4 Tuesday, October 8, 1974 University Daily Kansan THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN OPINION Milk more than drop in bucket There once was a time, unlikely as this may seem, when I briefly owned a cow. or vice versa. It was a real, live cow, with four legs, four faucets and three hoses that Homely homely face. Her name was Tugboat Annie, and her game was kicking buckets. Time tends to plaster-over a checkered past. I had not By James Kilpatrick thought of Annie for nearly 30 years. But the memory of those baleful eyes and that bawling bulbullhorn voice came back a few years later, with several hundred milk producers who had come to Disney World to drown their troubles in Grade A homogenized Scotch. I had one Annie. The dairy farmers less, and they all spell trouble. but most painful part—is a problem of public image. Say "milk" in Washington, and the media boys begin to snort and roll their eyes. It isn't fair, but who says it? It doesn't matter on the press see the milk producers as a gang of wheeler-dealer salesmen with quarts of cream to give away. A suspicion remains that back in Alan Greenspan, the President's doctor of public relations, recently told a banker that he was by percentage, stockbrokers were suffering more than any other group. Dr. Greenspan has not met the milkmen. All farmers have it rough. But some farmers have it worse in others. These days, if you are in milk, these days, if you are in milk, Part of the problem—the least Mr. President, your appeals should have been aimed at the industrial sector of our economy, not at the consumer sector. For example, Mr. President, why didn't you request the editors of the nation's newspapers to send you a list of 10 ways they could cut back on their wastefulness? Hogwash. President Ford, in a dramatic display of nearsightedness, appealed to the wrong crowd when he asked consumers to conserve. The President might as well have called on a pack of hungry wolves to resist the heat and to eat their beef that dangles, torturously, in front of them. In almost every American newspaper, more than half the space is advertising. What is worse, most of the advertising space is full of waste. Newspaper advertising often consists of Mr. President, why don't you deal directly with the source of our wasteful lifestyle? Consumers aren't the ones directly responsible for planned obsolescence and electric toothbrushes. Consumers buy only what American industry dangles before them in its advertising. Inflation caused by industry You could have vowed to resist the temptation of nighttime snacks, or you could have canceled your magazine subscriptions. How about cutting down on the time you play your stereo? Have you made your list of 10 ways you can conserve energy and fight inflation? You probably haven't and, furthermore, you shouldn't feel too guilty about it. Mr. President, if you are serious about cutting back on American wastefulness, you should tackle industry, not the consumer. The newspaper industry recently emerged from a serious newsprint shortage. During that time the news often was condensed, but I read of them where there were advertising space was made more efficient. 1971 the milkmen were bent on bribing a president. Campaign records suggest that they are out to butter up every guy in town. Even Peter Rodino, whose Newark constituents The price of advertising, now based on amount of space, could be based on number of words, similar to classified ads. Furthermore, the size of type could be restricted to, say, no taller than 60 inch. The price of advertising also could reflect the size of type that the advertiser chooses. If the pictures and screaming type size were eliminated and if the remaining "meat" of newspaper advertisements were compressed, most newspapers would contain about half as many pages without a reduction in essential contents. A balanced federal budget and appeals for belt-tightening are miniscule first steps toward ending our wasteful lifestyle. The truly tough decisions are ahead of you, Mr. President. An effort built around contrived demand cannot survive in a world with too few available resources. screaming type size, deserts of empty space and irrelevant pictures. Steve Lewis Gen. Sayley Nelson, D-Wis, dug up some doleful statistics. Twenty years ago Wisconsin had 127,000 dairy farmers. Today there are fewer than 53,000. Eighty per cent of the Wisconsin farm operators are over 45, and 38 per cent are 55 or 60. The past 19 months, 3,800 dairy farms out of business in Wisconsin alone. In the nation as a whole, the number of milk producing farms is expected to drop from 400,000 to 200,000 by 1980. never have seen a cow, got a bucket of campaign cash. Presumably, Rodino was on the cream list because his Judiciary Committee handles antitrust bills. The milkmen know all about antitrust bills. They are up to their udders in. The proceedings might be too dry for dustry they were grazing in high clover, but the industry is down to crab牧草 and whistles. These burdens might be bearable if domestic demand were soaring also. Alas, the milk producers are plagued by a shortage of milk, first of the year, five billion pounds of milk equivalent have come in from abroad, including 100 million pounds of cheese. The market comes from China, markets from California and subsidize their milk producers. the past few years, dairymen have witnessed a 100 per cent increase in fertilizer costs. The price of feed concentrates recently jumped 18 per cent in between 1948 and 1972, net farm income by 21 per cent; farm wages went up by 400 per cent. Whenever the dairymen look up from their buckets, they see that another doctor is skimming off some publicity by saying mean things about milk. A glass of milk will be the wholesome natural food in the world, but to some doctors milk spells cholesterol, obesity and the galloping bottles. Between the Dutch and the bottles are the bankers, raising their interest rates. Every time the milkmen price their air, they accused of exploiting little children. Secretary of Agriculture, and they see the eyes of Tugboat boatmen, the eyes to raise gangly palm, the eyes to show a cow barn on Christmas. The reasons are economic. In U. S. producers benefit from their own subsidy, in the form of a support price at 80 per cent of parity, but they don't benefit much. The dairymen who meet this price go to 90 per cent-Nelson is plumping for 100 per cent—but they look at Earl Butz. I got rid of my Tugboat Annie, but the professional producers are stuck with theirs. They can't even give their herds the power to ride on the realm of Disney World, these are disciples to resilient. Unlike Anne, they seem to be here to stay. (C) 1974 Warner Star Shiplines, Inc. Contributing Writer She knew she had made a mistake when the boy gave her a lascivious leer and said, "I'd do better after school with you. Teach!" Violent pupils baffling It was almost a decade age that a friend, teaching a ghetto fourth grade class here, said to a troublemaking 13-year-old boy, "You're to stay after school." This teacher knew that, left alone with that over-aged fourth grader, she might not be physically safe. stories of the incredible and sometimes abominable things said and done by children who were hungry, neglected, unloved, sick, angry and full of hatred of everything around them. And of other teachers have come to know fear in the classroom. In the years since my friend amused and depressed us with Stories abound of youngsters bringing guns and knives to school, of the extortion of lunch, money or other properties from meeker students, of the rape or beating of teachers. My grade school was populated by youngsters as poor as almost any of today's ghetto schools, yet not even the most incorrigible boy in school would have dared suggest sexual The violent child is commonplace in our public schools today, and I have asked myself a hundred times. "Why?" MAUDIN GROVEN CHARTER SOLUTIONS "BREEDING IS MY BUSINESS—FEEDING IS YOURS." Readers respond/Cancellation of foreign program lack of jogging space assailed Bad decision To the Editor: The Educational Policies and Procedures Committee recently decided not to recommend the administrators. I always wondered whether the administrators made their students a student in mind. Now we know Bradford J. West Topeka junior Foreign study To the Editor. When the plans for the trip were announced last spring, I was one of the first to sign up on a sheet at Pearson College office. Soon, so many students came to Paris and it quite possible to take Pearson Humanities to France for an entire semester. In its disapproval of the Pearson Humanities foreign study program for France next spring, the Educational Policies and Procedures Committee (EPPC) has deprived many students of a very valuable educational experience. The students were excited by Even students who are not in Pearson Humanities or graduates of college have little interest in the trip. They don't have to worry about it now, and I suppose neither do the 168 others who wished to go. You will be surprised by Humanities orientation meeting in August when even the freshmen were confronted with the challenges of them were interested, too. Perhaps I'm biased because I had more reason than to most to go to France. I've studied French since eighth grade in 1967, and I haven't missed a semester yet. But even for those students who haven't ever studied the language, the opportunity of foreign travel and living abroad again. Americans tend to think that the United States is the world. It isn't. It's a pity that such a "progressive" institution as KU can't support such a unique the idea. A number of Pearson students enrolled in the French for Travelers course in anticipation of the trip. About 20 students met myself, were willing to tutor these needing help in French. opportunity when it comes along. If, as recommended, the trip goes through in the spring of 1976, I'll go then. Until then, a student will simply have to wait for the word from the top. When I learned Oct. 3, that Swedish poet harry Martinson won the Nobel Prize for Literature, I went to the Music Record Library in Murphy Hall to check out and listen to a recording of Kari Bürger-Blondahl's opera, "Aniara." Music needed To the Editor: Blomdahl was a Swedish composer who died a few years ago. The opera, "Aniara," was based on the epic poem by Martinson of the same title. The plot of "Aniara" deals with a spaceship, perhaps roughly the Queen Mary. A naked woman broken out on earth, so the spaceship is loaded with passengers, who hope to escape the destruction and fee to the David Routh Prairie Village junior earth colonies on Mars. fortable with Lion's comment that "criminologists recognize so-called subcultures of violence which appear to correlate with low socioeconomic status." Yet Lion makes it clear that poor people hold no monopoly on violence. Which leads to my point. K.U.'s School of Fine Arts really doesn't have a very extensive music library. The record library at Wichita State University, for instance, is recordable. Even the Wichita Public Library has recordings of contemporary composers that K.U. ought to have but doesn't. But when I went to the Music Record Library in Murphy Hall to hear the recording, I discovered that the only music by Blomdahl in the entire K.U. collection is a short song for plant and voice, I believe. I think it's a crying shame that the largest university in the state is so poorly served by way of support, would urge the board of regents and K.U. alumni to seriously consider the fact that the School has a much more extensive course of music, scores and records. The opera premiered in the early 1960s and is considered by many critics to be one the significant musical and dramatic events of the past 20 years. I also would like to see K.U.'s Opera Workshop mount a contemporary opera. Exciting things are being done with opera, as "total theatre" in Germany today. But we keep on producing the tired old warhorses like "Don Giovanni." I would work our opera workshop take a chance and tackle something challenging. Like "Aniara" perhaps? By Carl Rowan Mark R. Edwards University of Kansas graduate Boycott lives considering the size of the University To the Editor: Mark R. Edwards I can well understand Mr. Hatton's frustration with the so-called failure of his boycott of Wescoe Cafeteria. (Didn't they have a contest to name it something interesting?) His shirts it would help me I pointed out that there are those of us who have eaten at the Wescoe Cafeteria and have been boycoting it ever since. Twyla Boyd Priorities Anthropology Department To the Editor: Darwin W Deleoff It is difficult to understand how the floor of Allen Field House can be made available for the opening convocation, for the football team when it rains and for Bill Glass's crusade, and still not have the field house track available for losing. Professor of economics letters policy The Daily Kansan welcomes letters to the editor, but asks that letters be typewritten, doubled and 500 words. All letters are subject to editing and condensation, according to space limitations and the editor's judgement. Students must provide their name, year in school and home-town; faculty must provide their name and position; others should provide their name and address. intercourse with a teacher or threaten to beat up a principal. Could it be that children in those days knew that not only could teachers administer corporal punishment, but that if they sent home note for the wrong wording by a child, the parents would administer something close in capital punishment? If you think, as I do, that it must be more complex than that, get a copy of the September-October issue of *The Journal* on the cover of the National Education Association. It contains a fascinating interview with Dr. John Lion, director of the clinical research program for violent behavior in the Institute of Hospice at Harvey University. Behavior at the University of Maryland. You may want to say "amen" or just scoot at Lion's assertion that extensive violence in the media is a fact. The fact that "the present emphasis in American culture on violence is decidedly excessive. Our movies—indeed, all our media—are full of exposé, media are generating a fascination with violence." You may be more com- Lion warns us that drugs "are not the answer to or the cure for violent behavior." He suggests psychotherapy, although he admits that this is far from being the case. Most of the United States have been reluctant to really study violence and aggression. He urges that where a child seems prone to violence, intervention therapy should be tried only by a highly skilled, especially qualified psychiatrist or psychologist. "Teachers qualified only by good intentions may worsen some children's problems," he said. Lion suggests that teachers who are faced with violence make that subject a matter of frustration among fictional and even among the students. Where violence erupts, he said, teachers ought to be on guard against something in the environment that is conducive to outbursts of violence. The problem may not lie in the children, but in social environments. Not many Americans will accept everything Lion says, but given the magnitude of the problem of violent youngsters, his views surely merit our considerations. Copyright 1974 Field Enterprises, Inc. Kansan Telephone Numbers Newsroom—UN 4-4810 Business Office—UN 4-4358 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN An All-American college newspaper Publicated at the University of Kansas weekdays during the academic year except holidays and excused on Sundays. *Miss. Barbara Lawrence, KA, 60043.* Subscriptions to mail are BM8-21738952 or BM8-21738952. $1.35 a semester, paid through the student activity Accommodations, goods services and employment services for students admitted to the academic unit of the Student Body at Downtown College. Editor Eric Meyer Associate Editor Campus Editor Jeffrey Stinson Jill Willis Copy Chiefs Carol Gwinn and Bunny Miller Associate Campus Editor Assistant Campus Editors Assistant Campus Editors Dennis Elwoward Artist and Almanage Man Chief Photographer John McNamara Wire Editor Linda Weinstein Makeup Editor Kjurdell Meindel Sports Editor Mark Mitchell and Kevin Associate State Editor Mark Zelgian Associate Campus Editor Jim Shiden Museum Editor Mark Jensen Steve Hughen Advertising Manager Assistant Business Manager Alice Ritter Dave Beeve Classified Manager National Advertising Manager Assistant Advertising Manager Marketing Manager Promotion Director Gail Johns, Deb Danielle Debbie Arbonles Steve Blackback Terry News Adviser Susanne Shaw 1 Business Adviser Mel Adams