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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1040
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Factory-Made Food
A 300-page technical report to be published later this year may raise a lot of eyebrows. The report will offer a solution to a problem which has plagued man for centuries—how to provide everyone on earth with enough to eat.
Scientists have discovered that food, tasting as good as food we now eat, and costing less, can be grown with the aid of air, water, sunlight, and chemicals—without using soil. This means that millions of the world's half-starving people can get food that has been mass-produced in factories. No longer is it necessary to rely entirely on good crop land for subsistence foods.
The conditions in China, India, and other hungry lands have a bearing on our own problems. The world has been plunged into war more than once because of the scarcity of good crop land.
A green algae called Chlorella and yeast can thrive naturally in a liquid medium and produce protein and fats. This combination can produce more basic food than can be grown on an acre of our best soil.
A factory in Jamaica, British West Indies, is turning crude molasses into a high-protein food yeast at the rate of five tons a day, and people are eating this food. Jamaican natives are reported to be eating the new food in porridges, fish cakes, and flapjacks. In England, it is being used to add protein enrichment to canned soups and meat products, and it is slowly winning a preferred position.
The scientists have given the world a factory-made food, but can the poor starving people pay even the low price asked for it? This question must be answered by the economists. What we can now say is that there is a way to feed the millions of hungry people while actually conserving the world's overworked farm lands.
As the new food is gradually introduced to each part of the world, it will undoubtedly run into quite a few prejudices and taboos. Of course, it must find ways of adjusting to natural preferences.
-Leonard Snyder.
A thrush, a pelican, five baby chicks, and 150 sea gulls made the news recently. Inasmuch as this editorial is about them, it might be said to be strictly for the birds.
Strictly For Us Gulls
The thrush sang to beat the band in England and got more applause than the band; the pelican set out to prove his beak could hold "as much as his belly can" and died with a 15-pound bass in his throat; the baby chicks were adopted by a cat in Kansas City, and the sea gulls settled in Missouri.
It is the sea gulls that are important in the over-all aspect of the middle Western man's destiny. This is not to say that thrushes, pelicans, chicks or cats are not important, though they may not be.
The question that must be answered is why the sea gulls migrated to Jackson county, Mo. One might say the gull of those gulls. On the other hand, one might think the writer is casting aspersions on Jackson county, saying that it is not a suitable place for sea-faring sea gulls. This is not so. Jackson is just as good as any other county. It just doesn't have a sea. It could happen to any county.
The underlying truth of the matter is evident. Man migrated to the middle West first, and now it is the birds. The middle West is becoming more important. It even has sea gulls. It is something for a dry country to have gulls. Of course, the gulls may have read that Kansas was wet and just stopped a bit short of their goal.
The sea gulls might have thought the sea was gradually washing the land away and decided they would be better off with their nests safely inland. Also, they might have decided they didn't like the sea. As far as the records show, no sea gull ever decided this, but a sea gull should have a perfect right to decide he doesn't like the sea if he wishes.
In any event, the middle West is for the birds.
—Doug Jennings.
Dear Editor
Campus Politics
Dear Editor:
It seems that another new low was reached Tuesday night in the field of campus politics. The right to carry on a peaceful campaign was violated.
The Independent party was engaged in a serenade authorized by the dean of women. They had a small band, and when this incident happened, they were serenading Harmon Co-op. As they were playing, a rather large group of fraternity men descended upon them and drove them away from Harmon.
Such a breach of political freedom should most certainly be called to the attention of the student body.
Of the student body Howard W. Hallman College junior.
Applications for the position of editor and business manager for the Jayhawker, the K-Book, and the university calendar will be accepted not later than Tuesday, April 26, William A. Conboy, chairman of the publications committee of the A.S.C., said.
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Applications for positions on the Jayhawker should be submitted to Karl Klooz, bursar, 121 Frank Strong hall. Applications for positions on the K-Book and the University calendar should be submitted to Conboy.
The students who apply should state their qualifications and plans or intentions for the next year. Each letter of application should contain three letters of recommendation.
Applications Urged For Publications
Design Device Explains Theories
Boston, Mass., (U.P.) A 2-year-old is the "most popular" sophomore at the New England Conservatory of Music. The honor was won in a student poll by Queenie, a seeing-eye dog that serves Rose Miscio, a blind sophomore from Washington, Pa.
2-Year-Old 'Most Popular'
Do you understand the color and light theories?
--inventor because the instrument is similar to others used by different schools in the country. Eventually, he hopes to combine music with it. The clavulix or color organ demonstrated here March 1 causes color formations on a screen to vary in a similar manner.
Don Kane, instructor in design, has completed a "device" to aid in explanation, of the theories to his design classes.
The device is a near-casket shaped box with a 20 by 24 inch transparent, ground glass screen in the large end through which light from six colored bulbs is reflected. It is five feet long with a small turntable enclosed near the center, on which plexiglass sculpture may be mounted.
When all the lights are on and the turntable is revolving, light reflected from the sculpture through the screen changes colors rapidly from dark to light shades and hues.
Mr. Kane finished the device during Easter vacation. He is not the
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