Show I DECLINING BIRTH RATE France is not the only country countr where here herera race ra suicide prevails to an alarming ex a extent e tent According to figures compiled complied by bythe b bythe the cents census ce bureau the live birth rate in the United d States StatS has to a surprising degree ree In 1799 liti the average family in inthis Inthis Inthis this country consisted ted of 58 persons one hundred years later it consisted of only 46 According to the report had the average size of oC American families remained the same me in 1000 as it was in liM the United States would hate ha e a native population greater greeter by SOSO fi persons I Another feature of the report is III the i announcement that more than half the white population of the tho country tr is corn com composed posed polled either of o persons or CH orthe I tb the children ct of foreign par parents parents This Thus class cla s of its Is it found al ai almont 1 most mont entirely In the New England I states and anti the middle west the south having haYing kept its individuality of or race In Inthe Inthe Inthe the middle and ami New England states the tore foreign population formed IH in 1966 lI more mere than Mn half of oC the whole white population or its In every nely lN 1 In the southern hem Motes Mates t foreign citizens or CH children n born here of 0 foreign R parents were only soy sev in every ever 1060 1080 The drift of population toward WM t the cities if is I held to be M In hi part responsible bIe for the reduction in the sloe stae of 0 families although the constantly increasing cost COPt of living no doubt has something s to do with it Notwithstanding the enormous wealth of o the country in the tIe aggregate greate it U b t evident eident that the people have con that they are only about half bait as ae aswell aswell well able ble to rear children without great personal sacrifice as their predecessors wove were e at the close of the eighteenth eon cen century tury In any event the census cen ua bureau figures speak k eloquently for themselves In the matter of o sex ex the population is la nearly nearl equal and there is little dif difference dl ference feren c between the figures of ot the first census cen ut and the las hist The Tile report shows that in 1799 1 the male population was as asper per pet cent of 0 the total and the female per r cent In UM 1 it was discovered that tha t the women Omen had hod Increased ed some somewhat wha what the figures being iO male and 1 fern fema Some startling results are existed ted when the figures of oC the census to be taken next year r arc are published and it will not be at all aU surprising if IC the native American me can birth rate shows a further decrease dee |