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t 4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Frl., Jan. 28, 1855 ... Published Dally Exe.pt Sunday by the News-Review Company. Inc. (Urt hu Um Itw Mir 1, MM. tki lo . ' eaiaaarl, Orim. aaaar mot al Marek i, ISIS. ' CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Manager 7 ! Member f the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers ' r - "' Association, Hit Audit Bureau of Circulations ' , BpfUiak4 tr WHT-BOLLIDAT CO., INC., alllaaa l Naw lark, Cklaat a, lu rreaolaea. Laa Akfalaa. 111. rarllanS, Daaaar iiiurunmil SATES-la Orataa-Br Mall Par Taar. Slt.Ml all ajaatat. M M; tl)raa aaailki, 11.2a. OillKt Orafaa Br Hall M laat, llt.Nl all aaaatka. IT.Ml tkraa naalki, li.M. '-Bf Kawa-Baalaw Caff lar Jar Iaar, I1I.M (la aatane.l, Ikaa aa f j, .. jar Maalk. f t.t. MEANING OF OREGON'S GROWTH . Albany Democrat-Herold Thumbing through the bienniel report of the Oregon State Board of Health the other day, we were surprised to find that during the last two years Oregon enjoyed 80,000 births and suffered 50,000 deaths a natural increase in population of 50,000. This means that the maintenance of a similar margin or births througnout tne aecaae wouia give this commonwealth a gain of 250,000 in population during the 1950-1960 decade. , .. That alone would bring the number of the state's in habitants up to' close to 1,800,000. Immigration at the Bresent.jate could easily bring the 1960 total up to 2,000,. 000, a gain of approximately 400 per cent in 60 years. This rapid increase is one of the facets of the situation that makes the work of the health board through its va- . rious subsidiaries so important. Population increase means danger of depletion of resources unless properly protected. It already has been a factor in compelling the campaign which, has resulted in the practical clean ing' up of Oregon streams and has brought about the sys tematic drive against air pollution which has been under taken. 1 '.Population growth is going to make it progressively harder, to maintain the wild areas of the state in a condi tion to provide recreation for the people. It threatens the maintenance of the supply of fish and game. Even now there are few areas in the state where a fellow can go out on , the back porch and shoot a deer (in season, of course) before breakfast or catch a string of fish while his wife is baKing the potatoes. ' ? . a This is why some of the old-timers read of population gsflna, without any urge to throw their hats Into the air. As."we get crammed closer together the old uninhibited days-are gone, and we have to learn to like more and more regulation, to protect the rights of the other fellow. But we still like to see the state grow as well as pros per ; and its growth promotes prosperity even as prosperity stimulates growth. We think our people ' will take the peeded regulation with a smile, knowing it's necessary as the numbers grow, and confident that with proper atten tion "Oregon can be preserved as a fine outdoor state faiinto the Indefinite future. . . PLEASE, NOT THAT Bugon Roglstor-Guard ( Mark Hatfield, a stale senator -from Salem, has an idea which may be received with varying degrees of en thusiasm ,'by varlpus .groups of. people. Sen. Hatfield, a legislative veteran at 32 and the youngest member of the Senate,, thinks it's a shame that school buildings are used only nine months a year. He suggests running the schools on a year-around basis. Vacations, under the Hatfield plan, would be staggered, with some pupils having sum mer vacations and some having vacations in the winter, Bpnng or.TalL Now maybe the tax conservers think this is a fine idea. Certainly it would make more use of existing school buildings, or as Sen. Hatfield says, of the "capital outlay." Educationally the plan may or may not be sound. We don't know. It shouldn't be necessary to point this out, because it should be self-evident. But the fact is that Sen. Hat field hasn't got any kids.. As the Senate's most eligible bachelor,, he probably never thought of the schools baby sitting function, a function that the proudest parents often think about. Mama, who is delighted to have the little rascals home in' July when they can play outside, loses her enthusiasm for motherhood when she thinks of hav ing a house full of kids all through a rainv February. And how will the average family react to the vaca tion problern? Imagine trying to arrange Pop's vacation so it coincides with the vacations of Wilbur in the fifth grade and little Bootsie in the first. We can't feel that Sen. Hatfield's plan is here to stay. J4al (J3oufe a NEW YORK When Charles Berlit was three years old he had learned four languages and was trying to make up a new one of his own. His grandfather, father, mother-ami cousin each spoke to him in a different language German, Spanish, French una cngiisn. "I had the idea that every grown up had different lanituatie all his own,' he recalled, "and the fam ily had to discourage m from trying to develop one for myself." When .Charles was ready for school his grandfather, Maxmillian Berlitz, founder of the Berlili Schools, decided It was time the boy siarted studying language seriously. The old gentleman, who started his career as a clockmaker and neytr attended college him self, had mastered 50 languages. "From the age of on 1 wat taught at new language either Eu ropean or Oriental every year,'-' , 'l Pi x l I t i. , T IV r i a i - : 4 ".'"'''''' " " . i ' 1 ! "V " L.,r,is . " V- fa ".t ? t i ' . " t" 4 , s i r 'i ' if i , -j -1 " f r- rr '-, fc. ' j. , i,, XX-,; . -, : t : t. ri :rr "5 f i:i r "1 -' o I ;- -1 '"" ' Ufa " I , yjLyii1 , ' -. i tL I' J 45" Mr' , 'ft1'"" m v TV- VA EXPANSION GOING UP Construction is urder Way on addition to the physcial medicine rehabilitation) service at the Veterans Administrption Hospital in Roseburg. The $125,000 project started in September and will be completed by June. It will add about one-third more space to present buildings occupied by manual arts and occupations therapy sections and will practically double number of patients who will be able to take advantage of this type of treatment. Todd Building Co. is contractor, and super vision is under C. H. Ruehmann, Washington, D. C, VA construction superintendent. (VA photo). - (ISruce $ioS5at - ! s a M ?l .- J;..:.iil- i ' y "i 4,1 LAMBING SEASON at the Cecil Griffin farm east of Dixonville brought a "big" sur prise. Monday evening one of Griffin's old ewes gave birth to a 16-pound ewe lamb. The lamb (second from left) is a cross of Suffolk and white face sheep. She and her mother are domg fine. So far Griffin's 98 ewes have produced-101 lambs (including 23 sets of -twins. There are 17 more sheep to lamb. (Paul Jenkins photo). RffSMIMmiW i t V 1 "t 1 't4 ' l f " x 8 ' u Y'! f. ' ' v ' . f i ii' iiTrini-- 'rfimaiii'T-airrrl i ' k-a?r wM: t ASSOCIATED STUDENT BODY OFFICERS for Central Junior High School were elected last week, with John Horton named treasurer; Kay Holcomb, vice president; Nancy Stewart, secretary; and Richard Sylwester, president. Officers will hold posts for the second semester of the school term. (Photo by Miller Moderne) Educators, moralists and various other high-minded (oik seldom past up a chance to lambaste tele vision and other mass media for what they conceive to be their sins and shortcomings. , It would be a bold fellow who. scanning or listening to the great daily outpourings of these media, did not acknowledge that a good deal of the acid comment is justi fied. But there's another side to the story. Generally, of course, the criti-1 cisms allege that in striking for ! the widest possible appeal TV, ra- j dio, newspapers and magazines hit too low a common denominator j of intelligence. Their end product I in program or story too often can be marked, it is said, .s cheap, sensational, shallow and even tasteless. Television, being the newest, the most spectacular and the most ex perimental of the various' media, inevitably suffers the unkindest cuts.- Let's concede that nn incredible array of mediocre stuff flashes past you on your TV screen too many flimsily contrived murder mysteries, too many horse operas featuring wildly inaccurate g u n fightcrs (some day the Senate may be asked to look into an ammu nition shortage in Hollywood), too many panel shows, too many tear- jerkers in wntcn you are urged to share the misery. Nevertheless, an impartial ap praisal compels us to note that things are better than they were, and that a lot of earnest effort and a potful of money is being devoted to making them still better. Some of the more outrageous programs have yielded to the rav ages of time. You can catch some first-class dramatic shows these days if you pick your spots care fully. A good many TV document aries turn out very well, too. . New comedy stars like George Gobel and Steve Allen, with their off - beat approach, have taken some of the curse off the business of being funny, which was suffer ing pretty severely from the old hammerstroke techniques develop ed in radio's heyday. But the ava lanche of "situation comedies" on TV film hasn't helped much. There are some pretty good science shows, though undoubted ly far too few to impress the advo cates of "educational TV." I Television still seems to be weak est in handling news and good mu sic. With a couple of notable ex ceptions, it offers no major pro grams of serious music at all, though radio and the booming rec ord business indicates the market for it is huge. Most TV news shows still sound like photographed radio newscasts, with about half of the news content and a smattering of pictures which don't compensate for the loss. The room for improvement is great, no doubt. But progress has been made, and it is fair that it should be hailed. A man can have a very mediocre time of it watch ing television in 195S. But he can also get quite a lift out of it if he looks in the right places. v WOULD LESALIZI RACIN9 BOISE W A pari mutual to legalize betting on horse and dog races was introduced in the Idaho Senate Thursday by Sen. John Rasor (D Kootenai) and five other senators. PRUDENTIAL LIFE INSURANCE "HORACE C. BERG Special Agent 121 S. Main St. (With Umpquo Ins Agereyl Office 3-7491 Ri. J-71M In The Day's News (Continued from Page One) Today at 40 he is author nf textbook In Swahill and speaks Us 1878, has expanded to a network of 27 schools in this country, 340 throughout the world. It has had some 17 million students, includ ing such notables as Enrico Ca ruso, Sinclair Lewis, Andre Kos telanelz, Leon Trotsky, Nelson Rockefeller the Ducheja of Wind sor and Eleanor Roosevelt. The schools, which specialize in teaching vocabulary of a foreign language in a short lime, are wide ly used by major international bus iness firms and governments. "A private student by working two hours a day ran learn a lan guage in about Ihree months," Ber litz said. "Our basic course in cludes about 1.200 words, but you Only 1,000 Men Needed To Man New Radar Line DETROIT an A new radar line, stretching 3.000 miles over a northern expanse Of the United States and Canada, will be run by less than 1,000 men. Dr. John A. Hannah, president of Michigan Slate College, said. Dr. Hannah, also chairman of the United Slates section of the poi'manent Joint board on defense tor the U. S. and Canada, ad- languages ranging from Arabic to'csn ct y wilh a knowledge of Zulu. 1800 words. You'd he amazed how "Hardly a drop in the bucket." ! many people get along in English he said mildly, "when you con- smer mere are some 1,200 lan guages ' and 800 dialeeti in the world." As vice president of the Berlitz Schools he likes to master person ally out-of-the-way and obscure tongues which become of Interna tional interest. Right now h's brushing up on Quechiia, the na tive language of Indians in the Andes. "Missionaries a nd explorers want to learn it we've had a num ber of calls for it," he explained. "There's nothing written in It. It's purely a spoken language." The ' original Berlila S c hoo 1, established In Rhode Island in " '- - and use only 500 words "L'nder pressure we have taufht oil workers being sent to In lo- mesia a working knowledge of Ma layan in two weeks. They had t work six hours a day at it. but in two weeks they could make their graduation speech In Malayan." Interest in speaking foreign lan guages has never been greater in the Unlled State. Berlitz eli males that some three million Americans have learned in rec?nt weeks to sneak a language other than English. "Spanish Is slill the favorite, fol lowed hy French," he said. "Right after the war many people want ed to learn Russian. Now more are Interested in German." Berlitz says Chinese is the hard est language to learn to write. It has 60.000 separate word signs. But Basque is generally regarded as the hardest to speak. "The Spanish have a proverb: When God wished to punish the devil, he sentenced him fiv six years to do nothing but study Basque." "But the hardest language to learn to speak without a notice able accent is Spanish, because it lias few rules of accent." The Berlitz system ordinarily teaches only about 50 internation al languages, but prides itself that if the need develops, it can find here in the melting pot of the world teachers for almost any tongue. "Sooner or later, we may even have to do something alwut lin guagej on other planets," said Berlitz, and added wryly: "We only hope they speak vo callyand not through antennae " Idressed the Detroit Rotary Club.; i telling them: ; "New types of radar equipment I National Forest Logging Highest In Northwest PORTLAND lagging in the national forests of Oregon and Washington reached a record liUli ! o z.atu.uuo.ouu Doarn tcei last i year. j Regional Forester J. Herbert I Stone reported this brought in j nearly 35 mil'ion dollart. The tim-1 ber harvest was LiO million board . feet alwve the previous high mi 19j3. Slone said the cutting still was 125 million feet short of the allowable amount. He said the heaviest logging was In the final quarter of the year, when logs were needed after the summer-long strike. That achieved a record for Ihe quarter of more than a billion dret. Douglas lir averaged $17.29 in itumpagr price and Ponderosa pine $19.73 a thousand board feet. The leading forests were: Oregon Willamette $5,606,737; Umpqua $2,8S7,329; Ml. Hood $2. 467.031. Washington Olvmpie $3,982. 870: Gifford Pinehot $2,869,058; Mt Baker $2,011,386. , will make It possible to man the line with less than half of the nun power needed to sail a battleship." Hannah was speaking of a "dis tant early warning line" which now is under construction near the 70th parallel, it is expected to be in operation soon. He said construction and supply is a tremendous problem in the wild, ice-covered land stretching from northwest Alaska to Green land. "Two planes l8day," he said, "can carry' the explosive force equal to all the bombs dropped in World War 11. It must be assumed the Russians have weapons at least as good as those in the United States," said the educator. CASES DISMISSED A charge of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor, filed against Joseph E. Dolby, 34, Eugene, last Sept. 7, has been dismissed from district court on motion of the district attorney. Dolby formerly resided on Little River. Charges Of non-support and lar ceny against uonaid D. Cheek, Roseburg. also have been dis missed. Cheek recently was sen tenced to the penitentiary on a grand larceny charge. Ganders help their females raise Ihe young, but drakes do not. or foes, I sketch your world exact ly as it goes." He goes on: "But ai least twice within the last 20 years or so, when the wires have carried the news of a man's biting a dog, the incident was not heavily played. One (such incident) we recall got about a hundred words, and some of the papers ran it as a little "boxed feature." Well, you know, a man once bit a dog in Klamath Falls. He was a very young man the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Bosworth (Harlan, more generally known as 'Bos, was then Copco manager in Klamath; he is now a Copco vice president in Medford.) The dog's name was Ring. He was what might be termed a pa triarchal dog. kindly, tolerant. aloof to all the pettier reactions, such as anger and retaliation. The young man, as I recall it, hadn't yet learned to walk. He and Ring got into one of these freindly man-and-dog scuffles in the course of which Ring nipped a little harder than he intended the calf of his companion s fat little lower limb. The young man turned and sank his teeth in Ring's right front leg! The Herald and News, tipped off to what had happened, lived up to the man-bites-dog journalistic tradition in a big way, and rushed a reporter and a cameraman to the spot. We had to tinker with the news a bit, for Ring's wound wasn't deep enough or gory enough to be depicted by the camera and we couldn't prevail on the pair of them to stage a rehearsal for the benefit of the press. So we put a white bandage on Ring's log, and it showed- up beautifully in the ensuing picture of the com batants posing together after the brawl. It turned out to he big news, all right. It tickled the risibles of evcrvbody in town and the Bos worths were swamped all evening n.llU nnll, l-l.Hrt ..1.MJ. imi valla iiiiiii niuiiiiiK, iiiruu.-. I That was back in the days when I pictures were relatively new in the ! smaller newspapers, and we of the Herald and News were prouder 1 than Punch of the achievement. Maybe I'd better tell you a little about George Turnbull. He was a member of the team of Aden fErie) and Turnbull (George) Lhat founded the University of Oregon irhool of journalism away back when. They were a GREAT team. They worked together like a hand In a glove. They were good news papermen, but they were some thing more. They were great MEN. They were inspired teach ers. They turned out a generation of newsoaner men who have made their mark all over the country, j Erie Allen went over the Great Divide many years ?o, but hi' I mereo'v lmers. Geore Tumbull 'is still with us. for which I am i "ratefn1. 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