BEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOBD. OBEGOW
THURSDAY. MAY 23. 1963
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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. Sterilization is provided
free at all government hos
pitals and In some states vol
unteers are given a compen
satory allowance. Consent ot
both husband and wife is
necessary.
India's population Is 440,
000,000 (the 1961 census fig
ure). A Ford foundation agri
cultural production survey
team warned that by 1968
the gap between population
and production will be of a
"crisis" magnitude.
-Pakistan. President Ayub
Khan, father of seven chil
dren, ha strongly urged birth
control. Government officials
say the economic growth rata
is not keeping up with the
population growth and this
is wiping out much of the
good thai large-scale foreign
aid is doing.
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