Word: whelpton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the death rate has fallen, so has the birth rate. Assumption that this too is due to Depression is a reasonable one, wrote P. K. Whelpton in the American Journal of Sociology last week. Mr. Whelpton, who reported for the Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems, recorded 2,450,000 births in the U. S. for last year, a slump of 17% from 1921, 10%, from 1926. This decline in births, joined with the decline in deaths, thinks he, "should have important economic and social effects. . . . The market has been expanding most rapidly for things used primarily...
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