Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1940, Page 37

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BREAKFAST IS A PLEASANT MEAL AT OUR HOUSE NOW @Here's one big reason these extra-fresh toasted flakesarethe largest-sell- ing ready-to-eat cereal in the world: children love them!Let this famous fla- vor tempt your young- sters to eat without fuss- ing . .. and copsume a lot of extra milk at the same time! e—.lunvtm-m FROZEN, COOKED OR CANNED FRUITS 4 THE EVENING Ramspeck Sees U. S. Workers' Refirement Plan as Jeopardized Urges 5 Pct. Payments To Meet ‘Crisis’ - Facing System Declaring that the civil service re- tirement law faces a serious crisis and warning that & move later may be made in Congress to merge it with the system of old age benefits under the Social Security Act, Rep- resentative Ramspeck, chairman of the House Civil Service Committee, at a meeting of retirement groups at the Interior Department last night, recommended an increase from 3% to 5 per cent in the contribution by Federal workers to the retirement annuities if they are to get addi- tional benefits. Repeating that he favors the bill which calls for optional retirement at age 60 after 30 years’ service and mandatory retirement at 70, Mr. Ramspeck said that this would cost the Government $6,800,000 more an- nually than is now being expended for retirement payments, and that it was the most inexpensive of the rod the belief that this legislation, with provisién for increasing the employes’ payment to 5 per cent of their salary, was the only sort that had a chance to get by at this session of Congress. Approximately 40,000,000 men and women are now covered by the old age benefits of the Social Security Act, Mr. Ramspeck pointed out. ‘They contribute, through deductions in their pay, 50 per cent of the funds that are being accumulated under the Social Security Act for their old age retirement allowances. Gov- ernment employes are contributing far less, in proportion, to the Federal retirement fund. The present Fed- eral retirement system, Mr. - speck declared, is actuarily unsound. In an election year it would be diffi- cult for members of Congress to de- fend the system, he said. Would Check Attack. “If we don't put ourselves in a position where we can face our critics by showing that we are trying to make the system actuarilly sound, we will be all the weaker when the crisis actually comes,” the commit- | tee chairman warned. “It is impor- tant that we do whatever we can to prevent the possibility of & move to end the present Federal retirement system and merge it with the social security benefits.” The maximum retirement pay- ments under the Social Security Act are $85 a month, he pointed out. Retirement payments for Federal workers start at $100 a month. Abolition of the retirement system, he said, would be a great loss to civil service employes. Leaders of organizations of Fed- eral workers, Mr. Ramspeck de- clared, should lay the real facts . “It is my duty to lay the facts before you as I see them,” he said. Despite the wide interest in re- tirement, few Government employes and few members of have the subject, Mr. Ramspeck asserted. Seem Unfair to Taxpayers. This year marks the 20th anniver- sary of the passage by of the Retirement Act. In 1920 Con- gress changed the system and since then the Federal Gove ent has undertaken to pay $30 for' year of service. The present system, be- sides being unsound from the actu- arial viewpoint, is unfair to the tax- payers, he said. 4 Last night’s meeting was attended by about 100 members of the Joint Conference, the Retirement Federa- tion and other groups. Robert H. Alcorn presided and introduced Mr, Ramspeck. Boy, Mysteriously Injured, Is in Critical Condition A 13-year-old boy was ip eritical condition today in Emergency Hos- pital with injuries received last night under mysterious circum- stances. The boy is Donald Preston of 3421 Sherman avenue N.W., who collapsed in a drug store at Eight- eenth street and Columbia road N.W. last night. He could not ex- plain how he received his injuries, but police believe he may have been the victim of a hit-and-mun driver, or of a fall. He was unconscious when ad- mitted to the hospital and has been unable to make a coherent statement since. It was said at the hospital that he had suffered a fractured collar bone, a fractured skull, con- cussion of the brain and other in- (B Juries. Wanderbirds Plan Hike The Wanderbirds Hiking Club will hike Sunday from Colvin Run, Va., to” Captain Hickory Run and thence to the Leesburg pike, it was announced today. The club will meet at 9 am. in the 1300 biock of E street N.W., under the leadership of Mrs. Edna Rousseau and Dr. H. N. Stokes. keeps-you =, reqular . 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