lation density presses the resources most critically that have long harbored social problems and serious unrest.

It is no longer possible to close one's eyes to the vast dimensions of the world-wide population issue and ts dangerous potentials, as millions struggle daily for adequate food and live under conditions more fit for animals than humans.

Nor is it any longer possible to avoid the serious moral questions involved. It is here that homosexuality affords such valuable relief, so welcome an answer, for centuries of effort at control via the heterosexual segments of society have been ineffective. This can hardly be denied in the face of such statistics as those coming from the 1954 Rome 'Conference on World Populations,' held under the auspices of the United Nations.

It would seem that some new approach is needed if any substantial progress is to be made, or at least the fullest utilization of every available resource and weapon. Such a resource of tremendous potentiality is homosexuality. Society may well find itself wielding this weapon with increasing appreciation and effectiveness as its value becomes better understood.

The important point to recognize in consideration of the overpopulation question is that the homosexual family unit does not produce children. Careless thinkers have sometimes cited this as detrimental to society, in some unexplained way equating social usefulness with reproductive processes.

Now that indiscriminate reproduction is seen to be the root of the entire question of world population problems, the family unit which does not produce offspring is coming to occupy an altered place in sociological thinking.

The invaluable control-function of homosexuality in helping reduce the appalling birth rate increase of the past few decades is seen to merit the closest study. As social scientists and governmental agencies in various countries realistically appraise the contribution homosexuality can make toward a solution for 'the problem of the age, fresh social patterns will emerge and legal structures be renovated.

Modern society has the choice before it of using avenues already available for solving its pressing problems, or of floundering on in the morass of methods that have proved ineffectual. Homosexuality offers a hand on the population problem that civilization can ill-afford to reject.

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