Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1938 — Page 12

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BUSINESS AND | LABOR PRAISE JOBLESS LAW

Compensation Offices Open “Today; Payments Due In Three Weeks.

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gible to draw benefits. This is accomplished through the requirement that an. individual must have earned $10 in wages from an employer covered by the unemployment compensation act after March 31, 1938. “Without this qualification there would be an immediate drain on the accounts of hundreds of employers and also on the pooled account, approaching possible depletion so that those who subsequently became unemployed would obtain no benefits. “Thus the actuarial soundness of the system is protected. The system was not designed as a supstitute for public relief—there are other agencies devoted to that—but as sound insurance against the hazard of unemployment occurring in the future. Obviously, it is impossible for the system to attempt to insure unemployment occurring in the past, prior to the time an adequate reserve had been built up, and still maintain its actuarial soundness. All these features should make the administration of benefit payments easier than in states where benefit payments started Jan. 1, 1938, many of which are now facing serious administrative difficulties, resulting in checks being--delayed weeks and even months. The Indiana division, on the other hand, is ready to function smoothly and effectively when the first applications are received.

Jackson Statement

Mr. Jackson said: “The third and last step in the -Indiana Unemployment Compensation program becomes effective today. The law passed upon by the special seSsion of 1936 provided for the payroll tax to start April 1, 1936, and to accumulate for two years before benefits become payable. The second phase was the starting of the collection of wage records in January, 1937. “And now we have reached the effective date of benefit rights for employees, based upon their wage records and paid out of the fund accumulated for two years through the tax on Indiana payrolls. “The Indiana division is prepared to take care of large volume of business. The 43 officials and 69 itinerant locations have been selected. Employers and employees have been fully informed of the operation of the program. Indiana law requires only a two weeks waiting period between separation of employment and and the time the employee will be entitled to benefits. Most states require three weeks. “Even with the two weeks waiting period, the earliest date when any checks can be written will be the last week in April. It is anticipated that the program will be in full swing in June, when not only the employees who are totally un- _ employed will have fulfilled all eligibility requirements, but also the anticipated large number of partially unemployed persons, who are required to wait four weeks instead of two, will be eligible.

Employers Restricted

“We are being advised by employers from all parts of the state that they are making every effort to aid their former employees in quali-

fying for benefits, but naturally many of these employers are restricted in many cases by their contracts with unions, and other in-

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dustries are restricted by the lack of sufficient business which would permit any increase in employment. “We are confident from a thorough investigation that employers

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serve fund of $27,000,000 in circulation as employees: are to get it. Rumors that employers were laying people off at the present time in order to keep them from being eligible for benefits have reached this Division. “Investigations have been made in each case and the division finds that in no case have these rumors been true. Many employers throughout the State have indicated that they intended to qualify as many employees as possible for benefits by furnishing them with employment after April 1, even though business conditions do not normally: warrant such action. Naturally, this flow of money, Will act as a tonic to all businesses.” Called Boon to Workers Mr. Miller, executive committee chairman of the Workers’ Non-Par-tisan Political Action League, said: “The Unemployment Compensation Law is a grand thing for the workers eligible for benfits. The benefits will materially assist in stabilizing - workers’ purchasing power. “One large railroad and several other employers purposely furloughed employees in March, thereby preventing such employees from being eligible to benefits which unfairly offsets the effects of the law and is a sort of ‘sour grape-atti-tude of such employers. “The Unemployment Compensation benefits will also lessen relief loads and tax burdens, and its real Lenefits will multiply in the future as we adjust ourselves to the new program for * economic security. The workers hail the law as one of the real steps forward in the march of progress.”

COOLIDGE DIFFICULT SUBJECT FOR ARTIST

NEW ORLEANS, April 1 (U. P). —Dario Rappaport, Viennese artist, believes Calvin Coolidge was _his hardest subject, and Herbert Hoover one qf his easiest. In the wide range between -them, he placed Premier Benito Mussolini, Pope Pius XI and the late Premier Georges Clemenceau - of France. Mr. Coolidge, the artist explained, was “so impersonal, or rather, unpersonal.” “He was cool, too cool,” Rappaport said. “I want my subjects to talk to me, to be alive, to be ani-

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Baby Scholar

At 19 Months She Speaks in Three Languages and Reads.

AN FRANCISCO, April 1 (U. P.).—Carlene Roberts, 19 months old; reads, speaks in three languages and swings the Big Apple. Because most of her friends understand only English, Carlene uses English most of the time. But she likes to speak French when somebody is around who understands it. Her friends who know Italian are even fewer, * Carlene is a probiem even to her mother, Mrs. William Carlton Roberts, wife of an employee of the Standard Oil Co. Mrs. Roberts has the degree Master of Arts from the University of California. “It's pretty hard, trying to rear a child who likes to correct people,” she said. “What makes it particularly bad is that usually she’s right.” Carlene weighs 29 pounds. Once she was interested in nursery rhymes, simple songs and the alphabet. But all that she now considers too baby-like. ‘ She can read 25 words, likes to draw and counts without using her fingers. She likes perfume. . “But I like the way the French

say it,” she said. “Parfum—that is more delicate.”

GOOSE, 35, LEARNS ‘SECRET OF YOUTH’

ORILLA, Ont, April 1 (U. P).— Neighbors are wondering if Mrs. William N. Smiths ] goose has discovered the secret of youth. The only ‘mystery is that the goose disappears from the flock every year just before Christmas and returns immediately after the festive season.

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MAN TOLD HE ‘ACTS LIKE CAKE OF SOAP’

NEW YORK, April 1 (U. P)— Newbold Morris, City Council presi-

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Board of Estimate was deleting items from the mayor’s current outlay budget, and James J. Lyons, Bronx Borough president, said that he preferred to make no deletions because the mayor had been doing well by the Bronx. “You,” Mr. Morris told Mr. Lyons,

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