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Growing Population Italy's Big Problem; Unemployed 2 Million, Still Increasing By FRANK O'BRIEN ROME, June 30 OP) Italy is like a fond mother with a huge family she cannot support but dreads to see leave home. Popu lation is Italy's biggest problem. Italy's population is increasing a half million yearly. She has two million unemployed. A quar ter million new workers are seeking jobs each year. That means 3.000.000 job hunters by the 1951-52 deadline for recovery under the European Recovery Program. The Economic Cooper ation Administration (EC A) hopes to apen up 1,150,000 new Jobs. Without emigration, Italy would remain still crippled by al most two million workless. These, with their families, have to be fed, clothed and housed at the expense of the national economy. Italy can never be economically, or politically, healthy under such conditions. So large a popula tion of the aimless idle is a stand ing invitation to political unrest. Only the Communists and their allies in Italy maintain that emi gration is not the key to Italy's economic future. They say that in a thoroughly socialized state industry and agriculture could be enlivened enough to employ all Italians. ECA and non-Communist Italian economists say this argument is killed by Italy's ex perience under Fascism. Skilled Have Best Chance Modern Italy has never known a period without mass unemploy ment except during the davs of mass emigration before World War I. . Italian diplomats abroad have standing instructions to investi gate every possibility of emigra tion in every country of the world. ECA is building 260.000 tons of shipping to help overcome the shipping bottleneck that keeps would-be emigrants home. ECA also is financing a vocational training program In Italy to get around the obstacle that almost all countries taking emigrants want skilled laborers. Talks with legislators and of ficials who have to do with emi gration uncover a soft spot which is holding Italy back In her ef forts to overcome her population problem. Complaints Pour In Few Italian officials are will ing to see their people go to live in a wilderness, make their home in a sod hut, face a future of unrelieved hardship. Emigrants w;ho find themselves in these con ditions write home, complaining bitterly. Complaints have come particu larly .from Argentina, which is currently the largest taker of Italian emigrants. , Senator Luigi Carmagnola, an anti-Communist Socialist, who had helped negotiate the emigra tion treaty, said "Italians work under extreme difficulty in Argentina." Senator Cino Macrelll. of the anti-Communist Republican Purty, said he had letters com plaining of "brutal treatment." Italian emigration office offi cials confirm there arc many complaints. Their figures how ever, did not bear out reports from Italian shipping quarters that "many" emigrants were re turning from Argentina. Accord ing to these records, 78,719 Ita lians went to Argentina as emi grants in 1948. During the year, 4,329 Italians returned from Argentina as third class (emi grant) passengers, of whom all but 222 paid their own passage. In the same year, the world fig ures were 215.862 emigrants and 26,022 returnees. ECA hopes that 1,400,000 emi grants can be moved abroad be tween 1948 and 1952. France took 30,710 emigrants in 1948, Belgium 46,364 and Switzerland 21,524. Nation To Need 400,000 Professional Nurses By 1960, Health Service Says By JANE EADS WASHINGTON The U. S. Public Health Service estimates more than 400,000 professional nurses will be needed to care for the nation's sick and ailing by 1960. On active duty today in hos pitals throughout the country, in public health agencies, in indus try, in doctor's offices, on private duty, are 280,500 nurses. There should be 4,000 more, says Miss Margaret G. Arnstein, director of the service's Division of Nursing Resources. The Public Health Service is working hard to find ways to meet the shortage and to pre pare for the needs of 1960. These needs, incidentally, are based on estimated , population increases, hospital building and the expan sion of the local public health services. They are based also on the supposition there will be 200, 000 trained practical nurses on the job. One method, Miss Arnstein says, is to get more trained prac tical nurses and to utilize those available more efficiently. An othei method is to determine which available nursing schools could be expanded and enlarged or merged if they are very small. "Some states have been think ing in terms of university nursing schools,'1 Miss Arnstein told me, explaining that most nursing schools have been conducted by hospitals. "Minnesota, Oregon, Washington and some other states already have university schools. Mississippi, Florida and Much of the emigration to Switzerland and Belgium is sea sonal. Australia may take 20,000 this year. Canada is taking 500 600 monthly. WINDOWS DOORS FRAMES Priced Right PAGE LUMBER & FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phone 242 Arkansas have state university nurse training schools on tap with their legislatures." Greater Supply Sought These schools would prepare nurses to become Instructors, su pervisors, directors, administra tors and clinical specialists in a combined course' of regular aca demic work and professional training witn tne nospitai ward and the public health agency as laboratories. It is also hoped that expansion of programs for practical nurses in vocational high schools will in crease the supply of these nurses. Miss Arnstein says that today there are only about 13,000 train ed practical nurses in the coun try, mat some liu.uuo worners in hospitals ' are without formal training of any kind. By establish ing university schools, improving hospital schools, by amalgamation of small schools we can get more and better nurses, Miss Arnstein believes. Niagara Falls Is the 1 a r g e s t cataract in America and the sec ond largest In the world, exceed ed only by Victoria Falls In South Africa. Crow Speaking 10 Words 'Student' At U. Of Illinois CHAMPAIGN, 111., Jun. 29 W) George M. Crowham, a talk ing crow, is going to school at the University of Illinois. Or maybe you would call him a member of the faculty. At any rate. Dr. O. H. Mowrer, director of the psychological clinic, hopes to establish from George M. Crowham just how babies learn to talk. David Maxfleld, 17, of Edwards vllle, 111., who taught the bird to talk, gave it to Mowrer. Mow rer believes the process by which the crow was taught to speak is the same as that by which a moth er coaxes the first words from a child. Other animals used In labora tories dogs, apes, rats, etc. "seem Incapable of learning to sav a single word," Mowrer said. "But not so George M. Crowham. He can say 10 different words." Mower's hypothesis, which he is attempting to prove, is that "birds and babies both make their first efforts at reproducing words because these words sound good to them." George may find it lonely at the university, however. Mowrer said that if a bird is taught to talk, it should be kept isolated from other birds. Otherwise it would make noises like other birds instead of like people. Texas Polio Epidemic Counts 113 New Cases AUSTIN, Texas, June 29. UT Polio is spreading in Texas. Dr. George W. Cox, state health officer, said 113 new cases of in fantile paralysis were reported in Texas last week. This was a high for any week of the year. He reported the cases are rising and Registered Willamette Val ley Lred Romneys from lm ported ram. Choice seleo- tlons now available. 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