Evening star., 1941-01-20

our national GOVeynment-aS 1t has
always been of the American people.
We advancing toward this goal along
lines laid down by Federal and State social
security laws most of which were passed
within this period. But the goal itself is not
newt is part of strength and our
tradition to believe thct children should have
good start in life that every man should
have the chance, and the obligation. to take
care of himself and his family; that in old
age the worker and his wife are entitled to
well-earned peace and stability; in short,
that the general welfare is really made up
of the well l-being of all the people.
The decade of the 1905 will be remem
bered in our history as that in which these
purposes were first implemented by Nation
wide governmental action. During this pc
Rod the unique character of American Gov
ernment-its basic partnership as among the
individual citizen, the local community, the
State, and the Nation-has found practical
expression in comprehensive system of So
cial protection. AS a result of the unprece-
dented advances which Federal-State CO.
operation has made possible in recent years,
we now have-better health and welfare pro-
visions for the Nations children than COM
muniteS were ever before able to maintain;
extensions of public education to provide vo-
young people and to help them bridge the
economic chasm between school and job;
more adequate aid for three groups of those
who cannot support hemselyeS-dependent
children, the blind. and old people who are
in need: expanded and strengthened services
to promote the public health control COM
munlcable disease prevent other causes of
ill health, and rehabiltate handicapped
workers so that they can again become self
supporting In addition to all of these, we
have established two great systems of social
insurance designed to forestall widespread
causes of economic insecurity. Old-age and
survivors insurance enables working people
to build up protection for themselves and
their families-insurance which will provide
An income when old age or death cuts off
their earnings. Employment security pro-
vides job insurance which pay out-of-work
benefits between jobs, and it also now in
cludes, as part of the same system, our pub
lie employment service which offers Nation-
wide facilities for bringing men and Jobs
together
The number of individuals and families
benefiting from all of this is beyond counting
We have figures for every one of the pro-
grams that go to make up social security
each reaching millions, with the So million
workers having old-age and survivors insur-
ance accounts standing as the largest sector
of the people directly covered by any single
program.
RUT the total gain is greater than the sum
of its parts. Eaci? man, woman and child
who now has a more secure foundation for
his own life makes his contribution to the
security of his neighbors and of his fellow
citizens from coast to coast. We have re-
laor md nd toIi1 oII
there is no security for any one unless there
is security for all.
Another old truth which we have revitalized
had to do with the effective use of our Gov
ernnent mechanisms. Recognizing that no
puotic service or agency can operate in a
waesr-tight compartment. divorced from re-