Show What Our Readers Think Giving U. U S. S Resources l To World No Solution I Editor Telegram We Ve hear much of oC one world good neighbors and keeping the peace by distributing the re resources resources re- re sources of or North America over the world These theories and sounding high-sounding plans come up against the hard cold fact that the tendency is for populations to outstrip the rate of growth of human sustenance When Great Britain introduced introduced introduced intro intro- sanitation wide scale ir irrigation irrigation ir- ir transportation etc into India the result was a great increase of population and the standard of living Jiving of ot the Indians is just about the same as before for the majority China is Inthe in inthe inthe the same class and Puerto Rico to come nearer to home Unless Unless Unless Un Un- less control of population were enforced we could pour all of our resources into the rest of the world without raising the standard of living of those people I am in favor of teaching backward nations how to use their resources for their own betterment but not of trying to fill fiJI a bottomless well with our irreplaceable resources no matter matter matter mat mat- ter how embar embarrassing assing abundance becomes to our business lead lead- ers When a country's leader has war in view the people are urged to have large families I Ithen then the cry for living room gives an excuse for taking over another coun country ry Italy Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many and Japan for tor example The problem is tied in with su superstition superstition superstition su- su hand tools and hard labor We Ve cannot hope to change the ancient beliefs regarding population control when the only means of doing work they know lenow of is human toil We may as well vell recognize the fact and try tryout out the four freedoms at home first It has been said that the only way Germany could be prevented prevent prevent- ed from attacking France would be for the French and Germans to trade countries Of course we could try tha that too Gladys Higgins |