To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cutxa Dany News."
Si—Nero fddied while Rome burned. and the mentality so ably depicted in the cartoons of "Colonel Bilmp" is apparently stilt with us.
Your sub-leader. "A Horrid Idea" on Friday is remarkable for is preidea. A' far of not enough to-eat, or no food at all. If It fig the size of what we are to eat, we don't do too badly today on the micro-organisms in cheese, of the bacteria In "high? game. Whence comes the idea that plankton. if it can be converted into useful foodstuffs, should be so concentrated that only a few tablets would be required? Rather would it not be dried, Bround. and used as a kind of four?
'Hydroponies may yet be the answer to feeding the population of the Briuish sies. 'The Japanese have studied the edible possibilities of all trees, plants and even weeds in' their country, and the Germans have for years lived to no small part on Forsatz" foods. Millions around us starve. and we are given, as food for thought "rhapsodies on "gourmandtsing.
Let's forget "the finer art of eating" for the present and get on with the art of war and the extermination experts. turned @own the aeroplane, a "new idea." only 28 years ago We need a lot of new ideas today, a lot of aeroplanes. and a new Hood. Here is something Dractical towards them.
Shana aay 25 het emo eer ener a fat Thesegntribution has been ly for CanweD" food. paper, porcelain ware, textile goods and bandages as well as other products manufactured in Kiangst province are now being marketed in the Southwest provinces in large quantities, says a Kian report to the "Shun Pao." Textile pro-duels, particularly, are being sold in Jorge' quantities' In Kwangtung Kewangsi, Chekiang and Fukien, the paper says.
Axorien shipment of 120 tons of medical supplies from the American Red Cross Socioly was received in Kunming on Thursday, according toa report to the "Cheng Yien Pao." Mr, Willys, representative in China of the American Red Cross Society, was accompanied by Dr, Robert' KS, Lim, head of the Chinese Red Cross, "on an inspeetien (our along the' Southwest higan way yesterday. Mr, Willys will shortly leave for Chungking where he will discuss relief activities an China with the Government authori-fies, it is learned,
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