receiving. If the applicant efforts to obtain the necessities of is already receiving as much as $30 life had failed and the couple was a month from any source money in dire need, could they qualify that can be used to purchase the under the present law, and yet, necessities of life the applicant is certain individuals are fearful that If the applicant is these old people are going to get disqualified. receiving say, $15, he will be en- something they are not entitled to. titled to receive but $15 a month, Here is another question: A woman in similar circum$7.50 from the state and a like amount from the government. stances applied to the department Mr. Patrick is propounding ques- for a cash allowance. She advised tions and claims that the state de- officials she needed $15 a month in partment officials are now work- cash to pay her club dues. The deing desperately" to know the an- partment wondered if this is a swers. Here are some of the ques- valid claim for assistance." tions: That question is too silly for A man owns a small apartment words and should be ignored. Can house from which he receives a any person be considered in needy gross income of something over circumstances when their only real $100 a month, but he claims his need of cash is to pay club dues ? net is only $10. Should he also be Officials declared, says Mr. Pata the given monthly payment by rick, that if the term income" as state?" used in the law is construed as net Answer: Should such an indi income there .vill be no end to the vidual file an application for as- granting of age assistance. If sistance it will be the duty of the such an interpretation were made, investigator to determine what the they pointed out. a business man in facts are. If the owner of the a poor year would be able to make property is paying taxes and water a claim for age assistance, and rental, in the amount of $90 a probably get it. month, leaving the individual with The act says the law shall be but $10 to purchase food, clothing, liberally construed, but that does fuel and light, then in that case the not mean that money shall be paid applicant would be entitled to $20 out to applicants to pay club dues a month to make his total up to or for any purpose whatsoever ex$30. But it will be conceded by all cept for the actual necessities of that the applicant would NOT be life to keep the aged from sufferrequired to pay $90 a month in ing for proper food, clothing to taxes and other like costs. So the protect them from the cold, fuel to question is a silly one to commence keep them warm, and a place to with. The applicant in that case live decently, not extravagantly. could not qualify to receive any And further, only those 65 years sum as assistance under the law. and over can qualify under Senate Owns Chicken Farm Bill No. 2. Senate Bill No. 128 proAnother question he propounds: vides for those under" 65, includA man owns a chicken farm from the blind, dependent children which he receives a gross income ing and others that must be cared for. A What Knowledge Can Do of $112 a month, but he claims his net income is only $12. Should the state pay him the difference between this and the maximum provided by law?" The same answer as above applies in this case. Here is another question: A man and his wife are living MAW ADDRESSES DEMOCRATIC CLUB iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisiiiiiiiiiaiif!iiiiiiBiiiiitiiiiiiiMaiiaiiitiiiiiiiiiaiianaiiiiiiinaiianaiiaitaiiVj and is the more power in his silence right than another ha3 by his works. mittee. Phillips Brooks. Mr. Jensen predicted the homeLord Essex advised his kinsman. stead exemption legislation will be Roger, Earl of Rutland, rather to enacted by the next legislature go a hundred miles to speak with early enough so that a veto can be one wise man, than five miles to overridden. see a fair town. Boswells Life Senator Lawrence E. Nelson of of of Johnson. Murray gave a historical origin comand progressive democracy, the Governors veto of mented COOPERATIVE NEWS his stateondepartment of justice bill, which would have placed all legal work of the state under the juris(Continued from page 5) diction of the attorney general. tend and learn about cooperation. Senator Wendell Grover was in charge of the meeting and introA COOPERATIVE the speakers. duced MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN A man who hasnt suffered just The Utah Consumers Cooperative Association is starting a new cant know some things. membership campaign during the . So Touching! summer months. The association Woman 600 active members, has more than (to beggar who had eatand the aim is to pass the 1000 en a whole apple pie) You seem to mark in August. The leaders of have a good appetite. the campaign are being chosen Beggar (with tears in his eyes) and who will visitt organizations Yes, madam, that is all I have in world which I can rightly call intermembers the whose are groups own. ested in cooperation. my ha3 . Fight for Democracy .... America is at the cross-roadDemocracy is in danger. Americans must join hands To save Democracy all and work unitedly for all the things that stand for Democracy. s. red-blood- ed President Roosevelt needs the help and good will of every man and women who believes in Democracy. He needs this help regardless of party labels. There are senators and congressmen who were elected as Democrats, and on the New Deal platform, who are no more New Dealers than are Andy Mellon, Hell n Maria Dawes, and the leaders of the reactionary Liberty League. There re governors of states and other elected officials, who were swept into office as Democrats on Roosevelts coat tails, but who are a disgrace to the Democratic party and the New Deal program. They are doing all they can, secretly and in the open, to block the Roosevelt program. These wolves in sheeps clothing are dangerous enemies of the people. It is up to the people to see that the leeches in public office are eliminated. The people have had enough of the patriotism of the millionaires, who call upon the government to do everything for them, from sending special delegations in foreign countries to act as to shooting it out with their foreign competitors with armies and navies, but who lay awake nights devising plans to avoid paying even a fraction of the costs of these services. super-salesme- n, The Utah Labor News Is Dedicated to Democracy The Utah Labor News invites all friends of Democracy to unite in support of President Roosevelt and Democracy. 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