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A DOWNEY PLAN
soon be tested. The Californian State Constitution permits of the initiative," exercisable on the petition of 8 per cent. of the re- gistered electorate. So strong is the passion for glowing schemes that this summer fifteen pension plans were put forward. The £6-a-week scheme had over 800,000 signatures, and it will be voted on by the State in. Novem- ber. Current predictions are that it will be adopted by a big maj- ority. California will have the chance to try its "short cut to Utopia," as President Roosevelt has called it; Alberta will be put in the shade. The President has taken it philosophically. He has recalled a conversation with Lord A few years ago the United Bryce many years ago, when that States was swept by the "Town distinguished student of Constitu- send Plan." An elderly Californian tions suggested that in some res- physician, Dr. Francis Town-pects the American was superíor send, attracted millions of follow- to the British. One of its ad- ers by his demand that the Gov-vantages he saw is the right of ernment should pay £40 each one or more States to experiment month as a pension to everyone with a scheme which most people who reached the age of sixty. Al- might regard as unsound finan- though less is heard of the Town- cially. Bryce was speaking as a send Plan nowadays, it has not believer in democracy, we have been forgotten. It still commands no right to be overcensorious. masses of followers, and it has The Californians prescribe played an important part in re- take their own medicine. cent elections in Texas, Idaho, Florida, Oregon, and Maine. The Austrian Church From California, where the Town- send Plan started, now comes
Although the authorities of successor to it that seems even Church and State in Austria have more serious in its immediate | been negotiating since the Ansch- threat. In a recent "primary luss, there was never any reason election" to choose the Democra- to suppose that a satisfactory tic candidates for the national settlement could be reached while election in November Mr. Sheri the present religious persecution As the dan Downey won an astonishing in Germany. continues. victory over the retiring senator, Catholic Church in Austria was Mr. McAdoo, who had the sup- always as venomously attacked port of President Roosevelt and by the Nazis as the fallen regime the Democratic political organisa-which it supported, it was in- that the treatment tion in California. Mr. Downey, evitable much younger and comparative afforded to it should be that of a ly inexperienced, was handicap- vanquished enemy. Cardinal In- ped by lack of funds, and by the hitzer has now broken off negotia- opposition not only of Conserva- tions with the Nazis, and the pas- tives but of mild Liberals. Never- toral letter which was read in theless, he won the nomination the churches shows. that the
standpoint makes easily, his platform being the Nazi simple proposal to pay everyone promise impossible. As always, on reaching the age of fifty a the brunt of the secular attack weekly pension of £6. Though has fallen on the young, and he promises less money than did education is rapidly being taken the Townsend Plan, he begins out of the hands of religious payments ten years earlier, and teachers. The Church is always
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group of potential beneficiaries, totalitarian citizens. Mr. Downey's plan has another other matters divorce, religious feature familiar in currency here- consolation to the sick and im- sies. His pensions would be pay-prisoned on which the Nazi able in special warrants issued by authorities will not and the the State of California and ac- Church cannot admit a compro- ceptable as currency within itsmise. borders. Each of these notes in circulation would be good for only Under Minor Duress seven days and could then be re-
exposed to pressure for newed for another week only by which there was no precedent in his- attaching to its face a stamp tory
Manifesto from Czech worth 2 per cent. of its value, Government to its people.]
Out of the mess we now foresee, these stamps to be bought with
Black as the Pit from Czech United States currency. The spe
to Pole, cial scrip would be cancelled at
We still can lay, it seems to me, the end of the year, after stamps
One flattering unction to pur worth 104 per cent. of its value
Houl. had been attached to it. That is
Though stern the pressure we to say, these pensions for the
applied: elderly would be paid for out of tax on currency amounting to 21 per cent. a week.
If this scheme were put into effect it would cost Califo several hundred million annually.' Its supporters that with depreciating currenty. in their hands people would spent their money as quickly as Mible so as not to be caught
It in their possession each week,
however,
Per "demarche” and Ambas-
sador,
One point leaves room
thankful pride----
At least we did not go to:
war.
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