Let us suppose that a great doctor and a great
economist were joint dictators of Britain. It is odds that their first step would be to supply every child in the country, especially the urban elementary school child (for these are in handy groups), with a pint or so of milk every morning. Ideal containers, waterproof and airproof, and if need be destructible after use (for these models of cleanliness are dirt-cheap) are procurable and could be distributed with the minimum of trouble and cost, if other means were not available. The 01 argument that tinned condensed milk (mostly imported) Was necessary because of ease of distribution is now shattered. }'resit British milk is hardly less easily distributed. This supply to children would do more than anything that anyone
has suggested to prevent the growth of a C3 population and it would be twice blest. It would give prosperity to the producers of the most natural of all our farm products and economically reduce imported products as it raised home products. The supply of so much pure milk in lieu of so much money to families on the dole would need some organiza- tion ; but the work would certainly be judged worth while by our two Dictators.
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