Show petitions out for old age pensions hundred and thirty parowan carowan people would participate in townsend plan would mean more than any pay rou roll we ever dreamed of within the week petitions have 1 been circulated here as well as in I 1 many other cities throughout the country directed to the congress men of 0 the various districts urging that when congress meets in january they introduce and use their influence to have passed leg legislation Is 1 tio providing tor for old age pensions the petitions are in harmony with the provisions of tile the widely publicized townsend plan which would have the government pay 0 a lh id person over ik efty y ai of age who is tree free from habitual ciu in allty enn nu ive dollar a month to be spent within the confines ot of the united unite a states within tho thirty day period in which it is received local people interested in cincu I 1 I 1 j lating these petitions requested that thai the Clial chamber ilber ot of commerce sponsor tho the movement and the farm labor league is interesting itself in the matter also As will be noted elsewhere in this issue however the chambers board of 0 directors see sea tit fit to go on record in favor ot the move tho the theory of 0 the townsend plan originated by dr V F I 1 B townsend of long beach california it that it would not only take tahe care ot of the older people of 0 the nation many ot whom are dependent on public charity or upon relatives and friends but that it would be a big step t toward award recovery in that it would limbed limned lately put in ciraula i tolt tl on and keep in circulation such a vast amount of money that financial conditions would have to improve it would be financed by a sales tax estimated at about ten tell per i rent cent opponents of the idea say it Is 15 too fantastic tor for serious consideration and they point to no end or of evils and complications which would insult tile the demand tor for some form of old age insurance against dency and want is getting so I 1 v dorsal 0 arsa tl I 1 that but in ill all probability tile the next congress will give serious consideration sider atlon to legislation in this direction only the most bo however wever think that anywhere near a rn th will receive sellous consideration j i what the townsend plan in oper I 1 atlon would mean to is 3 in 1 te resting ic to speculate on oil A rathor rather careful chock check indicates that are approximately people in this community who are sixty years old or older to give that number 2 a month each would require a month or a year that amount Is roughly a as 3 much as our tir sheep industry ever ro baroug brought h t in in a year if tile were paid only half bir that much or a month it would mean a month or a year if they were paid 50 a month which in most instances I 1 would take mighty pa goon caro care of people of that age it would bring into the community a year 60 a month or aleven ta 13 a day would bring to the community that amount added to our regular income would mean I 1 good times tor for just about everybody at least until to pay the sales tax to meet ax et it 0 |