Under the caption "Where there is never enough to eat" a recent press photograph showed an endless line of small children queuing up for a meager ration of food. It underlined a basic problem of the world today. Experts say that efforts to find solutions to other world problems will be in vain unless this specific situation is changed.
The population explosion, as it is graphically described, has its origin in the very advances in living mankind has worked to achieve. If not checked, it could in turn destroy the improved conditions that have encouraged it. Even modern advances in production and distribution of food do not appear to keep pace with the swiftly advancing birthrate, especially in poorer countries.
Many governments, including that of the United States, are facing this problem with what knowledge and organization they can contribute. So are private organizations. What does The First Church of Christ, Scientist, now working to expand its worldwide outreach through the facilities of the Christian Science Church Center, have to offer as its contribution in meeting this danger and in solving this worldwide problem?
