| Show THE WORLD ON YOUR DOORSTEP The rest of the world is on everybody's doorstep these days A crisis anywhere seems like a crisis everywhere Insofar as this reflects an awareness of the interlocking 1 peoples in pence peace it is a good thing But it does docs at times distort the world picture even while clarifying its ks central central Visitors to world capitals are often surprised on homecoming home homes coming comins to read that they have been in the midst of cata cata- without sensing the fact An interesting analysis of newspapers some years ago showed that even when the big news concerned mainly catastrophe crisis alarums by far the largest part of the newspaper dealt with things that were going not going not wrong but Story after story told of some achievement by byan byan byan an individual or a community Last nights night's television program today's radio tomor tomorrows tomorrow's tomorrows tomorrow's tomorrows tomorrow's rows row's movie these movie these command attention even when some act has upset a national or international applecart And to the overwhelming amount of good news in the paper one should add the scores of everyday happenings happenings happen ings and sights which make up a casual days day's beholding There is not necessarily a basic difference between facts and headlines or between what the trained observer reports and what the untrained happens to see for himself Where an adjustment seems needed is at the point of individual awareness The world on your doorstep may need just the quiet friendly reassuring word or gesture that finds its compulsion in your own inner iMer peace Christian Christian Science Monitor |
