Milford chronicle., 1955-04-29

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FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1866
AMERICA EXPANDS IN POPULATION
The story of the amazing growth of the
United States continues to be written in
terms of population figures. The latest esti-
mates of the Census Bureau released last
week, show the country roaring along with
an increase of 8.8 per cent over 1850. That
means, in human terms, a lively addition of
some 1925, 900 persons. Or, in sum total,
it means that more than 164, 000,0 900 inhabit
this happy land.
The whole history of America can be
written in terms of expanding population.
During the first half of the nineteenth CEN
fury, population grew fourfold. Today there
are seven times as many Americans as there
were in 1850. Yet there was time, not long
ago, when this expansion seemed to have
reached a halt. The end of mass immigra-
ton and the damper of the depression
brought leveling off. And even after the
forced marriages of war time had brought
new squirt, it was supposed that there would
be return to modest and unspectacular in
creases. But marriage boom and a baby
boom upset the calculations of the experts
In some ways the statistics in regard to
the number of households is even more sig
nificant than statistics about individuals For
for most of the things which America pro-
duces in mass. The family is, so to speak, an
atom: being split to provide new households,
it releases its own form of dynamic energy.
So it is encouraging to realize that in the
decade between 1910 and 1850 the number
5 of households increased by % per cent; and
in the next years further increase of per
cent. is. estimated to have takenplace.s y
The face of America is changing from
year to year; the whole place is getting
busier and there is reason to believe that,
in economic terms, at least it is getting bet
ter Hope for ordinary people has never
been so well founded, even in days when the
unsettled West spread out as challenge
And at bottom of it all is the simple fact of
men and women marrying, rearing children
and confounding the experts. That in itself
is pleasant to contemplate.
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DR.. SALK HONORED
To Dr. Jonas E. Salk there came on Fri
day the honor of citation read to him in
the presence of his proud wife and three
children by President Eisenhower. This
occasion celebrated victory in which every
human being can rejoice. There is no one
in the world who may not be little happier
because of what DR.. Salk has done. There
is no one who need be jealous of him. There
are no cities in ruins, no dead men and
women as a result of the magnificent victory
DR.. Salk won.
This citation and its companion citation
to the National Foundation of Infantile Par
alysis made it plain that DR.. Salk was not
alone in his victory Hundreds of research
workers contributed. Perhaps everyone who
gave dime to the Foundation may think of
himself as contributor. DR.. Salk himself,
with the dignity and modesty that he has
shown all along, spoke, as he put it, for "all
the people, in laboratories, in the fields, and
those behind the line" who have worked on
the problem of this dreaded disease.
DR.. Salk looked hopefully forward to a
time when we might see "the beginning of
the end of other fears that plague mankind. .
To such men as this surely we must look for
happier future. These are the creative
souls-the scientists, the healers, the poets,
the dreamers of dreams that come true-On
whom we must depend. They stand at the
forefront of no cold war but of a warm,
humane war against the evils, pains and
fears that have menaced all mankind
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WHERE WE MAY LOSE
A former high government official who
had to carry out security regulations is dis
turbed over their effect on able young physi-
cists and chemists. He has noted their re-
luctance to take government jobs where their
freedom may be restricted beyond what they
think legitimate, and where they may be be-
deviled and held up to odium by publicity
seeking congressman.
One striking fact makes this trend, if it
exists, particularly unsettling. Psycholo-
gists conclude that scientific genius is at its
best in the eos and sos of life Thus Sir
Isaac Newton, dscoverer of the law of gray
itation, achieved no new triumphs after 40.
For the rest of his life he merely polished
and refined his earlier theories. If this is
true, and the scientists just out of college are
loath to do government work, the nation will
lose them during the most intellectually pro-
ductive years of their lives.
President Eisenhower is reported to be
DESTROYS of resurveying our security rules.
The foregoing ASPECT should be borne in mind
BY airy .coraynission he may appoint.