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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
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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
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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.
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Drifted Snow Flour under jjoe more than
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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.
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to stock all the Ingredients used in the cakes that
PATTERSON'S bake. She needn't, though, 'cause
they pass the savings of bulk purchase on to the customer.
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