SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2018
Rotary seeks submissions for
4-Way-Test Speech Contest
Any Siuslaw area high
school student (public, private,
or home-schooled) in grades
9-12 who cares about ethical
standards and behavior in
today’s world is invited to par-
ticipate in the 2018 Rotary
I n t e r n a t i o n a l 4 - Wa y Te s t
Speech Contest
The contest will be held
Thursday, April 19, at 4 p.m. at
the Florence Events Center.
Three finalists will then
present their speeches and
receive certificates and cash
prizes totaling $1,500 at a
Rotary meeting on Tuesday,
April 24 at noon.
The winning speaker will
also be expected to compete in
a “Speak Off” at the Rotary
District
Conference
in
Ashland, Ore., on May 5.
First place prize for the
local contest is $750, second
place will receive $500, and
third place is $250.
There are even more cash
prizes available at the District
level.
All participants will be
required to take the Rotary 4-
Way Test and apply it to real
life throughout their speeches.
The 4-Way Test has four prin-
ciples:
1. Is it the truth?
2. Is it fair to all concerned?
3. Will it build goodwill and
better friendship?
4. Will it be beneficial to all
concerned?
The choices for topics are
endless. Would the Super
Bowl pass the 4-Way Test?
What about homework assign-
ments? How about social net-
working?
All speeches must be origi-
nal and may not be less than 5
minutes or more than 7 min-
utes.
Speeches should also be
memorized.
For information on partici-
pating, including an applica-
tion and guidelines, visit
www.the florencerotary.org
and choose the tab “Club
Youth Programs.”
Those interested can also
contact Committee Chair Meg
Spencer via email at mspencer
1818@yahoo.com.
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Library Tidings by
Kevin Mittge
“Red Famine”
By Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum is the
Pulitzer Prize-winner of
“Gulag” and the National
Book Award Finalist for
“Iron Curtain,” both books
dealing with Joseph Stalin
and the Soviet Union.
Now she is out with her
latest,
“Red
Famine:
Stalin’s War on Ukraine.”
In 1929, Stalin launched
his policy of agricultural
collectivization — in effect
a second Russian revolution
— which forced millions of
peasants off their land and
onto collective farms. The
result was a catastrophic
famine, the most lethal in
European history.
At least 5 million people
died between 1931 and
1933 in the USSR. But
instead of sending relief, the
Soviet state made use of the
catastrophe to rid itself of a
political problem. In “Red
Famine,”
Applebaum
argues that more than 3 mil-
lion of those dead were
Ukrainians who perished
not because they were acci-
dental victims of a bad poli-
cy, but because the state
deliberately sought to kill
them.
Applebaum proves what
has long been suspected:
After a series of rebellions
unsettled the province,
Stalin set out to destroy the
Ukrainian peasantry.
The state sealed the
republic’s borders and
seized all available food.
Starvation set in rapidly,
and people ate anything:
grass, tree bark, dogs,
corpses. In some cases,
they killed one another for
food.
Devastating and defini-
tive, “Red Famine” captures
the horror of ordinary peo-
ple struggling to survive
extraordinary evil.
Today, Russia, the suc-
cessor to the Soviet Union,
has placed Ukrainian inde-
pendence in its sights once
more. Applebaum’s com-
pulsively readable narrative
recalls one of the worst
crimes of the 20th century
and shows how it may fore-
shadow a new threat to the
political order of the 21st
century.
“Ernest Haycox and
the Western”
Author and educator
Richard Etulain will be dis-
cussing his latest book,
“Ernest Haycox and the
Western” on Friday, March
9, beginning at 1 p.m. in the
library’s Bromley Room.
Haycox was a noted
Oregon author who wrote
fiction and was especially
known for his westerns,
several of which later
became films, such as his
book “Stage to Lordsburg”
which became the popular
w e s t e r n m o v i e
5 A
“Stagecoach,” starring John
Wayne.
The novel, “Trouble
Shooter,” became the film
“Union Pacific” starring
Barbara Stanwyck and Joel
McCrea.
Etulain, a prize-winning
historian of the American
West, has visited the
Siuslaw Public Library
before, presenting a full
weekend of discussions
about
author Wallace
Stegner as well as dis-
cussing Abraham Lincoln
and his relationship to
Oregon.
He has written more than
50 books and has served as
president of the Western
Literature
and Western
History Associations.
AARP tax help
Don’t forget that the
AARP tax services are
available at the library on
Mondays and Thursdays
now through April 12, from
9 a.m. to 2 p.m., with a spe-
cial final day of tax prepara-
tion on Saturday, April 14.
AARP offers free tax
preparation help to anyone
of any age — but especially
if you are 50 or older and
can’t afford paid tax prepa-
ration. The service is first-
come, first serve, so be pre-
pared to wait but check a
book out of the library
while waiting your turn.
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