Evening star., 1936-07-07
SOCIAL SECURITY
ACT IS EXPLAINED
John A. Marshal Addresses
Founders Conference
of De MoIay.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo, July PRO
visions of the social security act were
outlined today before the De Molay
Founders Conference by John A. Mar
Shall, director of the Unemployment
Board for the District of Columbia,
who appeared as personal representa-
tive of Chairman John A. Winant of
the Federal Social Security Board.
Speaking of the goal of social secur-
aty, Marshall asserted our thinking
about the causes. remedies and means
of handling the problems of social in
security has not always changed with
the times. Until 1880 We were han
ding the dependency resulting from
economic insecurity much as it had
been handled under the old English
law Of the sixteenth century
To-day as Nation we are getting
Under way new, more orderly and
more economically sound and desir-
able method of handling economic in
security. The problem is as old as
civilization, the cost has always ex-
sted and always will"
Lists 10 Phases.
Marshall listed 10 different parts of
the social security legislation, includ-
ings grants to States for old-age as
slstance, Federal old-age benefits, un-
employment compensation admins
tration, aid to the blind, maternal and
Child welfare and public health work,
the social security. taxes with respect
to employment and on employers of
eight or more.
He pointed out to the young men of
De Moilay that in years to come they
automatically will group themselves
either as employers or employees. In
uustry," he said, either directly or
indirectly. bears the brunt of the
cost"
The conference, now in it's second
day in Kansas City's new $4,000. 900
municipal auditorium, was called to
consider the future course the De
Molay movement is to take and basi-
cally to view the problems now facing
young men
Lester Addresses Conference.
>~o eAAS "a OlEeCIOT u,
Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau
OF Investigation. Inspector w. H
Drane Lester, administrative assistant
In the bureau, addressed the confer
ence yesterday on operations of the
law enforcement agency, the training
OF its men and the cost of crime to
the United States each year. which he
estimated at SIS ,000, 100000.
I wish to dispel the erroneous idea
10 the effect that all our time is spent
In chasing kidnapers and bank rob-
bers," Lester said. TT is a compare =
lively small part of our work. Dur
Ing the. fiscal year 1885 we sent up
470 individuals for steaing from inter-
state shipments, 1897 for stealing au-
tomobiles and driving them across
State lines, 221 for violations of the
national bank and Federal Reserve
acts, 205 white slave traffic act vio-
lators, 1877 impersonators of Federal
officers, 1T for violating the national
bankruptcy act, 176 for theft of Gov
ernment property, 70 bank robbers
and 40 kidnapers."
he tolo OF the large number of
young men arrested for crimes and
pointed out how they might have been
steered into right living Expose him
as the dirty, sniveling coward he inva-
rably turns out to be and you will find
that few young Americans will want
to follow in his footsteps" the inspec-
tor declared.
If you, the public-spirited citizens
OF this country, will cooperate whole
heartedly with the local authorities
and Federal officers, the crime prob
lem will cease to exist" Lester con-
cluded