Population Problems

In Carrying out the fifteenth decennial census, to be taken as of April 1, 1930, the Federal government will spend approximately $40,000,000. The results of this mammoth undertaking that are awaited with greatest interest are those showing the size, make-up, residence, and earning power of the country's population. The forthcoming canvass will shed new light also upon the physical well-being of American wage-workers through its surveys of the distribution of consumers' goods and of unemployment.

The population question, important everywhere, has a part today in many of the public problems of the United States. It exists in acute form in the Orient and in some of the countries of Europe whose populations have virtually reached a saturation point. In this country the problem is more ...