MASSES OF THE EAST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21405, 5 August 1931, Page 7

MASSES OF THE EAST

WHITE RACES NEED NOT FEAR

LIVERPOOL PROFESSOR’S VIEW,

LONDON, July 21

Professor A. M. Carr-Saunders, Charles Booth professor of social science at the Liverpool University, has written an article in the Observer on the lessons to be learned from the recent census in Great Britain. This showed that the total population of the country was nearly 45,000,000, and that since the last census in 1921 the population of England and Wales had increased by 2,001,000. Professor Carr-Saunders says that when normal conditions return Australia and New Zealand -will require larger populations. It does not look as if the number of their present inhabitants will long* continue to increase, or as if the countries upon which they are accus tomed to draw will for long have a surplus. There is no cause for alarm be cause when the decrease occurs it will be slow. A fit community, anxious to survive, will then replace itself, Coloured races are likely enough to increase, but their possessing the earth is another matter. With the exception of Australia, which has never been adequately populated, white countries, provided that they do not become seriously depopulated, have nothing to fear from the poverty-stricken masses of the East, however large those masses become, because they increase at the expense of their material well-being.