England Revamps Social Program

Britain is in for an era of social reconstruction after the war, supported by all classes," according to Mrs. Mary A. Hamilton, a member of the British Paymaster's Department, worker on the Beveridge Plan, and former Member of Parliament, who spoke last night at the Faculty Club.

The Beveridge Plan, which is an integral part of this reconstruction, is based on the social legislation of the past and is intended to unify their various features and fill in what other plans left out. By this plan, however, all the social services will be put under one central authority instead of being left to the individual agencies, as before.

All Have Chance to Work

The plan will place a floor under which the standard of living is not to go, according to Mrs. Hamilton, who added that there are many ways in which this will be accomplished. "For instance," she said, "all men out of work will receive compensation only if they are willing to work and, more important, to be trained and shifted to a different job."

The cost of this plan is to be borne by everybody, the rich and the poor, and all classes in the social conscience awakened by the war, will support it. the levies to support the increased cost of social service will be so collected in order that the common man will feel that he has a stake in the funds, she explained.

Mrs. Hamilton said that England is in a state of extreme vitality, not only is there much thinking about the internal situation, of which the Beveridge Plan is a product, but also about international affairs. "At no time has there been so much coldly sober discussion about international cooperation."