Show POVERTY IN INDIA Calcutta for the past I have lived in Humphey Humphrey Humph Humph- Robert said Mr fifteen years Shoreham We of ot England at the icy rey ey who Britain have many people in Great but a man are ift iS circumstances poor in India live has to see how the masses meaning of abject to understand the poverty observation I do not hesi hesitate hesitate hesi- hesi From my who who tate to say that that half halt of the people toll toil in the fields over oer there there theredo do not know fully their hunger what It is to have do donot they satisfied The masses masse do not live merely eke out a miserable existence and from the radle cradle to the grave there therl is s an incessant battle with privation and want meal As a rule they subsist on one in infrequently even per day and not districts that are not listed as famine famine- stricken they have this Insufficient quota of food only on alternate days When one considers that the average Income of the native farmer Is accordIng according accord- accord Ing ng to good authority 8 a year it is no surprise to hear bear how impoverished i IS the country In fact there is scarcely of a year that passes over the he heads these unfortunates that that they they have have any assurance of escaping a period of fam- fam inc Ine ne The grim spectre of star starvation atlon Is ever at their doors Washington Times |