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Does World Need "Family Control’?
& BY RICHARD KLEINER oY
5 ; NEA Staff Correspondent
" OXHMORD, Ohio. — (NEA) — There are prophets of
doom who think that what this world needs is a good, big
ge of atom bombs, dropped where they can do the most
gfinage.
The reason, of course, is that the world as a whole is
each year becoming more and more overpopulated. And,
unless the people voluntarilv adopt some means of con
t¥olling their growth, many experts think widespread
war or famine will have to de the controlling for them.
The experts hold this belief de
spite the fact that the United
%:es. Britain, France, and many
er countries have about reach
ed the zenith of their growth.
* Studying the population pattern
of the world, Dr. Warren 8.
Rompson. director of the Scripps
foundation for Research in Popu
lation Problems at Miami Univer
sity here, sees “no other way out
but control of the family.”
For long centuries, the world’s
mlation remained fairly con
tant. Periodic plagues, famines
and a high rate of infant mortal
ity wiped out any gains made by
g‘e birth of lots of children. But
¢ith the coming of science to
Tm?trol plagues and infant mor
ality, and the coming of trans
portation to supply famine vic
tims, there was no such equaliz
ing force.
“"And, even now, much of the
world is existing on the fringe of
subsistence.
In the last century, the popula
tion of the world has doubled. If
present rates continue, it will dou~,
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ble again in about 70 years,
In India, for instance, the popu
lation increased by 85,000.000
within the space of 20 years. “And
there’s just not enough subsist
ence to pass around and still have
enough surplus to take care of the
famine years which inevitably oc
cur,” says Dr. Thompson.
When a bad crop year comes in
such an overcrowded country, mil
lions die. America had a bad crop
last year, but nobedy died of star
vation.
“If we lived near the subsist
ence level, as in India,” says Dr.
Thompson, “last year 30 per cent
of Americans might have starved
to death.”
. Eventually, thinks Dr. Thomp
'son, India and the rest of the
jammed Orient will probably cry
out-—and fight—for more land
and more food and a better chance
at survival.
It may not happen for some
time yet, “but it will happen,” says
the population expert.
Many theories have been ad
vanced for curing the overpopu
lation and underabundance of to
day’s world. Migration, for one.
“To where can even a small
fraction of the Asiatics migrate?”
asks Dr. Thompson. ‘“Europeans
had wonderful colonial possibili
ties—North America and Austra
lia, for example. But where can
the Chinese and Indians go? The
best bets are Borneo, New Guinea
and parts of Central Africa, but
those areas can't possibly hold
enough.” .
He adds that although migration
might not solve any physical
problems, it would help psycho
logically. It would make the press
ed and oppressed peoples feel less
discrimminated against.
But Dr. Thompson does not
think “expansion of industry and
agriculture can proceed fast
enough to take care of the rapid
growth of population.”
The only way out, he feels sure,
is to control population at its
source—in the family.
“We’ve tampered with the death
rate,” he says. “And you can’t
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tamper with the death rate with
out very shortly being forced to
tamper with the birth rate.
“You've got to prevent a life or
two for every life you save or you
won’t get ahead at all—population
will outstrip food supply.”
He sees two or three genera
tion passing before there is any
real chance of controls making
their presence felt on the popula
tion. But he thinks that even the
ancestor - worshipping Chinese,
whose customs might make them
reluctant to accept controls, could,
in the eourse of a few decades, be
made to realize their value.
“As long as they have one heal
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E . jBY WILLIAM IRISH }
oB U ———— e ¢ meme -
Time, 1880 Place, New Orleans
Well-to-do Louis Durand car-‘
ries on & correspondence courtship
with a Miss Julia Russell, whom
he has never seen. When she fin
ally comes from St. Louis to mar
ry him, he is amazed to find her
young and ravishingly beautiful—
entirely different from what he
had been led to expect. Certain
‘behavior of hers puzzles him from
the first but not until a letter ar
rives from her supposed sister—
Miss Russell’s sister-—does he real
ize the woman he married is an
imposter. Before he can face her
with it, she disappears. Durand,
frantic, recalls she has access to
his entire bank account. He rushes
to the home of his banker, finds
him at dinner.
XV
’ The banker wrenched off his
napkin, cast it from him, in sign
his meal was ended for that even
ing at least. “My chief teller,” he
said in quick-formed decision,
“My chief teller would know.
That would be quicker than going
to the bank; we’'d have to cpen up
| and go over the day’s transactions
| “Where can I find him?” Durand
was already on his way toward
.the door and out again.
i “No, no, I'll go with you. Wait
for me just a second—" Simms
hurriedly snatched at his hat and
'a silken throat muffler. “What is
lit, what has happened, Mr. Du
| rand?” ¢
l “I'm afraid to say, until I find
|out,” Durand said desolately. “I’'m
afraid even to think--"
l Simms had to stop first and se
cure his teller's home address;
then they hurriedly left, climbed
back into the same carriage that
had brought Durand, and were
driven to a frugal little squeezed
in house on Dumaine Street.
| Simms got out, deterred Du
rand with a kindly intended ges
ture of his hand, evidently hoping
"to spare him as much as possible,
“Suppose you wait here. I'll go
lin and talk to him.”
~ He went inside to be gone per
haps ten minutes at the most. To
Durand it seemed he had been left
iout there the whole night. i
At last the door opened and
ISimms had reappeared. Durand
leaped, as though a spring had
lbeen released, to meet him, trying
to read his face for the tidings as
he went toward him It looked
none too sanguine.
“What is it? For heaven’s sake,
tell me!”
“Steady, Mr. Durand, steady.”
Simms put a supporting arm about
him just below the turn of the
‘shoulders. “You had thirty thou
sand, fifty-one dollars, forty cents
in your check-cashing account and
twenty thousand and ten in your
savings account this morning
when we opened for business—"
“I know that! I know that al
ready! That isn’t what I want to
know—"
The teller had followed Simms
out. The manager gestured to him
surreptitiously, handing over to
him the unwelcome responsibility
of answering the question.
“Your- wife appeared at five
minutes of three to make a last
minute withdrawal,” the teller
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trying through eight daughters,
but they’ll stop when they have
that all-important son.”
Dr. Thompson thinks this o%er
abundance of people is a “by-pro
duct” of science, since the ad
vances of medicine and sanitation
have indirectly led to the advance
of numbers.
“The by-product of scientific
achievement is often more impor
tant in the long run than the
achievement itself,” he says.
Science, trying to conquer dis
eases and plagues and the ravages
of famine, may have created a
Frankenstein monster—a rapidly
soaring population rate that could
carry the world to even worse
families than have ever been seen
by man.”
said.
“Your baalnce at closing-time
was fifty-one dollars, forty -cents
in the one account, ten dollars in
the other. To have closed them
both out entirely, your own signa
ture would have‘been necessary.”
The office of the Commissioner
of Police, in the Police Headquar
ters Building wxa“a not particularly
prepossessifig, but since it was not
for social usage but strictly for
work, this doubtless was of no
great moment.
The visitor sat down in a large
black leather chair, lumpy with
broken spring coils.
“Now, sir,” prodded the com
‘missioner,
“My name is Louis Durand,”
the visitor said. “I was married on
May the twentieth, last, to a wo
man who came from St. Louis
and called herself Julia Russell. I
had never seen her before. I have
the certificate of marriage here
with me. Yesterday, the fif
teenth of June, she withdrew fifty
thousand dollars from her bank
account and disappeared. I have
not seen hel&since‘ I want a war
rant issued for the arrest of this
woman. I want her apprehended,
brought to trial, and the money
returned to me.”
The commissioner said nothing
for some time. It was obvious that
this was not inattention or disin
terest, but on the contrary a sud
den excessive amount of both. It
was equally obvious that he was
rephrasing the story, to himself,
in*this own mind; familiarizing
himself with it.
~ “May I see the certificate?” he
said at last.
~ Durand tendered it to him.
~ He read it carefully, but said
nothing further in respect to it. In
fact, he asked tow questions more.
‘ One was: “You said you had
never seen her before; how was
'that?”
Durand explained the nature of
the courtship, and added, more
over, that he believed her not to
be the woman he had proposed to
but an imposter. He gave the rea
sons for that belief, but admitted
he had no proof.
The commissioner’s second and
final question, spoken through
steeple-joined fingers, was:
“Did she forge your name in
order to withdraw the funds?”
Durand shook his head. “She
signed her own. I had given her
authorization with the bank to do
20 ;
The commissioner addressed Du
rand with leisurely delibération.
“I would like to, talk this matter
over with my associates first,” he
admitted; “before I take any sort
of action. If vou’ll. allow me to
keep this marriage certificate for
the time being, I'll see that it’s
returned to you. Suppose you
come back tomorrow at this same
time, Mr. Durand.
“Thank you, Mr. Commission
er,” Durand said, rising.
“Don’t thank me for anything
yet. Let us wait and see first.”
(To Be Continued)
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HOBBY FAIR
The Civitan club at its regular
meeting last Monday night, adopt
ted the “Boys and Girls Hobby
Fair” as an annual project. The
Board of Directors were so grati
fied with the results of the Boys
Hobby Fair conducted in conjunc
tion with the Athens Agricultural
Fair, that they recommended it to
the club as an annual project and
it was enthusiastically adopted.
It is the aim of the club.to en
large and expand the “Fair” next
year so is to include boys and
girls. Classifications will be set up
and prizes offered for the best
hobby exhibited in each classifi
cation, such as, model airplane,
handicraft, photography, stamp
collection, will be made available
to the boys and girls in the very
near future.
March 4th was announced as the
date on which the Milledgeville
Cappella Choir, under the direc
tion of Dr. Max Noah, will be pre
sented at the Fine Arts Auditori
um, sponsored by the Civitation
Club. The entire net proceeds of
the performance will be given the
University Demonstration School
Music Department for the pur
chase of instruments for their
newly organized orchestra and
band.
The program presented by Alex
Saye and Howards McCants, was
of the unusual type. Departing
from the regular routine enter
tainment, Mrs. Dale Montgomery
was presented at the piano and the
club members enjoyed a half hour
song fest, singing the folk songs
that are always enjoyed by young
and old alike. The “Barber Shop
quartet” Joe Hudson, J. C. Par
ham and Robert Hamilton, was out
of this world. Their redition of
“Carry Me Back To Old Virginia”
was the kind of singing you hear
about, read about, but seldom, if
ever, have the priviliege of hear
ing.
The club is deeply indebted to'
Mrs. Montgomery for a very
pleasant evening.
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FALMER. — The relatives and
friends of Sergeant Walter A.
Palmer of Colbert, Ga.; Mr.
ana Mrs. George A. Palmer.
Watkinsville, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs.
Cartee Watson, Greenville, S.
C; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Seay,
Arnoldsville, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs.
Hobson Morris, Mr. and Mrs.
Buford Brown, both of Celbert,
' Ga; Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Pal
| mer, Cartersville, Ga.; Mr.‘and
- Mrs Paul J. Palmer, Atlanta;
. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard W. Pal-
mer, Comer, Ga.; Mr. Edwin
Palmer, Mr. Ernest Palmer,
Mr. Wilfred Palmer, all of
Watkinsville, Ga., are invited
to attend the funeral of Ser
geant Walter A. Palmer, Wed
nesday morning, November 24,
1848, from Moon’s Grove Bap
tist Church at eleven (11:00)
o’cleck. Rev. J. C. Parker, pas
tor of Moon’s Grcve Baptist
Church, will officiate. Members
of the Madison County Amer-s
ican Legion Post and Chapter
of Veterans c¢f Foreign Wars
will serve as hnhonorary pall
bearers. Pallbearers will be
anncunced later. Interment
will be in Moon’s Grove cem
etery. Bridges Funeral Home.
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cued and broiled at the annual
“financial follies” show staged by
the New York Financial Writers’
Association. The producticn lam
poons the nation’s business exe
cutives in the maner that Wash
ington’s famed “Gridiron Club”
show puts the political leaders
under the guillotine of laughter.
And it proves, if nothing else,
that the men with heavy pockets
have a sense of humor. The show
has grown more popular each
year. Top-rankng bankers and
corporation executives such as
A. P. Giannini, chairman of the
Bank of America, charter special
planes or trains to travel across
the continent to laught at par
odies of their activities. And they
pav S2O for the privilege.
- The theme of last night’s show
was a year of inflation—“inflat
jon in many and waried direct
ions, from Chinese currency to
the fame and stature of Harry
S. Truman.”
. The scribes defined inflation as
“the thirteenth rung on a twelve
run Jladder” and as something
that ‘“shouldn’t happen to a
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Stock Exchange President Emil
Schram . next to John L. Lewis,
head of the United Mine Work
€rs. .
The skits poked fun at the
stock issue dispute between Henry
Kaiser and Cyrus Eaton, the 9
percent annual dividend of the
American Telephone and Tele
graph Company (“You can al
ways tell a phoney”), and Harry
‘Truman’s electoral victory.
f Two men in patched elegance,
representing the last two Repub
licans left in the land, sang a
duet: 4
v “It’s Been A Long, Long Time.”
| Another showed President Tru
man, catalogued as “a man of ex
jtinction,” seated in a portrait
iframe. The President came to
'life, and suddenly thumbed his
lnose ir a wide sweep to the en
tire audiefice.
Later he came out and sold
“Dewey neckties” to the specta
tors, singing to the strains of
“Missouri Waltz.”
“Back in old Missouri I was
hoping soon to be,
Playing my piano, selling hab
lerdashery; y
i My neckties I'd peddle,
. No more would I meddle
| With political stuff,
For the going’s too tough.
Back to Independence I ~was
hankering to go,
But the silly voters just: rose
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1948
up and shouted ‘no’;
"So I'm holding the baz for the
F.. D, R. jag (& :
~ Poo-0-00-r lk;r-ry."
~ But the m 1 number that
appealed especially to both the
brokers and the writers, most of
whom dwell in the suburbs, was
1 skit ribbing the Long Islang
Railroad. ‘was entitled, “Don't
spit on the rail, Paw, the Long
Island will be late again.” i
The ticker tape addicts 2.,
liked @ blackort showing |
strange, long = haired man wh,
walked across ‘the Hotel Astqr
ballroom stage. At each of three
microphones - he' paused, yelling
lounder eaech time, “Yes! Ve
Yes! Asked to ,identify himsel;
he said:
“I'm a Russian diplomat oy
vacation.” ..
That‘ gave Wall Street, which
has been sifging the blues,
real belly laugh.
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