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WINANT DISCUSSES SOCIAL SECURITY Admits Shortcomings of Act in Radio Forum Talk. Admitting shortcomings in the social security act, John G. Winant, chair- man of the Social Security Board, declared in an address in the Na- tional Radio Forum last night that “there can be no finality to its form until every practical effort has been made to perfect % in the light of actual experience.” The Forum is sponsored by The Star and heard oyer a coast-to-coast network of the National Broadcast- ing Co. Winant's talk was an accounting of the results that have flowed from the act since it was started in operation in Pebruary. Since that time, he ex- plained, a million and one-half per- sons have directly benefited under its public assistance provisions: 1.100.000 needy aged. 32000 needy blind and 290,000 dependent children. Many States Participating. Winant also told his audience that | three-quarters of the States are par- | ticipating in the unemployment com- pensation provisions of the act, and discussed the set-up for the old-age benefit program that will be effective as of January 1. “Unemployment compensation is not & cure-all,” he said. “It was not in- tended it should be a solution of the broad problem of unemployment. This feature of the social security program ‘was designed to protect employed men and women against wreckage of tem- porary unemployment; to guarantee to them at least a subsistence income not as charity, but as a right during pe- riods when they are looking for work. Text of Address. The text of Winant's address fol- lows: In the closing pages of Rubinow's great book on “The Quest for Se- curity,” he tells us that to build con- ditions to make a happier life pos- sible must be the purpose of the new | state. And then he adds: “But un- derlying all other reforms and changes there must be one to make such a happier life possible. There must be economic security. Both the hope and the fact of security. Misery must be eliminated, or at least insured against. The fear of destitution must be destroyed.” At the year's end it seems fitting and proper to review actions taken to bring administration into align- ment with legislation. At Christmas time we are touched by the warmth of generous giving and look toward the future with new hope. Marks Great Advance, Bocial security represents an ad- vance in relationship of men—one with another and of society toward the individual. For the first time on a wide front the National Gov- ernment has concerned itself with the welfare of the family. In this legis- lation it has carried out a promise of American life, set forth in the Decla- ration of Independence, included JOHN G. THE EVE Tells of Security Program WINANT, —Star Staff Photo. come more intense during the present century. Briefly, the change has been from the simple economy of early days, when the average worker was | his own master, to a highly complex | industrial order, based on specialized technical knowledge and great finan- cial power.. Some employers have sin- | cerely tried to cushion the impact of these vast forces on their employes 3 by one means or another. | Too Big for a Few. But the problem cannot be solved by the efforts of a few enlightened and social-minded industrialists. It had reached proportions where only the Federal Government, working in co- operation with the States, could han- dle it. And yet it is no untried ex- periment that we are embarking on. | It is part of a world movement. In contrast with Great Britain the | United States was quite unprepared to meet the depression. The very fact that the contraction | there reached only about 10 per cent, | while national income here went from | 83 billion to approximately 40 billion | from 1929 to 1932, while a correspond- |ing greater control over unemploy- ! ment and an orderly and systematized care of the sick and the aged was met | by them under legislative action taken | years before and with a trained per- | sonnel to administer their social pro- gram, while we here, only with heroic | effort under emergency measures and | at great cost, were able to prevent far | greater injury and loss of life than was | suffered by us in the World War, with | the most demoralized labor market | yet experienced by a civilized coun- | try, should prompt us to build con- | structively against a recurrence of | economic collapse and further to rec- | ognize the relationship between social | justice and economic stability. the Social Security Board are in three categories: First, public assistance. Second, unemployment compensa- | tion. Thicd. the system of Federal old- | age ‘benefits. | I should like to review briefly the | | progress made in each of these fields. The act recognizes the need for | {F‘eden\l participation to aid States to care for dependency. This form of | assistance cannot be met on a tem- | porary or emergency basis. It calls | for a long-time and Nation-wide pro- gram. The act makes grants possible to every State in the Union. It pro- vides a flexible but integrated frame- | work of Federal and State co-opera- | tion, With Federal co-operation | financial assistance, the States are developing more effective administra- | tive organizations, are raising their | standards of assistance and service | | and are caring for their needy aged | and blind and for their dependent children more adequately than they could alone. Numbers Widen in Year. At the end of 1935, a total of 373,- 000 of the needy aged were receiving | assistance under State plans. Today, only a year later, Federal assistance lmnk-s it possible for the 42 partici- | pating jurisdictions to aid over 1.100,- | 000 of the needy aged. While the in- crease in the numbers of individuals | receiving assistance has been greatest | in the case of the aged, the present and 1 totals of about 32.000 for the needy blind and 290,000 for dependent chil- | dren represent a substantial increase | over the numbers aided in the same | | States prior to the passage of the act. i With the exception of one or two States, it may be said that all pre G_STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Lons of applications and translating them into permanent, individusl so- cial security ledger accounts. Permanent Personnel of 2,000 You might be interested to know that the total permanent personnel employed to date under the Social Security Board is 2,000. We also en- gaged 2,000 additional temporary workers to assist during this enumera- tion period. Not only have millions of persons already benefited directly from the operations of the social security act, with countless other millions as poten- tial beneficiaries, but also the Nation as a whole will feel the lift of it. The stabilizing effect on purchasing power affects industry, commerce, agricul- ture and therefore employment; hu- man costs will be more equitably dis- tributed, improved administration will result when social needs are placed on a more orderely basis. To those who have had any part in this work we are deeply grateful. The co-operation of all concerned— employers, employes, Government workers and the public—has been in- spiring to those of us who are en- trusted with the administration of the law. May I thank you and wish you a very happy New Year and security in all the good things of life? FIREFIGHTER LEADS FAMILY TO SAFETY Lieut. Harvey Clark Plays Major Role in Rescue of Three From Flames. Lieut. Harvey Clark of No. 7 Engine Company was given credit today for playing & major part in saving a 23- year-old mother and her two small | Fam g children from| possibly serious | injury yesterday ! when fire broke out in their home ¢ at 304 Rhode Is- land avenue. Mrs. Jessie An- drews, her 3- year-old daugh- | ter, Jessica. and | son, Robert, 5, were trapped by | smoke on the second floor of the three - story structure. While a ladder was being raised Lieut. Clark rushed in- | side and led the mother and children | to a window. They were carried to safety down the ladder. The three were treated at Sibley Hospital for shock and suffocation | and later returned to their home. | ‘The blaze, believed to have been started by trash, was confined to the basement. Lieut. Clark F.D. ROOSEVELT, JR., ™ CONTINUES TO IMPROVE | Son of President Gains Strength After Operation for Sinus and Throat Infection. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, December 29.—Franklin | D. 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OVAL ol CANS REG. = - CAN REG. within the limits of the preamble of | Shericemings Recagmized. the Constitution of the United States' No one realizes better than we do, | and resting on the spirit of the golden | who administer it, the shortcomings of | Tule. the law. But we also recognize that | dominately industrial States have | At the Phillips House of Massachu- | made provision for the protection of | setts General Hospital, where he is| men and women in periods of forced ' recovering from a streptococcus throat | | infection and a sinus operation. CANS TUNA FISH "= _ 2 &% 23¢ A8 FLAKE ussvs TOMATO JUICE = §1)¢ can In this legislation, necessity, that kindly stepmother of most of us, has touched the tap roots of human as- pirations and an industrialized de- mocracy has given answer to hunger needs by accepting this measure be- cause self-preservation supported by deep religious convicion has de- manded it—and let no man under- stand otherwise. Under this concept of a people’s government the welfare of men should no longer be left entirely to chance or charity or to their own inadequate devices, to protect themselves from menaces to their existence entirely beyond their control. The social se- curity program aims to help people, not to hurt them, to remove some of the fears that harass human lives, and to eliminate some of the harsher uncertainties of every-day living. Destitution a Recent Hazard. The major hazards of life have changed their form and their inten- sity. Througout most of history the violence of war has menaced men's security and, in spite of all the rules set up to control it, this menace per- sists. Though science has robbed pes- tilence and plague of their allotted toll, the human body is as frail as it was 5,000 years ago, and sickness, idleness, accidents and old age are still common penalties of human- kind. And though drought and flood and other calamities of nature are not yet entirely controllable, the suf- fering that results from them can be mitigated by the action of govern- ment. At the worse these causes of inse- curity are intermittent. But poverty knows no armistice. It has seemed inseparable from our economic system —a constant rebuke to its boasted effi- ciency. For in spite of all our sensa- tional material achievements, our leaders of modern industry themselves | say that we have failed to balance our capacity to consume with our capacity to produce. We have failed to give work to all those who would work. And while we have built up fortunes unheard of in history, we have failed to provide the average worker with a wage that would insure him against dependence and privation in his old age. To preach thrift to a man who tries to support himself and a family on 820 a week will not solve the economic problem of his later years—not to mention any period of prolonged un- employment. It is not enough to tell him that this is still a land of bound- less opportunity—when no jobs are available. It does no good to remind him that we have the highest stand- ard of living on earth, if he cannot share in #. New Frontiers Closed. The fact remains that this average worker must work for another in order to live. He cannot go to the frontier, &3 many once did, for the frontier is closed out. He cannot emigrate to a newer land, as his ancestors did, for economic nationalism has to a large extent closed international borders. He must stay where he is and make the best of it, and that best is often | none too good. Grace Abbott pointed this out in a recent paper when she suggested that “change and growth have especially characterized American industry. ‘While these changes have eventually meant industrial progress, more com- forts and a better standard of living for us all,” John Stuart Mills’ warn- ing ot Great Britain nearly a century ago, that “enme group of workers is sacrificed to the gains of their fellow citizens and posterity,” still holds. This situation is the natural result .of a trend that has been s long time. This trend has there can be no finality to its form | | until every practical effort has been ' | made to perfect it in the light of | | actual experience. We do know that i it holds out to the average man, beset | by anxiety for his very livelihood, the‘ promise of some degree of protection | against insecurity. We do know that | because of what we are doing. he can | | face the chance of unemployment and | the certainty of old age with a freer | heart. | It is not too early to make an ac- | counting of what we have so lately | | started. Much has been crowded into ! these few months of beginnings. The act was not implemented with funds { until Pebruary 11 of this year. Since | that time, a million and a half per- | sons have been directly benefited un- | der the programs for public assistance | administered by the Social Security Board. | Protection Spreads. | Since that time nearly 17.000,000 | persons have been brought within the | scope of unemployment compensation lllw! which have been passed by 35| | States. This means that almost 80 | per cent of all those that may be in- | cluded are to be protected against the temporary hazards of involuntary idle- | | ness by action already taken. | | since the social security act became | | 1aw, funds of the Federal Government | | have been made available to every | i State and to three Territories for pub- | | lic health purposes, to 47 States and | | Territories for vocational rehabilita- | tion, and to every State and Territory | | within the scope of the act for mater- nal and child welfare work. Literally | millions of Americans in all walks of | life have benefited and will continue | | to benefit from these expenditures. Progress in Three Fields. | Let us keep clearly in mind that the ! sections of the law administered by | TRAVEL. —’Waifi'lv'r'lol?inzuvl _ _ STEAMSHIPS. BERMUDA VIA FURNESS, $60 up. round trip. with private bath. on Monarch .o | Bermuda and Queen of Bermuda. PFrequent sailings. _Ask your travel_agent, RESORTS, @TMNTIC CITY, N. 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Close to 25,000,000 persons participated in the | recent registration. Over 22,000,000 | workers have applied for social secur- | ity accounts in order to insure their rights to old-age benefits. Many ap- plications are still coming in. These | millions of applications represent -I unity of purpose and a spirit of co-! operation unequaled in any country | and, although the largest project of | its kind ever attempted in the United States, it has been accomplished al- | most without comment. The Post Office Department. with more than 45,000 offices, and its friendly and effi- | cient personnel, and the Government Printing Office, with other depart- | ments of the Government, have made | this possible. 4 | At the wage records office of the Social Security Board, trained per- . sonnel. with efficient mechanical | equipment, have been taking the mil- | A cold neglected may be a cold regretted! Many a “slight” cold has ended in flu and pneumonia. Treat a cold quickly and treat it sensibly. 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