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

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Page El THE BANISHMENT OF YOQLD HUNGHH CONT'D is being produced. Japan isn't the only country A that needs aid. India is steadily increasing in population. Agricultural soil production can't overtake population growths ' , The hunger waves even gnaw at our North American island of plenty. Yet the outlook is no longer' as hopeless as it seems. The raising of food need no longer be bound to the production of the soil. The success of the Jamaican factory is really as important in its way as the realease of atomic energy. Similar plants are on the Phillippines. Soon many more of these plants will be able to go to' work producing the proteins humans desperately need. Elsie Abbott CLASS wELcoME V Honorable board of trustees, worthy members of the faculty, alumni, parents, classmates, and friends: we welcome you here on this day, which marks the end of our four years of high school. During this time we have seen a war in progress, which induced many new scientific developments, the question in our minds is, nwill the great developments be used for our welfare or our destruction?U, - In procuring a high school education we have made the first step towards answering the question ourselves, We are entering a troubled world with a good education. The solution to many of these problems will be eventu- ally in the hands of all high ,school students every- w ere. - we are looking forward to the opportunity to help in some way, to do our part towards insuring world peace. ' Cynthia Pearson

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Page 20 THE BANISHMENT OF WORLD HUNGER CONT'D manufactured. This has been tried, and some V ordinary soil plants have been grown in chemically treated watert The costs of these Whydroponicn foods proved toov high to make them generally valuable. V There also has been a careful investigation of more food from the ocean but no real hope has been offered from this source. A Since prehistoric times men have depended upon grain and animals which feed upon, grain for their food supply. Both depended upon the soils Recently a new food-producing team that thrives 'in llquid pastures without the aid of soil has been discovered. The newt Ngrainn is Chlorella, a green alga or single-celled plant. Fed with common minerals and gas, many times as much basic food can be grown in an acre of shallow pond as on an acre of our best soil. r ' The yeast ee11 is the other member of the new food team. This team works together much as grain and hog have worked for centuries but without the use of soil. If the earth's present two billions were given an equalized right to eat, there would be less than one acre'of productive land to grow the food each needs. This shows how much mankind has outgrown' the corn-hog team of food production. 4 The Japanese farmer is very skillful and the production per acre is as high in Japan as anywhere in the world, but population of Japan has increased and only fourefifths of the food needed to feed its people

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Page A2 CLASS Essay. I By Walter Meyer As this is our last day at Leland and Gray, I thidcback over the four years that my classmates and I have spent at this institution. The first day that I' attended I eew'eheet a gdosen of the gboyspstanding' gn, the front steps. Not wlthout thought of storles of lnltiations dnt 1 had heard, and with e last look at the Mfeehteih, 1 started through the crowd. By a stroke of luck ' it seemed, ,I passed through them and closed the door behind ' me. AsAI looked around, I saw students walking, running, trotting, here, there, and everywhere. The majority of the students were going upstairs at the right so I fol- lowed. I found a fellow whom I had met once and found that he was in the same predicament as I' in that he d1dh't know what to de or where to ge either. It' made me feel better to know that there was somebody else in the same situation. ' We were all called together and told that we would each be interwiewed .by a teacher and our schedule. would bed made out for us. After a short wait in line I came te the desk where I receiwed my schedule and was' told the beeke that I would need. I started eh ' the search res text books which proved to be quite e teak. 1 r1he11y found a senior who had bought up books the year before cheaply and was reselling them now. From him I bought' an English book, from another fellow a mathematics textt when I attended biology class the teacher told us he had some new books he would sell to us. In this way we were