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Show SUGAR IN CHINA Increased living costs in the United States may be cause for concern, but they are nil compared with those of present-day China, says a communication received Friday by Grace Louise Krummel, daughter of William R. Krummel, of Salt Lake City, from a friend serving as a missionary to China. The letter from Ruth Nowack, Fouyank (Ying Shang) Anhwei, China, said the country has just passed through a time of severe famine "made all the harder to bear by our utter inability to help those suffering around us. t &01 "The war is still on. We ar fy only made conscious of it by thtfri continual rise in prices; pried)? which are at once ridiculous, prtj posterous and alarming. Durin,fl this past, year sugar has gone HjOS to $120 per pound, toilet soap t $75 a cake and kerosene to QOw a tin," the letter said. v pi Wheat in April went up to $SC ft a bushel and flour was selling a,l" $28 pound, she said. JiW "One hundred dollars would no' v buy sufficient food for a da Wheat is now $100 per bushel; be; fore the war it was $1 a bushel Miss Nowack added. j |