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4 Th News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Man., Aug. 14, 19S0 Ito 3lou)$ltcuiew Published Dally Exctpt Sunday by tho Naws-Revitw Company. Inc. tsUrtJ M ueetl ! Iter My 1, lt?i. si tht fflee t BMbr(, OrtftB, Itr ot f , March I. lfllt CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manager Member of the Associated Press, Orogon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Audit Buroou of Circulations llimillri af wrn-UOLLIDur CO, tNU.. affleaa la Maw '. Claaa. taa rraaclaea. Ui Aagalaa. Saaltla. rarllaaa. St. lala SUBacMimu ATe ib Oti.-By Mail ft far Mae ;U aiaatai UM. lara naalai lt.Si B Cllr CarrUr far Tai tla.BB (la aataaeal. Im ! aaa aaar. af rnaala Sl.aa Oaulaa Otaaaa By Hall Pt, faar S.aa. ais aiaalaa M.la. iaraa aiaataa It-la. PLANS FOR AGING By Charles V. Stanton People 65 years of age or more number almost four times as many as in 1900. The number has grown from 3,808,498 in 1900 to 11,500,000 during the past 50 years. By 1960 the population 65 years and over will be approxr miMv 1S.0nn.000. iwreasine- to 20.000.000 by 1075. These figures are gathered from published and unpub lished data compiled by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, Fed eral Security agency, Public Health service and Social Se curity administration Economic planning for this advanced age group is to be undertaken at the first national Conference on Aging this week in Washington. The exploratory forum is expected to bring together some 800 leaders from all parts of the country to discuss such matters as employment, health, old age security, education, retraining, leisure, religious in terests, family and community activities. Mr. Fay W. Hunter, federal security regional director in San Francisco, comments on the situation as iouows: Today tho average lift spin it 47 years as compared to lost than 50 in 1900. In view of thii itartling Inert. tt, ovaryona of u Is parsonally Intarattad In making tha addad yaars worth living. In viaw of our prasant sarious national situation, wa should ba aqually intarastad In halping our oldar paopla utiliia all thalr skills and txptritnea as part of our common affort to strangthan tho nation's total Interesting Facts Gathered In preparation for the national conference, some very interesting facts have been assembled. Women, for instance, have fared much better than men in the gain in life expectancy. In the year 1900, for ex ample, there were 102 men, 65 years or more, for every 100 women. Currently there are 90 men in that same age group for every 100 women, It is not that male life expectancy has failed to increase, but rather that great strides in medical science, particularly in the field of obstetrics, have influenced the life span of women more than men. In 1850 only one in every 38 Americans was past the age of 65 years. In 1900 the proportion was one in 25. To day it is one in 13. The income picture for aging people presents a serious problem, for, from the information gathered it appears that more than one-third of the people in the age group being studied have no money Income. More than two million have incomes of less ttmn $500 per year, and another two million have incomes between $500 and $1,000. In the employment department,, about one-half of the , men aged 65 or over are self-employed, as compared with one in five in the total male working population. The em ployed older men include 679,000 farmers, 329,000 pro prietors, managers and officials, 302,000 craftsmen, fore men and kindred workers. Professional and semi-professional workers, number ing 130,000 men and 43,000 women, comprise six percent of the older working population, the same percentage as professionals in the total working population. Only 45 per cent of men 65 years or more of age are actively in the labor market. And This One Can't Be Turned Off! THE WORLD TODAY By DEWITT MACKENZIE AP Foreign Affairs Analyst The nmailng cure and long ranfte planning which Moscow al ways has devoted lo communism's world-revolution is strikingly illus trated by current indications that TIED China Is about to absorb Ti bet. Tibet 'roof of the world," perch ed in lofty isolation on the Him alayan plateau and dwelling in cen turies long past! What possible use can bolshcvism have for that pri mitive land? True, Tibet bulges into China on the North and into India on the South, and this gives rise to the question of whether it has stra tegic value militarily. Well, it has some, but it isn't great for practi cal purposes. Much more to the point is its mineral wealth, which is believed to he great. However, it strikes me that com munism is mure interested in the country's spiritual wealth than in minerals. Tibet is the cradle of Chinese Buddhism, which has a strong hold on many followers. There also are many UtHdhists in India and other Asiatic countries. Long Try The Communists have been try ing to gain control of the r e ligious heads in Tibet for a long time. But the Reds must do more than get control of the 16-year-old ruling Dalai Lama and his immed iate advisors. Communism will have to be forced on the Buddhist monks who comprise one-fourth of the country's entire male popu lations. So occupation of Tibet might fa cilitate the acceptance of commu nism by the very aloof Ruddhist clement. Theoretically that would give both Moscow and I'eiping an important influence with followers of this religion, both in China and in neighboring countries. Actually, of course, the hermit kingdom, as Tibet is called, for merly was a part of China. It withdraw at the time of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's revolution and set itself up as an independent nation. Pei ping now proposes to bring Tibet back into the fold, but has been moving very circumspectly so a not to give offense to Buddhists. So much for Tibet, whose case is cited to emphasize the dogged fiersistencc and the careful organ zation of communism. The broad principles of tho world revolution were laid down when communism came to power in Russia after the successful bolshevist upheaval e f 1918. There naturally have been devi ations to meet new contingencies, worked out by Lenin and Stalin. Fifth column activities were to develop revolutions for the over throw of governments and the es tablishment of communism. The edict was that revolutions must be achieved by force, so as to im press their importance on the masses. Attacks Fifth column activities started immediately, and I had the oppor tunity of observing some of them at closo range, since I was an AP correspondent in Europe at that time. Red agents made a heavy onslaught on England, and spent large sums of money which were said to have been raised by sale of some of the czarist crown jewels. The bloody Hungarian rev olution, led by Bela Kun. came in 1919 but failed of success. Then the astute Stalin saw that the world revolution was getting ahead of itself. So he slowed it down in fact practically shelved it for a time and inaugurated his programs for strengthening Russia industrially and militarily. But never for a moment was there any thought of abandoning the in ternational crusade. There have been fortuitous de velopments of which Moscow has taken quick advantage through the years. But broadly speaking the Kremlin still operates with blue prints made in 1918. Perhaps the taking over of Tibet wasn't tnerifirallv inrltiHf.,1 in the original blueprints, but w e may be sure that it was part of the general picture. Moscow doesn't work by guess. HAVE ONE TUlMCi T$JiNkJjrW 1 O-M- in commou- VJyTT I cvw caciEMERWe ; . .-. Human Misery, Death Trail Seesaw Warfare In Korea; Refugees Show No Emotion pjfPf By Vmhnett S. Martin You Can Do It" is a charmina book written by one who has much to give and gives it. The swcci young thing enamored of the stage will find rich reward in the pages of "You Can Do It"; and tne mature person earnestly hoping to read the Bible aloud so that listeners will hear, not the reader but the reading, will find practical help in the last half. tor "You Can Do It" was writ ten by the' cook in "Life With Father." Dr. Kildare's mother co authored it, too. And the mdlhcr in over a hundred other roles helped. Not to mention the stars ot many stage productions prev ious to nor movie roles. By which of course we mean Emma Dunn. Of Margaret, the cook in Lite with Father, Miss Dunn writes: "It served to illustrate the verv basis of this book, that no mailer how small the task, It can be perfectly done and comuletplv satisfying if we have love in the doing. Of all the parts in a long career on stage and screen I con sider this small part my greatest experience, because it enabled me lo prove my lifelong principle. ." To illustrate her ooint. Miss Dunn uses her own experiences, some many years ago, some re cent, ine supenicial reader might Cossibly see the first part of the ook as merely autobiographical. uui wnen ne readies tne chapters inougm venality m the voice; Balance and Poise; and .Public Speaking" he will surely change his mind. And when he reaches the climax of the book, "Reading the Bible Aloud," he will find a practical textbook. By the time we reach the last chapter we understand what hmma Dunn means when she says the Bible must be read "against the mood." The words it read undcrstandingly need no 'interpretation' from the reader to be overzealous in such a way would be to read 'with the mood' (and that, we gather, is what a ham-actor docs!). ' "The great art of reading is the art that conceals art; it is to be so unselfed' as to allow the idea to be itself. 'Ye shall not add unto the word.' (Deut. 4:8)" "All other studies fall into line with much less labor when one knows how to read the Bible. 1 recommend reading the Bible aloud above all other books as it reveals the faults and idiosvnera- cics of the reader, and helps him to awaken to true values in read ing. . .Undoubtedly one reason why Shakespeare has remained so constantly with us is that he has used the Bible so undcrstand ingly he quotes the Bible twelve hundred times." 'You Can Do It" bv Emma Dunn (Industrial Art Press. Can- oga Park, Calif. 1947) n The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS. Local Kiwanians Plan To Attend Spokane Conclave The Kiwanis club of Roseburg will be represented at the annual convention of the Pacific-Northwest Kiwanis district Aug. 20 to 22 at Spokane, Wash, club president Maurice Newland announced. Don. H. Murdoch, prominent Winnipeg, Manitoba, business Bv HAL BOYLE WITH U.S. TROOPS IN KOREA fAP) War has no box seat for the innocent bystander. And the tides of combat have turned the roads of South Korea in to dust choked lanes of human misery and death. As you travel ui w uie irum you see such things as these: A slender middle-aged woman plods along bent almost double by m T HAL BOTLE 2fij the weight of her a-- - Ijlmnlhp, a tnnth. & " liess crone who tm as2clings to her like a small child playing piggy back A young lad leads by the hand a blind old man with a white beard thinned by time A naked wailing little boy trots through the line of refugees looking for his par ents. ... , An elderly couple, too feeble to walk, ride in the back of a jolting ox cart On a pallet beside them is stretched a youth who looks as if he were dying of tuberculosis His eyes are filmed in languor and his face is as pale as though it already were lit by death's luminous can dleA lame girl with a twisted foot limps after them. . . , Childran A mother carrying all her house hold belongings in a bundle on her head holds a baby to her breast and suckles him Peasant children spread their wares on mats by the roadside Some pause by rice pad streams and bathe their bare and swollen feet worn raw by the stone rutted roads Still others lie log still in exhausted slumber. Over the straggling figures rise storms of yellow dust stirred ud bv the churning wheels of military ve hicles. The refugees clog traffic. Motor horns honk impatiently. Wor ried truck drivers shout curses. But the refugees move out of the way slowly. They are in no hurry be cause most of them do not know where they are going anyway. : Many have no homes to eo back to. Their villages have been burned by artillery fire, strafing plane at tacks, or razed by withdrawing American troops to keep them from becoming hiding places for enemy vehicles. The Reds have a habit of driving their tanks through the clay walls of village huts and using the thatched roof as camouflage. Stoic The refugees neither weep nor complain. Nor does one family ask or expect help from another. Their expression is as stolid and blank as that often worn by infantrvmcn too long in the line a dumb acceptance ot sutlenng and an indifference to it because their world has no hori zon beyond pain. Only as you near the front your self do you see fear. Here is panic in the eyes of women and children who flee peaceful homes under the thunder of strange guns. Some wan der aimlessly toward the battlelines to keep these lines clear. South Kor ean police order the refugees to fol low the stream beds back or take paths through the hills. After days and days of driving back and forth through its shifting, restless, endless sea of human suf fering your mind becomes numb to the flight of thousands of individual atoms that compose it. So much dis tress dulls the eye. You feel sorry for them all but there are so many that only a few cases leave a sore spot in your heart. I remember two. Crossing a bridge I saw a man in tattered, soiled white rags crawling on hands and knees -cross the drt stone-stud ded creek bed below. He held up a pleading arm to a group of refugees but they turned their eyes away and walked on. 'All Humanity' And I guess that is what I did too. Coming home at twilight, our jeep passed a solitary bearded old na tive guiding his way down a moun tain path by tapping the ditch edge with his cane. He turned his sight less eyes toward us for a moment and then his cane began tap-tapping again. We turned a bend and he was gone. But all the rest of the way I had a feeling that th blind old man was all humanity himself a loie refugee fumbling downhill in dark ness stone by stone through a world wrose reai brightness was shut forever from his eyes. TELEPHONE OR CALL OR WRITE, WELL HASTEN LIKE AM ARROWS FLIGHT vav IX) N H. MURDOCH I Continued from page One) Fair Program Auditions Scheduled Tonight Auditions for the amateur pro gram to be presented at the county fiiir Aug. 17, 18 and 19 will be held from 7 to 9 o'clock tonight at the Roseburg junior high school. Mrs. Kenneth Atturbury will XMnervitA Ihn aillilinn Inr I h program, which is sponsored tiv the Roseburg Active club. Those tnlereifpH hill linahtn tn altAnrl lh auditions tonight are asked tn call Mrs. Aiterbury, phone S19-R1. Somebody objected to that on the grounds that starting to rearm Germany would orecipitatc an im mediate Russian attack. Churchill scoffed at this idea, asserting: "Believe me, the long calculated' designs of the Soviet government will not he timed or deflected by events of this order." I Imagine that Churchill Is right, as he usually is. The Kremlin has its plans laid. It knows what It is going to do now, what it is going to do next year, what it is going to do the year after that . , . The regretful part of it is that our side hasn't known on any day in the past critical four years what it was going to be doing in the way of foreign policy the next day. That, of course, gets us back to the old $64 question: WHAT IS RUSSIA UP TO? What are her plans? I don't know. It I knew, I would be the biggest man in the world. But if I were Russia I'd keep throwing Koreas at us ALL OVF.R THE WORLD, until we were run ragged and weary chasing from place tn place. THEN, when we were worn down by the physical effort of chasing from here to there to meet the situations thrown at us by Moscow, jf I were Russia. I'D COME IN AT THAT MOMENT FOR THE KILL. Remember This fighting in Korea isn't kill ing any Russians. Those who are dying are RUSSIAN SATEL LITES, and Russia has satellites (stooges) to throw at the birds. One must assume that about I the time we think we have Korea under control the Chinese commies will tackle Formosa. We've made I our statement that we'll DEFEND Formosa. That will throw the Chinese com mies at us. There are hundreds of millions of them, all put together . . . So we'll have Korea all to do over again, but on a bigger scale. leader and president of Kiwanis International, will dcliever the prin cipal address during the three-day meeting. Delegates from 190 clubs in the district, comprising a membership of almost 11.000 business and professional leaders are ex pected to attend the various ses sions. The presiding officer will he Oilman O. Rolstad, Tacoma. Wash., business college principal and governor of the Pacific-Northwest kiwanis district. Committee conferences, panel discussions, and election of officers will be convention highlights. Delegates who will represent the Roseburg Kiwanis club will b e President Newland and vice-Prcsi-dents James E. Slattery and N. D. Johnson. Alternates include Earl Plummet H. C. Berg, and Dr. E. J. Wainscott. Irvin Brunn will also attend. Wives of some Of the members will also make the trip. They will leave the latter part of this week and return about Aug. 23. REFRIGERATOR FRITZ? PHONE 805 Complete Service on Home and Commer cial Refrigeration. Berah Appliance 9 Service GUARANTEED FAST SERVICE' 1200 S. Stephen FOR . SERVICE. . . EXPERIENCE . . . . CO-OPERATION . ; , Investic ' - the services offered by your "Home owned, Home-operated" bank. Money left on deposit with us remains in DOUGLAS COUN TY All facilities available for your individual needs. Douglas County State Bank Member Federot Deooslt Insuronca Corp. - , " i w -i'i 4 - - & 5 , t4- " J' vti -afcfca j v I S,-' f.'r laalaaaaja.aaaaaa "li'al And so on . . . After Korea, Formosa . . . After Formosa, maybe, Hong Kong and Indo china . . . After Indo-China, maybe Malaya . . , and so on around the world. In all of (his not a single Rus sian would need to be involved. Moscow would be saving all the Russians up for the final finish. I don't know whether that I s what Moscow actually proposes to do. but I certainly know that is what 1 would do If I were sitting in Moscow's chair. Columbia River Salmon Bringing Higher Prices I in 1400 pounds of Chinook. The average of all deliveries hung at I the 500-pound mark. Fishermen said they were "nice ! fish," weighing out at about 29 pounds, on average, i The retroactive price rise o b ! tained by the CIO Columbia River hishermens protective union was reported to have included a bonus payment, amounting to as much as $400 in some cases. Tuna catches meanwhile were slumping. Some of the boats were returning from the tuna grounds, but all had light loads. There was scattered talk that maybe the "alhacore season is over." ASTORIA (Pt Columbia sal mon are rolling in with t h e price up to 25 cents a pound. One packer and union agents announced the new price, retro active to the beginning of the season April 30. The former price was 17'i cents from April 30 to August 10, and 20't cents to the end of season on August 26. All other packers are expected to follow the price rise Packers said that a limited catch, plus the high quality, made it possible to pay fishermen the higher price. Meanwhile, salmon hauls were heavier than in anv time during the season. One gillnetter brought (rim.1 The onswers 10 everydoy insurnnce orobtems By KEN BAILEY QUESTION: I understand only of the $10,000 firs insurance policy we hove on our house applies to the garage. We recently built a playroom over our garage ot con siderable expense and 1 would like to know how to insure the in creased value. ANSWER: The garage may be in sured separately and It would be wise to handle it that way in the circumstances you describe. ir If you'll address vour own in surance questions to this office. We'll try to give the orrect answers and there will be ne charge or obligation of any kind. KEN BAILEY INSURANCE AGENCY 315 Pacific Bldg. Phone 398 Best way to tpruce up a telephone u with a toft, dry cloth... never with water, or any other liquid. HOW TO TREAT YOUR TELEPHONE Suggestions to help protect your service 'fc--s! M:!l a H.lailarialia'S',llif. S.W i I MtiwlatT la Hrd t:;irt-.......- -.saw .sSIs,. J. " i 1. A tw isted cord can lead to trouble. Although the wires are especially designed for flexibility, too many twists and kinks may eventually break them and inter fere with service until a repairman can call. Good idea to get the curls out by letting the receiver dangle and unwind by itself . . , then keep them out by remembering, each time you call, not to put turns in the cord as you handle the receiver. J. Did you ever stop to think that your telephone is one service or piece of equipment in your home that's repaired and maintained for life at no extra cot to you? It's one of the values included in the rates you pay for service . . . rates that make your service a real bargain today. For the telephone takes an even smaller part of the family budget than it did ten years ago. On the average, rates hae gone up less than half as much as the tost of living generally. ) Pacific Telephone 2. It's built to take it . . . but your telephone can develop ailments if it's dropped. So make sure the stand it sits on is solid and is in a spot where it won't be accidentally bumped. Other ways to help protect service: Avoid "gadget" attachments for your tele phone . . , keep cords clear of doorways where they may be pinched . . . and always keep water away from wires and fittings. PRICE INCREASES SINCE 1940 N TERRITORY WE SERVE FOOD UP 10? Clothing cost of UP 8?x LIVING UP 66 rm m m ra ! - Q ibmii nen AVERAGE TELEPHONE RATES UP 27 Your telephone is one of today's best bargains
