| Show plan offered for old ape age pension MANY SUPPORT supporters SIGN PETTI PETI I 1 TION PREPARED FOR CONGRESS LONG BEACH Ci calif alif sept 21 24 2 1 the vision of a retired xi physician who saw the sunset of life colored like a rainbow with individual pots of gold tor for everybody lias has appealed to the hopes of tile elderly throughout the nation with a 1 force which is considered to drop the townsend old age pension plan into the law hopper at tile the next nest congress conceived here kv by dr F E U townsend retired physician who spent years in municipal health service service the plan proposed the payment by the government erni nent of a monthly pension af 9 ao 00 to all persons over the age i e of CO 60 years with the requirement that each month the money must be spent by the pensioner sion er or returned to the government si signatures a natures attached several million signatures have been attached to a petition to con congress r ess seeking such leg legislation with the I 1 circulation cu only having reached 20 states the sponsor of the plan announced the campaign is financed by the sale of explanatory booklets at 23 25 cents each purchases of these booklets in the majority of cases are elderly persons whose interest the plan seeks they display a missionary zeal which has resulted in the large colonies colonia of elderly retired persons in southern california contastin cont actins friends in home states to the east on oil behalf of the plan the plan would require that the pension be spent each tn month orith advocates of the pa plan lan brush aside the question where is the money coming from by contending that the impetus of circulation of such a fund through the financial channels of the country would bring such a degree of prosperity that the under the age of CO 60 would enjoy great benefits strength felt the political strength of the elderly folks whose hopes have been aroused by the phy physicians dreams was felt in the con congressional gr ess ional district where it was born two of the three candidates who led in the recent primary primar y a advocated the plan while the third unable anable to dedde decide that it was workable encountered opposition veterans of the world war seeking a lonus bonus form but a regiment as compared to the great army of men and women who would be affected by the townsend plan everybody in the land who attained tile the age of CO 60 would under the plan receive 1 a month from the government accompanied by jn an order to go out and spend all of it before the next pension check ar rived then old age could be enjoyed dr townsend and his aides in the campaign expect that the petition asking in congress to enact the legislation will be presented early next year with n millions illions of signatures from every state in the union Copy wright 1934 by the north american newspaper alliance inc |
