| Show Good-bye Good Poorhouse From present indications it isn't going to be very many years until that dread of old age the age the poorhouse win poorhouse will be a thing of th Well We'll always have po poverty erty and theres there's no way ay to abolish old age But it appears t that at a avay way vay has been found to take the sting out of both and to make the declining years of those dependent on the public far mote more happy and cheerful than is possible when the poorhouse is their only hope of shelter New York has just passed an old age pension law v. Other states have been experimenting along the same lines with sue sue- suc I cess In New York some thing like a year will be paid out in pensions to aged each sufficient to keep the recipient recipient in food and shelter Gradually the poor house will wiIl go the present cost of maintaining them going into info the old age pension fund It wont won't take long to tell if its it's going to work out and once it proves its worth other state will quickly fall into line Dread of the poorhouse will have passed And where i is s there around Manti l or in any other locality an aged person that has not at sometime or other felt felt- that dread It may cost the taxpayers a few v dollars more Inore but they will know it is being sensibly spent and there will never be a protest from them Even if it meant that we would have to do without something we now enjoy it would be a good investment |
