Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1941 — Page 22

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Americans Desire Larger Families!

Two-thirds Questioned in Gallup Poll Say They Want Three or More Children. |

TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1941

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‘ PRINCETON. N. J. April 8 (U.P) Few questions hold greater | ‘long-range importance for the American people than one which forth- | | coming United States Census census reports will shortly dramatize— | What's happening to the American birthrate? | Population experts who gathered | ————— ern mn [for the annual |eonvention of the | American Eugen= | ies Society in New {York City this week listened to PINBALLS ASKED prophecies hit A OAR this country w soon begin to feel INSTITUTE | Ry + SPRING COATS for h ects of a {puBLr ; a popula- clormor] Attorney Wants Local De- | WL HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS tion rate — with ? . A s Ho aS onion the United States] ViCeS Licensed as | UE ee 01s 10,95 social structure. ‘ : ’ \ 9 Halbert L. Dunn, chief Sianistician Clean Business. for that t hial of the Division of Vital Statistics, : va 3 + . . for that pert high Bureau of the Census, has estimated.| A plea that the City protect local schon! crowd! Naoticak “ . , ‘ pinvail machine enterprises from ops ' If present birth and death rates . military styles and colcontinue, the population of the the encroachment of out-of-town United States will fail to maintain competition was made to City Coun- ar and cuff coats! Reits numbers by about 4 per cent per|Sil ins: night by William Miller, at- ; versibles! We sketch one gerertion. , Mr. Miller said he represented six i + + + We ve many others, Two Striking Facts local distributors “who are operatToo many families are having only ing a good, clean, legitimate busitwo children these days, it appears— ness” ani whose machines are not : Pastel PLAID SUITS a practice which population men i, pe confused with the out-of-town for Wi : regard as coming close to race sul- games which, he said, are not so the High School Girl cide. And too many families which jegitimate. ''t once might have found four or five, My Miller proposed to place the | : children are now having three, operation of about 2000 local ma- ll : 5.95 But if you explore the wishes of chines in the protective custody of : the ordinary men and women of the tj, Safety Board under a licensing United States, as the Institute has |gystem. done in a new survey, two striking | “«we are not trying to cut anybody facts emerge: out of business,” Mr. Miller said. | 1. Most American couples would «But these people from Chicago {like to have larger families. Whereas, (and Cincinnati are causing us | population students estimate that|i,ouple.” more than 60 per cent of United |

States families are now either child- Advocates Licensing less or have one or two children, np Miller explained that the po- | ne le. whe makiug sais. fol fo di de . " ny a Yieriminate between the local ma- | said the “ideal” family Was ONe|gnjnes which are law-abiding and : fd Sues chil gy woos Few the out-of-town machines which, he | 2. If Americans aren't having Rd re paying types of ma~ | more children at present, the chief chines away,” he said. “If the City | PR Ty 8 Jane would license our machines, that se the survey reveals would keep the out-of-town boys | The Institute's question put to out and there would be no trouble. | men and women in every part of | Mr. Miller asserted that the ma- | 'the country and every station in chines gistributeq by the Jocal con- | [life asked: “What do you consider cerns “don’t pay of and there are; : no free games.

lis the ideal size of family—a hus-|" . | ! N voy : “It's just good, clean sport, and a baie ang wife and how many chil- lot of people like it,” he said. “Beren, sides, licensing would yield the City | 32% Say Less Than Three revenue.” Only one person in a hundred| Councilman Ernest Ropkey, Dem- |

[thought one child was ideal. ocrat, turned to Safety Board PresAnd only 32 per cent said they|ident Lerov J. Keach: would be entirely satisfied to have| “How about that, Roy? Isn't that | less than three. in your department?” | Here is the way the public's an- “Hmmm . . . hmmmnn,” replied | swers break down: Mr. Keach. “We get everything Number of else pushed on us, so it might as Sizes Children *, Naming well be. Personally, if a pin ball 7 to 14 . 5 Wanted This Number | machine is operated only as a pin 1 Child ° ball machine, nobody would waste 9 Children .. any time playing it.”

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