Show NEED FOR EXPANSION OF PENSIONS from the number of clubs and organizations formed to being sponsor for movements for more adequate pensions aged people its that the present apparent that there is widespread wide spread opinion social meet the needs security law is inadequate to and deserts of the old folks in another part of this issue will be found a communication from a friend in ogden utah giving details of an organization recently formed at that place but expected to as sume statewide state wide proportions for the purpose of promoting a state constitutional amendment designed to set upa state sponsored pension plan financed by a transaction tax similar to the national plan and patterned after one now being evolved in california for the purpose of stimulating business and distributing buying power particularly for the old people As yet this plan is new and untried but it appears to hold important possibilities at least we will follow with interest this and other schemes being promoted for increasing the assistance for our old 2 eople as well as stimulating business by pumping the medium of exchange into the more arid and sterile strata of our society from a multitude of ideas and plans perhaps something really worthwhile may develop colorado has already stepped out in front with a 45 a month pension for their old folks 4 bombs poured into market places where hundreds of women waited to buy food while the detonations deto nations toppled masonry into dugouts where men women and children had sought refuge in these latest items from the spanish war front there lies a faint hope that the present day war may yet inspire civilized peoples to revolt against war as a futile cowardly performance certainly from such military deeds as bombing defenseless market places no heroes will evolve no hero worship be inspired the courage it takes to wage this type of warfare is not even on a par with that required of gangsters in their feuds for the bombers know they are safe as they fly over civilian centers blowing women and children to bits if that be not wholesale murder murder needs redefining grand junction daily sentinel |