Leland and Gray High School - Messenger Yearbook (Townshend, VT)

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:age io . ' SALUTATORY Honorable board of trustees, members of the faculty, parents, schoolmates, and friends: In behalf of the class of l949,' I am happy to wel- come you to our graduation exercises. Our class wishes to express our thanks to you- for the help and encourage- ment given us during the past four years and.we sincerely hope you will enjoy the program. l THE Bmismmur or wonm HUNGER r One of the wor1d's greatest problems is hunger. If everybody had enough to eat most of the troubles of the world could be solved. Experts in th1s'f1eld have warned that there is not enough land on earth to raise the food humans need. There is too little to eat for the numbers of people and half of the world's population is underfed. A fifth of the people live on the brink of hunger. Less than a third .get the .calories required lto keep them healthy.. . A H , 'we face the problem of how to produce more food from the amount of soil we haves, Already the burden that millions load on the soil is destroying the lands Double the present soil, production' would be required to'bring all the people of the world up to the eating standards of the well-fed nationso So'why not use the water to proe duce food? I I I The knowledge of science has now come to our aid and has found a way to produce. food without the aid of soil. Many experiments are under way land the most recently publicized one is in Jamaica, west Indies, where one fac- tory has turned crude molasses into food yeast which people are eating, There was a surplus of molasses

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ve1ed1ezery - een:'a' - Yet for 'all of that, it is to be doubted that -the senior class would give up one bit of thef ceremonies, in spite er all the trouble it gives them., This is our day, and I'm afraid we intend to make the most of it. I suspect that even the generel pub11c.would'nQt sive 1t.nn,tQ9,f05Mr, lyee It is one of the few times that the alumni can get to- gether and congratulate one another on still looking fine, when the older residents can remember when they were in high school, and, in short, when those who are interested in the school can come and enjoy the company of others of a similar state of mind. A - Again, if afterwards, one goes away with the feeling of having been uplifted, it eerte1n1y -would be ve11a re assume that something has come from the program. Should we say that it has been enjoyed? A pleasure much akin to re- ligion in nature, for any worth-while religion must be pri- marily an emotional approach to life, regardless of any professed beliefs. And here too, the feeling is the most important thing, regardless of what else may be offered. ' This, then, is graduation, Let us respect it, not for the many things it really is not, as we Qso often do, but for what it is, a quiet time when one can relax -and ,enjoy ,the fellcwshfp it offers, f ' ,William Knight

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' ' Page THE BANISHMENT OF WORLD HUNGER CONT'D piling up in the West Indies and the naeivis were in great need of more protein in their diets The new torula yeast which contains more than forty per cent protein was the answero It sparked the construction of the Jamaican factory which is now producing high-protein food yeast for human consumption at a rate of five tons a day, This factory doesn't have much difficulty in ' selling its output for human consumption., The natives are eating it in porridgelg fish cakes and flapjackso It won't be possible to duplicate the texture of unground meats with the proteins produced by yeasto These must still be pro- duced by the soilbound plants and animalso But ice creamy weiners and sausages, processed cheeses, milk and cream substitutes, breakfast cereals and dehydrated canned soups can be made without difficultys Now the question arisesg can this food be bought within reach of the poverty- stricken millions who don't get enough to eat? Certainly thefworlE.can't afford not to feed its hungry millions now that a way to feed them has been foundo Ther cases give the indication of being as low as ordinary food Nbut depend largely upon the success of the engineers, ' ' The advancement in this food production has been made possible by the-study of one-celled plants which grow in rthe water instead, of the soils It climaxes a struggle science has been carrying on for a century to find ways of producing food,beyond the limits of the soils For a time it was hoped that food pills could be