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BEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOBD. OBEGOW THURSDAY. MAY 23. 1963 D 5 sian Population Exceeding Entire World Seen for Year 2000 By CHARLES B. SMITH United Press International Tokyo -IITO- The biggest problem of Asia Is people. There are loo many of them in too little space and not enough food. As British economist Thom as Lathus said in his classic 1798 essay on population, peo ple seem to increase faster than their food supply. If the present birthrate continues. Asia's population in the year 2000 will be greater than the population of the entire world today. According to Indonesian p. dent Sukarno, the Indo ncs.iins, and some of the other Asians, are breeding like marmots. "It has been said that Indo nesians are like marmots, breeding every three months," Sukarno said in a speech this month. "Our population in creases two million every year." Sukarno noted that Indo nesia is among the six most populous nations in the world. (China, India, Russia, the United States and Japan are the other five.) At its present population growth, Sukarno said, . with more humor than concern, In donesia may become the fourth, third or even second most populous nation in the world - out never tne Big gest because the Chinese also breed like marmots. Chinese Aware Communist China has al most one-fourth of the world's population, and the Red Chi nese know they have a prob lem. They are trying to do something about it. The Peking regime launch ed one birth control campaign in the mid-1950s, but it was drowned out by all the chest thumping over the inaugura tion of the people's communes and the "great leap forward." When the great leap slowed to a stumble and China was hit by widespread food short ages, the Peking regime launched a new birth control program. It is a massive, but subtle, campaign that advises young people to forget love, delay marriage and spend their time working for the parly. Nobody seems to be certain today about just how many people there are in China. Official Red Chinese publica tions constantly refer to "the entire 650 million people of China." The latest United Na tions population survey puts the present population at about 700 million, and some estimates CO as high as 716 million. only about one per cent. And hardly a country in Asia had production rate that was as high as its population growth rale. May Asian leaders are begin ning to realize that no amount of aid can bring the economic progress they desire for their nations unless the population problem is controlled. Roman Catholic bishops raised sharp protests and President Eisenhower public ly rejected the recommenda tion. Perhaps nothing illustrates Asia's problem of overpopu lation better than a painting which was unveiled this month in Tokyo, the world's largest city, by American painter Walter Keane. Titled simply "Tomorrow -Forever," the painting shows an endless stream of children of all races, as he says, "com ing from nowhere and going nowhere." Problem Painted The San Francisco artist, famed as the portrayer of big eyed sad faced children "the lost children of the world," he says worked for five years on the huge (four feet by eight feet) paint ing because he wanted to show "the seemingly insolu ble problem of today, tomor row and forever." Here Is a country-by-country survey of population prob lems and what is being done about them: -Indonesia. It would seem that a country like Indonesia, which has about the same number of people as Japan and six times the space to put them, would have no seri ous population problem. But it does because more tiian 55 million of the na tion's 95.000,000 people (ac cording to the last census) are jammed together on Java is land, one of the most crowded areas on earth. Java is about the size of New York state, which has about 17 million persons. Indonesia, a Moslem nation, is not going in much for birth control. But the government has promoted transmigration programs to less crowded is lands, such as Borneo and Sumatra, These programs have been hampered by lack of enthusiasm and lack of money. Siie of Kentucky -South Korea. South Korea is slightly smaller than the state , of Kentucky. Kentucky has a population of about 3.2 million. South Korea has more people unemployed than that, Its population is 26 mil lion. The government has launch ed an ambitious 10-year fam ily planning and birth con trol program. The program, costing about $700,000 a year, is aimed at lowering the pop ulation growth rate to 0.8 per cent by 1971. . The government has per mitted import of contracep tives and birth control de vices previously banned and is giving some of them free to poor families. It also estab lished family planning coun selling programs. The only public opposition has come from the Roman Catholic church. -North Korea. This Com munist country has no popu lation problem to speak of because of Korean war battle field losses and millions of refugees who fled to the south. -Hong Kong. This crowded British crown colony has a doubly serious problem of a high birth rate and a steady influx of refugees. Birth con trol is not encouraged official ly but medical facilities are provided by authorities at family planning association clinics. The association is an independent organization, the only one of its kind in the colony. -Taiwan. This Nationalist Chinese held island is not over-crowded but it soon will be if the present population growth rate continues. The government does not sanction any form of birth control but it is giving some behind-the-scenes encouragement to the private family planning asso ciation. Lack Food -The Philippines. The pop ulation growth rate in the Philippines is much too high, authorities say. There is plen- ty of room in the island nation but the fear is thai food pro duction won't keep up with population increase. -South Viet Nam. There is no serious problem at present. Birth control is taboo because of the large number of Cath olics. -North Viet Nam. Appar ently no official program, al though the Communists are having trouble keeping pro duction ahead of population. Ascent Was Success Elevator Operator Briefed on Lifting Astronaut To Second Floor By DICK WEST Washington -UTIu In addi tion to having the astronauts to cheer about, we also can Slip David runs an elevator lo help pay his expenses at Georgetown University here. He has only been in training be p r o u d of i since last August, but It is gen erally agreed mat lie is one of the most skilled and re liable operators at the Capitol. "I wanted to take him up," Muchow told me in an ex clusive Interview, so Gene let me substitute for him." Eugene Buccelli, who normally runs the elevator at that hour, handed over the controls to Muchow and assumed, the role of back-up operator. At about T-minus-S, a Secret Service man told Muchow to "freeze" the elevator on the street level and cut off the buzzer and signal lights. When TvTr, mailer whl if IS toHaV. consider that after a compre hpnsivp census the Peking re- oime announced that as of June 30, 1953 - just 10 years aen - the population of China was 582.603.417. Consider what it might be by 1970, or the year 2000. Try Birth Control Like China, the other coun tries have initiated birth con trol programs - India, Japan, South Korea, Pakistan, Ma lava Rinsrannrp. Except for Japan, where tremendous progress nas Deen msria llip ffrtinr! IS slow. WhV? Ignorance, illiteracy and poverty, some say. Others think it might be the rela tively hirh mst. Some sav the lack of edu cation and lack of concern are the main reasons for tne con- timiino- nnnnlatinn pxnlosion. They point to Japan as an ex ample of what these factors ran hpln arrnmDlish. Japan is the most literate nation in Asia, it noi me i ii.prM li ik nnp nf the most crowded, but during the first postwar decade, Jnpan cut its birth rate in half. Today it ic mo nor thousand, seventh lowest in the world as result nf a dramatic nroeram. includ ing birth control information and devices, and making aoor iinn and sterilization allow able for economic as well as health reasons. But, elsewhere in Asia, there are many people who do not look upon abortion with such nonchalance as the where more than I one million such operations nrrfnrmpH Parh VPBT. In such nations as the Phil ippines and South Viet nam, where Roman Catholicism is irnno thpre not only is re sistance to abortion but to conventional birth control measures as well. According to a United Na tions population survey, ao pr rpnt nf the world's people live in Asia, which has only 20 per cent of the world's land area Asia's population is increasing at more than 33 million persons eacti year, ixi'irp i)ip rale of Europe. The world population growth rate was I B per cem In the 1960-61 census year, according to the United Na- tinn nrvPV. But it was 3 87 per cent in Brunei. 3 40 in Norm Borneo, i i a in ihp Philinuines. 2 99 in Thailand 2 J in Sarawak. in in Patrician. 2.0 in India anri hinhpr than most of thew in South Korea, Indonesia. Sinsaporc, Malaya and lai- In the same year, world food production increased BIG PROBLEM The biggest problem of enough food. This montage, shows faces of Asia seems to be people. There are too dltterent nationalities ot me worm. i.ur-1). many of them in too little space and not , ' the dedicated young men who operate the elevators in the U.S. Capitol. If such statistics fm I were avail fetea&t I able, I believe Leak ..:.3rr laJ they would weit show that your chances of getting where you want to go in a Capitol elevator are almost as good as they are in a space capsule. When astronaut L. Gordon Cooper visited the Capitol this week to address a joint meet ing of Congress, elaborate pre cautions were taken to make certain the elevator he rode in was functioning properly. You can imagine the em barrassment it would have caused if his spectacular 22- orbit mission into space had been climaxed by Cooper get ting stalled in an elevator. . The Russians would never have let us forget it. The elevator countdown began several hours before Cooper was scheduled to arrive. Technicians care fully checked over the en gin? . room equipment and then stood by in case trouble developed. At approximately T-minus- 20, an inspector from the ele vator company rode up and down several times to make certain that everything was shipshape in the capsule. The mission of lifting Coop er from the street level to the second floor, a vertical distance of some 15 feet, was carried out by David Muchow, 18. of Winter Haven, Fla. the lift-up finally came, Mu chow was ready. "It was a real smooth ride, he said. "There wasn't a hitch at all." "Were you nervous'.'' asked. "Not really," he said. "The Secret Service had thoroughly briefed me on the procedure. I never had any doubts that the mission would be a suc cess. Muchow, I might add, ran the elevator on the manual control system. Had he be come flustered and pushed the handle to the right instead of the left, the elevator would have gone down instead of up, But when the pressure was on and the chips were down, Muchow came through. Cambodia and Laos. Space Is no problem but food Is. Lit tle official concern about con trols, however. -Thailand. The population growth is too rapid for com fort but it has not posed any serious problem thus far in this relatively well-fed coun try. Birth control is seldom mentioned. Malaya and the British Borneo territories, Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo. The population growth rate in these areas is among the highest in the world. But It has not posed any serious problems yet because there is plenty of space and food production is high. There are private family planning or ganizations which are active, especially in Malay, where 120 clinics have been set up. -Singapore. Over crowded already, this small island state has one of the world'.-, highest birth rates. The gov ernment sponsors a family planning association which op erates 28 clinics. . India Acts -India. The world's second most populous nation has taken major steps to solve the population problem. The third five-year development plan provides for expendi tures of about $20 million foe expanding a "voluntary steril ization program" and setting up new family planning cen ters. 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