Show LOOKING TEN YEARS AHEAD the census of 1930 is the most important flummer inz ins of the people of the united states since the first count 0 of f our inhabitants w was as made even thou though all of the conclusions to be d drewni rawn from it have not yet become available it has already taught us more about ourselves than we ever knew before especially has it shown us that one of the causes of our great natio national aal prosperity tv is di appearing the steady increase m in population at a high rate decline in immigration tation and decline in the birthrate have combined to reduce our sainval rate of population growth to about 1 percent a year twenty years ago we were growing at the rate of 2 percent a year vear forty years ago at a 3 percent rate this will make a great difference in business industries distl dus tries ae s and investments which depend upon increasing population for their own growth real estate values depend upon population the rate of growth in the big cities is falling fallin a off more rapidly than in country towns and small communities generally that means that real estate jn in the large cities will n not t increase so rapidly y in value irom from year to year while in la the smaller towns it will increase at a faster rate the redistribution of population is always an important factor in business and industry nowhere in the world do people shift their homes from one place to si nother as they do in america just now the census shows a strong tendency of manufacturing industries tries away from the larger centers and to the smaller towns that will mean more building in the smaller places in the next ten years homes factories stores institutions and public buildings there probably will be less building in the larzer larger cities and that largely by bv way of re gladiz obsolete structures the declining birthrate is sure to have a definite effect on building as well ai as on business generally not only will we need need fewer school buildings especial especially iv an n the lower grades but the type of home now in growing growling demand is in smaller units than formerly fewer babies es are born bom but more of them STOW up to go to high school or college more people live to old age it is toot hot ha hard rd to forecast time coming when the whole problem of living will center more about the needs of the adults and the elderly and less about the needs of the children than ever before in history |