Springville Herald | 1955-02-17 | Page 8 | Increased Births Lead Experts to be Optimistic

increase the demands for Po and services and education in ti country to a prosperous high m tv!s coming years, barring some erm? omic catastrophe. .five years. There seems to be little doubt but that the babies born in the early forties wilt begin to earn salaries and wages increasingly in the next five years. By 1960, the number of students entering college col-lege and entering the job maiket will be rapidly rising and, theie-after, theie-after, the effects will be felt on a very broad economic front. These figures have led many ex-certs ex-certs to be optimistic about the future in the United States. There seems little doubt that the soaring birth rate in the United States will Increased Births Lead Experts To Be Optimistic Recent figures show that the number of babies born in 1954 set a new record in the United States. Tentative figures show over 4,000,-000 4,000,-000 1954 births. The significance of this record crop of babies is further increased by the fact that it represents the fifteenth year of successive increase in-crease in the U. S. birth rate. The long-term economic result of this trend is to be felt within