The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, May 12, 1944, Image 2
THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C,
Let's Face Facts
Social Security Plan
For Farmers CalU for
Careful Consideration
By BARROW LYONS
— WNU Staff Corraqpondmf
WASHINGTON, D. C.—
Partners throughout the land to
day are being asked to give thought
ful consideration to a proposal that,
if adopted, would spell better health
for them and their families, and pro
tection against many of the hazards
and discomforts of old age—but fot
which they would have to pay a
price.
Proposed amendments to the So
cial Security act incorporated in the
Wagner - Murray
Dingell Bill would
bring benefits to
some 12 million
people working in
American agri
culture, and
about 3 million
small business
men, s e 1 f-e m-
ployed profession
al workers and
domestic serv-
Barrow Lyons ants.
The monetary
price to the farmer for a compre
hensive system of social insurance
would be equal contribution rates for
employees and employers amount
ing to 6 per cent on all wages up to
the first $3,000 a year, a 7 per cent
contribution rate for self-employed
persons, with provision for Govern
ment contributions to the system,
presumably in 10 to 15 years, when
current receipts become insufficient
to meet disbursements. Taxation,
which cannot be determined now,
would provide the Government con
tribution.
Farm Groups Accept
The intangible price would be the
extension of a system which made
the central government still more
responsible for the welfare of in
dividuals, and placed state govern
ments in a position where Federal
authorities might examine their ad
ministration of social security funds,
and withhold funds if abuses were
discovered.
Some acceptance of the program
already has been gained from lead
ing farm organizations. Last Novem
ber, Albert S. Goss, National Mas
ter of the Grange, told members in
annual session at Grand Rapids,
Mich., that lack of social security
coverage for farming is one of the
handicaps in holding good workers
on the farm.
For the last two years the Na
tional Farmers union has supported
extension of social security to the
farm. At its 1942 convention in Okla
homa City a resolution was adopted
which called for medical care ir.
addition to benefits under old-age
and survivors’ insurance. Last fall
the state conventions of the Farm
ers union in Montana, North Dakota,
Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas
and Oklahoma adopted resolutions
favoring the principles of the Wag-
ner-Murray-Dingell Bill.
The American farm bureau fed
eration’s general counsel, Donald
Kirkpatrick, is studying the question
of endorsement of coverage of
farmers and farm labor.
At present there is no general pro
gram in effect to meet the risks of
illness, accident, disability, old age
and premature death for America’s
6 million farm operators. The pro
portion of them who carry compa
rable private insurance is small.
There are few indeed among the 3%
to 4% million paid farm workers,
and 1% to 2% million family help
ers, who are adequately covered by
private insurance. For the most
part, when the principal breadwin
ner of a farm family is stricken by
long illness, old age or death, the
family has only its own resources
to command, and too often these are
inadequate.
Unlike his grandfather, the farm
er of today operates with all of the
risks which go with commercialized
and mechanized farming. His land
values are much higher and fluc
tuate more than they did 50 years
ago. He must sell a great deal more
produce to cover his operating costs,
and he is subject to much greater
price and market hazards than his
pioneering forefathers.
Farm Health Declines
There is another phase of country
life that comparatively few people
realize. Surveys of the health of
farm families show that their health
is not as good as that of city fami
lies. Farm children suffer from pre
ventable and correctible defects of
teeth, sight and hearing more fre
quently than city children. Farm
women have twice as many children
as city women, and the highest
death rates in maternity cases are
found in farming areas. Farmer se
lectees for the armed services have
,een rejected because of physical
’.efects in considerably larger pro
portions than city men.
One bit of evidence: data on se
lective service draftees between 18
and 19 years of age show the high
est rate of rejections for farmers
at 41.1 per cent, the lowest for crafts
men at 20.4 per cent.
Proposed legislation calls for a
Federal system of medical and hos
pitalization insurance for all persons
covered under old-age and sur
vivors’ insurance and for their de
pendents. The Surgeon General of
the United States would administer
the technical and professional as
pects of the program and the Social
Security board, the financial phases
American Prisoners of War in Rome
According to the German caption with this photo, which reached the United States via a neutral source,
the above men are Americans who were taken captive by the Germans at the allied bridgehead at Nettnno.
The prisoners are on their way to internment camps in the rear.
Double-Barreled Smash at ‘Fortress’ Europe
Here is shown the boundary referred to as Hitler’s “Inner Fortress,’^ which soon may be cracUng in sev
eral places. Even as the Red army pauses in preparation for a spring drive, the Russians are dt the very
wall of the fortress, and are expected to hit at vital Lwow, rail gate to Warsaw and Berlin. The Allies
mast crack the heavily fortified coast line and break through many divisions -if Germany’s out
standing troops. Meanwhile, pre-invasion pounds from the air continue to knock out Nasi air strength, cripple
rail lines and arms factories.
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Wichitans Wade in Flood Waters
Don't Whistle!
Wading barefoot was the order of the day as thousands of residents
of Wichita, Kansas, were stranded downtown by flood waters of the
Little Arkansas river. These venturesome individuals are trying to get
home by fording a more shallow avenue of escape.
Bill White is not a Wac, Wave or
Spar. He is a member of the famous
fighting Irish regiment of Canada,
reminiscent of the Ladies from Hell
of World War I. Here he walks down
Chicago streets, ignoring the loud
whistles.
India’s Delegates to Labor Parley
Members of the India delegation to the International Labor Organiza
tion conference at Temple university in Philadelphia. Left to right:
Jamnadas Mehta, India Federation of Labor; D. G. Mulherkar, All-India
Organization of Industrial Employees; H. C. Prior, Indian Civil Service
and Sir Samuel Runganadha, commissioner.
Hero Welcomed
Pittsburgh’s conquering hero,
Tech. Sgt. Charles C. (Commando)
Kelly, as he is welcomed home by
his mother. Kelly was awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor for
killing 40 Nazis at Salerno.
By VIRGINIA VALE
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
A REHEARSAL of Frank
Sinatra’s Wednesday night
air show is something to
see. Outside the CBS theater
the bobby sock brigade waits;
even when he’s in California
they wait; otherwise they’ll
lose their places in line. Inside, the
Voice, be-spectacled, chewing gum,
has a swell time clowning with Jerry
Lester. But when he rehearses his
songs Sinatra settles down to busi
ness, working like the conscientious
professional that he is. Seeing him
then, you get a new slant on this
likable young man who has shot to
the top in the entertainment field so
rapidly. He ought to stay there—if
the ardent admirers who lie in wait
(or him don’t kill him first; one girl
almost choked him a while ago I
*
Adolphe Menjou, debonair as ever,
nas been dashing about New York,
fust back from bond-selling in
Canada. Meeting friends, he talks
about that trip, and goes on to dis
cuss, not the RKO picture he’s just
ADOLPHE MENJOU
finished with Sinatra, but the fact
that he’s going to the South Pacific
in November. Like other visiting
stars, he was booked knee-deep for
radio appearances; there’s a short
age of “names” in New York.
—*— -
C. S. Forester, the famous author
who wrote “Capjtain Horatio Horn-
blower” and “The Ship,” will write
the story in which Greta Garbo will
return to the screen. Producer Les
ter Cowan engaged him to do a story
about fighting sailors, men and
women, in the Norwegian merchant
marine. Miss Garbo, who hasn’t
liked other ideas submitted to Her,
must be in favor of this one.
—*—
Don’t believe that Penny Single-
ton is as wacky in real life as she
sounds ih the title ride of the air’s
“Blondie.” She was an established
Broadway musical Comedy star
when she was brought to Hollywood
tor dramatic and singing roles; be
fore that, she’d studied journalism
at Columbia university. She turns
out a children’s story occasionally.
—*—
Anita Colby returned from a
nation-wide chore on behalf of
“Cover Girl" with a new formula
for getting a room in an over
crowded hotel. "When they’d say
they were all sold out,” said she,
“I’d ask if they didn’t have one
room that just wasn’t made up yet.
They always had. And I can honestly
say now that I’ve made beds in
some of America’s best hotels!"
*
Barton Yarborough finally did it.
Playing “Doc Long” in “I Love a
Mystery,” by Carlton Morse, he did
260 performances without a slip of
the tongue. Then, instead of saying
“I never believe in sockin’ a
sleepin’ man,” he said “I never be
lieve in sleepin’ a sockin’ man.’’
*
Bob Burns, radio’s “Arkansas
Traveler,” had to go on a diet for
his new picture, “Belle of the
Yukon,” with Dinah Shore and
Gypsy Rose Lee. “Times have
changed,” remarked Bob. “Twelve
years ago I had to diet because I
wasn’t makin’ a picture.”
*
March of Time director Len Lye
and cameraman Bob Navarro were
in Ireland just before Great Britain
imposed restriction of travel be
tween the two countries. They got
out in time with the thousands of
feet of film they had been shooting.
The result is an up-to-the-minute
picture, “The Irish Question,” that
shows Ireland and the Irish as they
are today. It’s informative and good
entertainment.
*
Stuart Buchanan, who now heads
the Blue Network’s script depart
ment, was one of the first to see
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
when it reached Broadway for a re
turn engagement. He’d already seen
it at least 1,500 times; he was dia
logue director when it was made I
—
ODDS AND ENDS—Don't be fooled by
that carnivorous plant you'll see in “Rain-
bote Island^: reproduced from a photo
graph, it operates by electricity. . . . The
parka worn by Bob Hope in “Road to I
Utopia” was presented to him by soldiers
when he toured Alaska. . . . That ex-serv
iceman who recently released old inhibi
tions by playing the drPms on Milton
Berle’s “Let Yourself Go“ program has
had two audition dates, and may land an
engagement with a major orchestra soon.
.. . The bottom fell out of poultry for Don
Ameche the other day when an abandoned
well caved in under his chicken yard, and
plunked hit prize hens into the bottom of
a twelve-foot hole.
Male Brush Turkey Builds
3-Ton Nest; Hatches Eggs
The brush turkey of Australia
frequently builds a nest which
weighs as much as three tons. It
is Hie cock bird that undertakes
the construction of this colossal
structure, which is formed of
leaves and branches and may
measure 12 feet across by 6 feet
high.
The depositing of the eggs must
naturally devolve upon the fe
male, but, having once played her
part, she leaves their incubation
to her hard-worked spouse, who
periodically takes the temperature 1
of the interior of the nest. In so
doing, the bird uses his bare neck'
as a thermometer, subsequently
adding or removing debris as cir
cumstances dictate.
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