Fairfield Osborn. president of the Conservation Foundation. and Dr. Kingsley Davis. professor of sociology at the University of Columbia. In this article. titled "United States Immigration and Food Exports in Relation to World Population Problems." the authors explain clearly why there is no prospect that the United States will absorb enough immigrants or export enough food to really solve the prdblems of overpopulation or lack of food in the underdeveloped countries of the world. They point out that this country has accepted more immigrants than any other nation in the world. From 1820 to 1947 we took in a number close to the present population of France. In the peak period of our immigration. from 1902 to 1914. we received around a million a year. Now. however. the worlds population is growing at the rate of 30 million a year. and if we took onefifth of the total. or 6 million a year. for the next 10 years. it would result in an increase of around 50 percent in our population without beginning to solve the problem of overcrowded countries. With respect to feeding the world. the article points out that huge as our wheat surplus seems to us. if the entire surplus of our 1953 crop were donated to just one country.
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