Evening star., 1934-11-26

The administrators program for
social security meets wide approval In
the press, but some observers reserve
Judgment until the details of the plan
are worked out and q few are frankly
skeptical Of the advantages to be de-
rived from social legislation.
This kind of insurance is 50 vital
to our future welfare" declares the
Boston Transcript, that plans to
establish 1t should no longer be de-
layed." The Kansas City Times thinks
the program "is calculated to appeal
to the sane and enlightened people Of
the country"
The Buffalo Times observes that
"all will cheer the Presidents insist
ence that recovery and security must
60 hand in hand" while the Buffalo
Evening News says the President Is
indefinite" in his "ofIicial utterance
on the subject" The Jersey Observer
says that the plan is too all-embrac-
ing and too full of promise to permit
anything but the most careful consid-
Grafton ere it is definitely launched" I"
"A sane approach to a problem that
has to be faced" Is the way the New
ark Evening News characterizes Pres
ident Roosevelt's outline Of his plan
for unemployment insurance, while the
Portland (Oreg.) Journal declares: "A
period Of advance is here. 1t is de-
manded by the people" The La Crosse
Tribune contends that society must
get it through its head that one way
or another it has to pay for unemploy-
ment anyhow, and that funding the
bill through insurance is not only hu-
name, but good business in its own
right" The Escanaba Daily Press also
emphasizes this point, stating that
under our present system instead Of
paying for unemployment as we have
it. we have thus far succeeded in push
ing the cost over onto our children and
grandchildren"
The real problem" in the opinion
Of the Grand Rapids Herald, "is how
to gain q measure Of economic security
for the American people with the
greatest benefit to all concerned and
the least possible jar to industry and
business, already overburdened with
the problems of taxation and other ex-
penses continuing in operation" The
South Bend Tribune holds that the
taxpayers were specifically given re-
assurance by the Presidents statement
that unemployment insurance must
be financed by contributions, not by
taxes" but the Toledo Blade thinks
that Gin the last analysis, it must ap-
pear that it makes little difference
whether payments into an unemploy-
ment insurance fund are earmarked
taxes or labeled contributions In
either event the unemployed would be
supported by those who work as en-
ployers or those who work as employees.
The idle poor, whether the idleness be
voluntary or involuntary, earn moth
ing"
If a system Of insurance Is adopted
calling for equal contributions from
the employer, the employe and the
Government, "are not contributions
from the Treasury only another word
for taxes?" asks the New York Sun.
The Los Angeles Times-Mirror thinks
entirely too little is known to JUS
tify action on q Nationwide scale at
the present time" The Minneapolis
Star disagrees and contends that the
Federal Government Is the place for
such Q program.
The New York Herald Tribune is Of
the opinion that the primary features
Of the British system are it, centrali-
sation and Its checks on individuals,