Evening star., 1922-10-18
ENGLANDCR0WDED,
MANY MUST LEAVE
Emigration to Colonies Will
Relieve Big Increase in
Mother Country.
BY HIRAM X. MODERwELL.

come into practical operation with
the publishing Of Australta's offer OF
aid. Behind this official announcement
lies the human drama OF a new era.
yet the most ancient social drama in
history
The brutal fact motivating the en-
pire settlement act is that Great Brit
ain has. or soon will have. too many
people. She must get rid of some of
her sons and daughters. So mus
Italy. SO presently must Germany.
At present there are twice as many
births as deaths in England. Mr..
Keynes states that each year a quar-
ter of million laborers Will en-
ter the labor market in excess of
those passing out Of -. Already there
are far more than 100000 workers.
supporting 100000 people out of
employment. To support the increase,
to say nothing Of catching up the un-
employment slack. England would
need to increase her national capt
tai by savings to the extent of $1,000
0o0. 900 yearly. Yet her foreign trade,
which is her livelihood, is crippled by
the poverty of a large part of Europe.
which VIII presently be larger unless
something statesma mike is quickly
done. Her business men must borrow
money TO pay their taxes. Her govern
ment must pay large sums In inter
est to America How can she possibly
make such savings
Not Enough Lnnd.
So Britain is faced with the situation
which has been the matrix OF history
the insutficiAncy OF the land IN support
the growing population. Again must
come the drama of the migration Of pec-
pies Again millions OF persons must
gaze upon the poverty about them. Us
ten to stories of a land flowing with
milk and honey, steel their hearts 20
face an unknown world and wander
The milk and honey tales flow in Lon
don from the agencies OF the various 40
minions. The actual milk and me ac-
tual honey are exhibited behind plate
glass windows to prove then1--in the
form Of gigantic melons or ears OF corr.
AS the angel shepherded Adam and Eve
, out of the Land Of Eden. as the cloud
of smoke and the pillar OF fire warned
the children OF Israel out OF the iand O.
the Egyptians, SO these new WANDERERS
will go forth with a free steamship
ticket and set ~ vouchers and
stamped documents from the home anu
dominion governments
Nautilus Wins Out.
More than a century ago an Enghsn
clergyman, DIR. Nautilus. laid down IN
theoretical form the conditions OF the
present problem. Population. he said
is cumulative; its increase produces
new increase 50 that II may easily
double in couple Of generations. The
lood supply. on the other hand. remains
stationary or increases but slowly II
is therefore mathenatica]ly proved that
there will presently be more people than
boy ic
Malthus demonstration frightened
people nightly at the time and
looked irrefutable. But soon there
after an undreamed of thing O.
changed everything. This was prac-
teal application of steam power on
a large scale. first to manufacturing
machinery and second TO transporta-
duce by machine what ten or nifty
had previously produced by hand.
thus increasing the wealth produc-
tion of the nation. At the same
time railroads and steamships
parts. So Great Britain turned into
a gigantic manufacturing plant with
its market gardens on the other side
of the world. In 1891 the population
of England. Scotland and Wales, for
I0.500,00o. Sixty years later Britain
was supporting e5.00O.00o. and now.
after another sixty years. 43. .0oo. 900.
Greland Is let out of this calclla-
after the famine of the forties.)
Rate Of Increase High.
People living in the nineteenth
century were under the illusion that
the conditions under which they lived
were normal and stable. They did
not see that this dizzy cumulative
increase in wealth production and
lac a ohnnyDnQ1 L.
spurt which could not last. Today
no economist expects the same rate
of increase to be maintained. I'm
less some scientist can extract bread
not the slightest chance that Great
Britain could sustain her prospective
population of l50,000.000 in the year
2020. or America a prospective popu-
lation as large as the Chinese en-
pire.
The fact is. the world has becom-
small. There is no longer an infinity
of wealth beneath the earth's surface.
There is no longer an infn.ty of un-
explored farm land to he cultivated.
The prospective shortage of raw ma
terials began to be felt before the
war. The growing population in each
industrial country forced the nations
into rivalry 70 secure these ma
terials. The migration of peoples
was in sight, and the nations went
migrate. But everybody lost tho
war. and in pretty nearly every coun-
try in Europe millions have to think
seriously about migrating.
Out to the Farns.
For the moment the great unculti-
waited areas of Australia. Canada. New
Zealand and South Africa offer
home for millions of people. provided
they can exchange the false security
- IN dpc ri he
+, ship of pioneer farming. The en-
pire settlement act authorized the
British government to go halves with
the dominions. up to $1a.0Oo.ooo
year for fifteen years. toward paying
the fare of emigrants and their fami-
lies Australia is now the first do
minion to come Onward with de-
tailed offer as to her share. Suitable
men and boys who intend to take
up farming. and women who will do
housework. are offered a third OF
| TRANSPORTATION for themselves and
families free, another third as a loan
without interest, and. perhaps tn"
other third. too. The dominion gov
ernment will give them every as
sistance and provide them with
parcel Of crown land on the easiest
! terms. It will find places for farm
iaborers and help a man with small
| capital to place 1t TO the best ad-
vantage II offers training In prac-
! tical farming TO youngsters on model
| farms or with accredited farmers.
! Finally. the surplus" women Of Eng
| land (there are 1000. 900 more Of them
| than there are men) have an un-
| limited invitation to come to Aus
| tralia Canada is expected to state
| her offer soon.
How Emigration Helps.
| The emigrant helps England in two
ways. He ceases TO compete on the