Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-08
This Young "Old World" Will
Never Be OVerCrOWded
Scientists Need Not Worry About That Wisdom Bigger Than
Theirs Attends Dor Problems.

this continent possibly mllion-perhaps less
The squaws had babies nearly every but the
other fast and hunger and ignorance
killed the squaw daughters off so fast thousands of
years of multiplying the whole population of the North
American continent less than the population of Brooklyn
N Y, to-day.
wisely foolish with alarm the fact that have
ninety millions people this continent that have
five millions coOped up in one big city.
And wisdom asks Where the thing to end? What will
happen to this earth human beings
than the earth possibly feed?
will they each other will nfancde be made compul
sory-o among ants will the great of the pOpua
ton be made incapable of reproducing their ldnd?"
reminded of the fact that in congested parts of
thousands live and die in boats the water because they
have land and little girls thrown into the streams
and rivers at birth because they not wanted.
Really intelligent men, believing that figures lie
sure that eventually keep down the population,
Swift grimy suggested his satire Ireland by eating the
plus children in some other way.
Nobody ever need lose sleep worrying
manity in overcrowded world.
Things and future dangers not what they
Henry George wisely pointed out the rapid growth of
puppys tail and drew moral from the tail.
If the puppys tail grew throughout the dogs life fast
grows the few weeks the old dog would have tail
would have cut off his dogs tail every few weeks
the wisdom of nature takes of that and the pup
py's tail stops growing at just the right moment.
So it is will be- with the human on this planetke
the puppys tail it will stop growing at the right momenwhen
it is just the right size.
The articles reviews that appear this
country published in Hearst Magazine That maya
zine the October number contains interesting facts and
figures that shed light nature method of managing ppua
ton.
The elephant big, heavy and hungry If he multiplied
rapidly enough he would the earth and step
erybody But the elephant thirty years old before she has her
first child And unlike the little she has only at
time.
other hand of the elephant little cousins
croscopc anmalcue beginning with single pair increase to
the number of hundred and seventy thousand millions 70
0O0OOOO0O) in four days-which is quite family.
The cabbage louise mups with such frightfu speed that
he not checked by death rate great his feCundy
he would present the of cabbage lice bigger
than this earth.
you cold the head the living germs develop
in your by the millions while your friend
ing you his colds would be you
could realize what a menagere you carry around.
Nature wiser than the scientists has planned this globe for
man farm home intellectual gymnasium and starting point
higher life with absolute certainty and precision.
Little by little all animal life will disappear from the germ
to the giraffe except who alone will represent thought
will power shared with his humble brothers the animal
world.
With with other animals increased development will
decreased fertility.
Pig weed will thousand while the oak tree
growing half foot above its But the oak will be
there in hundred years and the pig weed vanished
Man he becomes highly developed intellectually will
thousands of centuries from populate this earth fully
and then automatically without nfantcde cannibasm
any horror population of the earth will auto
matically balanced
Each and the average will leave behind
pair of children
There will be death in childhood and pain child
bh-hose unnecessary brutaes will be eliminated by science
within few centuries.
Meanwhile the duty of and is for the
welfare of the children being anxious protect help
those that here than to increase the number eager
give proper to a few than to brag about many
s-Not entirely unselfshly but the less sincerely