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Tuesday, October 31, 1967 THE CAMPUS ECHO Page Three India's Population Explosion Viewed Asheville Slated Political Science Club Organized By VIRENDRA S. YADAV, Instructor of Sociology Today there is no issue so critical as the steady increase of world population. The popu lation problem has become one of the most fundamental of all human problems. It affects ev ery aspect of man’s social life— individual, national, and inter national. It affects the health and happiness of individual families; it affects the material property and social progress of nations. “Overpopulation” writes Julian Huxley, “is the most serious threat to human happiness and progress in this very critical period in the his tory of the world. It is not sO' acute as the threat of atomic warfare, but is more grave, since it springs from our own nature.” So it is that to many the sheer pressure of numbers on avail able food supply or “absolute population pressure” is one of the most serious concerns. Oth ers see in this steadily mount ing population in many parts of the globe an explanation for war between nations. They view conquest, war, and aggression as the inevitable concommitants of ever increasing population pres sures. In more recent year;, the grav ity of the mounting population has been recognized as second in importance to the problem of the search for lasting peace. Re cently, the president of the U. S. National Academy of science wrote—“The problem of uncon trollable population emerges as one of the most critical issues of our time ... It commands the attention of every nation and society; the problem is no less grave for the technically advanced nations than for the less developed.” In brief, the population of the Post World War II is, indeed, a global phenomenon. And thus, new realization has renewed in terest in India’s population problem. India’s population problem presents a good laboratory for the analysis of the interrelation of population growth, resources, technology and culture. India, second to Red China in popula tion size, poses a challenge to the students of population and demography. India has been viewed by many journalists, his torians, and social scientists as a nation confronted with the problem of how and by what means nations experiencing earl ier phases of demographic transi tion, speed up the process to realize demographic revolution. This problem has become acute in recent years due to a sharp decline in the death rate while the birth rate showed but a slight decline. A striking fact is that there is an improvement, however slight, in matters of public health services and sani tation. An increase in industri- lization and urbanization ac companied by an increase in ag ricultural production and easier access by the government to sur plus food supplier in Western countries in times of famine have operated to reduce the death rate to nearly half of what it was in 1930 (36.3) to 17. The birth rate of about 40 per 1000 population in 1967 and a death rate of 17 gives a rate of natural increase in the neigh borhood of 23 per 1000 popula tion. Should the present trend remain constant, India’s popula tion will reach 1 billion in 2000 A.D. In terms of demographic transition, India is passing through the most critical period in her history. She has never faced such a gigantic and seri ous problem as increasing popu lation. Immediate solution to VIRENDRA S. YADAV this massive and complex prob lem becomes more and more urgent as she progressively plays a more important role in inter national affairs. (To Be Continued) Jobs Abroad Offerings Cited By the end of this week over 1,250 students will land in New York after spending a summer working in Europe. The working students were se lected as participants in Jobs Abroad, a program designed by the International Student Infor mation Service (ISIS), a non profit organization based in Brussels, Belgium. The idea behind Jobs Abroad, as expressed by Mr. Francis X. Gordon, Executive Director, is “to provide students and teach ers an oportunity to increase their understanding of a foreign culture by experiencing its tra ditional way of life.” Through Jobs Abroad, a mem ber can work in the language speaking area of his choice and may select work from nine job categories. Since most participants have little or no work experience, the job categories available to them consist mostly of jobs in non skilled work. The categories are; Farm Work, Construction, Work Camps, Camp Counseling Child Care, Hotel-Restaurant- Resort, Factory, Hospital, and Special. The last two generally call for previous experience and better-t h a n-average language fluency. Participation in the Jobs Abroad program has given many students and teachers practical solution to going abroad. Next year, ISIS expects to have over 3,000 jobs available to appli cants who qualify and are ac cepted by the Jobs Abroad Cul tural Board. _ The return of this year’s corps 1,250 working students marks the sixth anniversary of the ISIS program of Jobs Abroad. WANTED BY RECORD CLUB OF AMERICA Campus Representative to earn over $100 in short time Write for information to: MR. ED BENEVY, College Bureau Manager, Record Club of America, Club Headquarters, York, Penn sylvania 17401. For H. E. Meet The annual North Carolina Home Economics Convention will be held at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, November 3 and 4. “Fifty Years of Progress-Peo- ple, Profession” is the theme for the two-day meeting. Highlights of the meeting in clude an anniversary coffee, ex hibits, luncheon, dinner and breakfast meetings and speech es by North Carolinians, a Michigan home economist and a California restaurateur. Miss Jennifer Williams, a sophomore Home Economics ma jor, will run for state reporter of the N. C. Home Bconomicsi Association. She will deliver an address and will participate in a play at the annual affair. The meet will have represen tation from such schools as the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Ag ricultural and Technical State University, Bennett College, East Carolina University, Mars Hill College, Meredith College, and North Carolina College at Durham. In addition to the State meet ing, the North Carolina College Home Economics Club will sponsor a float in the annual Homecoming Parade with La fayette Fullwood as Miss Home Economics and Patricia Bass and Yvonne Teal as her attend ants. The North Carolina College Political Science Club held a get-together for Political Science majors and minors on Septem ber 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Sci ence Building lounge. Approxi mately 75 old and new students were present. Charles Howard, the Club president, introduced the officers who in turn ex pressed wishes, and hope con cerning the club’s projects for the new year. The Political Science Club officers are: Charles Howard, president. Walter Brame, vice president; Vera Shaw, secretary; Esther Silver, treasurer; and Edward Callahan parliamenta rian. A highlight of the gathering was the summary of activities of majors and minors during the summer. Priscilla McNeil, along with Minnie Fuller, re lated to the students, their ex periences while working as com munity organizations in Rocky Mount, N .C.; the work consist ed of door-to-door conversations urging people to unite and be come politically involved. Esther Silver who worked in the New York Times morguel reviewed the many assignments she had as an intern with the world’s leading newspaper. Va- drine Foust and Grova Bridgesi reported on their summer of study as members of the Har- V a r d-Yale-Columbia Intensive! Summer program. Walter Brame^ related to th students his ex periences while working in Durham as Regional DirectoriS for tutors in Youth Educational Services, better known as “Yes”. See Political Science, Page 5 MUTUAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION mSVRED SAVIJSGS AISD HOME LOAISS DIVIDEND RATE PER ANNUM PAID FOUR TIMES A YEAR 112 WEST PARRISH STREET PHONE 688-1308 U/flLLER in H BE WHY OKM 12124/OKS 14124* * Stereo On RECOPrfS ^•■Olieh." Marcas Reg. T.M. 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