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TWELVE ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1947 Social Security Saves Youngsters From Institutions By JANE EADS WASHINGTON Almost a million children, many of whom otherwise might have been placed in institutions, are being maintained in their own homes by federal funds under the so cial security program. These children are in 400,000 families and are cared for under the aid to dependent children provisions of the Social Security Act, whirh on Aug. 14 observed its 12th birthday. The average payment per family in May this year was $62 a month. The U. S. Children's Bureau reports that the number of youngsters living in public insti tutions for dependent, neglected or delinquent children at the be ginning of the year was 28 per cent below the figure for 1933. For years the Children's Bu reau has held It "absurd" to take a child away from a poor but competent mother and then pay his "keep" in a crowded insti tution. Back in 1912, when the Idea was first introduced, it was con sidered "revolutionary." Critics contended it would Increase "pauperism." Pensions for Mothers Illinois had partially broken the ground by establishing mother's pensions the year be fore. Then other slates followed suit. The Children's Bureau be gan a study of these laws in 1914. The findings provided much of the impetus for general adop tion of this form of public as sistance by practically all of the With passage of the faocial stales. Security Act in 1935. the prin ciple was written into federal law. In the 12 years during which this law has made funds available to the states for the de velopment of child-welfare serv ices many stale governments have set up special divisions for this purpose. Under another social security Good Employes For Federal Jobs Delicious flavor in every pound ff' V4 C U U M - P A C K E D ' e 4 i " V V V 'I " ' . ' wwm iiiiMIIM mm miwmi .WW" 1 . i lt' , "x 4 f!i rl.ytv. "1M 2 Bv PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. (J. Most frequent complaint heard from those in charge around here is on the difficulty of getting good help. The way government employes get KicKed around, it s sr.ir.il won der. For complete di-clions on how not to run a business, how to administer a personnel policy guaranteed to drive all hands nuts, the record of the past year In Washington offers a de luxe volume of ease histories. After running through the in dex, the great mystery Is why anyone ever wants to work for Uncle Sam. It must be that those who do can't find anything else to do, or else they must love their country with a patriotic devotion that surpasseth all understand ing. For people in civil service, there are certain advantages. Nice hours, long vacations, all the holidays, plenty of sick leave. Business men who came to Wash ington in wartime were practical ly unanimous In saying that no private industry could operate successfully on such working rules, under which an employee has to be given so much sick leave every year, whether he is ill or not. The pay was raised during the war and again last year. It still may not be anything to brag program $3,500,000 Is now being authorized annually for grants to slate departments of welfare lo help them carry out services to children in all kinds of trouble. Each year help is brought to almost a quarter million boys and girls. Some of these socially handlcaped children come from the naton's nearly 4,000,000 or phans or half-orphans, 60,000 of whom are children of service men who died in the war. Thousands Out of Wedlock Some are from among the 100, 900 babies born out of wedlock each year, whose mothers as often as not are children them selves, still others who need spe cial attention are among the quarter million brought into Juvenile courts each year and several limes that number who come to police attention. One or the largest groups are those whose mothers are work ing away from home. However, the Children's Bu reau points out, only a small number of the children in need of skilled help are receiving it. The bureau reports that wide variations exist in the number of children who are reached by its services. For 42 states the average rate was one of every 200 in the state. In states at the top of the list, the number Is nearer one oul of 50, but al the bottom are those that reach only one or less out of 1,000. Triple Success Achieved by Geraldine Masinter In Aviation, in Business, and in her Home where She Cooks with Sperry Drifted Snow Flour pis. ! n$ 1 ,1 T' MM 5 . ; i ,, I " I AS A UCCNSED All PILOT, Gcr.dJmc Miv inter flew 1000 hours without a mukip lot the W.A.S P. A General M.in.iRcr of a firm manufactufing mndci cable cars, she has eained the admiration of the San Francisco business world. At home, like her mother before her, she bakes with Snerry Drifted Snow "liome-Petfetled" Iinricncd Hour be cause she realizes the importance of never failing success. Httt-Kami Pie yfKfc f. O -irr'- V- r: It K 1 1 ' .! PtE-TISTINO KEYS SUCCISS in the home , just a in bus"- Sclftium of a pre irsicd ilnur t a cooking tuiuiamcnial. Th.it 5 why it 5 imporunt ii Cicrjldme Masintci as well .is to you lh.it Spary Drifted Snow Flour under jjoe more than IV0O0 Ubotatoty itiis annually . . . plu auual home pertnrmancr trsts hy the Martha Meade Home Staff. All iiijsrrHi cnts m M.nrh.1 Meade recipes, like this one for Mala Krihiki Pie. are halanrrd to Drifted Snow Flour for assured sua cm Sl& Annr fc.f .'. . . air.n.red en "'t5u"nS' 'cl meuurcmentl for Stir loetber in the top part f . double boiler -tup jjonulat.d lugar V Uaipaen talt i gg yolki, unb.ottn V. lop lop mill., or thin cam 1 . cvp. ,,ol.d cannod pln.oppl., vnitnin.d 1 " "Poon. butt.,, ., morgarin, 1 ob .,p.. 9,oulod , , 'obl.ipoon. cold milk I loipoon grol.d l.mon tlnd I tabl.ipoon l.mon uk J egg whil.i, iiifll, b.al.n I hen pour hllmc into a bok.d and cool.d f-lnrli pi. ,h.ll rapp0';,,l;?,;!,c;'s"", ' PAstir Mejsure into a ningig howl Vi tup hoilonlng 3 lobl.iponi cold wol.r 1 t.atpgan ol Hlend inste-lrnts lopethe, ,h a fork n ,h.ten,nS c.ea.nv and aWhs r. of water. Then ,,dj ,11 ,, onil' 1 Vi upi ,ili,d ip,r Otlll.d Snow "m-r,h,M" Intlthtd Flour N'ir. milt circular moiinn. until pj.ttv hold. . ,,.r a miH.lh ball. R p.,,,,,. , ,n cwiuj I. qutckh and place , P.,. t 0d, anj , B ni l fl '" 'K',' " "" Jir ne.ulp-.stty. B Id up lluted rcl.ee or Imish ed ,1, any cay desire,!. Tmk bottom and ..d.-s of shell liberally scth a ftk to 7' lormed beneath crus, ,0 escape durinVbak me. Bake in a very hot oven, -S,i. for WtJ minutes rCnr' '-'-nlhne. P.,ry fo; V about, but it is more than that for comparable work in all but the biggest cities of the country. Loyalty Test Faced The work isn't too tough, and there is liberal overtime pay. Al so, the government usually pro vides plenty of people to do what has to be done. For anyone who disputes that, it might be men tioned that darn few if any gov ernment employes die of over work. For those who stick it out, there are good pensions. But every so often there comes along a political upheaval in Con gress. The new congressman al ways start wielding the ax on job holders. This year, the Republi cans talked at first of knocking out a million Jobs out of 2.5 mil Won. When they found that would be Impossible, they cut the figure to 500,000. Then to 250,000. These people were not to be fired by political discrimination, from which civil service employes are protected by law. Congress simply decided not to appropriate money to pay that many salaries. The final score won't be ready for several weeks, but at present it looks like the number to be fired for economy will be more like 75,000 or 100,000. That's a lot of people to throw out of work. Government employes, never knowing when some new Con gress will come along and abolish their job, find no future in It. On top of that, along comes a loyalty test, which will cost the taxpayers $11 million at least $6 a head for 1,800,000 employes. Every government employee will have his private life pried into and will have to be found purer than a Sunday school teacher, or out he goes. One State Department em ployee who worked in China dur ing the war said his loyalty was investigated 15 times. Tens of thousands of people who took government jobs dur ing the war as a patriotic gesture and came to like government work, have come to rue their de cision to stay in civil service. Even the most competent of them have been bumped, if there was any veteran in line for the job, or if any prewar appointee was hanging around. Such respect for seniority Is of course a good thing for the pro tection of faithful and continu ous service. And veterans' pref erence Is a nice payment on the debt to those in the armed serv ice. Personnel experts, however, say that if there is to be any ef ficiency in government service, there should be no priorities to keep the best qualified person from getting any job. Time after time an executive wanting an assistant with special qualifications or just a little more than the average In com mon sense, has had to put up with Grade B help because that's what's next on the eligibility list Under the circumstances, it may be surprising that the govern ment gets as much good help as It does. A traveelr crossing Nebraska from east to west climbs an aver age of 10 feet to the mile. SMOOTH...REFRESHING Socictt Mellow Mints vilh that cool mint flavor are a tasty ac tor all occasions. V ,'- SSti Vt SSk. light pjtJj' ' ' ""' ' - iiartff MM i lilt - - MaIiIH I Ml 111 ri iiujG- 111 WHAT ARE VOV) GOiNG TO DO WHEN YOU GRCW UT 1 " J 1'ns goin' torwset' mint ; 7. VEP-THATS VJHERE. NW DAcT) AVS ALU OU1. MONEY C0ME5 7 s-u. - FROM fp Patterson s Bakery 116 N. Kane St Roseburej If would really take a mint of money for a housewife to stock all the Ingredients used in the cakes that PATTERSON'S bake. 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