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Aug".Jfet 2i>8i, 1823, at the posteffirv
at Takotra, Alaska, under the Act
Of March 8r< 1879.
Taliotna, Alaska, December 15, 1934.
While some plan of unemployment
insurance seems certain to be enacted
in the coming session of congress, it
would be unforthnate if extravagant
hopes were entertained regarding
precisely just what such a plan
could do. Some are evidently under
the strange impression that it would
provide a substitute for relief. It
would do “scientifically,” they seem
to believe, what relief payments
now haphazardly and wastefully.
Such hopes rest upon a misconcep
tion of what unemployment insur
ance is. No plan can bring money
out of the sky; a properly managed
insurance plan can pay out only
has been paid in. One consequence
is that no matter how promptly an
insurance plan is adopted—and if
it is ultimately to depend on enact
ments in fhe individual States that
may me**, a4 least a year or two—
it would require a period of tea
months or longer from the date of
enactment before the plan could be
gin to pay out benefits. It would
first of all have to build up reserves.
Benefits could *be paid up only to
persons employed at the time that
the plan went into effect or sub
sequently. And they could not be
paid out indefinitely even to them.i
In England no worker is entitled to
unemployment benefits for more
than twenty-six weeks in a year;
under the recent plan adopted in
Wisconsin, the maximum duration of]
benefits for any one worker is only
ten weeks a year. Some limitation
of this sort is necessary to keep the
fund solvent. 1
An unemployment insurance plan,!
therefore, could do- nothing to relieve
the present unemployed. It would!
be useful only in relieving future
unemployment, and even that would
be strictly limited. Not until the
British had distinctly separated
their relief payments from their j
insurance payments did their insur
ance plan become self-supporting.
No matter how “scientific” the
unemployment insurance plan adopt
ed by Congress or the States, it
■weuld in no way solve or mitigate
the immediate problem of relief.
There is no way in which relief can
be made “scientific” or not burden
some. It can and should, however,
be made relatively non-political and
less wasteful.—New York Times.
THE SAAR PLEBISCITE
(Washington, D. C., Post) *
In mid-January the people of the
Saar district will cast their votes for
or against a return of that rich
coal-mining territory to Germany.
For a long time charges and counter
charges have been heard to the
effect that pressure is being brought
to bear upon the inhabitants to in
fluence their decisions. According
tu current reports, opponents of the
Nazi regime allege that 80,000 to
100,000 names have been falsely en
tered on the voting lists and de
mands are being made in consequ
ence for postponement of the Jan
uary plebiscite pending a check by
authorities of the League of Nations.
x arsons acquainted with the sen
timent: of rhe majority of Saar
. .. hue. »f, however, uo not belive
that the election roils need to be
paaded to insure a favorable vote
to oerniany. The region is German,
the people are German,and their
sympathies are German. The labor
unions may not take kindly to the
Nazi regime, and reattachment to
an economically enfeebled Germany
has serious disadvantages. Never
theless, the racial and sentimental
ties, which Nazi propaganda has
been seeking to strengthen will
probaby prove irresistible.
GOLD BRICKS FOR THE AGED
(From Washington (D.C.) News)
Dr. Edwm Witte, head of the ad
ministration group preparing feder
al legislation for econmic security,
is worrying about certain private
organizations selling schemes for
oia age pensions and jobless insur
ance.
He has records of 36 such organi
zations. One ambitious promotor is
out to sell congress on a plan toi'
$2(k -a-month pensions to every Am
erican past '60, the benefaction to be
financed by a 10 per cent retail sales
tax. Ibis would cost the govern
ment $24,OGC,6vO,OtiO a year, or nmre
than one-haif of the national in
come.
A rival outfit goes this one better
by offering a pension to ail over 55.
Some of these movements are
sincere. Others appear to l>e chief
ly interested in selling costly litera
ture and memberships. Still others
are said to skate perilously near the
postal laws against fraud. They
seem to thrive on the hopes of a
class already too poor and discour
aged to bear any more expenses
and disillusionments.
As Hr. Witte says, the raising of
false hopes makes more difficult the
efforts now afoot in Washington
and elsewhere to evolve a workable
security program for the aged and
unemployed.
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If We Only Understood.
Could we only draw the curtain
That surrounds each other’s lives,
See the naked heart and spirit,
Know what spur to action drives,
Often we should find it better,
Purer than we judge;
We should love each other better
If we only understood.
Could we judge all deeds by mo
tives,
See the good and bad within,
Often we should love the sinner
All tne while^we loathe the sin.
Could we know the powers working
To overthrow integrity,
We should judge each other’s errors
Writh more patient charity.
If we knew the cares and trials
Knew the efforts all in vain,
And the bitter disapointment—
Understood the loss and gain—
Would the grim external roughness
Seem, I wonder, just the same?
Should we help, where we now
hinder ?
Should we pity when we blame?
Ah! we judge each othet harshly
Knowing not life’s hidden force,
Knowing not the fount of action
Is less turbid at its source;
Seeing not amid the evil
All the golden grains of good—
Oh, we’d love each other better
If we only understood.
Anonymous.
The mind that is cheerful in its
present state,'will be averse to all
solicitude as to the future, and will
meet the bitter occurrences of Life
with a placid smile.—Horace
I
OREGON GROUP TAKES KNOCK
OUT PUNCH AT DEPRESSION.
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If anyone doubts the old saying
that, "iojvI helps those who hep
chemseves,' he can find a living ex
ample of its truth in a lii-tie colony
on the Tillamook bay out on the
Oregon coast, according to Cappei.s
U eexiy.
This little co-operative enterprise
is tiio result of a woman's idea.
Mrs. biouise Smith reasoned tha.
cven enough the depression seemed
lO nave gotten the best of them
there stih must oe some way ope;,
to support themselves without ask
ing lor relief. The idea she devel
oped was to go the seasiiore ana
make tne ocean produce a living for
them.
Besides her own, four other
famines and six single men, wage
earners, living in the interior- of the
state, ail on the verge ot Restitution,
agreed to go in on the proposed
venture and move to Tillamook bay.
They took ali their belongings in an
ulu car a..u a truck. The group had
less loan ip-b in cash between them.
At Lay-ocean, a small seasiue re
sort, they found an old abandoned
hotel building. They obtained the
privilige of occupying it in ccnsid
;u:i i. -■! . -king some repairs.
Part cf the group was set to work
to make the place habitable, the
rest began to catch fish, crabs ana
and clams. They soon had plenty
of sea food for themselves and a
surplus to sell. Then the house
wives began to prepare their catch,
especially crab meat, cooking it in
various ways, also canning clams,
ready for the table. That brought
extra profits.
Their surplus of sea foods that
couldn’t be soid was bartered for
other needs—fruits and vegetables,
groceries, dairy and poultry pro
ducts and even gasoline. Next a
deal was made with a woollen mill
at Salem to trade crab meat and
clams to its employees for woolen
cloth which a seamstress in the
colony is making into clothing.
Not ior.g after that a deal was
closed for the old hotel building and
payments are being made on it.
Soon the Artisan’s Co-operative
community, as the colony has named
itself,hopes to have its own home,
the objective all are now working
for. They have had a good living
thru this first summer, plus the joy
and satisfaction that comes .from
being self-supporting. The future
is one of the rosy prospects.
There is nothing spectacular
about the achievements of this little
group of victims of the depression.
Too many are willing to throw up
their 'hands and become dependent.
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King Alexander of the little king
dom of Yugoslavia, who was assas
sinated recently was the world’s
second highest paid ruer. He re
ceived the American equivalent of
#1,134,162 a year as against $75,
000 paid the president of the United
States. The emperor of Japan is
the highest paid ruler in the world I
but his $1,291,050 yearly is only j
slightly more than King Alexander’s j
income was. Both these small mon- <
archies are among the most pov
erty-stricken nations on the face of
the globe.
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