Typed as spelled - Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 172
Marlin, Texas, Friday, November 20, 1931

OLD AGE PENSION LURE
FOR OLD PERSONS TO SIGN

Carried to Waco at so Much Per Head
Where They are
"Registered."

     For several weeks now aged negroes of this vicinty have been lead to believe that if they would go to Waco and "register" they would some day stand a chance to receive an old age pension.

     The people working the plan do not make a definite promise on their literature that old age pensions will be forth coming.  They announce that they are "sponsors of a petition to create laws, for an old peoples' pension such as is effective in othr progressive states."

     It costs from 50 to 75 cents, according to one Marlin negro, to be carried to Waco to "register."  From another source it is learned that 25 cents is from signers collected to help promote the cause.  One of the workers, who came to Marlin to open an office here, claimed that paying the 25 cents was optional with the signer, but it was also learned that those who do sign are supposed to be given a "certificate."

     Whether by design for by accident, the impression has gotten out among old persons, of both races, that "signing up" means registering for a pension.

     No encouragement was given the promoters to open an office in Marlin.

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by The Democrat, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas.