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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1944
THE KANSAN COMMENTS
Famine Threat In Large Cities Of Netherlands
Threatened famine in the Netherlands has forced the Dutch government this week to seek aid from the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Spite destruction by the Germans, as well as isolation from food supplies which resulted from railroad strikes called for by the Allies, has disrupted the transportation and disposition of what food supplies there are, according to a recent news dispatch.
When one stops to consider the small area of land available for agriculture in proportion to the dense population of this tiny country, it is conceivable that enough food to last for more than a few weeks could be neither produced nor stored. Holland has only 12,600 square miles for her 8,500,000 inhabitants.
Of this area, large sections along the coast are formed of sand dunes and are dreary and sterile, while others are covered with forests or form vast and irreclaimable peat marshes. The climate, which is extremely changeable and disagreeable, is unsuited to many crops.
Before the war, wheat, although of excellent quality, was grown only in favored portions of the southern provinces. Rye, oats, and buckwheat, horse-beans, beets, and chicory were more common crops. Culinary vegetables, however, are cultivated on a much larger scale for home use.
The rural industry of the Netherlands formerly showed its greatest strength in stock (the number and excellence of their horned cattle standing very high) and in dairy produce, the Holland cheeses being especially famous. Poultry, honey, and refined sugar used to be produced in smaller quantities. also.
In normal times, this amount of agriculture would be sufficient to supply the natives. With submarines and other battlecraft infesting the surrounding waters, however, the herring and oyster fishing industries have been almost completely abandoned, while repeated bombings and sabotage have wrecked railroad tracks and buildings, and devastated fields. Commerce with the Dutch East Indies and other colonies, which provided Holland with considerable of its supplies for home consumption, has also been nearly suspended for the present.
With these facts in mind, and the knowledge that many of the farms have been neglected since the young men went to fight, it is easy to realize that the rumor that Amsterdam, The Hague, Leyden, Rotterdam, and other large Dual cities, will soon be suffering from famine, may be more than a rumor after all.
Loss of Perspiration Found Conducive to Polio Attacks
Polio is more likely to strike when the body loses salt and water by perspiration, University of California researchers have discovered. Dr. James F. Rinehart, who directed the experiments, says they're "not conclusive" but point to "a relationship between salt and water deficiency and susceptibility to poliomyelitis."
Although the cause of polio hasn't yet been found, Dr. Rinehart calls salt and water losses "factors creating favorable circumstances for the disease to attack." This would explain why polio epidemics usually come in summer, why active children seem more susceptible than others.-Pathfinder Magazine.
Dean D. M. Swarthout was confined to his home today because of illness.
Rock Chalk Talk
By JOAN HARRIS
There must be some mistake—Don Palmer, Pt-5, was downtown with the boys one afternoon before finals set in looking for goldfish or screw-balls or something. A tribe of tiny tots persisted in following the pretty blue unifroms around and around until poor Don, not as tolerant as the rest of the navy, "How I would hate to be a father!"
Just at that time an enthusiastic little housebreaker came running up to Don, caught him in a strangle hold and said "Daddy—daddy—"
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The age of chivalry is not dead—just sick—Monday night, the Teke's received a call from Marge Shryoek, Alpha Delt. The distraught redhead said, "Could you come over to our house and bring your ladder, please?" Although he thought it was rather irregular for a girl to ask an utter stranger to assist her in her elopement, the Teke told the fellas to hop in the official buggy, grab the ladder, and repair to the scene of the, er, redhead.
Matters finally adjusted themselves, proving that Marge was not really maladjusted—she was only hungry and homeless. The pledges had walked out locking the doors
behind them, and taking the light bulbs with them, and goodness only knows when they would condescend to return with the key to the situation—Marge certainly didn't. After much noise and broken noses, the gallant Teke's finally saved the day—swinging through the air on their tired and careworn ladder.
The pledges have scrubbed dishes ever since.
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Not all cave men live in caves—Kirke Scott, Phi Delt, and Dorothy Warren were spending a playful afternoon on the Pi Phi porch talking about politics (or something). At any rate, Kirke is a sailor who likes his own way and when Dot persisted in having hers too, he twisted her arm—he even sprained it.
After it was all over, no one was more sorry than Kirke—not even Dorothy—and he swears (that is, he would swear if it weren't alien to navy regulations) that he just didn't realize his own strength.
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Glancing Around
Students at the University of Texas got very excited last week when the Associated Press carried a dispatch saying that Martin Dies, retiring Texas Congressman known for his Red investigations, might be appointed to the Board of Regents to replace a member of the board who retired, the Daily Texan reported. Protest of action was almost unanimous among students the Texan said, since students felt Dies opposed 'Tiberian' education.
The end—It will be sad to see Joe Brasch and Don Sommers graduate. They are respectively the tallest and the smallest fraction of the Jayhawker fleet.
Kids at the staid old University of Chicago are getting kittenish in their academic surroundings, according to the Chicago Maroon, college daily newspaper. Last week, a stealthy group of students ran up the hammer and sickle on a red background, banner of Russia, on the University flagpole during the night. To add insult to injury, the rum-dum scholars tacked signs on the front of the house of Robert Hutchins, president of the University, bearing the legend "Inquire within for 2, 3, or 4-room apartments." The culprits have not been apprehended, the newspaper said.
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Plans and hallubaloo of the University of Oklahoma's annual Frontier Day celebration got underway this week as petitions for candidates for the title of "Pecos Bill, hero of the West" began to be circulated Monday on the campus, the Oklahoma Daily reported. "Bill" will be the champion of all frontier activities and "Slewfoot Sue," the girl champion, will share honors with him at the Frontier Ball Oct. 21. Any man on the campus who has led a wild and wooley past or who has ever ridden a horse is eligible for the nomination.
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Members of the entomology department at Michigan State College are carrying on experiments with the new and powerful insecticide, called DDT, the Michigan State News reports. DDT has been allocated 100 per cent for military use so only small quantities can be used for college experimentation. Michigan entomologists say the insecticide promises to find a multitude of uses in the future.
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