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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1974
Reserve
food just
not there
“Man can live by bread alone but
not women and children.”
The two-day conference is spon
sored by the Tropical Studies Prog
ram which is host to an international
group of participants including the
Philippine Council for Agricultural
Research and the United States
Department of Agriculture.
Conference Director, Dr.
Clarissa Kimber, said the sessions
here will “ . . . examine the impli
cations of two critical problems fac
ing mankind — problems which wilh
influence all of our lives between
now and the year 2000 and prob
lems with which TAMU has long
recognized and sought to solve with
its special skills.”
Johannes van Overbeek, profes
sor of biology, said countries that
depended on low cost grain reserves
are in trouble because reserves are
now non-existent. This comes on
the heels of news that some 10 mill
ion tons of grain are needed within
the next few months to prevent ex
tensive death by starvation in the
poorest countries.
“Grain that used to come from
Food for Peace has been taken over
by the National Security Council
and is being distributed on a politi
cal basis to countries such as South
Vietnam, Cambodia and Chile
which are not acutely threatened by
hunger,” he said.
He said the 1972-73 grain crop
(the best ever) can support 1.26 bill
ion people at the living standards of
North Americans.
“Obviously, with nearly 4 billion
people in the world today we have
already over-shot our optimum and
are heading for an increasingly re
duced standard of living,’ Van
Overbeek said.
Switching to population, he said
that availability of contraceptives
and family planning clinics is not
enough of an incentive to make
women have fewer children in the
poorer half of the world.
“It requires a political decision,
not biological, to provide for univer
sal education, women in the work
force, free health service and social
security, before the fertility rate of
women will decline,” Van Over
beek said.
“Soybeans,” he said, “are the
only ray of hope for the immediate
future because soybeans provide
their own fertilizer which, in turn,
provides the protein required for
muscle and brain cell production in
children. Millions of people are cur
rently suffering from protein defi-
ciency that can cause irrepairable
brain damage in children.
| Bulletin Board |
TUESDAY
CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT features Dr. Klaus
Schwarz, speaking on "Physiological Role of
Selenium at 4 p. m. in room 114 of the Herman
Heep Building.
SEMINAR ON “SOME INTERFACIAL AND
THIN FILM TRANSPORT PHENOMENA"
will feature Dr. VV. M. Saslow at 5:15 p.m. in
room 227A of the Zachrv Engineering Center.
WEDNESDAY
BRYAN COUNCIL OF STUTTERERS will not
meet this week. Regular meetings resume Dec. 2
at the Brazos Valley Rehabilitation Center.
DR. KLAUS SCHWARZ SPEAKS on “Selenium as
an Essential Element," in room 114 of the Her
man Heep Building.
DR. GERALD SWANSON, asst, professor of politi
cal science, will speak on the political aspects ol
Coastal Zone Management, at3p. m. in room 206
of the Oceanography and Meteorology Building.
SATURDAY
DEWITT - LAVACA HOMETOWN CLUB PARTY
at 6:30 p.m. on Mockingbird Hill, 5 miles west of
Yoakum.
MONDAY
CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENT WIVES CLUB
will hold a Christmas party in mom 120 of the C.
E. Building at 7:30 p.m. Bring homemade orna
ments to decorate the Christmas tree for the C.
E. lohln.
WEDNESDAY
COLLOQUIUM ON “MECHANISM OF BIOLOG
ICAL NITROGEN FIXATION" will he pre
sented Dec. 4, at 4 p.m. in room 231 of the
Chemistry Building. Dr. G. N. Schrauzerof the
University of California will he speaking.
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