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INEXACT SCIENCE
The U.S. will have a population of 200,000,000 by
1980, and the entire human race ma^ expand from
two-and-a-half to four billion by that time, says John
D. Durand, acting director of the population division
of the U.N. Then again, he says, we and it may not.
Changes in birth rates, wars, famines and pestilence
can make drastic shifts in trends.
Drastic enough in these times, Mr. Durand, that
there may not be anybody in 1980!
CHINA'S POPULATION NOW 582,603,000
The National Bureau of Statistics in Peiping de
clared recently that China’s population, as of June
30, 1953, was 582,603,417.
If this figure is correct, the Chinese population is
even greater than had been expected and is by far
the greatest of any country in the world. Considering
the fact that the U.S. population is now estimated at
something over 162,000,000, it is not difficult to see
the eventual importance of Communist China in world
affairs, especially if the economic standard and in
dustrial production of that country can be raised.
These population figures show why so many people
have argued of late that Asia was the key to the con
trol of the world in future years. The population of
India, the most populous country after China, is sev
eral hundred million below the Chinese today, and
then comes Soviet Russia, with over 200,000,000 in
habitants.
The populations of the principal anti-Communist
countries is meager in comparison with that of China,
Russia and India. The population of the United King
dom, Canada, Australia and Ireland combined is less
than 100,000,000. The population of West Germany is
slightly above 50,000,000. The population of France
and Italy is even less.
“SADDEST WORDS OF TONGUE OR PEN ...”
If he had to do it over again, says Dr. Albert
Einstein — whose theory of relativity provided the
key to that Pandora’s Box of atomic annihilation — he
would be a plumber or a peddler rather than a scientist.
Considering both his Communist leanings and his
scientific contributions, we would say he was bom
ninety years too soon. 1
Text of
McKay’s Remarks
On Alaska
There is a story that has been
told about the Alaska railroad. I
don't think you have heard much
about it. So let me take some time
here to tell how a railroad operat
ing in the red when this adminis
tration took over is now operating
in the black.
The Alaska Railroad is 100 per
cent government-owned. During
World War II it made a profit, but
when the war ended, heavy losses
again appeared.
In 1953 I asked the president of
the Southern Pacific to loan me
the services of a good railroad
man who knew how to operate a
railroad in the snow, and who was
qualified to some day become the
president of this system.
He recommended Frank E. Kal
baugh, manager of the Ogden di
vision. Kalbaugh went up to Alas
ka in the spring of 1953. The line
went $750,000 in the red in the 12
months ending June 30, 1953.
Kalbaugh went to work. In 12
months he has made changes
which brought the line into the
black and it operated at a profit
of $750,000 in that period.
He improved the service and
lowered the rates.
And he still made a profit.
Mr. Kalbaugh reorganized the
road with a minimum of friction.
Obsolete operating methods were
discarded, schedules were jacked
up and employe morale has been
vastly improved.
Today the Alaska Railroad, long
considered in Washington as
something that was ordained to be
a money-losing venture, is now
turning in profits.
It is just an example of good
business methods used to operate
a good business.
And now, while on the subject
of Alaska, let me say a few words
about the conservation program
we have undertaken there to con
serve and review the salmon fish
ing industry.
This had been permitted to run
down until the fish pack in Alas
ka became alarmingly low.
There was only one thing to do.
Take drastic measures. And the
measures we took were drastic.
The future will prove we were
right in every move we made and
the salmon pack will again return
to what it should be.
We closed down for two years
one-half the traps in southeastern
Alaska. You people will know
about the efforts made here to
close down the traps in the Col
umbia. Some people liked it. Some
didn’t. The same is true in Alaska.
Many bays and inlets have been
closed to purse seining for a simi
lar period.
We put 250 guards in stream to
see that we had proper escape
ment upstream.
It will be 1956 before the results
of this conservation move will be
| felt. But I am sure that when the
run of pink salmon occurs in that
year the results of our work now
will be told in an increased run of
salmon. The cycle of pink salmon
is two years and the cycle of red
salmon is 4, 5 and 6 years.
For the past 50 years, 80 per
cent of U. S. iron came from
Minnesota’s Mesabi Range.
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