by Brother
TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY
Malvin R.
. . . IT'S LATE
Goode
by Bro. Malvin R. Goode We live today in a world that gets smaller by the hour. The first time I came to Detroit a quarter of a century ago I drove from Pittsburgh and it took almost twelve hours. That driving distance is about half that now, but yesterday I came from Pittsburgh in less than two hours on a slow plane. Last summer I traveled almost 30,000 miles across Africa, one day 2,200 miles alone in about seven hours time with several stops along the way. If your city is as great as I believe it to be, if you have grown as the statistics indicate, those of you who live in and around it have the responsibility to live great too. It's late for accomplishing the things we must accomplish. First, on an international scale, the world is spending 120 billions annually for military might, the equivalent of 9% of the world's output of goods and services, a sum that equals the entire national income of all the underdeveloped countries of the world. Our budget alone is 53 billion, more than half our total budget of 110 billion. In this century we have had two world wars and a multitude of brush fire wars and "police actions" so-called, with the loss of millions of young'lives and billions in money, and we're right where we started. Last Monday we celebrated Veteran's Day, and I have said we should go back to calling it Armistice Day because Armistice means a brief cessation of arms, a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement, a truce.
There are basically only three or four areas of life that need attention, that man might live in Peace: the Battle of the haves against the have-nots, those who refuse to accept poverty as a fact of life, the battle of ideologies - communism against capitalism, some r e ligious struggles, and the revolt of those who are tired of being discriminated against because of skin color. This wise motto is enshrined in the UNESCO charter, "There is no peace in the world today because there is no peace in the minds of men." At the United Nations, one hundred and elev-, en Nations are meeting regularly trying to map out a program for world peace. The Test Ban Treaty has been signed by more than one hundred nations. The temporary successes in the Cuban Crisis, the Congo, the Middle East Armistice effected by Haile Sellasie are examples of what can be done in this area. We are working on the elimination of poverty and hunger. It is hardly right that mankind should die in India, or China, or anywhere else from sheer lack of food when the granaries of some nations are bulging, or that 17% of our population should go to bed hungry when food goes to waste in New York, or fruit rots on the trees in Florida because of poor distribution. The Economic and Social Commission of the UN works tirelessly to develop a program that will some day eliminate hunger in the world. In our country, like it or not, we have worked out a program of public assistance which actually keeps an American from going
EMPEROR HALIE SELASSIE OF ETHOPIA is greeted by Brother Goode, ABC United Nations Correspondent.
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without food. In the field of health, millions are appropriated each year by the World Health Organization to educate doctors and nurses, build hospitals, set up some system to provide medical attention in those areas so long deprived of medical care. In our country, e x cept in the bigoted sections, the poorest can obtain medical attention in clinics and outpatient departments of the best hospitals. The fear of family illness does not hang today like a heavy shadow over most families for employers, mutual beneficial organizations, hospitalization plans are available to assist in meeting these emergencies. Ten days ago I was privileged to participate in a Press Conference at ABC's New York studios with Alabama's Governor Wallace. When I asked him about holding back the progress of his state by denying one-third of the population equality, he answered me with a discussion about dropouts in the schools. When I asked him "Have you though* ^bout giving leadership in the opposite direction, leading the people of Alabama into the light of respect for the Law and put off the darkness of ignorance and outmoded conventions, he answered with a diatribe about his belief in God . . . but never a direct answer. On the campus of Princeton University five weeks ago, Governor Barnett told the students, "We don't talk about equality in Mississippi, we talk about justice and the 'Nigra' in Mississippi (Continued on page 16)
BROTHER MALVIN GOODE LECTURES on broadcasting journalism to a group of professional African journalists in Lagos, Nigeria. Other leaders s h o w n are Dean Burton Marvin of the William Allen White School of Journalism, and John McCormally, editor of the Hutchinson (Kans.) N e w s .
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