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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1946
Page
8
Dairy payments for May and June exceed prior estimates by 20 cents per hundredweight for whole milk and five cents per pound for butterfat. Rates are revised to a 15 cent drop from 1945 levels for whole milk and two cents per pound for butterfat, with a 20 cent increase starting July 1. Finalize claims for January to March by May to secure first quarter payments.
Dempsey Jackson and Nelson Hawley visited Patoka on Friday. Ralph N. Morgan and son Lewis joined the Morgan and Guy Morgan party in E St. Louis for Shriners initiation. The Womans Club in Salem met Thursday with attendees including Mrs. Harvey Hurd and others. Morgan stayed in Centralia Wednesday night where Lewis was initiated into Cyrene Commandery.
Archie Beard, chairman of the Marion County AAA Committee, released a message from John F. Bicket, Illinois State Director of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, urging farmers with Federal Wheat Crop Insurance to report damage and request a crop inspection. Crops should not be torn up before inspection and release for another crop. The county chairman noted the damage appears “spotted” in the county.
Cassius Poust argues against viewing public welfare as endless charity. He frames welfare as an investment in reclamation of minds bodies and souls, citing Edison Keller and Templeton as exemplars of progress against old views. He contends care aims to restore mentally ill and physically handicapped to normal, useful lives, not perpetual dependency.
Illinois outlines a shift from charity to investment in public welfare for the physically handicapped and morally challenged. It notes state funds support fourteen medical sites and eleven educational facilities, plus veteran rehabilitation centers started in 1944 and new units at Jacksonville, Elgin, Anna, and East Moline to meet future veteran needs.
The state allocates 3.613 million for Jacksonville and 3.096 million for Elgin with 350 thousand each for Anna and East Moline. Expenditures support care for mentally ill physically handicapped and morally warped wards. State reports show long-term public investments rather than charity as welfare work proves its efficacy.
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