Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-08
This Young "Old World" Will
Never Be OVerCrOWded
Scientists NeedNot Worry Abou That. A Wisdom Bigger Than
Theirs Attends to Our Problems.
Copyright. 1879

this continent possibly miIion-perhaps less.
The squaws babies nearly every year. but the quaws
husbands other off and hunger and ignorance
killed quas daughters off fast that after thousands of
years of multiplying" whole population of the North
American continent the population of Brooklyn
N. Y, to-day
The wisely foolish with alarm the fact that have
ninety millions of people this continent that we have
FIVE millions cooped up in one big city
And wisdom asks, Where is the thing to end? What will
happen to earth when there human beings
than earth possibly feed?
will they each other will infanticide be made compul
ory-Or as among the ants will the great of the popu
ton be made incapable of reproducing their hnd7"
We reminded of the fact that in congested parts of
China thousands die boats the water because they
have no room land little girls thrown into the
and rivers at birth because they are not wanted
Really intelligent men, believing that figures ie
sure that eventually must keep down the population,
Swift gmy suggested his satire Ireland by eating the
plus children or in some other way
Nobody sleep worrying about the fate of hu
manity in overcrowded world
Things and future dangers not what they
Henry George wisely pointed out the rapid growth of
puppy's tail and drew moral from the tail.
If the puppys grew throughout the dogs life fast
it grows in the first weeks old dog would have
would have to his dogs tail every few weeks
But wisdom of nature takes of that and the pup
pys tail stops growing at just the right moment.
So it is will be- with the human this planet-lke
the puppy tail will stop growing at the right momentwhen
it is just the right size.
The best scientific articles and that appear in this
country are published in Hearts, Magazine That maya
zine number contains interesting facts and
figures that shed light nature method of managing pOpua
ton.
The elephant is big heavy and hungry If he multiplied
rapidly enough he would the earth and step
erybody elephant thirty years old before she has her
first child And unlike the little she has only at
time
On the other hand of the elephants little cousins mi
croscopc animacules beginning with single pair increase
number hundred and seventy thousand millions (70
100000 0O0) in four days-which is quite family.
The cabbage louise mutpes with such frghtfu speed that
he not checked by death rate great his fecund
he would present to the of cabbage lice bigger
than this earth.
you cold in the head the living germs develop
your throat by the millions while your friend tell
ing you how he cures would be you
could realize what menagerie you carry around
Nature than the scientists has planned this globe for
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 giraffe except who alone will represent thought
will power shared with his humble brothers in the
world
With as with other animals increased development will
decreased fertility
Pig weed will thousand while tree is
growing half foot above its But the oak will
there in hundred years and the pig weed vanished
Man highly developed intellectually will
thousands of centuries from populate this earth fully
and then automatically without inancde cannbasm or
any the population of the earth will become
maticaly balanced.
and the average will leave behind
pair of children.
There will death childhood and no pain in child
bhos unnecessary brutates will be eliminated by science
within few centuries
Meanwhile the duty of and work for the
welfare of the children being anxious protect and help
that than the number
give proper care to a few than to brag about many