PRICE OF MILK AND ORANGES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 10

PRICE OF MILK AND ORANGES

(To the Editor.)

! Sir,—The article written by Arthur Fraser and published in Friday's "Evening Post" on the problem of the birthrate does not make us forget our original aim—that is to get cheaper milk and oranges for the mothers and babies. We cannot hope to correct all at once many of the social errors mentioned in the aforementioned article, though we agree with many of the remarks, particularly the. closing paragraphs. We do feel, however, that we will be going a long way by pointing out the most important economic barriers which are preventing many Women, unspoiled by the lure of masculinity, who really earnestly want children, from having them. Give mothers the chance of cheap milk, plenty of, it, and plenty of oranges for her family, and you wilt see that she will do the j-est herself. The League of Nations Committee says: "Milk is the nearest approach we possess to a perfect complete food, and no other single food

is known that can be used as a substitute." It has all the known vitamins, all the essential minerals, and energyproducing fat and carbohydrate, also calcium, phosporus, iron, and iodine in small quantities. So when we claim milk and oranges as our right we are only asking for health for ourselves and babies.—l am, etc..

YET ANOTHER MOTHER.