Inters To The Editor
Asheville, N. C., Feb. 10th
Jditor Cherokee Scout:
tve just read your Editorial of
Ith regarding the Townsend Old
>ension Plan. Will you kindly
me space for a few words of
great trouble with the TownPension
Plan is that a lot of
. are condemning it before they
stand it and the actual cost to
vernment.,
ler Our Revised Townsend Penjf^HPlan
now before Congress and
backed by upwards of sixty
l^ft-essmen some of whom have
^^ there in Congress for eighteen
*<^ftwenty years. Provides, that the
p^Boners who wish to apply passed
^HLge of sixty will accept whatever
per cent transaction tax on all
^^Bross business done in the U. S.
thirty days will produce let it
JjHfty, sixty, or seventy-five dollars
fSadki month, with the maximum
^^Bnt to be paid of $200. When
time arrives that the tax pro.
enough to pay that amount.
^^B also agree to first collect this
( By with the two per cent tax
^flmonth and put it into the Treas.
I^Birst before it is paid out to the
Boneiv, thereby creating no debt.
^^Bflation, no borrowing or issue
^^B>onds to carry same on with.
^^Be amunt collected each month to
^^Bo-rated out to those who agree
^^ ve up their jobs and spend un(f^Bath
all the money each month.
j^HTownsend Pension Movement is
^^Bedy recovery measure, to force
into circulation to cvprv si?p.
I' ? , I
if the country every thirty days. j
to restore buying power in a
: amount into the hands of
elderly people very few of j
have none now- It is intended
tire these elderly people with
ing power to start the business
I country raor rapidly ana create
for the younger people.
? improved machine age has so
teed so many people that we are
tiled to retire some and who
1 we retire other than the eldpeople
who have made the nawhat
it is today.
[now that Rep. Blanton from
I as well as a lot more Congressare
opposed to the Townsend
I Also a lot of the wealth of
Ution. but what else can you exL
have a lot of Congressmen that
L favor and supporting the
end Reviled Plan. Blanton of
I represents the big oil comb
of Texas.
kou will investigate most of the
rs that write articles against
'ownsend Plan are high salaried
c or are representing A)ig carious
and what else can you exThey
say it will cost the Gov
Pnfc pitrlitpon to IwpiiIv t'diii I
Ins of dollars and that to come
>f Uncle Sams net income. Those
fnents are incorrect. It will only
one to one and half billion dol.
to carry the whole proposition
nd on for all time to come. It
1 start off with a billion or a
n and half dollars, you mijiht
hat would be the capitol stock,
i come out to the Pensioners
month, they would put it right
into circulation, the two per
transaction tax would put it
into the Treasury each month
it would come out again. If the
ler cent did not produce enough
y the $200, then they take whatit
does produce,
is Capitol stock would turn over
welve times each year out and
er and over, you might say usle
same money turning over and
producing revenue each time,
would not take a penny out of
it income of the government bethe
Revenue would be derived
the Gross business done each
l which is twelve or fifteen
as much as the net income.
Irou buy a hat at the store now,
u pay sales tax on the meis
net profit or do you pay on
ross price of the hat? The
price of course. ,
st of writers never take into
eration the terrific amount of
r that is being: spent now for
county home, other pensions
> on that the Townsend Bill ,
relieve.
i year 1929, the National inwas
eighty some odd billion .
ear 1933 it dropped down to
nine billion. Why was the (
Buying Power out of the
of the Masses. The Townsend
in bill proposes to restore this
t power to a large extent and
doing rather than plunge Uncle
nore in debt it would help him ,
out of debt.
id where people post themselves
e Townsend Pension Plan and .
stand what it would mean to ]
and to the business of the Coun?t
eighty five per cent of the
i of this Nation would Support
The Che
it.
Seme papers say that only about
five per cent are in favor of the
Townscnd Plan. Up in Michigan in
the Congressional election held there
on the 17th of December when the
Man that run on the Townsend Pension
Platform beat his opponent two
to one, that looks like more than five
per cent.
There has not been a Candidate yet
run on the Townsend Pension Platform
been defeated and the people
will find that when the issue is left to
a vote of the people they then will
find out which way the wind will
blow.
This is the only thing that has ever
been offered to the poor people of
the Nation to amount to anything,
they will vote for it if they can get
a chance.
To have seventy five or a hundred
thousand dollars turned loose every
thirty days to these Elderly people in
Cherokoe County, would that make
conditions worse than what they are
now?
The Townsend Pension bill if enacted
into law would mean the largest
Pay Roll the U. S. had ever had
or perhaps ever would have and an.
other fine things is that it would go
into every County in the Nation every
thirty days.
The false rumor that Mr. Town.
send 19 getting rich, is perfectly ridiculious
and is absolutely untrue.
All these Nickels and dimes that is
collected go into the organization at
Washington to further the cause and
to help fight the bill thru Congress.
An Audit of the Organization is made
by Uncle Sam and so far there has
been nothing found crooked. Mr.
Townsend drr.ws a Ssdary of fiftydollars
per week for what he is trying
to do for the poor people and for
the business of this country.
This is the biggest movement ever
it before the people of the Nation and
before this Nation and you can't get
get the bill through Congress with,
out some funds.
What about the big Campaign
funds for all the great Political parties
of the Nation. Why don't one
squeal about that.
Before pasting Judgment on the
Townsend Pension bill please read
Proverbs 18-13.
Thank you,
W. B. FISHER,
State Manager.
SLEEPING BEAUTY
CT A DTC riCTU vt? i n
o> A ni\ A U JT11 ft ft 1 ft Ci/lIV
Chicago?Pretty, dark-haired Patrica
Maguire, the modern "sleeping
princess," will begin her fifth year
of slumber next week.
Her condition ? "No recent
change."
Thus, with cheerful patience born
of long days and nights of constant
r.uiving, did the stenographer's mother
and sister report on her progress.
Although Pat is nearer consciousness
now than at the end of the
first year after her attack of sleeping
sickness, no "fairy prince" in the
form of medical science has yet
crossed the threshold of the modest
suburban Oak Park home to awaken
her.
"But we have not given up hope,"
reiterated the mother, Mrs. Peter
Miley, whose hair has turned white
in the last two years.
"No, indeed." echoed her other
daughter, Mrs. Gladys Hansen, who
has turned her nursing experience
with Pat into outside channels. She
is now doing practical nursing.
It was four years ago ? the night
of February 13, 1932?thatNPat, who
had been complaining for days of
feeling "so tired and sleepy," went
out to mail a valentine to her niece.
The next day she did not get up,
and soon afterward, Pat, then 26
years old, drifted into a coma from
which she has never completely
aroused.
The first year she was merely animate.
Helpless as a baby, she had
to be fed by means of a tube. She
made no response to heat or cold.
She remained unaffected by noise.
Medical science struggled to overcome
the illness. Serums, blood
transfusions, artificially stimulated
fevers, special diets and massages
were tried.
Gradually Patricia's mind returned
to the fringe of consciousness. Doctors
found her reflex action normal.
The patient became aware of heat,
cold and sound.
About a year and a half ago it was
noted she would respond to vocal
comands to "lift a finger." Next, it
was observed she could, with an effort,
focus her eyes and read from a
slate an instruction to "smile." She
indicated she knew her mother.
But since then there's been "no definite
change for better or worse,"
said Mrs. Mansen.
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