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Show OREM GENEVA TIMES Mordecai Johnson Speech (Continued Irom Page One) European aliie hare- thrust upon- them for hun-crds hun-crds ct year? Do you intend lo do that, er do you net? nr s'4 i vear that tier nave ten to support a . - . . - . . or $ a J ear, u.ai w . r taJ ?our enoTmou, scientific lechnl- uy 01 live. v-r.ru ! c&l. orgacixalicnal and products geniui, to go into Mow m ine uu:c u - 248 rupees per year- $48 50 percent of which they pay for taxes and only 50 percent, 120 rupees, and his associates to stay in power and keep that great country in the column of democracy if they are not enabled in some way to make such an appreciable ap-preciable advance in the economic productivity of these peasants as somehow in tne next five years will lift them above the poverty line and give tnem at least a minimum adequate subsistence? Don't you know that he has got to do that, and no democratic phiLsopieal position in the world would ever be able to keep him in power unless be can make that demonstration. Now there are over a billion people like that in Asia and South America who are living under those same conditions. The Communists said to them, "Here is what you need, we will come in here and do away with this iniquitous land system- and by the way of cen-traTpower cen-traTpower we will reorganize the agricultural structure, we will increase the productivity of the land two or three hundred percent, we will give the land to the peasants who tend it and bring to your support the greatest organizing genius in Asia." But along comes the United States and says, "Brothers, "Broth-ers, don't you do that. We will make a wedding of liberty with you. We are ycur friends and we prove to you that we love you, we go to the Congress of the United States and appropriate $15 mllion to give you scientific and technical assistance to bring you up into a new economic reorganization. Do you realize what that means, that a nation which is in command of scientific and technical and organizational genius that it has a productive capacity cap-acity of two hundred and fifty billions of dollars a year, moving onto 300 billions of dollars a year, would be able to appropriate only $15 million a year for the economic life of a billion people cf Asia and South America? It is so ludicrous it is a wonJer we don't get beh'nd closed doors in Chicago and horse-laugh ourselves into nonexistence, By the very ludicrous preposterousness of that gesture we yield a moral leadership to Russia and make it iir.pcss'ble for any system of life that has a genuine in'eres! in these people to supersede us in the r affections and leadership. It has been hard for me to ask you to look at ourselves that way, but as the little boy "That's who we is." And, the notion that on the face of it we are such people that the black and broA-n and yellow peoples of Asia, Africa. Ch'na and Ru;sia should trust us implicitly is preposterous preposter-ous -on the face of it. They have every reason under G ets sun to doubt the genu'neness of our interest and to be afraid of the power that we extend. Now this is th pathway along which humility ought to lead us to thinking. Now if you travel along that pathway you come on the real questions we have to answer. And here are those questions. Do you leaders of the economic life and political polit-ical life of America really believe in the unity of the human race? And do you intend to use the enormous enor-mous productive genius at your disposal to do a-wey a-wey with the colonial system and set the people of Asia and Africa economically and politically free, and to deliver them from the segregation and racial rac-ial discrimination and., humiliation- which., your the United Nations and lay down a program for th economic reconstruction of this earth in such a way thai the working men of the world as well as th working men of America can have a reasonable expectancy In this generation of overcoming the struggle for existence and being able to feed, cloth and bouse their children, without killing on on-other? on-other? Or do you intend to us this enormous power to dominat and control th e-arth and to confine the subordination and anxiety and bitterness through which your allies have led the world through th last two hundred years? Now, the ax th real quettioni that w have got to answer. Now, w can answer them now before be-fore we fight and w can answer them after w fight If w answer them th right way before w fight w may not bar to HgM. W may not only not have to fight but w may step into th leadership leader-ship ol this world like no other nation sine th bo- ginning of history has ever don. Now, there is something we can learn fron Hitler. We can learn even from the devil. There Is one thing about the devil that is admirable he rev- ed concealed his basic purposes. The virtue of Hit ler is that he faced these real qustions and answered answer-ed them. "Do you," said the people of Asia and Africa "intend to use the enormous scientific and technical techni-cal genius of Germany and her immense organizational organizat-ional power to do away with the colonial system, and under your leadership to set us free?" Hitler said, "Hell, no." The very asking of that question,'' he said, "reveals to me for the first time the untenable mercilessness and absolute unbeliev ab lity of all this Christian and democratic doctrine. The, very notion itself comes out of the bosom of the Jews, people who for all their life have been trying to hang onto and suckle at the breasts of the rest of humanity. I don't believe in it. I have no intention of doing it; I have the intention of doing the opposite- so help me God." "Do ytu." said the underdeveloped peoples of the earth, "intend to use the organizational and technical genius of Germany to build up an economical econ-omical structure in this world which will finally said, j enable all peoples of the earth, black, brown and yellow and white, to overcome the struggle for exigence ex-igence and live in amity, one to another, because it is no longer necessary to take bread from one r:0hers mouth?" And Hitler was honest; he said, "Hell, no; there is not enough on this earth to go around. In making the original distribution of human life and organic resources. God fell short on organic resources, re-sources, and he fell short on good blood. The little good blood he had. he put it in the good Germans, and about nine tenths of what he had left over, he put it in the British. All the rest of the human race differ from one another only in the degree of their 'nfcrority. It is the duty of those who have, those who have the good blood, to take what they need for their own salvation and strength, and put the rest of mankind in its place." You know what happened. Mankind could not ?wallow it. It vomited the potion from the depth of i:s sou", and they set upon him with a unanimity of vigor unparalleled in the history of humankind, because it could cot endure the possibility the world should be so organized Bui hav we answered the queiiion? W have not. And yet of all nations in this world no one has been prepared by the eternU God to answer thai question yes but us. The Communists say yes. but they hav only th will and only th evangel istic energy; they do not have th plethora of scien tific intelligence and productive power and orgin-ixationU orgin-ixationU genius and reserve capital. We alone in t whole course of history hav been prepared by the eternal God with both the genius and the power to answer thai question yes. And 1 111 yon thai th man we hav met at the crossroads of history, and who is making that question to ux. is not in th first instance th people of Asia and Africa, or th pople of Russia, but th eternal God Himself. Says God. "Why did I bring you up from being th scum of th earth and outcasts of Europe, d pisd and rejected, to make you th most resourceful resource-ful intelligent and great organising genius of th human rac, with reserve capital unparalleled in th human race? Do you think I hav brought you to such a plac that by order of th us of this power pow-er you would sis and control and dominate and inhibit and choke vail numbers of men who like yourselves are hungering for th liberty and security sec-urity you have, and have just as much right to it as you have, because they are my sons?" Says the eternal God, "You will either answer Me yes. or I will strip you naked before humanity and I will walk into your tempi befor your yet-in yet-in spite of your military might and I will tak th candlestick of your leadership in My hands and black it out before your face, clear out of western civilization, and I will plant that light in Asia, to your everlasting shame and humiliation." Do you hear me? Don't you see that there is no military power that can decide the issue that you are facing? j Now I have a program. Once again I claim only the hearing you would get from a stone. This is what I think we have got to do; this is the only pathway that we can walk. It is a costly pathway, it is a dangerous pathway, it is a dreadful pathway. And because we are so late to choose it, even then we may not make it. And I am so glad that I am talking to the one organization in America that is prepared to hear me. No. 1: We Americans have got to accept completely com-pletely the responsibility of the leadership of the Western powers and Idee upon ourselves willingly all the liabilities that go with the grievous mistakes which they hav made and the hatred which they have inherited because of the way Ihey have treated treat-ed Ihe great mapority of the human race, and we have got to begin with a great act of expiation. W have lo call Britain and France, the Dutch and Boers, and our southern brothers, all in the same room, and say to them: "Brethren, this is a life and death matter. We people in the West cannoi gain the trustful confidence of mankind that we need while we continue lo operate the colonial system in Africa, Indo-China, in Malaya, in Georgia, Mississippi Miss-issippi and Alabama, the way we are now doing. We have got lo give it up for the sake of that bili-and bili-and we have got lo do it now. We have got to give it up for the sake of ihe people who are hurt by it. We have git lo give il up for the sake of thai billion bill-ion people who have been hurt by it, and who are now out from under it and want lo slay out from under it but who cannot trust us as long as they see we continue lo maintain it "And so I want you all to retire into the com- m'ttee room and bring me back a program begin ning with the declaration of cur purpose to give up entirely, and I want you to say in mat program teat you give it up not only for the sake of the pet pie who suffer by it and have suffered by it but as an evidence of our good faith that we people in the West no longer want to base our economic sec-uri'y sec-uri'y upon the domination and exploitation and humiliation of any group of men on earth, because we have confidence in our power to make our way "n the world without doing that, and we are determined deter-mined to start it now. "Not only do we want you to bring us the declaration, de-claration, but bring up the program, and date, and I want to take that into the United Nation and say, 'We want you to vote the acceptance of this program pro-gram and then take it away from us and execute it yourselves.' " Now that is only preliminary. If we think there is any possibility on God's earth for us to lead this world in the way our genius prepares us to lead it, without doing that, we are living under illusion about human nature and the structure of the universe. univ-erse. Now in the second place hav got to do this. and this is th great thing I am so lirtl thai it may choke me when I try to get it out of my mouth. We hare got to go into the United Nations with the voice of a country thai has a two hundred and fifty billion dollar productive genius, and we hav got to say lo th people of the United Nations, "Brethren, ihe time has com when this earth is so small and we are all so indissolubly related one lo another, and dependent on upon another, thai any solutions of the economic problems of life short of a world-wide solution cannot possibly be adequate-We adequate-We therefore propose that this body appoint a commission com-mission of from 40 to 100 of the leading scientific end technical and organizational experts of the world lo attack the problem of human subsistence cn a world-wide scale, with ihe determination lo discover and work out a program for relieving the struggle for existence, and within this generation lo bring bread, clothing, housing; health and educational edu-cational opportunity to every huraas family. We don't want you to go out lo answer ihe question whether il can be done. We direel you lo do it We cannot receive a negative answer. We cannot believe be-lieve in our God and in ihe foundational ethics of cur civilization in the presence of anything but a yes answer. "We want you to bring us a yes answer and a program lasting not more than 40 years, laid out in five year stages, that shall implement the doing of it." Now we want this committee to be chosen from all the human beings on the earth. We want ourselves our-selves and our allies to be on there; we want the Russians to be on there, the Africans and Indians; and Chinese and Malayans, and we want the Japanese Jap-anese and the Germans on there. And we want them to help make the program, and we want you to tell us how by the use of this magnificent worldwide world-wide instrumentality we may get that thing done. And after conferring with my colleagues in Britain and France and Italy and Belgium and Spain, I pledge you support of this program in an amount ecival to one-tenth of the productive power of the United States of America. That is the one thing in this world that the world hungers for with all its heart, and that the THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, & I 0 Russians say we are inherently incapableo77 - Wa are Ihe only nation in th world or S lo do it We could do it with one tenth of " J duciive power without diminishng a single doll?"1 11 ! expenditure for military defense, and . i, together it look one-lhird of our productive we would still have sufficient reserves in tCw laled natural resources, scientific, technical organizational genius, not to be injured in the amental, free structure of our life while ,7 it If ever a people were born and develop t God for such an hour, we were brought i0 for such a time a this. Such a program would stagger the heartj elicit the affections at once of over two-third, the human race. We would fill the people of As and Africa with such hope as has never beer their bosoms since the foundation of the earth. would run alongside of Communism and reach ' the central heart of her most sacred docIcph -UYfl( and take away the effectiveness of her and by the superiority of our scientific and teek -a! genius become the Instant leaders in the wort n doing the very thing they profess to do but irk they are incapable of doing because they are mitted to totalitarianism. And we would precipitit, among them such a division of mind that th would be stricken with agony. But it is dangerous; it may b too lai; th thing for which we war born. It would U btt ter to lose all w hav and lo go down into oblivia trying it and failing than, seeing it a I hope I fc mad you se il at this hour, to rum our facet way from it Now it would be a dangerous program, j would cut into our luxuries, it would cut dop perhaps on the number of our automobiles. Mayh we could get away by just cutting down on $ 1949 I'ONTIAC Ch-6 Hydro. Club Cpe. 1 94 8 CHRY. Windsor Sedan 1947 OLDS. 98 Hydro 4-dr. Sed. 1919 CHEV 4-dr. Sedan H and R, All Cars MANY MORE GOOD BUYS AT UNITED SALES SERVICE YOUR 1'ONTIAC-CADILLAC DEALER 470 West 1st North I'rovo Phone 6C6 Orem Bank Robbers till at Large Still at large today were the i two men who staged a daylight i robbery of the Orem-Geneva i branch of the First Security ; Bank early Friday morning. The ; two men the one who actually ; entered the bank and made off 1 with over $2400 in currency and his confederate who drove i the escape car have not been j located to date. j Officers who found their a- bandoned Cadillac west on 8th South after the hold-up declared i that it had been stripped clean of all identification including j fingerprints. The hold-up had i carefully executed, according to i investigating officers. mum of luxury, and maybe to the very bonej subsistence, but it would inspire us to the bottot of our souls with the conviction that God had ck en us from the foundation of the world to con into this hour in order that we might lead an a'- ized human race along the only pathway it travel to liberty. , I say we have got to do it. and I say it jj ,,, accessory to our military program. I say our miliary mili-ary program is only a fence-building operation to protect the delicacy of cur hotbeds and the you!1 of our plans until they are strong enough to take the fence down. The main business of life is grow the tender plant of the brotherhood of mn based upon security, on bread, clothing and hour ing, the thing that God by our history has given the genius to do beyond any other people that eve: lived on this earth. And if we don't do il He will lake away ob c?n;iles:ick with a brcken heart because it ws for this hour lhal He brought us into this world and selecting us from all of ihe areas of Ihe humai race lhal have suffered from exploitation End to miliation, so lhal we understand by experienct whal is in Ihe hearl of all ihose who suffer, Hei saying lo us today; "America, you are My son:.: have loved you from the foundation of the wotlii and Ihis is the hour for which I have brought jot' forih. Don't be afraid, My boy; walk on out; and I will be with you lo support you and sustain yoii There is no suffering lhal comes upon you thai! will not make you able lo bear; and I will maki f the whole human race lo come lo trust you ami love you, and there will be no place on this eaift where your faces will not be welcome, because men will know lhal at last you are My son." Willis Vincent arrived last week from Camp Lewis, Wash. He and Mrs. Lyla Vincent and little daughter have been visiting visit-ing at the Orrel DeLange home. OREM STAKE SPORTS DINSER DANCE SET Basketball players of Orem stake will be honored at a Sports-Dinner Dance set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 1, in the Vermont-Orem First ward recreation re-creation hail, it was announced today by Orem stake MIA officers. off-icers. Serving will begin promptly at 7;30 p.m. and the dance will be held after, All members of Orem stake of MIA age are invited to attend. att-end. Admisson is $1-25 per person. Paula Price, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Price, was honored at a party on her third birthday anniversary. Guests included in-cluded Deena Nay, Joan Hum-pherys. Hum-pherys. Janice Hanks, Ann Marie Ma-rie Pyne Steve Larsen, Tommy Terry, Don Sabin and Rodney Eoyack. BACKMAN TO SPEAK AT CHAMBER MEETING FRIDAY Members of the Orem Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce and their wives will gather Friday at 7:30 p. m. at Park's Cafe for the annual an-nual membership meeting of the group. Lynn Bullock, president will be in charge. Gus P. Backman, manager of the Salt Lake chamber, will be the speaker. OREM STAKE MIA SETS SPEECH MTJSIC FESTIVAL An Orem stake Speech-Music Festival will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 4, in the Scera auditorium, it was announced ann-ounced today by Mrs. Elizabeth Guyman, stake MIA speech director, di-rector, and G. E. Childs, stake music director. The festival will feature a debate, impromptu talks, a demonstration dem-onstration street meeting, a choral reading and musical numbers num-bers by groups. Marion Johnson Re-Named Berry Association Prexy Marion P. Johnson, prominent promin-ent Orem fruit grower, was reelected re-elected president of the Utah Berry Growers association at the annual meeting of the group held ulast Saturday. Mr. Johnson John-son has been president for the past five years. C. S. Dawson, Dick W. Burr and J. Frank Healy were reelected re-elected board -members for a two year period. Officers of the group expressed express-ed confidence that 1951 would be a profitable year for berry growers in the Orem-Pleasant Grove area. Officers extend an invitation to all growers in the area to join the association. Buyers of berries for cold pack and fresh market sales are also Invited to contact the association, associat-ion, president or sales manager EAGLES HOST TO . i OREM LEGIONNAIRES Mrs- Minta Rollins .ffl'i Members of Orem Post 72 and tained at a family dinner 're their ladies were guests of the' iy. Guests included Mr. and It Eagles at their hall in Provoj S. D. Norman of Salt Lake C on Friday evening. The program Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Matsoni g.yen by the Legion featured a! Provo, Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Sp a0n Americanism by Fred cer, Mr. and Mrs. Merlin ft in"? Il" d nJ"fbatie danc-imussen, Bene and Yvonne & farv AiTelbVhe auxilussen, Mr. and Mrs. Rote lary. About 50 attended the ev- ph j.-u. .. Johnny Price. V n READ: "Blinds Give Balance" Page 2 COLORED MAGAZINE SECTION of today's OREM-GENEVA TIMES AHT COLOR TO CHOOSE Minnas 0 0 0 FP.H1! BLINDS GIVE BALANCE TO ROOMS - AND NOW THEY ADD COLOR TOO! 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