THE CANCER PROBLEM.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19815, 31 December 1929, Page 11

THE CANCER PROBLEM.

TO THE EDITOR OT THE PRESS. Sir,—Your correspondent, "Prevention Better Than Cure," says: "May I point out that the statement, which •L.8.8.' actually encloses in quotation marks and says is an extract from my letter, is absolutely untrue. I enclose cuttings of what I actually wrote to you, Mr Editor, to verify my statement. It is in reference to Vitamin B, and this is how 'L.8.8.' quotes me:—'l will simply refer her to her own letter in which she states in reference to Vitamin B: This deficiency, they sav, can be made good by eating bran, "they" being her own authorities.' " . The facts are that a letter was published in your paper on December 13tn in which the words. "This deficiency, they say, can be made good by eating bran"' were used, and the letter was signed "Prevention Better Than Cure." "Prevention Better Than Cure" now definitely states: Now, not once have I used the word bran in this correspondence, a fact which 1 hope 'L.8.8.' will verify for himself. The oniv possible conclusion that lean eome to in the matter is that rrevention Better Than CureV me is defective. As regards bir Arbutnnot Lane. I fully endorse the first part of Sir Bruce Porters remarks. It is only when he and his followers become modern Don Quixotes, with brown loaves painted upon tn« r shields, and tilt against the millers, instead of against their windmills, tnao I find it hard to follow, them with enthusiasm. I find, after interviewing millers and getting the proportions or flour, pollard, and bran that they produce that thev are actually losing lo Der cent, to 20 per cent, by not selling all their produce as wholemeal floor. With flour at £lB a ton the millers get £IBOO for 100 fcrns or wholemeal flour and only £loOO to £1535 for 721 tens of white flour and S7i tons of pollard and bran. !.*£* «normces margin of profit would induce anv miller to introduce *™\* b }* machinery provided be could get rid of the wholemeal flour when manufactured. When Don Quixote dismount* •ad borrows the barbers basin not as a helmet, but as. a mixing bowl to see how wholemeal flour can be made to make more palatable bread than can be made at present from white flour, I. as a Sancho Panza. shall cease to criticise. When I ooint out, for tne benefit of the thrifty housewife ana the backblock settlers who cannot buy Wn bread, that ljd worth of bran and pollard is equal as regards vitamins and roughage to ±s ba "A„„i,«<? worth of browi bread, I am attacked *ith some heat, by your correspondent "stead of being tooked UP?* •%• The brown loaf, instead of being •.humble servant, has {*»»"•* <%*t of worship in much the same *ty a 8 Duleinea del Toboso was from the household drudge. YmK > etc • L.8.8. Beeember 29th, 1929.