Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1940 — Page 11

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MONDAY, OCT. 14, 1940

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CINCINNATI, Oct. 14—Yesterday it was canaries, and today it’s tin cans. A fellow roaming around the country does get mixed up with the doggendest subJects. Like as not tomorrow it will be ostriches and

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This essay comes about throug a friend who is simply nuts about tin cans, and thinks everybody else should be. So, to humor this friend, we have today consecrated ourself to the noble mission of making heroes out of tin cans. To begin with, I don’t know why they're called tin cans. For they're really only 1% per cent tin. All the rest is steel. A tin can is simply a thin sheet _ of steel (981; per cent of the whole), which is then dipped in molten tin, forming a coating that comprises 1.2 per cent of the whole. But that 13 per cent of tin is mighty important. Without it, most

- Stuff put in cans would spoil.

Some other things about tin cans: 1—There are about 100 companies in America

~ making tin cans.

2—The total output of these companies is 16 billion cans a year.

3—The biggest of all is the American Can Co.

which makes about seven billion cans.

4—There is enough tin on hand to last the can

: makers nearly a year.

Some More Facts

5—All the big can companies are experimenting on making tin cans without tin. This is done by coating the steel with lacquer:instead of tin. These experiments are already successful. They can produce a lacquered can that’s just as safe and just as good

as a tin can, and costs even less—but they cant pro-

duce them in the necessary tremendous. volume. That’s the only catch.

6—There is no system of retrieving used tin cans and melting them up for re-use, simply because it would cost more than the tin is worth.

By Ernie Pyle

7—The tin can industry, simply through tradition, probably guarantees its products far beyond aay other manufacturing industry. They not only guarantee that no more than two in 1000 cans will leak, but they also guarantee to pay for the spoiled product that the buyer puts in leaky cans. _ The factories that make tin cans do not put nn the coating of tin themselves. ‘This is done by the

steel companies. The metal arrives at the can-nfaking:

plants in thin flat sheets, about the size of an ordindry table, top, already tinned. The steel sheets come in ‘boxcars. But they are i

heavy, and lie so flat, that a boxcar piled full them clear to the roof would break down. So, when the car arrives, the steel-tin shecets lie only about two feet deep on the car floor. tr

Lesson in Psychology

Now, after the cans are made up from these sheets, it takes four boxcars, packed clear to the roof, to haul away the sheet tin that came in one boxcar. Do you follow me? And in the last stage, after the cans have been filled with vegetables and are shiped out trom the cannery, it takes three boxcars to haul away the filled cans that arrived at the cannery in one boxcar. In other words, for every car of sheet steel-tin that arrives at the can-making factory, it takes 12 cars to haul away the cans full of vegetables from the cannery. Do you still follow me? You're pretty good. They used to ship the empty cans away in wooden or pasteboard boxes. But no more. They just wrap them up in paper bundles. This in itself is a nice little piece of psychology. :

‘Because in boxes, the freight handlers would throw :

them around carelessly, knowing the boxes wouldn't break, but the cans inside would get damaged just the same. . :

But, since they're wrapped only in paper, the freightmen handle them with great care. For, if a package bursts, the poor freightman has to go around and pick up all the scattered cans. Result: Damage to cans in shipping has dropped to almost nothing. Which shows there are more ways than one to skin a cat or can a turnip.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town’)

THE “I WANNA BE A captain, too” sentiment has had its effect on at least one Indianapolis man. The young man in question, an advertising salesman, is still in a slight daze over events, which, to many, are

hilariously funny. The gentleman was having a sociable drink with a marine officer the other night and talk swung around to Capt. Elliott Roosevelt. = The marine officer urged the advertising man to enlist in the marines. His opinion was that if a bright young chap got in on the ground floor, promotion would come rapidly. No, said the salesman, he wasn’t interested in military life in any way, shape or form. The officer told him he was silly, spoke glowingly about life in the marines and pictured gold braid and epaulets so eloquently the advertising man grew successively mildly interested, then thoughtful and finally convinced. He went over and enlisted in the Reserves that very evening. A few days later the Marine Reserve was ordered to duty. The salesman went into service, en route for a new naval base. He is still a private.

Oh, Sailor Boy!

YESTERDAY'S WEATHER drew thousands of motorists out onto the highways. The State Parks had a big day. There were thousands at the airports. White River Parkway had its nearest approach to a traffic jam since it’s been open. You could see fishermen all the way up the river. It was a big day for Andy Miller’s ducks out at Lake Sullivan, too. Scores of youngsters came out, determined to feed the tribe. A duck apparently never Has too much to eat. And out at: Riverside Park we had our very first case of the “fleet’s in” theme. Young sailor trainees, trying

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14—This campaign has become so bitter that most people are now at that hysterical point where they insist that a writer do nothing except throw rocks at cne candidate or the other. They can skip the rest of this because it won't interest them. Perhaps there are some left who are trying to think. Though they are dwindling in numbers, they still are the kind of people 1 like because I have always been impressed with the democratic soundness of the Scripps-Howard motto: “Give light and the people will find their own way.”

What are Willkie and the New Deal fighting about? . Over the office for one thing. But there is an issue. Willkie is just now bringing it clearly into focus, particularly in his Providence speech a few nights ago. The issue has been slow in emerging sharply because Willkie has agreed with the Administration - policies in several particulars. He has joined Roosevelt in favoring aid for Britain and China. On domestic matters he has indorsed numerous New Deal social reforms and as a temporary unavoidable evil he has promised to continue Federal subsidies for agriculture and uneniployment until conditions make it possible to stop them.

The Place for Capitalism

_ The sharp difference between Willkie and the New Deal centers on the place of capitalism in our

‘national life. Roughly Willkie believes private capi-

talism can carry the ball alone. New Dealers believe private capitalism alone is inadequate and that public spending must supplement it. The more extreme New Dealers go even further and question whether private capitalism is not a waning influence destined not to disappear perhaps but to play a far less controlling part in our national life. These underlying philosophies sound like alstractions. But it must be remembered that they give the impulse and direction to a man’s specific policies and actions. The real things we see done stem from those viewpoints. So if they sound abstract, they nevertheless are the real springs of action, out of

My Day

BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, Sunday.—I forgot to mention on Friday that, on Oct. 11, the 1200 Y. M. C. As throughout the United States celebrated Founder's Day. They will go on observing Founder's Week until the 18th. I imagine, in many places, certain observances will be continued even beyond that date. : I hope everywhere the people of the communities will renew their interest in the work which the Y. M. C. A. does for the young men in the neighborhood. The “Y” Building has ‘furnished to many a boy his only place of recreation, as well as the only quiet spot where he can read with any comfort or talk with his friends. The services rendered, however, could be made ihfinitely more valuable if, in every community, more people would familiarize themselves with the needs of the boys in the communities, see that the «y” was physically able to meet them, and help the secretaries in charge to plan a program of activities so as to make it worth while. There never was a time when this service to youth was more needed than it is today, and we can not. afford to neglegt it.

. takes about.an hour to

to be casually elegant in their new uniforms, were strolling up and down with their best girls. Oh, for the life of a sailor!

‘A Little Sunday Jaunt

SPEAKING OF THE outdoors, we're reminded that the revival of bicytling clubs throughout the state has led the State to designating a “back-road” route for cyclists. Members of the Bloomington Bicycle Club have been turning out route markers and many of them have already been put up. A 200-mile circle trail has been laid out and while it isn’t completed yet, plans are under way for a state-wide system of bike routes, connecting various cities with state parks and other points. You can tip your hat to the State Conservation Department for working this affair out with the various cycle clubs. If you feel like pedaling a little matter of 200 miles next week-end, you'll find it easy to get your route map.

Pity the Poor Pedestrian

YOU CAN'T BLAME the pedestrians for being confused at Pennsylvania and Vermont Sts. Painted on the walk it says very plainly: “Cross only with the green light.” But there isn’t a green light, nor a red one either. . . . Four youngsters, all about 10, were discussing the merits of ice cream, pop and peanuts in despairing -tones at the Butler football game Saturday. It was perfectly obvious they had no funds to swing the deal. They almest toppled out of their seats when the ice cream man presented each one of them with “a popsicle, the gift of an amused gentleman sitting behind them. He got more fun out of it than they did. . . . Bobette Dietz. of the State Public Welfare Department left a week ago Saturday on her vacation. She drove to Clinton, Ia., thence to Minneapolis, back to Clinton and home te Indianapolis, 1700 miles, all in six days. Today she leaves for the Smokies, to add another 800 to her mileage. And they

(Last of

a crisis election.

a Series)

By Ludwell Denny

VV ASHINGTON,. Oct. 14.—After giving the President unlimited emergency powers, the Constitution subjects him to only one higher authority. Once every four years the people can ratify or reject his rule. democracy depends largely on the wisdom of voters in

Hence

An independent single executive power has been our

saving decision and leadership, when divided authority would have paralyzed

action. But we pay a price for this strength. : That price is the inevitable risk

of abuse of one-man power. Also the insidious cost is that our system too often puts a premium on palace puppets and sycophants, when the man in the biggest job on earth needs the strongest aids and wisest counsellors. Obviously the risk of arbitrary and destructive one-man power is greatest precisely when there is least legal check upon it—during crises. As free men we instinctively fear tyranny. £ Memory of our last wartime dictatorship, which set aside normal constitutional guarantees of civil liberties and other democratic rights, has since been a potent argument for American peace. In this popular fear of wartime dictatorship, however, it has not been generally réalized that American dictatorial powers do not wait upon war—that they exist almost equally in a “national emergency.” A national emergency is any

national strength. More than once it has provided the

time a President says it is. The present “limited” national emergency is only as limited—or unlimited—as F. D. R. wishes to make it. The power is similar to that of a Governor, who can declare martial law. ” ” ” OW the public—thanks to undeclared and all-out wars— _ begins to understand that there is little potential difference between “national emergency” and “war” or “methods short of war.” Acceptance of the military draft for the first time in our peace history is the best evidence of that. But military conscription,. and all that goes with it, has increased the normal fear of Presidential powers. It is not a fear of force, but -of the power of highly centralized ‘propaganda and subsidy and unlimited emergency authority to perpetuate one man’s rule. Mr. Roosevelt feeds that fear by trying for a third term. He is the first in our history to reach for a third successive though Grant Lkarely missed a non-successive third: nomination,

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and so did Theodore Roosevelt in “a fashion. | = On the straight third term the law and the tradition are both clear, but they disagree. After twice voting to ban re-election, the Constitutional Convention finally decided not to limit -it. Tradition is just as plain against it. Washington's renunciation was for pergonal reasons, and he specifically disagreed with Jefferson “as to the necessity or expediency of rotation.” But the tradition has stood unbroken until today. It has been confirmed by Franklin Roosevelt's predecessors, by Congressional resolution and, as “unwritten” law by the people. ! 3 Bonn : ERE are the classic statements, pro and con: Washington — “Under an extended view of this part of the subject, I can see no propriety in precluding ourselves from the services of any man, who on some great emergency, shall be deemed, universally, most capable of serving the public.” Jefferson—"If some termination to the services of the Chief Magistrate be not fixed by the Constitution or supplied by practice, his office, nominally for years, will in fact become for life, and history shows how easily that degenerates into an inheritance. I should unwillingly be the person who, disregarding the sound precedent set by an illustrious .predecessor, should furnish the first example of prolongation beyond the second term of office.” Congressional Resolutions (House 1875, Senate 1928)—“That the precedent established by

CHURCH TO LIST WAR OBJECTORS

Presbyterian Committee Is Named for Marion,

say girls are sissies.

By Raymond Clapper

which come things like TVA and Willkie’s long fight against it. . : . Lately Willkie has been trying to spell out this issue. He had been promising that industry, if given its head, could give jobs to all. The New Deal has challenged that. At Providence Willkie said he was happy to take his stand on that issue. He has a deep, unshakeable conviction about it, obviously. That undoubtedly accounts for the extraornary vitality which stirs him to fight doggedly against great odds. He said he was engaged in a crusade and he is making it such, going into the highways and byways, pleading against stony faces and against boos, tomatoes and eggs, with the undaunted fervor ‘of an evangelist. In spite of the rough edges which he shows as a campaigner, in spite of the fact that he campaigns with the advantage against him, there comes through an impression of rugged conviction that one does not give unless dead earnestness lies behind the words. In short, Willkie thinks he has something and he is going to make the nation listen ‘or bust a larynx in the attempt.

What Willkie Means

To understand why Willkie believes so passionately that capitalism is adequate to dc the job itself, it helps to know that he has drawn inspiration from a kind of Bible which he has adopted, “Capitalism the Creator,” by Carl Snyder, a close personal friend and sometime economist for the New York Federal Reserve Bank. + : To direct public attention to this book, Willkie made a ceremonial purchase of it at a bookstore here in Washington immediately after his nomination. It spells out what Willkie means when he says that the cure for our troubles is to let private capital go ahead and create jobs. Willkie makes some reservations to the thesis, particularly as regards labor and. government regulation, but as it has clarified and strengthened his own direction of thought, no one can be fully informed as to what Willkie is driving at without familiarizing himself with this source book. Its thesis is that inventors plus capital savings alone have created our modern world and that solely by these two elements can the United States progress. Later I hope to give a more adequate summary of this key to the Willkie point of view.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

The weather was so lovely Friday, I could not bear to stay indoors, so Miss Thompson and I took a long drive in the afternoon. Early Saturday morning we left Hyde Park with some sense of excitement, for Miss Thompson was returning to Washington for a week, and I was taking off in the afternoon by plane for Los Angeles to be gone for a week. The day in New York City was filled, as usual, but this time with purely personal occupations. Some fittings of winter clothes, the buying of a hat and the inevitable visit to the hairdresser before a trip. Free time is somewhat uncertain on these flying trips, so I always feel the necessary things should be done before I start. I left at 5:10 from La Guardia Field and enjoyed flying westward. I never have become enamored of sleeper planes, though I like flying at night very much. However, I recognize that it is comfortable to lie down

plane. One great blessing is that when you are once in bed, you cannot be called out by newspaper photographers at the various stops, and so I am often not conscious when we land and take off again. I love coming into Los Angeles early in the morning and late at night. It is exciting to anticipate meeting one of the children, even though I may wonder how glad he is to meet me at a.very early hour, for I arrived at Los Angeles soon after 7 and it drive toge airport. {

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Adjacent Counties.

Dr. George Arthur Frantz is chairman of a commission now responsible for seeing that Presbyte-

rian conscientious objectors to war living in Indianapolis and counties adjacent “shall have the support of the Presbyterian Church in presenting their cases before the Draft Board or Boards before which they may have to appear.” Serving with Dr. Frantz on the advisory commission are Dr. Alexander A. Sharp of Indianapolis and Dr. Charles Swartz of Bloomington, Ind. Dr. Frantz is pastor of the First Presbyterian Church and Dr. Sharp is retired. The stated clerk of the Genera? Assembly - of the Presbyterian Church in the United States now is enrolling communicant members and ministers of the denomination who wish to be enrolled as conscientious objectors. He also is filing writen statements which they send to him stating their positions in the matter. The work of the local commission and of the national stated clerk is in line with instructions and policy set fQrth in the recently published minutes of the general assembly. “We further reaffirm the historic loyalty of the Presbyterian Church to the Government of the United States of America,” say the’ minutes. Equally clear is the statement of the church's attitude toward the conscientious objector which has ‘nothing to do with a pro-war or anti-war position which the church may take now or hereafter,” according to the minutes. “We (the General Assembly) seek

{to preserve the time-honored Protes-

tant principle of the freedom of conscience for both those whose consciences forbid them to engage in military service and for those whose consciences permit the same. And we are concerned that this principle be maintained during war times as well as peace times. That principle cannot be conserved during times of peace if it is going to be set aside during the excitement of war. “Nor can that principle be maintained in our democracy at all unless it is embodied in the very heart of the church's fellowship. We therefore call upon the General Assembly to announce that it holds in full communion and fellowship all members who on conscientious grounds feel that they cannot participate in military service as well as all members who on the same grounds feel they must do so. “And we call upon all the pastors and members of the Presbyterian Church to respect fully the consciences of each other, to speak the truth in love as each sees it, and humbly to pray that the Holy. Spirit may aid us in maintaining the Christian fellowship and the unity of the church despite our honest differences of opinions.”

MISSION OUTING SET The annual outing and retreat of the entire staff and volunteer workers of the Wheeler Mission will be Saturday, Oct. 19, at Bethany Park, Brooklyn, Ind. There will be a picnic supper, short talks, testi-

Overrules Ban OnWe:illkie Film

CHICAGO, Oct. 14 (U. P).— Police Commissioner James. P. Allman today overruled a decision of the city Movie Censor Board and ordered issuance of a permit for the showing of a film

short, “Wendell L. Willkie Meets Dwight H. Green.” The Censor Board, headed by

Lieut. Harry M. Costello, pre--

viously had banned the film, dis-

tributed by the Illinois Repub-.-

lican Central Committee, on grounds that it “fostered disrespect for government.” Lieut. Costello had ruled he would permit showing of the short if exhibitors deleted two lines of conversation: Green . . “In Illinois we've got the job of defeating the Kelly-Nash machine.” : Willkie . . . “Dwight, I want you to know that after we are elected, we are going to smash the Kelly-Nash machine.”

DELINQUENGY OF

YOUTH SUBJECT

‘State Social Work Session

Scheduled for City Nov. 6 to 9.

The curtailing and correction of juvenile delinquency will be stressed during a division meeting of the State Conference on Social Work

here Nov. 6-9.

John B. Waite, professor of law at the University of Michigan, will be the principal speaker at the Nov. 8 meeting. He will explain a model youth correction act proposed by the

American Law Institute.

Following his talk, Prof. Prank T. Flynn, head of the department of social work at the University of Notre Dame, will lead a discussion. Prof. Flynn also will preside at an Institute on probation Nov. 6 and 7. L. C. Kersey, St. Paul, assistant director of the Minnesota State Parole Board, will be instructor for the study course which will follow. It is designed to assist probation officers, parole officers and other workers in the youth correctional

field.

3 BAPTIST GROUPS

MEET THIS WEEK

Three organizations representatives = of 460 Baptist Churches will meet Washington, Ind. this week.

They are the Indiana Baptitt Convention, the State Pastors’ Conference and the Woman's Mission

Society. ’

Dr. T. J. Parsons of Indianapolis, Indiana Baptist Convention executive secretary, is in charge of arconvention. Speakers include Nathan V. Morgan of Indianapolis, Dr. G. Pitt Beers, executive secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, and

rangements for the

Dr. J. C. Massee, evangelist.

The Rev. George T. King of Indianapolis is president of the pasMesdames R. R. Mitchell, James Overtree and O. B. Sarber, and Miss Ollie Owens, all of the women’s pro-

tors’ conference.

this city, are on gram,

including Indiana in

LOCAL ISSUES ARE STRESSED

Blue Raps Prosecutor in

Relief Cases; Feeney Cites Record.

Candidates for Marion County offices and the Legislature opened a drive this week to bring local issues to the front for the remainder of the campaign. : County candidates, until this week, had been all but obscured by the avalanche of national and state campaigning. Outstanding in the county are the contests for Prosecutor, Sheriff, Treasurer, Coroner, Surveyor and Commissioners, .

Blue Opens Campaign

Prosecutor David M. Lewis, Democrat, is running for re-election against Sherwood Blue. The latter opened his speaking program last week with criticisms of the prosecution methods used in the handling of the relief fraud cases. Sheriff Al Feeney, Democrat, is campaigning for re-election on his record in the sheriff's office the last two years. Opposing him is Otto W. Petit, former police captain, who was nominated in the Primary after a bitter factional fight. Treasurer Walter C. Boetcher, former mayor, is defending his post in a contest with Paul Tegarden, a Republican former assessor of Washington Township.

In Coroner Race

In the Coroner race, Dr. Roy B. Storms, Republican, is running against Dr. John E. Wyttenbach, Democrat. ’ The two present Democratic County Commniissioners, John S, Newhouse .and | William A. Brown, are running against William T. Ayres and William Bosson Jr. Republicans.

LUTHERAN COLLEGE MAY 60 TO CHICAGO

OMAHA, Neb. Oct. 14 (U. P.).— Tentative plans for establishment of a national Lutheran university at Chicago were announced today by Dr. A. G. Weng, Chicago, president of the Illinois Synod, who attended the biennial convention of the United Lutheran Church here. Dr. Weng said the proposed school would be non-synodical and non-official, governed by joint action of various Iiutheran bodies, and would offer only graduate courses in the arts, history, philosophy and languages, with addition of medicine and law possible later. He said Chicago was considered the local place for the university because it is the largest Lutheran city in the nation. He said plans still were in the formative stage but that further: action could be expected.in a month or two. There is now a Lutheran university at Valparaiso, Ind. a few miles from Chicago.

TIME OFF TO VOTE WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (U. P.). —Army officers and enlisted men from states that do not have “vote by mail” ballots will be given time off to vote personally in the November elections, unless their ab-

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SECOND SECTION

EMERGENCY

PRESIDENT SAYS IT DOES

Washington and other Presidents of the United States, in retiring from the Presidential office after their second term, has become by universal concurrence a part of our republican system of government, and that any departure from this time-honored custom would be unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions.” : ” ” £8 ODAY propaganda on both sides obscures the real -issue. Mr. Roosevelt's friends try to make it a personal issue, an exception. = But, even if he were perfect and indispensable, his victory would open the way for others as ambitious though not as perfect. And for fourth and fifth terms. v Mr. Roosevelt's enemies try to

make it a personal issue in reverse. They say he seeks permanent dictatorship for himself, and that his éffort is destroying the American system. Actually,

. tive compromise.

however, he has a right under democracy to put this decision to the people. Certainly in these totalitarian times a third term would gamble democracy—as depression and war and corruption have risked democracy in the past. But just as certainly the essence of American democracy is the people's right to take the third-term gamble if they wish. Our ‘system of government, 2s we have seen, has been an effecIn crises it is a constitutional dictatorship, devised to escape both the paralysis of cumbersome parliamentary systems and the tyranny of all totalitarian dictatorships. It has preserved us as a free nation in the past. That is our best insurance for the future. Whether Franklin D. Rooszvelt or Wendell L. Willkie is to be entrusted with these vast powers— which can preserve or destroy our democracy in this world crisis— the people will decide on Nov. 5.

a i Ernest K. Lindley

Biographer of President Roosevelt

Defense News Overshadows F. D. R.'s Pension: Proposal

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NLY passing attention seems to have been given by the press and by political leaders to an extremely important proposal made by the President in his address to the Teamsters’ Union two weeks ago. This proposal was that the social insurance system be expanded and

improved “in the near future.”

The - President suggested, in particular, the creation of a two-

layer old age pension system. The lower layer would be a basic flat pension paid to every heedy man and woman on reaching the retirement The upper layer would be the additional pen-

sion bought or .

earned by the worker through hig contributions to the old a g e security fund. T he former would be sufficient to buy

the bare neces-.

sities. The latter would enable the worker to enjoy a few of the amenities of life in his old age. As briefly outlined in his speech, the President's old-age pension proposal may have seemed to many to be no different from the pension system which. we now have. We already have a pension which is supposed to provide the bare necessities of life for the needy aged. This is the old-age assistance system, the cost of which is divided between the Federal Government and the states. In addition we already have a separate system of old-age benefits financed by the pay roll tax on certain workers and their employers. This latter system also pays benefits to the Wives, widows, children and certain other dependents of insured workers. At present, however, these two systems do mot benefit the same people,’ The insured workers and their wives are supposed to be taken care ‘of ‘by their system. The separate system of old-age

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assistance is intended for the old

people who are net insured. The insured workers get their benefits as a matter of right. The uninsured old people do not get their assistance unless they can show it. | n ” ” BAT some of the higher New Dealers have in mind -—and what the President was hinting at—is to improve the oldage assistance system and slide it under the insurance system. One suggestion for improving the oldage assistance systems is to relax the means test, or proof of need, and the requirement that the states match the Federal payment, It is assumed that the wealthier states—generally those with higher costs of living also— would continue to match, or add to, the basic Fedéral payment. This basic Federal payment would be received also by uninsured workers without other substantial resources, and on top of it the insured workers would receive the benefits earned by the regular contributions from their pay checks. The eventual result of such a system might well be a basic subsistence payment to every citizen of 65 years or older,..n addition to which he would get his earned

insurance annuities. The President

age.

did not suggest for the near future a system quite so comprehensive, however, as he coupled “needy man or woman” with his

. proposed minimum pension,

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ENDELL WILLKIE apparently did not entirely overlook the President’s pension proposal, for he was reported to have commented on it adversely at one press conference, on the ground that the Government's resources had to be conserved for national defense. Shortly afterward, Dr. Francis E. Townsend declared his support of Willkie.

Two years ago the President's pension proposal and Dr. Town=send’s declaration’ would have stirred a torrent of comment. But the elderly doctor’s interest in pensions seems to have waned with his political influence, and the plight of the aged can no longer compete in the headlines and editorial columns with the plight of London and the British Empire, and the problems of our military defense.

The Pres.dent’s proposal is in thorough accord with two Leliefs firmly held by him and his chief advisers. The first is that the strengthening of democracy at home must go forward side by side with the strengthening of our defenses against attack. The second is that our resources, if properly managed, are great enough to rearm the nation and at the same time to provide for a moderate increase in the average standard of living.

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—In which country is the volcanic

mountain, Vesuvius?

2—Name the last letter in the Greek

alphabet.

3—Who originated the idea of plac-

ing buttons on the cuffs of men’s coats? :

4—Name the states that rank first

and last in. population.

5—Ely Culbertson attained promi-

nence as an actor, a musician, a bridge expert, or ‘an architect?

6—What did the middle initial in

President Warren G. Harding's name stand for?

Answers 1—Ttaly. 2—Omega. 3—Frederick the Great. 4 New York first and Nevada last. 5—DBridge expert. 6—Gamaliel. 8 os ®

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