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o (3) (2) Friday. KoTmb4r 1, 1957 FOtHTTEN MEtTOBD (OREGON) MAIt. TRIBUNE KnightTo Seek U. 5-Senafe Seat World3 Population To Be Dpuble n c: L. .V cLj) rresenr ngure uy eiuuiy a tnju BY LOUIS CASSELS United Press Correspondent Washington 'Q In th five minutes you spend reading this dispatch, the ppulation of the wona wm grow by about 450 persons. It has in creased by 120,000 s i nee you read T h u r sday's newspaper. Q By this time Siext year, Louis Cassels there will be 43 millions moreiuman beings on earth than there are right now. By the end of the present cen tury, at the present rate of in- ot tne ' 1 The most rapid increases are taking place irtunderdeveIoped areas which are least able feed additional mouths. Latin earth is finite and none of its resources are indefinitely ex tendable use without eventuali ty greater difficulty and exf America leads the world with anpense." annual population growth of 4.4 , No SafetyValre Migration, the "safety vve' per cent. Africa and Southwest Asia are close 'behind with H per cent, according to te U.i. survey. Both the United States and for verpopulated countries in earlier generations, is now 'im practicable as even a partial so- Russia are growing at a rate ofjUlution of population pressure" x.i per ceniine wuau aveiagc. The unprecedented speed a which the human race is multi plying has alajmed many popu lation experts Robert C. Cook, director of the Population Refer ence Bureau, calls it "one of the most ominous developments of our tirSe. . . as great a threat to mankind as the atomiObomb." crease, tne popuiauo.a ox UJel ii.,jr- J- iiici, iuuicojvi world will be 5,400,00,000 peooAociology at the University of pie double the present figure. Authority for these statements is the United Nations demo graphic yearbook, an annual compilation of population sta tistics from all parts of the world. The new edition discloses that the postwar population explo sion is still in full swing, par ticularly in underdeveloped countries. The introduction of modern health measures in these countries has caused death rates to drop sharply, but birth rates generally remain at traditional high levels. The result is that world population is growing at the fastest rate ig) history, ap proximatelyl.7 per cent a year. The rate was 1.2 ner cent only four years ago. Pnor to World War II, it never exceeded 1 per cent. Nebraska, asserts in his w book. "The Crisis in World Pop ulation, that yiorrendous' prob lems Jie ahead 'unless fairly direct and expenditious action is taken soon." The Nebraska professor says science may be able to increase the world's food supply "great ly" in the future by increasing tlWfyield of farm lands, by devel oping artificial foods, through "hydroponic" t e c h n i q ues in which edible foods are grown in solutions of chemicals and water, by using food resources from the sea. But he warns that 'much of this is still a hope and not a promise." "Though there may be phen omenal increases of food for a while, this supply cannot be in creased at the same rate and witiPthe same ease forever. The because most of the good farm lands of the earth are already being "intensively utiligd." HertzleS) warns that nature will intervene "in character istically ruthlesfi) manner" to halt population growth through famine, disease or other catast rophes unless human beings act soon to "bring about some limita tion" of thir own fertility. He then expounds a view that brings him into direct conflict with the Roman Catholic Churcri and other religious groups which oppose "arfiiicial" birth con trol: "Fertility limitation by con traception is the only acceptable means ofreducing the rate of population increase." To those who hold that con traception is immor,al, Hertzler replies that over populated coun tries, threatened ith starvation, always resort to some form of birth ontrol. If it isn't con traception, he says, it (gjll be such "frightful acts of despera tion" as abortion, sterilization and deliberate killing of new born babies. "The situation seems to re solve itself into a choice between contraception and some kind of murder," he concludes. Sacramento, Calif. Gov. Goodwin J. Knight has de cided to run (gpr the U.S. Senate instead of a second term for governor, according to five lead ing CalSornia newspapers. All ye newspapers pegged their report of Knight's decision ! on 'Washington sources" or "close friends" in Los Angeles. Knight could not be reached r comment. He is recovering from the flu at an out of state resort, i Knight's decision wouldMeave the coast cleaior Sen. William F. Knowland TR-Calif.) to cap ture the GOP gubernatorial i nomination in the primary next June. Three other men have declar ed their intention of seeking the senatorial nomination, but the changes were that they might re tire in tb interests of party har mony. Te seat in question is the one Knowland is vacating to run for governor. xne senatorial aspirants were Mayor George Christopher of San Francisco, Controller Rob ert Kirkwood, and Stockton at torney Warren Atherton. Knight's decision- to retire would avert a bitter gimary struggle with Knowland for the Republican nomination for governor. 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