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this type of protection for the aged is far more popular than help for the aged through public assistance. While there will alwayE be some need for public welfare assistance, students of the problem hope that OASI benefits will be extended to other occupations than are now covered. The principal groups now without benefit of OASI are the self-employed, domestics, farm laborers, employees of religious and charitable institutions, and pjblic employees.
We recognize the tact that John Q. would rather pay the bill as a consumer than as a taxpayer, but while we favor one system, we can also recognize that one program is as important as the other and that both programs are basically identical.
This basic identity between the two types of programs may be illustrated by a case history.
There were two brothers, Josephus and Daniel, whose father was a farmer. Now the father owned a few acres of land of rather poor quality. In addition to tilling his land, he secured day work from time to time to supplement his income from the farm in order that he might provide more adequately for his wife, three daughters, and .two sons.
In due course,’the elder son, Joseph'-.s, left home and secured employment in the city some miles distant. The girls also departed their father’s household for employment or marriage or both, until eventually only the youngest child, Daniel, was left at home. He helped his father cultivate the family farm and, like his father, also secured day work in rush seasons on nearby farms. The father died when Daniel was approximately 20 years of age.
Daniel did not take unto himself a helpmeet, but continued to live on the farm with his mother. After the passage of fifteen or twenty years the mother fell ill and became a semi-invalid, whereupon one of the sisters, whose husband had died and who had no children, returned home to help take care of her. Daniel then became the support of an invalid mother and a sister. The brother and sisters who lived ojtside the home and had families of their own made occasional but not substantial contributions to the care of their mother during this period. After six or seven years of invalidism, the mother diei^, leaving Daniel and the widowed sister in the household.
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