Officials believe that although it is too late to remove the pension issues from the various state campaigns, prompt action by, Congress after convening will prevent the movement from growing too rapidly or too large, Indications are that the administrations fear that both the Townsend Plan and California's *"Thirty Dollars Every Thursday" plan will draw too many followers unless ihe present Socíal Security laws are liberalized.
Suggestions have been made, firstly, to widen the old age pension plan to include 16,000,000 agricultural and other workers; secondly, to reduce the eligibility age from 65 years to 60; thirdly, to increase Federal contributions to old age payments and to indigest children; fourthly, to commence making -old age payments before the present deadline of the New Year, 1942.—United Press.
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