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...Soup, Jesus, Farmers Sirs: In your issue of June 30, p. 4, Bob Lyle in his letter intimates that 50,000,000 cans of soup might have been sent to starving China by the American Bible Society for the cost of the 5,000,000 Bibles sent by them...
Would not the soup, or its equivalent, have had a tendency to stimulate a respect for and interest in the senders and their Bibles? At the same time creating a market for our big surplus of food supplies, incidentally benefiting our farmers? F. J. MARTIN San Diego, Calif...
Sirs: ... It is really too bad that the American public didn't send soup to make strong soldiers to go on fighting and starving...
...Bibles, Soup...
...TIME, June 9) I notice the American Bible Society sent more than 5,000,000 Bibles to wartorn, starving China last year. Because the Chinese make soup out of bird-nests, does the Bible Society think they can turn Bibles into Campbellite gumbo? For the money that these Bibles cost, at least 50 million cans of Campbell soups could have been sent to starving China. . . . BOB LYLE Biloxi, Miss...