The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-12-10
11ti Annual Furmer-Lubor Institute

many attempts to help themselves,
and with the knowledge that business
and labor have both gone to govern
ment and received assistance.
Richard Shipman, vice president of
the Farmers Union, said that we
should not view our food supply as
surplus, we should view it as abun-
dance. One half of the world is hum
CRY and if we gave them our album
dance they would still be hungry
Abundance is the Christian approach
to gauging our food supply.
WAR AND PEACE
A subject dear to the hearts of all
of us who have sons of military age,
who shudder at violence and who
look forward to using the bounty and
good will of the American people to
bring about happy world is that
of Peace.
Edwin T. Randall, who is Meth
odist minister and is presently work
ing for the Friends Service, Quaker
organization, spoke at the banquet
at the Farmer-Labor Institute.
He told of the fight to beat UNIT
and why he is against it-why Amer
lea is historically repulsed by it.
He said we are living in a revolu-
tionary world because we are find
ing that people are more important
than things. That we must propose
a non-military solution to our prob
lens.
The military, he said, can not do
what they say. The right kind of
bombs dropped on 20 of our cities
and our civilization would be de-
stroyed and there is not one thing
that the Pentagon could do to stop
it. There is talk of massive retalia-
ton" that would mean one Russian
to dozen Americans. If we could
all take a gun in our hand we could
not defend this country. Then Rev.
Randall went on to say:
"What we need in this country to-
day is courage. There is an effort to
scare us to the point where we will
accept force and violence. Our
strength is in freedom. We are not
going to be strong if we ever cease
to be a free people.
Eve can avoid war. Nobody wants
it. But 20 bombs could destroy our
civilization.
"There are ways that we can be
so strong that nobody can hurt us.
"The world is divided in three
PARASITIC totalitarian world, the
free world and the part that has not
made up it's mind. India is part of
the undecided third and is the key
to a peaceful world.
India is a spot in the world today
where help is desperately needed. The
people there are not going to remain
as they are. They are hungry and
they are sick. They know they do not
need to be either hungry or sick.
Knocking on their door is commu-
nism. "Shoot the landlord, the Com
tell them. Then they look at
us, sitting behind the greatest Navy
and the greatest Army in the world,
on top of the greatest food supply in
The world. We complain about our
food surplus and let much of it spoil.
IF all the food in the world was evenly.
divided we would all be hungry.
Would God give us the right to all
he food? Things that are wrong can
lot go on. A man is man, he counts
,or one, and everyone who tries to
count himself for more than one has
et himself for destruction. We must
hare We have got to accept less
here is. no other way to peace.
"This is a war against hate, against
poverty and disease. The world can
lot continue half starved and half
tuffed. We must teach the value of
luman decency. God help us if we
lon't do it."
LEGISLATIVE ISSUES
Legislative issues that will be of
interest to farmers and labor and
which will be watched with an eye
o protecting as well as advancing
heir interests were outlined by panel
members Charles V. Huppe, Helena
ttorney; Cascade Rep. Ronald Holtz,