To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

In view of the current food crisis in the world, it strikes me that many of us here at Harvard are singularly wasteful. As we pass down through the chow line we forget that we are no longer in the Army, and receive our food with little choice. We forget that we can take as much, or as little, as we desire. Instead we take a great deal more food than we ever est and end up leaving half of it on trays.

This wasted food neither lowers the prices we pay, or increases the quality of the food we get. Whether or not we eat the food, once it is on our trays it can no longer be saved for use of others. It is possible that, by using some larger measure of judgement in the amount of food we take, we can achieve economics which will allow the University to purchase better food prepare it in better style: and possibly save some for those starving individuals in other parts of the world, who look upon our wastage as the true sin it really is.

The law and the selfish will find much to argue with on this point; but those who have any sort of conscience will realize that we who are fortunate enough to live in this land of plenty, should also realize that we are only men also realize that our abuse or our blessings is wrong no master how you took of it. William L. Palusm