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Show Town send Club Holds Big Meeting Colonel Bell of Ogden and Captain Cap-tain Edward B. Keelen, Utah-Nevada area director for the Towns-end Towns-end Recovery plan clubs, attended and spoke at a well-attended Milford Mil-ford meeting Tuesday evening in the Firemen's hall. Colonel Bell is a well-traveled man of impressive personality and held the attention of his audience through a lengthy but interesting talk on some of the phases of the Townsend plan. He undertook to show that there was a vast difference differ-ence between the income of the people of the United States and the transactions made in a year's time. It is by a two per cent tax; on the latter that the leaders of the movement propose to raise the money necessary for paying the $200 pension to all over the age of 60 years who will retire, from gainful employment; while it is through a comparison of the total sum necessary with the reputed re-puted annual national income that would-be enemies of the plan attempt to disparage it, the speaker said. He also introduced figures in refutation of the charge that the cost of everything would be increased to quadruple propor- tions, claiming that the small in-! creases made necessary by the tax would gladly be absorbed by thc various agencies against whom it would be levied in view of the tremendouus increase in purchase volume made possible by the (lis-; tribution of the pension money. ' |