Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-14
STANDING ROOM
Solons Debate the Population Question

CHICAGO, July 13.-If you want
to know the answer to that moot
question, what's the world coming
to, the place to learn it is in the
front row at Harris Foundation in
Stitute at the University of Chi
cago.
From Prof. Shiroshi Nasu of the
Imperial university of Tokyo. ia
pan, to DR.. Corrado Gini, of the
University of Rome, the leading au-
thorities on biology and economics
of the world will tell you all about it.
The question of population has be-
come so much a matter of world
concern that leading savants have
gathered here from the four corners
of the earth to discuss it.
RumOr "the Bunk"
About that rumor that not too
long IN the future there won't be
standing room on earth for humans,
you can take the word Of Prof. Rob-
ert r. Kuczinski, professor of eco
nomis of the Berlin Hadelschoch-
schulz, that it's the bunk.
Mankind probably will require
so years to double the worlds pres
ent estimated population of some
where in the neighborhood of 1,700,-
000, 000," he said. "The earth's ca
pacity for supporting humans Is
limited to the potential agricultural
resources. Assuming that there are
Is billion acres Of arabic land, and
that is acres on an average are
sufficient to support an individual,
the earth would readily support at
least 10 billions Of persons"
So that's that. And there's no
danger Of Jul being crowded for
foot room for some time yet.
The future of the white race has
aroused anxiety among students of
vital statistics. Here's what Profess
sor Gini, who Is q member of the
Fascist Grand Council of Italy, has
to say on that:
I'm the first place." he declared,
"the hypothesis that any popula-
ton would increase indefinitely If
it were not hindered by lack Of
means of suhstinence, or other ex-
ternal obstacles, Ill agrees with the
facts as we car observe them in the
case of those categories Of the pop
ulation for whom the means Of sub
Stinence are not scanty. Such are
the wealthy classes.
Multiplying Less Rapidly
Nov 1t is generally known that
these classes generally multiply less
rapidly than the population as q
whole, nor, would It seem, that
reigning families make an exception
to this rule, although in their case
the encouragement to multiply Is
the strongest possible"
His conclusion is that 1t would
thus seem that we are faced by
alternative systems of social organ
ization, of which leads the ma
tions to a briefer but intense life,
the other to a long and peaceful
one
"vigor Of life and duration Of life
seem to the antithetic, at least in
the case of the nations" Professor
Gini said. 1.-THE former Is the Sys-
tenn characteristic Of western Euro
pean civilization and to the new
countries to which it has given rise"
BETTER live one day as a lion
than 100 years as a sheep is the
way an eastern monarch once put
it,"
He means that the white race
ultimately may be eclipsed, but it Is
the big tadpole in the pond today.
And here's a comforting thought
from Professor NaSu.
I'm any progressive nation the
standard Of living of its people must
be going up" he said. "A standard
Of living refers not only to mate
rial but spiritual development. and
the aspiration Of every nation to