000,000,000 accident cost, which is termed “a total economic loss,” compares with the outlook for Federal and state-highway con struction this year, whiqh is expected to cost taxpayers $11,000,000,000, but not a “total” loss. 200 Million By 1967 THE Census Bureau reports that the pop ulation of the United States has now passed the 170,000,000-mark and the total is increasing every day. The latest survey shows that population in this country only recently passed 170, 000,000, after increasing 19,000,000 in the last six years. This is an enormous increase and explains the prediction of the Census Bureau that the population will reach 200, 000,000, representing another increase of 30,000.000. within ten years. l ake the year, 1956, for example. In that year, there were 4,200,000 births and only 1.600.000 deaths. Then, there was a gain of 300.000 immigrants—an unusually large number—which added up to a total gain of almost 3,000,000 for the year. This is an astounding rate of growth, and means that the United States may catch up with Russia in the population category, in the not unforseeable future. The Russian population is not increasing as fast as ours’ although it is estimated that there are more than 200,000,000 Rus sians in the U.S.S.R. today. The United States is expected to reach that figure in less than ten years, and it may well be that in a fen’ decades, our population will be approximately equal. China, however, remains the colossus of all nations in the population category, with an estimated 600,000,000 people. Democracy in the United States will work better when more citizens are inter ested in the general walfjare and less inter ested in private profit.

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