Show I SONS BAR i IE TIC STATE rENT au sr W sin Bab 4 Special to THE EXPRESS BABSON EXPLODES THE POPULATION AND NEGRO EXPLOSIONS BABSON PARK MASS MASS- MASSI I am not arguing with the census bureau as to how our population has increased This is covered carefully In several pages page's pages beginning with page of the 1963 World AlmanaC which book I have already referred to in ina ina a previous release February 21 1963 These figures show that there has never been a areal areal real population explosion in the United States What the Birth Rate Rafe Shows There Is a little decline in inthe inthe the birth rate during a war This applies to our country and to every other country But immediately following the war nine months or more alter after the soldiers get home there is a heavy increase in births These show up clearly in about sixteen years when the babies have grown up enough to be seeking jobs Sixteen to seventeen years after the end of World War II brings us up pretty close to the present present-at least to 1961 1962 I once asked Thomas A Edison who was the worlds world's greatest inventor and he re- re replied replied plied The inventor of com com- compound pound interest This applies to births of babies babics as well as asto asto to money This should also apply to jobs but in reverse This question of jobs is especially interesting and very upsetting upsetting-to graduates from schools and colleges at pres eat ent for a number of reasons Let me explain I J I I I Women at Work The last war forced indus indus- industry industry try to accept women as em em- emI Not only did indus indus- industry try find women capable I workers but the women en en- en enjoyed I Itry joyed for the first time hav hav- having ing their own money and andI being able to do such things as taking trips and buying I autos refrigerators radios etc which their husbands used to tell them they could I pot not afford Up to the time of the war advertising was directed to the men but it was soon learned that better results I I 1 came from directing adver I Using tiling to the women This This I started in the magazines that women read then spread to toI I th the dally daily and weekly news news- newspapers papers and finally to radio and television tele My own feel ing Is that this trend is well w ll under way and will con con- continue to grow for some years yeats to e come me I have great faith in tile the power of advertising especially newspaper adver adver- advertising I The Negro Explosion Now we can discuss a real explosion explosion-as witness today what the Negroes are doing I in certain lar large e cities Com Com- Comparatively Comparatively speaking there are areno areno no more Negroes today in proportion to the entire pop pop- population than there ever have been The explosion which wW h hwe we are hearing so much t today is due to the fonow following ng facts Men are no longer needed for digging in work or even In building construction Picks and shovels els have practically gone out of business The machine age in general rather than auto auto- mati m is res responsible for formost formost most of the unemployment amongst the Negroes and un unskilled skilled and poorly educated Whites Work on roads water and sewage systems and other er municipal improvements as well as farm work that was formerly clone ne by common labor is no now done by i What is the Answer I The Negro problem will not be solved by mob demon demon- demonstrations No community can give the Negroes the jobs for which so many of them are presently fitted It will take time to train them to fill Jobs that are now held mainly by Whites The problem will not be solved either by speeches I such as that which Walter W Heller Chairman of the Presidents President's economic advis ers era gave Irk il Kansas City recently re- re recently lie He to told d his a audience that he believes every family having a cash income of less than a year should be classified in the poverty group Thi This would amount to around 20 percent of the country's families It seems to tome tome me that it should be recognized that the pick and shovel era is long since over and that we are in a new era of super machines which these young people could be taught to operate but this means increased taxation for municipal and state improve improve- improvements improvements ments For while the gov gov- government may be compelled to supplement the family in in- in income come of these people to get them out of the poverty class which Mr Heller is talking about But I believe education and training may be maybe the real answer Perhaps inflation may help to solve the matter but it is possible that those of us who now have jobs may n need to be taxed to help those who can can- cannot cannot not find jobs |