Employment Security and the Future

To O N E J U S T B A C K from overseas the contrast between the United States and Europe is striking, particularly when one is transported in a few hours from a continent of hungry, unhappy people living amid widespread devastation and demoralization to a country with an abundance of the good things of life. But despite the destruction all about one in Europe, i t is inspiring to realize that all countries that are attempting to establish a democratic form of government are united in their desire to build or expand their social security programs. They are all convinced that a unified, comprehensive social security program is essential to the democratic way of life. To give economic and social security to people when they are unemployed or i l l or old, when the wage earner of the family dies, or when other accident or catastrophe strikes a family, is one of the major cornerstones of the United Nations and the new life that is being rebuilt in Europe.