ROSEBURG' NEWS-REVIEW, KOSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY. AUGUST 21', 1947
THIRTEEN
Over-Population
Of Japan Offers
Threat to Peace
By TOM LAMBERT
AP Newsfeatures
TOKYO The cry of over-population
is rising again from these
crowded Islands, a serious, articu
late and accurate cry on an issue
as important to the rest of the
world as to Japan.
There are 73,000,000 people
huddled together on japan's four
main islands in an area smaller
than the state of Montana. They
are Jammed together 497 to the
square mile as compared with
little more than 44 per square
mile in the United States.
Never in Japan's modern his
tory has the country's area been
able to support the population,
which has more than doubled in
60 years.
Since the occupation, some 535,
000 additional acres have been
put into production through land
reclamation programs which if
carried out faithfully will give
the country another 1,000,000
acres by 1950,
But by that time if the popu
lation rise continues, If the birth
rate Is maintained, if infant mor
tality decreases further as a re
sult of Allied health teachings
there will be 80,000,000 people in
these islands.
Leaders Stress Issue
Japan's population is certain to
be an issue among the peacemak
ers, most of whom will remem
ber that Hitler, Mussolini and the
Nipponese themselves cried "over-population"
as one excuse for
expansion and aggression.
It is becoming a more pro
nounced issue with Japanese lead
ers themselves, who are suggest
ing tentative remedies.
Prime Minister Tetsu Kata
yama told the Associated Press
that he "hopes" the Allies will
"consider our overcrowded condi
tions" when writing the peace
treaty.
Foreign Minister Hitdshl Ash
Ida classified the Japanese emi
gration problem as "a problem
for negotiation" after the treaty
is signed, evidence that he at
least looks to emigration as one
way to solve the over-population.
State Minister Mltsusufce Yone
kubo asserted recently, "I think
it may be an idea to petition the
Allied powers to allow return of
our nationals to foreign coun
tries ..."
There is no doubt that Japan
is over-populated but there is no
doubt either that , the Japanese
could relieve the pressure some
what themselves.
Partial Solution Seen
One way would be to settle an
other million people on Hokkaido,
Nippon's frontier Island to the
north.. Allied headquarters ex-
fierts say that this island,, contain
ng almost one routh of the acre
age in Japan and only about
l-24th of her population, is "agri
culturally underpopulated."
Most Japanese, however, shud
der at the "colli difficult living"
when asked why this partial so
lution of sending more people to
Hokkaido is not more successful.
Japanese always arc choosy
about the locations to which they
wish to emigrate. They have and
would , again leap at moving to
Hawaii, California or Brazil but
they show little inclination to do
any pioneering.
. When the Japanese overran
Manchuria and held it up to the
homcfolks as "living space," only
a few hundred thousand and
those mostly businessmen or gov
ernment officials headed that
way.
Want Sunny Climes
Repatriation figures further
bear out the Japanese reluctance
to leave their homeland for other
than sunny climes and good liv
ing conditions. Of 5,500,000 re
patriates returned to Japan since
the end of the war, only 2,890,000
were civilians.
Birth control movements have
had little success in Japan, large
ly because militarists sought
more men for the armies and in
dustrialists a brimming labor
pool.
In an outline of Japan's natur
al resources By Allied headquar
ters one suggestion mentioned in
connection with Nippon's future
economy is "reducing the rate of
. population growth."
The natural resources section
of headquarters which prepared
the outline lists as other possibili
ties for bettering the lot of Japa-
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to the health of U. S. occupation troops. Interested onlookers
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Salt Lake City.
DAILY DEVOTIONS
DR. CHARLES A. EDWARDS
"How beautiful is youth; how
bright it gleams.
With its illusions, aspirations,
dreams ;
Book of beginnings, story with
out end. .
Each maid a., heroine, each man
a friend."
"Let no man despise thy
youth " wrote Paul to
Timothy, his son in the Gbs-
Eel, whom he himself had
rought to Christ. Blessed is
the man who loves youth, and
blessed is the youth whom
some man loves. Youth Is the
time of development, aspira
tions, daring. It was a young
man, David who went forth
unafraid to meet the mighty
"Goliath of Gath." The years
of youth are the years of deci
sion and his own destiny and
that of others hangs thereon.
The spirit of youth is the spir
it of daring and amibition to
do great things. Satan would
say to youth. "Wait, this is
your playtime of life. Decide
later," but God says "Decide
now, and become an example
even to those of older years."
Good seed sown in new ground
brings forth the biggest har
vest. May youth everywhere
catch the glorious spirit. Christ
was the young man's friend;
he never knew the years of
age. He gave Himself as a
young man, as a redeemer and
savior for a lost and ruined
world.1 Amen
nese: development of higher
yielding staple crops; elimination
of raw material waste In manu
facturing; conservation of re
sources; substitution, when prac
tical, of domestically produced
raw materials for imported ma
terials, and use of synthetic in
stead of naturally produced materials.
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By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK UP) A glance at
Fifth Avenue style windows to
day discloses that women this fall
will look pretty much like a horse
collar trying to fight its way out
of a horseblankct.
Well, let them.
All that gentlemen of good will
can do when passing them by is
to givd a friendly neigh and walk
on.
Certainly there will be no rea
son to glance back. That is, except
to vent a long low horse laugh.
Speaking merely as a mere
male, I think women at last have
gone too far. The wiseacres
among them have always insisted
prettily that they never dressed to
please men but only to impress
each other. This year they are
really going to live up to that
boast, and as a slogan for their
new "wagonwheel hip" outline I
suggest:
"All wool and a yard wide."
There have been some signs of
revolt among the ladies against
the new fashions, but by and
large they'll buy them and look
large.
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