Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-06-01 | Page 4 | This is Unusual

f 0 This Is Unusual The growth of the city has been one of the most significant events In recent recent re- re cent ent American history The na naIon's nation nations nation's na- na Ions Ion's swing from a rural to an urban civilization has had a profound In influence influence in- in fluence on economics social customs politics and moral codes Yet the therise therise therise rise of the city has never been given half the study it should have had We Ve have simply taken the change for gran granted ted Professor r W. W Russell Tylor Ilor of the University of Illinois in a recen recent study tudy of Americas America's urbanization points out that the growth of at the cities depends chiefly on a in feeding of f surplus population from adjacent farm arm lands If and when the birth birthrates birthrates birthrates rates in hi rural communities drop the cities will stop growing His s figures are Instructive In 1910 for or example he shows that the farm population of the United States reached cached its peak peak Now Nov the he natural rate of population Increase in- in crease rease would add between and to that total during a decade by 1920 therefore the farm I population x should have been approxImately approximately 1 But It w was ws not riot Instead it jt had de- de dei i dined lined to a little more than This not only meant that 4 fewer people were living on farms arms In 1920 than In 1910 it mean meant that hat altogether some people popie peo po- pIe had gone from the farms Professor Tylor points out that tha American cities no longer have i s. s sufficient preponderance of births over vcr deaths to make appreciable gains in population without outside aid lid Immigration from abroad Is no longer longcr an important factor Thus the average American city Is about to stop top growing I. I if the exodus from the farm arm is discontinued or or 1 if the rura rural birth Irth rate falls faUs as it shows signs of doing Ornithologists take advantage of this his strange game taste of the fishermen fishermen fisher fisher- men by persuading them to release c part art of their catch With identifying bands ands on their legs so EO that their migrations may be traced through later ater recaptures Sometimes the fishermen make un unlooked looked for catches in their aerial nets ets Recently they took a sea eagle with a wing spread of ot about seven feet Ct The bird bud was turned over to who banded photographed and nd released cd it IL I Eight major foundations alone In inthe inthe the he United States States' are arc expending approximately approximately ap- ap proximately annually for educational purposes I About Italian theat theaters rs have ha been een equipped with sound film Um reproduction reproduction apparatus