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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1964
Food and Thanksgiving
AN INDIAN GIRL sits forlornly in a Bombay gutter, hopelessness etched in her face, her eyes sorrowing. In her arms she clutches a shrivelled, wizened little creature—her brother. He is dying from malnutrition and lack of food.
A little girl sits alone on the floor of an orphanage in Lima, Peru, and plays listlessly with a wooden doll. She was brought to the orphanage after social workers discovered her rummaging through garbage pails and refuse heaps for scraps of food that her more fortunate countrymen had thrown away. Her parents are dead. She had been existing like that for months before she was taken to the orphanage.
Those experiences are no strangers to nearly two-thirds of the world's population, whose grimnest reality is the daily struggle for enough food to eat.
Some are unsuccessful in that struggle—they starve and die. Some say that those people are really the lucky ones. The rest continue to exist—undernourished and too weak to do a full day's work. A gnawing hunger, an empty stomach, a hopeless resignation are constant companions.
HER DULL EYES view the world disinterestedly, uncaring. Her head appears too large for her frail body. Her legs and arms are like pencils; her skin hangs in loose wrinkles; her stomach is swollen and distended. She suffers from a lack of food and from malnutrition. She especially lacks enough protein in her meager diet.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON has declared this week Nov. 15-21 "National Freedom from Hunger Week" in the United States. Even affluent America, the "breadbasket of the world," has a food problem. Some experts estimate that hunger and
malnutrition, though not as severe as that experienced in other countries, haunt nearly one-fourth of our population.
And in thousands of American homes and in countless university dormitories and fraternity and sorority houses food is also a problem—but one of a different nature.
"THIS IS THE SAME STUFF we had Monday night," complains one chubby-cheeked lad.
"Why can't we have more roasts instead of this damp hamburger?" asks another.
"How come we can't have bigger seconds?" demands one.
"I WON'T EAT leftovers," exclaims a coed.
Meals,served three times a day,(some people are lucky if they can look forward to one) are half-eaten.The remaining portions are thrown away.
MEANWHILE, in a garbage dump outside a U.S. Air Force base overseas, people are fighting each other for the half-eaten steak, the discarded vegetables, and the slices of white bread some serviceman was unable to eat.
The complaints from students about their food and from Americans in general seem invariably to come from the over-fed, the weight-watchers, the selfish, the ungrateful.
AMERICANS WILL CELEBRATE Thanks-giving soon. Take time when you sit down to a table, sagging under its load of turkey and trimmings, to think a minute about the barren tables that await most of the world's people.
THEN UTTER A SMALL PRAYER of thanksgiving. You are more fortunate than you perhaps realize.
— Rick Mabbutt
"Steady, Mate"
Norway: The Monarchy and Political Crisis
NORWAY HAS REACHED a crucial point in its history. It has three choices in the way it will form the rest of its political theories.
First, it can expand the system of monarchy a ready formed. Second, it can import a foreign princess for its eligible prince to marry, or third, it can completely abolish the royalty system.
Norway, a Scandinavian country of 3.5 million people, has always been ruled by some type of monarchy. Norwegians are as proud of their rulers as the British are of Queen Elizabeth and her family. It is not a political fondness, however, but a family fondness.
MUCH LIKE THE BRITISH monarchy, the royal family serves more in a figurehead position than in one of power.
King Olaf, who succeeded his father to the throne in the 1950's, has two daughters and one son. Both daughters are married to commoners and thus relinquished their claims to the throne. The only hope of saving the monarchy lies in Prince Harold, King Olaf's only son.
But the prince must marry a woman of nobility if he is to carry on the royal line.
NORWAY'S NOBILITY consists of only the royal family, because there are no courtesans or elite families. Consequently, the young prince must marry a noble woman from another country to have claim to the throne.
But Prince Harold has other ideas about the future of the monarchy. He has been seen lately with an old school sweetheart—who is a commoner. This could change the whole future of the country, and the prince knows it.
THE SECTION OF THE press in Norway supported by labor factions has said they think a
foreign princess should be "imported" for the prince so that the tiny Norwegian aristocracy will not have to be expanded. Labor forces control 74 of the 150 seats in the Storting (house of Parliament).
The conservative press in Norway has other ideas of how the problem should be solved. The press hints that a constitutional a men d men t should be provided to enable Harold to marry a commoner if he chooses. This would insure having a Norwegian queen. The conservatives also control 74 of the 150 seats in the Stgrting.
THE SOCIALIST PEOPLE'S Party Press (controlling the remaining two seats in Storting) suggests that it would be best to allow the young prince marry whom he chooses (even a commoner) and thus abolish the monarchy. They think replacing it with a republic would be the best move.
This argument about whom the prince should marry may seem elementary if the facts behind the history of the country are not probed.
THE LABOR PARTY HAS held power in the Storting for the great majority of the time since 1945. But last year it won only 74 of the 75 seats it needed for control. The conservatives split the rest of the seats with the Socialist party.
The conservatives are a coalition of several parties. One is the Agrarians with 16 seats, another is the Liberal Conservatives with 14 seats. The Christian Popular Party has 15 seats and the Conservative Party has 29 seats.
Norway has supported a Parliamentary form of government known as the Storting since the second World War.
to the Conservatives coalition when the question of confidence in the old labor Party was raised. The Socialists cast their two votes against the Labor administration because of lack of safety measures in the government mines of Spitsbergen, which the Labor government had been slow to remedy. The new Conservative government was only in power two weeks because it tried to prevent a program from being introduced by the Socialists, causing the Socialists to change back to the Labor Party. The Labor Party then gained 2 seats, giving them a majority—76 seats.
LAST FALL the Socialist People's Party cast its two votes
The Labor Party quickly reinstated most of its old administration, with only a few minor personnel changes.
NORWAY HAS HAD a steady and strong recovery since the second World War, World War II was very hard on Norway. Norway was occupied for most of the war and the Norwegian freedom fighters were among the bravest. Unlike its "neutral" neighbor Sweden, Norway chose to fight the Nazis and suffer the consequences of being an occupied country. Norway's natural resources were greatly drained during the war by the Nazis, notably the forests.
There exists in Norway an almost "classless society" because of the extensive socialization which was established by the Labor Party after the war. Socialization is apparent in many aspects of Norwegian life. It can be seen in medicine, the price controls, the school programs, and the pensions. Pensions range from old age to unemployment to wage subsidy.
THE AVERAGE WAGE is about $800 to $899 per year. This can be compared to the United States' average yearly income of
$2,100 to $2,199; and to Russia's average yearly income per capita of $600 to $699.
The Labor Party also has the following achievements on which to stand:
It has made Norway a contributing member of the United Nations ($72,836 or about 2 cents per capita as comapred to the United States' contribution of $3,501,709, or about $1½ cents per capita; or to Russia's unpaid yearly contribution of $1,400,684, or about .67 cents per capita).
Norway sent soldiers and advisers to the Congo under the UN command, and presently makes up about half of the Danor Battalion which is serving the UN in the Middle East.
For each year since 1958, Norway has experienced an unfavorable balance of the world trade, which shows up as a deficit of more than a half billion dollars per year. That is a pretty big deficit for a country of only $3\frac{1}{2}$ million people.
Most of the difference in the unfavorable balance of trade is
made up by income from the third largest shipping fleet in the world and from its booming tourist business. Norway has scenery more beautiful than that of Colorado with prices as inexpensive as in Old Mexico.
What has all this to do with Harold's love life? Harold, simply by his situation, has the possible potential power of abolishing a monarchy, and thus instilling a republic form of government. It is hardly likely that the monarchy will be abolished if Harold married a commoner, especially since King Olaf's family is so popular in Norway and the Norwegians take great pride in their royal family.
THE AVERAGE MARRYING age for Norwegian males is about 24 years, but as some of the Norwegian newspapers have pointed out, the 28-year-old Prince Harold hasn't revealed any of his matrimonial plans; it is all speculation by his watchful subjects.
— T. S. Moore
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