OCR Text |
Show u Irish Free State Also Pays On Debt Some time ago The News printed print-ed an article praising Finland as being the only European nation ; paying back to the United States! the huge sums borrowed in order to prosecute the World war. A' couple of weeks ago it was stated i in a Salt Lake paper that the Irish Free State was also paying its ( debt to Uncle Sam and what The News said in praise of Finland also al-so goes for the comparatively new Irish republic. The information that Ireland was doing the right thing in spite j of the rank indifference of more wealthy nations, came about in the i course of an interview with Mat- thew Murphy, consul for the Irish : Free State for 11 western states, j with headquarters in San Francis- co. Mr. Murphy was visiting in i Salt Lake while on a tour of the j states within his juridiction and ! added that Ireland has old age I pensions, widows' and orphans' ! pensions, unemployment insurance and assistance, free milk for needy , children and school meals. Unemployed Unem-ployed citizens number 50,000, less than 2 per cent of the population I and more than 130,000 new houses , have been constructed in the last ' five years, he added. |