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Show Current Social Security Board m,yui i. Vjsualizes Coverage of Added Millions Benefits Outlined Tor Farm Help, Domestics TELEF MORE OLDSTERS T ' AT WORK By VIRGINIA YALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. (AVERAGE AGE OF MALE WORKERS) , son Norman powell, and Joan of Blon-del- Our social security program as a nation-wid- e undertaking Ijegan eight years ago this August. In its seventh annual report the Social Security board points put that while great progress has been made toward security for the American people, there are serious gaps in the program as it stands. While many millions of people are covered by the insurance features of the social security act, other millions are not.. More than half a million are regularly drawing monthly insurance benefits amounting in all to about 11 million dollars a month. These are benefits paid unand survivors insurder the e ance system which covers wage and salaried workers on business or industrial jobs. The benefits go to these workers and their families if the worker qualifies at age 65 or over and is no longer at work, or to the family in case of the workers death, whatever his age. There are, however, some 20 millions of workers who are now excluded from e and survivors insurance. The same is true of unemployment insurance. Millions of people are covered by the state unemployment insurance laws, operated by the states but with administrative costs paid by the federal government. During one year when jobs were hard to get nearly 5 million people who were out of work received benefits for weeks at a time. Now during the war boom when 0 jobs are so plentiful, fewer than people are getting unemployment benefits in any one week. The number may go down even further as the war continues. But when the war is over, millions of former soldiers, sailors and war workers will be looking for jobs. Many will be entitled to unemployment insurance while they are looking. There will also be many who will need the insurance payments but will not be eligible as the laws now stand. Under the public assistance programs of the social security act, three million needy people are receiving monthly cash payments which last year amounted to more than $770,000,000. These payments go to persons who do not have enough to live on and cannot provide for themselves because they are old and cannot work, because they are blind, or because they are too young to work and have lost a parents support or care. There are about two million old people and one million children on the lists. The But blind number around 55,000. many other people who lack the bare essentials of life cannot be helped under the present public assistance programs because they are neither over 65, nor very young, nor blind. Gaps in Insurance. Most serious, however, according to the social security board, are the gaps and shortcomings in the insurance features. The purpose of these programs is to furnish some income for families to live on when the breadwinner cannot earn wages or salary. But wages or salary may stop for reasons other than unemployment, old age, or death. If a person cannot work because he is sick or disabled, not only does his AC Thats Diplomacy 1 MARCH 1940 u in i i i . . 37.9 YEARS h DECEMBER 1942 u i ..I . . . 405 YEARS Each section represents 4 years JOBS FOR PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED (PLACEMENTS BY PUBLIC 0.00 O O EMPLOYMENT OFFICES) l, is the proudest little boy in Hollywood. Hes wearing sergeants stripes and a decoration. Dick was telling about it on the set of Riding High,! in which hes working with Dorothy Lamour and Victor Moore. Seems Sergeant Elmer Taylor, stationed at Honolulu, whos been a fan of Normans parents for years, sent the youngster a small set of stripes and a replica of the Purple Heart which the sergeant Joan Crawford has had such an interesting career, carved out by her own ambition and energy as well as her talent, that we can look for her to take another big step forward now that she has changed studios. Somebody said that Bette Davis Each symbol represents 5,000 placements old-ag- 120,-00- Bight now more old and physically handicapped people are employed than ever before. But everybody knows its the war boom. When peace comes, these marginal workers will be dropped. Then, whether supported by relatives or private charities, many of these people will he hard pressed to live decently. The social security board proposes to extend the benefits of social insurance to millions who will fall into the over age or crippled class in a few years. pay check stop but he has the extra expense of his illness. The social security board thinks we should have insurance against disability and the costs of hospital care, along with our present unemployment insure ance and and survivors inold-ag- surance.i About 20 million workers, including some of the lowest income groups in the country, are not cove ered by the and survivors insurance provisions of the social security act. Most of these do not have the protection of any social insurance system. Farm workers, domestic servants, employees of nonprofit educational, religious and charitable organizations constitute the largest groups of wage and salary workers left out in the cold. The such as farmers and storekeepers, are also excluded, More than 600,000 persons already are drawing monthly payments une and survivors insurance. der Thousands more have earned rights to benefits and will be able to claim them whenever they stop regular work. The benefits go to insured workers and their families when the worker is 65 or older and is no longer employed, and to the families of insured workers who die either before or after they are 65. e As the law stands today, the and survivors insurance system covers wage and, salary workers on business and industrial jobs that is, all kinds of jobs in factories, shops, mines, mills, stores, offices, banks, hotels, restaurants, laundries, telephone and telegraph offices, and other places of business or industry carried on by private firms, corporations, or individuals. This leaves, however, a good many who are not covered, merely because of the nature of their employment. For example, the $10,000 executive employed by a corporation comes under the federal insurance system; the man working for himself whose income may fall below $1,000 a year is not insured, because the present law excludes the When a Worker Is Disabled. ; Every time the clock ticks off a second, five people in this country get hurt or get sick, to such an extent that they are unable to carry on their ordinary activities for one day or longer. If the disability is slight, the worker may not lose much, but to a man dependent upon his earnings, every dollar counts. The loss is especially serious if the injury lays him up for life. Yet the big majority of workers disabled off the job have no insurance protection nothing to make up, even in part, for the pay they lose and the extra expense they have to meet. Congress has directed the Social Security board to make recommendations for such changes Vhen a worker loses his income in the present regulations as will proy 'ough sickness or injury, he fam-f- vide for insurance payments to ease is unable to support his the blow of these calamities. the long, after he is unemployed, Disability insurance is one of insur-anc- e equently he must meet heavy social in the girders idical costs, so his savings are missing structure we have been buildn exhausted. His wife and chil-s- n this country since 1935. Air then often suffer privations, ing in in place are two of the main e social security hoard recom-md- s ready unemployment insurance,-. supports to inthat the laws be amended which pays weekly benefits to , per such cases.., old-ag- d, old-ag- old-ag- self-employ- gen-ill- or Soothe Itch of simple rMhes With Meisana. MEDICATED POWDER FOR formerly Mexican Heat Powder. Relievo rAMILl USE diaper raah, heat rash. won. ( old-ag- What is the difference between a woman and a diplomat? When a diplomat says Yes, he means When he says Per"Terhaps. A diplohaps, he means No. mat never says No. When a woman says she means No, Perhaps. When she says Perhaps, she means Yes. A woman never says Yes. Old French Riddle. Definition of a diplomat: A gentleman who can tell a lie in such a manner to another gentleman that the second gentleman is compelled to pretend that he believes the first gentleman, although he knows that the first gentleman is a liar, who knows that the second gentleman does not believe him. The World News, Sydney. From an old French word "mes derived from the Latin word missus meaning a course at a meal, comes the Armys name mess for its breakfast, dinner and supper. Favorite meal with the soldier is chicken dinner his favorite cigarette, Camel. (Based on actual sales records from service mens own stores.) A carton of Camels, by the way, is a gift thats always welcome. And though there are Post Office restrictions on packages to overseas Army men, you can still send Camels to soldiers in the U. S., and to men in the Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard wherever they are. Adv. DONT LET CONSTIPATION sured workers who lose their, jobs through no fault of their own and cannot get other jobs within a short e and survivors intime; and JOAN CRAWFORD surance which pays monthly benefits to insured workers and their families when the worker is old and re- would have to look to her laurels, tires, or to his family when he with Joan right on the ground, and dies, whatever his age. The social as willing as Bette is to play unsecurity, board believes the next sympathetic parts if theyre good step is insurance against disability, ones. Just give Joan a couple of temporary or permanent, with pro- good pictures and shell have the box vision to cover also the costs of office eating out of her hand, as she did in her palmiest days. hospital care. The need for such a program is Danny Kaye, who- will make his pointed up by the fact that of more film debut in Samuel Goldwyns Up be3 than million disabled workers tween 16 hhd 64 years of age, nearly in Arms, has accepted an invita one million have been disabled for tion from the Entertainment Nationmore than a year. Around 7 mil- al Services Assn., Inc., to make a tour of recreational cenlion people are ill on any one day in ters the British Isles and Africa. in the year many of them for protracted periods of months and Assignments for Susan Haywarc years; many with no prospect of are stacking up these days. She recovery. booked to play Loretta Youngs Six Cents on the Dollar. younger sister when Paramount No new governmental agency makes And Now Tomorrow, a would be necessary to administer nice role, and Samuel Bronston has disability insurance, and no addi- arranged to borrow her to play the tional reports would be required of wife of Jack London in the film employers. The cost of the entire based on Londons life, which hell social insurance program, including make for United Artists release. disability protection, could probably Michael OShea will play Jack Lonbe met through a total contribution don. rate of 5 or 6 cents on each dollar of pay roll from employers and 5 or Sounds incredible, but were told 6 cents on each dollar of wages from Bob Hopes nose, thanks to his that employees. The total of 10 or 12 wise cracks, has become so famous cents on the dollar (the rate would in England that a promontory near depend on the exact benefits pro- Torquay has been named Hopes 9 cents which will Nose vided) instead of that the comedian received be the figure in 1949 under the pres- the news while he was still at work ent law would provide insurance on Lets Face It. ' m protection against all the most im' portant economic risks faced by all Reeves nose is sort of George workers. American families would famous, too; its been broken seven be assured of an income when times. Hes the young man who wages of the breadwinner stop be- was snatched out of Westerns to play cause of unemployment, old age, opposite Claudette Colbert in So illness, disability, or death and Proudly We Hail! As for the nose would also have insurance proteche was a boxer when he went to tion against the costs of hospital Pomona Junior college won the care. Golden Gloves heavyweight chamnations now provide pionship of the qjty for three years Twenty-eiginsurance protection to their work- and his nose was broken seven times. & ers against temporary disability. With only one exception (Spain), the A perfect piece of casting took United States is the only country place recently when Ralph Willever which provides insurance against was given the role of a sailor in old age without also providing NBCs "Just Plain Bill. That was against the risks of chronic or per- his first job after he was rescued manent disability. from a torpedoed troopship off IceWhen can we best afford the ad- land, and was honorably discharged ditional cost of an expanded social as a result of disability. st insurance system? asks Arthur J. Lionel has inherited a seof social the Barrymore chairman Altmeyer, curity board. Now, when earnings distinction that formerly belonged to are high and all the wheels of in- Joan Crawford; when she left MGM dustry are turning, workers and em- recently, shed had a continuous contract longer than any other player. ployers can set aside the contribufuture ensure to needed tions rights Barrymore is starting his 18th year There is with the studio. His next picture, to benefits, he replies. Three Men In White, will be his no way in which increased earnings could be better invested, from the 63rd for Metro. standpoint of either the family or Years ago, when Rita Hayworth the nation. ' For the family which was still a stock player, she reportsickwith disaster meets actually ness, unemployment, chronic dis- ed for work one morning to Seymour ability, or death insurance benefits Felix to dance as one of 40 girls. This morning, said he, I want give a far greater protection than could have been obtained if the you to think, act and dance like workers insurance contributions Marilyn Miller. The other day had been kept as his individual sav- she arrived for work In Cover Girl heard him giving orders to 40 ings. In any period of recession, and This morning, said he, I the money now saved would be paid girls. to think, act and dance want most you needed is time it when at a : and to those who most need It." - like Rita jlay Worth. old-ag- - two-mon- SLOW YOU UP When bowels are sluggish and you feel irritable, headachy, do as millions do chew the modem FEEN-A-MIN- chewing-guFEEN-A-MIN- T, laxative. 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