Evening star., 1936-04-05
PUBLIC LIBRARY
THE TOWNSEND PLAN.

The congressional investigation of
the Townsend Plan may conceivably
result in killing the movement or in
providing it with a life-giving trans
fusion of free publicity. Many OBJ
servers feel that the Townsend forces
will be politically important in the
1886 presidential campaign. The Pub
lie Library presents a short list of
references in current periodicals
which may assist the reader to form
his opinion of this amazing "old peo-
pies crusade"
Hope for the Aged.
EoW'S YOUR FATHER; How'S
YOUR MOTHER? by Walter Dav-
export. Golfers 81: 10-1l, March
IA, 1886.
Not until you have attended a
number of Townsend meetings will it
dawn upon you how guiltless, patri-
otic, unselfish and cooperative men
and women become at the age of co."
OLD PEOPLES CRUSADE; Town
send Plan and Its Astonishing
Growth, by R. L. Neuberger and
Kelley Loe. Harper's 172: 1876
38, March, 1896.
THE strength of the Townsend Plan
may eventually play a part in the
political downfall of the New Deal. :"
RAINBOW CHASERS. Golfers 81:
70, January 25, 1896.
This country is committed to the
principle of providing old-age pen
sions. We shall meet our obligations
to the aged nationally and, we may
hope, fairly. We will not, however,
rob the vigorous worker in order to
provide undreamed-of affluence for
old people who do not work"
BRAINS BEHIND THE TOWNSEND
PLAN. Literary Digest 1871: SO,
March 7, 1886.
A study of Robert Earl Clements.
the recently lost leader of the Town
send forces.
Importance.
DIR. TOWNSEND'S MARCHING
SOLDIERS, by Herbert Harris.
Current History 43: 455-62, Feb
ruary. 1896.
Unless the plan achieves a fairly
quick legislative success within a
year or so, or unless encouraging con-
cessions are wrung from Congress by
that time, it will be impossible to
hold together the army of disciples
who now revere the o. A. r. P. as
the life and the redemption"
UNDERMINING THE CONSTITU-
TON; Errorssin the Theory of the
Plan. by D. r. Richberg. Vital
Speeches 2: 243-44, January 13,
1886.
The Townsend Plan turns out to be
another attack on the Constitution!
TOWNSEND OLD AGE PLAN IN
VESTIGATION, by N. T. N. Rob-
inson. Congressional Digest IS:
ST, March 1896.
Text of the Bell resolution for the
investigation of old-age pension plans,
TOWNSEND PLAN. Christian Gen.
tury So: 254-56. February II, 1886.
by reason of the magnitude of the
project and the weight of popular
opinion behind it, the Townsend Plan
is immensely important, whether as
promise or a threat"
Cost.
rs THE TOWNSEND PLAN PRACTI.
CAL9 by S. A. Rice. Vital Speech
es Q: 263-65, January 81. 1886.
The fallacy of the Townsend Plan
proved by statistical demonstration.
TOWNSEND DELUsION, by D. R.
Richberg. Review of Reviews 90:
24-27, February 1896.
"The sly little sneak thief, called
a 2 per cent transaction tax will
rob the farmer, the wage-earner and
the business man of one-third Of his
entire income"
CAN WE AFFORD THE TOWNSEND
PLAN? by M. S. Rukeyser. De-
lineator 1873: 10. April 1896.
"The Townsend Plan would cost up.
wards of % per cent of the peak
prosperity combined income of rich
and poor alike-a staggering and un-
reasonable load"
Political Significance.
DID TOWNSEND WIN IN MIcHI-
GAN? by j. L. Mechem. Review Of
Reviews 80: As, March 1886.
"The youth of the Nation Is not in
terested in politics and has not learned
the necessity of group action. The old
folks will be hard to beat in 1885,"
DEFENSIVE INVESTIGATION. Time
az: IA, March 2, 1885.
"Within the last year blind en-
thusiasm for the Townsend Plan has
grown to such proportions among q.
6. oldsters that not single Congress
man today escapes the political pres
sure of this organized minority"