Show L I z SOCIAL INSURANCE We Ve read a great deal these days ays about plans for what is generally called caned social I ance alice Under that heading are included all sorts of schemes for health instance ance unemployment unemployment unemployment ment insurance accident Insurance insurance insurance ance widow insurance and maternity maternity maternity ma ma- insurance as well as old age insurance N None one of the plans seems to have worked out very fully a as yet Most lost or all of them involve contributions by bythe bythe bythe the state or Federal government govern govern- ment Some apply only to in industrial in- in workers worker some do not discriminate one class and another Some have provisions provisions provisions provi provi- provi- provi for contributions to the tho insurance lund fund by the workers themselves or by employers or or both and some would have Government take care of oJ every every- body lne subject is very much alike just now and we have no doubt douDt t that mat vigorous efforts will willbe WIllbe win WIll be made this coming Winter Vinter to get some legislation for the Federal Federal Fed Fed- eral assumption of some degree of responsibility for some of these projects It seems to to us to be something to be looking into very carefully The most interesting of all the old-age old insurance schemes of which we have heard originates originates originates origin origin- ates like so many other social innovations in California Dr Dr- F. F E. E Townsend of Long Beach Beacha a retired d physician first broached broach broach- ed the idea of having every person person person per per- son over 60 years old whether in want or not receive a pension of a month from the Federal Federal Federal Fed Fed- eral government The idea has caught on like wildfire and organizations organizations or or- have been set up in twenty states we ve understand to get signers to a great petition petition peti peti- tio tion to Congress for such legis legis- lation As there are about persons over 60 in the United States and the proportion of elderly people is increasing this vo would ld mean about two billion dollars a month or twenty-four twenty billions a year to be provided out of tax income But the advocates advocates advocates ad ad- of ie plan have attached attach attach- ed to it a provision that the hole must oe be spent pent t each month ana contend that putting so much money into circulation tion would immediately restore pr prosperity prosperity pros pros- s- s and make it no burden at all OUR NEW NEV CLUB I Last week a club The Manti l Ci Civic ric Club was organized the I stated purpose of which is to improve conditions in our city 1 Its membership is made u up largely of active young men men I c moring for tor r recognition cognition and i i eager for development I That Manti needs improvement improvement improve improve- ment meat and development is e evident evident evi evi- dent on all hands Our water situation both in ill our culinary and irrigation systems is far from Irom what it ought to be Al- Al through our water supply is one of the tile most vital of our possession posses posses- posses posses-I I sion Slon 1 jt it t is often slighted and given superficial attention Our industries can n be expanded and unproved improved we need a new court courthouse courthouse courthouse house we are being negle neglected t d because we have no county agent etc etc Projects for improvement Plenty of them The question as to whether or ar not the Manti l Civic Club will willbe willbe willbe be a force for improvement remains remains re re- re- re mains to be seen If it is only a burst of enthusiasm a bubble which breaks shortly after being being being be be- ing created nothing win will vi come of it If II social functions are made the dominant feature of the club ana and most of the time and efforts of the members are directed along the line of entertainment entertainment enter enter- the organization will continue on for some time but butwill butwill butwill will ultimately pass out of the picture If however the new organization organization ad adheres eres to the p purpose po poe e and objectives enumerated m in its Articles of Organization mu much h good will be accomplished At Atthe Atthe Atthe the present time indications are that this will oe the case May 1 success success crown their efforts FIRE PREVENTION WEEK COMES IES AGAIN In about a month month between between October and Fire Fire Prevention Prevention Prevention Pre Pre- Week will be observed again The week which has become become become be be- come a national custom will vill be formally initiated by by the President governors gover gover- nors of states mayors of cities and other prominent persons in public and private life life- During the week every citizen will have a splendid opportunity to learn the fundamentals of fire prevention and control Through newspaper and magaZIne magazine magazine maga maga- zine articles exhibits and other means and intensive effort will vill willbe willbe be made to enlist the citizens citizen's interest He can blame no one bu but t himself if h he fails to learn Fire prevention is a civic duty which every citizen owes to him himself himself himself self and to every other person We Voe all pay for fire we fire we pay forit for forit forit it in lost business destroyed jobs higher taxes tales and insurance rates On the average each family a year as a tribute to Moloch Moloch T dollars which are as surely as asif asif asif if we tossed them into a stove V Worse orse still three people two people two adults and a child out child out of each ot of our population are sacrificed to the pagan god god god-be- be because cause we are ignorant and careless careless care- care less when it comes to fire In the past it has lias often been the experience that dire re losses during the week and I I for a short period thereafter I I Ionly only to raise again as the public gradually forgot the information information tion non gleaned This year we should look forward to the week I and devote a little time during I 1 it t to really learning the fundamentals fundamentals funda funda- of ot fire prevention then rem remember nIber and practice them in inthe inthe inthe the future |