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CROWN COLONY

PROBLEMS

The suggestion has, we ob- serve, been revived that

the Secretary of State for the Colonics should be assisted in the task of representing, and virtually governing the Crown Colonies by the creation of permanent Colonial Council, to advise him on matters affecting the well-being of these scattered units of the Empire. The idea at the back of the proposal is that the task which falls on the

shoulders of the Secretary of State and his officers in London is too heavy and complicated to be discharged without expert

Food Problems That

May Rock The World

WHAT is the future of

the world's food pro

blem?

Prices are rising, we are told, because many food- stuffs are scarce.

Is the scarcity going to continue? Or shall we ever see the promised plenty in this life?

What will the situation be in two, five, or ten years?

From China to Oklahoma this is the crucial problem of people's lives. From China to Oklahoma indeed you must go if you want the answer.

All over the world events are happening--disjointed in them- selves, often little known, but of vital importance-which are go- Ing to fit themselves together to make the living pictures of 1986 and 1946.

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*REAT changes, now noticed by few, but soon to be felt by all, are beginning in the East. Fourteen years ago there were three or four butchers' shops in Tokyo: Now there are 3,000. The Orlent is beginning to eat ment.

CANADA

Growth of the SOYA BEAN

UNITED

STATES

50 Million Acres of earth blown away

Buying

NITRATES fron

the air

FÖRRMANY

FRANCE

CANADIAN ITALY

WHEAT again

RUSSIA

LACK SEA) Great WHEAT CANAL plan

The hungry Nations, ITALY and GERMANY

CHINA Starting to eat BRZAD

JAPANE Beginning to eat Mar

Beef can be grown in quanti- who are busy "playing" this,

the world's wheat merchants, THE next great food factor is

It is estimated that 10 per ties only in certain parts of the gigantic fish, stressing both the

the hungry nations.

cent. of them gave up the strug- world. China and Japan are social and dietetic advantages of realise how Italy and Germany the world crisis. Now that Only a few close-up observers gle and drifted to the towns in not among them.

bread, Tokyo's meat comes via the

are being underfed. It is said people can buy a little more food Chicago stockyards. The situa- to be a big thing, and it is Inrge- lations of these two countries to make prices rise.

Bread-for-yellow-men is going that large sections of the popu- 'the dearth of farmers is tending tion has immense potentialities. Jy Australian wheat that will eat about one half of the average

benefit. It is not for nothing for Britain.

The abandoned farms, the that the head of one of the big-

horseless farms, and the desolate Some experts hold the view areas mean a lot to everybody in gest Australian wheat firms is that this enforced lack of food the world. Between them they Tokyo. at present in the East's capital, is actually making them heal account for the fact that the thier, but there is no doubt that world's reserve stores of food way, from their present plights, two-thirds what they were a few as soon as they escape in some are estimated to be only about. the hungry nations will demand years ago. immensely increased quantities

If the Eastern races become meat eaters there will undoubt (edly be a rise in meat prices.

age-old life regime by starting The East is also changing an to eat brend: Last year China probably took about four times as much wheat as she did ten years before.......

The sale of bread to Chinese is being encouraged by teaching them that bread-eating is the

aristocratic thing to do.

Cunning little paragraphs are inserted in the dialect Press by

wheat appreciably scarcer and The effect can only be to make

perceptibly dearer.

of food.

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aid. This is by no means the NOTES OF THE DAY the grain-producing area with blem of the horseless farm. BULLS AND INNERS

first occasion on which the iden

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We hear of a local golfer who carries eighteen clubs along with

know ments. They drag the wheat THE soil itself is in revolt him. What a cave-inan! who Was Samuel Longhorne along the ground and it is Clemens? There is no "catch" in spoiled.

against man's misuse. The revolt has reached epic dimen-

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But other influences may de velop to affect prices. TURN to Russia. There we eral rise in world prices. everything. The soya bean is

Whenever it happens the NOW for the brighter side.

The soya bean may change have news of a momentous eral

Now study what is happening and palatable. It originally cheap, very cheap, nourishing project-a great grain canal is under construction. In Import- in the great open spaces of the

(Continued on Page 5.) ance it will be comparable with world where the food comes the Suez Canal. It will link up from in astronomical quantities. There, first, they have the pro- the Black Sea. Ocean-going There are 3,000 horseless farms has been put forward. One sug-AMERICAN MASTER

vessels will sail up through the in America alone, and more are gestion in this connection is

thick-standing cornfields.

coming. that the Council should-be com-

There are vory fow men and When the canal will be open is women who have read, or pretended not yet definitely known. Some these farms have ploughed and For years-the-men-who-run- posed of retired Governors, a ERESSE HELE SE NE LE SECES great deal of whose valuable to read, at all extensively, and have say in two years, others in five. planted with tractors und

We sympathise with the local knowledge

experience,

or other When it is open Russia's grain machines. They have taken the Scotsman who tripped over his stumbled across Mark Twain. will pour out to the world." goodness of centuries out of the

sporran last night. gained in many Colonies, is at Many have repeatedly sought him This will precipitate a first- soil, and for the first time in his-

口 present wasted. In support of out, knowing his reputation, re-rate crisis in the other wheat tory there has been no horac Which reminds us that some of the plea for utilising the servicesmembering the Connecticut Yan-areas, especially Canada. Can manure to put the goodnosa Hongkong's sporrans could do with of past Governors, it is urged,kee, Huckleberry Finn, Tom such an out-pouring?

prices be maintained against back.

a splash of hair restorer. that it would make for con- Sawyer and the rest, characters At the moment,

Now the day of reckoning is

ជ tinuity of policy both at Home who have Hived and laughed with Russia has a different influence. farms is in some areas seriously

however, here. The soil on the horseless It was a dirky night, anyhow! and in the possessions overseas, us in youth and beyond. There-Secret information brought to impoverished. but it has been argued, on the fore, Mark Twain's centenary has Britain

Before these We wonder how nudists get on other hand, that there might be an interest far beyond the shores methods in Russia are so bad world's food market again they ings?

is that harvesting areas can contribute to the when it comes to hanglig up stock- a tendency to produce a stiffen- of his native America. His works that they lose a full 30 per cent. must be refertilised, ing or deadening effect if these have that delightful human touch of their crop. "elder statesmen" were to be

It will be an immense task, Poor old Kowloon! If it isn't given undue influence in this

which makes them universally.

Their tractors stand idle be- and it will make a boom in fer-roosters and dogs, it's the blankety- sphere. One of the points men-

appreciated, and to-day Mark cause the mechanics do not know tilisers. The cost of these fer- blankety blanks on Gun Club Hill!. tioned on this issue is that a Twain's memory will be universally picking up their sheaves with old prices risc.

how to work them; they are tilisers will probably make food

口 newly-appointed Governor does

revered. And to-morrow. How tongs and similar crude imple- not always see eye to eye with many ur his readors his predecessor, and he might be hampered in pursuing a more vigorous policy if he were held it. It is not one of Mark Twain's This is one of the factors con- sions.

It is said that haggis has been In undue check by a council of characters. It is the man himself; tributing to the present rise in

Buccessfully crossed with spaghetti. retired administrators.

For generations - America The inventor of this new dish is If any his real name. Mark Twain was! wheat. advisory Council is to be created, mere nomme de guerre, derived situation in Western Europe 1s as tightly as they could go.

The inner history of the whent Wrested wealth from the soil by believed to be Mr. MacAroni. it would appear wise to widen from

cramming cattle and sheep on it i

D· its membership so as to inclue steamboat pilot and the shouta of

Mississippi fascinating.

Even Hongkong's new coinage. the best of the retired Governors, the black boy who cast the lead. have been for some years past prices without a thought of whe-

France, Germany, and Italy when wheat would fetch good the mill.

They ploughed up the plains shows signs of having gone through together with other elements. In any event, Samuel Clemens went straining every nerve to grow ther the plains were of the sort There is a further point worthy to school, learned the printing trade their own

The man who said that cocommits of mention, namely, that some

wheat. (Reason meant to bear wheat.

were Indigestible, probably forgot scheme be devised by which the and became a Mississippi pilot. war fear.)

Now a frightful Nemesis has to remove the shell, Crown Colonies might be direct-that was the sort of life Samuel It has made such. a poor loaf grass has died, leaving a desert. Their wheat is, soft and poor: come to them. The over-grazed That does not seem good-sense, but

☐ ly represented in Parliament. Clemens lived. It was at the out-that bread enting bus stopped The light, dry plough lands are what he thought of the pipers Inst An Australian who was asked As matters now are, it is left to break of the Civil War that he whole-sale in these countries, blown away in sandstorms by night, replied that personally he members who may be indirectly turned interested in certain points, not which

to writing, u profession It is a fact that France's has the winds, until the jagged rocks always rend the Telegraph hnd always attracted him dropped 271⁄2 per cent.⠀ always of great importance, to but for which he believed he had Now the French are buying Towns, are ruined financially

below are all that is left raise such issues as they may the grentest facility in satire und good hard Canadian; wheat to while the blowing' dust ruins St. Andrew's last night asked

little aptitudo. His pon showed

When a bright young thing at feel disposed to do, but the posi-mour, and it was works in this mix in and try to make bread them as dwelling places. tion would be otherwise were vein, the Jumping Frog and in popular again. If they succeed

Eddie Kelly if he rumbaed he an- the Portuguese system followed necente Abroad which established wheat will tend to rise.

Fifty million American acres swered: -"No, that's Indigestion. under which such possessions as his reputation. The first of them

have been Incidentally, French millers killed by ignorance; fifty million ruined, desolated; :

D 口 Macao select their own re-appeared in 1867. Tom Sawyer have only been allowed to import more may never bear crops or money in Hongkong these days are About the only people making presentatives to Parliament. In was not born until 1876. In 1884, as much foreign flour as they grass again; 125,000,000 acres the counterfeiters. Which proves. this way, it becomes the definito after publishing numerous books, can export French flour. To get have little top-soil loft. That that prosperity is just around the charge of these members to he joined the publishing firm of the foreign flour they require to totals one-tenth of all: America, colner, watch the interests of indivi- which thereupon went "smash" and have been willing to sell French For the first time in her his

Charles L., Webster and Company, make the loaf palatable, they A mighty tragedy. dual Colonies. This is ad-left him almost penniless. But he flour at any price. mittedly a large question, had his reputation, and on a lecturo raising the old issue of a truly tour round

This French flour has come to America is having to import tory, largely as a result of this, the World Imperial Parliament, but there capitalised, upon

he Britain, which has a habit of meat. It is inevitable that the does appear to be a case for more established his fortune.. He would tions, and that is why in the past wheat and meat prices rise.

andre holding the baby in such altua mighty happenings will make adequate representation of the have been great had he done no few years there has been an: What is more, there are thou-who avoided Auchterzuchty last views of the smaller Colonies in Huckleberry Finn, and the much abundance of very cheap bis- sands fewer actual farmers in night, a lot of wives have been the Mother of Parliaments. loved Tom Sawyer,

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