Aid For The Hungry

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31881, 8 January 1969, Page 10

Aid For The Hungry

Sir,—What finer inauguration of the New Year than this bringing to light again, by the Masterton Youth Conference the question of giving 1 per cent of our national income for the relief of hunger? “Some are destined to go to another planet while millions starve on this one,” wrote your correspondent last Saturday, “for affluence and poverty have always been with us.” And always will be, so it has seemed. Too stupendous for human solution. But no longer. Computers and the high degree of specialisation today have enabled probing the problem in minutest detail, by expert economists who have emerged with a definite, concrete, and victorious answer, amazingly within possibility’s bounds. Hence Professor Brownlett’s reporton the Bangkok Conference: "One per cent of their national income by developed countries to the underdeveloped would stamp out hunger - in one decade." O then, on what wings of thistledown could we fly off to the moon?—Yours, etc., RING IN THE NEW. January 7, 1969.