SECURITY FOR EVERYONE. ?

The world today is much concerned with the
idea of revolution# in forms of government as a means of
bettering the conditions of common humanity.--What the
world needs most for humanity's good is not so much a
change in forms of government as a change in the hearts of
men, a general lifting of the level of ethical ideas and
practices. If we never get that change, no matter what the
form of government, the conditions of humanity will not be
essentially bettered.

In the United States the situation is unique
The prospect for full realization of democracy would seem to
be brighter in this than in any other country, for here
the democratic ideal is the original and traditional one.

It requires no comment to show that the
declaration of the democratic ideal has not yet, in practice,
included "all men".

One phase, the question of what to do to ensure
security for all, has found an answer in the Social Security Plan
But the real problem is how to do the job so that each and every-
one, without let or hindrance is included. It is our belief that
Social Security is meant to be a cure and not a palliative to
insecurity.

But in its present scope there is an error of omission,
for the social security plan seems to have made no provision
for sickness insurance. Furthermore, in its plans on Old Age

Benefit and Help, there is a definite clause which bars: agricultural labor, domestic service in private homes, casual labor, teaching, nursing outside of profit organizations, and social work as professions to which old age Benefits should be extended.

The pensioner on 1/3 his salary has great difficulty adjusting his budget to a former standard; obviously it is well nigh impossible for those who are paid little or nothing.

In the line of productive opportunities, the Negro not fully integrated into employment opportunities, regardless of commensurate capacity, carries the brunt of future uncertainty now and beyond the period of war, if Capital and Labor do not give him full consideration for life and living. Thus the Negro bears the brunt of uncertainty which is being borne by the darker races the world over, despite their numerical superiority of 4-1. # A mark of progress in Labor's program, especially the CIO, toward those who fall within the range of the minority elements, demonstrates Labor's awareness that our problem of insecurity can be solved both by the prescriptions of the Social Security plan and the cooperation of special organizations.

We may focus the limelight at this juncture to the lessons that capital should learn in the problem field of security for all by taking one example that of transforming Harlem in New York City from what it is thought to be to what it should be: the solution is an extension of mortgage consideration to investors, now denied even a hearing. And for this main reason improvement is yet to be practicalized on a scale commensurate