EMIGRATION IMMINENT IN NEXT FIFTY YEARS

"In about 40 or 50 years the population of the United States will be larger than the country can support, if present living conditions continue", said Professor T. N. Carver in the course of an interview yesterday.

Professor Carver has recently published a book, "The Economy of Human Energy", in which he touches on the problem of overpopulation in the United States. After quoting from this book he went on to explain his statement.

Our Population is Half That of Europe

"At present the United States is producing only about half as much per acre as the intensely cultivated European countries, such as England. Denmark, and Belgium. Taking a soldier's ration as the standard, the European countries produce about one soldier's ration from three acres of land. We produce only one ration from six acres today. If we increase our effectiveness of production to the European standard, which is about the limit, we would be able to produce about 170,000,000 soldiers' rations.

"The average man or woman, however, does not consume quite so much as a full soldier's ration per year, so that we might make a rough estimate, that the country could support 190,000,000 people with our present living standards. This would mean, of course, that the present rate of production would be increased to the European standard.

"The present population of the country is about 110,000,000. When we have increased it to 190,000,000, the people will begin to feel the pressure and emigration will set in. England does not produce nearly enough to feed her population. She imports food and at the same time her people emigrate. The same conditions will appear in the United States within the next half century unless we radically reduce our standards of living, or work much harder than we do now. I believe the latter possibility very doubtful," added Professor Carver with a smile.

"The English speaking peoples are naturally an emigrating race," he continued, "and when America becomes populated to the saturation point, they will naturally drift elsewhere. There are plenty of countries as yet undevelopend which might be sought out Large parts of Africa and South America, for instance, are at present either uninhabitable or uninhabited. The pioneer days will begin all over again.