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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
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groups tend to use the money for
extra benefits, such as music
lessons or college educations.
Recalling that some totalit
arian countries have used baby
payments as a means of encour
aging a higher birth rate, one
asks how has the plan affected
Canada's birth rate. The answer
seems to be very little, if any
at all. The wartime surge in
births hit Canada as it did the
U.S. It hit a high of 28.6 births
per thousand in 1947, but has
dropped steadily to 27 last year.
Also, when the plan was start
ed in 1945 the Canadian family
averaged 2.37 children, and now
it is slightly less.
There are, of course, some
Pittsburgh Realtor Conference Speaker
Robert W. 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
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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.
Scott will supply information
on services provided by the Chil
dren's Eye clinic at the Univer
sity of Oregon medical school
at Portland. The clinic was
founded six years ago under
Elks leadership to help young
sters of needy parents. The state
association annually contributes
$70,000 to its support.
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