Babson Park. Mass., March 211 In 1950. our It S population was about 159.000.000 Today we are 170,000.00 strong and the prospect is that jour rapid expansion in numbers twill continue. The 2,000.000 more Ameri cans added since 1950 are equiva lent to twice the present population of the six New England stales I am told that a baby is borji in ; this country every eight secopds.' and that, if present rates of increase continue, we could well have a popu lation of 220.000.000 by 1975. This huge gain means that demand pros pects for our products are good. Each new birth, each immigrant, and each person living a longer) life than had previously been considered normal adds to the potential ; de mand that American manufacturers and merchants can attempt to .sat isfy This growth in population far; ex ceeds earlier predictions. I well re member the experts telling usj in the depression days of the thirties

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