Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1939 — Page 2
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Dr. Townsend, 72 T oday, Believes House Will Pass Pension Plan This Session
He’s Less Optimistic Over
Fate of Bill in The Senate.
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Times Special WASHINGTON, Jans 13.—A pleas-ant-spoken old gentleman who is able to scare the daylights out of many Congressmen is observing his %2d birthday on this Friday the 13th. © Dr. F. E. Townsend, now beginning the fifth year of his siege of Capitol Hill on behalf of $200-a-
month pensions for all past 60, sat] §
on the narrow bed in his little hotel room and mused about his unusual career and the prospects of his crusade. Seventy-two years ago today he was born in 3 log cabin in Illinois. “It wasn’t all log cabin, as a matter of fact,” he said. “The original part was log, but Dad added a leanto, and then he got hold of a oneroom house that some homesteader had abandoned and moved it along= side. So we had three rooms. “But there were 13 of us in the house. Every bed had a trundlebed under it.” “No Iiore Palliatives”
Today the Illinois farm boy is a retired physician and the leader of any arm of cold folks. who have discovered that when they aot together they wield =z lot of political power. They showed it at the polls last November, when a number of Congressmen who didn’t approve of the Townsend pian were unseated. . Dr. Town:s=nd served notice that even greater political strength in, 1940, if his plan or “something letter” isn’t adopted by the present (Congress.
“We certainly won’t stand for any
more palliatives,” he said. “If we don’t get aclion at this session we will campaicn in every one of the 435 congre:sional districts next time.” He believes that his plan, emkodied in bills introduced by Rep. Joe Hendricis (D. Fla.) and Senator Pepper (D. Fla.) will be passed by the Hou:e this session, but he is less sang.iine about the Senate. “I won’t make any predictions about the Scnate,” he said, “but the Senate will” je faced with the same problem as tie House. Its members to comply with the wishes of th! public, and they aren’t going to be =ft in doubt about what the people vant.” 10,000 T:wnsend Clubs Now There are about 10,000 Townsend clubs in the country today, he said, including 48! new ones added in the last 40 days. and the Townsend Weekly ‘has a circulation of around 300,000. *“Eiery town a Townsend town” is tii: new slogan of the movement. : Dr. Town::nd doubts if he will testify befoi: ‘the House Ways and Means Com aittee when his plan is given a hecring, as promised by Chairman I.obert L. Doughton. It isn’t tht he is thinking of his previous exp rience with a Congres- _ sional comr.ittee, when he stalked out of a hez ing and as a result was sentenced tc jail for contempt, only to be pardoied by President Roosevelt. But hi: thinks Louis C. Silva, Deputy Tax: Commissioner of Hawaii, will ntake a more eonvincing witness witli his testimony in praise of Hawaii's ‘ross income tax—a levy which Dr. Townsend regards as similar to, thcigh lower than, the 2 per cent ransactions tax with which he would finance old-age - pensions. He seemed in good health, although he s:id he had been bothered with a cod. And his stomach troubles hin: a little. “When I was working my way . through me lical school in Omaha my diet corsisted so ofter® of coffee and dou: hnuts that I ruined my stomach.” he said. “I guess it was
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Dr. Townsend .
PHILGO TO IMPROVE INDIANAPOLIS PLANT
Presidency of Firm.
Plans for retooling the Philco Refrigerator Co., successor to the Fair-banks-Morse Co., at a cost of about $50,000, to increase production, went forward today.
Announcement was made of the election of W. Paul Jones, formerly executive vice president of the home appliances division of FairbanksMorse, as president. Manufacture of a new line will begin Jan. 23 and it will be shown to distributors and salesmen at the national sales convention Feb. 16, 17 and 18 at Palm Beach. Fairbanks-Morse Co. was moved to Indianapolis April 1, 1936, and the company was taken over by
|Philco Jan. 2 this year. W. R. Wil-
son is treasurer of the new company and C. F. Steinruck Jr. is secretary. They, Mr. Jones and J. S. Timmons, Philadelphia, form the board of directors.
a good thing. It has kept me from cating too much and getting soft.” “When you get this old,” Dr. Townsend said, “the years pile up mighty fast. But old age wouldn't be a thing to dread if the old people got ‘decent pensions. “Pensions would create a tremendous demand for goods and services: . The old pepole would be useful, .that- way, as well as comfortable.” He estimated that his tax plan would produce enough revenue at
‘the start to yield pensions of $100
a a Zonth to all past 60, and more later. The doctor is leaving in a day or two to visit his Chicago headquarters, and may go on to California for a few days before returning here.
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