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Show EIGHT MILLION CANTA- LOUPES ROT. Brawley, Colo. July 10. About 8,000,000 cantaloupes rotted on the ground in this vicinity today, to-day, the growers here having decided de-cided yesterday to cease picking for a day or two and take the resulting re-sulting loss that as a consequence conse-quence overstocking of eastern markets would be eliminated, ? and they could get a price for their product which would afford them a profit." Is not the above news item not sufficient to make one's blood boil with rage. The greed of humanity human-ity is bad enough at any time or for any reason. But when it is so great that men are willing will-ing to destroy good wholesome food to make money or keep up j prices it seems to be a more ex-; ex-; treme form of greed than many others. One imagines the picture pic-ture of poor fruit hungry people and children in thousands throughout this country who are : denied the privilege of enjoying some of God's delicious gifts to man by a bunch of greedy money grabbing individuals, who one can hardly look upon as human. What could be found in this world more cruel than this wanton wan-ton and deliberate destruction of food while thousands of hungry mouths go without even the plainest nourishment required to keep body and soul together. Yet 8,000,000 cantaloupes rot. |
