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apparently unable to realize that they cannot eat their cake and have 
it. Thitsi tapping in the Southern Shan States often forms an important 
subsidiary means of livelihood of a large percentage of the population of 
villages neighbouring on Thitsi-heacring forests; and if a sustained annual 
yield is to be maintained in the near future, some of the measures at 
least which have been suggested above will have to be introduced. 
The people will no doubt oppose these measures, but their opposition 
should not be allowed unduly to act as a heavy drag-chain on the 
wheels of regulated progress. 
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