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Greater Love Has No Man.
By E. C. SEGAR j
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By CHARLES FLANDERS
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TWE AFTERNOON
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By WESTOVER
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Explanation Of Social
Security Program Made
By Special AP Writer
Bv SIGRID ARNE *
WASHINGTON. Dec. 28.— m —
Starting January 1, there will be a
1 per cent reduction in the pay;
checks of some 26,000,000 workers
to remind them they are under a
social insurance plan. That money'
will go to the United States treas
ury as an old-age benefit tax.
Employers will pay an equal tax
on their entire payrolls. Both sums'
will go toward eventual retirement
of workers after they are 65 years
old.
Each of tl^ese workers is to have
a card.
To get such a card, a worker must
fill out an application and send it
to his local postmaster. Then the
government will start keeping a
record of his working time and
earnings. Every time he shifts his
job. or his pay changes, the fact
will be recorded.
An ‘Obsolescence’ Fund
He will go on about his business
and the money he and his employ
ers are contributing will be held by
the government. In effect, workers
will be saving that small amount
each month toward their old age.
And employers, in effect, will be
putting away a fund for the "ob
solescence” of their employes, just
as they now save to replace old
machines.
The tax on the worker’s pay
check will graduate upward after
1939 until it reaches 3 per cent in
graduate in the same manner.
The old-age benefits will begin if
the worker—
1. Is 65 years old and gives up
regular employment.
2. Has earned a total of at least
$2,000 since 1936.
3. Has earned wages for at least
Ann rlnu 4m aa/iVi Aka
years.
Insurance—Not Charity
He need not be impoverished —
social insurance, says the security
board, is really insurance and not
charity. The worker will have a
right to the payments when the
time comes, just as he would have
a right to collect an annuity.
The payments will be between
$10 and $85 a month. They will be
calculated on the total wages the
worker earns between January 1,
i 1937, and his sixty-fifth birthday.
! But a worker earning more than
! $3,000 annually from one employer
will be taxed only 6n $3,000 of his
I salary, and only that much of it
will be counted in calculating his
benefit.
If he earns $5,000 from a single
employer. $2,000 of it will not be
taxed. But if in the same year he
is paid $3,000 by one employer, the
J whole $5,000 will be taxed. And if
j he should be paid $5,000 a year on
i one job and $3,000 in the same year
j by another employer he would be
) taxed on $3,000 of each salary—
l that is, on $6,000,
| Wages will be counted regard
less of the number of different es
tablishments or states in which the
worker has been employed.
When the time comes to retire,
| the amount the worker will get
each month will be decided by add
ing up three figures:
The first figure will be 1-2 of 1
per cent of the first $3,000 earned.
The second figure will be 1-12 of
1 per cent of the next $42,000.
The third figure will be 1-24 of 1
per cent of all above $45,000.
Workers Can’t Lose
When the worker, having reach
ed 65, decides to retire, he will ap
ply to his district office for the
old age benefits. His record will be
gone over by the social security
board, his monthly payment com
puted and that payment certified
to the Treasury.
F#om then on as long as the
worker lives a monthly check will
arrive by mail from the Treasury.
If he dies before he has been given
i the full amount he naid in. his
family will be reimbursed.
No one is forced to retire at 85,
but the old age tax stops on a mail's
wages at that time. When he finally
stops work, he receives the usual
old age benefits computed on the
amount fee earned between January
1, 1937, and his sixty-fifth birth
day.
In no case is the money deduct
ed from the pay check lost to the
worker. If he stops work or dies
before he reaches 65, he or his es
tate gets back the money he put
into the plan. Lump sum payments
will be made to Individuals who
reach the age of 65 but do not
qualify for monthly benefits. These
payments will equal 3 1-2 per cent
of their total wages.
Those Left Out
There are some groups of work
ers not Included in this old-age
benefit plan They are:
1. Self-employer persons
2 Railroad workers (who have
their own retirement plant
3. Agricultural laborers
4. Domestic helpers
5. Casual workers not in the
course of the employers' trade or
business.
6. Seamen,
7. Federal employes.
8. State employes.
9 Workers for non-profit educa
tional, charitable and religious or
ganizations. -
A worker employed part of th,
time in an industry covered by th.
act and part of the time m som.
service excluded is not. disqualified'
For instance, a man might b«
employed on a farm in the summer
and in a factory in the winter h«
would not be taxed on his agricul
tural earnings, but he would be tax
cd on his factory wages. His bene"
fits likewise would be based on his
factory income, no account he ir
taken of his farm earning*. 8
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YULETIDE VISITORS
Farmers Make Use Of
Good Weather
Here
• Special to The Star.)
ST. PAUL, Dec. 27.—Th? farmers
in this sectitn took advantage of
the pretty weather the past week.
Most of the folks worked on until
Christmas Eve, for fear the winter
would soon set in again and there
wouldn’t be much working weath
er.
George Canipe, who is employed
in Charlotte, recently visited his
home people.
Mr. and Mrs. M L. Murray had
as their dinner guests Christmas
day: Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Smith and
lamuy, j-rwigno wuson, Jim Ed
mond and Louise Hethcard, Mr*.
Fred Hoyle and family, all of Fall
ston; Mr. and Mrs. Griffin Murray
of Casar, Mr. and Mrs. Georg*
Murray of Waco. Mr. and Mrs. W.
C. Murray and family and Mr. and
Mrs. John Lavery and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Herschal Snellings,
Mrs. W. A. Canipe and Boyd Can
ipe spent Friday with Mr. and Mr*.
John Canipe and family of Rosa
Grove.
Mr. and Mrs. Carol Self and son,
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dalton, of Shel
by, spent Friday with Mrs. E A.
Dalton and Miss Essie Dalton
W. C. Murray is a "record break
er” when it comes to killing hog*.
One day the past week he killed
four, three for his neighbors and
<me for himself.
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Costner
attended the family homecoming
and Christmas dinner at the home
of the latter's mother, Mrs. J. Y.
I Elliott at Beams Mill on Christmas
day.
Miss Irene Dellinger, teacher in
a Cherryville city school, is spend
ing Christmas holidays with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Del
linger.
Boyd Canipe. a member of the
Belwood school faculty, returned
home Wednesday to spend the holi
days.
Carlyle Smith, who is an em
ployee in Kings Mountain, spent
Christmas day with his parents. Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Smith.
Miss Blanche Harrelson spent
the Christmas holidays with her
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs Mau
rice Hord and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Teele and
daughter of Shelby, were the Fri
day dinner guests of Mrs. Teele*
sister, Mrs. Dwight Costner.
M. C. Hord, Miss Francis. Dwight
and Robert Hord, of Lawndale,
visited Mr. and Mrs W N. Har
relson and family Wednesday
Mr. and Mrs. Jethroe MeSwain of
Bess Chapel spent Friday with Mr
and Mrs. Abe MeSwain and fam
ily. .
Mr. and Mrs Grady Smith and
.. the
| lauiuy vhiwuu»*
I latter’s brother, Lera Hamrick and
family. .
Miss Madge Harrelson Con* an®
Stowe Harrelson attended
Christmas program at U»ndaj
Thursday night.
D. H. Cloniger, 50,
Killed In Wreck
red
LINCOLNTON, Dee 28 - -Doras
Cloniger, 50, prominent business»»
of this city, was fatally injur
about 9:30 o’clock Frldav. " 6,
when struck by an automobile
he was crossing the street w
of his home. .
The driver of the machine, w
aid Rudisill, carried the ml
man to a local hospital «'herf
Cloniger died shortly before m
night. . hv
Mr. Cloniger -is survived
widow, and a son. Hermit,
daughters. Misses nfl^rr%,;uff0rd
Lala, Sylvia and Mrs J f s
L.aia. eyivia anu - - ,h«rs
all of this City, and three brotW
M B and N. G Cloniger * c
M r> ana n. ^ —* . vnr
tonia, and A T. Cloniger «• -
6. C
Funeral services w"«
Sunday.
w*'d fee
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