ROOM FOR ALL EUROPE.

Mataura Ensign, 9 November 1916, Page 5

ROOM FOR ALL EUROPE.

4 I y i j! The United States can swallow all oi Europe—area, population and all. The entire combined computed area of the foreign countries- and the area of the ' western United States are very nearly! I j the same, .says the 'Popular Science! .! Monthly.' 'lhe discrepancy is a bare 1 ! 10.000 square miles on Europe's _side. j At the >e.me time, 'however. Russia- in . i Kuropo would spread over the whole ! wet-tern part of our country, crowding ' ; it to the dooi-.-. with its 111.000.000 of , ; people, being the largest of all the , j European .countries. " ; The State of Califoriv'a lias, ample i quarters for seven European countries, | but its population i.s only a little over | 2.000.000, whereas little Rumania alone harbors just about 7.000,000 inhahitants. Austria-Hungary fits rather tightly a'cross the shoulders in Texas, whieh i has a scattered population of nearly -1,000,000, whereas Austria-Hungary has more than 0f.000.000 of people acconiJ modated within its boundaries. ',' ! Afore striking, however, is corpulent i Idaho with its .'VJo.OOO inhabitants living in an area sufficient to quarter Ki.-1 000,000 of Europeans- Jiving in four ; large countries. Then there are MonI tana and North Dakota willi their I 000.000 people enjoving enough room for Spain and Portusal's 'J0.000.000.