Show ci pl 0 D' D I st t d I P Th The next hundred years i. i Ij h a The Bicentennial celebrations have come and arid gone and Americans can J j rightly be proud and happy as they L t. t v look back on the national birthday 8 party There was vias almost none of the violence and arid protest that have chara- chara charar our more more recent years and very r little of the disruptions that had been promised and threatened by the I pathologically discontented Prayer we weare happy to report was a feature of many of th the celebrations as well i a as other acknowledgements of the hand of God in the origin and destiny of our nation This is greatly to the good for in inthe inthe I the years that will separate our bicentennial bicentennial bicentennial bi bi- bi- bi centennial and annit annii anniversaries anni anni- i t America will almost i E certainly face its greatest tests and i c perhaps its greatest trials B Both th in in the the longer run and the more i short run period which lies liess s ahead we will face massive challenge i i As the leader of the free world we will willi i have to cope with the problems of huge i j population increases increases' in underdeveloped f ed count countries es which will swamp their theirA i A resources and probably lm their political institutions We will face facea a world where nuclear materials willbe willbe will willbe be in nearly everybody's hands and where there will be an increasing itchiness to use them for destruction And we will confront the continuing ever mounting challenge posed by Soviet military power harnessed to an ideology which vows that godless communism communism communism co co- co- co is the inevitable fulfillment of mans man's destiny And looming in the immediate future is the festering still unsolved problem If the balloon goes up once aga again n in that tortured cockpit of world history we can expect consequences consequences consequences con con- sequences to our security and economic well-being well which can hardly be calculated but which will certainly be adverse So the America of today needs the guidance and protection of the Almighty as much if not more than ever before in its history That should be the sober underlying understanding understand understand- ing of our Bicentennial celebrations celebrations' We are are pleased are pleased that for many it was |