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Show "WELFARE HEADS ' SAY PUBLIC AID PERMANENT Report Says Relief Number Lower, But Money Spent During Past 2 Years Is Same Public assistance must be considered con-sidered a permanent program rather than a mere" stop gap to alleviate want until social security secur-ity insurance becomes m o r widely operative, the state welfare wel-fare commission said Tuesday in its biennial report. Pointing out that there are large sections of the population not covered by such insurance, the report said "the notion that public assistance is and should continue to be considered an emergency emer-gency relief measure must give way so that a permanent security secur-ity structure can be built." It asserted that handicaps of age or physical disability, with seriousness of the situation, and of the potentially great responsi-ility responsi-ility developing on the public assistance as-sistance program. When unemployment, unem-ployment, old age, death or disability disa-bility stops the pay check of these people and they have exhausted their own too frequently meager savings or other resources, they can turn only to the public assistance assis-tance agency." The report said that while the war has eased some of the department's de-partment's problems by bringing in more sales tax revenue and taking tak-ing large numbers off general assistance, as-sistance, it has intensified the problems on the social welfare side, where measures are intended to strengthen the family. "War conditions place a terrific strain on the structure of normal family life, the commissioner said. "In the general quick shift of pop. ulation' families are uprooted from their accustomed social moorings and have to take root again in new environment. Fathers are removed re-moved from the home either for military service or for employment employ-ment in distant places and worn- en and their children are left t adjust alone to new living cona" tions, frequently on a lowered standard of living." which society always must cope, never are eliminated, being only multiplied or reduced, according to general economic conditions. In the period covered by the report (the two years ended June 30) war activity cut down the number receiving relief, but money mon-ey spent remained about the same because of the need to increase allotments to help recipients meet higher costs of the necessities of life, the report pointed out. The report, signed by Chairman Chair-man Sophus Bertelson and Commissioner Com-missioner J. Parley White, said the assistance program has a two. fold purpose, namely, to pick up the lag in benefit returns from social security insurance, and fill a gap in the insurance coverage. Continuing, the report said: "The fact that of the estimated 200,000 workers in Utah only about one-half enjoy some measure meas-ure of ..social security insurance protection is illustrative of the |