MALTHUS REDIVIVUS.

Grey River Argus, 2 September 1927, Page 5

MALTHUS REDIVIVUS.

FEAR OF POPULATION. Latest Geneva Stunt. (Aus. ami N.Z. Cable Assn). GENEVA, August 31. There were two hundred scientists, statesmen, economists and Government officials present at the opening of the first International World Population Conference, which it is expected will result in the establishment of a permanent international organisation to study one of the most fundamental problems facing mankind, seeing that the size of the earth and its capacity to support human beings are limited, while populations are continually grown?.’ creating social, economic and .political situation, which are threatening most profundly to alter and possibly wreck the present civilisation. Plenty Room for More. AUSTRALIA’S EMPTINESS. GENEVA, August 31. I “Australia, in the early future, is! 1 holy to become a spacious asylum for the reception of over-erowed peoples, particularly rural settlers from South-' o.i a East Europe. The decision of the.' I nited States to forbid extensive im-1 migration may divert to Australia as many immigrants as can be absorbed.”. This passage occurred in a paper by ? r John Walter Gregory, formerly Professor of Geology, at Melbourne, road at the World’s Population Coni’ renee.

Mr Gregory expressed the opinion that the United States’ quota restriction was arbitrary and unscientific. I: should have been based on the density of its own population and support ing power of the country or origin. There was no biological support for the idea that inter-marriage of Italians vith Northern, Eastern and Western Europeans produced inferior progeny. Accommodation in Arctic. GEOGRAPHER’S VIEW. (Received Sept. 1 at 10 p.m.) LONDON, August 31. At the British Association Conference, Dr Rudmore Brown, after pointing out the belief in an Antarctic* continent is yet hypothetical, turned to the Northern Hemisphere. Dr Brown prophesied that eventually the tide of white settlement would definitely set northward, even to the Arctic Seas. It was not presumptuous to say, he declared, that one hundred years would witness it.