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Focuses on the growth of human population. Illustration of the stabilization of population by fertility control; Contribution of underdeveloped countries to world population growth; Actions taken by governments to change fertility rates, including the enforcement of family-planning programs and income-tax deductions.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Those Cranberries," in the November 30, 1959 issue, "A Grave Sin," by TRB in the December 14, 1959 issue, and an article by Ian Gilmour about Spain.

The article presents world news briefs. A possible run for Governor of Illinois by Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley is discussed. An investigation into the prices of prescription drugs by the U.S. Senate Anti-Monopoly Subcommittee is examined. A report in "Ecumenical Review" focusing on a conference of Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox religious leaders and physicians, concerning the subject of global population control, is mentioned.

Focuses on steps taken for population care and control by Chinese government. Benefits of population control for the economic conditions of the country; Contribution of medicine for population control in China; Steps taken by the Chinese government for birth control; Information that abortions are done free of charge, on the demand of the mother alone; Movement of a large percentage of urban medical personnel into the interior to practice in farm communes and to teach young barefoot doctors.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics published in previous issues. Comments on the article titled "Politicians Who Would Practice Medicine," published in the March 13 issue; Views on studies focusing on medications to control the behavior of hyperactive children; Opinion on the article titled "Sweden's Liberated Men and Women," by Steven Kelman published in the March 13 issue; Note on abortion laws in Sweden; Evaluation of the effectiveness of Catholic schools; Information on the military situation in Southeast Asia.

The article presents political news briefs for the week of April 27, 1963. The United States Civil Rights Commission is urging president John F. Kennedy to withhold federal funds from Mississippi for not complying with federal law concerning civil rights. The author profiles the financial status of the steel industry in the U.S. The U.S. spent $6 million on population and birth control studies in 1962.

As a monument to such legislation, U.S. now has some 2,000,000 abortions a year, straining on the side of caution in a field where there necessarily are no organized statistics, puts the number at 681,600. New York City alone is reliably said to account for 250,000, investigators have found that at least 100,000 abortions are induced each year in the Borough of Brooklyn alone. Abortions in New York and Chicago, Illinois in fact, are thought to outnumber the combined total of live and still births in both cities.

In Mexico, as in all Latin American countries, large families have been the custom and the ideal among peasants. Sons mean helpers on the land and support in old age. In the upper classes, a large family is a symbol of success. In the past few decades Mexican industries, roads, dams, schools and health services have increased at an astounding rate. Yet in real terms the country is standing still as the proliferating population swamps these advances. The problem has not gone unnoticed by Mexico's planners. The solutions offered have been more irrigation, higher production from the land and new industries. Until recently there has been no suggestion, in public at least that population limitation might be a way out.

Focuses on the meeting held in Washington D.C. to discuss birth control. Suggestions of supporters of birth control for opening birth-control clinics, instructing physicians in contraceptive technique and persuading the Congress to pass a bill permitting contraceptive supplies and information to be sent to medical schools and hospitals through mail; Initiative taken twenty years ago by nurse Margaret Sanger to study safe measures of birth control for women; Launch of national advertising campaigns by manufacturers of antiseptics to get their products used as contraceptives.

Focuses on the anti-religious campaigns in the Soviet Union and its future. Use of coercion in the campaigns; Conversion of churches into secular uses; campaigns propagating that Russian churches was a tool of capitalism and of the Tsar; Discussion on the campaign against the belief of miraculous mummification, as claimed by the church there, of saints; Problems facing priests and religious discourses; View that Russians are not against religion but against an organized church; Opinion that Communism is an obsession, and that its success is based on works, not on faith; View that children of the Soviet Union might adapt themselves to the atheistic milieu around them; Discussion on the perception that Russians are intent on destroying the home, as an institution; Comparison of the Russian effort for creating homes for girls, orphans with that of the U.S.; Discussion on the sexual morality in the Soviet Union; Policy of Russians toward an illegitimate child, and toward the institution of marriage and divorce; Antipathy of the Soviet Union toward birth control measures; Abortions in the Russia; Success of Russians in abolishing prostitution; Shortage of housing in the Russia serving the purpose of abolishing prostitution; Opinion that Russians feel that Americans are very much obsessed with sex.

Focuses on the socio-political and economic updates related to Germany. Close of stock exchanges in order to prevent panic selling; Reports on industrial depression due to the situation brought about in the struggle to pay reparations; Threat of use of money in order to build up greater armaments, if war debts are cancelled; Production of consumption goods for use among the general population than war materials; Examination of the mistreatment of juvenile prisoners who have the bad luck to fall into the hands of the federal government; Condemnation of birth control as a violation of Jewish law and of natural law.

Presents information on the prevailing opinion in farm and small-town homes of the U.S., gathered and sorted by the editors of "The Country Home,"a national magazine established as Farm and Fireside. Questions seeking straight yes and no reactions as to cigarettes, farm relief, prohibition, the drift to cities; the little red school-house, corporation farming, divorce and birth control; Details of the votes on public questions; View that the votes on tobacco and divorce reveal peaks of illiberality that will to metropolitan readers seem stupendous and, almost unbelievable; Comparison of rural and urban messages.

Comments on the estimation of the world population. Limitation of earth's population capacity by the potential agricultural resources; Identification of women of child-bearing age; Advancement of the birth-control movement; Prediction on the possible impact of the increasing population on economic and social condition; Rate of the population per year; Value of the arable soil per individual; Determination of the nutritive value of the food imported for consumption.

Discusses the attitude of the Catholic Church towards birth control in the U.S. Moral perception of individuals who support artificial birth restriction and who hold that the gratification of sexual appetite is the central purpose in marital life; Solution to the population problem in the light of human well-being which the ground-work of Catholic ethics; Supportive role of Christian religions to laws which defend public morality and well-being.

Presents several political and socio-economic issues affecting the U.S. Revolts by Feng Yu-hsiang in Canton and Chang Tsung-chang in Shantung; Appeal of the Nationalist government in China to the U.S. for the abolition of extra-territoriality; Restriction of credit loans by the Federal Reserve Board; Assertion of Communist propagandist Leon Trotsky that democracy is a weak form of government that it cannot withstand international and domestic controversies; Contention of Trotsky that capitalism is changing its form in the countries where it has reached its greatest development; Investigation of the "Vetris" ship tragedy in London; Political appointments of President Herbert Hoover; Facts of the Federal Trade Commission on the propaganda attack of S. S. Wyer against a hydroelectric power system in Ontario; Conflict between book clubs and retail booksellers regarding the depressed book business in the country; Merger of "Everybody's Magazine" with "Romance"; Dubious feature of the new tariff bill is the provision for an operational change of the Tariff Commission; Exoneration of the doctors and nurses in the famous birth-control raid in New York; Demotion of Mary Sullivan as head of the Policewomen's Bureau of the New York Police Department.

Population growth is not a new phenomenon, what is new is the rate of growth. In pre-scientific times populations expanded by only a few ,tenths of I per cent annually, excluding slaves and then mainly in their "golden ages." This rate amounted to perhaps 15 to 25 per cent per generation. The family grouping is the link through which reproduction and the nurture of children are related to other features of the social system. Looked at in one way, a society is an aggregation of families with a language, an economy, a religion, or a political system in common-often it is all of these at once and more.

The article focuses on the political events in the United States. The U.S. President Harry S. Truman in his final address to the nation spoke out strongly against the immoral doctrine of preventive war and emphasized the vital necessity of clinging to the principles. Truman pointed out that in the intervening twenty-four years the national output of goods and services was doubled in volume and annual average income, after taxes, increased 50 per cent. The President gave warning that the atomic age in the form of atomic bomb is moving toward "yet unforeseeable peaks of destructive power" which can be amplified by four related statements. The New York Welfare and Health Council denied membership to Planned Parenthood, a national birth-control organization, because it represents a specific religious group.

The article investigates the reason behind resignation of priests and nuns from the service of the church. The Vatican has admitted that it has 10,000 requests from priests asking to be exempted from their vows. Jesuit Sociologist Eugene Schallert has compiled a study on departed priests from their duties. Former Jesuit Eugene C. Bianchi is now married and teaching theology at Emory University in Atlanta. It also mentions priest Martin Luther's defiance of the church authority.

The article discusses aspects of pills in the U.S. It states that seven million American women are using pills while many believed that they can defuse population explosion and eventually help eliminate hunger and ignorance. It notes that only the advanced countries were given supply of the pills while other countries use intrauterine device (IUD). It mentions that physiologist Gregory Pincus and gynecologist John Rock were the pioneers of oral contraception which is popularly known as the pill.

Presents information on political developments around the world. Information on dismissal of German Chancellor Gustav Stresemann; Report on starvation of 20,000,000 people in Germany; Alteration of government policy by M. Pincaré, German Prime Minister; Information on bankruptcy in France; Payment of a quarter of a billion francs to France by Ruhr industrialists; Maintenance of friendly relations between Britain and the U.S.; Information on LLyod George, British statesman, winning elections on the promise of attesting the king and making Germany pay cost of the war; Information on action by journalists Viscount Rotheremere and Baron Beaverbrook; Decrease in hostility between the two chief factions in Ireland's civil war; Report on declining importance by chiefs of hunger strike in Ireland; Ratification of the treaty negotiated between the United States and Turkey during the course of the Lausanne conference; Cessation of the work of American missionaries and educators in Turkey; Plans for increasing the estate tax on exempt securities; Focus on actions against tax exemption; Report on legal problems faced editor Sherwood Anderson of the book "Many Marriages"; Avocation of a proposal that in the event of war capital should be conscripted just as men are, by the Christian Science Monitor; Issuance of license for a birth control clinic; Announcement by the U.S. State Department that it is ready to exchange with any Central or South American nation mutual commercial treaties providing for most favored nation treatment as regards tariffs; Information on nucleus or proton as composition of atoms; Provision of low cost of gasoline at the present price, by W.C. Teagle, President of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey.

The article focuses on the author's views, if he were a dictator. First of all, he will repeal all legislation giving the state power to censor ideas by control of mails, customs, movies, and so on, or by forbidding free discussion of obscenity, sedition, and birth control. He will cancel all radio licenses, paying nothing for permits because no vested right has been transferred to broadcasting companies. Then establish governmental broadcasting companies with decentralized control in order to prevent all of the culture from flowing through Manhattan. Some other facts, to be followed by the author are also presented.

The article discusses the practice of legal abortion in the U.S. It states that many American women face an unwanted pregnancy and at the same time abortion is becoming increasingly acceptable in the U.S. It states that the New York State law that allows abortion on demand at any time through the 24th week of pregnancy has come into force. It also states that 33 states retain century-old laws making abortion a crime unless performed to save the life and to protect the health of the pregnant woman.

The article presents developments related to science in the U.S. The 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain in California provides information about the most distant objects in the universe. The committee on population of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council reports that majority of Americans approve of and practice family planning. X-ray crystallographers have succeeded in determining the three-dimensional structure of an enzyme which is the protein known as lysozyme.

The article provides information on a new hypothesis regarding the nature of animal population control. Most animals maintain their population size at a fairly constant level. Each of their population seems to be regulated by some system, ecologists have been seeking to discover. Studies have found that animals do maintain constant population levels that limit reproduction to avoid overexploitation of their food resources.

The article cites a study on the rapid increase in population in Taiwan. Population problem is recognized as a common problem among various countries which due to its unfavorable impact on countries' social and economic development. One of the resolution applied by countries suffering from overpopulation is the fertility control.

The article focuses on the family planning in the U. S. The study on family planning was developed through quantitative data and several couples were interviewed. The wives gave detailed information on their pregnancy histories, contraception practices and their plans for future childbearing. The survey showed that in general all population groups accept the idea of couples deliberately regulating the number and spacing of their children in relation to their needs and resources.

Examines the consequences of a population explosion. Citation of the negative aspects of breeding several children without the means to provide for their social of educational development; Observation of the changing trend favoring family restriction; Concern over the lowering of the death rate since the 1880's; Importance of collecting statistics to determine the actual balance between human production and mortality to asses the direction of the human population; Impact of medicine on the death rates of children and adults; Recommendation for the human race to adopt a behavior suitable to survival of the race.

Focuses on economic and political developments in the U.S. and all across the world. Suggestion regarding the U.S. loan to the Soviet Union for food relief; Argument pertaining to the present distress of railway companies, which is due to reckless and wasteful spending in years gone by; Concern over the submarine program of the U.S.; Report that British opinion appears to be moving rapidly toward a recognition of the necessity of revising the indemnity terms; Calculation of professor David Friday about the capital accumulation of the U.S. people; Criticism on the arrest of diplomat Juliet Barrett Rublee for her part in the Birth Control meeting; View that the effort of American philanthropy should be devoted to feed people, who are dying of starvation due to severe famine in the Soviet Union; Discussion that the quotas under immigration law of Greece, Spain, Yugoslavia, Palestine, Turkey, Syria and Smyrna are already exhausted, which may create trouble to hundreds of people, who will arrive only to find that they cannot enter; Information that a labor union has successfully invoked the conspiracy law against employers; Use of force by the British government to suppress Non-Cooperative Movement in India.

Latin America has ignored or resisted population control, despite the fact that Latin America, and especially its native Indo-American elements, has the highest rate of population increase of the world's major cultural areas. The approximate number of births reported annually for each 1,000 inhabitants of selected countries makes the point, Switzerland 12, the United States, Uruguay and Argentina 26, India and China 33, Chile 34. Preventive medicine has produced striking results in Mexico. In the first sixty years of this century the population has nearly tripled to 349 million.

The article discusses economic, social and political repercussions of the declining birthrate below the rate of replacement in the U.S. in 1972. It references the book "General Theory of Population" by Alfred Sauvy and the study "The Demography of the 1970s: The Birth Dearth and What It Means." It talks about changing attitudes towards family size, "The Japanese miracle" as a result of the government's abortion campaign to cut the birthrate, and the French, Japanese and American characters.

The article reports on the explosion of population in the world. It discusses the startling 20th century surge in humanity's rate of reproduction and the endless grinding and deepening poverty as well as the apparent consequences of death control. It also notes the economic impact, planning problems, global economic ruin, and political consequences of violent population explosion as well as the impact of birth control campaigns to breeding habits of the people.

Examines the population trends at villages in Punjab, India. Economic benefits of the extensive agricultural program of the Punjab Agricultural University supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development; Application of social and legal pressure for population control; Role of the reluctance of the medical profession to permit paramedical auxiliaries to diagnose and treat illnesses in the rural health care.

Focuses on abortion. Aspects of debates on abortion worldwide; Use of mercury in ancient practice of abortion by Chinese; Basis of moral objection against abortion.

Presents letters to the editor related to various political developments in the U.S. Assessment of the speech of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover on real wages; Policies of political parties of the country on tariffs; Policies of Governor Alfred E. Smith on birth control.