Freeman Urges
Leadership
Role For 4-H
Secretary of Agriculture Or
eille L. Freeman last week chal
lenged young people to take a
leadership role in meeting the
moblems of world hunger
abioad and revitalization of ru
ral areas in the United States.
He spoke at the 46th Nation
al 4-H Club Congress in Chi
cago.
Commending the Involvement
of U.S. 4-H Clubs in the War
on Hunger, the Agriculture
Secretary said, “Yet I would
challenge you to do even more,
to give even more of yourselves
to this humanitarian—and deep-
ly practical—effort. If enough
of you do this, I have no doubt
future historians will write of if present trends are not re
the versed, 80 percent of these new
fhp fnri M.5l! l '« er from Americans will live In and
the face of the eaith. around the great cities, In con-
The second great challenge ditions of incredible congestion
facing young people, Freeman and pollution.”
said, was revitalisation of rural He noted that “177 young
America. . men in rural America now
"Todav”he said “70 nerwnt re * ch working age for every
of our peV-T)’* are crowdecMnto 100 ™ MI iobs °P em L ng up :’
just ore p'rcent of our land. A j*° bs ha „!
ZaTmllteT tom, 'V S
more I an a luma ea million— . ,
live in and around .he 224 larg- JJ I .®* 1 tral
est cit* **s wlii ■•h are ff rowinp at ities . . • housing and medical
a S rate‘th’re?t Ihat^n
metropolitan areas.” iminity !? catmg in a rura * COm "
“By the year 2000, 300 mil- Meeting the challenge of
lion Americans will live on the world hunger and rural-urban
same number of square miles population balance, he said, “is
that 200 million live on today, not primarily a technical prob-
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 9,1967 —
lent, it is a social, political and
human problem.
"We know how to grow
enough food to feed a world
population many times present
size. We have the technology
to revitalize rural America. We
have the resources to provide
every American with a decent
living and a quality diet . . .
but do we have the will? Do we
have the skill to use the know
how?”
"This Is a human, not a tech
nical equation, and it is the
greatest question ,of our time.”
An excellent way to knock
the chip off your neighbor’s
shoulder is to pat him on the
back.
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