Old-Timer

May 26, 1960, Appleton Post-Crescent

Back when longevity was more unusual than it is today and exploiting the novelty of someone reaping government payments for many successive years, comes this story.  Social Security had only been in existence since 1935, yet its promise of limiting what were seen as dangers in the modern American life, including old age, poverty, unemployment, and the burdens of widows and fatherless children, was in full swing by 1940 when this gent retired.  I had the pleasure of knowing Mr. Hare as a young lad as he lived around the corner from me and was good friends with my grandfather.