Show BRITON SEEMS TO HAVE LOST GRIP no longer feels urge to settle new lands A hundred years or more ago englishmen were swarming to every corner of the earth taking over and populating vast stretches ot of ne new w 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 ot of any other tongue in the last generation or two there has bas been a change britain still controls much of the vast areas of tin tilt earth but englishmen are no longer filling them up australia de alte its continental extent remains a sparsely populated land with most of the people concentrated in a few cities along the eastern coast england proper teems with men and women unable to find work to do but the old urge to get out and try tri what a new country can offer Is gon gone e officialdom in both the motherland and in the colonies seeks to revive the old swarming spirit but with success the story published in the morning papers Is typical nearly englishmen who had been persuaded to move to austrach Austra alln lh have petitioned the british government to repatriate them they charge that they were induced to leave their homes by mischievous misleading and untruthful dal da circulated by paid agents of the australian government and they tell a sad story of disappointment starvation lind and despair what Is probably more suggestive they tell also that many of their numbers have become mentally deranged find and that suicide Is frequent on this point warren S thompson in his famous book danger spots in world population has ba la 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 settle a new land but tin an I 1 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 hns bats become accustomed renders it unlit to master the soll soil such people says thompson can exploit certain of its accumulated resources but they are like the poo peo pie of the fabled island who lived ty by taking in one an others washings the troubles the expatriate expatriated englishmen Ils binen are having in australia and the similar troubles some of their follows fellows have bave had in canada are simply vasos 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 than Engli englishmen from the industrialized Indu stirl mother country dald baltimore more evening sun |