Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-03-17
THE AGED
ORDER OF EAGLES SPONSORS
OLD AGE PENSIONS.
Licking Aerie Takes Active Part in
the Nation Wide Movement and
Appoints Committee to Push
the Work in Newark.

Order of Eagles, one of the active
fraternal bodies of this community, in
response to the request of the Nation
al Commission on Old Age Pensions
of said Fraternal Order, has appoint
ed Messrs John P. Sullivan, chairman,
M. w. Knuepfer, secretary, Warden
H. Pugh, Edward M. Mcdonnell,
John A. Prior, James M. Schaller,
William A. Archer, Harry c. Rogers,
J. Oscar Juch, Gottlieb Zinn, Albert
Kaercher, DIR. C. j. Biedenkopf, James
P. Wolfe and Daniel Shay, as the
local committee.
This committee will Immediately be-
gin steps to organize Old Age Pen
sion Clubs in this community. The
purpose is to arouse public sentiment
in favor of old age pensions in the
hope that the next legislature will
pass an Old Age Pension bill, that
will be approved by the governor, to
become effective at an early date.
Non-Eagles as we'll as Eagles and
other organizations will be invited to
participate in the formation of the
club, which will be a civic organiza-
tion rather than a purely fraternal
one After the committee has worked
out it's plans, announcement will be
made in the local press.
This action of the local Aerie simply
carries out detail of the plan formu-
lated and adopted at the National Con-
vention of the Order, the Grand Aerie
of 1921. The Eagles have ever
forward in originating and supporting
measures to promote the welfare of
the people, particularly those who do
the hard work of the world, and, as
rule, are not well paid for their serv-
ice. Among these Eagle-suported
propositions, are the laws providing
compensation for accident and occu-
pational diseases, maximum hours of
labor for women and children, health
full conditions for working and living
and pensions for widowed mothers.
1t was, then, to be expected that this
Fraternity should promptly espouse
the cause of the disabled veterans in
our industrial systematic men who,
having spent the vigor of their youth
and the strength of their manhood in
"scrapped' at 60 or 65, being no
swift-mOving machinery of the pres
ent age.
The problem is not confined to this
country. 1t confronts the entire civ
ilized world, and nearly every nation,
except the United States, has made
efforts to solve it. In some cases the
proposed solution takes the form of
voluntary or compulsory insurance.
But the stern facts show that this
does not meet the requirements of the
case. So, the most humane and pro-
gressive nations are adopting the Old
Age Pension plan. 1t is this plan
that the Eagles are supporting be-
cause, wherever tried, it has proven
to be the most just, benefcent and, in
proportion to the good accomplished,
the least costly.
Accordingly, the last Grand Aerie,
by unanimous action, not only declared
in favor of Old Age Pensions, but pro-
vided working educative propagan-
da for securing the enactment of laws
establishing state-paid Old Age Pen
sions. A national Old Age Pension
Commission was appointed with Past
Grand Worthy President Frank E.
Herring, editor of the Eagle Magazine,
as chairman, to devise ways and
means for such propaganda, and $685.
900 was appropriated to enable said
Commission to carry on the work.
This Commission has prepared and is
distributing a pamphlet which sets
forth the necessity for such pensions
and shows what has been done by
various nations along the line of help
ing the aged victims of our industrial
| system.
One of the suggestions made is the
formation of such clubs as the local
Aerie proposes.
The universal responses indicate
that thoughtful men and women
everywhere, both employers and work
ing people, Union Labor and non Un-
ion Labor, are lining up back of the
proposition, because they recognize
that it is need created by the indus
trial conditions of our time due to
mass production in this age Of ma
chinery.