DYSON CARTER ANSWERS THE QUESTION FU wet ae What's behind this talk about too many people in LISTEN TO THIS word from the big Canadian grain elevator outfit, Searle Grain: “Perhaps never again—unless an wunfore- seen miracle occurs — will the white people of the world be able ~ to enjoy the extremely high level of food that was available to them in 1938 and 1939.” Over in Eng- land a famed scientist, Sir Henry Tizard, backs up this forecast of hunger for our families with the gloomy slogan: “The world al- ready has too many people.” Sir Henry is chairman of Brit- ain’s Defence Research’ Policy Committee. He’s the man who fits _British science into the war plots of Churchill and Bevin. What bet- ter way to improve the food situ- ation than to let fly with atom bombs, and wipe out a. few hund- ‘ted millions of Soviet and Chinese citizens! ; World headquarters for this kind of propaganda is. Washing- ton. There the “too many people” theorists publish a pseudo-scienti- fic journal called the Population Bulletin. Its editor, one Guy Burch, has just come out with a long analysis of the world food picture. Yankee “Burch would like to see everybody in the world enjoying the American standard of living. Can be done. Only if the world gets rid of two out of every three people now living on our planet. Some 1,400,000,000 human beings will have to be killed off if the American way of life is really g0- ing to succeed. : Not quite such @ bannibal is Prof. “M. E: isenhower. He writes for the ~ Anferican grain monopoly in Northwestern Miller. He says the world population is growing too fast; we face the spectre of permanent, world-wide s; pines to replace mules and ~ hunger. ety OPTS ee So it goes. Magazines, OOKS) AEN RRS ee ae and radio pound home the idea _ That’s obvious. Dr. Bennett that science says, we face starva- tion. What’s the main fact behind all this? In the last 10 years the world’s people have increased by 200 millions. Since 1949 the United | States and Canada have gained 15 millions, Three millions in 1948 alone. . aoe : * * IF THIS keeps UP, how’s the world going to eat? Impossible, say some experts. But this Hit- lerite theory of too many people isn’t_accepted by many respons- . ible scientists. Dr. HH. K. Bennett, ~-head of the Food Research Insti- * tute at “Stamford, ‘has recently ~ ' lashed out at the prophets of hun-— ger. He ridiculed them ‘with facts. In 1796 the notorious” Malthus, . exposed and refuted ey aan) Marx, brought out the notion of, “controlling” people by starvation. A hundred years iater the great physicist, Sir William Crookes,- seared the intellectuals with a similar voice of doom. But Dr. Bennett asks with sound common sense: If we were doomed in 1798, home come the world has three times more people now? Any farmer can give the an-