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« 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

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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

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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.



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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. Miller of the Department of
Social Economy is president of the
Board of Directors of the Interna-
tional Institute which is presenting the
Festival and Mrs. Rufus Jones is
chairman of the Festival Committee.
The purpose of the Festival is to
present to Philadelphia the rich cul-
tural possessions that it has inherited
from people whom it usually tends to
ignore.

Beginning early in the summer with
the cooperation of the WPA., five hun-
dred welltrained dancers and musi-
cians of 12 natignalities have pre-
pared to stage a pageant of Native
Folk Dances with authentic costumes,
music and settings.









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