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DEATH RATE IN AMERICA IS MUCH LOWERGreat Increase in Population Is Due to This Fact and Also to Heavy Immigration; Aliens Not Refusing to Come to America Under ProhibitionThe population oi the I'nited States increased 1,94.1,000 during 1923. according to estimates announced June 15 by the National Bureau of Economic Research. January 1. 1924. the total population was 112,826.0X1, the Bureau's figures show. In the lat half of 1923 a net increase of 1,162,000 was recorded.This was the greatest growth ior a six months period in the uation’s history, the Bureau's report states.The unusual increase is attributed to the heavy excess of immigration over emigration and the lowest death rate which ever prevailed over a similar period in this country.There can be little doubt that prohibition contributed to this record increase in population in that it is an important factor in rontriKiitin it to rroiul litllfll In.surance companies long ago discovered that total abstainers arc by far the hot risks. Statistics covering a period of many years show that the total abstainer's life expectancy exceeds that of the drinker even though he be a moderate drinker.It is also interesting to nole that prohibition has not retarded immigration nor increased emigration. The wets who saw nothing but disaster ahead when this country adopted the prohibition policy, freely predicted that “liberty-loving people of Europe would not come to this country where personal liberty bad been destroyed.They furthermore 5-id that aliens now here would make haste to go back to their beloved lands of beer and wine, and■hist v
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Westerville American Issue
Westerville, Ohio, US
Fri, Jun 27, 1924
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