Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1935, Page 12

A-12 - TOWNSEND FACES SENATE GRILLING $200-a-Month Age Pension Explained Amid Hostility and Mirth. By the Assoclated Press. Grim and unsmiling, the author of the Townsend $200-a-month pension plan sought for two hours yesterday to convince the Senate Finance Com- mittee that his idea was the cure for the economic ills of the country. The gray-haired physician, Dr. F. E. Townsend, found the job a little harder to convince the Senators than it had been the thousands of men and women over 60 who want the $200 a month. Townsend faced a semi-circle of hostile Senators and tried to answer their questions, some serious and oth- ers obviously designed to ridicule his plan. Senators and spectators showed by frequent laughter they enjoyed the Julius Lansburgh Furniture Co. 909 F St. N.W. ) February Sale of the Original Bty Sterling Silver For a Few Days Only At the Old 1934 Prices Service For Six Tea Spoons, Set of 6. $5.50 Knives, Set of 6 ... Ind. Salad Forks, Set of 6 Ind. 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The Senators, deluged with peti- tions for the Townsend plan, ques- tioned him closely. For a time, the hearing was turned away from (he merits of the plan and converted into an investigation of the organization built up to support it. Townsend testified the organization has collected about $50,000 and spent around $45,000 and that he received $50 a week. Most of the questioning on the plan itself revolved around its financing. Senators grgued that it would cost $24,000,000,000 a year and that the proposed 2 per cent “transactions tax” probably would leave a deficit of $19.000,000,000 a year. A little impatiently, Townsend re- plied that the plan would double or quadruple business and bring an era of plenty in which the cost would be a mere trifle. He argued that 4,500.000 of the 10,000,000 persons over 60 would have to give up jobs which would be avail- able for the unemployed, that spend- ing of the pensions would bring a wave of prosperity, and that this JULIUS LANSBURGH FURNITURE CO. ... 909 F ST. N.W. Solid Peg Maple $ Double Bed THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., would give the theory of mass pro- duction a chance to operate, thus keeping down prices. When the unfriendly Senators be- came a little too persistent about the money, Townsend explained that the cost would be nothing like $24,000,- 000,000 at first, because it would take years to get all the aged on the pen- sion rolls. He pointed out it had taker two years to build up an army of 4,000,000 during the war. “Would we have much trouble drafting people to take this pension?” asked Senator Connally, Democrat, of Texas. “Would Revive Business.” Townsend argued that spending of the $200 pensions for commodities or services would revive business. dozen other fellows asked Harrison. “Oh, no,” Townsend replied, some- | what indignantly. “But buying the dice would be a commodity,” Senator Barkley, Demo- crat, of Kentucky interjected. Then the Kentucky Senator asked: “What would these people buy with $200 a month?” “Why bless your soul,” the doctor replied. “I should think any one who had ever had that salary would know. They would buy a car, rebuild their home, refurnish it, travel, buy books, get things for their children.” Senator Black, Democrat, of Ala- be services?” | bama asked if it was fair to make | ' the wage earners pay a sales tax to Solid_Peg Maple Droceor And Mirror “Would shooting craps with half a | “provlde pensions for Rockefellers and Fords. “There are only three or four Fords and Rockefellers in the country,” Townsend replied. ‘While Townsend was having it out with the Senate committee, the House Ways and Means Committee con- tinued redrafting the administration bill in executive session. It increased the proposed appropriation for allo- cation to the States for maternal and child health from $1,000,000 to $1.- 800,000 and provided broader State jurisdiction over administration of funds for crippled children. KIDNAPING CHARGED | Young Wife Indicted for Taking Baby to Win Back Husband. INDIANAPOLIS, February 16 (#). | —Nineteen-year-old Dorothy Marsh “today was indicted on the charge of kidnaping a 4-day-old baby in an effort to regain the love of her es- i tranged husband. Mrs. Marsh is alleged to have seized Willlam Joseph Robbins from the arms of his mother, Mrs. Joseph Rob- bins, last December, and to have held | the baby until it was recovered by police. Officers said she made a state- ment in which she admitted she hoped to convince her husband she had become a mother and thereby | regain his affection. FORCED INSURANCE FOR SICK OPPOSED Medical Association Attacks Plan Studied by Presi- dent’s Committee. By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, February 16. — The | American Medical Association today | reiterated its vigorous opposition to FEBRUARY 17, 1935—PART ON the second extraordinary session in the organization’s history, set forth: “The house of delegates of the American Medical Association reaf- firms its opposition to all forms of compulsory sickness insurance wheth- er administered by the Federal Gov- ernment, the governments of the in- dividual States or by any individual industry, community or similar body. It reaffirms also its encouragement to local medical organizations to es- tablish plans for the provision of ade- quate medical service for all of the people, adjusted to present economic conditions. by voluntary budgeting to meet the costs of illness.” The statement pointed out more | than 150 plans for medical service | were undergoing study and trial in | various communities and added: | “Your Bureau of Medical Economics | is ready and willing to advise medical | the individual, personal scientific ministrations of the physician on the | | other.” The association’s trustees were urged to request the Bureau of Medical Eco- nomics to “study further plans now existing and developing with special reference to the way in which they meet the needs of their communities, costs of operation, quality of service, | effect of such service on the medical | profession, the applicability to rural, | tion and to develop for the associa- | tion's June meeting model plans | adapted to the needs of populations | of various types.” AIR COURSE OFFERED NOTRE D/ME, Ind., February 16 | (). —Tne University of Notre Dame compulsory sickness insurance plans| societies in the creation and opera- | t0d8y announced it will offer its stu- ! being studied by the President's Com- mittee on Economic Security. But it | tempered its stand by approving proj- | ects for setting up systems of volun- | tary illness insurance on a community basis. Decrying what it termed attempts | to regiment the profession in pro- posed legislation and attacking cer- | tain sections of the Wagner bill em- | bodying the national administration's social security program, the associa- tion’s house of delegates adopted a declaration of policy for its 100,000 member physicians. tion of such plans. The plans will serve the people of the community in the prevention of disease, main- | tenance of health and with curative | care in illness. They must meet ap- | parent economic factors and safe- guard the medical profession.” “The House of Delegates empha- | sizes the necessity for separate pro- | vision for hospital facilities and phy- sicians’ services. 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