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...Your excellent photo section and thumbnail sketches of the poor don't deserve the blithe conclusions that go with them. No doubt they were written by the same person who provokes our pity by citing the instance of bags of flour delivered by a misguided welfare agency to "a household that has no oven." Come now, biscuits can be baked anywhere there is a fire to cook with. I have made them: over an open fire wrapped around a green stick, on a flat rock under an old auto fender, on a piep an tilted in front...
...million Americans who are not poor: the hollow-bellied, hand-to-mouth feeling of having no money for tomorrow; the smell of wood smoke that hangs over Southern shantytowns?romantic to the suburbanite, but symptomatic of scant heat and pinchgut rations to the poor; the bags of flour delivered by a well-meaning welfare agency, in a household that has no oven; the pervasive odor of human urine and rat droppings in perennially damp walk-ups; the bite of wind or snow through a wall of rotten bricks and no hope that the landlord will repair the crack. Poverty...
...harsh reality of this market place economy is stagnation. There are no signs of progress, and most American officials see little hope of it. American corporations have invested $55 million dollars in Haiti, but their effect on the economy has been negligible. Only a flour mill, which imports its wheat from the States, sells in the Haitian markets. The other products--coffee, bauxite, and sugar--are all for export...
Scarfe evaded the issue. While Galbraith went about his work, Scarfe sketched, filling two pads with impressions. Then he checked into Boston's Ritz-Carlton Hotel carrying a bag of flour, a pile of Boston newspapers and a roll of wire. "The staff of the hotel must have thought I was mad," he says. "The shreddings on the floor looked like bread crumbs. They probably thought I was cooking in the room...
...HUNDRED FLOWERS FLOUR ISH. "Even in our own country we do not see everything alike. If we did, we would all want the same wife-and that would be a problem, wouldn't it?"-Washington...