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Show Population In A. D. 2000. According to Dr. Edward A. Ross, by tho year A. D. 2000 the population of the United States will number about 223.000,000. Extremists are painting vivid pictures of our country, pointing out that the condition of China, Jnpan and India will be rivaled bore. They predict a. starving country with too many Inhabitants and too little space In which to house them. la their minds are scenes of war, famine and misery as a result On the other hand, John S. Summer, secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, says: "Over population is not a menace to the peaco of the world, because there Is no overpopulation. It Is not the physical phy-sical fact of population, but the mental men-tal and spiritual condition of people which determine, the question as a menace to continued peace." |