WHEAT FOR SPAIN
America has too big a harvest of wheat this year; that is to say, it its so plentiful that prices are too low to repay the farmers for the expense of growing it. We are getting used to seeing such statements followed by announcements that part of the crop is to be burned or dumped in the sea, but this time some people are trying to see that the surplus is not all wasted. The Church of the Brethren and the Quakers in America, both of whom have workers in Spain distributing food to child victims of the war, are asking American farmers to give them wheat for these children. One of the workers in Murcia describes how much the bread will mean. Not only the refugees, but the whole civil population, is rationed to one slice of bread a day, so the American undertaking to feed 4000 school children there may save their lives.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23691, 24 December 1938, Page 21
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158WHEAT FOR SPAIN Otago Daily Times, Issue 23691, 24 December 1938, Page 21
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