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Employment Opportunities For Women Increase While Those For Men Grow Less
By CLARKE BEACH
WASHINGTON. Employ,
merit Jor women is Increasing
while male employment is drop
ping. The number of employed U. S.
women increased from 16,602,000
In May 1948 to 17,173,000 in May
ths year. But in the same period
the number of men at work
dropped from 42,058,000 to 41,
521,000. These are Census Bureau fig
ures as analyzed and reported by
the Women's Bureau of the La
bor Department.
Unemployment is hitting both
sexes alike. The number of
women and men seeking work
rose almost 100 perent for each
sex. This is all a continuation of
a long trend. Since the turn of
the century, and earlier, the num
ber of women working and seek
ing work has been on the in
crease. In the present period of
unemployment, the trend has
been accentuated.
Take the figures on the total
labor force the total of men and
women both working and seek
ing work. The nation's labor
force increased from 60,422,000
In May 1948 to 61,983,000 in May
1949.
Among men the increase in
that period was only 1.4 per cent.
Among women the increase was
5.5 per cent.
Women constituted only 18 per
cent of the total labor force in
1900. They were 29 per cent of
the labor force last May. Twen
ty per cent of women of 14 and
older were gainfully employed in
1900. iast May ai per cent oi
Adventists Here
Plan To Attend
Gladstone Camp
Pastor John J. Robertson, local
pastor of the Roseburg Seventh'
day Adventist Church, at Main
and Lane Streets, will represent
his church at the annual state
wide camp meeting, which will
be held at Gladstone, near Port
land, July 14-25.
A number of local members
also plan to attend, Including
Quintus Diekerson, A. W. Paul
son, Dr. A. N. Johnson, John
Howard, Virgil Olson, E. F.
Northrop, E. H. Hitchman and
their families.
Church Sabbath meetings will
be suspended for the two week
ends of camp meeting, July 16
and 23. Pastor Robertson, to
gether with about 40 other miir
fsters of this conference, has al
ready moved to the camD-eround
and are busy pitching the more
than 1000 tents which will house
approximately 5000 persons. Pas
tor Kooertson nas Deen designat
ed as a member of the Baptis
mal Committee at camp, is a
missionary volunteer young peo
ple's . assistant leader, and will
also take part in several of the
meetings.
The Adventist denomination Is
one of the largest church groups
in Oregon, with nearly 13,000
members and over 100 church-
es. The Gladstone camp, with its
73 acres of grounds, has about
600 modern cabins and total
housing accommodations for 7,-
uuu. ine estimated weekend at
tendance will be about 15,000.
including many from Idaho,
Washington and California.
The camp program will In
clude a full schedule of devo
tional studies and special fea
tures. Campers will hear ad
dresses by leading church offi
cials, including Pastor L. K. Dick
son, world secretary of the denomination.
Pastor Lloyd E. Biggs, Ore
gon state president of the church,
is heading the many organiza
tional details and program ar
rangements of the huge encamp
ment, which Includes a continu
ous series of meetings in six
different auditoriums and meet
ing halls. Activity programs are
planned for each age group.
Adventist camp meetings have
been held annually in Oregon
lor the past TZ years.
Bus Fares Increased
At Salem And Eugene
SALEM, July 13 P) Sub
urban bus lares of the city tran
sit lines in Eugene and Salem
were increased today.
The' new suburban fares will
be 20 cents or two rides for 35
cents. It now is 15 cents.
At the same time, Utilities
Commissioner Flagg granted
permission to Increase the fares
within the city of Salem to 10
cents. The fare now is three rides
for 25 cents. The fares within the
city of Eugene will remain unchanged.
Talking
About a Home?
So many people do noth
ing but talk about it! But
if you really want to own
your home, consult me
now. Personal attention.
Economical terms.
RALPH L RUSSELL
Loam and Insurance
Loan Repreienative
Equitable Savings A
Loan Attn.
them had jobs.
The trend for men was the re
verse. Only 71 per cent of the
adult male population was gain-
tuny employed in May aa-ii). xei
87 per cent of adult males were
employed in 1900. The drop has
been sharp even since 1940, when
79 per cent of adult males were
working.
Explanation Offered
The explanation is that:
1. Men are staying in school
longer. Also, the new pension
programs make it easier for them
to retire. They used to retire la
ter or not at all.
2. Women are finding work
opportunities they never had be
fore. Labor saving devices are
making it possible for them to
get out of the kitchen. And they
need money to buy the labor sav
ing devices.
Women have been encouraged
to work. Also, because the social
attitude toward working women
has changed. Furthermore, the
average woman has fewer chil
dren now than formerly. The big
Increase of working women has
come chiefly among those who
were married.
Women once had too much to
do at home even to consider get
ting a job. But the development
of mass production, through the
Introduction of new machinery
and distribution methods, has
provided at economical prices the
things they once had to provide
themselves: Clothing, laundry
and canned and baked foods.
The growth of factories, too,
has created jobs that women are
physically able to handle. And the
development of business ma
chines has given women new
fields of employment.
Although the typewriter was
put on the market shortly after
the civil war, the "touch system"
didn't come into general use un
til the 1890s. The rapid work
made possible by this and short
hand methods revolutionized bus
iness processes.
Girls were often found to be
more proficient for the work
than men, and they would work
for less. They flocked to the of
fices for Jobs. There was a great
moral protest the temptations
for men and women working to
gether In the same offices, the
physical strain of typing, Which
would ruin the girls health.
But the fact Is that women's
life expectancy rose from 51.1
years in 1900 to 69.5 years in
1945.
And now fewer women are old
maids. In 1900 31 per cent of
women were single. In 1940 only
25 per cent were unmarried.
Wed., July 13, 1949 The Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 3
Barn Burns While Obstinate Bull Battles Firemen
NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.,
July 13. William A. Maza
rlnko and his large, brown bull
aren't speaking todav not after
what happened yesterday morn
ing. Fire broke out in the Mazarln
ko barn about dawn and Maza
rinko called the fire department
which rushed apparatus out to
the farm or almost to the farm.
The bull plainly didn't like red
fire engines he just planted
himself in a narrow roadway
and challenged the firemen to
come on. They didn't.
Doubling as picadors, the fire
fighters armed themselves with
pitchforks and drove the bull
back into a field. The bull got
loose and came back. The fire wai
getting worse. The firemen fi
naily penned the bull in a near
by pasture.
By that ime the big, wooden
barn was beyond saving.
Loss approximated $12,000.
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Columbia Dill Pickles - 20'
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BEEP
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Blade or arm cut.
Govt. Graded Good Beef
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Delrich
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