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Show THE JOURNAL ECONOMIC fjCOLUMIST t0,"d Happenings That Affect the Future of Every Individual National and International Problems Inseparable From Local Welfare. necessarily not case of Britain. as it may seem in England,Strange war expenditures both war pensions and including . interest on the national debt, are just about the same propoition of the national income as before the last war. The magazine then It is, therefore, social rather says: than defense spending which dominates HIGHLIGHTS in fcf thb newspaper. uro or Promotion the budget. Most interesting of all is Tlu Lconomist s account of how The Economist, of London which is Englands principal journal in Merrill its field recently published a !y Virginia searching article called The Cost guest writer is ,Kk's of Welfare. It deals only with the of ft .Merrill, supervisor experience in Britain. But it is of Cary Bchols in Dav.s world-wid- e significance, in that it shows clearly how social services jj. grow in scope and cost on an child be promoted? are amazing scale, much like a snowmany parents to draws ball1 2 school year rolling downhill. the conceiTn in and At the beginning of this century, worry children of parents and according to The Economist, pubof phase lic social services cost about one C this particular of for explanation calls pound pound is now valued at X regarding policies of $2.80) (the head of population. By per Jon and retention. 1938, it had grown to 10 pounds Cple who have worked and and now it has reached 37 pounds. Sh children as well as those Allowing for changes in the purW made intensive studies chasing power of the pound, social m-that development know expenditures by the government on cannot make all children each person in Great Britain are to the same 12 times as great as they were 30 ir bring them at a years ago. And social expenditures a the learning process all other public m. Children, even with the have f 'it l m Page gov- ernment social security developed in Britain, in a very short of time. Prior to I'.ms, poor period relief and public education were practically the only forms of social payments. In that year the First Old Age Pensions Act was passed, followed by a National Health Act in 1911. Then the trend was under way. New pension acts really were passed, along with measures covering unemployment, maternity, child welfare, etc. By now, as h everyone knows, cradle-to-- t social security is firmly established in Britain. The cost whatever one may think of the theory is enormous. It now represents about 43 per cent of Britains total governmental spending. And the burden is not born by the rich by any means. It falls squarely on those with middle and low incomes. As an example, The Economist estimates that the expenditures. average working-clas- s family, with It is commonly believed that the a total annual income of less than huge present-da- y budgets of the 500 pounds, pays out 72 pounds a nations are major principally the year in beer and tobacco taxes result of the huge expenditures alone! that have arisen from wars, past The Economists concluding line and prospective. But The Econom- is not original, but it bears reist found that this is not so in the peating: It is still true that no out-stripp- ed grow :periences, at difxer-ian- d have different apti-!- or learning. the case, promotion us be with the idea that are ready to meet the made be idren standards. assigned Therefore, chil-to the next group W that the understanding Jhe 5 gets give the American people the highest standard of living ever enjoyed by any people anywhere in the history of the world. or practically nobody anything for nothing. body THE COUNTRY PRESS SAYS N E W ALBANY, INDIANA, VICTORVILLE. CALIF., TRIBUNE: France was neither Are the people of this nation becoming plain, ordinary the first nor the last to try to panhandlers beggars from the thrive by spending cheap money. government? Individuals, towns, Every nation trying the system becities and states have their hands lieves it can be made to work, and ends by proving the contrary. New out for Federal aid. nations, new governments in old MORO, OREGON, SHERMAN nations are always learning the COUNTY JOURNAL: We have hard way. That the father may aided labor organization until they have had bad burns in the fire, now have assumed some of the teaches his baby nothing. characteristics of the trusts of the EMPORIA. KANSAS, G A first of this century. They prevent Today, the boy or girl who production and make necessary seeks part time or vacation employprice increases for thei. own perment, or tries to get started in a sonal welfare. job with no experience, finds the INTERNATIONAL F A L L S, higher minimum wage a stumbling DAILY JOURNAL: More block. Many an employer used to MINN., NEWS-HERAL- than D: Americans have laid their savings on the line to buy big and little buildings, big and little machines, to turn out literally millions of useful products. These people are shareholders, men and women who put their spare money into business and industiy. These people have worked and saved, and their savings are used to build Americas production. 1 l,ooo,ooo s , youngsters and hire start them at a beginning wrage while they learned a trade or a business. Now, that is the exception rather than the rule. New Argument A factual item says the planet Mars is now nearer the earth than at any other time since 1943. Opportunists in the armed service can read into this report a further ar- OSKALOOSA, IOWA, DAILY gument for an increase in the budHERALD: Out of the government get. 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