Page Eighteen
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Friday, September t O, '1 76
Page Eighteen THE MICHIGAN DAILY Fr~dcy, September 10, 1976
SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN FIVE YEARS:
Food
ROME (AP)-Once the world'st
symbol of starvation, Bangla-;
desh could become self-suffici-
program aids Bangladesh
Making fun-house mirrors
at age 62-and loving it
the construction of levees. Some
two million men and boys took
part in the program this year.
The eventual success of the
program could mean life itself
for hundreds of thousands of
th ( illin nan d Ee2r
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ent in food in five years thanks FOAPICPLsosr h ~ iinepesuee
~II ii uu H I~e edb ~i~is~ FAO, A PRINCIPAL sponsor inoti onr h ieo h
to an innovative food-for-work of the program, reports some to this country the size of the
program, the U.N. Food and 1 500 miles of canals and 1,850 State of Iowa.
Agriculture Organization (FAQ) miles of embankments have al- "It is really amazing what
reports. ready been completed. All this the country has done in such
Under the food-for-work pro- is being done to control the dis- a short time. More earth has'
gram started by the govern- astrous flooding that occurs been dug up for the canals and
ment at the start of 1975 to each year during the monsoon embankments than was dug for
reduce food handouts, a work-I season and use the water in- the building of the Panama Ca-'
er is paid six pounds of wheat stead for controlled irrigation of nal," says Trevor Page, world
for each ton of earth he moves one of the most naturally fer- food program adviser in Bang-
in the dredging of canals and; tile delta regions in the world. ladesh. "At this rate, and with
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increased food production and'
crop surpluses, Bangladesh
could become self-sufficient in
food in five years."
THE COUNTRY'S dependence:
on foreign food imports has, in
fact, begun to drop. Rice andl
wheat production increased
from 10.1 million tons in 1974-75
monsoon rains, causing death
and destruction. A 1974 flood
covered two-thirds of the coun-
try and killed 2,000 persons, andj
scores of persons have died this
year in less serious flooding.
By February, when crops can
be grown without the danger
of floods, water becomes so
LONDON (UPI) - Rufus Ide
looked at himself in one of his
company's mirrors and laughed
and laughed and laughed.
"Look at that," he chortled.
"In this one I'm two feet tall."
IDE IS THE world's only mak-
er of distortiny mirrors_ those'
ide said. "We send them all IDE'S WORKERS make the
over the world." image-twisting mirrors by lay-
"They're a bit trendy now ing a flat sheet of glass over
in boutiques, an assistant put an iron mould which has con-
in. 'cave and convex curves. Heat-
ed in a kiln, the glass gently
"AND THE ARABS," Ide said. collapses onto the mould and
"They come here and see them takes on its gentle twists.
anAfk;Ir t 1111 1. - ,it.,C Then comnes car fi nnnlin
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DELTA SIGMA DELTA
dental fraternity
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to an estimated 11.9 million tons scarce that crops cannot flour-
S 9 .m tfun-house reflectors which turn a giggle to have some at home. a thorough polishing, a silver
in 1975-76. This cut imports ish. your legs into endless spindly We send a lot to the Middle coating sprayed onto one side
from 2.3 million tons to 1.5 mil- Water is our major problem. columns, make thin ladies fat East." and it's a mirror, ready to
lion tons. Either we have too much of it adsn hlrnaloe h
IFood-for-work provided useful: ortoo little," said an official w nd intschildren all over the Ide is a twinkling double- make people laugh.
occupation for one out of four in Dacca. "If we can control "Atleast, shik w' he chinned man, a fringe of san- "We've trimmed the shapes
of the country's seven million our water, we can avoid the Aoly estIdthink e e the;dy hair around his freckled down to six standard curves
unemployed and contributed to disasters that periodically bring only ones who make the pate. He is the fourth genera- of the glass can be thereflect-
a change in direction for the so much misery and suffering g, tion of Ides to run the firmrd r
nto's economy. The FAQ;!to our pole"against any competition.' tind offIe rnt he irmrfc..ah itotngdf
nationy.and a fifth generation - his
said for the first time since The food - for - work program de 62 runs n old-shione son - is waiting in the wings. ferenty ing bsi d.istort-
- o okpormfamily glass firm which has ing mirror patterns in all.
Bangladesh became independent was launched with 50,000 tons been manufacturing laugh-mak- Ide's grandfather worked out
from Pakistan in 1971, the gross of wheat from government stor-enmauctrgluh-k- I'srndterwkdot
natonal prdst rosenin 9 1,9 -76s. hea man ourcent o t ing mirrors since the last cen- British national standards for BESIDES THAT, each mirror
national product rose in 1975-76es. The main source of the ur bent glass - as in curved-glass gives a different effect upside
by an estimated 12 per cent and, wheat now is the World Food shop fronts or one-piece glass down. Distortion also changes
per capita income went up 9 Program, sponsored jointly by "THEY'RE A MOST odd skylight bubbles - which still ; with distance.
per cent, although the average the United Nations and FAO. are in use
income in still under $100 per The food program has contribu- thing, these mirrors," Ide said. Stand at a precise range f'om
year. ted 164,000 tons of wheat. I don't know how they origina- ,,Type No. 034BR," for instance,
Bangladesh lies on a delta ted." NOW, IDE SAID, "We do a and you have two heads - one
formed by the Ganges and the THE U.S. AID program has The most popular theory is t of everything - glass fur- of them upside down - and no
rm yt a es tcontributed50,000tonsAustral-iture, glass coats of arms, body at all. Move in closer and
3Brahmaputra rivers as they cotiue 000tnAsrl that some accident happened at A'merican Bicentennial glass ,
flow down from the Himalaya ia 18,000 tons, The Netherlands the Ide factory in his grand-.'anengraved irroreall fos, you're as broad as you are tall.
mountains. The rivers deposit 6,000 tons and Canada 3,000 tons. father's time and someone got the royalaled inoKamadu.t' "One of the most difficult
some 2.5 billion tons of silt each Much has already been ac- a lot of fun from the result.yK things is the frame," Ide said.
year, making the delta one of complished; the FAO says: "But there aren't any rec- "Distorting mirrors are a "I've never succeeded in
the world's most fertile regions, "It took 8,000 workers three ords. We've been doing them small thing for us, really," he making a simple frame - they
but also filling up river and months to build a 4.5-mile en-! as long as I can remember, said. have to follow the curves of
canal beds. bankment at Anwara on the and long before that." "They're not the big seller the glass. They're still carpen-
FROM JUNE to October each Sangu River to hold back the they were in my grandfather's ters' work, each specially
year, the rivers are flooded by water that has penetrated as IDE'S COMPANY, T. and W. day, when fun fairs and piers made."
-------- -much as 60 miles into the in- Ide, doesn't push its fun-mak- and that sort of thing were
terior. Keeping the land dry ing product very hard. It does- more popular than now. We GLASS FOR THE mirror is
will bring 6,000 new acres into n't need to. make about 100 a year now, warped and bent in a whole
I - - --_ ---- -- --i et in Eurp.Ide's two
B production for rice. "There's a continual demand," though it varies a lot." bank of kilns, one of them the
oldest kilns are called Jumbo
k "ll and Alice, names borrowed a
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Only rarely, these days does
"Mr,. Rufus," as everyone in
the firm calls him, pay much
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But even now, after a life-
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can't help laughing each time
he sees a strangely shaped Ru-
fus Ide reflected. in that undu-
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