Monday, November 13. 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Population to reach 200 million
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — A week from today, with a tick of a figure-fed clock at the Census Bureau, there officially will be 200 million of us. Other statisticians say the figure actually will be about 206 million.
By the end of the century, and by anybody's count, we should pass the 300 million mark.
Does this spell crisis? Will we reproduce ourselves out of food, out of living space?
No. says the Census Bureau in a report on the 200 million population milestone released during the weekend. We'll continue to have big problems, but the figures indicate we are at least moving toward solutions—with something of an assist from the laws of nature.
There'll be 85 Americans per square mile by 1970. But consider the 617 in Germany, the 579 in Britain, the 411 in India, the 190 in China.
Already the population tide sweeping over most American cities has a strong undertow back out into the suburbs and beyond. And, says the Census Bureau, "there are still thousands of less-crowded acres into which people can move."
Right now, one of every five Americans lives in a crowded strip between Washington, D.C.
Writers hit LBJ policies
CHICAGO—(UPI)—The watchdog committee of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic society, today accused the Johnson administration of duplicity in issuing "inaccurate and misleading statements."
The "report of the 1867 Sigma Delta Chi Advancement of Freedom of Information Committee" also said the President has failed to schedule formal news conferences in order to set up "a White House snow job."
The committee's report, issued in advance of the annual convention of the 18,000 member society opening Wednesday in Minneapolis, Minn., was also critical of the American Bar Association (ABA) Committee on Fair Trial and Free Press.
"It was difficult to equate the misleading and inaccurate statements by the Defense Department on a wide range of issues with President Johnson's comment that 'a democracy works best when the people have all the information the security of the nation permits.'" the report said.
"The Johnson administration issued thousands of laudable words about the importance of freedom of information in government, but high officials consistently employed inaccurate and misleading statements that contradicted most of the fine words," the report said.
"His style of press conference makes it impossible for any but the White House regulars (reporters) to be present, and it makes it unlikely that he will face any pattern of consistent hard questioning on any subject. He has it well organized for 'a White House snow job,' even though it is doubtful if he is as successful in accomplishing his purpose as he was a year or more ago."
and Boston. There's a huge concentration in the Los Angeles-San Francisco area.The Gulf Coast is crowded, and the Southern shores of the Great Lakes.
Census seeks to allay the fears of these "megalopolis" dwellers by pointing out that for a long time, food production has been outstripping the population growth.
tury. He does it on less than a third of available farm acreage, and with his machinery gets more work done than four men could before World War II.
Each farmer today feeds an average of 40 Americans, compared to seven at the turn of the cen-
Population profile, a private research publication, says the clock is running behind—that the census missed counting about 5.7 million Americans in 1960, and that the 200 million mark was reached in the spring of 1965.
In a forward to the report, the bureau offered this conclusion:
At present, the Census Bureau clock is adding one person every 14.5 seconds. This is based on the estimated birth and death rates and the average immigration rate.
Anyway, the birth rate is at an estimated low of 3.600,000 this year, compared to 4,332,000 in 1957.
"We are the richest, most powerful, best educated, best fed, housed and clothed nation in the annals of man—and yet we know that we have not finished our work.
The drop is due in part to "the pill" and other contraceptive methods, the Census Bureau concedes. But it says that behind this lies an increased emphasis on family planning and the fact that fewer couples are having children
during the early, more fruitful years of their marriages.
"Two hundred million strong, we know that we are still at the beginning of the real work of the American Revolution."
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