1 SEPTEMBER 1967, Page 3

The scarcity of abundance

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS

Grain and oil-seed values are overshadowed by the possibility of bumper harvests— Financial Times.

Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Is by the march of Progress left behind! He thinks—simplicity that's hard to beat— That food is something that one wants to eat; Nor was his starving stomach ever told That crops are grown so that they may be

sold—

Indeed when there is rather less to buy, Demand is keener and the prices high. His soul proud Science never taught to see The profit in a moderate scarcity, Nor has he learnt the System well might stop, If by mischance there were a bumper crop. ,