Prices Are Going Up

     The spiraling prices of inflation have been a matter of adult concern for months. Now Glenridge Students are feeling the pinch, as their allowances buy less and less each day, because prices are going up everywhere - even in the cafeteria.
     Groans of protest have been heard because the favorite hotdog went from a dime to fifteen cents. Spaghetti, chili, in fact, all meat dishes are more expensive. "Why?" the hungry students ask. "Who's Making the profit?"
     Here, as far as the Kilt has been able to determine, is the answer to your questions. It's not a happy answer, but it is based on facts.
     The cafeteria is organized and run as a non-profit convenience for the students of Glenridge. But while it is intended to be non-profit, it is also obliged to be self-supporting. That is, it may not run "in the red".
     Since the beginning of school this year the cafeteria has run at a loss. Until now the total deficit comes to the staggering sum of $1,399.38. There is nowhere in the school funds money set aside to absorb this type of running loss. Something must be done to reconcile income (what you pay for your lunches) with expenditures (what the cafeteria pays for the unprocessed food, plus labor costs).
     Here are a few food facts pointing out the difference in prices in September 1957 and February 1958: Ground meat was $.33 per pound. It is now $.43 per pound. Beef stew was $.44 per pound - is now $.59 per pound. Hot dogs were $.38 per pound and are now $.43.
     Meat has shown the greatest rise in price but lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, and eggs are all up in price. Ice Cream, too, has increased.
     Before you kick about prices, fact facts. You might ask your mother, the one who battles the budget in your family, how much more it costs to feed your family. Her answer should reflect the statistics made available to the Kilt by glenridge's administration.

How Would Washington
Feel About American
Problems Today?

     George Washington would probably feel as though the problems facing America would never end. When he was our president didn't he have problems with our country's newly won independence? At that time the people turned to him, a great leader, for help. Now would the people turn to him for help with their different problems that are facing us today.
     But, in a large sense, are our problems really so different? In Washington's time they were concerned with building a large nation and exploring what lay beyond their boundaries. Don't we have the same problems today. Only now the boundaries we are exploring are taking us into outer space - into the celestial universe. Maybe someday Mars will be a part of the world, even a part of the United States.
     In Washington's day there were many problems relating to transportation. The means of transportation were primitive and inadequate for taking them as far as they wanted to go. Now we are faced with a similar problem. We have modes of transportation that would have seemed fantastically advanced to Washington, but they fall short of our destinations into outer space. Now America is working on rockets to solve that problem.
     I think Washington, after the initial shock was over, would find our problems in America not too different from the ones he faced with the thirteen original states.

Mary Hoelle

Everybody Has Sciencitus

     When Russia's first Sputnik went soaring into outer space, a new educational disease hit America - science. Suddenly all education talk revolves about this word, and its pet partner - mathematics.
     If you happen to be one of the forgotten creatures, who does not excel in either of these two subjects, you might just as well dig a hole and pull it in after you for all the country cares. Unless your busy totaling figures, or clinking test tubes, you are definitely anti-America. "What? You want to write a poem? How un American can you get?" "A picture you want to paint? Make sure you've got a rocket in it!"
     Those of you who do not plan to make like Madam Curee or Einstein, but had other careers in mind - wait. This science epidemic will surely burn itself out. Follow the careers for which your abilities prepare you - only then can you be happy.

Diane VanCort