Show o I A Foodless Wo World WorldS ld I IBy S By DR FRANK CRANE Every ono in a n. while some scientific prophet announces es that the food in this world is about t to o run out Malthus maintained that while the population g grew rew In n geometrical geo proportion the food supply grew in arithmetical proportion and consequently t there here would soon not be food enough to su supply ply all the people And now comes Sir Dan Daniel Ie Hall HIatt who tells the time British Scientific association that we are verging toward oward t n. n world While our populations population i Is s In at the rate of j yearly early earl the wheat producing lands lave have bt been en about exhausted In spite of vast ast Irrigation schemes and other a attempts attempt to cultivate poor land the wheat supply I Is s running short In many countries there has actually actually ac- ac been a shrinkage e since the war var The num-ber num of white peoples peopled is still growing but where he asks Is the time land that will wiIl support them He says also aho that the tIme world Is eventually all goIng going poIng go- go Ing to turn to prohibition in order to save gaVe the STain used In the manufacture of alcoholic bev- bev a lIe He adds the time interesting remark that the race which cut cuta out meat and order to multiply multi multi- ply nh will become a permanent slave type like worker bees S SAll All AIl this is based upon the v fact that mankind's fate Is linked up with Its wheat production The eating of wheat products however Is largely habit Other foods Just as nourishing can take the place nace of ot wheat a The ed edge e of th the tropics for Instance only bt been en used for bananas and the American peanut Is very nourishing There Is no doubt that the Ingenuity of ot man win will discover some sonic other form of nutriment If It his wheat supply be exhausted It la III only a R comparatively short time ago that the potato and tomato came Into use ue to for general l consumption and now potatoes form foren a considerable portion of or th worM worlds foo fond j Pt Jv Jy Copyright 96 1926 h r Tv pa-ier pa Syndicate S I |