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Show Burden of Unemployment to Be Relieved by Decrease of Population Ey DEAN INGE. St Paul's Cathedral, London. HOMES in 1930 wilJ be childless and servantless The whole face of the country will be spotted with hungaloid growths, within which childless couples will sleep, after racing about .the roads in their little motor cars. As in America, the typical house will be servantless. Meals will t,e brought in from a delicatessen shop and heated by a gas or electric cooker. The art of supplying standardized stand-ardized needs by pressing buttons will be carried to great perfection. The population will, I think, begin to decrease slowly about 1950. The increase at present is entirely due to the preponderance of young i lives in the population, which keeps the crude death rate (about 12 pel 1,000) very much below the real death rate (about 18 per 1,000). A de eliue in numbers would relieve the terrible burden of unemployment, which in part at least is clearly due to overproduction, and a little more elbow room would be very desirable. Social equality will go further even than economic equality. Edu cation is rapidly removing the dialectical differences which in England, perhaps more than in other countries, accentuates social barriers. Now that gentlemen's sons are in hundreds becoming floorwalkers and what not, while the sons of workmen are entering the profession? through the county council schools and state subsidies, a man's occupation will socd be no indication of the position of his family. j . i |