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The original documents are located in Box D14, folder "House Speech Introduction to
Editorial, October 9, 1951" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech
File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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10-9-51
GERALD R. FORD, JR. - MICHIGAN
MR. SPEAKER - The following editorial from the Christian
Century Magazine is well worth reading. I recommend that there is
some excellent advice which the Congress might do well to follow.
"Paging through the September 10 issue of LIFE, we
came on an arresting full-page picture in reds, yellows,
purples and blues. It showed a bulldoser pushing 3,200 car-
loads of apples - the purples were the wrappers . - into a seven-
acre hole at the city dump in Yakima, Washington. Well, you
say, haven't we all seen similar pictures - oranges rotting in
great heaps in Florida and California, wheat piled in the streets
of Kansas and Nebraska towns, potatoes being dyed and fed to pigs
or doused with Asrosene and burned? Yes, we have. And, that's the
point. This sort of thing goes on every year, and it is wrong.
It is a despising of the goodness of God and a mockery of the
needs of our fellow men. Yes, we know about the law of supply
and demand, about labor costs and transportation costs and
dollar shortages and currency blockades. With all these factors
operating, we don't criticise the growers who destroy their gluts.
But if there were enough true statesmanship at Washington and the
headquarters of the United Nations, they wouldn't have to do so.
If this nation can spend $60 billion a year to cope with world
unrest by methods that come straight out of our cave-man past,
we can spend a hundredth part of that sum to cope with the same
unrest by methods which come out of the New Testament. And we
FORD is LIBRARY DERALD
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can find in the U. N. an agency to see that the food we have
and don't need gets to those who need it 80 desperately.
Church peace commissions and interchurch committees on inter-
national affairs have been having a hard time finding where
to take hold of the problem of world concord in such a way as
to make their efforts count. May not these gluts of unneeded
and unwanted food offer one place to take hold? It might
surprise some government leaders to learn that there is a
Christian conscience about destroying food while millions are
hungry. But if the church representatives pushed hard enough,
their servants in goverment would do something about it."
GERALD FDRD LIBRARY