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PAGE SIX looking at WASHINGTON Water, It Seems, May Become Scarce Not many people realize the vast importance of an adequate water sup ply or that future years may bring to the United States a serious water shortage in some parts of the nation. Geologists government officials and conservationists estimate that the na tion now uses about 700 gallons of uvoter a day for each person. Even greater use is expected in the future and this may create problems which might be solved if there is better plan ning in the conservation of ground water resources, and the use of sur face water. As a national problem, the threat of a water shortage may arise in the arid West. The line of demarcation between the two sections of the nation follows the twenty-inch average an nual rainfall line, which dissects the Western part of Texas and moves Northward through the center of North and South Dakota. East of this line, water supplies exceed require ments but West of the line, there is a decreasing rate of precipitation, and interior regions, including Arizona, New Mexico, parts of Texas, Colo rado, California, Utah and Nevada, may face a future Droblem. The average rainfall in the United States is sufficient to cover over three million square miles to a depth of nearly thirty inches. This supply is unevenly distributed and, according to the experts, only about thirty per cent is being used. Contrasted with the less than twenty inches of annual rain that falls in some sections is the fifty-two inches that cover the seven states of the Tennessee Valley each year. The magnitude of this volume of water is better understood when we say that it means six thous and tons of water falling on each acre of land every year. While there is no immediate crisis, except when caused by unseasonable drought, in most of the continental area of the nation, there are, as point ed out, huge arid areas. The problem of an adequate water supply in these regions is already pressing. It might be timely, therefore, for the nation to give greater attention to the steps necessary to conserve water to sourc es in other regions which are on the borderline. Neither is it beyond the possibility that study and ingenuity might make available new water sup plies for these areas without injuring other areas that enjoy abundant rain fall. Nobody Can Check the Talking The President is reported concerned over some of the talking that has been done by members of Congress, notably Senator Edwin C. Johnson, of Colo rado, who recently said that consider able progress had been made on atom I BIG PRE - CHRISTMAS DANCE I ! Friday, December 16—Edenton Armwy SPONSORED BY E. H. S. JUNIOR CLASS ! AFTER BASKETBALL GAME 1 ADMISSION: 25 Cents Stag; 50 Cents Couple l TRUSS-FRAME CONSTRUCTION MM It's the design of a plow that makes the big difference -ff I'Deere today's plow leader. 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There is no way for the President or anybody else to muzzle the tongues of the members of Congress. When one of them wants to hit the headlines he can talk to bis heart’s content and there is nobody to say him nay. The same observation goes for the Presi dent himself. He sometimes gives out important information without be ing amenable to anybody. Population Forecast for 1975 The population of the United States may be as high as 188,500,000 by 1975, according to a prediction by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, which foresees a possible gain of 26.4 per cent. If this maximum is realized, it will be a gain of about 39,000,000 in population in the next quarter-cen tury and, according to the Bureau’s forecast about c-ne-foruth of this gain is expected to occur on the West Coast. For purposes of forecasting future population growth, the Bureau divid ed the United States into nine regions. It predicates its “high” figure on what is considers maximum growth, but it also gives what will happen if there are “low” population growth and migration. In the paragraphs below, we give the high and low forecasts for each region, and list the states included in the area: New England (including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa-| chusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Is land): present population, 9,350,000; high, 10,636,000; low 9,497,000. Middile Atlantic (including New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania): present population, 30,102,000; high, 36,076,000; low, 31,631,000. East North Central (including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wis consin): present population, 30,370- 000; high, 38,377,000; low, 33,036,000. West North Central (including the Dakotas, Minnesota, lowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas): present popu lation, 14,145,000; high, 15,653,000; low, 14,091,000. South Atlantic (including the Dis trict of Columbia Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, the Caro linas, Georgia and Florida): present population: 19,870,000; high, 25,120,- 000; low, 21,623,000. East South Central (includingf Ken tucky Tennessee, Alabama and Missis sippi): present population, 11,224,- 000; high, 17,614,000; low, 15,341,000. Mountain (including Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Nevada): present population, 4,800,000; high, 6,072,000; THE CHOWAN HERALD BDBNTQN, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1949. — low low, 5,227,000. Pacific (including California, Ore gon and Washington): present popu lation, 14,937,000; high, 24,855, 000;j low 19,676,000. McCarran On the Irish Question Every year the United States Con gress sends a number of delegations abroad for various purposes. Some of the Congressmen go to make serious studies of affairs in foreign lands, connected with their duties in Con- : gress, and others go for a junket. We think that it is a good thing for the Congressmen to get into other lands and to get some idea of what is taking place in other countries. It is quite possible that their experience will give them a broader viewpoint to the world’s difficulities and the part that this country must play in the future. One of the dangers of such journ eys, however, is the inability of people in other lands to understand the rela tive unimportance of the remarks Sold In Edenton By Mitchener’s Pharmacy » /WWVW<VW\/W>/WW\/VWWW>Ai/V^^ /N^ WISDOM OF THE AGES i , “The making of all things has been speeded, up—the making of everything ex cept friends. It takes the polishing of years to brighten friendship” Ours is a service founded upon years of study and ex perience . . . upon a spirit of fairness, courtesy and tact. IU/1L LI FORD 1 • I f tyuAUiaß %mc I 11 | 1 E PEN TON, N■ C. . M 24 HOUftoMBUIAHCfc SERVICE" - . . ■ —l made by a single Congressman. 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