POPULATION OF EUROPE AND UNITED STATES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3445, 26 March 1920, Page 3

POPULATION OF EUROPE AND UNITED STATES.

200 MILLIONS Sl.’l~lAl{ E.\‘GLISH

i It is ost'ixna/cod that the cmlslns taken this year will sho\\' tho pupula» ‘tion of the United States to be 112 {millions (.<a_l,'s :1 \\'l'i‘cor in the “Doi‘-ly I)[ai1”). This means an increase of (‘\'ol’ 20 millions in the dccu<‘.o, :1 some what I'enlal'kal:>lL‘ il!(‘!'t‘aso when i 1 is ‘remembered that practically lmlf the lmriml \\':ls {alien up by the Will‘, which |\2lltlloug'll it did not involve the United ‘ST2l’f(‘.‘s' in :1 vast s:u:rifi(:o of lit'e,in—!t‘m'fcre«l with emigration. \\'hi<:h had }ar_mH'ibll‘r(-d so largely to the increase inf population in the previous <‘lc-cnrdo. The present imroaso is tllcreforo :1. natural one (luv to the cxreoss of bil'tll,~, over t.10:.V,H1.~‘, and it should hearten those Amm'i«-ans who a few _vears§ ago f'euro(l for the vitality of rhol nalivo stock.

It is hzll'dl_v likv]_y H 1211“ +1 consus taken in the near f'u‘rul'o of any v(‘:v.nfr_\' that piziyod :1 parf in the war will show an increase of po;m"::xHOll at 1111 p1'0p()1'ti()11:uf((> to that in the L'.'lill‘d £*'T:lf(‘i~‘. Gl-oat Bl'il'zlin win }.rn!)abl_\' have a 1a."go1- population than in 1911, but other uounfl'io.s will pm'h:lps show :1 Ir.»s.< within their t"erl-itm-ies.

Te appalling .<:lrrl'iliue of _So(\,(.‘(lo li\’(‘:~' by Britain during‘ the w:lr. the sh:.xx’p fall in the birtla-rate, and tho l1i.~g:l'I (l(‘:1t‘l1-rate cltnsing the influunzzl opi.d(.'mics have led some to belicvv that our population will bv Sm:ll’.m':lf next CUIISIIS {hill tlfl HIE‘ l1l:~"f. Blll‘ many of the 800,000 men who fell in .thc war would have died in the natt:':~.l r'Our.<r‘ of tl:ing';~: if there had been nu w:_lr. the bi*,'l'll—'r:l’ro .<00m.~:f0 lla.\'c I'er'm'('x'<'«l, the (l0:11“r.--1‘at'u is ll<u{ltlli—ly low, Onligl'a.tion is next to nothing, am‘. a numbm‘ of Brito:l.< bmug'llf. Home by the war f'l'aml the] far (‘mls of the o=.:l'fh somn F 0 be s’r:vyin9: hnro.

VVO are at lvzl.~:’r assured rhat we? are liolrling our own innumbors, zlml.i less emig*l':l’rion iil<-1'o:1so.~; ox‘Ir:1or(lin:-3 arily between now and April, 1921,? our population may easily sllo\V afairl increase at the next census. It willi hardly be Who sainio in Fr:ln(ie. She‘ has suffered severely in actual sacrifice of life, and probably has fewer people than before the war within her old territories. but the restored provinces of’ Alsace and l.orl'ainewill perhaps make good her loss. Belgium is rvcovcring quickly, and may not have lost much population ‘through the war. Gmiiiziny has lost -some millions througli ‘the .~'url'on(lor of torrifory, and prolialily the population in what. territory remains to her is not incl'easing. .»\ustria,. once part of an Empire of over 50 millions, is now :1 small land wi‘rh'onl_v 9 millicn people, and m:ui_\' Oi’ flwm 110:1:-l~\' starving. ' What the lO.’\‘S(‘.‘\‘ or gains in Russia. may be no one can say. .~\.ncl it is Adifiiculf to reckon oxzic-rly the populations of the new Stafcs in Middle Europe and the Balkans. But probnlily -‘rho population of l‘]ul'op(' as a whole is not gr-oni‘ly increasod (luring the past few yozirs, if if has in'(:re:lse<l at all. Stoppago of onlig‘rzi‘(ion may, lmwoV'm', have sot oil’ to some extent ‘ the war wastage of

lives. . It is satisfnctor_\_'_. in any case, to know flluf the Englisll-speal(illg'coun-h-ies of the world are becoming more populous. To the 112 millions of tlw l"lii’f(‘.(l‘til‘llf_CS flnere nmy be ad(lnd at 1:110. nnxt %:ellsll.< nf l(‘:1Slf (35 million whites in the British Empiro. This does 11ooossa1'i]y imply me cansummufion Of’ that great .-\n.g'lof\‘:lxondoln of \\'lli.(‘,ll we .<0n10l'i1nr~;~‘ talk. for both in ;\nlel'ic:l and in Hm British Fnipire the race is vmry mixml, bnf it (loos mmxn that" nom'ly 200 million people will be linked tln'nnglmllf the world by a (‘,olll]lloll tonvg‘ue. And ’rll:\’r. may help l'o\\':lrds keeping Hm \\'m'l(l’s poarm.