Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-23
W|NANT SELECTED
HEAD OF SOCIAL
SECURITY BOARD
President Appoints New
Hampshire Republican and
Two Democrats.
ALTMEYER Of LABOR
Department MEMBER
Vincent M. Miles, Fort Smith,
Ark, Attorney, Given Short
Term of One Year.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.

President Roosevelt today appointed
as members OF the Eewly-created So
cal Security Board former Gov. John
G. winant of New Hampshire. Sec
ond Assistant Secretary of Labor Ar
thur j. Altmeyer of Wisconsin and
Vincent Morgan Miles. attorney OF
Fort Smith, Ark. Winant will be
chairman.
In sending these nominations to the
Senate, the President stipulated that
Gov. Winant. the OILY Republican OF
the three, will serve for q term of six
years, Altmeyer for q term Of four
years and Miles for q term OF one
year. It was stipulated further that
these terms will start from August -
last.
In appointing the board. President
Roosevelt took the first step to start
in motion the social security act re-
Gently signed by him, and looked upon
by him as one of the outstanding So
cial reforms in the history Of the Gov
eminent.
PENSIONS ana AnnultieS.
This act provides for old-age pen
sions and annuities, aid for the de-
pendent blind, unemployment insur-
ance, assistance for dependent chill
dren and various health aids. Upon
the request Of the Budget Bureau the
House Appropriations Committee a.
ready has recommended an appro-
priation totaling $4,000, 900 to carry
out the provisions of this new act dur
ing the remainder Of the present fiscal
year.
The three members Of this i'm
portsnt board will receive a salary
OF $4,000 q year. Gov. Winant, q
native Of New Hampshire. where he
was born in 1889, served In the past
year on the advisory council to the
Presidents Committee on Economic
Security. and assisted In preparing
the original draft Of the subsequent
social security act. Last Summer. at
the Presidents request. he served as
one Of the mediators In the threat
ened widespread textile strike. He
has degrees from Princeton, Dart
mouth and the University of New
Hampshire. and following conspicu-
Gus service in the New Hampshire
House Of Representatives and State
Senate he was elevated in 1925 to
the Governors chair. He was again
elected Governor in 1881, his term
expiring three years later.
Served in World War.
Gov. Winant saw service in France
during the World War. He enlisted
as q private in the A. Z. r. and shortly
afterward was assigned to the air serv-
ice. Subsequently, he was promoted
to captain Of the Eighth Observation
Squadron on the French front.
For . number of years Gov. Winant
has been prominently identified with
social and welfare work as well Is be-
ing q student of economics. He is
vice president of the National Play
grounds and Recreation Association:
president of the New Hampshire Tu-
berculosis Association and trustee Of
the Y. M. c. A., besides being a men,
Der Of a large number Of organizations
and associations identified with well
fare and social work.
Mr.. Altmeyer, who was recently ap-
pointed Second Assistant Secretary Of
Labor, was at one time Labor Com
missioner Of his native State Wiscon-
sin. Before becoming Assistant Secre-
tary of Labor, Mr.. Altmeyer served in
leading capacity in the compliance
division of the N. r. A. Also. he was
chairman of the Technical Board
which advised the Presidents Com
mittee on Social Security, and he, too.
assisted in the planning for the pres
ent social security act.
Mr.. Miles was born in Marion. Va,
in 1885, and after graduation at the
University of Virginia and Washing
ton and Lee he moved to Fort Smith,
(See WINANT, Page 81