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For vegetables In winter, raise bean sprouts 
from mung beans and from small soy beans; these 
even can be produced in northern Alaska and 
throughout Candda. 
Close up all breweries and distilleries, so 
as to conserve the grains for bread making. 
Kill all unnecessary animals and can their 
meat . 
Start fish ponds all over the land. 
Drain s?/amps wherever possible. 
Raise guinea pigs in the home for food. 
Allow pigs, goats, chickens, etc., to be 
kept in city yards. 
Fine housekeepers in whose waste barrels food 
is found. 
Drive weedy races, like many Indian tribes, 
into other territories. 
Put incurable criminals, hopelessly insane 
people, etc., out of the way by a painless method. 
Reduce size of newspapers; prohibit the pub- 
lication of society news and gossip; cut out all 
advertisements which are not necessary to the wel- 
fare of the human race. 
Prepare for long periods of misery, some- 
thing like here in China, as long as the peoples 
believe in yellovz-journal-patriotisra; in narrov/ 
nationalism; in military, naval and other glories; 
in the efficiency of secret diplomacy and other 
clap-trap like such. 
Hov/ever, tell people that they ought not to 
uproot flov/ers and shrubs in their front yards 
and plant cabbages instead; life is dreary enough 
anyway and when once the taste for things beauti- 
ful is on the wane, humanity will drop again in 
mediaeval conditions, such as $^% of the Chinese 
live in today. 
Well, these are the things I had to say novr. 
The weather in the Yangtze valley is not brac- 
ingi Last week very hot and dry besides and now 
again rain and mists for three days and nights. 
The political outlook is decidedly serious. 
Grave ruuaors are in the air. A military anarchy 
may be at hand within a few days. The Chinese 
nation is not ready yet for a republican form of 
government; the people lack purpose, honesty, 
discipline and cooperation, four cardinal prin- 
ciples that make or break nations as well as 
individuals. 
December 31, 1917. 
