Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1943 — Page 33

~ pow and if our

SOCIAL SECURITY

¥ b 5 I D § x %

Fran Perkins Says Program Would Curb. Inflation Now, Prevent Deflation in Years

To Come.

Editor’s Note: In the last of five articles by top government offi..¢lals on what is being done now to assure a stable post-war economy, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins says. expansion of the social security program in the near future would curb inflation later and ease the difficulties of demobilizing war F Workers and the armed serve

foes when peace comes.

———

By FRANCES PERKINS, Secretary of Laber (Written for United Press)

! WASHINGTON, March 26.—Adoption of an ‘expanded social security program in tHe near future so as to provide enlarged benefits covering all major hazards of wage earners

would give the United States

a curb on inflation now and a|~

brake on deflation later. It would also mitigate many demobilization difficulties in the post-war period.

Social insurance can play a dual role in the economic readjustment and reconstruc--fion that will be necessary When the war ends. On the one hand, it’ can provide protection to (individuals and families against the Joss of income which they may guffer temporarily for one reason or another, after the war, when the transition from wartime -‘employment to peacetime employment is being made. On the other hand, from the standpoint ‘of the economic © system as a whole, social insurance can aid in maintaining consumer purchasing power if national inc ome Mrs. Perkins exhibits a tendency to decline and thus can assist in mairftaining employment at higher levels. If such extension is undertaken services are able eorrespondingly to provide for disability, unemployment, retirement and refraining benefits, specialized protected employment benefits from public works operations, and a strong and developed employment placement servide for use in the period of demobilization it can be of inestimable value. The sense of security which returning soldiers and sailors will have because their families are protected as well as . themselves, if such a system is put into its beginning operations now, will do much to stabilize our political and social development in -the ‘future. The demobilization of those now

[ A 3- button in rich tans Coat makes 2

employed in the wartime industries and their reassignment to peacetime production would be cushioned against the doubt and uncertainty with which today many persons view that period. : There can be no question of our ability to pay for an adequate system of social security at this time. Indeed, we can hardly envisage an equally propitious time to introduce a plan of postponed spending. The funds paid into social security contributions now will flow back in the future to those who pay them to the social improvement of the whole of society. This is a period when for reasons of preventing inflation it is desirable to withdraw purchasing power from the market. The post-war period will be a time when we want to release purchasing power to prevent too severe deflation. The income of workers and the income of employers can today bear the price of this increased contribution.

Such a program does not pretend to develop a system which will make everyone reach the top of his economic ladder, but only to develop a system which will prevent anyone from falling into the desperate want which has so often been caused by old-age, by sickness, by unemployment due to the cyclical business depressions and by the individual accident of being the recipient of some of the major human handicaps, such as blindness, deafness, serious cripplings, etc, and the death of a breadwinner in a family

of young children.

SHETLAND TOPCOAT.

Comfortable, free - swinging _ model with notch collar and

roomy flap /. pockets.

RechuTS HERE|

Successful Applicants in Draft Range to Get Letters For Boards.

induction of men qualified in skilled building trades to bring three lets ters of reference as to professional ability to the recruiting: station for an interview and physical examination.

interviewed and examined, men between the draft age of 18 and 38 will be given a letter to take to their draft board. .The letter states that the applicant is qualified for special service in the navy and will

days. Train in Virginia After being processed by a joint army and navy recruiting board, the selectee is inducted and given a rating and a ‘seven-day furlough. He is then sent to Camp Peary at Williamsburg, Va., "for ' seabee basic training. Se : A 17-year-old man. or applicant over the 38-year limit is ‘interviewed, examined, processed, swornin and sent to the training station either that same night or the next day, Lieut. Kramer said. Seabees receive the same pay as other members of the navy although they are not assigned to a ship for sea-duty. :

MME. CHIANG SEES Ui S.-CHINA ACCORD

SAN FRANCISCO, March 268 (U. P.).—Mme. Chiang Kai-shek pledged to America today the friendship of a new China which|S “will rise from the ashes” of its long war with Japan like the mythical Phoenix, Symbol of immortality. : The largest crowd of her transcontinental tour welcomed China’s first lady as. she spoke from a balcony ‘overlooking the city hall plaza of this “gateway to the Orient.” Five thousand smiling residents of the nation’s largest Chinatown were among the throng that listened to her promise of international friendship. ‘All business in Chinatown was "suspended for the day. “The new China we are building will rise from the ashes and it will be a friend of America,” she told them. “China, like the Phoenix, will rise again. As I stand in your midst my mind flies back to the civic ‘square at Shanghai, finished just before the war and now in

Details of a plan for voluntary)

After a seabee applicant has Been :

volunteer for induction before 30

salvaged.

DENVER, Colo., March 26 (U.P.). —Governor John C. Vivian said today he would “stick to my guns” and oppose any:challenge questioning his right ‘to order the blanket deferment of Colorado farm workT'S. The Republican - governor’s unprecedented order developed into a test of authority as Brig. Gen. Harold H. Richardson, state selective service director, announced that he would forward Vivian's directive to Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national head of selective service.

Richardson - said that meanwhile he would direct Colorado draft boards “to continue the present policy concerning selection of agricultural workers for military duty.” “They are operating under orders from Washington,” Richardson said, “and those orders do not call for blanket deferment of farm workers. Each case is studied’ individually and the question of deferment or selection rests wholly on whether

1the individual is regularly engaged

in and necessary to an agricultural occupation.” s Vivian denied that essential farm workers were being deferred. In his directive to Richardson, he said: “We have been led to believe that Washington has instructed draft boards’ not to induct any more

ruins.”

PURE WORSTED suit in a handsome, business - like stripe. pattern. ‘Single and double breasted 8 50 : ‘models.

farmers. Now comes the ihforma-

'GABARDINE. “A pure ‘worsted; fabric: that. really

holds its shape. : Single and: | Al i

idouble-’ breas«; ; ted: models: 2a

Now that Grand Coulee dam in Washington 7 is’ completed, no Testor u aéed was seen for this temporary construction bridge, so dynamite sent it toppling into the . water. Pleces were hauled ous’ by tractor and

Governor ‘Sticks to Gans’ in Colorado Farm Deferments

tion from Delta, Colo., that out of a quota of - 58. which has just left that county, 22 were farmers who, in the opinion of .the: county (agricultural) agent, are essential to the operation ‘of, the farms from which they were taken and ‘will need to

be replaced.”

Vivian said he had acted within his authority and would “not back down. ” “The governor is invested - with power and authority to administer the selective service system within his state under section 603.11 of the regulations governing this (selective service) agency,” Vivian said. Vivian’s order is the first of its kind ever issued by a governor.

MUNICIPAL GARDENS DANCE IS. TONIGHT

The fifth dance of the season will be held at the Municipal Gardens community center at 8 o’clock tonight by the Municipal Gardens youth council. Jack Stotts and his orchetsra will play. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Burris, Mrs. Robert Spears, E. C. Unser and Frank Stafford are members of the

adult advisory committee on ar-

rangements. Mrs. Enore Roster is director of the center.

WORKER WHO WROTE FOR FACES CHARGE

NEW YORK, March 26 (U. P.).— A disgruntled former employee of

the General Electric Co., who sent letters to President Roosevelt and other prominent persons, in which he denounced Owen D. Young, acting chairman of the board of General Electric, was held by police today. Stephen J. Smitney, 52, who blamed Young for the company’s refusal to promote him after he had served it for 11 years as secretary to the president, was arrested yesterday on a misdemeanor inforination ordered filed by the New York county grand jury.

SENATE’S ‘POST-WAR COMMITTEE NAMED

WASHINGTON, March 26: (U. P.). —Chairman Tom Connally of the senate foreign relations committee has designated himself to head an eight-man subcommittee to examine all resolutions on post-war planning and inter-ailied co-operation. He named these other members of the group: Senators Walter F. George (D. Ga.), Elbert D. Thomas (D. Utah), Alben W. Barkley (D. Ky.), Guy M. Gillette (D. Iowa), Robert M. La Follette (Prog. Wis), Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich.) and Wallace

|and American citizens residing in

|left practically unmolested.

NAZIS

. Colony Moved to ‘Reich, : Is Report...

ht, bad, by The Indianapolis es Copyiel e Chicago x Daily Nanos Tim

BEAN March 26.—TLke German occupational authorities in France have now descended upon British

the former Free Zone, -who for more than four months have been

Private information from a reliable French source discloses that all the men of this Anglo-American colony were deported to Germany a week ago, after receiving instructions to present themselves to the local French authorities. © Whether women and children will be interned, or allowed to live in their former residences Yunder strict surveillance,” has mot yet been decided, but in all cased they will not be transferred to Germany.

3600 Stayed in France ’

American and British residents of the Free Zone who, despite repeated warnings from the American embassy in Vichy refused to leave France, number some 3600 most of whom resided on . the Cote d’Azur and in Provence, according to a high Vichy authority. Very few: are likely to have crossed into neutral countries or to be hiding somewhere in France as they have been closely watched by the Vichy police since Nov. 8. The German explanation for this new measure, taken against .completely inoffensive citizens living: in a foreign, theoretically independent country, is the need to remove all possible “trouble-making elements” in case military opposition shotild flare up again in France.

A WAR CASUALTY— TWO-POUND STEAK

WASHINGTON, March 26 (U. P). —Restaurant eaters were informed yesterday that the two-pound simz= ling steak platter with French fried onions on the side is out for the duration. The office of price administration announced that from March 20— the date when meat and fats ra‘tioning begins—persons who eat _ in restaurants will get approximately the same allowance as home consumers of meat, canned meat, cheese, butter, fats, oils and canned fish. OPA officials estimated this will mean a minimum’ cut of 25

hamburger stands, cafes and soda fountains, and a cut up to 50 per

0. S. cizens f

All Men in Anglo-American|

diet, you'll find ALL-BRAN much gentler way to treat it. y

, ABL-BRAN gets at the y use of constipation dus fo J and ‘corrects '

i tna EEE sold roo Ty

When Acid Indigestion “HITS LIKE LIGHTNING™

New Formula Starts To WorkiTo Relieve You, Just As Fast!

“fast as lightning’’—but Lambert's new Effervescent 'Anti-Acid Tablets are a match for it! Made on a new principle, and with a fast action ingredient designed to get soothing help into action at once. Yet; taken as directed amazing Lambert’s Tablets cannot over-alkalize; they work with a wonderful ‘“‘controlled,” -two-way action. Best of all; this relief is sustained. Alkalizing action is long-drawn out; gives your stomach just enough alkali to check excess acid; not enough to cause burning, gassy symptoms or “acid backlash.”” Try Lambert’s Effervescent Anti-Acid Tablets—get them at any drug store. Here’s relief for less than a penny !—30 tablets only 25¢. Made by the makers of “Listerine’ Antiseptic. Lambert Pharmacal Co., St. Louis, Mo.

per cent in these rationed foods to| ms’

cent for larger restaurants and

CAVALRY TWILL...

{lsuitivlidia ‘smart. _gabardine

~ and’ ‘stamina.’ ;

fom AS] ‘wool

Brown; ‘or “fan.

H. White Jr. (R. Me.).

hotels.

COVERT TOPCOATS. 7 100%, : pure: “wool, inva. fly * front; ‘notch: color: flap: pocket ‘model. a

No. . 90

J 943,

lL. for.

ALL. WOOL TWIST... a fabric tough as nails. Single

and double’ smart business colors.

.breasteds in

* .

want.’ Distinctive, ow flattering lines : to, “ifs smart. pattern.

Yes—acid indigestion oftén seems to hit : :