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University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 12, 1962
SPU Circulates Petitions Urging Food for China
The KU chapter of the Student Peace Union is circulating a petition urging President Kennedy to make U.S. food surpluses available to Communist China.
Fetitions are to be carried by all members of the SPU, posted in the large dormitories and made available at the information booth.
Larry Laudan, Lawrence graduate student and acting chairman of KU's chapter, said last night that a goal of 100,000 names has been set for Kansas by the Kansas Freedom from Hunger Committee, a group supporting the aims of the U.N. Freedom from Hunger Campaign. The SPU is circulating the petition at KU for this group.
THE PETITION CALLS for the President and Congress to offer famine relief to Red China under a public law permitting grants of food to friendly people regardless of the friendliness of their government.
The petition says the food should be given through United Nation's channels. It suggests working under the auspices of the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization's current "Freedom from Hunger Campaign."
The petition also suggests that arrangements be made through the United Nations for Red China to repay the United Nations in money or in food. The amount repaid would be used to meet future families in other parts of the world.
THE PETITION LISTS 18 supporters, many of them either clergymen or persons connected with religious organizations.
Included in this list are John Ise, professor emeritus of economics, and Dr. William C. Meninger of the Menninger Foundation, Topeka.
Laudan described the petition as an "appeal to America's humanitarian motives." He said "seven to eight million people are dying annually in Red China while surplus
grain is rotting in storage bins in the United States.
Laudan said there are two other advantages — economic and political. The United States would reap economic benefits by eliminating its surpluses and the cost of storage could be eliminated. U.S. farmers would be able to sell their products on the open international market without competing with government farm surpluses offered at lower prices.
LAUDAN SAID U.S. surpluses given to Red China would not interfere with Canadian and Australian grain sales to Red China because the demand is great enough to take both U.S. surpluses and Canadian and Australian grain
He said the United States would benefit politically because the gift of surpluses would show that we
are "willing to transend petty political differences and really help." He said this would show that the United States is not just trying to buy friends with foreign aid but actually wants to help starving people.
Laudan said President Kennedy indicated interest in the plan when Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn., introduced a bill in the Senate that would implement the actions urged by the petition. However, the President was hesitant to offer support because he was not sure the American people favored the move.
LAUDAN SAID A recent Gallup Poll showed that 55 per cent of those polled favor sending U.S. food surpluses to Red China and 38 per cent oppose the move. The remaining seven per cent were undecided.
First Engineering Exposition Exhibit Goes to Smithsonian
An exhibit built by two University of Kansas students for the first Engineering Day in 1923 has been accepted by the Smithsonian Institution for display in a new wing which will show scientific and industrial exhibits.
The honored exhibit is a 14-foot high scale model of a wooden cable oil drilling rig assembled by Robert C. Mitchell and Arthur T. Sewell during their idle moments while working at the KU power plant.
IN THE 1920's THIS type drilling rig was a common sight in Kansas and Midcontinent oil fields. Presently, the replica is on display on the second floor of Lindley Hall.
The scale model is still in mint condition. Each piece was meticulously reduced to scale. The rig still
works and the drilling is accomplished by raising and dropping the bit by means of a "walking beam" which is powered by an electric motor.
The model contains a motor shed to house the engine, extra drill bits and a bailer to remove the cuttings from the well bore.
MITCHELL LIVES in Florida with his wife where he retired to in 1960 after spending seven years at KU as a research associate. Sewell is a retired commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve and operates a gun shop in Phoenix, Ariz.
Mitchell and Sewell demonstrated their rig during the 1923 Engineering Day by drilling in a sample of Douglas County shale.
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