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Show SStion Murray Butler Says the CensusFigures Disclose National Weakness New York. Dec. 14. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, analysing th,o census figures, fig-ures, recently given out at Washington, Washing-ton, soes a grave crisis appioachln? for this country. "These figures," ho says, "take us out of the class of Germany, Great Britain and France and put us In tho class with Russia, India and. China, nations which we- have always looked down on, but whoae problems now aro ours. "We must face the problems now o; a nation with huge population, which Is ovcrcrowdnig the land available fr tillage. The" day lias gone by when an American can waste every day what wtfuld support a whole family In France, To stop this is called conservation con-servation of natural rcsourcen, but that Is only a part of It. Tho chlei thing Is to Rtop waste and bg1n to live with more Infenslvo application. A man can no longer w-aste one farm and then go to another state and Hvo on another. We must stop Mving on our capital and, with other Adult people, peo-ple, live on our Income. "The pressure on our tl'ilable land will force us eventually 'o look to foreign nations for the thtags we cannot can-not supply ourselves ' Do you realize that Iowa has gono back In the last ten years," that Ohio has stood still and that Illinois. In F.plte of Chicago's aid, has only gained, fourteen per cent? The notion that we can live on our capital has pit to stop nnd we have to remember that we have to live on nir Income. The country must somehow restore tho cost of living to a normal plane; It must restore the national happiness and the stability of our government," |