Neuberger Sees Time Needed
To Promote Family Subsidy Plan
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington (Special) In call
ing on Congress this week to
make a study of the feasibility of
America adopting the Canadian
family allowance program, Sen.
Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.)
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a long time perhaps to put it
across because of immediate
opposition following these six
lines:
1. That to have the federal
government send every mother
a monthly check as a family al
lowance for each child under 17
will be labeled as socialistic.
"This is a familiar epithet,"
Neuberger said in reply, "which
has been applied to most of our
social legislation." He argued
that Canada has had the plan in
effect for 10 years, during which
time American investment in
Canadian free enterprise indus
trial development nearly
doubled $4,900,000,000 to
$9,000,000,000.
"I am not claiming that fam
ily allowances have induced
hard-headed American business
men to invest their dollars in
Canada," Neuberger added. "I
do, however, think it is signifi
cant to consider before pre
dicting that family allowances
would socialize our families and
bankrupt the national economy
that the Canadian program
has not retarded lavish invest
ment by, American big business
in Canada's economic and fiscal
future. And I remind you again
that Canada's conservative party
joins the other political parties
of Canada in endorsing the
family allowance program
Concerning cost, Neuberger
estimated it would run $3,500,
000,000 annually. He said the
U. S. is now spending $8,800,-
000,000 on liquor and $5.3 bil
lion on tobacco.
2. It will be charged that the
checks, ranging from $5 to $8
per child according to age, won't
be spent for the welfare of the
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instances when legal action was
required," and "I have just as
much faith in the average Amer
ican mother as ... in the average
Canadian mother." The checks
would be payable to the mother.
3. It will be claimed there
should be a "means" test, with
allowance checks going only to
needy families.
When everyone receives a
check, it is spent proudly and
openly, said Neuberger, but if it
went only to the needy, it would
be "used furtively and with a
sense of shame, if at all." He
said "it is likely that the army
of investigators needed to police
the system, if a "means' test were
instituted, actually would cost
more money than the relatively
small number of checks going to
families who do not need them."
4. It will be claimed that fa
milies with children should be
aided through higher income tax
exemptions than those already
allowed for dependents, rather
than by direct payments under
the family allowance plan.
Neuberger said this "would
prove of relatively little help to
those who need assistance the
most the families in the lower
income brackets who already
pay only meager or no income
taxes because of the skimpiness
of their incomes. Exemptions
benefit most those with larger
incomes in the higher tax brack
ets." .He said the allowance plan
is preferable also because the
payments are earmarked for the
child's welfare.
"This is why the consumption
of milk, baby foods and child
ren's shoes rocketed immedi
ately in Canada when family al
lowances were enacted," argued
the senator. "No such phenome
non would have occurred had
there simply been a general tax
reduction."
5. It will be called a subsidy
to families with growing child
ren. Neuberger said a subsidy is
"merely a payment by govern
ment to assist in the accomplish
ment of objectives deemed ad
vantageous and beneficial to the
public" and that America has
used them to help railroads with
land grants, farmers with conser
vation and price ; support pay
ments, airlines and shipper lines
with direct subsidies, the press
with special postal rate "un
related to actual costs" and busi
ness generally with tax write
offs. 6. It will be called unfair to
tax those without children to
support the plan. Neuberger said
the same principle applies in
levying taxes to support public
schools and playgrounds. Every
one would benefit indirectly, he
said, if the plan helped reduce
juvenile delinquency to the ex
tent that it is "rooted in poverty,
neglect and a low standard of
living."
Local Students Rank
Above National Mark
In Achievement Tests
Medford's primary students
rank consistently above national
average in standardized achieve
ment tests, it was reported to
day. Word recognition, reading,
spelling, language and arithme
tic achievement test results re
leased by the city school super
intendent's office showed local
youngsters made scores ranging
up to a full point higher than
those in the rest of the nation.
Tests are scored by a system
of numbers, arbitrarily set up
but generally corresponding to
grade levels.
Medium Scores
Results published gave local
and national "median" scores
Not an average, the median is
the point at which there are an
equal number of students receiv
ing scores above and below.
In, the first six grades, com
paring local medians to national
average medians, results were:
Grade One: (Gates primary
reading tests) word recognition,
2.5 to 1.8; paragraph meaning,
2.5 to 1.8.
. Grade Two: (Gates advanced
primary reading tests) word re
cognition, 3.7 to 2.8;. paragraph
meaning, 3.8 to 2.8.
Grade Three: (Gates advanced
primary reading tests) word rec
ognition. 4.7 to 3.8; paragraph
meaning, 4.6 to 3.8. (Stanford
achievement elementary) para
graph meaning, 4.1 to 3.8; word
meaning, 4.4 to 3.8; spelling, 4.5
to 3.8; English, 4.5 to 3.8; arith
metic reasoning, 4.2 to 3.8; arith
metic computation, 4.6 to 3.8.
Stanford Tests
Grade Four: (Stanford achieve
ment elementary) paragraph
meaning 5.5 to 4.7; word mean
ing 5.4 to 4.7; spelling, 5.7 to
4.7; English, 5.6 to 4.7; arithme
tic reasoning, 5.4 to 4.7; arith
metic computation, 5.3 to 4.7,
Grade Five: (Standard achieve
ment intermediate), paragraph
meaning, 5.9 to 5.7; word mean
ing, 6.7 to 5.7; spelling, 5.7 to
5.7; English, 6.2 to 5.7; arithme
tic reasoning, 5.8 to 5.7; arith
metic computation 5.3 to 5.7.
Grade Six: (Stanford achieve
ment intermediate) paragraph
meaning 7.2 to 6.7; word mean
ing, 8.0 to 6.7: spelling, 7.1 to
6.7; English, 7-1 to 6.7; arithme
tic reasoning, 7.2 to 6.7; arithme
tic computation, 7.6 to 6.7.
NEEDED THE MONEY
Paris (U.R) Police reported
today that an Arab stole a doc
tor's wallet at the Franco
Musulman hospital because "the
doctor had just given me a pre
scription and I needed the
money to pay for the medicine."
Friday. June 171955
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREB
THEIR OUSTER STARTS REVOLT Monsignors Manuel
Tato (left) and Ramon Carlos Novoa (right) are greeted by
United Press correspondent Oacy de Sa on their arrival
at Galeao Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Their arrest
and ouster from Argentina caused the Vatican to an
nounce excommunication of Argentine President Juan
Peron and civil war within Argentina. .
Error Nearly Lifts
State Wheat Control
Portland (U.R) Wheat con
trols in Oregon counties were
nearly lifted yesterday, by mis
take. The state office of the Agricul
tural Stabilization and Conser
vation Administration Adminis
tration got a telegram from Sec
retary of Agriculture Ezra T.
Benson announced the end of
wheat acreage allotments and
quotas, and cancelling the mar
keting quota referendum sched
uled for June 25. '
Before the state's wheat' pro
ducing counties were notified of
the action, the administration of
fice checked with local news
papers, and clamped the controls
down again even before they
were lifted.
Benson's telegram was found
to be part of "Operation Alert,"
the nationwide civil defense test.
A clerk in Washington, D. C,
apparently forgot to point this
out in the wire.
Rail Crews Rescue
Young Hitchhiker
Portland (U.R) Ayoung
i hitchhiker yesterday was res-
worked three hours to free his
legs which were pinned in a
gondola car by a load of struc
tural steel.
He apparently fell asleep when
the car pulled into the yards and
was trapped "when the load shift
ed as the car was moved in
switching. The steel was un
loaded piece by. piece before he
was freed.
He. was identified at a hospital
as Andy James Robinson, 28,
Chelsa, Okla. His condition was
"not too serious."
ROOF THEFT FOILED
Toronto (U.R) Carl West, 17,
and his brother Earl, 16, await
ed trial today for attempting to
steal the roof over a watchman's
head. They were arrested Wed
nesday after the night watch
man heard them noisily prying
copper sheets from the roof of
the city garage and called
police.
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