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Leningrad. The authorities tried to stop them. The sailors on the Navy ship Aurora anchored in the river got into the act and fired their naval guns. But they were the sons of the people and peasants who made up the mob. So who did they fire their guns on . . . their own people in the mob? Certainly not, they fired on the Winter Palace thus helping the mob to victory. What would happen here under similar cir- cumstances?

Well, O.K., what can you do about it? I've written the above to give you some food for thought and to stir you to think over some of the possibilities and then to do something about it. In the last issue I put in a plea for you to own some silver so that you will have something spendable when and if paper money becomes relatively or completely worthless. I hope at least some of you have taken that advice. But hav- ing silver to spend is great only if there is something to spend it for. Safeway. A and P, Grand Union or other supermarkets will be glad to take that silver for food IF... they have any. Suppose what I outlined above should occur. You'd have the silver but your family will be hungry so how can you prevent that? That is what this editorial is for.

You can lay in a supply of dehydrated and freeze-dried foods NOW before the need arises. Now I don't just talk, I've done this and thus learned just as I did with the silver. I've bought a year's supply of assorted foods for one individual for about $400. It does not consist of K rations or hardtack but of good, nutritious, tasty regular food, such as dried milk. peas, beans, potatoes, corn, carrots, spinach, apple sauce, fruits, wheat, etc. Even such things believe it or not as dried butter, peanut butter, cottage cheese, etc. Although I didn't buy it, would you believe freeze-dried chocolate ice cream? No? Neither would I till I tasted it and it's the real McCoy. Okay, where and how, right?

Some of you are Mormons and some of you who aren't know that the Mormons have for years followed the biblical idea of a famine (at least a bad year) every seventh year. Thus as a tenet of their religion. they are all urged to keep a year's supply of food available. So natural- ly it was this group that really went into the dehydrated food business in a big way. Canned food doesn't last too well and that in boxes and bags is not even that durable. Naturally fresh foods of any kind last only a few days. So after much nutritional research from the point of view of learning how to retain the nutritional value, prevent spoilage

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