The World

NZ Truth, Issue 1188, 6 September 1928, Page 6

The World

"THE world is never short of alarmist's. . When one is not -predicting the end of the world through , it smashing into a dead planet, another discovers that m 90000,060 years or thereabouts the Water supply will vanish. Or again, as we have evidence quite recently, a scientific pundit m England forecasts that within measurable time, the population of the earth, will outrun the means of subsistence, and the wretched- inhabitants perish miserably of starvation;; ' ..- '

And .yet m a scientific, book published several years. ago the late Prince Krapotkiri demonstrated that enough could .be produced on the roofs of the houses 'of ; London to feed the whole' population, flf the world's greatest city. We needn't -"worry overmuch about the dismal vaticinations of these pessir mistic prophets. When ;they teil us that humanity is going to H— alifax; that women' are no longer virtuous, that children no longer respect their parents, and everything is rotten— well, we«simply say that they are lying.. Things are all right with the world-^ but ' some of the dismal Jeremiahs should be cast overboard. .; ■•■■,..■