Evening star., 1933-03-26


Africa, in the throes Of even more profound
changes, will be haltingly following suit. In
st I'd Of exploitation by mere spread and plum
ds.' stable and orderly culture Of the earth
ar its resources win take its place.
SUIT this does not imply that shifts will not
be in order. On the contrary, there will be.
for the frst time, an organized movement OF
peoples into regions of greatest advantage;
this viii be accompanied by a sorting out of E.
races and institutions into those geographic
areas In which they can obtain the maximum
satisfaction of their life demands.
Most Of the coal-mining regions will be de-
serted; there will be steady withdrawal OF
white peoples from the tropics; Australia will
be abandoned to the Japanese by its white in
habitants, who will return to an England cap
able of supporting by agriculture almost double
its present population.
DY this time, Of course, there will be the be-
- ginning of a world plan Of colonization; the
whole process of disordery seizure, beginning
with the Spaniards and Portuguese in the six
teenth century and coming to head in Japan's
encroachments on the Asatic mainland in the
twentieth, will be replaced by rational pro-
cedure.
This task Of recolonixation viii be aided by
the lessened animal pressure Of population and
by the gradual extinction of the unitary national
once jealousy claimed by separate bellicose
sovereign states" will be in the hands Of the
World Community, with its common written
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS its universal sys-
tenn Of justice.
National boundaries, whose principal use at
present IS in warfare and the collection of Gus
toms, will cease to be real; the region as an
economic and social entity will serve the
smallest unit Of world administration
Differences between lands and climatic belts,
though still important for living, will become
less significant both in industry and agriculture.
The technique Of science and industry win no
longer be the peculiar property Of any one
people; hence even the loose division Of the
world into the areas that supply raw mate
rails and those that work up manufactured
goods will have been largely wiped out.
ZACH region viii manufacture q large share
- Of products for its own use: special ad-
vantages will have disappeared before the more
important fact Of q common technique
In agriculture the equalization of advantage
will be equally plain
Greater yields Of old crops new modt6cA-
tions Of soil, new plants, the climatic adapta-
tion Of tropical plants to northern conditions,
quickened processes Of growth, utilization Of
special rays in promoting and retarding seed
ing will place agriculture throughout the world
on basis foreshadowed by present-day horti-
culture in Holland
The advances made with the next so years
will perhaps be greater than those made since
the original domestication of plants.
These advances will change the whole aspect
Of northern agriculture and shift the center Of
gravity our civilization.
As a result of this, even lac and rubber, two
highly localized commodities, will be grown as
practiced In the tropics to make these special
products available will give place to intense
cooperative farming
With sumcient agriculture so widely dis
tributed the need Of world trade and world
markets will diminish, and potent cause Of
imperialistic friction and warfare viii dis
appear
Agriculture, partly by reason Of intensive
production under glass, will be placed on .
more calculable basis; farmers will manufac-
ture their seasons instead Of passively sub
mittng to nature; the sudden gluts and short
ages which disrupted the market and gave an
opportunity to the canny speculator will be-
long to the past
Wheat and corn will still be produced by
semi-intensive methods in the natural areas Of
increment, thus permitting a fuller expanse Of
parks and gardens in the more populated areas.
But on the whole crops and manufactured
goods will move shorter distances in 1883.
This naturalization of agriculture accounts
only in part for the shrinkage Of the great port
cities Of the nineteenth century; the old har-
bors OF Liverpool, Hamburg Antwerp New
York will be curiously quiet.
COR, IN addition, world trade will be taken oil
its crazy competitive basis; the timing
and filling of cargo boats will be taken care of
by world organization, similar to the port