Page 2 University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 4, 1954 Flashbacks in History From the Daily Kansan Campus news in 1944 was dominated by the armed forces, as was news all over the country. In 1929 much space was devoted to the inauguration of President Herbert Hoover and his new administration. 10 YEARS AGO Prof. and Mrs. Allen Crafton gave a campus performance of a two-character play entitled "Close Quarters". First-run movies showing in Lawrence theaters were "For Whom the Bell Tolls" with Gary Cooper and Ingrild Bergman, and "Song of Russia" with Robert Taylor and Susan Peters. The Army announced it was stepping up its A-12 reserve program and began encouraging college men all over the country to take qualifying examinations. Campus sororities held an open house for the newly-arrived Navy V-12 students on the campus. Four enlisted WAVES reported to the University hospital for duty as apprentices. The KU basketball team lost its last game of the season to Iowa State and wound up in a third place tie with Missouri. Iowa State and Oklahoma tied for the championship. Chauncey Downs and his "Soldiers of Production" band were featured at the junior class prom. The Trapp family singers presented a concert of unusual old church and folk music in Hoch auditorium. A fire in the basement of Bailey caused $1,000 damage. 25 YEARS AGO The campus and the nation observed the inauguration of Herbert Hoover as President of the United States. Hoover as President of the M. Funkck-Brentano, librarian of the Arsenal library of Paris, gave a convocation lecture on the subject of "Romanticism." A demonstration lecture on aviation highlighted the annual Engineers' Day. Rehearsals began for the campus production of the Broadway production. "New Moon." Sheffield Ingalls, president of the KU Alumni association, initiated a campaign through the Graduate magazine to abolish the standard practice of "Hell week" on the campus. New staff appointments for the Daily Kansan were made and a new constitution centralizing student responsibility went into effect. Student carelessness in disposing of cigaret butts was attributed as the cause of two small fires in the basement of Bailey. Work was progressing on the construction of the third floor of Snow hall and it was announced that the new biology building should be completed by July. The Jayhawker basketball team finished in the league cellar position by losing its last game of the season to Kansas State by one point in overtime. A University student, William T. Walker, was killed in a private airplane crash. Rising American Population May Create Food Problem India, like Japan, Java, China, and many other parts of the world, is in the predicament of simply having too many mouths to feed, but if the U.S. is not careful, despite the seeming present over-abundance of most foodstuffs, she, too, may find herself in this same dilemma. The U.S. today is in an era of food abundance, but this could come to a grinding halt in the face of a growing population that may overtake the food supply. Most Americans merely laugh when the possibility of our becoming like India is mentioned. How can we possibly get in that shape with our vast resources? they ask. Statistically, America still has a long way to go to come close to India's problem. That Asian nation has a population of about 370 million in an area of only 1,221,880 square miles. The U.S. total is 160 million in 3,026,789 miles. India, therefore, has a mean density of about 295 persons per square mile; the U.S., 52 persons for every square mile. But, since 1931 India has increased her population at 15 per cent. In Should the present ratio hold true in India until the year 2000, her population will be about 700 million. The U.S., at its present rate, immigration excluded, will have about 280 million persons by then! this same period the U.S. has grown 23 per cent. India adds about 14,000 persons to her total every day, or almost 5 million yearly. The U.S. jump (excess of births over deaths) is about 2.4 million every 365 days. Will the U.S. be able to support its increase? Right now our nation literally is choked to death with farm surpluses. Farmers now are able to produce more on less land than they previously could. In all probability, new advances will be made to help the farmer get even more from his land, but the future of millions of new mouths to feed every Horace Greeley had some good ideas, but we've always doubted the wisdom of his famous statement, "Go west young man, go west." Since we're from that arid land of sagebrush and cactus, Arizona, we should be in a good position to comment on the advantages of one portion of the "glorious west." The Editor Sez Chuck Morelock This region does have a few points in its favor—very few. Its true that the winters are pleasant affairs. The mercury usually stays around 65 or 70 during the middle of December and January, the sun beams down on contented tourists (who are paying plenty to get away from Jersey or Detroit) and the skies are generally cloud-less. It may be different with the older folks, but ask any teenager or grade school kid if he would like to see snow for a change and the answer would be resounding "yes." Our high school alma mater was probably one of the few institutions of its kind in the country to have orange trees growing on the campus. Flaming youths enrolled in physical education courses could play outdoor basketball in the heart of winter. And those lucky few who owned convertibles never had to put the top down when they drove to school. LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler One might think the 2,500 who attended this place (North Phoenix, Phoenix, Ariz.) were the proverbial strangers in paradise. If they appreciated their position, they didn't show it. We'll wager approximately half of our old HS buddies remarked at some time or other that they would give anything to see the thermometer dip to zero or to experience the joys of a genuine blizzard. It might be admitted that high school suddents are not the most rational persons in the world. Therefore, we'll list some more concrete reasons for our dislike of this sunshine country. 1. Those fanatical chambers of commerce which spend 24 hours a day boosting the magnificent scenery (miles and miles of nothing but miles and miles) the healthful climate (you'll get dropsy after living through summer, fall, and spring) and the many entertainment spots (live it up at one of the night clubs and you're out a year's salary.) 2. High cost of living. 3. Unstable population. In the winter thousands of the -est creatures you ever saw flock out there and in the summer they go home. The result is a ghost-town with people. Therefore, take our advice. Stick around Kansas. You can't go wrong. year looms over all technological advances. A decade from now we may look back with wonder that we ever had such stores of food. We may need them then, but will we be able to produce enough then? This, of course, must remain speculation. Presently we are sending food to help the rest of the world, India included. This may have to be stopped if we are to feed just the new Americans every year. Immigration is not the answer to the rising population problem. Every country has its own barriers on this. America is not the never-declining storehouse and land of plenty it has been in the early years of its existence. Unless great, sweeping new developments are made in food production, this nation, too, will run dry. Thus, a vicious circle. The theory advanced in the 19th "That's the boy I was telling you about who is working on some 'secret' explosive." Daily Hansam University of Kansas Student Newspaper News Room KU 251 Ad Room KU 374 Member of the Kansas Press Assn. National Editor, The Chronicle and Collegiate Press Assn. Represented by the National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Avenue, N.Y. City, Subscriber, 618-240-8900 $5.50 plus $1 is semester if in Lawrence). Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the University year except Sunday, Wednesday and examination periods Entered second class matter Sept. 17, 1910 at Lawrence, Kan. Post Office under as NEWS STAFF Executive editor ... Shirley Piatt Managing editors... Tony Stewart, Mary Betz, Velma Gaskell News editor ... Tom Shannon Assistant ... Letty Lemon Sports editor ... Assistant Assistant ... Dana Beilengood Society editor ... Elizabeth Wolghimst Assistant ... Karen Hilmer Telegraph editor ... Hamish Hammond News editor ... C. M. Pickett EDITORIAL STAFF ditorial editor Chuck Morelock assistants Sam Teaford Don Tice Business mgr. Jane Megafin Advertising mgr. Ann Ainsworth Nat. adv. mgr. Susanne Berry Classified adv. mgr. Wendell Sullivan Circulation mgr. Rodney Davis Promotion mgr. Ed Bartlett BUSINESS STAFF century by Thomas Robert Malthus that population tends to increase faster than the means of subsistence certainly seems to be becoming truer. His solution was that this growth should be checked by social and moral restraints. What are these checks? Natural or positive checks include disease, wars, epidemics, accidents, malnutrition; preventive checks are voluntary restraint from marriage and/or births. Naturally the probable results of these checks cannot be figured far in the future. However, these may be the only saviors if we are not to be classified with the half of the world that the Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations says is underfed. If we do not want to be another India, it would do us well to appraise these checks. —Stan Hamilton Letters Mr. Sam Teaford University Daily Kansan Dear Mr. Teaford, I wish to thank you for your very informative and factual editorial relating some of the true facts about conditions in western Kansas. Perhaps during the past summer you also had the ironical experience of lounging in a very comfortable living room waiting for the rain to stop while the radio told of the terrific drought in your home county. During the past summer and continuing to the present time, incorrect or exaggerated reports of poor growing conditions have been the rule. This is very misleading as climatic conditions are preparing for one of the largest wheat crops in recent years. I will admit that parts of the state of Kansas are very dry. However, after the economic trend of the last few years it seems that anyone in need of financial aid for the purpose of tilling the soil would fit into one of these two types; the poor manager type, or the "certified farmer" (one who practices a rigid adherence to farming practices advocated by federal or state agencies. This type is often a patron of "the mudhole up the Kaw") type. Yes, Mr. Teaford, these practices sometimes do seem "ridiculous" to the experienced farmer. One other reason for the present inaccuracies and exaggerations could be a try for publicity by certain incumbent politicians. However, I do not believe that these gentlemen have too much to worry about for everyone knows that the prime qualification for election to public office in the fifth district is that of being a Republican. yours truly. yours truly. Robert McClean college sophomore Ike is called a great American, Mr. Churchill a great Englishman, or Adolph Hitler a great German. Think of the confusion that might result if a leading official of Denmark was labeled a great Dane. Short Ones The Architects conference which is at KU Tuesday and Wednesday must be about the umpteenth such gathering at the University this year. Seems there are more conferences here than classes. The Kansan can be a Daily Letter!