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Show 1 : Ut Social Security Board Report ; Visualizes Coverage of Added Millions ; I Outlined ; L Help, ! ics ial security pro--! under-- l nation-wid- e an eight years ago t in its seventh an-- i t' the Social Secur-- : oints out that while ress has been made there are serious as it he program .'millions of people are fthe insurance features security act, other mil-Mo- re than half a mll-Lrl-y drawing monthly -- eflts amounting in all m million dollars a se are benefits paid un-lj- e and survivors insur- - which covers wage and kers on business or In--, xhe benefits go to 's and their families .If Iqualifies at age 65 or 10 longer at work, or to , case of the worker's ver his age. There are, 1. 20 millions of work-- MORE OLDSTERS AT WORK " (AVERAGE ACE OF MALE WORKERS) MARCH A 1940 - ft 37 9 YEARS DECEMBER R, 1942 ' t . 0.5 YEARS toch leclton represent 4 yean JOBS FOR PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED (PLACEMENTS BY PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT OFFICES) O O 0 O 0 ( ill) . .940 f 194. ISiill 1 0000 .942 iiliHIil Eoch symbol represent! 5,000 placement Right now more old and physically handicapped people are than ever before. But employed everybody knows It's the war boom. When peace comes, these marginal workers will be dropped. Then, whether sup-ported by relatives or private charities, many of these people will be hard pressed to live decently. The social security board proposes to ex-tend the benefits of social Insurance to millions who will fall Into the over-age or crippled class in a few years. ' Tow excluded from old-- I livors insurance. I li true of unemploy-Le- . Millions of people jbj the state unemploy-Lc- e laws, operated by Jut with administrative ty the federal govern-- m one year when Jobs fc get nearly 5V4 million fwere out of work re-in for weeks at a time, the war boom when Jentiful, fewer than 120,-a- re getting unemploy-l- s in any one week. The j go down even further tontinues. the war is over, millions sldlers, sailors and war be looking for jobs, e entitled to unemploy-ac- e while they are look-wl- ll also be many who he Insurance payments be eligible as the laws public assistance pro-h- e social security act, n needy people are ly cash payments rear amounted to more 0,000. These payments nil who do not have on and cannot iive because they work, because or because they are o work and have lost a port or care. There are tillion old people and one iiren on the lists. The ier around 55,000. But r people who lack the iials of life cannot be ir the present public because they are 1 65, nor very young, nor P in Insurance, wis, however, according i lecurity board, are the incomings in the Insur-- . The purpose of these i to furnish some Income ! to live on when the r cannot earn wages or " wages or salary may ons other than unem-- ge, or death. If a not work because he Is sick or disabled, not only does his 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 Insur-ance and old-ag- e and survivors In-surance. About 20 million workers, includ-ing some of the lowest income groups In the country, are not cov-ered by the old-ag- e and survivors insurance provisions of the social security act Most of these do not have the protection of any social in-surance system. Farm workers, do-mestic servants, employees of non-profit educational, religious and charitable organizations constitute the largest groups of wage and sal-ary 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 un-der old-ag- e and survivors insurance. 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 long-er employed, and to the families of insured workers who die either be-fore or after they are 65. As the law stands today, the old-ag- e 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, tele-phone and telegraph offices, and oth-er places of business or industry carried on by private firms, corpora-tions, or individuals. This leaves, however, a good many who are not covered, merely because of the na-ture of their employment. For ex-ample, the $10,000 executive em-ployed by a corporation comes un-der 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 ex-tent 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 insur-ance 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 regulations as will pro-vide in the present for insurance payments to ease the blow of these calamities. Disability insurance is one ol tne missing girders in the social Insur-ance structure we have been build-ing In this country since 1935. A-lready In place are two of the mam insurance, supports-unemploy- ment weekly benefits to in which pays sured workers who lose their Jobs through no fault of their own and cannot get other Jobs within a short time; and old-ag- e and survivors in-surance which pays monthly benefits to Insured workers and their fami-lies when the worker is old and re-tires, or to his family when he dies, whatever his age. The social security board believes the next step Is Insurance against disability, temporary or permanent, with pro-vision to cover also the costs of hospital care. The need for such a program is pointed up by the fact that of more than 3 million disabled workers be-tween 16 and 64 years of age, nearly one million have been disabled for more than a year. Around 7 mil-lion people are 111 on any one day In the year many of them for pro-tracted periods of months and years; many with no prospect of recovery. Six Cents on the Dollar. No new governmental agency would be necessary to administer disability Insurance, and no addi-tional reports would be required of employers. The cost of the entire social insurance program. Including disability protection, could probably be met through a total contribution rate of 5 or 6 cents on each dollar of pay roll from employers and 5 or 6 cents on each dollar of wages from employees. The total of 10 or 12 cents on the dollar (the rate would depend on the exact benefits pro-vided) instead of 9 cents which will be the figure in 1949 under the pres-ent law would provide insurance protection against all the most im-portant economic risks faced by all workers. American families would be assured of an income when wages of the breadwinner stop be-cause of unemployment, old age, illness, disability, or death and would also have insurance protec-tio- n against the costs of hospital care. Twenty-eigh- t nations now provide insurance protection to their work-ers against temporary disability. With only one exception (Spain), the United States is the only country which provides Insurance against old age without also providing against the risks of chronic or per-manent disability. "When can we best afford the ad-ditional cost of an expanded social insurance system?" asks Arthur J. Altmeyer, chairman of the social se-curity board. "Now, when earnings are high and all the wheels of in-dustry are turning, workers and em-ployers can set aside the contribu-tions needed to ensure future rights to benefits," he replies. "There is no way in which increased earnings could be better invested, from the standpoint of either the family or the nation. For the family which actually meets with disaster-sickn- ess, unemployment chronic dis-ability, or death-insur- ance benefits rive a far greater protection than obtained if the could have been worker's insurance contributions had been kept as his individual In any period of recession Z money now saved would be paid at a time when it is most needed most need it and to those who worker loses his income JM or Injury, he ten--" to support his fam-"t- er he is unemployed. ' must meet heavy 2- - his savings are Z, m wi,e and cWi-- Jten srjffer privations. J purity board recom- - "eiaws be amended to 'case,. ISX THEY WERE T-- WHITE y Tv.WsUtZ W.N.U.FEATUftES Lieut. R. B. Kelly; "they'd sent him over on courier duty. He was look-ing pretty grim. When I asked him about these rumors concerning the air corps, he said it had practically been annihilated we only had six left, and that was why every-thing was going to hell. The Japs had wiped out Clark and Nichols Fields and also Iba, except for a few scattered planes. Also they had got seven of the navy's fourteen PBY's clipped them off neatly when they had landed for gas. One of them had been the navy plane which hit Colin Kelly's battleship before he finally got it. "Vet I couldn't see how they had done it, until a few days later when they began moving patients from the Manila hospital (it was the fore-runner of evacuation, although we didn't guess that yet) into Corregi-dor- . In the cot on my left was a Texas kid, a pilot from Clark Field. On the other side was an Ohio pilot from Iba. Texas was pretty sick, so the first night I shot the breeze with the Ohio boy. He said he'd been shot down the second day of the war. His squadron had been circling, looking for Jap planes which the listening devices had picked up out at sea, heading in from the direction of Formosa. They'd been up all morning, were almost out of gas, so decided to land and refuel. The first plane came in all right, but the second overshot the field. His plane was the third, and he said as he put his wheels on the ground a load of bombs crashed down out of the clouds onto the oth-- they were sitting there, all gassed up, waiting word to take off and Intercept the Japs before they got to Baguio. Whereas, as a matter of fact, the Japs were perched In a cloud right over their own field, waiting to let them have it. "He said after the bombing they'd managed to piece together out of the wreckage about ten per cent of the planes they'd originally had. A week later he'd cracked up landing on a soft spot on the field a bomb crater that hadn't been properly filled and here he was. "The next time the skipper here dropped In on me, he said that was the dope he was getting that we had only six 's left. Soon it got down to two; we called 'em the Phantom and the Lone Ranger. "And I said, 'My God, what's going 'to happen to us?' " "I told him 1 didn't know," said Bulkeley, "but that I'd been talking to the Admiral, who'd said that we couldn't possibly hope to hold the Philippine Islands, that Singapore and Hong Kong would fall too, un-less help arrived and soon. And probably the Dutch East Indies." "Well, that floored me," said Kel-ly. "So I asked him how they were going to use the MTB's wouldn't they let us go out pn any offensive missions? He said he'd been trying to get the Admiral to let him go to Llngayen Gulf on a raid. Eighty Jap transports were up there land-ing troops, and our coastal batter-ies were having to fall back because of Jap air superiority Jap fighters diving on the batteries and machine-gunnin- g them until no one could take it "Then I asked the skipper how. the infantry was holding. 'Not worth a damn,' he said. 'The strafing Is just cutting them to ribbons. Not only that, but the Japs are landing tanks a hell of a lot of automatic weapons which are just what we need and haven't got.' By the time be left, I was as low as he was. "That night Peggy, who was on night duty, got a few minutes off about one o'clock to come In and shoot the breeze with me. She'd been picking up a lot of stuff, and she said a bunch of our tank-corp- s boys had just been brought in. She told me what they'd been telling her, and finally said she guessed it wouldn't hurt if I went in' and lay down for half an hour on an empty bunk next to them, so I could hear it myself. "They'd walked two hundred kilo-meters barefoot. Four tankloads of them had been sent in to head off a Jap landing near Batangas they were to go ahead of four columns of Infantry and pave the way for retaking a little fishing village held by a small Jap force. "The boys said their major had assured them the Japs had nothing bigger than machine guns of course their armor would stop that. So they started on in, when all of a sudden Bam I The Japs had waited until they got within good range, and then opened up with an anti-tan- k gun which knocked the doors off the lead tank, and then, because the road was too narrow for the rest to turn around on, they knocked the treads off all the oth-ers except one. " 'Well, then what did you do?' I asked the kids. 'Fired about two hundred rounds of and four rounds of cannon.' " 'Which way were you shooting?' " 'Every which way. You see, It all happened so fast we couldn't tell where the Jap fire was coming from. At the end of five minutes, three of those tanks ended up in the rice paddy they were fourteen-to- n light tanks two of them with the doors blown off, and In one of these, the Jap machine-gu- n fire had cut the legs off the lieutenant in command. The others were riddled it THE STORt SO FAR: The story of their part In the battle lor the Philip-pines It being told by lour ol the five naval officer! who are all that It left ol Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron J. Thejp are Lieut. John Bulkeley (now Lieuten-ant CommanJer), iqnadron commander; Lieut. R. B. Kelly, tecond ud Ensigns Anthony Aken and George E. Coi ir. After Pearl Harbor, Lieut. Bulkeley orders Lieut. Kelly to take three ol the boati to Bataan, where they let op headquarters. KeUy hat a badly gashed finger, but doesn't dart take time to go to the hospital, at things are moving last. During the first big air raid the PT boats shot down three Jap dive bombers, Kelly Is speaking. CHAPTER III "When Bulkeley got back he took one look at me and ordered me to the hospital at Corregldor. But when we got there they told us that beauti-ful big modern hos-pital had been abandoned. There it was, I don't know how much it had cost, as useless to us as a Buddhist monastery. The patients had all been moved down into one hundred beds in one of the tunnels In the Rock. I wasn't so delirious that I couldn't figure out why. Because with no aircraft or anti-aircra- ft pro-tection, that big expensive topside hospital was Just an unprotected tar-get. "The next I remember was down in the tunnel In the army hospital under Corregldor, the army doctor asking me what treatment I'd had as he cut the shirt off my back it wouldn't come off over my hand any more. "But the thing that impressed me mosteven then was the army nurses. There were fourteen of them on the Rock, and remember, I hadn't talked to a white woman since we sailed from the States. Heretofore, I hadn't paid much attention to wom-en, but somehow the war and every-thing made a big difference. "Or maybe it was Peggy herself, because she was a very cute kid. A brunette about medium height and very trim, but mostly St was her green eyes, I guess, and a cute way she had of telling you very firmly what you had to do, so that you grinned, but just the same you did it. She started right in bossing me around while she helped cut off my shirt "The whole army was listening In," said Bulkeley. "Don Bell, that Manila radio announcer who they say was shot by the Japs the first day they entered the city, was al-ways encouraging. And even more so was KG EI from the American west coast, telling us we wouldn't be forgotten, that the people knew we were putting up a magnificent fight." "It came at eleven at night," Bulkeley went on. "I had my three boats out there by 11:30. Funny thing, that old ship had been an aircraft carrier in the battle of Jutland first boat ever to launch a plane In actual battle. She survives the whole German Imperial fleet and more than twenty years later ends up on an American mine halfway round the world. "When we got there, survivors were so thick we didn't have to zig-zag to pick them up just went straight ahead and we got all we could handle, although there were cries coming out of the darkness all around. Finally our shoulders got so weak pulling them up the sea lad-der that we couldn't lift them. So we'd throw lines out into the dark- -it was like casting for trout and haul them back with a dozen people hanging on. We'd just pull them on in scraping off a few ears, and now and then a nose and plenty of skin, on the side of our boat but they "Were drowning every minute and it was the only way. Our boat man-aged to rescue as many as 196. Had 'em lying and standing every place. "But the queerest thing came at the end. The cries out in the dark-ness had almost stopped, and we were cruising for the crumbs when suddenly, out over the water, I heard someone whistling a tune! I couldn't believe it But we changed course, and presently came alongside an avi-ator. He'd been blown way out there along with three life belts. He'd put one of them under his feet another under his head like a pillow, and the third under his behind. Had his hands comfortably folded on his stomach. He thanked us, said he couldn't swim, so he'd been whistling Just to kill time until someone came along. Asked if there was anything he could do. That guy had plenty guts. "Six of the survivors died before we could land them-expo- sure and burns." "They began bringing them into my hospital before dawn," said Kel-ly. "One of them was a Filipino boy who'd been second engineer. He'd been burned all over except where his shorts had been, and he screamed horribly when they sprayed his burns. They'd put him in the stiff wagon, but an army doc-tor felt his pulse and said, 'Hell, that man's not dead, so they sent him here. It hurt so bad to touch him when they had to turn him for spraying that he finally persuaded the nurses to lift him by the hair on his head. . "Meanwhile gloomy talk was get-ting me worried about the whole pic-ture, and the next day the skipper I ocre. came in to see me" said "Our coastal batteries were hav-ing to faU back." er end of the field. Of course he poured the soup into her and too!: off. He tried to gain altitude and headed for Nichols Field, when sud-denly a flight of Jap fighters popped out of the clouds. He turned and headed right for the center of it, but when he pressed the button only one of his six guns would work the rest were jammed. He said don't ask him why ask the guys who designed them or Installed them or serviced them. His job was just to press the button, and he'd done that. There he was with two Zeros on his tail filling him full of holes they were explosive bullets, too; he had gashes all over where he'd been nicked. He said he dived Into a near-b- y cloud and managed to shake them, but then his motor be-gan to sputter had been almost out of gas when the attack started, and the Jap bullets in his tanks had spilled the rest. So he headed her nose down out of the cloud, and as luck would have it spotted an emer-gency field. But his wing tip hit a tree and the plane cracked up, mashing in all the bones on the right side of his face. He'd spent a week in a native hospital on a bamboo bunk without the bones set, and now he could only mumble to me out of the left corner of his mouth. "The next day Tex on the other side told me his story. He was also a fighter pilot and his squadron had been at Clark Field flying all morn-ing. They'd come down to gas the planes, and the pilots were, sitting around on the wings or in their cock-pits, waiting for orders to take off, when suddenly there was a big bang and the plane he was sitting in seemed to Jump about forty feet in the air, and then pancaked back with its wings folded over the cock-pit. The Japs had popped out of a cloud and let them have It He crawled out unscratched, but he said for half an hour everything was in the wildest confusion the Japs circling above, blowing those grounded planes around like pop-corn in a hot skillet. "The dope on the listening devices seemed to be, he said, that they had picked up the Japs a hundred miles at sea, followed them in all right but then lost when they were fifteen miles off the coast. "But somebody decided the Japs must be heading for Baguio, and with holes. Our tank was the only one that wasn't hurt' " 'So what did you do?' " 'Tried to turn It around and get the bell out of there. But the road was too narrow, and then the tank got stuck In reverse, and ended up on its side in the rice paddy.' ' 'What did the infantry do?' " 'Ran like rabbits.' ' 'Didn't they have any guns?' " 'Only rifles not a machine gun in the crowd. Maybe they didn't have anything else to give them, but anyway the major said all they would find up there was rifles, and if there were any Jap machine guni, the tanks would deal with that So there they were, being cut to rib-bons by concealed machine-gu- n fire, and nothing else to do but get for cover.' " 'Didn't all this sending those tanks into a trap without scouting ahead seem like a damn-foo- l ma-neuver to you?' I asked him. " 'Well,' the kid said, 'the major and the lieutenant had worked out the same maneuver at armored school back in the States. It had worked there; they thought it was pretty good.' "So I asked the kid why he thought it hadn't worked this time. " 'Maybe because the Japs were too clever in hiding their anti-tan- k guns and too good shots. They knocked the treads and doors off most of the tanks before they had time to do anything. And then, un-like the roads back in the States, these were narrow native roads, with rice paddies on both sides you couldn't maneuver.' TO BE COSTIXVED) CLASSIFIED DEPART MENT; GUERNSEY HEIFERS ; HIGH GRADE OUERNSET EIFERi, j under one year and ycarllnitt paat. Aio , FEATHERS WANTED FBATHERS WANTED, NEW OR OLD Bhlp or writ to Burling Ftthr Cmpur) to N. Bredw.y. HI. Leala. MiuaarL PHOTO FINISHING HEAtTlEl't 4S PICTllRES from 116 Si 10 negnUvrs. SxVd from nil amaller aires, $o KA. Holls S cxp. 30c 12 exp. 45o 18 cxp. 60c W exp. ti.23. Oct price on enlarge, on portnilt pnprr, copies made) from old. nrw net OVKHNITFI SKHV1CE. PACIFIC PHOTO RKHVK'E r. O. Box vtMi-- IAN HANIISCU, CALIF. StJoseph ij) WORLD' IAHGEST SELLER AT No Cat's Meow The odd cry of the white Siam-ese kitten differs from the ordi-nary "meow." It is something like "cree," and when these kittens cry they are said to be "creeling." Spmmts Faith and Enthusiasm It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at. Oliver Wendell Holmes. MEAT GOES FAR WITH ALL-BRA-N "BRANBURGERS" Here's a new way to serve that old favorite, the hamburger. Make It with axu.oca'1 all-bra- n to stretch the meat supply, to give the popular ham-burger new Interest, and to get all-bra- nutritional benefits valu-able proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. Kellogg's All-Br- Branburgers 1 egg 1 tabteipoon t teaspoon, nit chopped pertley 4 Unipoon pepper 1 cup milk t table, poone euP catnip minced onioa 1 cup Kellogg'a n 1 pound ground beef Beat egg slightly, add salt, pepper, onion, parsley, milk, catsup and All-Bra-n. Let soak until most of mois-ture Is taken up. Add beef and mix thoroughly. Shape Into 12 patties. Bake In hot oven (4S0F.) about 10 minutes or broil about 20 minutes. Yield: 8 servings (12 2tf Inch bran-burger- s.) God Made Garden God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. Cowley. TOIL'S If back aches from need of diuretic aid functional kidney disturbance due to need of diuretic aid may cause stabbing back-ache! May cause urinary 6ow to De fre-quent, yet scanty and smarting! Yon may lose sleep from "getting up nights" oftea may feel dizzy, nervous, "headachy." In such cases, you want to ttimuUt kidntj action jott. So if there 'is nothing tTitemicaliy or organically wrong, try Gold Medal Capsules. They've been fa-mous for prompt action for 30 years. Take cart to use them only as directed. Accept no substitutes. 35 at your drug store. WNU W 3043 I SAVE YOUR SCRAP (L TO HELP GAIN TWlCTORY Old METAL, RAGS, RUBBER and PAPER Why Bother About Cat When Meat Is at Hand? Mrs. Bronson was perturbed to find that the three pounds of meat she had bought had disappeared. Her husband, helping in the search, noticed what he took to be a guilty look on the family cat's face, and pointed to her and said, "There's your meat." "Why, no," objected Mrs. Bron-son, "that little thing couldn't get away with all that meat." "Well, let's weigh her and see," suggested the husband. They did so. The scales regis-tered exactly three pounds. "Yes," admitted Mrs. Bronson, 'there's the meat all right, but Where's the cat?" P.Security Board Would Assist All People Who Have 3 NoTta Assistance to of all needy Support people no means of support. 'This is one case," said Presi-dent Roosevelt, "in which social and objectives, war and post-wa- r fiscal airns are in full accord. Expanded d together with other 1 secunty. fiscal measures, would set up security for the of economic lople now and after the war and at time would provide sources for financing the war." cause sick or disabled, tempo-rarily or permancntly-(t- he should cover also ccsts for the work-e- r of hospital care and his family). (c) When he is old and no longer at work. (d) When he dies. to 2. The cost of this "trancebe met through contributions Winto workers and their employers insurance fund In the one national U. S. treasury. :sTCUrit3r b0ard recom- - of the present sc-- Program to provide: "surance protection for depends on wages or aIs0i .'We). Reeular lnsur-woal- d take the place, Jfcy the worker and Us Job and Is ble J "'employed, to work be-- |