Show senator snow explains old aldage age pension attitude needs of other groups and states state ability to pay should be considered si program too ambitious senator glenn E banow who just returned from the leg legislature discusses some matters it 0 current interest in the following self explanatory communication the old age pension mentioned by the press as maws old age ag a pension and known to the senate as S B 2 provided tor for only the old age welfare cases no mention ot of other cases in the welfare program were provided for or in S B 2 it would cost a according cc to senator maw near neair per year to operate and should provide tor for anyone over sixty five years ot of age 30 it if that amount was not already received or enough to make the income up to 30 per month tor for anyone who did not ba have bave ve 30 property nor ability ot of relatives ta 9 care for the old age were to be considered who could oppose such a program surely no one who did not look into the case would be willing to do so it it la Is possible to care tor for dependent mothers crippled children and blind people on the same basis abou should d we not do it it if we are to take care of 0 all tour four classes should we not care tor for them on a comparable basis and see that they adeall are all treated alike under the adminta plan there was to have teen been set up for or all welfare cases ot of this amount was to have gone tor for crippled children dependent mothers and the blind the remainder was to have been set up tor for the old age group this plan was arranged for under tinder S B under the maw plan there should be set up tor for the welfare program providing that Is obtainable from the sales tax and other sources it if we have that much for this program everyone should be satisfied providing it Is distributed to the people who need it but under tinder the maw plan Is to go to the old age group and 1 to the dependent mothers crippled children and blind two and one third times as much is going to the old age group under S B 2 as Is going proportionally to the crippled children the blind and the dependent mothers only part of the latter group are voters and they had no organized lobby to push tor for more than their share I 1 am sure that our old age group in rural utah is willing to share and share alike with the crippled children the dependent mothers and the blind but to hear some people talk one would wonder it that were true on the other topic I 1 should say that the people of 0 rural utah are trying to be tair fair also they feel that there should be some sort ot of a home stead exemption such a thing is possible it if we do not try to enact a welfare program which is too ambitious along particular lines in tact fact the homestead exemption may be thought ot of as part of the welfare program it cannot continue it if there la Is to be government grants on an application basis to all specialized groups groups from my point ot of vie view there should have beon been provided a homestead exemption of 1300 including personal property and old ago benefits around A program more ambitious than that cannot be continually financed by this state with the taxable taxable capacity w which aich we have reached |