Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29

How long would one Benito Mussolini
hold a job on staff of an American
daily If he dealt in such unverlf1ed
facts" as he uses in, his article about
the race suicide of the World-with the
United States as his horrible example?
Signor MuSSolini not only published In
his own magazine his article appealing
to all Italian families to increase and
multiply and replenish Italy. but, like
an enterprising free lance, he ''Syndi-
Gated it by ordering its republication
in every daily in Italy-which scoops
any effort of any Yankee free lance yet
recorded. That gives us struggling
American journalists new idea OF now
TO get circulation Just become dlcta-
tors-by and with the advice and con-
sent of the man in the White House and
Congress on the h;ll-so that whatever
we write will be decreed into the first
column. front page of every daily IN
America. Let's MusSolinize American
journalism!
Then we can initiate figures 40 per
cent and get away with it. Or we can
spool the highest authorities on biology
and statistics. and prove that the
Malthusian theory of population in
crease is absurd. because if it were re-
yersed and population censuSeS traced
backward by its "geometric curve" l.
would prove that there we're no wolves
in Rome and never had been. therefore.
Rome never was founded: and II the
theory should be traced ad absurdllm
it would convince the most Skeptlcal
that the Garden of Eden never saw
Adam and Eve. for they were minus
cipher instead of 100 per cent Edenltes.
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The Italian premier writes:
Are the yellow and black races at
our door then? Yes. they are at our
door. not only owing to their fecundlty,
but also because they are becoming
race conscious, and feel they have
future in the world. While. for IN
stance. the whites in the United States
have a pitiable birthrate. which would
be even lower except for the injections
of races which sill are prolific, like the
Irish, Hebrews and Italians. the negroes
are extremely prolific. Already they
reach the imposing total of $4,000 600,
or one-sixth of the total population of
the United States. There is great
quarter in New York. called Harlem.
populated exclusively by colored people.
A grave riot in this quarter last July
was with difficulty suppressed"
Fourteen million negroes? The United
States census of 1920 showed total in
the United States of negroes, 8,802.577.
and of mulattoeS, 1,660,554. There
was an increase during the preceding
decade of Is per cent of whites, and
only 6.5 per cent of colored population
During the decade from 1900 to 1910.
the increase was 22.3 per cent whites
and 112 per cent colored. In actual
figures. the whites increased from 1910
to 1920 by 13,088958. while the colored
increase was only 1868
The total population in 1920 was
los. 71O,620. of which the colored. in
elusive of mulattoes. constituted 80 per
cent-not Is 2-3 as Mussolini declared
One-Seventh of the "colored' are half
whites. All of these figures are official
census data.
In the eight years since that 1920
census, the same ratio of increase will
apply. so that at present 1t is eSti-
mated that we have population of
about 119,000.00O. of which 1903 900, 900
are whites and 100000 colored. in
elusive OF mulattoes-SUill only SO per
cent colored-not Is 2-3.
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In chapter 1, volume ., of the four
teenth census report 1920, is this
in the total population. which was
about four-fifths in 1890. has increased
at each succeeding census, except for
an insignificant decrease i'll 1910, as
compared with 1900. The increase dur
ing the first 40 years was much slower,
however, than that during the re-
mainder of the period covered by the
table.
Accepting the estimate of 1870 as
approximately correct, each decade
since 1890 except the decade l910-l920.
has shown for the white population
numerical increase gree ser than that
Immediately preceding end the per-
centage of increase for The white pop
ulation ha. exceeded To-. he negro pop
ulation in every decade since 1870"
Signor MuSSolini was no more con-
vincing in his scare over the alleged
yellow peril" than he was over the
black increase of America.
What does it mean for the history
of Western nations" he asks, that
China has 4O0,0OO,0O0 inhabitants con-
centrated in a single state?"
A report recently sent back to Amer
lea by a party of New York scientific
explorers of China is TO the effect that
$4,000 years ago, China was far more
denSely populated than it is today. So.
why worry?" 1t is race suicide in
China, if we measure the course of
so 1000 years. Cortez with 500 men con-
quered Montezumas millions Pizarro's
handful of adventures looted Peru of
its gold. Numbers of people make no
nation militarily strong 1t is inteln- |
gence that counts, whether in the ri |
Siberian Railways? Must we always |