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By rouy Edison for ll-re. NEW SOCIAL SECURITY. Almost everybody who works for wages will be under social security when the new law goes into effect in January. And near* ly all other workers , who want to be. Mainly, the groups not cov ered are farmers—who for the most part made no effort to get in—professional persons such as doctors, who didn’t want in, and various government employes groups who have retirement funds of their own. Of special interest to women, the new law—in addition to bringing more people in and rais ing payments so they are more in line with living costs—includes the following changes; 1. A wife of any age may get benefits if she has dependent children and her husband was a covered worker. If she is only 30 when her husband dies, for in stance, she starts to receive monthly checks. Up to now, only the children got monthly checks and the wife did not—until she was 66. The change will enable more widows to keep their fam ilies together. 2. A husband may receive ben efits at 65 on his wife’s social security account if he is depcnd ent on her for support—if she is fully insured when she retires at 65 or when she died before that age. 3. A divorced wife, if she is caring for the insured worker’s ■children, is entitled to benefits in some instances. 4. A retired worker, his wife •or widow, and minor children may qualify for benefits without regard *to their financial resources such as savings, property or other in surance. Husbands, widowers, and parents, however, must estab lish that the worker had been furnishing at least half their sup * s - J BABY SITTERS AND COOKS. Regularly employed hired help around the home—be they baby sitter, cook or practical nurse come under the system if they make 350 during a quarter, and work full or part time on 24 days of that three-months period. Housewives, or whoever is boss in the family,; must pay 1 1-2 per cent of their hired help's salary into social security and see that the help pays the mum. Whoever works for the heuse wife on a regular basis and meets the above requirements must have a social security num ber—and the housewife must see that the taxes are paid. No group needs social security mere than domestic help and we can't be lieve that any housewife will mind the extra bookkeeping. The Treasury is going to make the system as simple for her as pos sible, and social security admin istration . workers of your area will gladly explain it to you. HOW COSTLY. The increased benefits now due you will cost a little mere, if you make $3,600 a year or more. The tax rate paid remains the same for next year—or 1 1-2 per cent—but it will be collected on $3,600 of a person’s wages rather than on just $3,000 as now. If the wage is exactly $3,600 a year, the tax nbw will be $54 a year for the Worker and a like amount for the employer. This means $108 into that worker’s ac count during the year. That’s as much as anyone pays, for the tax is not collected on_ .anything above $3,600. The tax is less, of course, if the wages is less than $3,600. WHAT COMBS BACK? Most people get back more than they pay into social secur- j ity, but everybody should remem ber that they are paying into a social insurance system and not into a savings account. No one draws out of social security like they would out of a bank account. The idea is not that you get back exactly what you pay. Everyone covered pays in at the same rate —1 1-2 per cent—but payments aye made on summon welfare basis. A working wife, for instance, might never get anything on her own account. She is entitled to hers, if she wants it, but she can select benefits on her husband’s account—if that is larger. She cannot get both. 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ITS CHEAP When you pay social security tax you not only are contributing to an old-age pension for your self but you are paying into a fund which helps dependent chil dren. widows! the blind, and the destitute. In no other insurance system operating in the country could you get so much for so Tittle and help so many other | people mt the same time. IS IT PERFECT? | No. It helps you in old age, helps bury you, helps keep yonr family together if you die, helps the destitute. But it does not help cover sickness and disability if they hit before the worker is 65. A fully insured worker, for instance, can become completely disabled at 45 and have to wait 20 years for his social security. Labor groups and the- House of Representatives thought the new bill should make it possible for a disabled worker to begin drawing social security at any age. But the Senate did not think so, and this part of the bill -was killed. Some day without a doubt, the country will have a health insurance program to cover such cases, all health emergencies. In the meantime, these disabled workers can start getting social j security next year—if you elect' enough Congressmen who believe as your own labor leaders do It would be simple to add such an amendment to the present bill, if your Congressman — and enough nthere—wsated to do so.—tfste' only for candidates who believe I RIGHT on such subjects. Do not i be swayed by propaganda from • the insurance companies and the American Medical Association. PROFITS AND WAR Our country does not have an excess profits tax. This is dan gerous to all of us during a war period, because the absence of such a tax is an invitation to raise prices and make a quick profit. Send to Washington a Con gress that believes in taking the profit out of war on all levels. Not necessarily because people get rich on profits, but because too-high profits come from too high prices and to-high prices destroy our economic system. They undermine social security $525.00 Porkor Gorfair Go. CAKES CANDY A GOOD PLACE TO REST AND REFRESH We want you for our customer MAYFAIR HOTEL NEWSSTAH Charlatt*. N. C. Soft Drink. — Im Cream Two Rulings Issued By Local Election Board Election Board Chairman John G. Newitt has issued two im portant rulings on the conduct of the November 7 General Elec tion One of them concerned absen tee voting by civilians and armed forces personnel and the .other deals with change of polling places in Lemley ‘township. A number of questions on ab sentee voting have arisen, Mr. j Newitt said, and these are the rules for application that should clarify the procedures: 1. By writing to the Secre tary of State, Raleigh, N. C., or 2. By writing to the Chair man of the Board of Elections, Charlotte, N. C., for Mecklenburg County residents in the armed forces; or, 3. By applying to the County of Mecklenburg Board of Elec* tions in writing,, through some member of his or her immediate family, and through their appear- | ing at the election office and making the application (Husband1 and wife, brothe.* and sister, pa rent and child only.) 4. These applications for eli gible voters in the Army, Navy, Marines or other armed forces may be made from now to the General Election. As to civilian applications to vote by the ab sentee ballot these cannot be made until 30 days before No vember 7, 1050. When the application of an eligible voter in the armed forces is received, it will lie processed at once by air mail. Applications should contain information as to address of voter, his or her age, voting residence and desire to vote the absentee ballot. Absentee voting will not be permitted in the school and audi torium bond elections scheduled for September 30 and October 17, Chairman Newitt emphasized. The ruling on the changes in Lemley polling place*: Those who reside in the follow ing described area will register and vote by obtaining a transfer and register in Box Number 1 located at the New Bryce Fiddler Store on the Gilead-Bethel Road. Beginning at a point on the dividing line between Deweese Township and Lemley Township at the corner of the Robert J White and Bryce Torrence lands; and the wages for which you or your husband works. Every time your grocery bill goes up or you have to pay more for bed sheets, it reduces the value of the social security cheek others are receiving and which you some day will receive. Your dollar buys less. Your social security check means less. Re member this at election time. THE COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK Charlotte, N. C ■ ' ' : - Declare your independence by| buying Independence Bonds and running thence in a westerly direction with the Moee White Creek, crossing the Gilead-Bethel Road to the southeasterly corner of the J. B. Jetton, Sr., estate; thence. with the southerly line of the said Jetton lands in a westerly direction to the north* erly line of the lands of the Captain John Brown estate; thence with that line oh a westerly direction to the Beat tie’s Ford Road; thence in a line due west through the Hunter’s Chapel Colored Church property to the east bank of the Catawba River; thence in a southerly di rection with the east bank of the Catawba River to the divid ing line between Lemiey Town ship and Long Creek Township; thence with the southern line of Lemiey Township in an east erly direction to McDowell Creek; thence with McDowell Creek and the easterly line of Lemiey Township in a northerly direction to the point of beginning. Those w'ho live in the following described area will vote, and those who have not registered and wish to register, will regis ter and vote in Box Number 2. which is located at the home of J. Boyce Knox, Rt. 1, Davidson, North Carolina. This area being called Box 2 and being com prised of the northerly part of Lemiey Township not includ°d in the above description of Box 1. Bloodworth On West .toast Atlanta, Ga. — Vice President J. O. Bloodworth, Jr. Office Em ployes International Union, has been on, temporary assiftnment in CaHfornia where it has been reported that a (treat deal of activity | among the Office Em ployes has been in existence. Vic* President Bloodworth is expected to return to the Southern terri tory in a few weeks. It’s American to vote. Don't fail to vote November 7! WE HAVE THE VOTES LET'S USE THEM HILL BROS. FURNITURE, CO.. INC. NEW AND USED FURNITURE 110 No. College T#fc 4-2525 I CHARLOTTE, N. C. 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