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By DAVID BISHAI
CAIRO (UPI)-In his dreams
of a better Egypt, President
Gamal Abdel Nasser sees an
ordinary fellah (peasant) living
in a neat house, working his
own' plot of land and making
enough money to support his
small family.
In harsh reality the fellah de
stroys the dream.
In a life that offers few com
forts and no luxuries he aims
for the old and traditional
status symbol, the big family.
In effect, the peasant is push
ing ; his country towards the
poor house by producing more
people than it can support.
Egypt covers an area larger
than France and Germany with
Switzerland and Belgium thrown
in. Yet the Nile and Mediter
ranean fringe provide a mere
19,000 square miles of cultivable
land to feed its 27 million peo
ple.' By contrast, Syria has a pop
ulation density identical to
Egypt's about 68 persons per
square mile but uses 10,000
square miles for a population
of only five million and could
use 20,000 square miles more
-if it needed to. ,
y Builds High Dam v
t To make more of Egypt us
able Nasser is building the As-
wan High Dam, which will add
2.5 million acres to the six mil-
lion now cultivated and reclaim
Mng the western desert for an
? other one million acres. But his
attempt to provide more land
'ifor the average Egyptian goes
up in the smoke of a popula
f tion explosion matched by very
i few countries oulsi4e China.
! In 1832 there were 17 million
Egyptians. Last year the esti-
Growth of Trees
i Per Acre Studied
CORVALLIS Research being
conducted by Oregon State Uni
versity Agricultural Experiment
Station in cooperation with the
U.S. Forest Service is providing
foresters with some answers to
the problem of how many Pon
derosa pines should be grown
per acre for maximum growth.
J. W. Barrett of the Pacific
Northwest Forest and Range
Experiment Station, and C. T.
Youngberg, OSU soil scientist,
are heading up the work. They
have charted the rate of use of
available soil moisture in forest
plots as a guide to determining
the best spacing for sapling
pines in order to take full ad
vantage of the site's growth po
tential. The researchers found that
1,000 trees per acre used up 1.6
times as much water as 62 trees
per acre. Study plots were
thinned to 62, 125, 250. 500, and
1,000 trees per acre. Soil mois
ture was measured with a neu
tron probe.
The effect of brush on soil
moisture use also was studied.
Where brush was allowed to de
velop normally, moisture use
was increased 45 per cent over
plots where the brush was clear
ed off. Youngberg says that
these results do not necessarily
mean that brush should be
cleared from Ponderosa . pine
stands, since there are other
factors besides moisture use to
take into account.
The research results will
eventually serve as guidelines
for thinning timber stands.
TAKES BIRTH CONTROL PILL To curb
Egypt's population boom, President Gamal
Abdel Nasser last year took a step unprece
dented for a modern Moslem chief of state
by advocating birth control. In this photo a
village woman is shown taking a pill during
the birth control campaign. (UPI)
mate was 27 million and by
Christmas this year another
million will have been .added.
At the present annual growth
rate of three per cent there will
be 40 million Egyptians by 1980,
and the benefits of the billion
dollar dam and desert reclama
tion may be eaten up as fast
as they appear., ,
Pushes' Birth Control
To curb the population boom
Nasser last year took a step un
precedented for a modern Mos
lem chief of state by advocat
ing birth control. To stave off
criticism he enlisted support
from Cairo's famed seat of Is
lamic learning, the 1,000-year-old
Al-Azhar University, which
depends on Egyptian
ment funds
In an historic rereading of
Koranic doctrine the univer
sity's rector said that "family
planning is a wise thing. Islam
upholds a plentiful but strong
population. Allah wants his chil
dren strong. Our government is
trying to achieve that with fam
ily planning." 1 ,
Changing the attitude of the
Egyptian fellah is more diffi
cult. He counts on his children
to prove his virility, to help
him work his land and to sup
port him in old age. If his wife
does not produce children, he
marries another. If he is sterile
he becomes an object of ridicule.
govern-"; At the same time, the govern
ment s program of free health
care and education has cut the
country s death rate and made
bigger families easier to sup
port.
Contraceptive's Free
To popularize "family plan
ning' village clinics now offer
contraceptive pills either sold
cheaply or distributed free. To
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
DOBERT E. SHERWOOD once signed George M.' Cohan
to star in a new play he was producing. To get his sig
nature on the dotted line, Sherwood had to make a firm
luuuuiMiieiiL wun ionan
for ten weeks.
The play, unfortunate
ly, proved to be a clink
er, and folded after one
dismal week on Broad
way. : Cohan took - his
check Sor ten weeks with
out a word. Many years
later, however, Sherwood,
out of a clear blue sky,
received a check back
from Cohan covering the
nine weeks for which he
had not played. Attached
to the check was a note
reading, "Dear Bob: I
couldn't go out with this on my mind."
The next day George M. Cohan died.
. ' . '
In a Republican stronghold in New England, an 8-year-old
student held up a picture of Abraham Lincoln in class and grave
ly declared, 'This is the president who frayed the sleeves."
"You're a bit off the beam," contradicted the teacher. "Mr. Lin
coln freed the slaves. The president who frayed the sleeves
didn't come along untn many years later."
The hard-bitten, tyrannical dean of a theological seminary
found this note pinned outside his door one morning: "Tomorrow
will be Wednesday, if it's all right with you. (Signed) God."
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overcome popular resistance to
the pills and the inevitable
rumors about their adverse ef
fects trained nurses have
been sent out to explain their
use and advantages to village
women.
Press, radio and television
campaings also are being used
to promote the use of contracep
tives. The drive has had limited suc
cess so far but there is opti
mism. "Time is on our side, ' said
one woman social worker.
"Time will prove the pills are
safe. And it will show the fel
lahin they can live better with
fewer mouths to feed."
A revolutionary new govern
ment law expected to be en
acted also soon should help trim
the size of Egyptian fnmi'ies.
Where Moslem men tradition
ally have been permitted as
many as four wives, the new
law would allow him to take a
second spouse only with his iirst
wife's consent and the approv
al of a judge. Divorce alto
would become far more diffi
cult. The bill will be one of the
first measures put before the
new National Assembly sched
uled for election later in Novem
ber. t' .
Meanwhile a .conference of
planners, social workers . and
university professors is to meet
here this month in search of
ways to boost the whole birth
control program.
If it works, Egypt can look
toward a future of prosperity.
If it fails, the country may re
main forever poor.
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