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this probably doesn't look like your home or any typical home the architecture is a little different the roof is not slanted and has no shingles nor small brick chimney the building itself is far larger than your home or mine there are many more windows and doors and floors nevertheless for nine months of the year this is the home of 900 to 1200 boys at Iowa State University it is Wallace Wilson a unit of the towers residents Association like any home Wallace Wilson needs someone to scrub the floors vacuum the carpets wash the windows and clean out the sinks and like any home Wallace Wilson needs someone to feed those hungry boys most of us too must scrub floors vacuum the carpets and wash the windows but we spend the majority of our day in the kitchen planning and preparing three meals a day for our family of four or six or maybe even 10 or 11 we shopped for groceries set the table before the meal and clean up our kitchen after one we make sure the right condiments are out at each meal and if you're like me you get tired of that kitchen work sometimes even if you're only feeding three or four or ten or eleven today I hope to make our kitchen work seem lighter our preparation for a meal starts with a sack or two of groceries at Wallace Wilson the foodstuffs come by the truckloads and are put on that ramp you and I get up early to get breakfast for our families these cooks are in the kitchen at five o'clock each morning today they used 90 dozen eggs and thirty pounds of bacon it took 9 to 12 pounds of oats for the oatmeal and this is about what it takes no matter what hot cereal is used and those boys of theirs ate between 50 and 55 dozen rolls or doughnuts they started on lunch now today its hamburgers in a bun but on a macaroni day it would take 80 pounds of noodles and 35 gallons of milk stew takes 180 pounds of meat 50 pounds of carrots 1 case of celery and five pounds of onions two winter type dishes our chili and chicken and noodles chili takes three cases of kidney beans three cases of tomatoes and 180 pounds of meat chicken and noodles calls for four cases of chicken 20 gallons of water and four jars of chicken base almost all the food is kept hot in thermal tanners at the front of each serving line the temperature can be regulated according to the type of food although soup is a well-liked addition to many meals often instead there is a vegetable the amount for this varies for example 160 pounds of peas is enough but it takes 200 pounds of corn some vegetables as any woman knows are not eaten as quickly as others one of the first chores these ladies do before beginning their work is to set up the trays for the salads even this varies from meal to meal and from day to day today they're using saucers for orange slices another time it might be large bowls for apple sauce they'd use small bowls to make that salad they would need 24 number 10 cans of apple sauce plus any spices they might add like cinnamon at times the apple sauce is heated for a special taste Helen June and Mary often make jello and fruit cocktail it takes four gallons of jell-o 16 gallons of water and 12 number 10 cans of fruit cocktail the jello is usually garnished with endive or lettuce that dish would feed about 800 for a lettuce salad in a large bowl they need two cases of lettuce dressings offered vary from blue cheese to French to creamy Italian to thousand Island and usually there are three or four kinds to choose from when they have a tomato plate it takes more than six cases or more than 360 Tomatoes sometimes the boys are served pineapple slices topped with a scoop of cool sherbert or cottage cheese the salad ladies use 16 number 10 cans of pineapple on those days when sliced peaches are on the menu the ladies open about 26 number 10 cans the bakery department prides itself on its delicious and varied desserts to make today's pie crust Donna and Virginia needed 45 pounds of flour 30 pounds of shortening one and a half gallons of water and one and a half cups of salt the filling took 15 gallons of milk 15 cups of corn starch 22 cups of flour 3 and 3/4 gallons of sugar 10 tablespoons of salt 30 cups of eggs and 2 cups of vanilla a pumpkin pie filling calls for 160 eggs 10 number 10 cans of pumpkin 30 pounds of flour eight and a quarter gallons of evaporated milk plus a cup or so of ginger cloves and cinnamon rolls a kind of special treat need two gallons of water 2 pounds of yeast 44 eggs 44 pounds of roll mix and three quarts of water chocolate cake is another popular dessert Donna and Virginia need 11 pounds of shortening 28 pounds of sugar 128 eggs 16 cups of water 2 gallons of milk about 21 tablespoons of vanilla 16 tablespoons each of baking soda salt and powder 21 pounds of cake flour and the chocolate the bakery ladies use a wide variety of equipment this mixer which Virginia hooks up can run at several speeds they also have an oven with rotating shelves a freezer and a cooler for storage and large kettles like the one Jane used for her tomato soup for sack lunches which students get if they have a class at mealtime Donna and Virginia often make chocolate chip cookies they use 20 pounds of shortening 20 cups of brown sugar 20 pounds of white sugar 80 eggs about 12 tablespoons each of salt and soda more than 30 pounds of flour 30 pounds of chocolate chips two gallons plus of nuts and water vanilla and butternut chips Margaret doesn't get in on food preparation except on the Sunday she works her job is to take care of the main dining room the two party rooms and the training room for the Iowa State athletes she washes 85 tables and about 560 chairs each day once after breakfast and once after lunch it takes her about an hour or so each time she also fills sugar salt and pepper shakers and has them run through the dish machine when they need cleaning in addition she puts catsup or mustard bottles or steak sauce on each table when the menu calls for them and she almost always puts a large pan of catsup mustard and pickle relish on a center table in the dining room no matter what is on the menu her job is fairly routine unless she finds a sugar shaker which has been turned upside down and the lid placed on the top to make it look normal if she's not careful she'll spill sugar all over the table when she lifts the shaker up sometimes she'll spot a glass stuck to the bottom of the table with a butter patty and she'll have to catch it before it falls well Margaret cleans up the dining hall ox finishes up the dishes which were left from the previous meal during meal time the dishmachine line is manned primarily by student help cups glasses plates saucers large and small bowls silverware and trays are sorted as they come through on the conveyor belt although ox loads and unloads the Machine himself here at busy times several sort several load the machine and several unload from conveyer belt to dish machine to storage rack takes only a few seconds and the dishes are scalded and dried and ready to go at the next meal the dish machine is not the only remarkable piece of equipment at Wallace Wilson this is a steamer used for many of the vegetables which are fixed the quantity of serving utensils in itself is something to see these spoons are used to serve vegetables on the line scoops are used not only to dish sherbet and ice cream but for mashed potatoes made right hamburgers and potato salad ladles in the smaller size like the one Maryland finds are used to serve catsup mustard and relishes on the center table in the main dining hall and of course this kitchen has its shelves of pots and pans and pitchers measuring cups and measuring gallons two inch pans four inch pans cereal containers strainers after seeing all this doesn't your day seem brighter recently dr. [Madi Moussa?] made a presentation sponsored by the Arab student organization and the Iowa State University lecture committee his presentation was entitled the arab-israeli conflict he is professor of history at Gannon College in Erie Pennsylvania he's had quite a bit of experience with I think the United Nations with various positions prior to your taking the position as professor at history at Gannon would you like to review that just a little bit before we go into the some of these topics actually I was associated with the United States Embassy in Baghdad for five years and then I received a United Nations scholarship to study at the University of Wales for one year I believe 1953-54 yeah before I came to the United States well let's since we have only a limited amount of time I'll go on to some of the problems that are part of our everyday living the arab-israeli conflict where do we go from here to perhaps establish some kind of I would call positive equilibrium for the people of the Middle East being able to live together peacefully I think that peace is possible since both the Jews and the Arabs are somatic people culturally I mean because somatic actually mean it is a cultural term as long as both have almost same background and same culture I shouldn't see why they couldn't get together and live in peace as somatic people not as Arabs and Western people or Europeans as the Israelis love to call themselves I think Dorcas the the the the core of the problem is that these scientists in Israel think of Israel as an exclusively Jewish state where none Jew has no place so once you base a state on theocracy or racism or chauvinism this exclude naturally exclude all the other people and and there'll be no peace in the Middle East as long as Israel pursues its Zionist philosophy so the Zionisation of Israel is the answer I'm what I mean here is that the that Israel should resign to the fact that it's only a Middle Eastern state with a Middle Eastern culture and not as a European state with Western culture in which you know the Arabs are only secondary class citizens now this implies then that the culture that has been established there is the Zionist culture is not of the original Zionist flavor but as you say of the Western flavor which makes it incompatible at the present time with the Middle East culture (inaudible) just to comment on one thing you mentioned Zionist culture actually Zionism is not a culture it's a political movement which emerged in the 19th century among the Jewish Eastern European intelligentsia to solve the so-called Jewish problem in Eastern Europe and you realize of course that many Jews lived in the ghettos of Russia they were persecuted by the Russians because they wouldn't become assimilated in the Russian society and hence is the pogroms of 1881 1882 there was some persecution over there and some of the Jewish intelligentsia for that the persecution of problem which they called anti-semitism cannot be solved unless these Jews will have a stoat a state of their own and well they wanted Palestine because of alleged historical association with the land but some of them even did not think of of Palestine like dr. Leon Pinsker he did not care whether it is Palestine or anywhere else as long as he could the Jews could establish a state in which to get rid of these Gentile persecution so it's a it's a it's a political national movement now in our present century and with the certainly interrelated cultures throughout the world becoming more important for survival for all again how do we solve this well by establishing good will as the good Americans did to the Arabs in the 19th century Dorcas not many Americans know that the cultural of the Arab cultural Renaissance or I call it Renaissance or awakening in the Middle East was motivated by purely by American people those good people those good missionaries who went to the Middle East established schools and hospitals created a great deal of goodwill among the Arabs the result of their labor was the American University of Beirut the American University of Cairo Robert College in Istanbul and many many American schools my sister right now is a teacher in Baghdad in the American School for Girls now America has had strong you know cultural relations with the with the Arab world it has established goodwill among the Arabs I don't see why America shouldn't you know re-establish its cultural relations with the Arabs and help them without cutting its relation with Israel as I mentioned to you on your radio show that the Arabs really are not saying that the United States should turn its back you know to Israel and favor the Arabs the arabs are saying that the United States should not completely identify itself with Israel and favors Israel at the expense of the Arabs that is injustice now so you think the climate is such that overtures by the United States to give the help that is needed would be accepted yes it would I think the first step right now for the United States to do or to take is to establish to re-establish its relations with Egypt because I am positive that there's no one in the Middle East today and among all of the Arab leaders who aspires to re-establish relations with the United States like Nasser President Nasser really wants to establish relations with the United States but as I told you before that the the makers of foreign policy in Washington are pressured too much by pressure groups here mainly Jewish group Jewish pressure group and in that sense they cannot really come up with any viable foreign policy which would establish good will with the other states and I wish we had longer but we do not all right I'm sorry no our guest is dr. [Madi Moussa?] who is a professor of history at Gannon College in Erie Pennsylvania he made a presentation entitled the arab-israeli conflict for the audience at Iowa State this was sponsored by the Arab student organization and the Iowa State University lecture committee and thank you very very much thank you very much dorcas