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Show WINE BILL FOR ITALY! HEAVY ItM K. i irt. 1 9. ( Correspondence ) Professor I 'go Ancona. formerly un-i dor secretary of transportation p 'be1 Italian cjldnet. his Just mdo ptihllc a statement that while the Italian (ro-, Sliiment has stiont more than $1,0m -000.000 a year for bread for the peo-i pie the Italian workers have spent $90ii,ooo,00 s year on wine alone The government's expenditure for bread has resulted from Its under-j taking to pay the dlffercnve between ' tho eots of porduclng wheat and the price of bread. In consequence of this1 the Italian workers have been able to buy bread at the rate of one Urn for each kilogram of 8.20 pounds Professor Ancona says that while the workers refuse to pay more than this, they have no objection to paying. 4 to o lire for a quart of wine, which liefore the war cost about 12 cents el quart. He aks whether It Is Just tbt tho Italian government should 1 eontinue to Supply over f 1,000.000,-j too annually for bread when the poo-He poo-He do hoi grudge rou.000.000 a year, for the luxury of wine. The professor advocates thai the Italians should eat less bread and pav ! what It costs and that they should drink lesp wine and export more of It. 1 .so thut the profit on wine would help, to pay for importation of hread. The amount of land given over to j what production in Italy greatly ds creased last year. The disastrous re-Bull re-Bull Is that the Imports are Increasing dally. |