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Show fl THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON. UTAH I Old Age Need Hold No Terrors mm Finding Useful Work Is Formula for Happiness By BAUKI1AGE NVu'j Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. -- Latest figures from the census bureau have revealed that the postwar period has produced a record baby crop 3,260,000 estimated for 1046, almost a million more thnn were born in 1940. But it will take more than this belated burst of rejuvena-tion to keep the United States from becoming an "old" nation. Old in 'he sense that the average age will be high, with a heavy proportion of oldsters. There are two reasons for this: Nowa-days people live much longer, thanks to medical science. And tlic size of the American family has shrunk. In lHliO when the population was about 31.5 millions, 8B0.O0O persons were over 65. In 1945 when the population approached 140 millions. 9.920.000 persons were over 65. By 1970 there will be 16 million over that age, out of an estimated population of more than 151 millions! This situation poses a number oI4 problems for the nation, and also emphasizes the personal problem: The problem of growing old. Like many of our troubles, real or imagined, the best cure is to bring this one out into the light, give it a good shaking. The result in many cases will be that it disap-pears or that it shrinks to unimpor-tance (if that weren't so, psychia-try wouldn't be such a highly re-warded profession). Wise men have known this for a long time and lived to a happy old age. Others (who didn't know it) have worried their friends and themselves to early deaths, by sitting down and weeping over their lost youth instead of getting up, learning to take old age in their stride and liking it. Recently I read a very littlu t,:imnt,ll1 Hauknage - called "When You Grow Older," written in straightforward English, based on modern, scientific ideas The pam-phlet outlines methods which make that famous poem by Browning, so often regarded as wishful thinking by the skeptical, ring true "Grow old along with me." said Brown-ing's Rabbi Ben Ezra. "The best is yet to be." When I grasped the theme ot this pamphlet, it stirred classic Jttst Hunting Around these pertinent paragraphs of "When You Grow Older" offer a per-fect example of hew modern sci-ence and experience confirm the verities expressed by poets and philosophers of the past. It is still the habit of many critics to praise the style of Cicero's "I)e Scnectute" but to toss its message aside as wish-ful thinking. Kven Montaigne, who said frankly that reading the essay "made one long to jjrow old," pessimistically lim-ited what he considered a useful lifespan to a mere 50 years and thought it wrong to contem-plate further existence. Cicero's physical world was bounded by the frontiers conquered by Rome's plodding legions but his view was long in time. Today the men of our scientific age echo the request in the last paragraph of the great statesman's immortal essay when he prayed: "... that you put my words to practical test" memories. I remembered that a gentleman who considerably predated Browning had said the same thing In his essay "On Old Age," written In the year 44 B. C. I refer to Marcus Tullius Cicero, lie said (among other pertinent tilings) "qui autem omnia a se Ipsi pctunt, eis ni-hil potest videri. quod naturae neccssitas adferat." Which, If you'll pardon my freedom with the text, means that those who seek their happiness from with-in can never regard nature's in-evitabilities as bad. Cicero wrote that essay when he was 63 years old and I have no doubt he would have lived what he preached for another decade or two if his vigorous old age had not produced the resounding "Phiilip-pK'- s against Anthony whicn re suited in his being "purged" (Roman style) while still hale and hearty at m". Like Cicero, Messrs. George Law-io-and Maxwell Stewart, authors sf the pamphlet I mentioned, stress the psychological problems of old ige 'The pamphlet is issued by the Public Affairs Committee Inc., 1 non-profi- educational organiza-tion, 22 East 38th St.. New York City 20 cents ) Old age comes with a shock because we haven't prepared for it. Maybe we are ready for the "last day at the office" or at the work bench or when we sell the farm and move to the vil-lage or city, or in other ways break a lifetime's routine. But we may have failed to recog-nize "the need to feel impor-tant," a need which we must satisfy one way or another. Not "important" In the sense that we have somebody kow-to- to us, but necessary to somebody or some thing, some business, some undertaking, maybe not a big cog, bat something that helps the wheels of life go round JUST A TUNE-U-P CLIMB . . . Members of the Harvard university St. Elias expediton arc shown atop 12,000-foo- t Haydon peak In Alaska whlc h they scaled just as a preliminary maneuver before tackling 18,008-fo- ot St. Elias, greatest mountain In North America. The Harvard party was the second expedition to beat the mountain in 81 years. CLASSIFI AUTOS. TRUCKS ftAc 8aU Uk,cJ'AiS BUSINESS & invj; 2 flrep 'LPK 8 or small dam i2 I''nci-.wner- H.v ift MISCELLANEOC. WINERY CO IAitV'o1' xtractor. tin,'.',., 'drvrr m00". Built f, r th.',?,li 'lefely wired. p in 'h,u-- S ,uto. controls. .hv S, .'"'" 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With an unbelievable WjJ'jJS7S?i saving themselves from British we were not giving them .Mjtfwith .foodknow their own socialist JgfiBH Now they are cororn.s g private farmers and discouraged production. further steps for a while on their socialist planning (delaying tn'e'y themselves out by tocu-- accusation, say) and are trying to dig against their leading and only benefactor, the United X II. 1. PHILLIPS The Play's the Thing Dear Ed Well, I am in the show business. A feller dropped in on the farm a few weeks ago and asked if I was using my barn. I thought he was just a city man who had sublet his apartment and couldn't get it back. I told him I had some live-stock in it, some old buggies, quite a little hay, et cetera. He explained he wanted the barn for the drama. I got them to sign a contract agreeing to return the barn in good condition, not to worry the cows and never to look for an egg until the hens got off the nests. Then they brought in as crazy a lot of folks as I ever seen and things be-gan to hum. Well, I haven't had any peace since. Both cows are sick, the horse ran away and every hen has stopped laying except a couple that are nesting in the woods. Shakespeare said the play's the thing but he wasn't counting on fresh milk and eggs when he said it. i If I ever get my farm back the drama can stay in the city for the rest of my life. Next week they're putting on "Two Orphans" and the wife and I are in shape to play both parts. Your loving uncle, Chct Hostetters. NEWS REVIEW Farmers' Income Zooms; New Crisis Hits Europe FARM INCOME: Great Gain Latest round in a heavy barrage of statistics apparently destined to make the American farmer feel that he is an unbelievably fortunate man was an agriculture department report that the nation's farm own-ers are taking in more money than ever before. It was estimated that total farm cash receipts during the first eight months of 1947 were 17.4 billion dol- - hi ro o 01 nnr nant rtnin nifPT tVl same period of 1946, itself a record year. The report said that the average farm operator realized a net income of $2,541 from agriculture and gov-ernment payments in 1946, and this year farm income skyrocketed still higher as a result of continuing un-precedented demands for produce. "An increase of 24 per cent in prices," was singled out by the re-port as the chief reason for the booming income. But the picture has another side that of farm expenses. Operating costs continue to increase and, al-though no estimate was made for 1947, the farmer's expenses went up 9 per cent in 1946. Nevertheless, if the agriculture department's esti-mates are accurate, the increase in farm income greatly outweighs the simultaneous rise in expenses. CRISIS AGAIN: Transfusion? Life these days, Secretary of State George Marshall has discov-ered, is bounded on all sides by one crisis after another. No sooner had he returned to the U. S. from Brazil with the mutual American defense treaty tucked safely under his belt than he was beset with calls for succor from debilitated Europe which appar-ently, was sliding swiftly down the ways toward utter ruin. Insiders said the European situation really was desperate. Undersecretary of State Robert Lovett had sounded the first alarm shortly before Marshall's return when he said that Eu-rope's economic structure was cracking up faster than anyone had expected. The fear blowing in on the winds from Europe intensified. Precari-ously balanced Britain remained at the heart of the trouble, but more grief was added by the news that bad weather had struck hard at crops in many European countries this year. Most nations had .been forced to use their meager produce for domestic consumption rather than for export. There was no profit in that, they said. In the U. S., it began to appear more likely that a special sefsion of congress would be called this fall to study the situation and perhaps set up the apparatus for another economic transfusion to give strength to the weakening old world. Avocation Help To Retain Youth Anybody can develop an avoca-tion of some kind. In many cases these avocations have turned into paying vocations after retirement. In any case they are literally life-save-when it comes to making life livable. Various skills permit varying pe-riods of activity. Many farmers are at 70 or 75. Perhaps this is partly because of their environment mental and phys-ical. Cicero says farmers "are not hindered to any extent by old age, and seem to me to ap-proach the Ideal wise man's life." Most jobs are of such a character that ability to perform them de-clines with the years. "Wljen You Grow Older" cites as an example "speed work" like the assembly line. Youth excels in this type of mm4 Rii, ,,,. .1,,., nlmnct u . ,1! as youth in the type classified as "power" work, the kind of job where skill is important. There is not space here to develop the theme of "When You Grow Old-er" as its authors do so compactly in their 30 pages. They discuss the questions, personal and political, of old age security. They offer a host of other specific examples to illus-trate the statements, some of which I have quoted here. I have attempt-ed to review rather than a sum-mary, moved to comment partly be-cause of the valuable suggestions oilered, and also, partly because s BONDED Vets Cash In Draft time had rolled around again for millions of but thil time it was more in the nature of a bank draft as veterans all over the nation fell happily into line to cash their terminal leave pay bonds. Virtually every city reported thai hordes of veterans had descended on banks in an unprecedented rush to convert their hard-wo- n bonds into coin of the realm. Millions ol former Joes stuffed millions of dol lars into their pockets. What would they do with th newly acquired money? A few put it back into savings accounts; oth-ers bought clothes, furniture and similar necessities; much of it was squandered immediately. But ont surprising fact developed: A great many family men now were using the store of cash to gel out from under worrisome debts For them it was a case of "dire need." ISOTOPES: U. S. Offer Radioactive isotopes products o! American atomic research have been offered in limited amounts tc all foreign nations for use in man kind's world-wid- e and unending fight against disease. The gesture, marking the firs: sharing of the fruits of U. S. atomic ovens, loomed more significantly or the uncertain frontier of globa! peace than any loan or economic aid so far conceived. Described as the most importan; medical research tool since the microscope, the isotopes radioac tive forms of basic elements are utilized in the same manner as ma chine gun tracer bullets. Introduced into the body or blood stream, they can be used to trace life processes and plot the course of various dis eases. They are of paramount impor tance in current cancer research and one day may provide the clue leading to control and cure of thai disease. WALTER SHE AD Lobbyists Lead Cooperative Fight IF THE number of lobbyists involved is any criterion, a bitter fight is in the offing in connection with the effort to remove tax exemption of farm cooperatives. The National Tax Equality association, which is spearheading the drive, has three registered lobbyists on the job. They are Paul L. Court-ney, annual salary $10,000; Joseph F. Leopold, annual salary $8,500, and Clare A. Johnson, salary not specified. In addition, there are registered lebbyists from tax equality committees of New York, Indiana, Kentucky, Colorado, Oklahoma, Nebra.ska, Michigan, Missouri, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Texas, with recorded expenditures ranging from $500 to $3,700 for the first six months of 1947. Leading the fight on behalf of the cooperatives are six registered lob-byists, including John H. Davis, salary $11,000, William Heckendorn, sal-ary $7,500, and John J. Riggle, salary $7,500, representing the National Council of Farm Cooperatives; Jerry Voorhis, salary $7,500, representing the Cooperative League of the United States; R. Wayne Newton, salary $10,000, representing the National Association of Cooperatives, and Russell Smith, salary $8,400, representing the National Farmers Union. WALTER WIXCIIELL Notes of a Newspaper Man President Truman, ' in an intcr-- i view, stated the problems of his office have not in the least affected his health. The Truman constitution wouldn't be quite so strong if he worried a little more about the undermining the American constitution. . . The Republicans still are trying to find out who's re-sponsible for the war. What Ameri-cans would like to know is who's re-sponsible for this peace. Our Oh, Lord.' Dept.: It happened at the 2Sth anniversary dinner of the Sew York Newspaper Women's club. Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt ivas being intra-- ' duced by one of the tou n's food edi- - tors. Edith Barber. F.dith intoned: "And now, one of our members you all know Mrs. THLODORl: Roose--I veil.'" - a Quotation Marksmanship: George Santayana: There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. . . . D. C. Peattie: Noon, the hour wher bushes tuck shade beneath then; like skirts. The 1935 University of Georgia yearbook, "Pandora," contains the photos of 12 of its graduating stu-dents on a page titled The head shots of the students are carried along with the likeness of a huge jackass (which was the editor's way of showing the students pictured as the outstanding "jerks" of their class). Know whose picture leads all the rest? Herman Tat madge! DREW PEARSON The Merry-Go-Ronn- d "THE supposedly economical senate spent $68,000 for 1 month alone. The m on telegraph bill included thousands woTds to local newspapers from the wired Congressional Record Four New landers. Speaker Joe Martin of the house, Sens g.I Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts and Ray iTcZS are not averse to vice presidential promotion. Looks as if th. p , Rican government is playing politic, with its taxes After the R government decided to go into the hotel business it higherto chief competitor. unheard of tax assessment on the Cond ado e228 SfX " Despite the fact that the long arm of the law is down the back of organized labor. AFL's IZ 1 Phi. Murray still can't get together on Liber unify Alf Landon. of Kansas, came a crooner in , radio station at Ingleuood. Colo., Vn 8 gCt ' tions commissi rules that radio s.S:: ; ," -3-h- e applied for a 1 cense more than owned. After Landon's station was ,12"T T" M" FCC Sin ,n a station in Leavenworth ' E" on't 1 5" ? d' later got stamping ground. $3,000 FOR TRACTORS Farmers Caught by Black Mart Gradually deteriorating prewar machines and implements, plus a shortage of rural labor, are the two principal factors responsible for de-velopment of a flourishing black market in farm equipment, accord-ing to manufacturers and dealers groups who have pronounced the sit-uation fairly widespread. Secondary circumstances which support the existence of this partic-ular black market are the unparal-leled height of farm income and the apparent determination of the nation s farm population to advance to new levels of mechanization. Thus, the demand for farm equip-ment continues to be almost in-satiable. Even the heavy, uninter rupted output of the entire farm equipment industry has failed to still the clamor of the hungry market. It has been common practice this summer for farmers to pay huge premiums on such pieces of equip-ment as tractors, hay balers and corn pickers, all of which have cus-tomers on dealers' waiting lists. Tractors priced at $1,000 have sold for as high as $3,000 or $3,500. Hay balers, which are used on hay three times a season and have other farm uses, have been finding buyers at double or triple the list price. Pointing up these malpractices on the part of individuals, one manu-facturer referred to the particularly bad black market in combines. "When one wheat farmer, for example, has his crop harvest-ed, someone will drive up and ask him how much he paid for his combine. The farmer might say $2,000. When the stranger asks how much he would sell it for, the farmer, picking a num-ber out of the hat, might say $3,000. Then, to the farmer's surprise, the stranger peels off 30 $100 bills and takes the com-bine off his hands. "The farmer would have got $3,500 if he had asked it, be-cause the stranger took the combine north and sold it for $4,000." WRIGHT r 17 77 fSYv History Will Judge Debacle A DMIRAL HALSEY. in his mem- - oirs published in Collier's, calls a spade a spade in denouncing the sacrificing of Admiral Kimmel and General Short as the goats for the Pearl Harbor disaster. For Pearl Harbor. Admiral Halsey vaguely blames the American people. But it ' was not the American people or j congress who employed an alien German to erect greatly needed radar equipment, and then coun-enance-needless delay in its erec-tion; it was not the American people or congress who failed to give the commanders vital information The American people or congress wer, not responsible for Pearl Harbor |