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...been one of the wonders of the Western world. Its population jumped from 2,945,000 in 1780 to some 30,000,000 just before the Civil War. Since 1880, the decennial rate of increase has declined. Predictions were that the country would reach a static population in 1970-80. Census figures last week bore out the prophecy. The rate of increase in 1920-30 was 16.1%; in 1930-40: 7. Commented Mr. Austin: "We don't have enough babies and we are not building up with immigration from abroad." To many this fact had ominous implications...
Total Sizes Remain Static...
...available prison statistics, there was an appreciable fall in the amount of drunkenness during the first four months of the war. Dr. Snell's reasons: ". . . Resolute acceptance of the present situation in contrast to the wild enthusiasm manifest in 1914 ... a heightened sense of social responsibility . . . and the static character of the war itself during its early months...
Albert Viton's Great Britain is by long odds the dullest and most instructive of the three. A static, black-&-white study of Britain and her concentric rings of Empire, it ends by appraising the Empire at war, sets up those crises which await it at war's end, and delivers the opinion that it will survive them...
...haven't seen a copy of the Chicago Times since last October, about 400,000 other people have daily. They know that my shortwave listening post produces copy for my column "We're Listening" five days a week except when atmospheric static gets me down...