tries where insufficient food supplies and faulty diet have opened the way for disease and destructive social unrest to take their toll.

Communism itself generally has little appeal in countries having normal population densities and adequate food supply. Wars, too are often rooted in population problems. It is only necessary to cite the overcrowding which drove Japan in to World War II to illustrate this well-known fact.

Can civilization de vise no more sensible solution for this problem than the elimination of millions through war? Must millions continually be destroyed to make room for still more millions?

The world's natural resources are melting away before the mad on rush of uncontrolled population growth. This has long been apparent in the older crowded nations. like China. To feed the hungry slopes have been stripped of their forest covering. Marginal lands have been brought in to cultivation. Rains have eroded the hillsides, silting up rivers. In dry seasons there have been duststorms. The result: as population keeps increasing the tillable land is decreasing.

Elsewhere mines have been ruthlessly exploited, oil fields pumped far out at sea in the desperate rush to supply multiplying demands. Congested cities sprawl out into the countrysides despoiling nature's valuable recreational facilities.

A country already crowded far beyond its capacity to provide for its people is Japan. There ninety million people have crowded into a few small islands, and are still multiplying at an undiminished rate. The Japanese food supply of only 2000 calories per person per day threatens to fall still lower.

In India three hundred and eighty million people must attempt to subsist on a daily average calory intake of less than 1500. Millions of them are herded together into the disease-ridden slums of the great cities. Yet, like compound interest, the flood of new births goes on at an ever-accelerated rate.

Even more crowded is Indonesia, with a population density almost twice that of England's, in itself grossly congested. Indonesians already subsist on barely 2000 calories per day. No improvement is in sight, while in nearby Thailand the danger point is fast approaching.

In Europe, by heavy industrialization and world trade, some countries have managed to obscure their population imbalances Holland, England, even Greece. The fact remains that it is those countries, like Italy, where popu-