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 to Ou Problems.
Copyright, 1879

When Columbus landed American soil the population of
this continent possibly milion-perhaps less.
The squaws nearly every year. but the squaws
husbands killed each other off fast and hunger and ignorance
squaws daughters off FAST that after thousands of
years of multiplying" the whole population of the North
continent less than the population of Brooklyn
N. Y, to-day.
The wisely foolish with alarm the fact that we have
ninety millions people this continent that have
five millions cooped up in big city.
And wisdom asks Where is the thing end7 What will
happen this earth when there human beings on
than the earth possibly feed?
will they eat other will nfancde be made compu
sory-or among ants will the great of the popula
ton be made incapable of reproducing their kind9"
We are reminded that in congested parts of
China thousands 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 men eventually keep down the population
Swift rimy suggested Ireland by eating the
plus children in some other way.
Nobody ever sleep worrying about the fate of hui
manty in overcrowded world.
Things and future dangers not what they
Henry George wisely pointed the rapid growth of
puppy's tail and drew moral from the tail.
If the puppys tail grew throughout the dogs life fast
hundred feet long the distressed kndhearted
would have off his dogs tail every few weeks
Bun the wisdom takes of that and the pup
pys tail Stops growing at just the right moment.
So it s. or will be- with the human this planetke
the puppy will stop growing at the right momentwhen
it is just the right size.
The best scientific articles appear
country are published in Hearss Magazine That
zine October number contains interesting facts and
d1;ob% odof
ton.
The elephant big heavy and hungry. If he multiplied
rapdly enough would the earth and step
erybody the elephant thirty years old before she has her
first child And unlike the little she has only at
time.
On the hand of the elephants little cousins mi
croscopc anmaules beginning with single pair increase to
number of hundred and seventy thousand millions 70
100000 0O0) in four days-which is quite family.
cabbage louise multpes with such fghtfu speed that
checked by death rate great his fecundy
would present to the of cabbage lice bigger
than this earth
When you have cold head living germs develop
in your by the millions while your friend
ing you colds You would be shocked you
could realize what menagerie you carry around
Nature than the scientists has planned this globe for
farm home intellectual gymnasium and starting point to
a higher life with absolute certainty and precision.
Little by little all animal life will disappear from the germ
to the giraffe except who will represent thought and
will power shared with his humble brothers the animal
world
With man. as with other animals increased development will
decreased fertility
Pig weed will thousand while the oak tree is
growing half foot above its But the oak tree will be
there in hundred years and the pig weed vanished.
Man as he becomes highly developed intellectually will
thousands centuries from populate this earth fully
and automatically without nfantcde oannbaism
any other horror population of the earth will
matically balanced.
Each and the will leave behind them
one pair of children.
viii be death in childhood and pain in child
bh-thoe unnecessary brutaes will be eliminated by
within few centuries
Meanwhile, the duty of men and is to work for the
children being anxious protect and help
here than to increase the number eager
give proper care few than to brag about many.