Show THOSE MENUS FOR tim THE roon POOR teachers at columbia university have worked out another of those family budgets whereby the poor are told how easy it is to live on an unbelievably small sum according to this version a week will feed a family of five four tablespoonfuls of cod liver oil are allowed for but the only meat mentioned is liver and two eggs a day are supposed to be enough for father mother and three growing youngsters people can live on such an outlay they can even with good luck and a strong digestion remain healthy millions live on less but if such a standard of living were generally adopted what would it do to the recovery program and to american industry commerce and agriculture it would produce a crash compared to which the years of depression we have endured would heern merely the beginning of trouble it would leave at least a third of our farm produce to rot close a third of our mills and factories make the railroads not worth maintaining and throw millions more out of work As an aid to economic recovery it would be something less than bubonic plague and something more inore than smallpox exchange |