Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-04-08
DIR. w. w. FUTILE SPEAKS
ON SOCIAL SECURITY LAW

Owing to many other activities.
the attendance at the meeting of the
Women's Democratic Federated club
of Morgan county Friday night was
not SO large as usual, however a
very interesting meeting was held.
The first of the evening was q fine
| musical program, during which Mr..
and Mrs. Henry S. Hopkins played a.
number of selections. The playing
/ OF Mr.. and Mrs. Hopkins is always
keenly appreciated, and the speaker
of the evening paid them a splendid
and deserving tribute. The Happy
Hollow Boys were also on this par.
of the program. They had appeared
before and are getting better and
better. Many of Major Bowes' anna
teur programs have nothing on these
three fine boys-James and Gerald
Vanoster and Leroy McIntire, all OF
Malta. Mrs. Rachel Parmiter of
Meigsville township favored with a
couple of beautiful solos. with Miss
Evelyn Winegardner accompanist
Mrs. M. B. Strahl president of the
club, presided and introduced the
speaker, DR.. w. W. Tuttle of the
public assistance bureau of the well
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was Care of Dependent Children
Under the Social Security Act he
touched on the other phases of the
social security measure. Prefacing
his remarks, he spoke of the desire
to assist one another, and of the
brotherly and neighborly spirit
which has been evidenced in the
past. He said that the principle OF
the social security was nothing new,
and he briefly traced the different
methods that have been employed in
the past, from the primitive days TO
the present time, under the social
security act, which is just good
|neighborliness on large scale. He
named, and briefly discussed the ten
provisions of the social security act
the old age pension program, un-
employment compensation, aid to
the needy aged the blind, dependent
children, maternal and child wei
fare service, vocational rehabilita-
ton and public health service.
There are approximately $4,000
dependent children in the state,
102,5O0 needy old people, $500
blind. The speaker reviewed the
various methods which have been
tried in the matter of caring for
dependent children-of taking them
away from their mothers, placing
them in the county home, the board
ing house, etc, but he said the best
method is to bring them up in their
own homes, and to do so means to
provide needy mothers with means
to properly rear them.
Dr. Tuttle went ahead to show
the work the social security plan is
doing for children, and called at
tention to the marked progress
made by surgery in treating bodily
defects in children. all of which SER
vice is part of the social security
act; and the same is true of the
blind, in which they are taught
! trades so that they are self support
| ing. The speaker stated that the
subject Of social security is 50 broad
that it was impossible to discuss all
the various phases of it.
DR.. Tuttle is a most interesting
speaker of the conversational type.
He welcomed questions that any
might desire to ask him. His ad-
dress and the meeting in general
was entirely free from anything that
bordered on the political. At the
conclusion of the meeting refresh
ments were served.
The meeting next month will be
Roosevelt-Dagey gathering, and viii
be in charge of Mrs. Stella Durbin.