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industry and income. Liquidation
for the further relief of migration
centers.
But the unused land of the world
is only sufficient to provide tempo
rary relief from the pressure of
population and wealth. 1t is impera-
tive. therefore, that the reappOr-
tionment of Sparsely settled territory
be attended with the responsibility
for a rate of growth of wealth and
population that is offset by a CORE
spending growth of income.
The nations of the world have a
common interest in preventing the
expansion of wealth and population
up to the saturation point Under
modern conditions, the outside limits
can not be approached or exceeded
without destroying the power to
raise the income level and provide
for rising standards of living all
along the line.
Heroic measures are required
Nothing short of large migration
centers, adequately financed and
manned, will suffice. These centers
can be planned with a view to the
development of small scale manu-
featuring plants on a Semi-rural
basis. The close contact between
the centers of raw material produc-
ton and the main body Of consum-
ers would make these centers for
the most part self-supporting. 1t
would make them good long-term
investments.
Whites Should Withdraw
This would appear to be the logi-
cal time for the withdrawal of the
white man from tropical areas. He
has helped to SOW the seeds of mod
ern industry. They have taken firm
root. The newer basic world indus
tries have a firm footing in India
and Japan. Persia is on the way.
The white mans assistance, other
wise than as a paid adviser and
temporary SojOurner, is no longer
required.
In order that the withdrawal be
effective a substitute would have to
be found for the principle of en-
pire This was suited to world in
which there was room for the gen.
eral and continued expansion of
wealth and population. Under mod
ern conditions many of the nations
must contract their rate of growth
in order to raise their income level,
a factor that can only be introduced
through a national consciousness of
the benefits to be realized.
Must Aid Natives
In paying subsistence wages to
native labor the empire powers have
encouraged an excessive rate of
population growth. Standards OF
production have been sacrificed to
expansion. Subsistence wages are
not enough of an inducement to
engage the interest of native pOpu-
lations in controlling their rate of
growth.
A control that was realized
through improved income and ris-
ing standards of living, a control
in which the benefits accrued pri-
marily to the native populations,
would enlist the interest and con-
Germ of native labor.
The tutelage period of nations is
past. We need new control
effected through a new sense of ma
tional balance. The new balance
between the growth of wealth and
population and the growth of in
come indicates the outside limits OF
a working substitute for the prin-
ciple of empire.
BY working within the outside
limits Of this principle, the nations
could provide for rising standards
of living all along the line; for the
balanced development of the worlds
four basic industries, agriculture,
manufacturing mining and COM
merce; for the even flow Of min
erals into the channels of world
trade: for the acquisition of terri
tory by purchase; for the adequate
organization and representation OF
national sovereignty in the League
of Nations.