Show NO HAM AND EGGS pension se sentiment n ciment expected to boom when payments start next month by STEPHEN BRAINTREE Ite released leased by western newspaper Newt paper union washington anians ASHINGTON califor wont eat ham and eggs tills this winter nor will dr francis E tow townsend cash a a month pension check ohio has repudiated the bigelow old age retirement plan too but the smart politicians aren arent it fooling themselves the high pressure pension advocates will burst into full fury before elections have become history the ruffled gray hair of americas elders may be smoothed somewhat on january I 1 when first benefits are paid under the federal old age retirement plan A little Is better than nothing but its only a drop in the bucket compa compared red to the demands instead of placating the agi ing voters in a presidential election year the small social security pay ments may well boomerang back i to the white house you cant taste cake without wanting more pension payments costly its no trifling sum that the social security administration will hand out to some persons next starting date of payments from 1942 an estimated will be paid out starting january 1 to primary beneficiaries wives and widows over 65 61 years of age to young widows wa with mth dependent children dependent children and dependent parents this Is entirely apart from social Trl itys tys old age assistance proy already operative in 48 states W tact et of columbia alaska and whew IL ay q I 1 under 1 the latter plan W waft bla to 1 rt iati during novem aan 7 V q k Z r V X A r I 1 ira ha gulp culp right 74 year old Cl evelander and his companion unidentified both worked jor for the bigelow plan which was defeated in ohio last month it would have pat paid d 50 a month to all persons over 60 money to 0 o be raised by a state income tax and a special levy on high priced land but ohio pension cers like those in california arent downhearted her ber alone the federal government matches state contributions up to 15 a month per beneficiary thus it if the state provi provides desa a cash allowance of 1250 a month tor for old people in need the U S will supply another 1250 california leads how this plan has mushroomed Is shown in records of five states wherein more than needy get monthly checks there are inDU and in california ohio texas land and new york are the others california home of the pension movement heads the list in amount disbursed in november that land ot of sunshine and honey handed hande dout out insist the nation can stand a largo large scale retirement program but realists in the tha adminis doubt that thai we can afford it they regard the 1840 1040 payments as a modest start and refuse to make any more mor e concessions to hold the pension vote next year just a few weeks ago security administrator paul mcnutt emerged from a white hite house conference to tell reporters it ft would be unwise to predict any broad revisions in the present tern tem there has been talk of com batting the tha war inspired merchant marine depression via social 1 security 1 and of expanding the p present besent plan to include self employed persons but the new nevy deal promises it will sponsor no increase in payments pensions go to congress its not expected that 1910 1940 elections will make congress anymore pension minded than it was last june when the house voted down the townsend plan to 87 97 that plan would give a pension of a month to all persons over 60 who retire from work the money to co come malom horn a 2 p per er cent tax on all transactions Townsend ites are fighting furiously with another group which wants the same general idea wrapped up jn in another package this is the general welfare federation whose bill is now pending in the house it would amend the social security act to give 30 to 60 a month to all persons over CO 60 the cost to be paid by a gross income tax ef ct 2 per cent deductions would be permitted from gross income of the cost of materials used in the products of industry and of the first 00 60 per month or per year of gross income received seek early vote the potency of this plan is shown by th this fact that house members have signed ignec a petition to discharge the tha house ways and means committee in whose bands hands the bill now rests reits and bring ettote it tote to the floor the old age retirement plan which goes 9 oes in effect january 1 is figured this way beneficiaries will receive it a basic amount equal to 40 percent per cent of the first 50 of the average monthly wags wage plus 10 per cent ol of the next of average monthly wages to this is added 1 per cent of the basic amount for each year in which the tha individual earns at least in covered employment thus a worker whose average monthly income was would receive monthly benefits of 2575 it if married he would receive an additional 1288 for Ms his wife if over 65 and 1288 for each dependent child on the same basis a widows benefits would amount to 1931 per month a widow with one dependent child would get and a widow with two dependent children 45 00 no benefit may be less than 10 a month and the highest will be 85 the funds come from a social security tax of 1 percent per cent each assessed against employers and employees plo covering all wages up to an annual total of taxpayers will decide rational and unbiased observers of the pension movement can see dangers on both sides A citizen chos worked hard all his ufa life and now fades faces indigent old age is apt to be a bit too demanding on his government ern ment and youngsters who fall heir to their elders eld rs jobs and must foot the pension bill bil arent apt to be very sy sympathetic Oat hetle about large hensl pensions A the same time however youth p s becoming more pen sion conscious 3 it wont oe e necessary to worry warry about alle alleged ed crackpot retire es on some not too one 0 of them may be 0 being but not for aly ly the electorate will II 11 a tax load it can 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