Wednesday. December 4, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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McGovern sees food, population as crisis
Bv JUDI DIEBOLT
and
JARYL AMBLER Kansan Staff Writers
MANHATTAN—The world food and population crisis is the "most intractable world problem" of this decade, said Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.) yesterday morning at Kansas State University's Ahearn Field House.
McGovern, the keynote speaker at the Senator Frank Carlson Symposium on World Population and Food Supply said, "food production is simply not keeping pace with the population growth."
The senator explained that
Frosh excused for conferences
Approximately 2,200 freshmen will be excused from classes from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. tomorrow to meet for personal interviews with their high school principals and counselors.
These students will participate in the 20th annual Principal-Counselor-Freshman Conference.
Sponsored by KU, the conference will involve more than 300 high school principals and counselors representing 160 schools. They will meet with freshmen who are graduates of their schools to discuss both high school and university programs.
"The purpose of this conference is to assist students in the transition from high school to college life in creating closer cooperation and better understanding between educators at the secondary and university levels," said John A. Myers, assistant director of admissions.
"The conference provides an excellent opportunity for high schools and the university to get feedback from students about high schools and university programs," he said.
worldwide population growth is close to 2 per cent annually while worldwide growth in food production has averaged only 1 per cent annually.
"In the simplest terms, that means of the 70 million mouths demanding food every year, there is only enough for 35 million," he said.
McGovern said the United States must finance improvements as well as develop the technology necessary to improve the world's food supply.
"The United States government has developed the most efficient system in the world for developing the science of killing," said McGovern. "Yet, we have left the feeding of mankind largely to the relatively small scale of two or three private foundations."
He explained that the farmer, who was at one time the neglected stepchild of economic development, has at last been
credited as the key figure in the progressive transition from backwardness to the 20th century.
While food production has slowed down during this period, population has greatly expanded. McGovern said, "The reason for the population explosion, which surely equals nuclear fission in its world impact, is not increased birth rates, but reduced death rates."
The problem the world is facing can only be solved if we recognize that in the world today, food is power. He said, "We must admit that economic and agricultural success is the most vital element of international influence."
McGovern ended his speech by asking the audience, "Can we bring to bear the will and the resources to restore the even more precarious balance of food and population?"
This he called a basic decision for the present generation and the future.
Little enrollment change forseen by grad school
Last year's fears of a vacated graduate school at the University of Kansas, did not and probably will not materialize.
When graduate deferments were abolished last July, it was feared only women and cripples would be left to teach lower level courses. The autumn draft calls were reduced, though, and now a letter from Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, to the directors of state boards suggests that graduate inductions may be postponed until the end of the semester or term.
In the letter, Hershey recommended that consideration, on an individual case basis, should be given to a postponement of the induction of graduate students.
Gilbert Dyk, assistant registrar, said he does not expect
enrollment in the graduate school to suffer immediately. The reduction will probably be gradual, as a result of Hershey's recommendations, he said.
J. Kemp Houck, assistant professor of English and advisor at the Lawrence Peace Center, predicted a small drop next semester while the graduate students enjoy their postponement. He said by next year, though, many graduates could be inducted.
The January draft call is 26,800,the largest since last May and about double the present rate. Houck said he expects the level to remain high for several months.
McGovern was named Food and Peace Director and Special Assistant to President Kennedy in 1961. At the United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization, he made the United States offer which led to the first World Food Program.
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