The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-12

800 acres. SIS hail tax and I believe
that's all we would want to pay.
There could be q larger insurance as
before for those who wanted it.
The Townsend old age pension plan
Is one Of the widest dreams that ever
rode q night mare out in broad day.
light. II giving people money to
spend would make things 60. widows
pensions could be safely doubled and
there are young couples who could
start out and make go of it II they
had something to start on and there
are others who could make living
and find interest in life II they could
get start.
The young people may be ever so
smart but the older people have
something the young have not, en-
perience, which We need SO much to
hold things steady. to make spend
ing machines out of them would make
fools out Of many and exchange that
settled experience for an orgy of folly,
and settled self-respect for mean,
smart attitude. It's contrary to all
natural laws so immoral and IRA
tional. A reasonable old age pension
Is social responsibility. In our
township there would be about seven
eligible for the Townsend pension,
that would be $4,000 per month;
this amount would make 10 per
cent tax on $l4O00.00. Please figure
up your township.
According to the census of 1880
there were 10,385, 026 persons in the
United States 60 years Of age or
over: and according to circulation
statement Of U. s. money of July 81,
1894, there was in circulation at that
time $5,317.l75,302. With population
estimated l26, 637 900 and SAL 80 CIV
en- as the per capita circulation, two
hundred dollars per month would
give the Townsendites just about half
Of the money in circulation every
month.
The snake they killed in November
Is still wiggling its tail. The auda-
city Is astounding. That liquor bus
mess Is hard thing to kill. never
will be absolutely done for till judg-
ment day. OF course the big excuse
Is revenue but that is devils stair
way-when you go up one step the
stairway goes back two. Just because
there's liquor all around US is no rea-
son we should give up a moral stand.
Must 60 out and put some alcohol In
the truck radiator right now. 1t has
plenty Of good uses, hasn't 1t? The
nature Of evil is always destructive
and one OF the fundamental facts
about it is 1t comes too high; the cost
is out Of all proportion to the bene-
fits received. Then, too, the unfor-
seen always happens because there's
somebody always watching. The
Spanish Armada consisting of 100
ships, 1926 marines, $500 sailors,
2,088 slaves and $3.50 cannons that
seemed about to destroy England was
destroyed by storm in 1888. The army
of Sennacherib woke up in the morn
ing to find that l85, 900 men had died
In the night: time about TO B. G.
Napoleon couldn't stand before the
snowflake in Russia and a sunken
road halted his reckless destroying of
civilization. We had plague Of dust
ourselves, wasn't that lesson enough
for q while? I want crops and pros
perity.
A friend says why not put small
tax on Ignite coal and larger tax
on shipped in coal.
Fine weather We are having now,
isn't it?
Say don't see how they can send
Hauptmann to the electric chair for
kidnapping when the Constitution Of
the United States says they shall pass
no bill Of attainder or ex post facto
law, do you? One group of experts
says he wrote the notes. another, that
he didn't. Aren't the experts Won
derful?
Tell Aunt Mary hello for me and
that my rule for cooking the break
fast food when we batch Is cups
water, one teaspoon salt and one cup
wheat grits.
Best wishes to you. Please think
over the l-2-3.
Respectfully.
HUGH REDINGTON.