Show BRITON SEEMS TO HAVE LOST GRIP no longer feels urge to settle new lands A hundred years or more ago eng lehmen were swarming to every corner of the earth taking over and populating vast stretches of new land until it was possible as indeed it may still be possible to say that there were more english speaking peoples than there were those of any other tongue in the last generation or two there been a change britain still controls much of the vast areas of th earth but englishmen are no ion er filling them up australia de balte its continental extent remains a sparsely spir sely populated land with most of the people concentrated in a few cities along the eastern coast eng linci proper teems with men and women unable to find work to do but the old urge to get out and try what a new country can offer Is gone officialdom in both the motherland and in the colonies seeks to revive the old swarming spirit but with small success the story in the morning papers Is typical nearly who had been persuaded to move to australia have petitioned the british government to repatriate them they charge that they were induced to leave their homes by mischievous misleading and untruthful da circulated by paid agents of the australian government and they tell a sad story of disappointment star and despair what Is ably more suggestive they tell also that many of their numbers have become mentally deranged and that suicide Is frequent on this point warren S thomp eon in his famous book danger spots in world population has a stimulating discussion at certain periods in their history nations tend to swarm like bees and the facts seem to show that only swarming agriculturalists with a rather low standard of living can actually set tie a new land but an industrialized people such as the english have become gradually ceases to swarm it ceases to be able to settle and develop new lands for the city life to which it has become accustomed ren ders it unfit to master the soil such people says thompson can exploit certain of its accumulated resources but they are like the poo pie of the fabled island who lived bv taking in one an others washings the troubles tha expatriated eng anro having in australia and tho similar troubles some of their fellows have had in canada are sim ply cases in point if the new lands nominally under the control of the british empire are soon to be filled it will probably be with other folk lhnn from the industry allred mother country baltimore evening sun |