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Show It POPULATION IN CITIES. "With the population of 449 cities and towns reported, the census bureau discovers there is a dropping off in the percentage. of increase In the period from 3010 to 1920, as compared with the decade, 1900 o 1910, and this loss in ratio of increase is traced to the dropping bff in immigration. I This slowing down is not altogether regrettable. Prior to the : var the United States was receiving a stream of foreigners too large . to be absorbed into American ways and habits! In the big cities jyhole districts were being possessed by a people as foreign to'Amer-; to'Amer-; lean customs as Cairo is foreign to Ogden. : J To check this tide for another decade would save this country! I from problems of good citizenship which the Americanization ruove-I ruove-I bent has been unable to solve only in a- limited degree. I , I Largeness of population should not be an all-absorbing, desire. . Instead of bigness, this country should concentrate on quality. It i would be preferable to have 100,000,000 happy, contented people, j khan 200,000,000 made up of .10,000,000 well-to-do and 90,000,- j I 900 on the ragged edge of penury and want; -' I |