THE VIGIL

by Fred Jones

The bold headline read: "Riot at Hong Kong border!" Immediately following was a detailed account of the thousands of Red Chinese trying frantically to escape to the outside world. These people were not necessarily trying to flee from Communist rule, but instead were fleeing from a far more demanding and bitter enemy hunger. Officials believe that the now widespread famines in Red China are a result of the government's complete failure in its highly publicized birth control campaign. The ignorance and indifference of the Chinese people resulted in the program's failure, and similar campaigns

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in India and other Asian countries are also finding little to brag about in their respective approaches to this controversial subject. Several South American nations likewise have tried various programs and have met with little success.

What does all this mean? Well, for one thing, it means that the experts in this field are becoming baffled concerning how to set up effective birthcontrol programs both in orientating people to accept the actual idea itself and also in finding ways to carry the proper measures out. The first problem is by far the largest since practically all world religions con-

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