Pin Number 3? R.C. Christian was Robert Carter Cook

The articles contributed by Dr. G. C.L. Bertram and Dr.Robert C. Cook to the October 1963 number of THE EUGENICS REVIEW should stimulate consideration of what practical steps might be taken now, or in the immediate future, towards solving the twin problems of how to reduce the size and how to improve the quality of our population. In the following paragraphs of this leter a few suggestions are offered tentatively.
In the first place, the public must be persuaded, by means of the Press, radio and television that there is a real need to reduce our population, or at any rate to prevent its further growth.To bring this home it must be continually driven into people's minds that the various inconveni- ences and frustrations from which we suffer to-day-destruction of the country-side,over- crowded transport,road accidents,noise - all have their roots in overpopulation.

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His obituary:

Robert C. Cook, 92, A Longtime Scholar Of Human Genetics

By JOAN COOK
Published: January 9, 1991

Robert Carter Cook, a geneticist, demographer and author, died Monday at Collington Retirement Community in Mitchellville, Md. He was 92 years old.

Mr. Cook died of pneumonia, a spokesman for the family said.

He was a foremost proponent of birth control as a means to maintain population balance.

Mr. Cook's father, Orator Fuller Cook, was a biologist who believed that his children could best be educated outside the traditional American school system. Robert did not enter a formal school until the age of 17.

Mr. Cook left George Washington University in World War I to design air foils for the United States Bureau of Standards.

In 1922 he was approached by two of his father's friends, David Fairchild, a botanist, and Alexander Graham Bell, who invited him to become editor of the Journal of Heredity. He accepted, beginning an association that lasted 40 years. He was also executive officer of the journal's parent organization, the American Genetic Association.

In the 1930's he became increasingly occupied with human genetics and what he and others foresaw as an explosive world population growth. In 1932 he joined the Population Reference Bureau, an organization founded several years earlier to publicize the dangers of overpopulation.

In 1951 he published "Human Fertility: the Modern Dilemma" (William Sloane Associates), in which he drew on his experience to convey a portrait of the earth's future plight. The same year he became director and editor of the Population Reference Bureau, publishers of the Population Bulletin, aimed at interpreting research in the field.

Mr. Cook retired in 1968, but continued to write and serve as a consultant for several years. He appeared frequently before Congressional committees considering population issues.

In 1983, 20,000 items of his professional papers and memorabilia were donated to the Library of Congress.

He is survived by his wife, and co-editor, Anabelle Desmond Cook; a daughter from a previous marriage, Victoria Sprenger of Charleston, W. Va.; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

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