Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1935, Page 7

GEORGE EXPLAINS SOCIAL SECURITY Senator Declares Legisla- tion Lasting Achievement, in Radio Forum Speech. The pending social security legisla- tion “may well stand out as the last- ing achievement of the Roosevelt administration,” Senator George, Democrat, of Georgia, said last night in an address in the National Radio Forum, arranged by The Star and carried over a Nation-wide network of the National Broadcasting Co. Senator George, a member of the Benate Finance Committee which | conducted hearings on the measure, and one of the <conferees adjusting differences in Senate and House on the measure, detailed its provisions.| He said it had “aroused no im- portant opposition in any quarter.”| He warned, however, that “‘obviously we are setting in motion here a vast| new force which must be adminis- tered sanely and carefully, with the | welfare of all the people in mind.” Text of Speech. The text of Senator George's speech follows | The social security bill marks the first national effort to make future provision against the hazards com- mon in the lives of our people. Its| broad scope necessarily makes it a rather complicated measure, but its | major features can be summarized | briefly | First, the bill deals with the prob- lem of poverty in old age. Under its | terms, the United States Government will take action both to help those| who are today aged and destitute, and | will also inaugurate a system which is intended to prevent such destitu- | tion in the future. Many of those| who are now old are receiving pen-| sions from their States; 35 States have old age pension laws. When-| ever a State has such a law and it is approved as being sufficiently lib- eral, the Federal Government will| match, up to $15 a month per per-| son, whatever pension that State, to-| gether with its counties and towns, pays to its aged citizens. The State as well as the counties and town: is required to participate financially; but a very wise and helpful addition to the bill provides that if the State constitution prevents State participa- tion, the Federal Government will match what the counties and towns put up until the people of the State have had an opportunity to remove the constitutional restriction. States to Decide. The States will decide who shall re- ceive pensions and how much they are to get. The Federal contribu- tions, however, show that there is na- tional recognition of the need of as- sisting these old folks who might starve or go to the poorhouse were no pension paid them For the future, at least with respect to all industrial employees, a plan of national old age insurance is contem- plated. These employes will, begin- ning in 1937, pay taxes in a small percentage of their wages. Their em- ployers will pay taxes of an equal amount. This revenue will make it possible for the Federal Government to establish an old age reserve ac- count from which regular old-age benefits will be payable to these em- ployes when they reach 65 and re- tire from regular employment. The benefits will be anywhere from $15 to $85 a month, depending on the previous wages earned by the em- ploye. At the present time, probably over 3.000.000 employes are covered by private annuity plans maintained vol- untarily by their employers. A Senate amendment to the bill would exempt these employes and employers from the Federal taxes and benefits, if the private plan adequately guarantees benefits at least as high as the Fed- eral benefits. Looks to Future. ‘The old age insurance system looks to the future. It is intended to pro- vide a small but regular income to those who today are not yet old. The beneficiaries themselves will help, by paying the new taxes, to build up their own annuities. Thus in ‘the future the cost of State old age pen- sions should be diminished, as more and more people are cared for by the Federal benefits which, in effect, they themselves have helped to buy. The social security bill deals with another great problem, that of future unem- ployment. It is not aimed to affect the present situation, but simply to mitigate the hardships of unemploy- ment in any future depression. It will do this by promoting State sys- tems of unemployment insurance. A new payroll tax will be levied next year on employers of eight or more persons. An employer may offset against the tax, however, whatever he has paid into an unemployment insurance fund in his State in ac- cordance with a State law. Thus if the State wants to keep this money at home, for the benefit of its own citizens, it should pass an unemploy- ment compensation law, for then it would collect money to be used for its own unemployed, instead of having the money paid to Washington and mingled with all other tax receipts there. The Federal Government will assist the State systems further, by reim- bursing the States for the administra- | this bill would be enacted, NG Talks on Social Security SENATOR tive expenses caused by the opera- tion of the systems. Already, on the expectation that several States have passed unemployment compensation laws. Under them, funds would be accumulated for two years and then paid out to workers who become unemployed. A worker's unemployment compensation would, GEORGE. or neglected, are remembered in the social security bili. Appropriations are authorized to aid the States in the work of caring for these groups. Likewise provision is made for pro- moting the work of the States in relation to the health and welfare of mothers and infants. I must men- tion briefly also some other subjects included in the bill, such as public " of the social security bill have been STAR, WASHINGTON, » D. C, TFRIDAY, AUGUST 2 1935 tation, existing Federal activities for which additional sappropriations are authorized. There is also provision | for matching whatever the States pay, | up to $15 a month, as direct aid to persons who are blind, whatever their age may be. Obviously, we are setting in mo- tion here a vast new force, which must be administered sanely and carefully, with the welfare of all the people in mind. The chief work of administration of those parts of the | bill calling for Federal action will be in the hands of a new independent board of three people, to be appointed | by the President and to be known as the Social Security Board. So im- portant will this board's work be that the American people will do well to demand of it the highest type of conscientious service, and at the same | time to co-operate heartily with it in the work of providing a greater measure of security for the men,I women, and children of our Nation. Agreed to in Conference. With the exception of the Senate amendment, which has for its pur- pose the preservation of private an- | nuity plans maintained voluntarily by | forward-looking employers, the terms ;lm’eed to in conference. Thus the terms of the bill are made certain |and it may well stand out as the last- ing achievement of the Roosevelt ad- ministration. It is worthy of notice | that the social security measure | aroused no important opposition in | |any quarter. Moreover, it is the| | product of most careful and deliberate | work. More than a year ago Presi- | dent Roosevelt initiated the program. | | The Committee on Social Security | | create by him, assisted by a staff of | uble and conscientious experts, sub- | mitted & unanimous report to the | Congress. Exhaustive hearings were | neid in both Houses. On the founda- tion of actual experience the system will expand. Within itself the machinery is pro- vided for a vast new force in our | economic life which we are here set- on the average, be equal to half his| health work and vocational rehabili- ' ting in motion. BEEF and LAMB SALE wages and would be paid him if he | was genuinely unable to get work, for | as much as 15 weeks. It should be noted that next year and thereafter, the employers in those States which | have acted on this matter will be given & 90 per cent credit against the new Federal pay roll tax. | The social security bill deals also | with the problem of the under- privileged child. Many States now | have laws providing aid for dependent children living in their own homes. Often this type of assistance is called | “mothers’ pensions” or “mothers’ aid.” | The States have had little money | available for this work, but from now on the Federal Government is ready | to come to their assistance, paying | one-third of the cost of the State | aid to dependent children. Once again, however, the Federal partici- pation in this work will be purely | financial; the administration of the | plan, the selection of children and families who should be helped, the decision as to how much aid they need, all would be in the hands of | the State government. Children Remembered. ' Not only dependent children h\'lngi in their own homes, but other chil-| dren who are crippled, or homeless | Real Savings. for These Round Steak. . m. 23c Sirloin Steak. ..w. 23c Chuck Roast. . . .. 14¢ Plate Beef. ... .n. 10c Rib Roast. ... .n. 18¢ I Hamburg . .. 15¢ . 19¢ Beef Liver. . 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Allen | he had “no definite plan” to exchange his present position for a post in the Department of Justice. with the Commissioner that he had been sounded out “from time to time during the new- administration” to see if he would take a position in the Justice Department, but added he had never received “a definite proposi- tion.” Prettyman said in answer to the latest reports of the tender of a Justice job that he would write or | | telephone Attorney General Cummings that he was back in the city. WILL INSPECT PARKS Arno B. Cammerer to Make Trip to Pacific Coast. During the latter part of this month, | Arno B. Cammerer, director of the Na- tional Park Service, Interior Depart- | ment, will leave Washington on an official inspection trip of the parks in the Southwest and on the Pacific Coast. A. E. Demaray, of the service, is due back in the city about August 16. He is on a tour of the Northwestern and Western parks. associate director | BROWN’S SUSPENSION ORDERED CANCELED Director Cammerer of Park Serv- ice Finds Sentence Too Severe After Review. Orders sentencing Officer H. W. | Brown. of the United States Park Poilce %o & six months’ suspension from duty as the result of an alleged altercation with a sergeant of park police, were canceled yesterday, ac- cording to an announcement by Arno He admitted at a press conference | B- Cammerer, director of the National | Park Service. Brown was to have been suspended on the recommendation of the Police Trial Board of the National Park Serv- ice. It was charged that he protested against an order given him by Sergt. L. G. Purtlebaugh while on duty at the Tidal Basin during cherry blossom time and that there was a row in which the serfeant struck Brown with the butt of his service revolver. Cammerer said that upon reviewing the findings of the trial board, he found the sen- tence too severe. 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