The plea of "The Observer" for the stabilization of wheat prices on the theory that the world is threatened with ruin by plenty, draws attention to the over-production which the "world has witnessed in a number of commodities since the Great War. Rubber, coffee, cotton and now wheat have been produced in quantities far beyond the capacity of the world to absorb, and a number of serious difficulties associated with control have had to be dealt with. It is one of the things with which mankind can be reproached that it has devoted much research to the problem of increased production and certainly not enough on the subject of increased use. There are still inequalities in the world which need to be straightened out, and in some parts plenty m excess; and in others an unjustifiable scarcity. In the case of some commodities, notably rubber, recent years have seen more attention paid to devising means of extending its use, and at the present time that commodity is playing a more important part in daily life than ever before. But as "The Observer" points out the price of bread is rising in Germany, while in England there is still a degree of malnutrition which should never be allowed to exist. It is a tragedy that Germany should not be able by
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