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THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday. April 30. 1970
CongressmanlamesT.Broyhill's
JUasIjUtstutt
WELFARE PRO;;R^.^t
No one I know is satisfied with
the welter of costly piot;raiiis
that make up our welfare laws.
Reform is urscntly nee;ied and
the House of Representatives
took up legislation iasl week lo
ehango the system. After long
and careful study of this bill, 1
fell that it was defeel ve. In
spite of many favoral.le fealuit.!:,
it contained elements that n sh
into unehartod territoi-y too far
and too fast.
'Hie new hill is one df he mi>st
com'ple.\ far rag ing, anti eon-
trdversial hteasures eonsidered
by this Congress. Last summer,
the Pi-esident reeommendid the
plan and since that t me its
merits and impact upon the na.
tion have been sifte I earefully.
The mei‘” • .t s brougiil for
ward for deoatt" under a parlia
mentary pioeeilure whieli pre
vented eonsideration of any a
mendments or changes. Man.v of
us hel'eved tlial a more' modest
bill that would i'lrlude nraelieal
parts of the plan should have
■ been cinsicrerttl. However, th se
were san 'w thed into a large
package that hatl lo be aitprovtsl
or leje led in lord. The bdl was
ag.eetl lo by llie lloust hut, in
my opinion, there art' loo many
tpieslions unanswered and loo
many doubllV, I as.sumplitms a-
btuil the bill as a whole.
Oerlainly, there is ample evi
dence lo support the ehaige that
the present welfare program has
failed the tax-payer and insidled
the poor. The existing welfare
mess is not acletiualely meeting
thr* basic nt-etls of those who are
pe'rman. nlly depen lent nor does
the present program in.jeet any
retpnremenl that |M-ople he help-
€!d to become self-supporting. In
fact, in somt' .Slates, it is more
utiraclive lo go on welfare than
lo go lo wo.k. During the 60's,
welfare t-ases liave soared from
.a..S million to .10 m liion people..
In fi\e years, at present rate of
in.rease, the costs will triple,
from .?! Iiillion lo $12 billion.
'I lie poo)' will r< main .insi as dc.
perulenl i i Ibis present system
of .nstitulionalize.l misery and
llie laxpa,<'i's sedse of frustra
lion at lliese costly faiiures will
increase.
On llie pills siile, lliis plan
would (liroiirage families to slay
togelher. II would rei|uire Uiat
adults .see ring benefils must
legisler for work. Inet'nlives aw
provided for ,job Ira ni l.,-so that
they can hi'eonie ai:!<' lo take
care of ilamsi Ives. Tlii.se not
tie.'i'pling suitable employment
would lie denied lienefils. Kxeep.
lions woiihl l:e m.ade for Ihe
aged, till- disahied. and mother.^
oi pre-.scliool ag ehildien. How-
ever, a new program of .lay-earc
.'■enters w.nild f ee mol'ieis du.'-
ing I lie work'iig d i.v to accept
emplinmenl. Parents w!io de
sert their cli 'd ei won'! bo r.'-
spon.sLlih' for repa . leg llie cost
to the inibl ■ for their .sir.p:;. t.
I 'le-e art lee 'iil ide is .and liiey
offer exe.""e:il i .oss' iililies for
siivciss. llowi'ver, Iho plan
plunges on into a vasi new eom-
milment for a giiaranleed annual
income.
The so-i'alled Family .Assist
ance Plan would provide ineome
guarantees from llie Federal
government holh fo - unemijloy-
eti p. rsons and for I'lose employ
ed with low ineomes. A very
•serier, s (|uestion arises immedi
ately about this asneel of W’Cl-
fare reform that begins h.v ad.l-
ing 1.5 million people lo the pres
ent welfare,roll.s. To administer
Ihe I'.iogram, a tinge new Fed
eral bureaiuraey vvoulcl be cre
ated to bring in tens of thous-
atuls of addiiional Federal work
ers lo administer what promises
lo lie a v rlually unworkable
mass of pioi-edural drlail appeal
pro,e.-,.ses, and Ke.lcral court re
views. As the debate progressed,
answers to reasonable t|uestions
about this plan were simply an
administrative monstrosity.
Aside from lliese problems,
Hugh W. Putnam
At Conference
Hugh VV. Putnam of Cherry-
ville, biology teacher at Kings
Mounlairr High f?ehool, has just
completed a marine sciences eon-
feience at .Morehead City which
was siMinsored by the University
of North Carolina at Chape-1 Hill
.1. VM4W*.I I ill t
though embarking upon a gua-I and Ihe N. C. Deparlmcmt of
ranlei'd annual income could
7 rove riiino s to the country.
I'amily guarantees of $1,600 per
year aw conta ned in this hill,
hut pressures to increa.se these
guarantees to $.3,600 or ,$.'i,000
are already fell in Washington
even before the principle i.s en
acted into law. The willingness
and the ability of the country to
assume llies«‘ huge new. phhga-
tions are, I believe, not fully un
derstood. When they arc, -we aw
1 kely lo see a vigorous reaction.
There are many Americans in
genuine need of public
ancp. However, reforming a had
syslcni should not call for the
impoverishment of Iho middle-
income eitizt'n who will, in the
f nal analysis, bear Ihe greatest
burden of Ihe costs.
ence supervisor^ in October, 1969, | One of our schools recently
and a I’chruary workshop for | bought some second-hand play-
chemistry teachers. ' ground equipment and installed
— t. The other d.aiy the principal
Charles Dickens wanted to be passed by while a janitor was
an actor. ' servicing the equipment.
— - “Say," said the princiuxa.] with
Her mind was an o|)en book a twinkle in his eye, "are you
and judginig. from her hemline still gwas n-g that used kid
the rest of her was too. stuff?”
Public Instruction
I'lio conference was tlic first
statewide biology teachers eon-
forenee designetl lo e.icplore ma.
line sciences. Condiacting work
shops and field trips for the
teachers were the UNC Profes
sors Howard T. Odum, Frank
.McCormick and A. F. Chestnut;
and Wil Hon, diix'elor of the I
Carteret County .Marine Science
Institute. |
.More than 100 Tar Heel biolo- ;
gy teachers attended the confer- '
-.ssist.fdnde.| by the I
.Science Koimdation and !
diri clcd by Dr. Paul Hounshell. I
director of Institutes in Science
at UNC-OH. This NSF grant
also funded a worksliop for sei.)
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