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X r Water, If Seems. .. , i- ? Hay 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 water 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 twentynch 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 exceed1 require ments but West of the line, there is a decreasirig rate of precipitation, and interior regions, including Arizona, New Mexico, parte of Texas, Colo rado, California, Utah and Nevada, may face a future problem. 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-wo 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 ram- f alL ' ' 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 lu Johnson, of Colo rado, who recently said that consider able progress had been made on atom ic bombs, with one now being' made that is six times the power of the Nagasaki bomb and that a bomb one thousand times as powerful is possi ble. , ' 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 bit the headlines he can talk to his heart's content and there ie 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 oz Agricultural Economics, which foresees a possible gain of 26.4 per cent If this maximum is aealized, it will, be a gain of about 39,000,000 in population in the next quarter-century and, according to the Bureau's forecast about cne-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, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas) : present popu lation, 14,145,000; high, 15,653,000; low, 14,091,000. iSouth Atlantic (including the Dis trict of Columbia Delaware, Maryland', Virginia, West Virginia, the Caro linas, Georgia and Florida): present population: 19,870,000; high, 25420, 000; low, 21,623,000. - ,? . v 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! A OAAAnA. V ' . 1. m Arm Aft..' puyuittuuu, tt,ouv,vuv; nign, o,Uf,uuu; 1jv War, E,. ........ Paciso (-iJ1:t C... " C gon and Washington) : preei.t tor il lation, 14,937,000; high, 24,C55,C00;J tow 19,675,000. . McCarran On the Irkft Qsestioa. 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 dutie in Con gress, and others go for a junket , We hink 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' diffitulities 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 v unimportance of the . remarks NOTICE During the remainder of 1949 I will not' observe office hours on Wednesdays. ; Dr. A. B. Bonner, DDS 1 1 j 1. j 1 ; 1 & '. some k,- 3 Li a f jn k- i, L-j 1" l rs get tf.e.id-4 tL..t La is t- ' --r for the Utei Cla ". Cr .:, his remarks are taken more bioualy than they should be and, sometime, this makes more difficult the mutual undestandinsr that should exist ho. tween al peoples.' , Something of case in .point comes from, Cork, Ireland, where v Senator Patrick A. McCarran. tit Norafa. . pressed hia opinion that the separa tion ox the' six Northern counties from the Republic of Ireland is unfortunate 1 the people of the Untied CU.tes. ll.e depute between Northern Ireland . 3d the Southern Republic is of long sUuuSng. It is a domestic .matter, to be settled by the Irish and the) British. , o , ' Mr. MoCarran thinks1 that "the day is not so far distant when Ireland will be called upon to play a heavy part in the battle inv cniintrv i main. ing against Communism." Apparent ly, because he hopes that Ireland will fight Communism, he thinks that tnere anoniq be a compulsory union .-. li 1. .. .1 , , tLi r Ji I wia take il,la ot the f-vJato-;. peoples .,. of the woxLl i i txe t against Coraunuruaai, I t c T 1 not overlook the fact that tl.9 T ' -lie of Ireland did not take i J t, with the,' free nations of the Nroilu when they were threatened by Nazi oppression. An fact the wwitralitv of Southern Ireland, closing its ports 1 and lacilitaes to the forced of the United, States and Great Britain, re sulted in heavy losses to the English- speaKing nations. Long Distance is Faster than the Low Rcsd If you really want to reach , Scotland or anywhere else in a hurry, telephone! 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