Ee g THE COLLEGE NEWS —_— — « Current Events _ (Gleaned from Miss Kraus’ speech) - Common Room, December 8.—‘So- cial Security,” says Miss Kraus, “aims to provide the minimum safe-guards against the common hazards of life.” The Social Security Act is a result of a message sent to Congress by President Roosevelt on June 8, 1934. Many people do not realize the neces- sity for social security; they do not - yealize that even before the depres- sion there were over a million men out of ‘work, that seventy per cent of the wage-earning population had incomes under fifteen hundred dollars a year, and that twenty per,cent of these wage earners had to meet sickness bills. of a hundred dollars or more. The Social: Security program has three aims: first, to provide work at a decent wage level; second, to make housing accessible to lower income earners; and third, ®, .provide mini- mum safeguards again unemployment, sickness and old age. The PWA and the WPA have car- ried out the first aim in providing publically financed work until indus- try and private enterprise can reab- sorb the workers. The NRA. dealt with labor and set minimum wage levels, and the AAA tried to safe- guard minimums. . The Federal Housing . Administra- tion has built up and remodeled hous- ing already existing; the PWA Hous- ing Division has as its objective the —_—_—_— creation of new housing, and the pro- |’ vision in this way not only of -re- employment, but of the minimum needs of living. The third aim is to be accomplished by a Nation-wide federally admin- istered pension system for which con- tributions will begin this January. In other words, the aged are to be as- sisted by way of Social Insurance. In these three ways all the unem- ployed wili be provided for. The temporarily unemployed are put on a work program, the chronically unem- ployed are turned over to more per- manent groups. The Unemployment Compensation Scheme is part of the Security Act and plans the preven- tion of future depressions by a better type of help to future unemployed. It also finds other expression in cer- tain provisions for safe-guarding chil- dren’s he#th and for rehabilitating crippled ups. America is behind European coun- tries in social security legislation. Private capital and initiative have not solved the problem here, and the re- sult has been slums and unspeakable living conditions. But in spite of the fact that these conditions are staring | America in the face, the American, people are not ready to accept a social security program. Conflict will arise primarily from the collection of taxes; and people object, moreover, to the way in which legislation is being rushed in the states. The laws will be poorly drafted, their administra- tion will be bad; but social security is being attempted here for the first Book Reviews Honorable Estate—by Vera Brittain To those who read Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth, the autobiogra- phy of a brilliant member of the gen- eration “lost”? by the War, the ap- pearance of Honorable Estate is of special interest. In this novel Miss Brittain again deals with the effects of the War on youthful personalities, but she enlarges the field by covering two generations of the twentieth ¢en- tury. Her title is taken from the marriage service of the Church of leipcbae and implies much of her theme, the position, political and so- cial, of women in England and its change from the first suffragist move- ments’ under Mrs. Pankhurst to the election of the heroine of the third part of the novel to Parliament. The character delineations in most cases are excellent but uneven, especially with Denys Rutherford, son of the first heroine and husband of the third. 'As in her previous book, Miss Brit- tain’s best work is in the descrip- tion of the state of mind of the girl whose whole equilibrium was threat- ened by the tragedies of the War. The book is a long one and the read- ing is slowed by the profuse quota- tions, but it is well worth while. time and must be given a chance. It is like a baby—very impressive, but very, young. Loose Organization Is Cause of Strike Continued from Page One are those subsidized, by ridiculously generous government mail '/contracts. The small companies are simply used as “spear-heads” and cannot yield, although they are willing to do so. Some of these large companies have been given boats by the government which they are to pay for over a period of twenty years, at one-half of one per cent interest. Several principles dwarf even the money and living-condition issues in this strike. The men wish to have their own conciliation board with the ship owners to discuss the dismissal of seamen; they wish to have their own “hiring halls” run in a rotary system so that chances for work would be evenly distributed; in addition, they want a sliding scale of wages to fluc- tuate with economic conditjons. Once reorganized, the ish to join the A. F. of L. and to Saat it out” the way they have their own organi- zation. They will then have the power to demand the enforcing of a “safety- at-sea code.” 1n case of war, they will be able to refuse to transport mu- nitions, as several crews effectively did during the Italio-Ethiopian war. McINTYRE’S DINING ROOM AND GRILL 23-27 E. Lancaster Ave., Ardmore SEH FESTIVAL TUESDAY TO -SHOW NATIVE DANCES The Folk Festival..that. is to be given at the Academy of Music next Tuesday evening has a peculiar con- nection with Bryn Mawr, because Mr. H. A. 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