Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 242, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1935 — Page 14

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TOWNSEND PLAN AROUSES AGED OF SAN DIEGO Meetings Replace Parties as Pension Bill Gains Momentum. ?• Dn to one el the principal nr* el activity in behalf el the Tr.n.rnd Old t|c Rcicliini Pension plan. This ia the first el sta article* describing the origin and sirtft grooth el the Townsend Hubs in San Diego—a Movement which has spread to other eitiet throughout the reentry. BV MAGNKR WHITE Times Special Writer SAN DIEGO. Cal, Feb 18— The Townsend old-age revolving pension plan, in the way it has aflected the lives and outlooks of thousands of citizen of San Diego County is—is—well, it's colossal. The Townsend plan to give every man and woman over 60 a pension of S2OO a month is not a law yet. It is hung up in a congressional committee in Washington, where it has collided with another man. sponsored by President Roisevelt. it isn't a law yet, bu 28.000 elderly persons m San Diegt ■ County are making plans lor the future based on their expectancy of getting S2OO a month ?o life, starling within a few weeks. More than iOO.OOO in this county have signed petitions demanding that Congress act. This is within 10.000 of the total numoer of registered voters in the county. It represents one out of every two adults in the county. Meetings Replace Parties Every night of the week there* a Townsend Club meeting somewhere, and some nights there are more likely to be a dozen in session. This has been going on for 10 months. These cluo meeting have, in many instances, taken the place of “socials” or bridge parties. They have given thousands of aged persons some place to go, and they have brought cheer into many lives that have been drab for years. Here they listen to talks on economics. ask questions, vent their feelings against Congress for being so slow at sending along the S2OO a month. And here their hopes are revived, here they are inspired, here they dream and plan. Their zeal approaches religious fervor. San Diego County has never seen anything like the unity of the Townsendites. At first they paid 12 cents for their memberships. Thousands who did not have 12 cents were admitted free. They expect to catch up on their dues when they get the pension—for they do expect to get the pension. If they do not get it—? Here's what some have said: Nothing to Live For "I will fight Roosevelt and the present Congressmen as long as I live!” And—“l will be a Communist!” And —a Townsend Club official is authority for this, credited to at least 50 despairing old persons: “If I don’t get that pension I will have nothing to live lor. I will commit suicide!” The Townsend Club official says: “They have reached a point, these old persons, where they are staking their very lives on the passage of the bill. Their attitude is positively awesome. We have started something here we couldn’t stop—if we wanted to. We've got to go on!” How did it all start in this county? Locally, this movement is less than a year old. It started in March, last 3 ear, when a lone man came here from Long Beach, a brief case full of booklets, a note pad full of names of local club women. At first when he knocked on the doors of these women, he was treated politely but

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A Negro wearing a cutaway coat and striped trousers early today slugged William T. Quigley. 44, oi 402 N. Hamilton-av, and robbed him of his purse containing approximately $lO. So hurried was his departure that the Negro left behind a pair of black gloves. He kept his stick, however. coolly. They thought the idea was “just too crazy for words.” “Two hundred a month—hooh:” they laughed. “Where would wi get the money?” But. just the same, after a week the movement was on its way in San Diego County. Next—How the Townsend Plan movement was launched in San Diego.

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FARMER J.3OR GROUP EXPECTS AID OFUBERALS Congressmen to Publicly Announce Backing, Says Organizei. Within the next two weeks many famed liberal Congressmen who have become disgusted with what they view as President Roosevelt's swing to the right, will openly announce their support of a national Farmer-Labor party, Howard Y. Williams. St. Paul, national organizer for that party, predicted today to The Indianapolis Times. The Farmer-Labor party, of which Gov. Floyd Olson of Minnesota is the head, and the Progressive party, of which Senator Robert M. La Follette <P, Wis.) is the leader, have combined their forces and are sounding out the sentiment in the \iation for a third party, Mr. Williams said. Speaks Here Tonight He declared that the Socialist party, headed by Norman Thomas, has indicated that the country needs a union of all liberal groups into one Farmer-Labor organization. The party organization already has spread into lowa, the Dakotas, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Mr. Williams, now preparing to launch an organization in Indiana, will speak at 6:30 tonight at the Y. W. C. A. and at 7:30 in Cropsey Hall, Central Library. He | held other conferences here yesteri day. The party stands for extension of public ownership and co-operative ownership. Mr. Williams predicted that by 1940, the issue between liberals and conservatives will have become as clear as was that of slavery before the Civil War. National Ticket in ’36 Mr. Williams said that, possibly this September, a mass meeting of Farmer-Labor members may be j called in Indianapolis. Within the next two weeks he will go to Washington to confer with the liberal Congressmen. If the party shows enough strength, local, state, and national tickets will be placed in the field in

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Hi Howard Y. Williams The organization of the FarmerLabor political federation in Marion County is being discussed here by Indianapolis liberals. Howard Y. Williams, national organizer for the party, came here from his home in Minnesota to assist in organization plans.

SOCIALISTS TO HEAR SALES TAX ATTACK Mil waukee Mayor to Oppose Levy in Address Here. Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, Milwaukee, president of the Uniced States Mayors’ Association, will be the speaker at the Washington’s Birthday mass meeting sponsored by the Socialists at 8 Friday night at Tomlinson Hall to organize opposition against the proposed consumers’ sales tax. John Monarch, national Socialist organizer, began the campaign in Marion yesterday and will devote the next two weeks to principal towns in Indiana. 1936. Although he classes Indiana as a conservative state, Mr. Williams said the party had received many requescs from interested individuals in this state for organization. Members are being solic.ted not only from farmer, trade union and unemployed groups but from professional groups and among m.ddle class voters, he said. Both Senator La Follette and Gov. Olson are of presidential stature, Mr. Williams believes.

ENGINEERS TO HOLD INDIANA PARLEY HERE Speeches and-TVA Film to Feature Program at Lincoln Tomorrow. Joint meeting of the Indiana Engineering Society, the IndianapolisLafayette Section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Indiana section of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Indianapolis Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers will be held in the Lincoln tomorrow. The first formal session will be opened at 10, whan the Indiana Engineering Society holds its 55th annual meeting. H. O. Garman, Indianapolis, chairman of the legis-

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lative committee of the organization, will discuss legislation of interest to engineers. Other addresses will be made by R. V. Achatz, Aurora, chairman of the board of registration for professional engineers and land surveyors, and W. C. Mabee, Indianapolis, president of the society, who will talk on the American Engineering Council. Following the luncheon, the four organizations will meet to hear illustrated talks on “Modern Transportation Developments" by 11. K. Smith, Chicago, and "The Suspension Bridge” by Prof. C. A. Ellis, Purdue* and a discussion by C. E. Davies. New York, on “The Engineers Council for Professional Development.” A sound film, “The Tennessee Valley Authority” will be shown before assembled engineers at 4 tomorrow

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Portugal Names President By United Prc,i LISBON. Feb. 18.—Gen. Antonio Carmona was re-elected president of Portugal yesterday for a seven-year term without opposition.