PRICE OF CABBAGES
Sir, —While sympathising with “No Holiday” in receiving as grower Id for cabbages retailed at 6d, I must remind him how useless it is to attempt anything about it till the whole monetary set-up is docked for necessary alterations years overdue. It let us down in 1930, with goods never cheaper. Wheat was used for firing locomotive boilers and people starved while later Hitler rode mighty near to victory on their backs. But to stick to cabbages. Not a mile from where I write is about an acre of splendid cabbages being rota-tillered back into the soil—not worth carting to market. It’s nobody’s fault. Our distributive or monetary system is designed to produce booms for scarcity and slumps for plenty and having accepted this we should be prepared to enjoy it or plan a better one.—Yours, etc., NEITHER INFLATION NOR DEFLATION. July 19, 1953.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27097, 21 July 1953, Page 7
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