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Changes o Announced in
Unemployment Benefits
Important revisions in the Georgia
Unemployment Compensation Law
will become effective April 1, through
an act passed by the Legislature and
signed into law by Governor Talmadge
last week, Labor Commissioner Ben
T. Huiet has announced.
The major change in the law raises
the maximum amount of benefits pay¬
able to eligible workers from $15.00
to $18.00 per week and establishes a
definite minimum of $4.00 per week.
A uniform duration of benefits of 16
full weeks for all eligible claimants
also is provided. *
Under the new law, workers will be
required to serve only one waiting
period of two weeks in a benefit year,
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whereas under the old law it
possible for a claimant to serve as
many as five waiting 1 periods, each of
two weeks, in a benefit year.
A benefit table, by which workers
may determine their weekly benefit,
amount, provided they know their
earnings, is substituted for the present
complicated formula and all
checks will be computed to the nearest
dollar.
The new law also provides
workers who quit their jobs without
good cause, or who are discharged
for misconduct in connection with
their work or who fail to accept suit
able employment may he penalized in
both waiting period weeks and loss of
benefits. Under the old law, addition
al waiting period weeks were the only
penalties.
A sliding tax scale for employers,
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1911
based on their employment records,
becomes effective next January 1.
Under this plan, the amount of con¬
tributions paid by an employer will
vary from 1 per cent to 2.7 per cent.
In the interim, a continuing committee
provided for in the new act w.ll study
maku recommendations to the
commissioner and Advisory Council
i concerning the merit system.
Other important changes in the law
follow :
The Commissioner is empowered to
adopt such regulations as may be
( for period ot
j necessary to preserve a
three years the benefit rights of in
: dividuals who have been called, draft
j ed or enlisted in any branch of the
military or naval service or any
organization affiliated with the de¬
fense of the United States since Jan
uary .1, 1941.
Contributions on individual salaries
of over $3,000 annually are exempted,
the interest rate on past-due contribu¬
tions is reduced to one-half per cent
per month and the time limit for
! making application for termination of
coverage is extended to March 31.
Contributions are 'made payable on
a basis of “wages paid” instead of
"wages payable” as set forth in the
I present law.
MANY VARIATIONS FOR
JOHN SMITH’S NAME
The American Weekly says: “Of
all the earth’s families probably there
is none more numerous than that
named Smith, and of all the Smiths
in the world it seems that at least
50 per cent have been named John.
If the name were not so common we
should probably admire it and see it
through glamour, as we do many other
names that are not half as solid and
substantial.
“As it is, plain John Smith is not
very high sounding—it does not sug¬
gest aristocracy, yet it is good and
honest. Translated to other languages
it seems to climb the ladder of re¬
spectability.
“Thus in Latin it is Johannes
Smithus; the Italian smooths it off
into Giovanni Smithi; the Spaniards
render it Juan Smithus; the German
adopts it as Hans Schmidt; the
French flatten it out into Jean
Smeets; the Russian turns it into
Jonloff Smitowski; the Icelanders say
he is Jahanne Smithson.
“Among the Tuscaroras he becomes
Tam Qua Smittia; in Poland he would
be known as Ivan Schmittiweiski;
among the Welsh mountains they
would call him Jihom Schmidt; in
Mexico his name is whitten Jontli
JF’Smitri; in Greece he turns to I’on
Sinikton; in Turkey he is almost dis
Iguised as Yoo Seef.”
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Poster being displayed by tin- loenl State employment office‘in connection
with a Nation-wide effort to register workers for defense jobs, Those
lining asked to register are the unemployed and those employed work ers
who have skills needed itt certain defense industries but are not using
such skills in their present jobs. This does not include anyone now
Working in aircraft manufacturing, shipbuilding, machinery manufac¬
turing, or machine shops.
Deaths From Heart
Diseases ltier eaSllli^l
The swift pace of modern living is
killing people faster than the marvels
of medical progress can save then*.
The old killers are being conquered.
•Mortaltiy rates from typhoid, diph¬
theria, tuberculosis, malaria, flu, dys¬
entery, pellagra, and pneumonia are
being phenomenally decreased.
Yet all the lives saved are being
offset by the toll of heart disease
alone—just one of the ills that man¬
kind brings upon himself by working
too hard, worrying too much, eating
too much and drinking too much and
trying day after day, year in, anti year
out, to gear his pace to a swift-mov¬
ing world.
Fewer babies die by 15 per cent
than died in 1920, yet automobile
■ leaths increased by 400 per cent. Half
as many mothers die in child-bed as
died two decades ago, yet twice as
many people commit suicide, and hom¬
icides increase by 20 per cent.
Last year the progress of medicine
and the tireless labor of the Public
Health Service in Georgia saw 4,250
fewer people die from typhoid, mala¬
ria, meaies, whooping cough, scarlet
fever, diphtheria, dysentery, pellagra
and tuberculosis than died in 1920.
Yet 4,284 more people died from
heart disease than died in 1920. And
1,699 more people died from cerebral
hemorrhage (paralytic stroke), anoth¬
er cause of death that can be brought
on by living too fast, than died in
1920. The combined increases far
offset the combined gains of medicine.
The answer, according to Dr, T. F.
Abercrombie, of the Georgia Public
Health Department, upon whose sta¬
tistical comparison of 1920 and 1940
the above figures are based, is simply
this: Relax.
“Every man who works hard at his
job, who does a lot of thinking, who
finds himself tense and tired and
strung too fine at the end of a day
should have a complete physical ex¬
amination,” Dr. Abercrombie said.
“He should find out from a doctor
just how much he run stand. A heart
gets tired. It needs rest just as any
other part of the body needs rest, If
men would only take the time to have
themselves checked over, many times
their physician would be able to warn
them in time to save them.
<< For those who find their heart
has weakened under the strain ot top
speed living, there’s no cause for great
alarm. Sometimes taking things easi¬
er will be enough. Sometimes a
change of diet will help. Sometimes
some deep-seated disturbance in the
kidneys is the cause some trouble
that will respond to treatment, But
the main thing is, just relax.”
In the past twenty years, while
other diseases that formerly took a
heavy toll of lives were being cut
from one-half to more than three
fourths their former mortality, Dr.
Abercrombie pointed out, heart :ii
sease has increased by more than 200
per cent; cerebral hemorrhage, embo¬
lism and thrombosis more than 100
per¬ cent; cirrhosis of the liver 44 per
cent, and nephritis (kidney disease)
41 per cent.
A few others of the old-time killers
are showing increases in the mortality
tables, not in spite of, but because of
the progress of medical science in
combatting them. Syphilis is showing
gains because the “great imitator” is
being brought into the light and
blamed for the damage it is doing.
Twenty years ago a syphilis death
might have been called most anything.
Today 169 clinics throughout Georgia
findin * *• * ly
fignlmg it and conquering it.
Appendicitis is blamed for more
deaths in 1940 than in 1920, because
it is being called by its right name
now and is no longer allowed to hide
behind such meaningless diagnoses as
“acute indigestion.”
Cancer seemingly is increasing be¬
cause cancer is a disease of old folks
and there are more old folks alive
today than there were in 1920. Medi¬
cine is saving people from death by
typhoid at 30 and cancer is getting
them at 60. Yet cancer clinics are
proving daily that early cancer can
be cured.
Georgia had nearly a quarter-mil¬
lion more people in 1940 than in 1920,
but only 42 more people died, a mar¬
velous tribute to the progress of med¬
icine and surgery and the work of the
public health service. And this is
only part of the story. Georgia is a
far healthier, happier place to live in
than it was 20 years ago.
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