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Recently Grinnell's Burma brought the Hart census analysis up to date (1940). He found that after 1910 there was no such rise in the native white population as Hart observed. His conclusion: the figures of the Census Bureau cannot be used to shed any light on the number of Negroes who pass...
Author Asbury's conclusions are disputed by Sociologist John H. Burma of Grinnell College, who thinks the "authorities" exaggerate. In the American Journal of Sociology he argues that the number of Negroes passing as whites is much smaller...
...poverty. The ignorance of the farmer, the infant mortality rate, the cholera epidemics, the biannual famine, are all results of the unhappy fact that there isn't enough to eat. India, whose population totals almost 400 million, and whose land area is actually a subcontinent, must import rice from Burma and Thailand. Her own production, per acre, is only one-third that of Japan. The average farmer earns about twenty dollars a year, when his land yields anything. When it fails, as it does so often, he gets into the statistics as one of the two million famine victims...
...many a farmer who thought of socialism and decided he preferred the uncertainties of the river. Then along came Brigadier General (then Colonel) Lewis Pick of the Corps of Engineers; he had a plan without sociological frills. But before it could be worked out, Engineer Pick was sent to Burma to build "Pick's Pike"-the Ledo Road...
...returning home from overseas, it hits him like a brick in the face. (Especially if he comes from Burma, where there was no looting: there was nothing to loot.) If Truth was the first casualty in the war, then ordinary Honesty also has been pretty badly mauled in the peace. The lurid signboard of this state of affairs is the Black Market...