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"He ought to be paid for living here. Where will he go?" "Oh, people can always find a worse place, if they look long enough. Canning was in the war, by the way. He's got some nervous trouble not crazy enough to be taken care of just on edge and unstrung. The war used him up, I reckon, and anxiety and undernourishment used up his wife and children.

Who can compute their sum total of human misery, of preventable disease, of undernourishment, of pain that might all too easily he alleviated? A Problem In Multiplication. Was it, one wonders, the memory of the Gudiyattam road, and those like it in nameless thousands, that burned deep into Dr.

They are eager to face the risks inherent in our system of free enterprise. They do not want a postwar America which suffers from undernourishment or slums or the dole. They want no get-rich-quick era of bogus "prosperity" which will end for them in selling apples on a street corner, as happened after the bursting of the boom in 1929.

It is true, however, that among these children one sees few signs of undernourishment or famine, and in general throughout the city the children seem much better nourished than the adult population. I had planned to visit other institutions but was unable to do so. I was told of a large palace which has been taken over as a home for mothers.

But there is also the manufactured criminal; the product of the slum, the victim of ignorance, the prey of the walking-delegate, the sufferer from over-work and undernourishment, the inhabitant of the filthy and overcrowded tenement, the man robbed of his self-respect, who has no share in the sweetness and light of civilization.

And people who would normally be the leaders of opinion felt shame because they were obsessed by thoughts of food. It was best when people slept. Still, Calhoun was in the hospitals by daybreak. What he found moved him to savage anger. There were too many sick children. In every case undernourishment contributed to their sickness. And there was not enough food to make them well.

Someone laughed without mirth. "What will you recommend for long-continued undernourishment?" he asked derisively. "That's our health problem!" "I recommend food," said Calhoun. "Where'll you fill the prescription?" "I've the answer to that, too," said Calhoun curtly. "I'll want to talk to any space-pilots you've got. Get your astrogators together and I think they'll approve my idea."

Things look bad, and something should be done." Someone laughed without mirth. "What will you recommend for long-continued undernourishment?" he asked derisively. "That's our health problem!" "I recommend food," said Calhoun. "Where'll you fill the prescription?" "I've the answer to that, too," said Calhoun curtly. "I'll want to talk to any space pilots you've got.

In every case undernourishment contributed to their sickness. And there was not enough food to make them well. Doctors and nurses denied themselves food to spare it for their patients. And most of that self-denial was doubtless voluntary, but it would not be discreet for anybody on Dara to look conspicuously better fed than his fellows.

However gaily you start out in prison to keep up a rebellious protest, it is nevertheless a terribly difficult thing to do in the face of the constant cold and hunger of undernourishment. Bread and water, and occasional molasses, is not a diet destined to sustain rebellion long. And soon weakness overtook us.