Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-20

Latest population figures show that
London still holds first place in popu-
lation among the cities OF the world
but that New York's steady gain
promises to put 1t in first place within
few years. LondonS present emu
meration shows 8,202,8l3. while New
York has 6,98l.9l7. These figures are
declared to arouse no enthusiasm IN
either country, because OF the attention
that Is being given to the great prob
lens Of the big cities and the tendency
to advise that population be more
widely scattered.
London town spreads and spreads.
having ample room Tor spreadlng.
says the Charleston Daily Mail. new
York rises higher and higher and bur-
rows deeper and deeper, but the city
of the lateral spreads has the advan-
tage. What superlative merit, II any, goes
with such a vast aggregation OF human
souls in such restricted quarters. would
be difficult to determine" The Mail con-
cludes: Many must be born and live and
die In such restricted quarters, to whom
the great open spaces are but dreams, II
they enter into their consciousness
at all"
Conditions in England" thinks the
Milwaukee Sentinel. "typify industrial
ism's greatest evil. The demand Tor
factory workers increased the popu-
lationS of cities far out OF proportion
to the food producing populations OF
the countrysides. 1t is said that IN
France the country population no
greater now than it was IN the hard
days of the thirteenth century. Sc
i long as England has great urban pop
ulation her workers will suffer periodical
" as they are suffering now. When tney
have no jobs they can buy no food
! The foreign food producer has no pa
triotic incentive to food penniless Eng
lishman. The English agrarians nave
trouble enough feeding themselves
Time may prove that Nautilus wa!
not entirely wrong"
Cities throughout the world de-
clares the Pasadena Star-NeWs. are
growing with rapidity. There Is CORE.
spending increase in the scope ane
seriousness of political, economic ane
sociologic problems as population maSse!
| In large centers. Will civilization. law
order and all that civilized, refined peo
piles hold dear. be able to survive ant
| flourish within congested centers Of
population? Can the modern city carr!
| on, keeping principles. ideals and stand
ards of government and human conduc
above the driving tides of crime. vict
and corruption? These are serious ane
very live questions. The great problem:
| Of government oand Of human welfare
are presented today in the large cite:
Of the United States and of the world.
Present tendencies suggest to thu
Kalamazoo Gazette that 1.-THE London
New York classic may continue vir'
tually q dead heat for decades" THAI
paper views the New York hope as rest
ing on "the sharply declining British
birth rate. now lower than that OF any
other country except Sweden" and add
, that "a study Of the new census figure!
convinces an impartial analyst tina
Britain's population will actually begir
declining in about IS years" but tina
"the American birth rate, too. has beer
dropping away." The South Benz
Tribune comments: 1T will not be sur
prising II there is no straining to in
crease the size Of New York It will al
ways remain a peculiar phenomenon
Why 100000 persons should crowd int;
Greater New York City when there i