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Griffin Daily News Monday, November 19, 1973
Page 22
This hungry world
Question: do we care?
"They that die by famine,
die by inches."
—Mathew Henry
By Don Oakley
(Last in a series)
Humanity's food supply is
at a critical point.
On the one hand, “the
chance of enough food for
millions of human beings
may simply depend on the
whims of one year's weath
er," as FAO Director-General
A H. Boerma warned re
cently.
In other words, many,
many people are living
perilously close to the edge of
starvation.
On the other hand, hunger
can be all but eliminated
from human experience if
man is willing to make this
his highest common global
priority.
What it all comes down to
is will and money.
The real power to provide
an adequate diet for the
world lies with the rich and
powerful nations of the
world.
For, as most observers
point out, the food gap bet
ween the wealthy few and the
poor majority on the planet,
is at root a reflection of the
increasingly lopsided dis
tribution of the world s in
come.
For instance, the develop
ing countries — where
malnutrition is a fact of life
for 40 to 80 per cent of the
people - have been severely
deprived of their share of
world commerce. Where the
developing world accounted
for 40 per cent of world trade
10 years ago, their share to
day is 17 per cent.
During the U.N.’s First De
velopment Decade, ending in
1970, the total gross world
GROSS NATIONAL
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product increased by sl.l
TRILLION, 80 per cent of
which went to the in
dustrialized countries with
only one-quarter of the
world's population.
Only 6 per cent of the in
crease went to the 60 per cent
of the earth’s population with
yearly incomes of S2OO or
less.
The only way to reverse
this trend is for the wealthy
countries — the U.S., Western
Europe, the Soviet Union,
Australia, Canada, Japan —
to give outright, or else make
available on easy loan terms,
more capital and machinery
to speed agricultural growth
in the poor countries.
The poor countries, them
selves, must restructure their
agriculture away from pri
mitive, subsistence farming
in order to increase output
and provide jobs for their ex
panding populations.
For this to happen, there
must be a drastic rearrang
ing of world trade patterns
which encourage poor coun
tries to specialize in crops
(such as cocoa) which bring
in foreign capital but fail to
feed their own people.
The need for cash in the de
veloping countries has
resulted in such paradoxes as
Peruvian fish, which could
supply critically important
protein for malnourished
Peruvians, being exported as
cat food and cattle feed to the
United States.
The situation is aggravated
by tariffs and non-tariff bar
riers which the wealthy na
tions use to suppress econom
ic growth in the poor coun
tries.
Robert McNamara, World
Bank President, says that
with one hand, we help poor
countries and then, with the
other, we penalize them for
competing with us in manu
factures.
Nor has foreign aid been as
great as commonly believed.
The U.S. ranks near the bot
tom of the list in terms of aid
to poor countries. When in
terest and principal pay
ments on previous loans are
deducted from our 1973
foreign aid, for example, the
Nixon administration's re
quest for $3.3 billion is chop
ped down to $1.3 billion —
about one-tenth of 1 per cent
of our GNP — at a cost to
each American of less than
two cents a day.
Clearly, drastic and con
certed effort is needed on the
part of the well-fed world to
increase standards of living
and food output in the poor
world and, coincidentally,
begin to reduce population
growth rates.
One plan currently being
proposed by Boerma involves
a whole series of national and
international actions to en
sure stable, orderly growth of
world food production and
trade, and to expand money
making opportunities for the
developing world.
The plan would reduce or
eliminate artificial barriers
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deaths
to world trade.
A third element to the FAO
plan is a stockpile of
emergency food supplies
against local famines
wrought by drought, flood,
frost or blight. But it is a
band-aid measure, targeted
at spot crises.
If this - or any - plan is to
succeed, to bring the people
of the world into some sort of
humane balance, it must be
implemented on a global
basis — and fast.
Not just the U.S. but all the
wealthy countries can, and
must in their own self-in
terest, do more to remedy the
maldistribution of the world s
wealth.
Otherwise, more than halt
the world’s people will con
tinue to live shortened half
lives of chronic fatigue and
illness and to raise large
numbers of stunted or
retarded children. And as
they continue to fall farther
behind in the race against
poverty and famine, we will
sacrifice perhaps the best
part of our national heritage
in the process - our
humanity.
The real question is: do we
care?
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Leaders
differ
on ration
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
There were differences of
opinion both within Congress
and within 4 the administration
today on whether and how soon
it will be necessary to ration
gasoline.
President Nixon says he has
asked Congress only for “con
tingency” authority to ration
gasoline if that becomes neces
sary. He told a televised news
conference with Associated
Press managing editors in
Orlando, Fla., Saturday that
“our goal is to make it not
necessary.”
Two Democratic senators
disagreed with the President’s
assessment Sunday. Sen. Wil
liam Proxmire, Wis., said:
“Gasoline rationing is essential.
We have to have it no matter
what happens. As it looks now
we’re going to have gasoline
rationing for at least a year or
so.”
Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mansfield, Mont., said
rationing “is the only way that
I can see, hard though it may
be.”
Mansfield said the President
already has authority to ration
gasoline under the 1950 Emer
gency Defense Act, “but he
doesn’t want to do it. He will,
as he said last night, consider it
only as a last resort, but in the
meantime, the economy will
burn, and people will freeze
and industries will close down,
unemployment will increase,
inflation will go up and we’re
just paving the way to a
recession next year.”
Mansfield was interviewed on
NBC’s “Meet the Press;”
Proxmire, on CBS’s “Face the
Nation.”
Congress is sharply divided
on the issue. The Senate voted
48 to 40 last week to reject an
amendment to the energy crisis
bill, which would have required
gasoline ration by Jan. 15,
leaving it instead up to the
President. The Senate sche
duled eight hours of debate
today on the bill, to give the
President emergency powers to
deal with the energy shortage.
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Red Cross
chapters
are merged
ATLANTA (UPI) - Most Red
Cross chapters in Georgia will
be included in two divisions
under reorganization plans an
nounced today.
Paul M. Moore, manager of
the Red Cross southeastern
area headquarters in Atlanta,
said the Peach State Division
will include 84 chapters across
the northern half and western
third of the state. The South
Atlanta division will include 43
chapters in the eastern midsec
tion of the state.
Several southern Georgia
counties will remain in the
Suwannee Division with head
quarters in Jacksonville.
The reorganization is part of
national Red Cross efforts to
consolidate chapters into larger
cooperating units, he said.
“Through divisions, smaller
chapters now have available
more extensive resources of
vounteers and staffs to assist
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