The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-01
TOWNSEND PLAN
IS OFFERED TO
SAVE new DEAL
Doctors Pension Setup Is
Needed for Recovery,
Speaker Says.

Approximately 5000 persons
young and old alike-gathered at
the Indiana State Playground yes
terday to hear Townsend plan
speaker describe President RooSe-
welt as fallen Humpty Dumpty
whose fragments only the Town
send plan can reaSsemble.
They more than half filled the
grandstand to hear a long list of
speakers, which included Frank
Dyer, D. D., Chicago, regional direc-
tor Of the campaign. who spoke in
the place of F. E. Townsend, M. D.,
originator of the plan.
DR.. Townsend was called to his
Long Beach (CalO home by the
death of his daughter, and the as
Semblage sent condolences by wire
DR.. Dyer, an elderly, sandy-haired
man, spoke from an improviSed
rostrum across the race track and
his voice was carried to the crowd
through a loud-speaking system.
Aided by Chorus of 'Amens'
The crowd sat still and listened
intently, burst occasionally into
cheers, which we're seconded by
camp meeting "amens" from the 20
or more who were on the speakers
platform.
Before he had gotten past his in
troductory remarks, DR. Dyer, MOTTO
ing the boy-venderS ii cold drinks
and peanuts circulating through the
stands, asked the crowd not to pa
tronize them during his speech.
Nobody will buy of you, young
men, while I am speaking, so you
might as well sit down and wait
until after I get through" he said.
Inundated, the boys left the
stands.
DR.. Dyer talked at length on the
assumed premise that none of the
legislation of the New Deal had
made an impression on the depres-
sion, and he said that the Town
send plan would bring the New Deal
and the country back to prosperity.
Answer Own Questions
eve old people," he said, "have
a right to be heard in our govern
ment. And if we can not be trust
ed with the spending of 5000 a
month, then who in the country can
be trusted with that spending
Cheers greeted this question:
statement, and he followed it with
an assertion that very often young,
well dressed men" ask me What will
that bum, who never has had a
dime in his life, do with 5000
month";"
MY friends" he said, my an
swer to that is this: I'D like to see
what he'd do"
DR.. Dyer said briefly that the plan
is to put per cent tax on trans
actions and to pay from this "ade-
quate" fund 5000 a month to all so
or over.
He OverlOOks the Details
lie QlQ not go lnCO CL6 PROBABILITY
of such a tax netting enough to pay
5000 monthly to eight or 10 million
people, or into the feasibility of COL
lecting a transactions tax, once i'm
posed.
DR.. Dyer simply said: "We have
been told that the money can't be
raised. 7 say in reply that it will
cost the nation nothing, for it can
be raised by a transactions tax and
will be spent monthly"
Wild cheers greeted his state
ment that Townsend has better
plan than Roosevelt"
Youthful E. j. Speake, state
Townsend manager. was the guild
ing spirit of the occasion, and those
who also spoke included Mayor John
w. Kern, Lieut.. Gov. M. Clifford
Townsend, who was master of cere-
monies; the Rev. E. Howard Cadle,
the Rev. Morris Coers, Dr. Frank
Miles and Edward F. Trefz, Los An
geles, Cal, and w. H. Jackson, In
dianapolis.