,HERALD Official Organ Of The Slavonic Benevolent Order Of T e State Of Texas. Founded 1897. BENEVOLENCE
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JANUARY 25, 1967
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK BIG POPULATION CHANGES Those people who deal in vital statistics and population shifts and changes in the Bureau of the Census tell us that the nation's population is changing and churning. Arizona, Florida, and Nevada, for example, will grow at more than twice the national rate during the period 1965-75. shifts in the older population will enlarge or shrink sales potentials in other states. Biusinessmen and salespeople watch these trends very carefully. They are interested in where future markets will be located. In other states, the number of young people will create demands for a number of goods and services. Total US population is predicted to grow 16.2 per cent in the next decade. Eleven states, mostly those in the Midwest, are expected to grow at rates below the national average. There will be 10 million more persons under age 18. Smallest gains in population are predicted for Oklahoma and West Virginia. A 3 per cent decline is predicted for Iowa. Texas will experience a 15 per cent increase from 1965-75 in those persons under 18; and 18 per cent growth increase in persons 18 to 64; a 21 per cent increase in persons 65 and over for the same period. Our state then, will experience a growth somewhat above the national average. This would
DOING MY BEST . "If I were, trying to read, much less answer all the attacks made on me, this shop might well be closed for any other business. I do the best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me oat all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." —A. Lincoln portend a good business climate, and good potential sales market, including prospective life insurance purchasers. The market will be there; we will have to capture our share of it. To Smoke Or Not To Smoke.. . The following are statements of medical facts and statistics. We are not telling people to smoke or not to smoke. That must remain the individual's decision. These statistics can all be substantiated. It has been over two years since the US Surgeon General took out after the cigarette. A short time later, the Public Health Service described smoking as "one of the greatest health hazards of this century." The PHS published impressive statistics on chronic bronchitis, emphysema, heart disease, and cancer.
What happened? As Paul Harvey puts it: "Americans stopped, looked, listened — and smoked away. They are smoking more than before. Last October the American Cancer Society started a drive to convince smokers that they can restore to health some pre-cancerous tissue if they will give up cigarettes. There is no evidence that many people did." The Veterans Administration researched into the matter and reported in October 1965, a "much higher degree of hardening of the arteries among cigarette smokers." In September 1965, the UN World Health Organization reported an "alarming increase in deaths from lung cancer worldwide." That report blamed cigarettes for a 60 per cent increase in the US, a 55 per cent increase in Canada. Researchers at Johns Hopkins revealed that "women who smoke are more likely to have premature babies" and "premature birth is a leading cause of mental retardation." And 60,000 babies die each year as a result Of being born prematurely. The American Cancer Society tells us that another 50,000 Americans will die this year of lung cancer, and "probably 75 per cent of these will be traceable to smoking." Another 60,000 will die of emphysema, and more than 90 per cent of those will be heavy smokers, or •for-