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tlX MSDFOKD (OREGON) MAIL THIBUNE Wednesday, September 7, 19S5 Canada's Tenth Year of Baby Payments Find Increased Favor Br a. bomt smith Kail Ttibiin Cerrespondent Ottawa, Canada Canada has Just wal ked the 10th anniversary of it family allowance program the national bonus-for-oabies plan that Sen. Richard L. Neu- berger (D-Ore.), wants America to adopt and just about every one here says it is here to stay, In this last decade, Canada has paid out some $3,000,000,000 In monthly checks payable to the mothers of this nation's chil dren to help finance their spec ial childhood needs. Each moth er gets from $5 to $8 per month for each child, according to his age, until the age of 16. During this period of eligibility, from birth to 16, each child gives its mother the right to draw $1,188 in monthly family allowances Senate Study Aiked Sen. Neuberger in the recent sion of Congress introduced a resolution, co-sponsored by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.V, and a small group of other Demo crat calling f ora Senate study of the ins and outs of Canada's s tfTolan. Neuberger hopes eventu ally it will become as familiar to Americans as social security, Sut he has said he thinks it may 0 take years -to gain acceptance That was pretty much how it happened here in Canada. No one person is credited with fath ering the plan, but it was espous- ed devotedly during the 1930s by a French-Canadian Catholic priest, Leon Lebel, who wrote, lectured and testified before committees to drum up support for the family allowance scheme. A decade later his work bore fruit, when several wartime government reports advocated the plan and finally in 1944 Prime Minister McKenzie King asked parliament to set up the program. Although there were bitter po litical outcries against the plan when it as first put forward by the prime minister the Progressive Conservative party leader called it a political bribe popular support from Canad ians") annihilated the opposition with amazing speed. Parliament adopted the bill that same year, and there wasn't one dissenting vote cast. Plan Not Opposed The observation that the pro graaa is here to stay in Canada k is based on the expressed atti tudes of the various political elements today toward the plan. None of them oppose it; but they vie instead for public favor with q suggestions about improving it, raising the monthly allowence and telling how thpv were real ly its first advocates. This is not unlike the social security issue in the U.S., which sees Republi cans and Democrats in Congress trying to outdo one another to increase benefits. Gallup polls taken here show that in 1943, the year before it was advanced by the govern ment, only 40 per cent of the Canadian population favored the plan. But by ,1950, this percent age had jumped to 90 While Canadians apparently believe with only small dissent that the program here is a suc cess, Canada they say can not claim to have pioneered this idea. When she started it in 1945 officials recall that some 30 oth er countries had some sort of bonus for big families. They said the United States today is the only major industrial nation which hasn't adopted any such scheme, What has been the effect of the program on Canada? Increased Consumption Neuberger pointed out, when he spoke for the plan in the Senate, that it resulted in great- lv increasing consumption of children's shoes and other arti cles of clothing, milk m poor tenement districts of the cities and canned milk in the far north trading post sectors. Officials here say this has cer tainly been the case. And since children become ineligible if they play hookey from school, attendance in Canadian public schools has reached new heights. One woman wrote the director of the program, Byrnes Curry, saying: "Billy wants me to tell you he has his first pair of flan nelette pajamas. I always made them out of flour sacks before." Another said, "When Ralphie drank the Flit the cheques paid the hospital bill. I don't know how to thank you." Under the law, the check is mailed to the mother in her name, on the theory that she is more likely than the father to comply with the law's require ment that the money be spent on something of direct benefit to the child. But Canada has no vast supervisor force to check into the way the money is spent. They simply run down com plaints received from neighbors who think the money is being misused, like the man who told authorities the fellow next door used the family allowance to put a new roof on his house. When officials checked and found that the kids slept in the attic and caught cold every time it rained through the leaky roof, they allowed as how the parents had properly used their allow ance. Another result of the program, of course, is a redistribution of wealth from the richer to the poorer regions of this vast coun try. Every mother receives the allowance, rich or poor, but it is the higher salaried Canadians that pay the brunt of its $30,- 000,000 yearly cost through -in come taxation, burveys nave shown that the poorer families tend to use the allowance for basic necessities, such as food, clothing and medical bills, while the middle and high income The Guernsey Cow istheojlycwVf,6) GOLDEN GUERNSEY . Milk from GUERNSEY cows is always prized for distinctive, unusually delicious flavor . . . extra protein, vitamins, minerals . . . appealing golden color. Now, special GOLDEN GUERNSEY Milk js HOMOGENIZED! Cream can't "rise to the top", because each drop is mixed with milk. 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Semenow, Pitts burgh, Penn., will be one of the principal speakers- at the Jackson-Josephine realtors' educa tional conference Sept.. 12 in the whopping big families collecting family allowances. The champion procreators of Canada are two couples in Nova Scotia and in Quebec, each eligible for 16 chil dren under the deadline age of 16. Whereas the average family check runs about $14 a month, these larger families are collect ing about $100 monthly, as their share in Canada's program to improve the living standards of the nation's children. Sacramento, Calif. (U.R) California Gov. .Goodwin J.' Knight came up with a sobering thought today. He signed an or der closing all bars in the event of an atomic attack. Medford hotel. Semenow is on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh as a professor of real estate law and is an honorary life member of the Pittsburgh Real Estate board. His various positions and honors include secretary treasurer, Na tional Association of License Law Officials since 1930; former Director of the Pennsylvania Real Estate Brokers' - License Law; principal legal assistant to the Workmen's Compensation board since 1939; secretary counselor of the License Law Committee of the National Asso ciation of Real state boards. The -realtor is author of three books, "Survey of Real Estate Brokerage License Laws;" "Pennsylvania Law of Real Estate Brokerage,- Landlord and Tenant;" and "Questions and An-r swers on Real Estate." During the Medford confer- f f ROBERT SEMENOW On Conference Program ence he will appear at the after noon session, speaking on em ployment and sales controls. Ernest I. Scoff Named to Committee Ernest L. Scott, secretary of Medford Elks lodge, has been named representative of the Oregon State Elks association Visually Handicapped Children's committee in this area. 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